Cork - Father Matthew Memorial Church

Turning left off South Mall at the City Hall in Cork's Central Area and following the bank of the South Channel, which here describes a sharp bend, we come to the Father Matthew Memorial Church (Holy Trinity Church, 1825), a neo-Gothic building designed by G. R. Pain. It commemorates the "Apostle of Temperance," Father Matthew (1790-1861), who preached the unpopular doctrine of abstinence and "made an idea into a crusade."