Mount Jerome Cemetery and Crematorium
Mount Jerome Cemetery ( Irish Reilig Chnocán Iaróm ) is a cemetery in Dublin, Ireland. It was created in 1836 for Protestants of the city. Since 1920, Catholics were buried here.
The Neo-Gothic church at the cemetery was designed in 1845 by William Atkins.
Notable people
At the cemetery than 300,000 people are buried, including well-known writers, artists and merchants. Some well-known in the cemetery beige sat personalities are:
- John Kells Ingram, Irish poet, political economist, historian, patriot
- Thomas Davis, Poet and Patriot
- Some members of the Guinness family
- William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865), mathematician
- John Millington Synge (1871-1909), writer
- Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957), painter
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873), writer, his wife Susanna and his father-
- William Wilde and Jane Francesca Elgee, parents of Oscar Wilde
- George Russell (1867-1935), poet, editor, painter, journalist
- George Petrie (1790-1886), archaeologist, musician and painter
- Peter Caffrey (1949-2008), actor ( Ballykissangel )
- John Hewitt Jellett (1817-1888), Provost of Trinity College
- Edward Bunting (1773-1843), musician
- William Carleton (1794-1869), writer
- Benjamin Guinness (1798-1868), brewer and philanthropist
- Sarah Purser (1848-1943), painter
- Walter Osborne (1859-1903), painter
- Thomas Grubb (1800-1878), optician
- Thomas Caulfield Irwin (1823-1892), poet, writer
- James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy ( 1851-1931 ), politician, Lord Chancellor of Ireland
- Martin Cahill (1949-1994), "The General ", the most famous gangster of Dublin, was killed by the IRA