Humphrey Twomey: Collins Barracks, World War 2, Cork Shakespearean Company
Title
Humphrey Twomey: Collins Barracks, World War 2, Cork Shakespearean Company
Subject
Arts; Theatre; Life History;
Description
Humphery shares Further memories of moving with his family to Dillon’s Cross area aged 7. Memories of Collins Barracks and seeing the army on manoeuvres. The Emergency or World War 2. Army manoeuvres in Gouldings Glen in an area known as the Black Patch. Seeing searchlights late at night. How the Black Patch was also used by children for playing. The LDF and ARP. He speaks about talk of Rudolf Hess parachuting into Scotland and people wondering if Ireland would be bombed plus the Blitz. He speaks of air raid shelters on Patricks St. Memories of rationing and how hard it was to get tea.
This is the first of two interviews with Humphery for The Cork Shakespearean Company (The Loft) collection. The second is CFP_SR00723_Twomey_2019
This is the first of two interviews with Humphery for The Cork Shakespearean Company (The Loft) collection. The second is CFP_SR00723_Twomey_2019
Date
11 April 2019
Identifier
CFP_SR00711_Twomey_2019
Coverage
Cork, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s
Relation
Source
Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive
Rights
Cork Folklore Project
Language
English
Type
Sound
Format
1.wav File
Interviewee
Interviewer
Duration
90 minutes 09 seconds
Location
Mayfield, Cork
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
He mentions the Tenebrae ceremony. He speaks about fasting from midnight if you were going to communion the following day which he says was a very wrong thing to ask people to do. He says nearly every time you were at mass someone would faint especially if there was a large congregation. People would have to be led out of mass because they would get a weakness. He says the big fasting day would be Ash Wednesday. He tells by example a story of when he was teaching in Loughrea in Co Galway and he was staying in his digs in a hotel. He says a priest came down to speak to Humphrey and the other lay teachers staying there. He said to them that they didn’t have to fast for Lent but he couldn’t say that from the pulpit. Humphrey says the girls working in the hotel and kitchen would be looking for dispensation but they would not be given it. He speaks of the unfairness of this and the fact that teachers were regarded as scholars and therefore part of the Church but girls working in menial jobs were expected to fast.
He mentions the Tenebrae ceremony. He speaks about fasting from midnight if you were going to communion the following day which he says was a very wrong thing to ask people to do. He says nearly every time you were at mass someone would faint especially if there was a large congregation. People would have to be led out of mass because they would get a weakness. He says the big fasting day would be Ash Wednesday. He tells by example a story of when he was teaching in Loughrea in Co Galway and he was staying in his digs in a hotel. He says a priest came down to speak to Humphrey and the other lay teachers staying there. He said to them that they didn’t have to fast for Lent but he couldn’t say that from the pulpit. Humphrey says the girls working in the hotel and kitchen would be looking for dispensation but they would not be given it. He speaks of the unfairness of this and the fact that teachers were regarded as scholars and therefore part of the Church but girls working in menial jobs were expected to fast.
Collection
Citation
Cork Folklore Project, “Humphrey Twomey: Collins Barracks, World War 2, Cork Shakespearean Company,” accessed April 19, 2024, https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/215.