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On 8th March 1966 at 1:32 am a bomb planted by Irish republicans exploded in O'Connell Street in Dublin and Nelson’s Pillar was destroyed. Its remnants were later destroyed by the Irish Army.
@bullivant why did they plant it?
@JohnLoader6 The column was seen as symbolic of Britain's conquest and dominance of Ireland.
@JohnLoader6 @bullivant Nelson wasn't well liked
@sinabhfuil @JohnLoader6 Any particular reason?
@sinabhfuil @JohnLoader6 Brendan Behan: “The one-armed, one-eyed Admiral of the British-bollock-shop institution the Royal Navy has no business in his perch at all. He has no fucking place in Ireland’s history but a wrong one.”
@bullivant I have 2 memories regarding this (even though it happened exactly 5 years before I was born!). I have to verify the second, because I suspect I have it wrong.
In a TV interview on his life recorded in the late '80s/early '90s, musician Brush Sheils was asked if he remembered when he heard that Nelson's Pillar was blown up: "Yeah. I was at a meeting of a support group for people who couldn't remember where they were when Kennedy was shot."
