Peter McVerry Trust is in talks to buy the old James Weir Home for Nurses building for social housing, and the council looks set to take over the adjoining burial site.
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Council Briefs: Adding Flood Defences in Sandymount, Transforming Trees in the Dublin Mountains, and More
These were some of the issues Dublin City Councillors discussed at recent meetings of their South East Area committee and arts and leisure committee.
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In Finglas, Residents Push for Better Maintenance of a Historic Graveyard
St Canice’s Graveyard and the nearby ruined church have hundreds of years of history that should be remembered, taught, and celebrated, they say.
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What Would It Take to Return James Joyce and His Family to Dublin?
Proposals to return the author’s remains – which lie in Zurich – raise questions about the wishes of living relatives, what would happen to others buried with him, and how the Swiss might respond.
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A Local Historian’s Latest Work: a History of Goldenbridge Cemetery
Liam O’Meara walks to a curved spot in the stone wall nearby. This is his favourite find from his research. A bench used to be here for mourners, called the seat of melancholia.
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We Need to Build Walls for Dublin’s Dead, Some Say
Some of Dublin’s graveyards are filling up and one Dublin City Councillor thinks he knows how to solve the problem.