O'Connell Street is very pleasant to stroll down due to its wide pavements and is usually brimming with pedestrians shopping or heading to one of its numerous bars or restaurants. The street and its surroundings, like Henry Street or Parnell Street, are some of Dublin’s main shopping destinations with numerous shopping centres, bookshops, and a large Penneys. O’Connell Street houses numerous sculptures and monuments, including one of the world’s tallest sculptures called The Spire, which stands 120 meters high. Other important monuments located on the street worth seeing include the statue of Daniel O’Connell, a 19-century political leader known as 'The Liberator', the sculptures of Sir John Gray, James Larkin, Charles Stewart Parnell and Theobald Mathew, a Catholic priest, and reformer. Even though many buildings were destroyed during the years of conflict for Irish independence and then during the Civil War, some iconic buildings are still standing like Gresham Hotel, erected in 1817, or Clery’s department store, dating from 1822.
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