Tony Henderson: Canada, Music, London

Tony Henderson: Canada, Music, London

Life History; Canada; London Cork; Ireland;

Tony grew up in Canada. He came to Cork during the 1990s, and he talks about his impressions of the city.
His father was Irish, his mother English. He talks about growing up in Canada, where he learned the guitar and played in a band. He came to Ireland to play music with another musician. He talks about his impressions of Ireland and of Cork.
He has carpentry skills, which he picked up because he often had time on his hands, and he has made some acoustic guitars.

Note; This interview was conducted as part of the Cork 2005 Project

23 November 2004

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Cork; Ireland; Canada; England; 1970s - 2000s;

Cork 2005 Collection Catalogue Numbers:

CFP_SR00329_mccarthy_2004;
CFP_SR00330_odriscoll_2004;
CFP_SR00331_claffey_2004;
CFP_SR00332_hanover_2004;
CFP_SR00333_desplanques_2004;
CFP_SR00334_bale_2004;
CFP_SR00335_sheridan_1996;
CFP_SR00336_steiner-scott_2004;
CFP_SR00337_rot_2004;
CFP_SR00338_stafford_2004;
CFP_SR00339_odonoghue_2004;
CFP_SR00340_hawkins_2004;
CFP_SR00341_ocarroll_2004;
CFP_SR00342_ikebuasi_2004;
CFP_SR00343_ogeallabhain_2004;
CFP_SR00344_geaney_2004;
CFP_SR00345_wulff_2004;
CFP_SR00346_abdoulbaneeva_2004;
CFP_SR00347_gunes_2004;
CFP_SR00348_fourie_2004;
CFP_SR00350_valdman_2004;
CFP_SR00351_carmody_2004;
CFP_SR00352_osullivan_2004;
CFP_SR00353_mahknanov_2004;
CFP_SR00354_oflynn_2004;
CFP_SR00355_akhter_2004;
CFP_SR00356_walker_2004;
CFP_SR00357_kelleher_2004;
CFP_SR00358_manresa_2004;
CFP_SR00359_wimpenny_2005;
CFP_SR00360_skotarczak_2005;
CFP_SR00361_vermeulen_2005;
CFP_SR00362_owen_2005;
CFP_SR00363_dsouza_2005;
CFP_SR00364_setter_2005;
CFP_SR00365_obrien_2005;
CFP_SR00366_botan_2005:

Published Material:
‘How’s it Goin’, Boy? radio series (six thirty-minute episodes, broadcast 2005 and available on the Cork Folklore Project website)

O'Carroll, Clíona for the Cork Northside Folklore Project (2006) How's it goin', boy? Dublin: Nonsuch Publishing.

Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive

English

Sound

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46m 57s

St. Luke's, Cork City, Ireland

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The following is a short extract from the interview transcript, copyright of the Cork Folklore Project. If you wish to access further archival material please contact CFP, folklorearchive@gmail.com

T.H: It’s improved enormously, yeah the whole Celtic tiger thing, there is a whole generation who’ve grown up who expect to work hard, and expect to do well as a consequence of it because I mean that was always my thinking at the time is that em there was no particular incentive for people to you know keep their nose to the grindstone, or to be disciplined or driven or any of those things because you’d work hard and do no better than anybody else, I mean any sensible person would see that, so em I’ve never felt that the Irish were intrinsically this that or the other thing more than any other culture or group of people, I think these are entirely down to circumstances you know there are cultural influences but em people, why would people work hard for no particular gain, and conversely I suppose why would they not work hard if they can see that they can get a lot of stuff that they actually want, eh whatever that stuff is, whether it’s material stuff or whether it’s freedom, you know, or the possibility to go to Spain four times a year or the possibility of moving to Spain, or whatever you know I mean the stuff that money buys, em so anyway I mean that, all of that stuff wasn’t a mystery to me but it was, you did ask what was galling to me, what bothered me and that was certainly one of the worst.