Glasnevin cemetery is to be revamped in the lead-up to the 1916 centenary. Home to O' Connell, Parnell, DeValera and Collins, the State hopes to turn it into one of the great world cemeteries.
An tasteful interpretive centre is planned. There will also be a small café featuring staff dressed as some of the cemetery’s most famous inhabitants.
The Government has commissioned models from Dublin’s now defunct Wax Works. They will be placed either above the gravestones of the notable dead, or will be assembled in a small museum adjacent to the café.
The plan was initiated in 2006 and preparatory work began yesterday. It is due to be completed by early 2016.
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