Geraldine Healy: Personal memories of Cork in the 1960s, 70s & 80s

Geraldine Healy: Personal memories of Cork in the 1960s, 70s & 80s

Built Heritage:

Geraldine Healy recounts her personal memories of going to the Everyman Palace Theatre in the late 60s, early 70s. She gives brief accounts of changes to the UCC campus from the mid 70s and early 80s. She mentions brief facts about Collins Barracks, Fitzgerald’s Park Museum, Murphy’s Brewery and City Hall.

1 April 2014

CFP_SR00510_healy_2014

Cork, Ireland, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s

As Interviewee:
CFP_SR00389_healy_2010;
CFP_SR00505_healy_2013;
CFP_VR00542_healy_2015;
CFP_SR00523_healy_2014;
CFP_SR00700_healy_2019;
CFP_SR00701_healy_2019;
CFP_SR00709_healy_2019;
CFP_SR00710_healy_2019:

As Interviewer:
CFP_SR00387_Sheehan_; CFP_SR00395_Speight; CFP_SR00421_Cronin.

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I want to talk about Collins Barracks which is very close to the top of Patrick’s Hill and opposite the entrance to Collins Barracks is the entrance into the camp field of the, of the Barracks and the, this was a great amenity for the local people around Audley Place, Richmond Hill place, Suttons buildings and places and you know the army kindly allowed people over the decades to go in there and walk there animals and use them as a local private park nearly, and within the grounds of Collins Barracks of the camp field as it was known, there was a big green area there, I used to do three runs of it at one stage with a lovely big collie who is no longer with us now, but he was a bit, he was a wonderful dog and he, he loved his chase like sometimes he you know if anybody was moving he would love to run after them a little bit, oh he wouldn’t do anything to anybody but he was a wonderful, but it was a wonderful place to let him loose like, and the army kindly allowed all the locals and there was nearly a confraternity of people that knew one another, all bringing there animals at different times up there, and of course then there was a tennis club, club up there in earlier years and the pitch and putt club is still active and then the officers houses but it was, were within the camp field, and like all you had do was to wave over to the whoever was in duty at the front of Collins Barracks and they’ll allow you in like, there you know. So the army provided a great amenity for the local people, you know.