Museum’s replica trench designed to capture horrors of war

A replica, walk-through First World War trench which has been installed in Cork’s public museum will allow visitors to experience the dark, cramped, and brutal conditions endured by the millions of soldiers who died in trench warfare.

“It is a very accurate representation of what a trench on the western front would have been like,” said Gerry White, chairman of the Cork Branch of the Western Front Association.

“It gives a real sense of the claustrophobia and terror of living, fighting, and dying in the trenches. If a soldier from 1914 walked through it, he’d feel very much at home.