O'Connell Monument
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The O'Connell Monument is a 40 ft high commemorative granite and bronze monument honouring nationalist leader Daniel O'Connell located on O'Connell Street, the main thoroughfare of Dublin, Ireland.
Seen from O'Connell Bridge
Seen from O'Connell Bridge
Close up of O'Connell (showing bullet holes)
The monument in 2015
O'Connell Bridge
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O'Connell Bridge is a road bridge spanning the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland, which joins O'Connell Street to D'Olier Street, Westmoreland Street and the south quays.
O'Connell Monument
…the base of O'Connell's left leg. The O'Connell Monument was unveiled to the public on 15 August 1882 and the newly widened Carlisle Bridge was renamed O'Connell Bridge in honour of its new main focal point. What is now known as O'Connell Street, however, would remain named as Sackville Street until 1924. After O'Connell's…
O'Connell Bridge viewed from the west
View of bridge from the south with O'Connell Street in the background
Straight on or left or right to Westmoreland Street only. A busy scene from the 1930s with Dublin United Tramways Company trams.
Carlisle Bridge, c. the 1870s