A Tale of Two Cities

Cork City, beautifully situated on the wide estuary of the River Lee and famed for its hills, its steeples, its merchant princes, and sportsmen with attitude, has also long suffered from `second city' syndrome, seeing with some resentment Dublin, a capital with - perhaps, depending on one's opinion - bigger buildings, the seat of government, Georgian squares, and more beautiful bridges. In A Tale of Two Cities, John Hall juxtaposes his own beautiful and idiosyncratic photographs of the built landscape of Dublin and Cork: banks, breweries, convents, courthouses, parks, universities, markets, railway bridges.