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The Rory Gallagher Memorial
Frank Steele and John Steele
Tags: Above the Bride/Below the Bridge, Arcadia Ballroom, Arcadia bouncer, Back Line, Baldy Green, Black-eye, Dean Sexton’s Boxing Club, Frank Steele, Garda, Gardai, Glasheeen, Hoops, John Steele, Lower Road, Runaway Knock, St Patrick’s School, the Coliseum, the Fisheries, Thunder up the alley, Tivoli, Tivoli Regatta
Noel Dempsey: Orthopaedic Hospital, Working Life, Healthcare
Tommy Lysaght: Masonry, Horticulture,
He mentions the ‘lads’ in Dingle, The west of Ireland have a special…
Tags: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Arran Islands, Blackwater Valley, Britanny, Dingle, Fermoy, Horticulture, Stonemasons, Trades
Stephen Dee: Gay life, LGBT, Loafers Bar, Coming Out.
Tags: 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Coming Out, Gay life, GayCork.com, Homophobia, Instinct, Lesbians, LGBT, Loafer's, The Other Place
Stephen Wimpenny: Leeds United, Soccer, Yorkshire,
Stephen visited Midleton in 2002 and settled in Cork in 2003, having met a woman who later became his wife.
He compares people in Yorkshire and Cork. He talks about…
Sr Marie Collins: Presentation Sisters, Childhood, Teaching
Sister Marie was born (circa 1920) in Limerick, to farming parents. She wanted to be a nun from an early age. She also became a…
Sheila Dalton: Family Life; Marriage; Childhood
Sheila was second youngest in a family of 7 girls and 4 boys. Her father worked in a government building as the lift…
Tags: Childbirth, Childhood, Childhood Games, Clothing, Communion, Family Life, Marriage, Pawn Shops, Schooldays, Toys
Sean Moraghan: Fota House and gardens
Sean Lucey, Terry McCarthy: Blackpool, Dixies Showband
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Aloys Fleischmann senior, Arcadia, Butter Exchange Band, Carnegie Hall, Cavern Club, Clipper Carlton showband, Dixies showband, Las Vegas, Leitrim Street, Lonnie Donegan, Lower Glanmire Road, Music, Northern Ireland, Northside, Radio Luxembourg, Rory Gallagher, Shandon Street, Showbands, Taste (band), The Sunset (band)
Seán Lane: Blarney Street, Butchers, Bowling,
He talks about his childhood. Children were always on the lookout for any opportunity to make a penny, such as cow-herding…
Sandra Byrne: Commons Road, Tucker's Field, Family Life.
Karina Abdulbaneeva: Art, Russia, London, Spirituality, Nature, Nationality, New Year’s Day, Religion,
Rosarii Comber: North Gate Chemist
Roger Herlihy: Barrack Street, Saint Fin Barre’s cathedral, William Burgess, Elizabeth Fort, Jimmy Page, Pavilion cinema, Second World War
Ronnie (b. circa 1963)talks about the laying of the foundation stone for Saint Fin…
Roger Herlihy: Imperial Hotel, South Mall, Commercial Buildings
He explains that South Mall used to be a channel of the River Lee and that is why some buildings on the street have…
Robert Fourie: Hiberno-English, Holy Communion, Language, South Africa,
Robert (b. 1969) is from a gold-mining town in South Africa. He talks about mining conditions there. He comments that South Africa has…