She'd cook on the fire
Dublin Core
Title
She'd cook on the fire
Subject
Memories of of grandmothers house
Description
Excerpt from an oral history interview where the narrator reflects on memories of his grandmother's house in the 1960s.
Transcript
"And the other way round then, wed come home every summer and my Grandmother lived in Gillabbey Street. And she hadn't electric light, this was in the sixties, she actually hadn't electricity. And I can still remember the little gas lamps, the lamps would be lit. She'd cook on the fire. And I can still remember the food, and at night they'd stand, they'd just sit there talking for hours. I'd have been seven, eight, nine or ten. But I used to love it, with my grandfather and my grandmother. The house is still in Gillabbey Street now. It's rented accommodation now, there's students in there. But, the memories."
Transcript
"And the other way round then, wed come home every summer and my Grandmother lived in Gillabbey Street. And she hadn't electric light, this was in the sixties, she actually hadn't electricity. And I can still remember the little gas lamps, the lamps would be lit. She'd cook on the fire. And I can still remember the food, and at night they'd stand, they'd just sit there talking for hours. I'd have been seven, eight, nine or ten. But I used to love it, with my grandfather and my grandmother. The house is still in Gillabbey Street now. It's rented accommodation now, there's students in there. But, the memories."
Creator
Cork Folklore Project
Source
CFP_SR00436_o'callaghan_2011
Publisher
Cork Folklore Project
Date
06 April 2016
Contributor
(Interviewee) Michael O'Callaghan, (Interviewer) Clíona O'Carroll
Rights
Copyright Cork Folklore Project
Format
.mp3
Language
English
Type
Audio
Identifier
CFP_SR00436_o'callaghan_2011
Citation
Cork Folklore Project, “She'd cook on the fire,” Cork Memory Map, accessed May 19, 2024, https://corkfolklore.org/cmm/items/show/8.