O'Connell Street (Irish: Sráid Uí Chonaill) is the main thoroughfare of the city of Limerick.

Retail outlets on O'Connell Street include Brown Thomas, Debenhams and Penneys, while O'Mahony's have a large bookstore there founded in 1902.

The cramped and lofty Dutch styled dwellings of Englishtown and Irishtown were no match for the new, grand and spacious housing & thoroughfares of Newtown Pery.

Nevertheless, some of the finest examples Georgian townhouse architecture in Ireland still survives on the southern end and along the Crescent area of the street.

The anti - treaty forces largely held four military barracks and most of the city while the Free state forces in the city held Cruises Hotel on O'Connell Street (along with Customs House, the Jail, the Courthouse, William Street RIC Barracks which were all located nearby).

(See: Irish Free State offensive) On 25 August 1959, Limerick's best known department store was the scene of the city's largest and most destructive fire.

[3] At 11 a.m. smoke was noticed coming from the William Street side of the store and by 12.30 the whole block became a blazing inferno.

[3] The fire spread and destroyed the stores adjoining Todd's including at the time Burtons, Liptons, Goodwins and Cesars which were completely gutted.

The international Rugby Experience building designed by Niall McLaughlin has transformed the Georgian skyline.

[6] These entailed: The project was due to be completed by September 2022,[7] however an announcement by Limerick City and County Council and contractors pushed the end-date out to November 2022, followed by extra extensions in January, March, and late-May.