• Before Nelson's Pillar trams slowed, shunted, changed trolley, started for Blackrock, Kingstown and Dalkey, Clonskea, Rathgar and Terenure ...
  • And watching over all of the movement is the Vice Admiral Nelson on his pillar. ... [View of Nelson’s pillar following the bombing], by Independent Newspapers, 1966.
  • The monument was the flagship project of a wider improvement of the centre of Ireland's capital city and replaced Nelson's Pillar, destroyed by terrorists in 1966.
  • Nelson’s Pillar – honoring the British admiral who won the Battle of Trafalgar – had dominated the skyline on O’Connell Street for more than a hundred years.
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  • After a week of clearing up the debris from the original [IRA] explosion the Irish army was brought in to blow up the remainder of the pillar.
  • It was the city’s most prominent monument by far. When was Nelson’s pillar erected? October 21, 1809Nelson’s Pillar / Date opened.
  • Looking the worse for wear, some of his scars date from the fighting which raged at the GPO building beside Nelson’s Pillar during the 1916 Easter Rising.
  • In 1808, the foundation stone for Nelson's Pillar in Dublin's O'Connell Street was laid. ... The site of Nelson's Pillar is now occupied by The Spire.
  • But first, let’s scroll back a bit. nelsons_pillar_black_and_white. Nelson’s Pillar was originally built in 1808-09 to commemorate Admiral Nelson.
  • Nelson’s Pillar was a granite column capped with a statue by Thomas Kirk of British naval hero Horatio Nelson, located in what was then Sackville Street in Dublin.
  • Under an eight-column headline—EXPLOSION WRECKS THE PILLAR—the Irish Times reported that: The top of Nelson Pillar, in O’Connell Street...
  • Predating London’s Nelson Column by almost 30 years, Nelson’s Pillar was a 36.8m tall column with a 3.9m tall statue by Thomas Kirk in Portland Stone at the top.