Padraig O’Horgain: Church Street, Funeral Customs, Republicanism,

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Title

Padraig O’Horgain: Church Street, Funeral Customs, Republicanism,

Subject

Life History:

Description

Padraig O’Horgain (Pat Horgan) was born in Church Street in 1951. His father was a Republican and was interned in Britain between 1939 and 1946. His father later worked at Cork Harbour.
O’Gorman’s hat factory and other businesses were cited in the street. Women in the area still wore shawls up to the mid-1960s. He remembers a travellers’ encampment at Bontys, off Knocknaheeny.
Padraig played handball. People played hurling; Gaelic football was not popular.
He recalls Cork characters The Rancher and Baby Joe.
Men walked behind hearses; women went instead to the church.
At Corpus Christi he was a flower boy; he kissed flowers and threw them at people.
In secondary school, they had a long lunch break so they could go home to be fed. The kinds of meals that were eaten during the week; how shopping was done.
His father kept cage birds. He talks about members of his extended family.

Date

14 September 2011

Identifier

CFP_SR00414_ohorgain_2011

Coverage

Cork, Ireland, 1950s-2000s

Relation

Other Interviews in the Colection:

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_SR00399_saville_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_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

Source

Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive

Rights

Cork Folklore Project

Language

English

Type

Sound

Format

1 .wav File

Interviewee

Interviewer

Duration

52min 29sec

Location

Tralee, Co Kerry

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 for this interview or other interviews please contact CFP, folklorearchive@gmail.com

P.H:   

 My mother, she was a very gentle woman. She never hit us. My father never hit us. She provided very well for us. We always had good dinners even then in the, say in the early sixties. I think she fancied herself as a cook, you know, and like we’d have cabbage of a Sunday, we’ll say with corned beef or something like that and then she’d make soup from the corned beef from what was left of the corned beef so you’d have that for eh before dinner during the week because when I was at the North Mon, we’d go home at half twelve, I think it was and you didn’t go back ‘till two so we had our dinner in the day time and then father would have at night when he came home, you know, so that’s the way we used to be, all the boys would have their dinners at one o’clock. 

And em so, you know, there was, there was sort of set dinners for the week, you know, you’d have the meat, the mutton or the corned beef mainly, there was a very very little steak that time, on the Northside of Cork city, you know, people didn’t have money to buy it. And so you’d have mutton or corned beef and on Sunday and Monday, then we used to have bodice which you probably know, I think they call it spare ribs nowadays, you know, so of course they would be boiled and then you’d have tripe and drisheen, I think we used to have that on a Thursday and then of course Friday was fish. You know for the Catholic observance.  So we had fish on a Friday, and then I forget Saturday you had chops, or something like that you know, so that’s the way it was  and it didn’t vary an awful lot, there were no pizzas and no pastas, no nothing like that.

    And then on Shandon Street, you, you see all the shopping was local so you have a, you’d the pork butcher, the beef butcher and Billy O’Callaghan, I think was the beef butcher, ah the mutton and the beef chops and then you had em Jerry Nolan; he’s still there.  I used to go around with him.  They had a shop there; a butcher shop and then you had a man further up about three doors from Gerry; I can’t think of his name and I think he used to sell pig meat, you know heads, crubeens things like that, tripe and drisheen and of course you had bakeries there.  You had Creedon’s bakery; you had Donnelly’s  which I saw this morning is still there and you had Ormonde and Aherne’s and em so all the shopping was done in Shandon Street. 

Citation

Cork Folklore Project , “Padraig O’Horgain: Church Street, Funeral Customs, Republicanism,,” accessed March 29, 2024, https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/126.