Adam Skotarczak: Immigration, Poland, Weddings,

Adam Skotarczak: Immigration, Poland, Weddings,

Life History; Poland; Ireland;

Adam was born in Poland, and talks in very brief terms about his childhood and about living in Cork.

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

29 January 2005

CFP_SR00360_skotarczak_2005

Cork; Ireland; Poland; 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_SR00349_henderson_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_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

1.wav File

38m 38s

Cork City, Ireland.

MiniDisc

16bit / 44.1kHz

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

F.Q: Oh yes. I’m going to move you along now and ask you em how did you end up in Cork?

A.S: Em my friend was here eh he came here three months before me, and he invite me here, he told me that the people here are very nice. So I came here.

F.Q: And did you know anything very much about Ireland or Cork before you came?

A.S: Eh I knew a little bit about Ireland, but not about Cork exactly, about Ireland.

F.Q: So when you got here, what was your first impression of Cork?

A.S: Eh beautiful city, a lot of different colours, people are always smiling, are really nice, very helpful for people from different countries, this was my first. . .

F.Q: Impression yeah.

A.S: Impression.

F.Q: So em did you have any trouble settling in?

A.S: No, no there was no trouble for me!

F.Q: What about your friend, had he a place got for you, a place to stay?

A.S: Yes, yes, yes, now I live with him.

F.Q: Yes, em getting a job, was it easy to get a job?

A.S: Eh yes, yes it was easy, but now everyday it’s harder to find a job here. . .

F.Q: Yes, yeah.

A.S: Because more people are coming here to Ireland, so everyday it’s harder.

F.Q: Would there be a bit Polish community in Cork?

A.S: Yes, yes, there is a lot of Polish people here.

F.Q: And would you meet up with them?

A.S: Yes of course, we meet from time to time with our friends, we go to pubs or clubs, have a good fun, drinks.

F.Q: Em when you came to Cork first, did you have difficulty with the Cork accent?

A.S: Yes Irish accent is sometimes difficult. It depends was I talking to one man, it was easy to understand him for me, but sometimes I meet different people, and they talking with different accent, and sometime it’s really hard to understand them.