Editing Glasnevin (section)

==Features==
[[File:Glasnevinhousing.jpg|left|thumb|Victorian-era and Edwardian-era housing is common in Glasnevin]]
The village has changed a lot over the years, and is now fully part of Dublin city.<ref name="joyce">{{cite book | author = Weston St. John Joyce | title = The Neighbourhood of Dublin | year = 1920 | chapter = XXVI, "Glasnevin, Finglas and the adjacent district" | url = http://www.askaboutireland.ie/aai-files/assets/ebooks/37%20The%20Neighbourhood%20of%20Dublin/37%20The%20Neighbourhood%20of%20Dublin.pdf | quote = ''The village of Glasnevin has, of course, been much altered since [18th century resident] Dr. Delay's time, and is now included in the city'' | edition = third and enlarged | access-date = 2 December 2018 | archive-date = 23 September 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150923180053/http://www.askaboutireland.ie/aai-files/assets/ebooks/37%20The%20Neighbourhood%20of%20Dublin/37%20The%20Neighbourhood%20of%20Dublin.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref>

As well as the amenities of the [[National Botanic Gardens (Ireland)]] and local parks, the national meteorological office [[Met Éireann]], the [[Central Fisheries Board]], the [[National Standards Authority of Ireland]], [[Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland]], the [[Department of Defence (Ireland)|Department of Defence]] and the national enterprise and trade board [[Enterprise Ireland]] are all located in the area.

===National Botanic Gardens===
[[Image:INBG Glasnevin 02.jpg|thumb|The Curvilinear Range of glasshouses at the [[Irish National Botanic Gardens]]]]
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The house and lands of the poet [[Thomas Tickell]] were sold in 1790 to the Irish Parliament and given to the [[Royal Dublin Society]] for them to establish Ireland's first [[Irish National Botanic Gardens|Botanic Gardens]]. The gardens were the first location in Ireland where the infection responsible for the 1845–1847 [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Great Famine]] was identified. Throughout the famine, research to stop the infection was undertaken at the gardens.

The {{convert|48|acre|m2}} which border the [[River Tolka]] also adjoin the [[Prospect Cemetery]]. In 2002 the Botanic Gardens gained a new two-storey complex which included a new cafe and a large lecture theatre. The Irish National [[Herbarium]] is also located at the botanic gardens.

===Glasnevin (Prospect) Cemetery===
[[Image:Crossglasnevin.jpg|thumb|Crosses at [[Glasnevin Cemetery]]]]
Prospect Cemetery is located in Glasnevin, although better known as [[Glasnevin Cemetery]], the most historically notable burial place in the country and the last resting place, among a host of historical figures, of [[Michael Collins (Irish leader)|Michael Collins]], [[Éamon de Valera]], [[Charles Stewart Parnell]] and also [[Arthur Griffith]].  This graveyard led to Glasnevin being known as "the dead centre of Dublin". It opened in 1832 and is the final resting place for thousands of ordinary citizens, as well as many Irish patriots.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-08-21 |title=ISI Dublin │ Glasnevin {{sic|nolink=y|reason=error in source|Cementary}} |url=https://studyinireland.ie/glasnevin-cemetery/ |access-date=2024-07-02 |website=studyinireland.ie |language=en-GB}}</ref>

===Hart's Corner===
Approaching Glasnevin via [[Phibsboro]] is what is known as ''[[Dublin street corners|Hart's Corner]]'' but which about 200 years ago was called [[Broadstone, Dublin|Glasmanogue]], and was then a well-known stage on the way to Finglas. At an earlier date, the name possessed a wider signification and was applied to a considerable portion of the adjoining district.

===Delville===
At the start of the 18th century a large house, known variously as The Glen and later as Delville, was built on the site of the present [[Bon Secours Hospital, Dublin]]. Its name, Delville, was an amalgamation of the surnames of two tenants, Dr. Helsam and Dr. Patrick Delany (as Heldeville), both fellows of Trinity College.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}

When Delany married his first wife he acquired sole ownership, but it became more well known as the home of Delany and his second wife, [[Mary Delany|Mary Pendarves]]. She was a widow whom Delany married in 1743, and was an accomplished letter writer.

The couple were friends of [[Jonathan Swift|Dean Jonathan Swift]] and, through him, of [[Alexander Pope]]. Pope encouraged the Delaneys to develop a garden in a style then becoming popular in England – moving away from the very formal, geometric layout that was common. He redesigned the house in the style of a villa and had the gardens laid out in the latest Dutch fashion creating what was almost certainly Ireland's first naturalistic garden.

The house was, under Mrs Delany, a centre of Dublin's intellectual life.<ref name="joyce"/> Swift is said to have composed a number of his campaigning pamphlets while staying there. He and his lifelong companion Stella were both in the habit of visiting, and Swift satirised the grounds which he considered too small for the size of the house. Through her correspondence with her sister, Mrs Dewes, Mary wrote of Swift in 1733: "he calls himself my master and corrects me when I speak bad English or do not pronounce my words distinctly".

