The last in a long line of masons
Dublin Core
Title
The last in a long line of masons
Subject
Jim Fahy on the last of his family to be a mason
Description
Excerpt from oral history interview where the narrator comes to terms with the demise of his trade
Transcript
"The thing about it is now I’m the last of my family as a mason, once I die there’ll be no one to take it up after me and that’ll be the end of my family’s time in the mason's trade which goes back generations, and it’s sad thing really at the end of the day like because I would have loved my two sons like one of em even to take it up but they had no interest in it like, and I feel like as if you know and that’s the reason I’m so hooked up with the historical side of things now is that what’s there I’m trying to preserve it and not only that I want to promote it as well, so like that’s the reason I’m so involved in it now and getting the banner restored now and things like that you know. It’s really important and not only that I’ve managed to save a lot of the records of the plumbers, the carpenters, the electricians, all these things were left in bags inside in Carpenters Hall, just abandoned and left there and the next thing for the them you know yourself a black plastic bag the next thing that was going to happen to that was it was going out in a skip."
Transcript
"The thing about it is now I’m the last of my family as a mason, once I die there’ll be no one to take it up after me and that’ll be the end of my family’s time in the mason's trade which goes back generations, and it’s sad thing really at the end of the day like because I would have loved my two sons like one of em even to take it up but they had no interest in it like, and I feel like as if you know and that’s the reason I’m so hooked up with the historical side of things now is that what’s there I’m trying to preserve it and not only that I want to promote it as well, so like that’s the reason I’m so involved in it now and getting the banner restored now and things like that you know. It’s really important and not only that I’ve managed to save a lot of the records of the plumbers, the carpenters, the electricians, all these things were left in bags inside in Carpenters Hall, just abandoned and left there and the next thing for the them you know yourself a black plastic bag the next thing that was going to happen to that was it was going out in a skip."
Creator
Cork Folklore Project
Source
CFP_SR00566_fahy_2015
Publisher
Cork Folklore Project
Date
Dec-15
Contributor
Jim Fahy (narrator) Michael Moore(Interviewer) Michael Moore (editor)
Rights
Copyright Cork Folklore Project
Format
.mp3
Language
English
Type
Audio
Citation
Cork Folklore Project, “The last in a long line of masons,” Cork Memory Map, accessed May 4, 2024, https://corkfolklore.org/cmm/items/show/70.