The O'Connell Monument stands as a forty-foot-tall granite and bronze structure at the southern end of O'Connell Street. Crowning the pillar is a larger-than-life bronze figure of Daniel O'Connell, the nineteenth-century political leader…
O'Connell Street Historic Walk
Walk down Dublin's grandest boulevard to trace the dramatic events of the 1916 Rising at the bullet-scarred General Post Office and surrounding monuments.
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1. O'Connell Monument
2. Jim Larkin Statue
The bronze figure of James Larkin stands on O'Connell Street with his arms held high, a pose immortalized from a photograph taken of the labor leader in nineteen twenty-three. Sculpted by Oisín Kelly, the statue captures Larkin in a moment…
3. An Post, General Post Office
The General Post Office on O’Connell Street is defined by its massive portico of six fluted Ionic columns, which hold up a pediment topped by three statues: Mercury, Fidelity, and the figure of Hibernia. Designed by Francis Johnston and…
4. The Spire
The Spire is a stainless steel, pin-like monument rising one hundred and twenty meters above O’Connell Street. It is an elongated cone that measures three meters in diameter at its base and narrows to fifteen centimeters at its top. The…
5. Moore Street
Moore Street is defined by its open-air fruit and vegetable market, the oldest of its kind in Dublin. Stallholders have lined these cobbles since the eighteenth century, creating a space where the rhythm of the city is marked by the voices…
6. Parnell Monument
The Parnell Monument rises nineteen meters tall at the northern end of O'Connell Street, anchored by a prominent granite obelisk. At its base, a bronze statue of the Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell stands with his right…
7. Garden of Remembrance
The Garden of Remembrance in Parnell Square is a sunken, cruciform-shaped space dedicated to those who gave their lives for Irish freedom. Designed by architect Dáithí Hanly, the site occupies part of the former Rotunda Hospital pleasure…