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==In popular culture== Glasnevin Cemetery is the setting for the [[Ulysses (novel)#Episode 6, Hades|"Hades" episode]] in [[James Joyce]]'s 1922 novel ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'', and is mentioned by [[Idris Davies]] in his poem ''Eire''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Ulysses (Annotated)|last=James|first=Joyce|isbn=978-3736813762|location=München|oclc=943829505|year=2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=The complete poems of Idris Davies|last=Idris|first=Davies|date=1994|publisher=University of Wales Press|others=Johnston, Dafydd|isbn=0708312721|location=Cardiff|oclc=34951713}}</ref> The gate of the cemetery, as well as the nearby pub John Kavanagh's 'The Gravediggers', were featured in the 1970 comedy film ''[[Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://ifi.ie/film/quackser-fortune-has-a-cousinin-the-bronx/ | publisher = [[Irish Film Institute]] | title = Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx | access-date = 2025-02-20 | date= 2011-10-06 }}</ref> Shane MacThomais, the cemetery's historian, was the author and contributor to a number of published works on the cemetery, prior to his death in March 2014.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/wellknown-historian-shane-macthomais-has-died-30114366.html|title=Well-known historian Shane MacThomais has died|work=Irish Independent|date=21 March 2014|access-date=22 March 2014|archive-date=22 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140322013514/http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/wellknown-historian-shane-macthomais-has-died-30114366.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thejournal.ie/shane-macthomais-glasnevin-historian-tour-guide-dies-1373450-Mar2014/|title=Glasnevin historian Shane MacThomais dies|date=21 March 2014|publisher=Journal.ie|access-date=22 March 2014|archive-date=22 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140322001443/http://www.thejournal.ie/shane-macthomais-glasnevin-historian-tour-guide-dies-1373450-Mar2014/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mercierpress.ie/authors/glasnevincemetery/|title=Mercier Press – Books and authors – Glasnevin Cemetery & Shane MacThomáis|publisher=Mercier Press|access-date=22 March 2014|archive-date=19 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140119141414/http://www.mercierpress.ie/authors/glasnevincemetery/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.writing.ie/interviews/dead-interesting-stories-from-the-graveyards-of-dublin/| title=Dead Interesting: Stories from the Graveyards of Dublin| date=27 February 2012| author=Barbara Scully| publisher=Writing.ie Magazine| access-date=22 March 2014| archive-date=25 October 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025173549/http://www.writing.ie/interviews/dead-interesting-stories-from-the-graveyards-of-dublin/| url-status=live}}</ref> The documentary ''One Million Dubliners'' was released in 2014, featuring stories about the history and operation of the cemetery.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.glasnevintrust.ie/visit-glasnevin/news/one-million-dubliners/ | publisher = Glasnevin Trust | title = One Million Dubliners | access-date = 12 July 2018 | archive-date = 12 July 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180712153811/https://www.glasnevintrust.ie/visit-glasnevin/news/one-million-dubliners/ | url-status = live }}</ref> {{clear}}
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