The General Post Office was completed in 1817 to the design of Francis Johnston. It is one of the most significant buildings in Irish History being the headquarters of Irish Forces during the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule. It was from outside this building on the 24th of April 1916, that Patrick Pearse read out the Proclamation of the Irish Republic.]The building was destroyed by fire in the course of the rebellion, save for the granite facade, and not rebuilt until 1929, by the Irish Free State government. The building has remained a symbol of Irish nationalism. In commemoration of the Rising, a statue depicting the death of the mythical hero Cúchulainn sculpted by Oliver Sheppard in 1911 was sited at the command post in the centre of the GPO main hall and is now housed in the front of the building.
A Dublin Bus - open top Dublin Sightseeing Tours Bus in O'Connell Street just north of the historic GPO (General Post Office)
