Poof! Dublin had Nelson’s Pillar. The foundation stone was laid on February 15, 1808, and the Pillar opened to the public on the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar in 1809. It was designed ...

For many, the biggest surprise about the blowing up of Nelson’s Pillar in Dublin on March 8, 1966, is why it took 157 years. The resentment had run deep. Almost fifty years after the 1916 Rising ...

When the Nelson Pillar in Dublin was dynamited by the Irish Republican Army and while the stump of the Pillar was still in evidence, a few representatives of the Royal Institute of the Architects ...

Dublin City Council is seeking tenders to clean the Spire over the next five years. The notice says the contract for the ...