Tina Noonan: Blackpool; Sunbeam; Childhood **Restricted Content**
Title
Tina Noonan: Blackpool; Sunbeam; Childhood **Restricted Content**
Subject
Life History;
Description
Tina’s father was from Blackpoool, and her mother was from Cove St. She has 8 siblings. She went to Blackpool School, which was since demolished; there they used to be given milk and buns.
Tina recalls some of a skipping rhyme she used to sing as a child. Her first job was in the Sunbeam factory, when she was about 14.
She remembers holidaying in Youghal, travelling there by train. As a child she swapped scrapbooks with other girls.
She talks about children’s lives now and as they were when she was growing up. She remembers pulling apples from the trees at the Sunbeam factory. Funerals today compared to long ago.
Tina recalls some of a skipping rhyme she used to sing as a child. Her first job was in the Sunbeam factory, when she was about 14.
She remembers holidaying in Youghal, travelling there by train. As a child she swapped scrapbooks with other girls.
She talks about children’s lives now and as they were when she was growing up. She remembers pulling apples from the trees at the Sunbeam factory. Funerals today compared to long ago.
Date
06 April 1998
Identifier
CFP_SR00134_noonan_1998
Coverage
Ireland; Cork; 1960s; 1970s
Relation
Published Material:
Hunter, Stephen (1999), Life Journeys: Living Folklore in Ireland Today, Cork: The Northside Folklore Project.
Hunter, Stephen (1999), Life Journeys: Living Folklore in Ireland Today, Cork: The Northside Folklore Project.
Source
Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive
Rights
Cork Folklore Project
Language
English
Type
Sound
Format
.wav
Interviewee
Interviewer
Duration
62min 58sec
Location
NCE Ltd, Sunbeam Industrial Estate, Mallow Road, Cork
Original Format
Casstette
Transcription
The following is a short extract from the interview transcript relating to the audio extract above. Copyright of the Cork Folklore Project. If you wish to access further archival material please contact CFP, folklorearchive@gmail.com
C.F: Did you mention earlier on that your father was the Lord Mayor of Blackpool?
T.N: That’s right, me father was the Lord Mayor of Blackpool there we’ll say about three years ago or something like that.
C.F: Right, how did he get that achievement?
T.N: Oh, he was, I think it was through to the club, they used to go to Delaney’s club and he was up there and he was picked from the am...
C.F: Right. And do Blackpool have a new Lord Mayor every year like you know the City would have one, do Blackpool have an honorary member to become Lord Mayor of Blackpool as well?
T.N: I’m sure they do now because after my Dad now there was somebody else Lord Mayor and I think...
C.F: Do you know who?
T.N: At the, no, ‘twas my Mam now, my Mam and Dad would know who he is, I can’t remember the name.
C.F: Jack Lynch lives in Blackpool; do you know anything about Jack Lynch?
T.N: Jack Lynch. I always remember Jack Lynch because I think he had a brother teaching in the boy’s school.
C.F: In Blackpool School?
T.N: In Blackpool School, I think am...
C.F: Right, what was he name up there?
T.N: Am...all I remember, we wouldn’t remember the first names now like, we’d have to call him like as Mr Lynch or whatever so ‘twas my brothers remember him more.
T.N: That’s right, me father was the Lord Mayor of Blackpool there we’ll say about three years ago or something like that.
C.F: Right, how did he get that achievement?
T.N: Oh, he was, I think it was through to the club, they used to go to Delaney’s club and he was up there and he was picked from the am...
C.F: Right. And do Blackpool have a new Lord Mayor every year like you know the City would have one, do Blackpool have an honorary member to become Lord Mayor of Blackpool as well?
T.N: I’m sure they do now because after my Dad now there was somebody else Lord Mayor and I think...
C.F: Do you know who?
T.N: At the, no, ‘twas my Mam now, my Mam and Dad would know who he is, I can’t remember the name.
C.F: Jack Lynch lives in Blackpool; do you know anything about Jack Lynch?
T.N: Jack Lynch. I always remember Jack Lynch because I think he had a brother teaching in the boy’s school.
C.F: In Blackpool School?
T.N: In Blackpool School, I think am...
C.F: Right, what was he name up there?
T.N: Am...all I remember, we wouldn’t remember the first names now like, we’d have to call him like as Mr Lynch or whatever so ‘twas my brothers remember him more.
Citation
Cork Folklore Project , “Tina Noonan: Blackpool; Sunbeam; Childhood **Restricted Content**,” accessed April 24, 2024, https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/202.