Image by Pól Ó Duibhir
Thankfully, my The Pillar: The Life and Afterlife of the Nelson Pillar was recently released, it should be sitting on the shelves in all good bookshops at the moment. One of my favourite aspects of the book is the fact it is loaded with new photographs that haven’t been put into print before, many of the taken by Pól Ó Duibhir, who I first came into contact with some years ago thanks to the blog.
I thought I’d post a few of Pól’s images on here today to mark the fact we have settled a launch date for the book, which is July 7th in Hodges Figgis at 6.30pm.
Image by Pól Ó Duibhir
A personal favourite image is this one below, showing the souvenir hunters who onto descended O’Connell Street, taking anything they could from the once imposing monument.
Image by Pól Ó Duibhir
The image below as used for the cover of the book, and it shows the remains of Francis Johnston’s Pillar from the vantage point of Francis Johnston’s (rebuilt) GPO. As Pól has noted “the photograph shows that thanks to its perspective, the GPO column appears to dominate that of Nelson for the first time ever. It was to be a temporary little arrangement however as Nelson’s Pillar was destined to soon bite the dust.”
Image by Pól Ó Duibhir
Image by Pól Ó Duibhir
These are only a small selection of Pól’s images, and I am indebted to him for contributing them. There are plenty more inside the book.
Click on the book for more.
Click on the book for more.
Donal
Ciarán
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Come Here To Me! 
Thanks, Donal.
Images apart, it’s a great book. Loved it.
Wonderful pics. Thanks for posting. J.
all best wishes for everysuccess with the forthcoming book – may it become a best-seller
With regards to the Nelson’s Pillar explosion you might like to look at http://eurofree3.wordpress.com/2014/02/09/edward-carson-1854-1935/
to see the event and a song celebrating it
@benmadigan
Did a short post in reply to one element of your Carson post.
http://bit.ly/1qF0lVp
Hi are their other pictures of the dublin corporation men clearing up the remains of the pillar my father in law was one of them would like to get a picture of him in action
Dennis
I have my full set of Nelson photos up here:
http://photopol.com/nelson_show/index.html
If you scroll through them you will see 5 of corpo workers at end page 1 & start page 2. If he’s in any one of them let me know, quote its filename and I’ll sort out a higher quality copy for you. The ones here are optimised for web and a bit small.
Maybe leave an email address here or, if you don’t want to do that, think of some other way of my getting it to you.
Pól