Browse Items (43 total)
- Tags: Childhood Games
Una Lyons: Oliver Plunkett Street, Cinemas, English Market
Tom Jones: Shandon Street, Emigration, Childhood
He remembers watching the Cork Opera House on fire in 1955. He recalls childhood games and explains the game of Kick the Can and Pitch and Toss. He talks about the nature of…
Tina Noonan: Blackpool; Sunbeam; Childhood **Restricted Content**
Tina recalls some of a skipping rhyme she used to sing as…
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, Alcoholism, Bonfire Night, Childhood, Childhood Games, Christmas, Funerals, Murphy's Rock, Sunbeam, Tina Noonan, Youghal
Tim O’Brien: Cork Fire Brigade, Murphy’s Brewery, Murphy’s Rock,
Tim was born in Watercourse Road. His father worked in Murphy’s Brewery. His mother came from West…
Sheila Dalton: Family Life; Marriage; Childhood
Sheila was second youngest in a family of 7 girls and 4 boys. Her father worked in a government building as the lift…
Tags: Childbirth, Childhood, Childhood Games, Clothing, Communion, Family Life, Marriage, Pawn Shops, Schooldays, Toys
Karina Abdulbaneeva: Art, Russia, London, Spirituality, Nature, Nationality, New Year’s Day, Religion,
Rev John Farris: Civil Rights, Christianity, Northern Ireland
Reverend…
Paddy Marshall: Blackpool, Pidgeon Racing, Cinema,
Noreen Cronin: Shandon, The North Infirmary, Childhood
Noreen Hanover: Christmas, Childhood Games, Cinema, Ghost stories, Milk and Cake Shops, Pawnbrokers, St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Working life,
Michael O'Callaghan: Togher, Emigration, Summer Holidays,
Mary Sheehy: Gurranabraher, Street Traders, Bonfire Night
As a child, she had to wear…
Mary Marshall: Blackpool, Childhood, Hunting,
Marie-Annick Desplanques: Brittany, Breton, Coiffe, Crêperie, Foodways, France, Children's Games.
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Brittany, Childhood Games, Christmas, Cork 2005, Customs, Folklore, Foodways, France, Marie-Annick Desplanques, Newfoundland
Marie McAllen: Ballyphehane
Tags: Ballincollig, Ballyphehane, Ballyphehane House, Black and Tans, Blackrock, Bodice, Burning of Cork, Capwell, Childhood Games, Coláiste Chríost Rí, Connolly Road, Doyle Road, Dunlop, Food, Fr Theobald Matthew, Friars Walk, Games, Glassey Alleys, Gobs, Halloran’s Orchard, Hangdog Road, Haunted house, I.R.A, Innisfallen, Leaders Clothing Shop, Liam ÓhUigín, Marbles, Market Gardens, McAllen, Nicknames, Pouladuff Road, Reendowny Place, Rhymes, Ska, Skipping, St Joseph's Cemetery, St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Tory Top Lane, Tramore Road, Tripe and Drisheen
Marie Finn: Barrack Street, Blackberry-picking, Catholic Church,
She talks about the games she played as a child and recites part of a rhyme. You could pick blackberries and sell them to a sweet-makers. Oranges and bananas as…
Liz Steiner Scott: America, Customs, English market, Children's Games, Maternity, Religion,
Tags: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, America, Celebration, Childhood Games, Cork 2005, Crawford Art Gallery, Customs, Education, English market, Festivals, Food, Hanukkah, Jewish, Liz Steiner Scott, Maternity, New Year, Religion, Rosh Hashana, Social Class, Spirituality, UCC, University College Cork, Women’s Movement, Yom Kippur
Liam Ó hUigín: Henry Street, Bonfire Night, Childhood Games, Messenger Boys.
He was a messenger boy in the 1950s; he talks about the job and its good and bad aspects. He…
Liam Ó hUigín: Henry Street, The Marshes, Childhood
He recalls the practice of adding “a” to the end of some placenames, such as Pana for Patrick Street. There…
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Childhood Games, Churches, Clothing, Confectionery, Daly’s Bridge, Dunnes Stores, English market, Henry Street, Liam Ō hUigín, Mackey Gumboil, Mardyke, Milk and Cake Shops, Ogilvy and Moore’s, ohn Daly, Patrick Street, Pike family, Pike’s Marsh, Portney’s Lane, Pubs, Quakers, River Lee, Robert Day’s, Shaky Bridge, Sheares Street, Shops, Slang, Sport, Tenements, The Savoy, William Penn