Pigtail Harmonicas
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Title
Pigtail Harmonicas
Subject
Séan Lane tell of the fare and clientèle of his fathers shop on Blarney Street 1960s
Description
Excerpt from oral history interview where the narrator of his fathers shop on Blarney Street 1960s
Transcript
"Down on to Blarney Street then. We had a shop down by the school then for years as well. When my dad retired from Cappaquin and we had a grocery and provision and eh vegetables and fresh meats eh which was his speciality where he had his pickle barrel out in the back eh the meats would come in fresh, the offal’s now and the back bones and the you hear a poor auld shawlie coming in “Mr Lane will you put it into barrel until tomorrow for me” you know “I will girl” you know. The couple of offal bones for thruppence or four pence in the old money. They’d go out with a mountain between curly green a half weight of potatoes and load of meat and that would be one and six mam you know. Jesus they’d be eating they’d be sucking the bones dry of course [laughing] but they was great big meat on them at the time yeah you’d get nothing in them now with the machinery you see but eh they’d be eating and drinking in the bones that time now and eh they’d be playing the mouth organ with the pigs tail you see [laughter] eh but they were fabulous times, they were fabulous times but em but em I’m glad to say I lived in the heart of all those things and eh it just happened eh they were part of my household and that’s the way we lived and lived in a small little house."
Transcript
"Down on to Blarney Street then. We had a shop down by the school then for years as well. When my dad retired from Cappaquin and we had a grocery and provision and eh vegetables and fresh meats eh which was his speciality where he had his pickle barrel out in the back eh the meats would come in fresh, the offal’s now and the back bones and the you hear a poor auld shawlie coming in “Mr Lane will you put it into barrel until tomorrow for me” you know “I will girl” you know. The couple of offal bones for thruppence or four pence in the old money. They’d go out with a mountain between curly green a half weight of potatoes and load of meat and that would be one and six mam you know. Jesus they’d be eating they’d be sucking the bones dry of course [laughing] but they was great big meat on them at the time yeah you’d get nothing in them now with the machinery you see but eh they’d be eating and drinking in the bones that time now and eh they’d be playing the mouth organ with the pigs tail you see [laughter] eh but they were fabulous times, they were fabulous times but em but em I’m glad to say I lived in the heart of all those things and eh it just happened eh they were part of my household and that’s the way we lived and lived in a small little house."
Creator
Cork Folklore Project
Source
CFP_SR00396_lane_2010
Publisher
Cork Folklore Project
Date
5th August 2010
Contributor
Séan Lane (narrator) Breda Sheehan (interviewer) James Furey (editor)
Rights
Copyright Cork Folklore Project
Format
.mp3
Language
English
Type
Audio
Citation
Cork Folklore Project, “Pigtail Harmonicas,” Cork Memory Map, accessed May 6, 2024, https://corkfolklore.org/cmm/items/show/62.