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General Post Office
The headquarters of the 1916 Easter Rising on O'Connell Street, its columns still pocked by bullets, with an exhibition.
- Open
- Most days; check the website
- Price
- Paid for the exhibition
- Time Needed
- 1 hour
- Address
- O'Connell Street Lower, Dublin 1Directions
- Getting There
- On O'Connell Street.
Why Go
On Easter Monday 1916, rebels seized the post office and read the Proclamation of the Irish Republic from its steps. The building burned in the fighting and was rebuilt.
An exhibition inside tells the story of the Rising.
Nearby in Dublin
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