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Yossi Valdman: Israel, Jaffa, Jews, Customs,
Yossi’s father lived in Israel and then moved to Jaffa where he opened a shop. Yossi lived in Jaffa and Israel and then travelled…
Willy Good: Halloween, Fairies, Holy Wells,
He recalls Halloween games; he called Halloween ‘Snap Apple Night’. Ghostly encounters associated with…
Vitaly Mahknanon: Immigration, Ukraine, Language, Friendship,
Vitaly was born in the city of Lviv, Ukraine. Although he was heavily involved in boxing, he opted to become a…
Tags: 2000s, Cork 2005, Friendship, Immigration, Language, Ukraine, Vitaly Mahknanon
Vincent Power: Send ‘em Home Sweatin’
He talks in detail about the showband scene. Irish audiences had no access to rock’n’roll and its performers, but showbands were copycat…
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Albert Reynolds, Brendan Bowyer, Brendan O’Brien, Butch Moore, Capitol showband, Clipper Carlton, Elvis Presley, Grand Parade, Horan’s Ballroom, Jutland ballroom, Las Vegas, Limerick city, Majestic Ballroom, Mallow, Mayo, Music, Radio Luxembourg, Rory Gallagher, Royal Showband, Sexuality, Stardust ballroom (Cork), The Devil, The Dixies, The Magic Band
Una Lyons: Oliver Plunkett Street, Cinemas, English Market
Tony McGillicuddy: The Low Road, Jack Lynch, Ford's
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, Ford, Jack Lynch, The Low Road, Tony McGillicuddy
Tony Henderson: Canada, Music, London
His father was Irish, his mother English. He talks about growing up in Canada, where he learned the guitar and played in a band. He came to…
Tags: 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Canada, Celtic Tiger, Cork 2005, London, Music, Tony Henderson
Tony Doherty: Rainbow Ramblers, Cork Gay Mens’ Cooperative, Cruising.
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, CAT Club, Cork Gay Mens’ Cooperative, Cruising, David Gordon, Decriminalisation, Dogging, Grindr, Hilton Edwards, Iron Toilet, Le Chateau, LGBT, Marriage Referendum, Michael Mac Liammoir, Mother Gordon, Rainbow Ramblers, The Other Place, Tony Doherty
Tommy Rooney: Second City Jazzband, Cork Academy School of Music
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Arcadia, Clipper Carlton, Cork Academy School of Music, Cork Opera House, Crosshaven, Donny Collins, Glasheen, Irish Defence Forces, Jazz (music), Joe McGrinty, Lonnie Donegan, Michael O’Callaghan, Music, Northern Ireland, Northside, Pat Crowley, Rory Gallagher, Royal Showband, Sean Lemass, Second City Jazz Band, Shandon Street, Showbands, Skiffle (music), Sunbeam, Taste (band), The Dixies, The Emergency, Tommy Rooney, Unionists
Tom Jones: Shandon Street, Emigration, Childhood
He remembers watching the Cork Opera House on fire in 1955. He recalls childhood games and explains the game of Kick the Can and Pitch and Toss. He talks about the nature of…
Tom Falvey: Ballyphehane, Market Gardens
Tags: Ballyphehane, Ballyphehane Oral History Project, Ballyphehane Pipe Band, Battle of Ballyphehane, Bob Marley, Buttevant Train Crash, Credit Union, Eamon de Valera, Fastnet Disaster, GAA, Hurling, Papal Visit 1979, Road Bowling, Sport, St. Finbarr's Cemetery, St. Finbarr's GAA, Stonemasons, The Lough, Tom Barry, Travellers, Tuskar Rock Air Tragedy, War of Independence
Tom Spalding: River Lee
Tom speaks about how he was born in England and came to live in Cork aged seven when his father got…
Tags: Ballincollig, Blackrock Railway, Canoeing, Cork Exhibition, Cork Main Drainage project, Daly's Bridge, England, Ferries, Fishing, Fitzgerald’s Park, Immigration, Irish Language, Killer Whales, Meitheal Mara, Nigeria, River Lee, Rochestown, Save Cork City, Shaky Bridge, Tom Spalding, University College Cork
Tom Jones: Shandon Street, Murphy’s Rock, Television
He mentions the arrival of televisions to Cork around 1963. Tom…
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, Childhood, Murphy's Rock, Shandon Street, Television, Tom Jones
Thomas McCarthy: Waterford, UCC, Fianna Fáil
Tom was born in…
Tags: Cappoquin, Fianna Fáil, Poetry, Politics, Tom McCarthy, UCC, University College Cork
Tom McCarthy: Stonemasons, Sculpture, Seamus Murphy
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Apprenticeship, Joe Mac, McCarthy's, Sculpture, Seamus Murphy, Stonemasons, The Dixies, Trades
Tina Noonan: Blackpool; Sunbeam; Childhood **Restricted Content**
Tina recalls some of a skipping rhyme she used to sing as…
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, Alcoholism, Bonfire Night, Childhood, Childhood Games, Christmas, Funerals, Murphy's Rock, Sunbeam, Tina Noonan, Youghal
Tim O’Brien: Cork Fire Brigade, Murphy’s Brewery, Murphy’s Rock,
Tim was born in Watercourse Road. His father worked in Murphy’s Brewery. His mother came from West…