On March 8, 1966, Nelson's Pillar, in Dublin city, was blown up. The question is, how did it take 157 years?
For many, the biggest surprise about the blowing up of Nelson’s Pillar in Dublin on March 8, 1966, is why it took 157 years. The resentment had run deep. Almost fifty years after the 1916 Rising an Englishman still towered over every other notable in the city, many groused.
When the pillar was constructed circa 1808 the Protestant Ascendency class who had erected it celebrated. To them, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson was a once in a lifetime hero, the man who at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 had turned the tide against Napoleon.
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