Tony McGillicuddy: The Low Road, Jack Lynch, Ford's
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CFP_SR00387_sheehan_2010; CFP_SR00388_sheehan_2010; CFP_SR00389_healy_2010; CFP_SR00390_kelleher_2010; CFP_SR00391_crean_2010; CFP_SR00392_mckeon_2010; CFP_SR00393_twomey_2010; CFP_SR00394_stleger_2010; CFP_SR00395_speight_2010; CFP_SR00396_lane_2010; CFP_SR00397_obrienoleary_2010; CFP_SR00398_jones_2010; CFP_SR00399_saville_2010; CFP_SR00400_magnier_2010; CFP_SR00401_marshall_2010; CFP_SR00402_marshall_2010; CFP_SR00403_murphy_2010; CFP_SR00404_prout_2011; CFP_SR00405_walsh_2011; CFP_SR00406_prout_2011; CFP_SR00407_newman_2010; CFP_SR00408_newman_2010; CFP_SR00409_leahy_2011; CFP_SR00411_newman_2010; CFP_SR00412_newman_2010; CFP_SR00413_finn_2011; CFP_SR00414_ohorgain_2011; CFP_SR00415_oconnell_2011; CFP_SR00416_sheehy_2011; CFP_SR00417_mcloughlin_2012; CFP_SR00418_gerety_2012; CFP_SR00419_kelleher_2012; CFP_SR00420_byrne_2012; CFP_SR00421_cronin_2012; CFP_SR00422_ohuigin_2012; CFP_SR00423_meacle_2012; CFP_SR00424_horgan_2012; CFP_SR00425_lyons_2012; CFP_SR00427_goulding_2011;
CFP_SR00491_fitzgerald_2013.
Heritage Week 2011: CFP_SR00429_casey_2011; CFP_SR00430_tomas_2011; CFP_SR00431_newman_2011; CFP_SR00432_stillwell_2011; CFP_SR00433_oconnell_2011; CFP_SR00434_lane_2011; CFP_SR00435_montgomery-mcconville_2011; CFP_SR00436_ocallaghan_2011; CFP_SR00437_corcoran_2011; CFP_SR00438_jones_2011; CFP_SR00439_ohuigin_2011; CFP_SR00440_mccarthy_2011; CFP_SR00441_crowley_2011; CFP_SR00442_obrien_2011; CFP_SR00443_jones_2011; CFP_SR00445_delay_2011; CFP_SR00446_murphy_2011;
Video Interview: CFP_VR00486_speight_2014
Published Material:
O’Carroll, Clíona (2011) ‘The Cork Memory Map’, Béascna 7: 184-188.
O’Carroll, Clíona (2012) ‘Cork Memory Map: an update on CFP’s Online Project’, The Archive 16: 14. https://www.ucc.ie/en/media/research/corkfolkloreproject/archivepdfs/archive16.PDF
Dee, Stephen and O’Carroll, Clíona (2012) ‘Sound Excerpts: Interviews from Heritage Week’, The Archive 16: 15-17. https://www.ucc.ie/en/media/research/corkfolkloreproject/archivepdfs/archive16.PDF
O'Carrol, Clíona (2014) 'The children's perspectives: Place-centred interviewing and multiple diversified livelihood strategies in Cork city, 1935-1960'. Béaloideas - The Journal of Folklore of Ireland Society, 82: 45-65.
The Curious Ear/Documentary on One (Cork City Memory Map) http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2011/0816/646858-curious-ear-doconone-cork-city-memory-map/
To view the Cork Memory Map Click Here
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GoD Can you tell me your name and leave us your memory.
TMG: My name is Tony McGillicuddy. My memory is of Jack Lynch’s Ford Anglia. It was the first Ford Anglia that came of the line in Fords on the marina, and they presented it to Jack Lynch who was Minister for Industry and Commerce at the time. He wasn’t very fond of driving, Jack Lynch. So he arrived outside The Metropole where I worked for 42 years, one evening, parked the car and said to me ‘Get rid of the car’, he didn’t want it anymore. Because he was going on holidays, and he had a holiday home down round West Cork, don’t know exactly where, but he was on his way down there anyway I presume. He decided to drive but when he got to Cork anyway he was sick of driving so we parked the car for him anyway, he got his driver to drive him the rest of the way --- but it was an absolutely gorgeous car, everything was in it. It was a grey Ford Anglia. It’s like the photograph that’s in the, the one with John Kelleher there [referring to a photograph in the exhibition] it’s like that now but it was an absolutely gorgeous car. But that was Jack Lynch and his driving.
GoD Do you know what happened to the car afterwards?
TMG Well, he got it taken away then, he got it taken away, and eventually after a fortnight or so someone came down and collected it, but I don’t know what happened to it after but it was an absolutely gorgeous car.
GoD Can you tell me what about the exhibition sparked that particular memory?
TMG The one with John Kelleher now selling the papers in the middle of the street because John Kelleher used to supply The Metropole with papers for sixty years. He was in McCurtain Street and The Coliseum I would say he was nearly there for 70 years. He was yeah, but he’s an amazing character, that man.
GoD And, Tony, are you a Cork local?
TMG I am. I’m born and reared on the Low Road.
GoD We’re asking everyone we interview certain questions, just if you have any memories of allotments in Cork
TMG No I wouldn’t. No
GoD What about bonfire night?
TMG I would have memories of Bonfire Night. You go around for a couple of weeks beforehand and start collecting stuff, and where it used to be on the Low Road was an old railway line that runs back, well The Arcadia is gone now, but it used to run along the back of The Arcadia, that’s where the bonfire on the Low Road used to be.
GoD And do you have any memories of the Pawn Shops in Cork City?
TMG I would. I would have memories of seeing them at the end of Shandon Street, and there was another around, I can’t think where it was but that would be a memory for me the one at the end of Shandon Street.
GoD Do you remember going in there?
TMG No. I was never in there.
GoD Well thank you very much Tony for the memory.
TMG You’re welcome.
End of interview