13 Facts About O'Connell Street

O'Connell Street is a street in the centre of Dublin, Ireland, running north from the River Liffey.

O'Connell Street is located on the north side of Dublin city, and runs northwards from O'Connell Bridge towards Parnell Square.

O'Connell Street evolved from the earlier 17th-century Drogheda Street, laid out by Henry Moore, 1st Earl of Drogheda.

O'Connell Street demolished the western side of Drogheda Street creating an exclusive elongated residential square 1,050 feet long and 150 feet wide, thus establishing the scale of the modern-day thoroughfare.

O'Connell Street titled the new development Sackville Street after the then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Lionel Cranfield Sackville, Duke of Dorset.

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Sackville O'Connell Street prospered in the 19th century, though there was some difference between the Upper and Lower streets.

Lower Sackville O'Connell Street became successful as a commercial location; its terraces are ambitiously lined with purpose-designed retail units.

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

O'Connell Street saw another pitched battle in July 1922, on the outbreak of the Irish Civil War, when anti-treaty fighters under Oscar Traynor occupied the street after pro-treaty Irish National Army troops attacked the republican garrison in the nearby Four Courts.

Street was given attention with Dublin City Council's O'Connell Street Integrated Area Plan which was unveiled in 1998 with the aim of restoring the street to its former status.

O'Connell Street has been designated an Architectural Conservation Area and an Area of Special Planning Control.

O'Connell Street is used as the main route of the annual St Patrick's Day Parade, and as the setting for the 1916 Commemoration every Easter Sunday.

Daniel O'Connell Street: designed and sculpted by John Henry Foley and completed by his assistant Thomas Brock.