Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 June 2024

Committee on Public Petitions

Invincibles Reinterment Campaign: National Graves Association

1:30 pm

Photo of Aengus Ó SnodaighAengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Yes, Sir Roger Casement. Reginald Dunne was as well. It has been done, so this is not modern. We are way beyond where they were 100 years ago or so, when they were willing to return the remains to families. We now can identify people very quickly through DNA. It is not as if the wrong souls will be buried in the graves that thankfully the national graves has identified and that those families are happy with in Glasnevin.

Not all of the Mountjoy Martyrs are buried in Glasnevin. One was buried in a family plot and that is the right of the families. That might happen here if there are graves the families are happy for them to go in to, but at the very least we need to identify them and anybody else who is buried that gaol if we can at all. People's remains should not be in gaol after they pass. Families should have access to them and we, as a society, should have the facility to honour their memory by doing this when we can.

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