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Noreen Hannover: South Main Street

Noreen Hanover was born in 1950 and grew up in the South Main Street area until 1975. Her family would have done most of their shopping on South Main Street and she relates the character of the shops there, their different purposes, as well as what…

Tom Spalding: North Main Street

In this interview, Tom Spalding, a local historian and author, discusses his research methods and interests concerning the development of the North and South Main Street area over time. His interest lies primarily in what he calls “street furniture”…

Liam Ó hUigín: Henry Street

Liam O hUigin grew up on Henry Street in the vicinity of North and South Main Streets in the 1940s and 1950s. He describes the area in great detail, including various changes over the decades. He recalls the many shops along North Main Street and the…

Erin O'Brien: Historic Spine

Erin O’Brien is originally from Nebraska but has lived in Ireland since 1993. She is a planner at the Planning Department at City Hall and she also lives on North Main Street. In this interview, she takes an in-depth look mostly at North Main Street,…

Tags: Barrack Street, Beamish and Crawford, Castle Street, City Centre Strategy, Coal Quay, Cork City Hall, Erin O’Brien, Historic Spine, Living Above the Shops Scheme, MacCurtain Street, Medieval, Munster Furniture, North Main Street, Oliver Plunkett Street, Patrick Street, Shandon Street, South Main Street, Vision Centre, Washington Street

Rosarii Comber: North Gate Chemist

Rosarii Comber is a pharmacist at North Gate Pharmacy, a business that has been in her family since 1964. She begins the interview discussing some of the history of the building – that families would have lived above the business and that at one…

Patrick Leader: Leader's Menswear

Patrick Leader gives the history of Leader’s shop on North Main Street. He discusses the ups and downs of North Main Street over generations and provides his views on challenges facing the street during the recession. He talks about local characters…

Tags: Bradley’s, Clothing, Cornmarket Street, Curran’s (Adelaide Street), Fashion, Leaders Clothing Shop, North Main Street, Patrick Leader, Patrick’s Street, Rationing, St Francis Church

Michael Creedon: Bradley's

Michael Creedon relates some of the history pertaining to Bradley's, a 4th generation shop established in 1850 on North Main Street. He discusses the changes that have taken place during that time in the area and the importance of supporting local…

Tags: 1800s, 1850s, 1900s, Bonfire Night, Bradley’s, Business, Dairy, Farmhouse Bakery, Food, Ice Cream, Kilgrews, Kings Jewellers, Lions (Rugby), Michael Creedon, North Main Street, Rugby, St Francis Church

Arthur Walker Snr: Evergreen Road, Ballyphehane

Arthur tells of his early life on Evergreen road and the move to Ballyphehane in the 1950s

Liam Ó hUigín: The River Lee

Liam speaks of being born in Henry Street and that the River Lee flowed through his parish. He remembers learning how to swim just outside where the Mercy Hospital is. He says when they were a bit older they would go swimming a bit further away using…

John Chute: Ballyphehane

John talks about his early life, growing up on the northside in Knapps square, attending school in Easons Hill and being involved in pipe bands.

Tags: Ballyphehane, Ballyphehane Oral History Project, Barrack Street Band, Battle of Ballyphehane, Blarney Street Band, Cork City Pipe Band, Easons Hill, Fianna Band, Fianna Boy Scouts, GAA, Hurling, Jack Lynch, Knapps Square, Sinn Fein, Tadgh Crowley, The Marsh, Thomas Ashe Hall

Marie McAllen: Ballyphehane

Marie was born and raised in Ballyphehane, before and after development of corporation housing. Her Mother’s family name was Cronin and her grandmother was Halloran who owned Halloran’s orchard where the Ballyphehane Church now stands.

Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ O’Sullivan: Ballyphehane

Lizzie hails from Wolfe Tone Street on the Northside of the city. After spending a few years in England as a young adult she returned to Cork and was an early resident of the Corporation development in Ballyphehane. Lizzie has lived in Ballyphehane…

Tom Falvey: Ballyphehane, Market Gardens

Tom speaks about how he was born on Bandon Road. On moving to and growing up on Killeenreendowney Avenue and then Pearse Road in Ballyphehane. The primary school in Glasheen. Activities such as walking the Lee Fields. Playing hurling with the Barrs.…

Tom Spalding: River Lee

Tom is the author of several books on design history relating to Cork City such as “Cork City: A Field Guide To Its Street Furniture and “Layers”.

Tom speaks about how he was born in England and came to live in Cork aged seven when his father got…

Pádraig Ó Duinnín: River Lee

Pádraig is one of the founders of Meitheal Mara and the Ocean to City race

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…

Daniel Tanner: River Lee

Daniel grew up in Carragaline. He went to college and studied Physics first in Trinity and then in UCC because he missed Cork. He says he is now a post doctoral researcher in the Mardyke. He talks about how knowledge contained in folklore is superior…

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