O'Connell Street is located on the north side of Dublin city, and runs northwards from O'Connell Bridge towards Parnell Square. The street is approximately 1,980 feet (600 m) long and 150 feet (46 m) wide, with two … See more

Sackville Street prospered in the 19th century, though there was some difference between the Upper and Lower streets. Lower Sackville … See more

On 31 August 1913, O'Connell Street saw the worst incident in the Dublin lock-out, a major dispute between workers and the police. During a … See more

In his 1937 book "The Way That I Went", Irish naturalist Robert Lloyd Praeger noted that "undoubtedly the most interesting zoological feature … See more

Drogheda Street
O'Connell Street evolved from the earlier 17th-century Drogheda Street, laid out by Henry Moore, 1st Earl of Drogheda. It was a third of the width of the present-day O'Connell Street, located on the site of the modern eastern … See more

Despite improvements to the street's architectural coherence between 1916 and 1922, the street has since suffered from a lack of planning. Like … See more

Current and former monuments on O'Connell Street from south to north include:
Daniel O'Connell: designed and sculpted by See more