O'Connell Street
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O'Connell Street is a street in the centre of Dublin, Ireland, running north from the River Liffey. It connects the O'Connell Bridge to the south with Parnell Street to the north and is roughly split
The O'Connell Monument. A memorial to 19th-century leader Daniel O'Connell by John Henry Foley, which stands at the entrance to the street
Sackville Street and Gardiner's Mall in the 1750s
Sackville Street in 1842
View of the Pillar and General Post Office c. 1830
Spire of Dublin
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The Spire of Dublin, alternatively titled the Millennium Spire or the Monument of Light, is a large, stainless steel, pin-like monument 120 metres in height, located on the site of the former Nelson's
O'Connell Street
…part in Irish history and features several important monuments, including statues of O'Connell and trade union leader James Larkin, as well as the Spire of Dublin. It formed the backdrop to one of the 1913 Dublin lock-out gatherings, the 1916 Easter Rising, the Irish Civil War of 1922, the destruction of Nelson's…
Seen from O'Connell Street
Nelson's Pillar stood on the site of the Spire until it was destroyed by a bomb in 1966.
The Spire looking towards the Liffey
View from the bottom of the construction