Patrick Delany died in 1768 at the age of 82, prompting his widow to sell Delville and return to her native England until her death twenty years later.

[[File:A Church near National Botanic Garden,Dublin,Ireland - panoramio.jpg|thumb|Church of Lady of Dolours (the 'pyramid church')]]

===The Pyramid Church===
Glasnevin is also a [[parish]] in the [[List of parishes of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin by deanery#Fingal South West|Fingal South West deanery]] of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin]].<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.glasnevinparish.ie/ |website = glasnevinparish.ie |title = Glasnevin Parish – Official website |access-date = 5 May 2020 |archive-date = 17 July 2020 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200717043212/https://www.glasnevinparish.ie/ |url-status = live }}</ref> It is served by the Church of Lady of Dolours on the banks of the River Tolka.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Glasnevin Parish – Our Lady of Dolours |url=https://glasnevinparish.ie/ |access-date=2024-07-02 |language=en-US}}</ref>

A timber church, which originally stood on Berkeley Road, was moved to a riverside site on Botanic Avenue early in the twentieth century; the altar in this church was from Newgate prison in Dublin.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}} It served as the parish church until it was replaced, in 1972, by a structure resembling a pyramid when viewed from Botanic Avenue.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}} The previous church was known locally as "The Woodener" or "The Wooden" and the new building is still known to older residents as "The new Woodener" or "The Wigwam".{{citation needed|date=January 2024}} The church underwent some refurbishment work inside and in its grounds and car park during the first half of 2011.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}

===Met Éireann===
[[Image:Met ireann (Irish Meteorological Service) (1387399963).jpg|thumb|[[Met Éireann]] headquarters]]
In 1975 the new headquarters of [[Met Éireann]], the Irish Meteorological Office, designed by [[Liam McCormick]], opened on Glasnevin Hill, on the site of a former juvenile detention centre, Marlborough House.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}} The Met Éireann building is a pyramidal shape and was originally to be covered in Welsh Slate, however, an indigenous material was deemed more appropriate, and the selected Irish stone curled and had to be replaced by metal sheeting.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}} It is recognised as one of the most significant buildings to be erected in Dublin in the 1970s.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-02-28 |title=A New Zine Explores Both the History and Theory behind the Met Éireann Building in Glasnevin |url=http://dublininquirer.com/2020/08/12/a-new-zine-explores-both-the-history-and-theory-behind-the-met-eireann-building-in-glasnevin/ |access-date=2024-07-02 |website=Dublin Inquirer |language=en-US}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=July 2024|reason=Where does the source state this?}}

===Griffith Avenue===
[[File:Griffith Avenue, Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland - geograph.org.uk - 332192.jpg|thumb|upright|Griffith Avenue]]
The tree-lined Griffith Avenue runs through Glasnevin, [[Drumcondra, Dublin|Drumcondra]] and [[Marino, Dublin|Marino]], and spans three electoral constituencies. Like nearby [[Griffith Park, Dublin|Griffith Park]], it was named after [[Arthur Griffith]], who was the founder and third leader of [[Sinn Féin]], served as [[President of Dáil Éireann]] and is buried in [[Glasnevin Cemetery]].

A double-row of mature lime trees runs along both sides of Griffith Avenue from its junction with St Mobhi Road (in the west) to its junction with Malahide Road (in the east), a distance of 2.81&nbsp;km.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pleanala.ie/anbordpleanala/media/abp/cases/reports/303/r303296.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221103104706/https://www.pleanala.ie/anbordpleanala/media/abp/cases/reports/303/r303296.pdf |archive-date=2022-11-03 |url-status=live|title=Inspector's Report ABP-303296-18|date=2019-03-13|access-date=2022-11-03|website=[[An Bord Pleanála]]}}</ref> It is reputed to be the longest tree-lined purely residential [[Avenue (landscape)|avenue]] in the [[northern hemisphere]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ibbotson|first=Gary|date=2021-08-20|title=GRIFFITH AVENUE TREES ARE BEING FELLED WITHOUT PROPER NOTICE, SAY LOCALS|url=https://dublinpeople.com/news/dublin/articles/2021/08/20/griffith-avenue-trees-are-being-felled-without-proper-notice-say-locals/|access-date=2022-01-26|website=Dublin People|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Andreea Nagy Deac|first=Daiana|date=2021-12-28|title=Griffith Avenue – The neverending tree-hall|url=https://www.spottedbylocals.com/dublin/grifith-avenue/|access-date=2022-01-26|website=Spotted by Locals|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Birdthistle|first=Elizabeth|date=2015-09-17|title=Calm and cool in Drumcrondra|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/new-to-market/calm-and-cool-in-drumcrondra-1.2353827|access-date=2022-01-26|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}}</ref>