Deans Grange Cemetery - Notable Burials

Notable Burials

Interred in the cemetery are people from notable events in local and Irish history.

• The 15 local men of the Kingstown Lifeboat Disaster in 1895 who crewed a rescue boat involved in an attempt to rescue the Palme.
• The Angels plot used from 1905 to 1989 to bury children. It is reckoned that 750 children are buried here. Cemetery staff renovated the plot around 2008.
• During the 1916 rising, the cemetery saw the burial of about 50 people connected to the rising. They were either innocent victims, republican volunteers or British soldiers. There is a plot with 6 people buried and the rest are buried by their respective families.
• RMS Leinster was torpedoed by a German submarine 12 miles (19 km) from Dún Laoghaire in 1918. Eleven known victims are buried in the cemetery.

British armed service victims of the 1916 rising and the Leinster sinking are among the 75 Commonwealth service personnel of World War I who are buried in this cemetery, as are 27 from World War II, whose graves are registered and maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Also interred at Deans Grange:

• Todd Andrews (1901–1985), civil servant
• Alan Bell (1858–1920), magistrate and member of the British Secret Service, executed by the IRA during the Irish War of Independence.
• Richard Irvine Best (1872–1959), Celtic scholar
• Richard Sinclair Brooke (1802–1882), first incumbent of the Mariners' Church, Dún Laoghaire and his wife Anna Stopford (1812–1903)
• Francis Browning (1868–1916), cricketer and President of the Irish Rugby Football Union
• Anastasia Carey (1824–1865), the first interment in Dean's Grange Cemetery, worked for the nuns of St. Joseph's Orphanage, died of typhus fever
• Kathleen Clarke (1878-1972), former Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil TD and Senator and widow of the Irish revolutionary Thomas J. Clarke
• John A. Costello (1891–1976), Taoiseach and Fine Gael politician.
• Moya Llewelyn Davies, Irish republican, who lost her family through food poisoning as a child and translated Fiche Bliain ag Fás (Twenty Years a'Growing) by Muiris Ó Súilleabháin
• Constantine Curran (1880–1972), writer
• Rickard Deasy (1812–1883), lawyer and Member of Parliament for Cork County
• John Boyd Dunlop (1840–1921), inventor
• Reginald Dunne (died 1922), Irish republican (with Joseph O'Sullivan, executed for the killing of Sir Henry Wilson)
• Frank Fahy (1880–1953), Teachta Dála (TD) and Ceann Comhairle (speaker)
• Michael Farrell (1899–1962), writer
• Barry Fitzgerald (1888–1961), actor
• Augustine Henry (1857–1930), botanist
• Seán Lemass (1899–1971), Taoiseach and Fianna Fáil politician
• Kathleen Lynn (1874–1955), suffragette, member of the Irish Citizen Army and TD for the Dublin County constituency
• Donagh MacDonagh (1912–1968), writer and judge
• John Count McCormack (1884–1945), world-famous tenor
• F. J. McCormick (1889–1947), actor
• Joseph McGrath (1887–1966), politician and a founder of the Irish Hospitals' Sweepstake
• Anew McMaster (1894–1962), actor
• Dermot Morgan (1952–1998), comedian and actor
• Brian O'Nolan (literary name Flann O'Brien) (1911–1966), novelist
• John Gardiner Nutting (1852–1918), baronet of St Helen's, Booterstown
• Frank O'Connor (1903–1966), writer
• Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha (1883–1964), writer and teacher of the Irish language
• Joseph O'Sullivan (died 1922), Irish republican
• John Howard Parnell (1846–1923), politician and older brother to Charles Stewart Parnell
• Noel Purcell (1900–1985), actor
• John Talbot Power, 3rd Baronet of Edermine (1845–1901), lived in Leopardstown Park and grandson of the founder of Power's Distillery, Dublin
• Senator William Quirke (1896-1955), Fianna Fáil politician, businessman and IRA leader in Tipperary during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War
• James Vaughan (died 1873), Captain in the Royal Navy
• Ernest Walton (1903–1995), physicist and Nobel Laureate
• Joseph Edward Woodall (1896–1962), winner of the Victoria Cross

There are many Religious Orders buried here such as the Congregation of Christian Brothers, Daughters of the Cross, Holy Ghost Fathers, Irish Vincentians, the Little Sisters of the Assumption and the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart.