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Glasnevin Cemetery – Dublin\u2019s national necropolis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Glasnevin Cemetery is Dublin\u2019s national necropolis and one of the city\u2019s most important literary landscapes. It is a place where memory, history, and everyday life meet – right beside The Gravediggers pub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Established in 1832, Glasnevin is the final resting place of over a million people, including many important cultural and political figures from Ireland. It is therefore not only a burial ground, but also a place of national memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glasnevin Cemetery also has personal meaning in the life of James Joyce. His parents, John Stanislaus Joyce and Mary Jane ‘May’ Joyce, are buried there, which adds a more intimate, family dimension to the writer\u2019s connection with the place and the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Gravediggers pub – history at the gates of Glasnevin Cemetery<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Right next to one of the cemetery gates is a pub with the charming name \u2018The Gravediggers\u2019, founded by John Kavanagh in 1833. Kavanagh had a knack for business, because not only did he open a bar that attracted mourners and served the gravediggers who worked at the cemetery, but he also bought the land around it to prevent any potential competition in the immediate vicinity.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The pub is named after the cemetery workers who were so keen to use its services. So keen that the main gate was eventually moved to another location, and a special window was made in the pub’s wall through which gravediggers could order beer by knocking on it with a shovel. Today, the pub’s guests are mostly tourists visiting the cemetery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Between literature and everyday life<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

However, James Joyce does not mention The Gravediggers in his famous novel Ulysses<\/em> although one of the characteristic scenes – the funeral of Paddy Dignam (Episode 6, Hades<\/em>) – takes place in Glasnevin Cemetery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The O\u2019Connell circle, Mr Dedalus said about him. (\u2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland\u2019s hearts and hands. (\u2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How many! All these here once walked round Dublin. Faithful departed. As you are now so once were we. (\u2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gates glimmered in front: still open. Back to the world again. Enough of this place. (\u2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you. How grand we are this morning!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

James Joyce, Ulysses<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the pub itself, part of the action of the novel Dublinesque<\/em> by the Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas takes place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story follows Samuel Riba, a retired Spanish publisher who loves books and worries about the decline of the literary world. He travels to Dublin with a few friends to hold a mock funeral for the \u2018Gutenberg era\u2019 – the age of printed books – inspired by Ulysses<\/em> and the work of James Joyce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While in Dublin, they visit real places linked to Ulysses<\/em>, including \u2018The Gravediggers\u2019. Vila-Matas uses the pub as both a real setting and a symbol – a place between life and death, past and present – which suits a story about endings: of people, books, and times gone by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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