Dublin - O'Connell Street

Parallel to Marlborough Street is O'Connell Street, Dublin's main north-south artery. Originally a good residential street, it lost many of its fine old buildings during the fighting of 1916-22 and is now a shopping and commercial street, with cinemas and restaurants. Along the middle of the street are a series of statues of Irish patriots, including Daniel O'Connell and Charles Stewart Parnell, as well as the "Apostle of Temperance," Father Matthew. Quite recently a sculpture of the river goddess Anna Livia was set up near the main post office. Irish wits have called it "the floozie in the jacuzzi."