A paper document recording the Grant Right of Burial Certificate of Michael James Cassidy at Prospect, Glasnevin Cemetery Dublin.

"The Grant number recorded on the cert is 52840. The amount paid for the plot was 7 pounds sterling. It is stamped 1828 by the Dublin Cemeteries Office for Dublin East. The certificate is in the name of Michael James Cassidy of 25 Belgrove Road Dublin, his occupation was as a Civil Servant. This currently belongs to my grandfather. Michael James Cassidy was born approx. 1884 in Barnacogue which is near Swinford in County Mayo. He joined the British Post Office on leaving school and went to live in England where he discovered that the war was starting at the location where he was posted in 1914. He was with the Signals Corps part of the Royal Engineer’s Regiment and worked with communications dealing with telegraphs and telephones. He served for the entire duration of the war until 1919. He wasn’t in the front line of WWI but he would have experienced every battle of this war, he and his comrades would have been present at the conflict. He was a good writer and he sent numerous articles back to a newspaper the “Western People.” When the war was over after 1919 he returned to Dublin and he worked in the Department of Posts and Telegraphs. During the 1940s and 1950s, he moved in literary circles and was a well-known character in Clontarf, where he held court in the famous public house called 'The Sheds' at the bottom of Vernon Ave. He died in 1959. "