1882 – T.H. Burke Memorial, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin

Proposed by the Resident Magistrates of Ireland, 1882. Published in The Building News, August 18th 1882. Thomas Burke was murdered by the Invincibles in 1882.

“The memorial cross illustrated in this week’s number will have some special interest as commemorative of a painful historic incident — the murder of Mr. Thomas Henry Burke, Under-Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, who fell with Lord Frederick Cavendish on May 6, 1882, in the Phoenix Park, Dublin. The memorial was erected by the resident or stipendiary magistrates of Ireland, with whom Mr. Burke had for many years an intimate official intercourse. The deceased gentleman was a native of Galway, and from that county the materials for the memorial were chiefly derived. The base, plinth, capitals, &c., are of fine limestone from Ballinasloe, the fluted shaft of the column is of a polished black granite — a beautiful variety derived from the County Down mountains. The cross surmounting the whole is of an extremely hard description of black Galway marble, the form being borrowed from a well-known and beautiful thirteenth century type — the processional Cross of Cong in the museum of the Royal Irish Academy. The work was designed by Mr. Thomas Drew, R.H.A., and executed by Mr. Sharp, of Dublin; the carving being by Mr. Henry Emory. The whole stands about 25 feet high.” The Architect, February 2 1884.