Pat Horgan: The Loft Cork Shakespearean Company, The Everyman Palace, Aloys Fleischmann
Title
Pat Horgan: The Loft Cork Shakespearean Company, The Everyman Palace, Aloys Fleischmann
Subject
Arts; Theatre; Life History;
Description
Pat speaks about his family’s involvement in The Railways. Of hurling with St Patricks .Of seeing the Innishfallen coming and going from his house. Playing hurling with St Patrick’s. His work in Dunlop and Ford and his involvement in acting with The Loft Cork Shakespearean Company under Fr O Flynn. He speaks of when the BBC came to the Loft to film a documentary on Fr O Flynn. He also speaks of his memories of Aloys Fleischmann. On John B Keane and the Southern Theatre Group. Dan Donovan. The Everyman Palace. The Montforts. Joan Denise Moriarty. Gus Healy. Chris Curran. Jim Stack.
Date
16 January 2017
Identifier
CFP_SR00597_Horgan_2017
Coverage
Cork, Ireland, 1920s, 50s, 70s, 80s, 90s
Relation
Source
Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive
Rights
Cork Folklore Project
Language
English
Type
Sound
Format
1.wav File
Interviewee
Interviewer
Duration
56 minutes 55 seconds.
Location
Clancy’s Bar Princes Street, Cork City.
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
Pat talks about the composer Aloys Fleischmann and goes into his general story including his connections with the Cork Ballet Company which is how Pats wife got to know him. Pat met him a few times usually when he would call to the house to drop music off. He says he was a very unassuming man. He had an old broken down car with the door nearly falling off and he would have no mass on things like that. He also used to drive an old motor bike. He brought a friend of Pats wife up to Clonmel on the bike and took a corner quickly and they ended up in the ditch but they walked away from it. He says he was like Fr O Flynn in some respects in that he’d inspire people. He collaborated with Joan Denise Moriarty with The Cork Ballet Company. The Cork Ballet Company became The Irish Ballet Company so they set up a professional company out of Cork which the Cork Symphony Orchestra would play in collaboration with. Pat says they travelled to Europe and America but the Dublin based Arts Council said it could survive if it was based in Dublin, their funding was taken from them. Up to end of Fleischmann’s and Joan Denise Moriarty’s lives they were both heavily involved in ballet and music. The ballet and Cork Symphony Orchestra are still around but not in the same capacity as they used to be says Pat.
Pat talks about the composer Aloys Fleischmann and goes into his general story including his connections with the Cork Ballet Company which is how Pats wife got to know him. Pat met him a few times usually when he would call to the house to drop music off. He says he was a very unassuming man. He had an old broken down car with the door nearly falling off and he would have no mass on things like that. He also used to drive an old motor bike. He brought a friend of Pats wife up to Clonmel on the bike and took a corner quickly and they ended up in the ditch but they walked away from it. He says he was like Fr O Flynn in some respects in that he’d inspire people. He collaborated with Joan Denise Moriarty with The Cork Ballet Company. The Cork Ballet Company became The Irish Ballet Company so they set up a professional company out of Cork which the Cork Symphony Orchestra would play in collaboration with. Pat says they travelled to Europe and America but the Dublin based Arts Council said it could survive if it was based in Dublin, their funding was taken from them. Up to end of Fleischmann’s and Joan Denise Moriarty’s lives they were both heavily involved in ballet and music. The ballet and Cork Symphony Orchestra are still around but not in the same capacity as they used to be says Pat.
Collection
Citation
Cork Folklore Project, “Pat Horgan: The Loft Cork Shakespearean Company, The Everyman Palace, Aloys Fleischmann,” accessed April 16, 2024, https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/203.