The Spire Dublin
Note: AKA the Monument of Light. There is a pattern around the base of that monument, and it is based on a core sample of rock formation taken from the ground where it stands and the DNA double helix.
Historical significance? None at all. Basically, it's just a metal pole that looks like a giant pin and it lights up at dusk. You could say it's a replacement of the Nelson's Pillar* which was bombed by former IRA members in 1966, but other than that it's just... that.
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*Nelson's Pillar: after Vice Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson of the British Royal Navy. It was built in 1808 by leading members of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy in Dublin to commemorate Nelson and his achievements during the naval skirmish against the combined forces of France and Spain during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars. Between 10-20% of the sailors at Trafalgar had been from Ireland.
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