O'Connell Street Upper

This guide to O'Connell Street Upper in Dublin starts with a stone admiral crashing into the road in the middle of the night in 1966, when a bomb toppled the column he had stood atop since 1809. You'll hear about the decades-long mystery of who planted it, eventually solved by a radio confession from a former volunteer, and about the Irish Army's own attempt to finish the job on the stump left behind. Listen for the joke Dubliners still tell about which blast did more damage to the shopfronts along the street.