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As a child, Jim Mckeon hated his daily chore of collecting waste for the family pigs while all his friends were playing football.


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"My weekly, my daily chore that I hated was to tackle up Pedro the donkey, we had a few pigs, and go…

Fergal describes working in the Munster Arcade and tells a few stories about the place.


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"Before Penney's there was a very well known shop in Cork, Munster Arcade. It was a real old fashioned drapery and general merchandise store,…

It's always exciting I think for anyone moving away from home for the first time and realize you actually have to buy your own milk. It's one of the things, because we, I grew up on a farm and it was the first time I ever had to buy milk in my life.…

Excerpt from the Memory Map where the Echo man Johnny Kelleher finds out from a friend who works at the mortuary that Christy Ring has died and passes the sad news onto Jack Lynch.

"There was a chap called Sean O'Mahony. He's still alive, I think…

Excerpt from oral history interview where narrator reflects on his memories of leaving Cork on the Inisfallon, with a vivid description of the journey to and from England.

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"Michael O' Callaghan, I'm from Togher. My mother, my father…

Excerpt from an oral history archive about the organ in the Savoy cinema being played by Mr Bridgeman. Patrick Street location on Memory Map.

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"Really, I loved the Savoy because the music - they had the organ and it used come up from…

But he loved Cork, he made Cork his life. He lived on the Southside and when he got married he spent forty, fifty years in the Northside and he'd still go to the Southside for his pint. He still looked at himself, he'd go to the Brown Derby for his…

Excerpt from an oral history interview where the narrator reflects on the happenings of a given bus journey.

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"Oh, that was a macho thing like everybody had to learn how to whistle like you know what I mean? It was like eh, like there…

Excerpt from an oral history interview where the narrator Paddy Marshall reflects on the Lido Cinema.

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"They used change the pictures in the Lido every Monday, Wednesday and Friday; were different pictures there. And I often went to…

There was everything that I remember about these poor times from the voucher shoes that people mentioned to erm – we had a turf docket where myself and my brother would have eh to use a pram because it had multi-uses and we collected the turf from…