There is no one memorial in Cork to the c.4,200 casualties from Cork City and County. ‘There should be’ says Bishop Paul Colton, the Church of Ireland Bishop, ‘but there isn’t.’ On Sunday afternoon, 11th November, however, all the names were presented at the existing Church of Ireland diocesan memorial in St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork.
Bishop Colton explains: ‘To mark this centenary I wanted to come up with a tangible way of recognising and remembering all Cork people who fought and died regardless of their religion or of whether they were religious or not. They gave their lives. Their…
