Patrick Byrne's Ghosts of Old Dublin

Photograph of Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin

Photograph of Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin with details of a celtic cross headstone.

By kind permission of Dublin City Public Libraries

Photograph of Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin
By kind permission of Dublin City Public Libraries

Photograph of Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin

Photograph of Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin with details of a celtic cross headstone.

By kind permission of Dublin City Public Libraries

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The late Patrick Byrne had a great interest in Dublin's ghost stories and published a weekly column in the Evening Herald throughout the 1960s.

He also published articles in the Dublin Historical Record (the full set is available in the Reading Room in the Dublin City Library and Archive in Pearse Street, Dublin). These articles were published under the name P.F. Byrne; he also published some pamphlets under the same name.

The lecture that is reproduced here was given to the Old Dublin Society on the 17th December 1975 and was reproduced in the Dublin Historical Record in December 1976.

Click on the links below to read the article in its entirety. The text is illustrated with images from the Dublin and Irish Collections from the Dublin City Library and Archive.