Mural celebrating Frederick Douglass unveiled in Cork city

The Frederick Douglass mural at the Unitarian Church on Cork's Prince's Street.

A mural celebrating the 1845 visit to Cork of the great American anti-slavery leader, Frederick Douglass, one of Barack Obama’s political heroes, has been unveiled in the city centre.

Douglass’s great-great-great-grandson, Kenneth B Morris, was the guest of honour at the unveiling of the striking piece of street art on a wall in the courtyard of the historic Unitarian Church on Prince’s St on Monday night.