Body snatching was a constant fear, as newly interred remains would be dug up and sold to medical students for study purposes ...

A Northern Irish couple is planning Ireland's first graveyard wedding. The request has been made to hold the service in the Ballyclare cemetery in Antrim so they can exchange vows near a recently ...

For over twelve years, the Tús Community Employment initiative, facilitated by Louth Local Development, has been transforming, not just lives, but landscapes across County Louth. The organisation has ...

Sir, – How eloquently Ella McSweeny talked about how our graveyards could and should be, in last Saturday’s Weekend supplement (“Irish graveyards are full of plastic. We’re all paying for it”, March ...

The lives and deaths of ordinary people who did extraordinary things have been explored in a new book on an east Belfast graveyard. Two survivors of the Titanic disaster and a Christian aid worker who ...

On the site of the former Castlebar District Lunatic Asylum lies a burial ground containing unmarked graves dating back nearly 150 years, now a community-led effort is working to ensure those buried ...