GREAT WAR PROJECT: MEMORIALS - CORK
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Cork War Memorial
These pictures, sent in by Brendan Burke, are of what is today known as the 'Peace Park' at Cork in the Republic of Ireland. It is not a Unitarian memorial although members of the Cork congregation certainly served in the First World War and some may have died in the War. Brendan writes that the park is used as an all-purpose memorial space today. The Cork City Council website describes the memorial in this way:
'At the South Mall is a memorial to those Irishmen who died in the First World War. It was erected in 1925, and is one of the few Irish examples of its type. Carved in relief on a modest limestone obelisk, sitting on a plinth, is the profile of a Munster Fusiliers soldier in full military uniform, head down, gun at rest. Each November
wreaths are laid here to mark the anniversary of the armistice of 1918 at the end of the War.'
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