• Nelson's Pillar (also known as the Nelson Pillar or simply the Pillar) was a large granite column capped by a statue of Horatio Nelson...
  • Dublin continues to debate a replacement for Nelson’s Pillar, but in its own time (1808-1966), while lording it over Dublin’s O’Connell Street, the Pillar was...
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A powerful explosion destroys the upper portion of Nelson’s Pillar in Dublin in the early morning hours of March 8, 1966, bringing Nelson's statue crashing to the...
  • 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.
  • NELSONS PILLAR in Dublin: history, what it was, why the Spire replaced it Dublin nelson's pillar By Ireland Before You Die.
  • Nelson Pillar Dublin 1808 – 1966. Nelson Pillar or usually referred to as the pillar was a large granite structure on which stood a statue of Horatio Nelson.
  • Nelson's pillar was the originating point for most of Dublin's trams. ... Flower sellers at the base of Nelson's Pillar, in a photograph taken ca.
  • 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.