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Pat Saville: Blackpool, Working Life, Sport,
He describes the shops and…
Pat O'Brien: Northside, Pubs, Childhood,
He talks briefly about the pub trade. The Holy Hour was observed within the city limits (a break…
Patricia McCarthy: Shandon Street, War of Independence, Trades
Pat Nolan: Northside, Cork Academy School of Music
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Boom Boom Room, Clipper Carlton, Cork Academy School of Music, Irish Defence Forces, Michael O’Callaghan showband, Michael O’Mahony, Music, North Mon, North Monastery school, Northern Ireland, Northside, Pat Nolan, Rory Gallagher, Showbands, Sunbeam, UCC, Viceroy Showband, Victor Showband
Pat Gunn: Cork Shakespeare Company, Fr O Flynn, War Of Independence, Black And Tans, Tom Barry.
Padraig McCarthy: Homosexuality, Catholicism, Quay Co-Op,
He regrets that his early homosexual encounters were within the cottaging scene. He mentions places and pubs where gay men met. He mentions the Cork word ‘steamer’ used by the general public to…
Padraig O’Horgain: Church Street, Funeral Customs, Republicanism,
O’Gorman’s hat factory and other businesses were cited in the…
Pádraig Ó Duinnín: River Lee
Pádraig says he grew up in Coolcower, Macroom on a peninsula between the rivers lee and Sullane. He says it had a formative influence on his life. His father was a bus…
Paddy Marshall: Blackpool, Pidgeon Racing, Cinema,
Owen: Buskers, Homelessness, The Worlds Ills,
The interview suggests…
Tags: 2000s, Buskers, Cork 2005, Homelessness, Society
Noreen Hannover: South Main Street
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Bishop Lucey Park, Christchurch, Coal Quay, Cove Street, CP shoes (free social welfare shoes), Enterprise Bar, Godsil’s (Castle Street), Grand Parade, Hadden’s Bakery, Hadden’s shop, Kilgrew’s, Killgrew’s, Nicholas Church Place, Noreen Hannover, North Cathedral, North Main Street, Roman House, Sean Jennings, Shandon, Social Class, South Main Street, The Brown Derby, The Flying Enterpris, Triskel Arts Centre
Noreen Cronin: Shandon, The North Infirmary, Childhood
Noreen Hanover: Christmas, Childhood Games, Cinema, Ghost stories, Milk and Cake Shops, Pawnbrokers, St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Working life,
Noel Magnier: Gerald Griffin Street, Shops, Box Cars,
Denny’s cellar was a…
Nicola Meacle: Tullamore, UCC, Independant Living
She moved to Cork where…
Nick Hennessy: Racism, Adoption, Childhood
He was adopted and lived in Dublin and then in County Kerry. As…
Musetta Joyce: Cork Arts Theatre, The Emergency, The Magdalene Laundries
Murty O’Sullivan: Masonry, building Trade, Celtic Tiger
John Farris: Cash’s Stores, Presbyterians, Social Class, Trinity Presbyterian Church, Unitarian church
He talks about the present church building, which was established in 1861. He comments on its crooked steeple and the stories associated with it. The site of…
Mick Moriarty: Barbershops, Fashion, Childhood
Mick is known as ‘The Baldy Barber’. He was born in Ballincollig in 1948. His father was a hairdresser and had…
Tags: Baldy Barber, Ballincollig, Blackpool, Dagenham, Ford, Hairdressing, Mick Moriarty