1916 Rising Tours
March 2016 - September 2016
Our 1916 Rising Tours are available Daily at 9.30am, 3pm & 4pm
Padraig Pearse Oration
16 March 2013 – 30 September 2013
The Fools, the Fools, the Fools! - they have left us our Fenian dead - And while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.
Raising of Tri-Colour
27 March 2013 – 01 April 2013
Learn the Story of Edward Hollywood weaver of the first Irish Tricolour in 1848 and a flag Raising Ceremony at Siggerson Memorial a monument to the men and women who fell Easter week 1916.
Easter 1916 Rebellion Tours
29 March 2013 – 01 April 2013
To commemorate this year’s 1916 Easter Rising anniversary, Glasnevin Museum presents The Story of 1916. Tours led by resident historian Shane MacThomáis
Nurse Elizabeth O'Farrell Re-enactments
29 March 2013 – 01 April 2013
Recollections of the surrender of the 1916 Easter Rising.
Strumpet City Tour
07 April 2013 – 28 April 2013
To commemorate the centenary of these real and fictional happenings, and UNESCO's One City, One Book, Glasnevin Trust is running a series of Strumpet City Tours of the cemetery for the month of April. The tour, conceived and written by the cemetery's historian, Mr. Shane MacThomáis, takes its inspiration from the pages of James Plunkett's masterpiece.