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
Nelson's Pillar
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Nelson's Pillar was a large granite column capped by a statue of Horatio Nelson, built in the centre of what was then Sackville Street in Dublin, Ireland. Completed in 1809 when Ireland was part of th
O'Connell Street
…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 Pillar in 1966 and the Dublin riots of 2006 and 2023. In the late 20th century, a comprehensive plan was begun to restore the street to its original 19th-century…
Nelson's Pillar, c. 1830
William Blakeney, whose Sackville Street statue preceded Nelson's
Nelson's death aboard HMS Victory. Painting by Denis Dighton, c. 1825