The death of Thomas Ashe and the subsequent funeral procession had a striking effect on the attitude of the Irish people and became a rallying call to the standard of the Irish Republic. Thomas Ashe’s remains lay in state in Dublin’s City Hall before a funeral procession of over 30,000 marched to Glasnevin Cemetery on 30 September 1917.

Michael Collins delivered the funeral eulogy in Irish and English, following the firing of a volley by uniformed Irish Volunteers. The English eulogy being ” nothing additional remains to be said. That volley which we have just heard is the only speech which is proper to make above the grave of a dead Fenian”.