Pat Saville: Blackpool, Working Life, Sport,
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He describes the shops and businesses on Thomas Davis Street. He talks about the CIE [Córas Iompair Éireann/Irish Transport System] train station at Dublin Hill, and the freight that used to be carried. He recalls how waste food for pigs was collected and sorted; flooding in Blackpool. He remembers his first job as a cinema projectionist, after which he worked with Youghal Carpets.
Pat also recalls his early involvement in sport, especially soccer; Bonfire Night on Welsh’s Avenue.
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CFP_SR00387_sheehan_2010; CFP_SR00388_sheehan_2010; CFP_SR00389_healy_2010; CFP_SR00390_kelleher_2010; CFP_SR00391_crean_2010; CFP_SR00392_mckeon_2010; CFP_SR00393_twomey_2010; CFP_SR00394_stleger_2010; CFP_SR00395_speight_2010; CFP_SR00396_lane_2010; CFP_SR00397_obrienoleary_2010; CFP_SR00398_jones_2010;
CFP_SR00400_magnier_2010; CFP_SR00401_marshall_2010; CFP_SR00402_marshall_2010; CFP_SR00403_murphy_2010; CFP_SR00404_prout_2011; CFP_SR00405_walsh_2011; CFP_SR00406_prout_2011; CFP_SR00407_newman_2010; CFP_SR00408_newman_2010; CFP_SR00409_leahy_2011; CFP_SR00411_newman_2010; CFP_SR00412_newman_2010; CFP_SR00413_finn_2011; CFP_SR00414_ohorgain_2011; CFP_SR00415_oconnell_2011; CFP_SR00416_sheehy_2011; CFP_SR00417_mcloughlin_2012; CFP_SR00418_gerety_2012; CFP_SR00419_kelleher_2012; CFP_SR00420_byrne_2012; CFP_SR00421_cronin_2012; CFP_SR00422_ohuigin_2012; CFP_SR00423_meacle_2012; CFP_SR00424_horgan_2012; CFP_SR00425_lyons_2012; CFP_SR00427_goulding_2011;
CFP_SR00491_fitzgerald_2013.
Heritage Week 2011: CFP_SR00429_casey_2011; CFP_SR00430_tomas_2011; CFP_SR00431_newman_2011; CFP_SR00432_stillwell_2011; CFP_SR00433_oconnell_2011; CFP_SR00434_lane_2011; CFP_SR00435_montgomery-mcconville_2011; CFP_SR00436_ocallaghan_2011; CFP_SR00437_corcoran_2011; CFP_SR00438_jones_2011; CFP_SR00439_ohuigin_2011; CFP_SR00440_mccarthy_2011; CFP_SR00441_crowley_2011; CFP_SR00442_obrien_2011; CFP_SR00443_jones_2011; CFP_SR00444_mcgillicuddy_2011; CFP_SR00445_delay_2011; CFP_SR00446_murphy_2011;
Video Interview: CFP_VR00486_speight_2014
Published Material:
O’Carroll, Clíona (2011) ‘The Cork Memory Map’, Béascna 7: 184-188.
O’Carroll, Clíona (2012) ‘Cork Memory Map: an update on CFP’s Online Project’, The Archive 16: 14. https://www.ucc.ie/en/media/research/corkfolkloreproject/archivepdfs/archive16.PDF
Dee, Stephen and O’Carroll, Clíona (2012) ‘Sound Excerpts: Interviews from Heritage Week’, The Archive 16: 15-17. https://www.ucc.ie/en/media/research/corkfolkloreproject/archivepdfs/archive16.PDF
O'Carrol, Clíona (2014) 'The children's perspectives: Place-centred interviewing and multiple diversified livelihood strategies in Cork city, 1935-1960'. Béaloideas - The Journal of Folklore of Ireland Society, 82: 45-65.
The Curious Ear/Documentary on One (Cork City Memory Map) http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2011/0816/646858-curious-ear-doconone-cork-city-memory-map/
To view the Cork Memory Map Click Here
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BS: Would there be any stories now, connected, say with any part of Blackpool, that you’d know of? Say for example now, you know - - scary stories or ghost stories or any - -
PS: Oh yeah. Long ago we used go to the October Devotions in the convent. We used be afraid of our life going down there. There was a narrow bank - - the river and then the bank and there was a big, big wall and nobody wanted to walk in front ‘cause there was kind of - - dark corners and there was kind of nooks and crannies on the way down and then they’d be always saying ‘Oh there’s someone standing there. We’re not going down there at all.’ And then there was another one of the houses in Welsh’s Avenue, there was an old, old lady lived in there and we used to be afraid to pass her house. I’d go around Bird’s Quay, I could go up Bird’s Quay and come back into my place ‘cause Bird’s Quay goes into the quarry also, where the Harrier Club was. So instead of going up my lane, if I thought that she was around, I’d go up Bird’s Quay and come back down the other end. But eh, going to the October Devotions we used to have good laughs, but we also had scary moments, like a fella would jump out in front of ya - - he might have moved away before you, and he’d hear you coming and he’d stand in the nook and he’d - - just as you’d come up to him, he’d jump out in front of you. There was many a young fella fell into the river over it. Our parents would [be with us] sometimes. But there was many a young fella fell into the water over it. He got such a fright he’d fall off the bank into the water. But that - - this old lady that was - - she was a lovely old lady in the end, once I got older and we kinda - - we weren’t afraid of her any more. She was a lovely old lady and she wouldn’t do no harm to anybody, you know? It was just that we had - - someone would come up with a story, ‘oh, the house is haunted’ or something like that, you know.