Glasnevin (gaélico: Glas Naíon; Rio dos Infantes), também conhecido por Glas Naedhe ("Ribeiro de O'Naeidhe"), em homenagem a um riacho local e a um antigo chefe) é um subúrbio de Dublin, Irlanda, situado nas margens do Rio Tolka. Embora principalmente residencial, Glasnevin também abriga o National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin Cemetery, o National Meteorological Office e uma série de outros órgãos estaduais. Aa Dublin City University tem o seu campus principal e outras instalações dentro e perto da área. Glasnevin também é uma paróquia civil do antigo baronato de Coolock.
Personalidades ligadas a Ganesvin Margaret Buckley, former president of Sinn Féin (originally from Cork, lived on Marguerite Road, Glasnevin) Bono Paul Hewson, lead singer with U2 Saint Canice, early Christian abbot (studied under Mobhí of Glasnevin) Saint Comgall, early Christian abbot and founder of a monastery at Bangor Marian Finucane, architect, journalist and broadcaster Ian Gallahar, cyclist and commissaire Liam Harrison, musician and songwriter Niamh Kavanagh, singer and winner of the Eurovision Song Contest Robbie Kelleher, former All-Ireland winning Gaelic footballer Anne Kernan (1933–2020), Irish physicist Celia Lynch, Fianna Fáil TD and assistant government whip (originally from Galway, lived on Botanic Road) Colm Meaney, actor Damien McCaul, television presenter and radio DJ Saint Mobhi, early Christian missionary and abbot of Glasnevin monastery John O'Connell, Fianna Fáil TD and former Minister for Health Francis Martin O'Donnell, diplomat Patrick Denis O'Donnell, military historian Michael O'Hehir, sports commentator and journalist James O'Higgins Norman, academic John J. O'Kelly, politician, former President of Sinn Féin and government minister Michael O'Riordan, fundador do Partido Comunista da Irlanda Róisín Owens, bioquímico Richard Brinsley Sheridan, satirista, dramaturgo e político Jonathan Swift, autor e ensaísta que vivia frente à Glasnevin Model School (agora Glasnevin Educate Together) Thomas Ashe, escritor; Thomas Tickell, poeta cuja propriedade em Glasnevin foi transformado no National Botanic Gardens David P. Tyndall, empresário Mona Tyndall, médica e missionária Macdara Woods, poeta irlandês, autor de Winter Fire & Snow com Brendan Graham
Referências
Bibliografia The Parish of Glasnevin from F.E. Ball's A History of the County Dublin (1920) Account of Glasnevin from D'Alton's History of the County Dublin (1838) Glasnevin, Finglas and the Adjacent District from The Neighbourhood of Dublin by Weston St. John Joyce (third and enlarged edition 1920) The Tolka, Glasnevin and the Naul Road from North Dublin by Dillon Cosgrove (1909)
Ligações externas
A History of Glasnevin from Egan's House The Botanic Gardens
Categoria:Cidades da Irlanda