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Title A name given to the resource Catching Stories (of Infectious Disease In Ireland) <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Catching-Stories-w-logos-3.png" style="width:350px;height:100px;" alt="Catching-Stories-w-logos-3.png" /> Subject The topic of the resource Life History; Ireland; Health; Communicable diseases; Epidemics; Poliomyelitis; Polio; Postpoliomyelitis syndrome; Tuberculosis; TB; Measles; Diphtheria; COVID-19; Vaccines; Description An account of the resource Catching Stories is a folklore-STEM collaboration project funded through the <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://www.sfi.ie/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Science Foundation Ireland</a> (SFI) Discover Programme. The project was concerned with those who had first had experiences of being stricken with the disease, their family members and the public health practitioners who served on the frontline of past epidemics. The diseases the project focused on were: polio, tuberculosis, diphtheria and measles, Spanish flu and COVID-19. The project grew from seed funding through the Irish Research Council and University College Cork's(UCC) College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences. This funding enabled the team to collate material in the Cork Folklore Project's archive and create a pilot online resource. In 2022 the project was awarded an SFI Discover grant that allowed the team to undertake new bespoke interviews and grow the online dissemination platform. To date (February 2023), Catching Stories consists of XX interviews. 'Catching Stories' has also been drawn from the Cork Folklore Project Sound Archive for other related material. The project's main output is an online resource (<a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="http://www.catchingstories.org" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.catchingstories.org</a>). This website places personal oral testimonies adjacent to scientific information about the diseases. There was also a series of talks and presentations for <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://catchingstories.org/events/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Heritage Week 2022, Culture Night 2022 and Science Week 2022</a>. With support from <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://www.ucc.ie/en/apc/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">APC Microbiome</a>, SFI and UCC's <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://libguides.ucc.ie/library" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Boole Library,</a> the Catching Stories team curated the interactive multimedia exhibition, Catching Stories of Infectious Disease in Ireland (16 February - 25 June 2023), in UCC's Boole Library. The Exhibition was subsequently taken by the Heatlh Service Executive and displayed in their campuses and buildings throughout Cork and Kerry. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-2023 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Interviewees: Lesley Cox; Evelyn Wainwright; Emma Conway Clarke; Michael Hussey; Paul O'Brien, James Hoare Nagle; Edward Tanner; Michael and Theresa O'Sullivan, Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Ireland; 1920s-2020s Relation A related resource Website <a href="https://catchingstories.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.catchingstories.org</a> <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/e9fc50934d016888e8a29de8e14d25d4.JPG" style="width:500px;height:250px;" alt="e9fc50934d016888e8a29de8e14d25d4.JPG" /> Here you can engage with the collected material side by side with biomedical commentary from immunologist Dr Elizebeth Brint. Presentation and Listening Events Heritage Week 2022 <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Heritage-Week-2022-Library-talk-300x169.jpg" alt="Heritage-Week-2022-Library-talk-300x169.jpg" /> For Heritage Week project coordinator James Furey gave a presentation of the project at Cork City Library Grand Parade. Culture Night 2022 <img class="size-medium wp-image-407 alignnone" src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Culture-Night-2020-30-300x224.jpg" alt="Culture-Night-2020-30-300x224.jpg" /><img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Culture-Night-2020-6-300x224.jpg" alt="Culture-Night-2020-6-300x224.jpg" /> For Culture night the team went to the streets to set up a ‘time travelling’ vaccination clinic outside the old medical centre on Grattan St Cork City. Willing participants sat on a bench and heard Joe Scanlon’s story of receiving the ‘Branding Iron’, Joe’s term for the vaccine apparatus used in the 1950s. Joe’s story and the event elicited a great response from those who took part. Science Week 2022 <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Science-Week-2022-2-724x1024.png" style="width:200px;height:300px;" alt="Science-Week-2022-2-724x1024.png" /> Celebrate Science Family Day on 13th November 2022 <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5840-300x200.jpg" alt="IMG_5840-300x200.jpg" /> Our first outing for Cork Science Festival was at the ‘Celebrate Science’ Family Day at University College Cork’s Western Gateway Building. For this event, we fired up the ‘Time-machine’ to bring participants on a trip to 1958, the day Joe Scanlon received a vaccine, or as Joe calls it, <a href="https://catchingstories.org/getting-the-vaccine/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">‘The