Arbour Hill Cemetery

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    Northside, Arbour Hill, city centre
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    train: Luas Red Line to Museum
bus: 25, 25A, 66, 67 or 90 from city centre

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Just north of Collins Barracks, this small cemetery is the final resting place of all 14 of the executed leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising. The burial ground is plain, with the 14 names inscribed in stone. Beside the graves is a cenotaph bearing the Easter Proclamation, a focal point for official and national commemorations.

The front of the cemetery incongruously, but poignantly, contains the graves of British personnel killed in the War of Independence. Here, in the oldest part of the cemetery, as the gravestones toppled they were lined up against the boundary walls where they still stand solemnly today.