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The Ruins of O'Connell Street, 1916 — Edmond Delrenne Print

The Ruins of O'Connell Street, 1916 — Edmond Delrenne Print

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Painted in 1916, days after the Rising. The original is in the National Gallery of Ireland. This is the only contemporary visual record of what O'Connell Street looked like in the aftermath.

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The Ruins of O'Connell Street, 1916 — Fine Art Print

In the immediate aftermath of the Easter Rising, Belgian artist Edmond Delrenne stood on Dublin's main thoroughfare and recorded what he saw. The result is one of the few contemporary visual documents of the destruction the Rising left behind — a drawing in charcoal and watercolour that captures the ruined streetscape around the General Post Office and the neighbouring buildings that had been at the heart of the fighting.

About the Work

The Ruins of O'Connell Street (1916), also known as Sackville Street in Ruins, depicts the devastation of central Dublin's main thoroughfare — then called Sackville Street, now O'Connell Street — in the days following the Rising. Rendered in charcoal and watercolour with white highlights on paper, the work has the quality of a first-hand record: immediate, precise, and quietly devastating. The original drawing measures 17.1 × 26 cm and is catalogued as NGI.18486 in the National Gallery of Ireland collection.

Delrenne was active in Dublin around 1915–1918 and produced a small group of views of the city during this period. This drawing is among the most significant — a rare Belgian eye on an Irish moment of history, made while the smoke was still clearing.

About the Artist

Edmond Delrenne was a Belgian artist active c.1915–1918 who documented Dublin during one of the most turbulent periods in its history. His small group of Dublin views, produced in the immediate aftermath of the Easter Rising, are among the few contemporary painted and drawn records of the destruction in the city centre. Little else is known of his life, which makes this body of work all the more remarkable as a historical document.

Cultural & Historical Significance

The Easter Rising of April 1916 transformed O'Connell Street — then Sackville Street — beyond recognition. The GPO and much of the surrounding streetscape were reduced to rubble by British shelling. Delrenne's drawing records that destruction at close range, in real time. Over a century later, works like this one remain among the most direct visual links to that week.

Print Details

  • Open edition fine art print
  • Original medium: charcoal and watercolour with white highlights on paper
  • Original dimensions: 17.1 × 26 cm — National Gallery of Ireland (NGI.18486)
  • Printed on 230gsm premium fine art paper
  • Available framed or unframed
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