The Buildings
Commercial Buildings
Imperial Hotel Ballroom
Contact Details
| Address | South Mall, Cork. |
| Telephone | 021 4652429 |
| Opening Hours | 10.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m. |
The Imperial Hotel has been serving Cork city since 1813 when the Cork Committee of Merchants commissionedarchitect Sir Thomas Deane to design and build TheCommercial Rooms.
In 1816 the merchants requested Deane to extend the originalbuilding along Pembroke Street to serve as a hotel and coachyard.The Imperial Hotel, originally the place where merchants met to discuss business remains one of the most popularbusiness and social centre in the city today.
The hotel has played host to a number of renowned figuresincluding Fr Mathew the temperance priest, writers such as SirWalter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens and the composer Liszt.
Michael Collins, who negotiated the Free State Treaty in 1921,spent his last night in room 115 of the hotel.