Branding Iron’</a>. <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5844-300x200.jpg" alt="IMG_5844-300x200.jpg" /> The Catching Stories team held four sessions. We played Joe’s story and quizzed our audience on their knowledge of infectious diseases and their memory of receiving vaccines. There was excellent engagement with both young and old. The younger participants left with a greater understanding of diseases like polio and tuberculosis. And the older members relayed their stories of getting vaccinated and how infectious diseases had encroached on their lives. Science Week Talk UCC Student Hub Those who braved the horrendous rain on November 15th were delighted to shelter in The Shtepps to hear the presentation from James Furey and Beth Brint on how folklore and STEM can work together to bring new perspectives on health education and understanding. Exhibition <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/d3170f22a998193439e53217786f14ea.jpg" style="width:200px;height:300px;" alt="d3170f22a998193439e53217786f14ea.jpg" /> The exhibition in UCC's Boole Library (16 February - 25 June 2023), was an innovative exploration of how to engage people with a topic that does not lend itself too easily to public dissemination. The exhibition foregrounded the human voice through audio installations (Made by Dr Jeffery Weeter), links to interviews, and interaction with physical objects. It invited visitors to join interviewees in the experience of manually ventilating a child with polio throughout the night in 1956 and to move along a waiting-room bench when facing vaccination by the dreaded ‘Branding Iron’ or to imagine the loss of a childhood classmate from measles. Artworks by <a href="https://lesleycoxart.com/earlier-works-3-polio-series/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lesley Cox</a> also explore the impact of polio on families and communities. <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595601-scaled.jpg" style="width:350px;height:650px;" alt="1676973595601-scaled.jpg" /><img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595744-scaled.jpg" style="width:300px;height:650px;" alt="1676973595744-scaled.jpg" /> <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595665-scaled.jpg" style="width:650px;height:350px;" alt="1676973595665-scaled.jpg" /> <img src="https://lesleycoxart.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/image29.jpg" style="width:350px;height:650px;" alt="image29.jpg" />(©Lesley Cox) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Furey Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cork Folklore Project Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Cork Folklore Project Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .wav Files Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Michael O'Sullivan and Theresa O’Sullivan Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Susan O’Sullivan Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 53m35s Location The location of the interview Fair Hill, Cork City Time Summary A summary of an interview given for different time stamps throughout the interview <table> <tbody> <tr> <td> Start Time </td> <td> Question/General Theme </td> <td> Topics in Summary </td> </tr> <tr> <td> *1:15 </td> <td> Intro to family history </td> <td> Brother and sisters in sanatoriums for TB. Brother for 7 years, sisters for circa 2-4 years. Michael was told about 2 years ago after a chest x-ray that he probably had TB, but he was not aware of it. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 3:00 </td> <td> Cont. </td> <td> Visiting sister in sanatorium on interviewees wedding day </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 4:50 </td> <td> What ages were brother and sisters when they had TB </td> <td> Brother 17, sisters in 20s, 30s. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 5:47 </td> <td> What symptoms? </td> <td> Coughing up blood, constant cough </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 6:20 </td> <td> How was TB diagnosed? </td> <td> Doctor and x-ray </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 6:45 </td> <td> What hospital? </td> <td> North Infirmary </td> </tr> <tr> <td> *6:50 </td> <td> What Medications? </td> <td> Bottle with pink/purple liquid, used for everything. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 7:45 </td> <td> How were they transferred to sanatorium </td> <td> Ambulance </td> </tr> <tr> <td> *8:40 </td> <td> Did you know how TB was transmitted? </td> <td> No, was told it wasn’t contagious. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> *8:50 </td> <td> Did family talk about TB? </td> <td> No too embarrassed, shame, linked to poverty </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 11:00 </td> <td> Were you aware of others in community with TB? </td> <td> No there was a stigma surrounding it. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 12:09 </td> <td> Did you wear masks, or clean the house? </td> <td> No masks, but lots of scrubbing with ‘Jeyes Fluid’ </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 13:10 </td> <td> What sounds would be heard in the house? </td> <td> Coughing, wheezing. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 13:30 </td> <td> Did people with TB look different? </td> <td> Ghastly, Lethargic </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 14:10 </td> <td> </td> <td> Brother would go hunting ferrets, get cold and wet, maybe made him susceptible to TB. