Cork City Sights

  1. Holy Trinity Church

    One of Cork's most famous figures was Father Theobald Mathew, the 'Apostle of Temperance', who went on a short-lived crusade against alcohol in the 1830s and 1840s - a quarter of a million people took the 'pledge', and whiskey production halved. The Holy Trinity Church was designed by the Pain brothers in 1834 in his honour, and the, erm, Father Mathew Bingo Hall round the corner also celebrates his memory. Mathew's statue stands on St Patrick's St.

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