Publisher's Synopsis
This book tells the story of a village and its people over the centuries, beginning as far back as the sixth century, when St. Mobhi founded a monastery and monastic school on the hill overlooking the Tolka River. After the coming of the Normans, the lands of Glasnevin were granted to the Priory of the Holy Trinity attached to Christ Church, and a manorial village replaced the older settlement. In the eighteenth century. Glasnevin became a fashionable area for the prosperous classes and Dublin's literary circle, its most famous resident at that time being Doctor Patrick Delany, friend of Dean Swift. In the nineteenth century, many institutions, mainly educational, were established in the area, as well as the Botanic Gardens and Ireland's largest and most famous cemetery. As a result, for the remainder of the century, Glasnevin retained its pastoral natureA
