Bernie McLoughlin: Turner's Cross, Ford's, UCC,

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Title

Bernie McLoughlin: Turner's Cross, Ford's, UCC,

Subject

Life History:

Description

Bernie was born in 1939 and reared in Turner’s Cross. His mother had been a bookkeeper and his father was a supervisor in the post office. He had an older brother and an older sister, and he spent a lot of time with his parents.
He remembers queues for the first bananas arriving in Cork after the war. As a child he was able to walk into the countryside nearby and entertain himself; he and his friends also played cricket and went to the cinema. He tells a story about drying soccer jerseys in a cinema.
His mother sang to entertain herself, operatic arias to which Cork people had added their own lyrics; he gives a humorous example.
He describes the school day, and how family life revolved around meals; what meals were eaten. He remembers his school in O’Sullivan’s Quay; he had a happy school life and a good relationship with teachers. He went to UCC and remained to study there for 6 years.
He liked teaching but got a job in Ford’s; he disliked the management style of the place but stayed until he got a brain haemorrhage and retired. He recalls the reasons for the demise of the factory.

Date

2 July 2012

Identifier

CFP_SR00417_mcloughlin_2012

Coverage

Cork, Ireland, 1940s-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_SR00414_ohorgain_2011; CFP_SR00415_oconnell_2011; CFP_SR00416_sheehy_2011; 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/

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Source

Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive

Rights

Cork Folklore Project

Language

English

Type

Sound

Format

1 .wav File

Interviewee

Interviewer

Duration

79min 37sec

Location

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

B McL: I suppose the best recollection I would have of my father is when Ita and Vincent’s kids were on the scene when they were young like and 5 and 6 and that and he was a great man for playing with the kids and sort of doing knacks with his fingers that he kind of project from the light onto the wall you know and he’d have things I don’t know how he’d used do it it would look like rabbit ears at one stage you know and would look like something else at another stage and he told the same stories to them all as they were growing up and he would do the same with my kids afterwards and the story always involved a rabbit you know and he’d call him Mr. Rabbit you see it was all about the rabbit and he’d bring in all sorts of things to it and all the kids loved would be delighted with it and it always came then to the punchline and the punchline was that the rabbit turned around and said to my father “Mr Mcloughlin, have you a match?” now as in striking a match. What the significance of it I never knew but all the kids would just wait for the punchline (fumbling with recorder and microphone) as I don’t know what it meant “Mr Loughlin, have you a match?” but they’d all be there. Hanging on, waiting for that to be said. And they’d be hilarious laughter then after that. But he just had that way with them that he was very good very good with kids you know. He was very very witty man you know but he won’t be a joke-teller you know.

Citation

Cork Folklore Project , “Bernie McLoughlin: Turner's Cross, Ford's, UCC,,” accessed March 28, 2024, https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/129.