Geraldine Healy: Boole Library, Cinemas, The Pavillion Cinema, Univesity College Cork,
Title
Geraldine Healy: Boole Library, Cinemas, The Pavillion Cinema, Univesity College Cork,
Subject
Cork's Built Heritage
Description
Geraldine talks about her time at UCC in the late 1970s and 1980s, and about the then new Boole Library. She mentions a superstition about walking on the grass of the quadrangle before graduation. (She reads aloud about the Crawford Observatory from the book The College, by John A Murphy.)
She talks about going to the cinema and explains that there was a restaurant above The Pavillion cinema
Note: this interview was conducted specifically for the DVD production, If The Walls Could Talk.
She talks about going to the cinema and explains that there was a restaurant above The Pavillion cinema
Note: this interview was conducted specifically for the DVD production, If The Walls Could Talk.
Date
10 July 2013
Identifier
CFP_SR00505_healy_2013
Coverage
Cork City; Ireland; Built Heritage; 1770s-200Os;
Relation
If the Wall Could Talk: Stories Of Cork's Heritage Catalogue Numbers:
CFP_SR00492_herlihy_2013;
CFP_SR00493_walsh_2013;
CFP_SR00494_butler_2013;
CFP_SR00495_faris_2013;
CFP_SR00496_osullivan_2013;
CFP_SR00497_ryan_2013;
CFP_SR00498_holland_2013;
CFP_SR00499_hartnett&osullivan_2013;
CFP_SR00500_mccarthy_2013;
CFP_SR00506_gleeson_2013;
CFP_SR00507_miller_2013;
CFP_SR00492_herlihy_2013;
CFP_SR00493_walsh_2013;
CFP_SR00494_butler_2013;
CFP_SR00495_faris_2013;
CFP_SR00496_osullivan_2013;
CFP_SR00497_ryan_2013;
CFP_SR00498_holland_2013;
CFP_SR00499_hartnett&osullivan_2013;
CFP_SR00500_mccarthy_2013;
CFP_SR00506_gleeson_2013;
CFP_SR00507_miller_2013;
Published Material:
If the Wall Could Talk: Stories Of Cork's Heritage (2013) DVD
If the Stones Could Speak: More stories from Cork's heritage (2015) DVD
Related Material From the CFP Archive;
As Interviewee:
CFP_SR00389_healy_2010; CFP_SR00510_healy_2014; CFP_SR00523_healy_2014; CFP_VR00542_healy_2015; CFP_SR00700_healy_2019; CFP_SR00701_healy_2019; CFP_SR00709_healy_2019; CFP_SR00710_healy_2019:
As Interviewer:
CFP_SR00387_Sheehan_; CFP_SR00395_Speight; CFP_SR00421_Cronin.
Source
Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive
Rights
Cork Folklore Project
Language
English
Type
Sound
Format
1 .wav File
Interviewee
Interviewer
Duration
24m 22s
Location
Cork City, Cork Ireland.
Original Format
.wav
Bit Rate/Frequency
24bit / 48kHz
Transcription
The following is a short extract from the interview transcript, copyright of the Cork Folklore Project. If you wish to access further archival material please contact CFP, folklorearchive@gmail.com
MW What did -- the name, the Boole Library, where did the name come from?
GH Well the Boole Library, the name of the Boole Library came from George Boole, the first professor of Mathematics in University College Cork. And eh this man, it is very fitting that his name was given to the new library in UCC in the eighties because his mathematical formulae have been the basis for modern computers like, for his algebra like has been the basis for a lot of like modern technology today and he’s a worldwide figure of world -- world renown. And he died I think at the age of forty-nine, a very early age, because he had walked from his home in Ballin-- Ballintemple eh into the college during a rainstorm and he developed pneumonia and he didn’t survive it, so he died very young, at a very young age. And then the Boole Library complex it, it, it took over the space that in the seventies had been -- and for the previous hundred years in UCC -- well I don’t know if it was actually active for the full hundred years but the area had been in use as the football pitch for a long, long time, the Quarry, and like in the old days, in the seventies you’d have your lunch in the old Rest and that used be a very -- it was a great place like, it was a great place like you’d see everybody and spotting people and seeing people and all the --
MW What did -- the name, the Boole Library, where did the name come from?
GH Well the Boole Library, the name of the Boole Library came from George Boole, the first professor of Mathematics in University College Cork. And eh this man, it is very fitting that his name was given to the new library in UCC in the eighties because his mathematical formulae have been the basis for modern computers like, for his algebra like has been the basis for a lot of like modern technology today and he’s a worldwide figure of world -- world renown. And he died I think at the age of forty-nine, a very early age, because he had walked from his home in Ballin-- Ballintemple eh into the college during a rainstorm and he developed pneumonia and he didn’t survive it, so he died very young, at a very young age. And then the Boole Library complex it, it, it took over the space that in the seventies had been -- and for the previous hundred years in UCC -- well I don’t know if it was actually active for the full hundred years but the area had been in use as the football pitch for a long, long time, the Quarry, and like in the old days, in the seventies you’d have your lunch in the old Rest and that used be a very -- it was a great place like, it was a great place like you’d see everybody and spotting people and seeing people and all the --
Citation
Cork Folklore Project, “Geraldine Healy: Boole Library, Cinemas, The Pavillion Cinema, Univesity College Cork,,” accessed April 23, 2024, https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/15.