Pat Sexton: Cork Shakespearean Company, Bishop Lucey, Jewtown

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Title

Pat Sexton: Cork Shakespearean Company, Bishop Lucey, Jewtown

Subject

Arts; Theatre; Life History;

Description

Pat talks about memories of the Douglas Street area. Local characters and the market and mart which would be held locally in times past. He speaks about his time in London in the 80s and his childhood and teenage years. He expands further on the story he told in the first interview about his father winning a junior All Ireland medal with Dublin. He also speaks of customs around Halloween, Christmas and Stephens Day where he speaks of seeing Wren Boys in his mothers native Ballinhassig.

This is the second of two interviews with Pat for The Cork Shakespearean Company (The Loft) collection. The first is CFP_SR00596_Sexton_2017

Date

21 October 2017

Identifier

CFP_SR00638_Sexton_2017

Coverage

Cork, Dublin, London, 1930s, 1960s, 1980, 1990s

Source

Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive

Rights

Cork Folklore Project

Language

English

Type

Sound

Format

1.wav File

Interviewee

Interviewer

Duration

62 minutes 36 seconds

Location

Doughcloyne Care Home. Togher Cork.

Original Format

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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 says Bishop Lucey confirmed him in Turners Cross. Pat says also that he was serving as an altar boy at an ordination of a priest and he remembers on the way out seeing Bishop Lucey sitting down and he thought he didn’t look that severe a man. He also says that he had a voluptuous breakfast in front of him and Pat remembers thinking how he’d like to have some of that breakfast. Pat says there was a story told that during Lent Bishop Lucey said you couldn’t eat cakes during lent but you could eat a biscuit. Pat says a Cork firm brought out a cake that looked like a biscuit to get around this and they were nicknamed “Connie Dodgers”. Pat says he didn’t want to be moving out to another church to do the ordination mass and that he wanted to do it in the Cathedral. Pats father said how Bishop Lucey stood up to the Protestants on the Board Of Management Of The Savings Bank. Pat speaks of how a professor of moral theology in UCC at the time of Humanae Vitae made a statement that if anyone had any problems they could come to him and he would give them advice. Pat says when Bishop Lucey heard this he saw red and summoned him to the Bishops Palace. Pat says soon after Fr Paul went out to Africa. He says a time later Bishop Lucey went out to meet him. He says that Fr Good is still alive and living out in Douglas. He is supposed have said that the bishop that he knew here and the bishop out in Africa were two different people. Pat says according to Ger Cassidy (an older former neighbour) there was a sin of company keeping which would involve courting couples. When asked Pat does not recall any controversy about Bishop Lucey and the Film Festival.

 

Citation

Cork Folklore Project, “Pat Sexton: Cork Shakespearean Company, Bishop Lucey, Jewtown,” accessed March 29, 2024, https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/209.