Monument sights in Dublin
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Spire
Soaring 120m over O’Connell St – and the rest of the city – this gigantic needle is impossible to miss, a risqué homage to the fight against one of Dublin’s greatest social ills, heroin addiction. Yeah, right. Dubs excel at gallows humour, but the Spire is neither a joke nor a commemoration of anything in particular, except maybe the notion that for a spell in the 1990s the sky was the limit. But it’s not just an ornament; it is apparently the highest sculpture in the world and, sarcasm aside, it’s a hugely impressive feat of architectural engineering. From a base of only 3m in diameter, it soars more than 120m into the sky and tapers into a 15cm-wide beam of light. It w…
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Campanile
Through the Regent House entrance of Trinity College, past the Students Union, are Front Sq and Parliament Sq, the latter dominated by the 30m-high Campanile, designed by Edward Lanyon and erected from 1852 to 1853 on what was believed to be the centre of the monastery that preceded the college. Students who pass beneath it when the bells toll will fail their exams, according to superstition.
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Fusiliers' Arch
The main entrance to the green today is beneath Fusiliers’ Arch, at the top of Grafton St. Modelled to look like a smaller version of the Arch of Titus in Rome, the arch commemorates the 212 soldiers of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers who were killed fighting for the British in the Boer War (1899–1902).
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