[5] It also became a significant venue for public meetings: the member of parliament and leader of the Home Rule League, Charles Parnell, spoke in the town hall during the 1885 general election.
[8] A statue depicting the local leader of the United Irishmen, Billy Byrne, who was executed for his part in the Irish Rebellion of 1798, was unveiled in front of the town hall, in 1900.
[9] A meeting was held in the town hall in April 1915, during the First World War, to instigate a recruiting drive to find local men to join the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
[10] In July 1920, councillors started to fly the Irish Tricolour from the town hall in a show of support for the Dáil Éireann and then, in November 1920, in the aftermath of Bloody Sunday, when the Black and Tans killed or fatally wounded 14 civilians and wounded at least sixty others at a Gaelic football at Croke Park, the town hall was searched by troops from the Cheshire Regiment, seeking incriminating evidence of councillors supporting the Dáil Éireann.
[12] After some four years, during which the building remained empty and deteriorating,[13][14] a major programme of refurbishment works was completed in 2018,[15] allowing the building to re-open as the local offices of Wicklow County Council and the offices of Wicklow County Tourism.