Dublin’s O’Connell Street is a historic thoroughfare that’s witnessed important events connected to the Easter Rising, the Irish Civil War and the 1913 Dublin lock-out

O’Connell Street is a historic thoroughfare that’s witnessed important events connected to the Easter Rising , the Irish Civil War , the 1913 Dublin lock-out, and much else besides.

Within the space of just a few blocks, you’ll find statues celebrating the street's namesake, nineteenth-century Catholic nationalist Daniel “ The Liberator” O'Connell .

There’s also a much-celebrated statue of Father Theobald Mathew , the founder of what became known as the Catholic Total Abstinence Society .

A pregnant woman asked a man to use his hotel room because she wanted to use a bathroom.

The woman said she was not a hotel guest, but that she needed to use her room.

The hotel manager said he'd been dealing with multiple complaints from neighbouring rooms, to the effect that the occupants of Room 617 were having a loud argument, having loud sex, consuming pornography, or some combination thereof.

Irish sculptress Mary Redmond ( 18631930 ) sculpted O’Connell Street statue in Dublin .

Oscar Wilde is reputed to have quipped his likeness to the Irish contemporary, as well as Oscar Wilde .

Father Mathew ’s O'Connell St statue comes with a fascinating back story—centring on its creator, Mary Redmond .