1961: NELSON in DUBLIN - Should he STAY or GO? | Tonight | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

"O Connell, Parnell, Smith O'Brien, Nelson... Nelson? How did he get up there?"

Alan Whicker reports from Dublin, about Dubliners' ambivalent feelings towards one of the city's most famous - and incongruous - landmarks, Nelson's Pillar. What do people think should be done about this monument to a British hero, towering over the main thoroughfare of the capital of the Republic of Ireland?

He speaks with Noel Lemass - Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin South-West, Aldermann Frank Sherwin - Independent TD for Dublin North-Central, and Dublin City Councillor Joe Dowling, about the contentious statue.


Clip taken from Tonight, originally broadcast on BBC Television, 20 March, 1961.





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