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Nelson's Pillar
The Nelson Pillar (also known as Nelson's Pillar or simply The Pillar) was a large granite pillar topped by a statue of Horatio Nelson in the middle of O'Connell Street (formerly Sackville Street) in Dublin. It was built in 1808–1809, and was among the first and grandest monuments erected in memory of Nelson in the then United Kingdom. It survived until March 1966, when it was destroyed by a bomb planted by Irish republicans. Today the Spire of Dublin stands on its former ground.
==Description==
The pillar was a Doric column that rose from the ground and was topped by a tall statue in Portland stone by Cork sculptor Thomas Kirk, RHA (1781–1845), giving it a total height of – some shorter than Nelson's Column in London. The diameter of the column was at the bottom and at the top.
All the outer and visible parts of the pillar were of granite from the quarry of Goldenhill, Manor Kilbride, County Wicklow. The interior was of black limestone.〔 A contemporary account of the pillar described it in the following terms: "In Sackville Street is a very noble monument to the memory of the immortal Nelson: it consists of a pedestal, column, and capital of the Tuscan order, the whole being surmounted by a well executed statue of the hero, leaning on the capstan of his ship."〔An Accurate Observer, "Reminiscences of Half a Century", published in London(1838).〕
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