Long, long story, doesn’t bear repeating.
Short version: very dear friend of mine died in 1983. She was buried somewhere in Dublin. I have no contact with her family. I want to visit her grave.
Any ideas?
stoid
Try Dublin’s Glasnevin Cemetery, burial place for over a million people. For a fee, they will do a grave search for you:
See also this reference book of grave inscriptions:
Memorials of the Dead: Dublin City and County, Volumes 1 - 6 (Dublin 1988-1993), compiled and edited by Dr. Michael T.S. Egan. Available at the National Archives of Ireland and other libraries.
The big problem is that most of the resources for this sort of search are aimed at genealogists who will usually be interested in older burials.
Although the advice on the following site is mainly for seaching for graves in the U.S., it might help point you in the right direction and it does have some resources on Dublin cemeteries.
http://www.interment.net/help/research.htm
http://www.interment.net/ireland/dublin.htm
The easiest shortcut might be to email the contributor who submitted the information on the Dublin cemeteries to ask if she has any advice. Beyond that, a professional genealogist based in Dublin would probably be willing undertake such a search for a fee.
Not a straightforward matter, as there is no central registration of burials in Ireland. Each cemetery company maintains its own records. Morover some cemetery companies have closed and, while the cemeteries themselves have been taken over by the city, the records may not be easily available. A small number of people still have a right to be buried in a churchyard, and records for these would be kept by the parish churches to which they are attached. And a proportion of people who live in Dublin choose to be buried outside the city, in some place to which their family has ancestral links.
Matters would be greatly simplified if your friend were Jewish, as there are only two Jewish cemeteries and they are both small. Better still if she were Moravian, but I don’t suppose this is likely.
If you know the date of her death, you could look up the death notice which would almost certainly have been placed in either the Irish Times, the Irish Independent or the Irish Press either one or two days later. That will give details of the burial. Unfortunately archives of death notices are not available on-line, but when you get to Dublin you could visit the National Library or another good reference library and examine the original papers or (more probably) microfiche copies.