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 14:50 </td> <td> Did doctors visit house? </td> <td> Yes, didn’t wear masks </td> </tr> <tr> <td> *15:00 </td> <td> Would people have gathered in groups outside, inside? </td> <td> Yes churches, cinemas and sporting events would be packed. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 16:10 </td> <td> Did priests talk about TB at mass? </td> <td> No never mentioned it, maybe out of fear. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 16:30 </td> <td> What about the radio? </td> <td> Yes, Noel Browne TD minister for health. Brother had great respect for him and all that he did. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 17:40 </td> <td> Was visiting allowed at sanatorium? </td> <td> Yes, but only outside. Interviewees remember visiting sister on their wedding day </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 18:20 </td> <td> Did your parents visit? </td> <td> Yes, regularly, by taxi. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> *18:44 </td> <td> Cont. </td> <td> When interviewees visited on their wedding day, the car broke down on the way. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 18:55 </td> <td> Cont. </td> <td> They had photographs taken on their wedding say at the sanatorium. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 19:12 </td> <td> Did you visit your brother? </td> <td> No too far away (Doneraile). </td> </tr> <tr> <td> *19:30 </td> <td> What did you see at the sanatoriums? </td> <td> People sitting about talking, in their night gowns, dressing gowns, seemed happy, some played Pitch and Putt </td> </tr> <tr> <td> * </td> <td> Cont. </td> <td> The patients were involved in craft making, dolls, leather objects. Interviewee still has leather wallet that his brother made him at Heatherside Sanatorium </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 20:00 </td> <td> Did someone teach them these crafts? </td> <td> Not sure, but think someone came to sanatoriums to teach them. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 21:27 </td> <td> Cont. </td> <td> All the windows were open, lots of fresh air </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 22:00 </td> <td> Do you have an idea of how many patients were at sanatorium? </td> <td> No but both genders, no children. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 22:38 </td> <td> Was there a special diet? </td> <td> No but they were well fed </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 23:11 </td> <td> It must have been difficult for parents with children at sanatorium? </td> <td> Yes </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 23:35 </td> <td> Did parents ever talk about it? </td> <td> No, they never talked, we were not told anything. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> *25:47 </td> <td> Do you remember the day your brother came home? </td> <td> Yes remember him coming through the door, he had put on a lot of weight, didn’t recognise him, everyone was nervous. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 27:40 </td> <td> Was he different? </td> <td> yes </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 28:05 </td> <td> Did your brother go back to work? </td> <td> Yes as chef in Savoy Cinema Cork, and also worked in a confectioners in Gerald Griffin Street Cork </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 30:00 </td> <td> Are there similarities with Covid 19? </td> <td> Yes, people are scared and avoiding each other </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 31:24 </td> <td> </td> <td> Reminded of Polio in 1950s </td> </tr> <tr> <td> *31:50 </td> <td> Theresa what are your experiences of TB? </td> <td> Cousin Elsie was in Mount Desert Sanatorium. Theresa’s father would take her to visit Elsie, talks about country girls dying of TB at sanatorium. Elsie worked in mortuary, she was then transferred to St. Finbarr’s hospital </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 34:45 </td> <td> Cont. </td> <td> Theresa’s friend brother John was in Sarsfield’s Court sanatorium for 2 years. He never worked again after he came home, was weak and had bad chest. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 35:59 </td> <td> What ages were they? </td> <td> Elsie was 18, John in his 30s. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 36:11 </td> <td> What do you mean by country girls? </td> <td> Farmers daughters, usually from Cork and Kerry </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 36:40 </td> <td> Do you remember how the buildings looked? </td> <td> There were wards and the main hospital, lots of fresh air, open windows, people sitting around talking. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 37:35 </td> <td> Did they ever talk about the food? </td> <td> No they never discussed food. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 38:05 </td> <td> How long were they there? </td> <td> About 2 years </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 38:16 </td> <td> Did Elsie lay out/prepare the dead of her own accord? </td> <td> Yes of her own accord. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 38:50 </td> <td> Do you remember anything about the wards, rooms? </td> <td> Some patients were in rooms of 2 beds, some in ward with 4-6 beds. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 39:20 </td> <td> Did your parents ever talk about TB? </td> <td> No never </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 39:45 </td> <td> Do you see a comparison with Covid 19? (Theresa). </td> <td> There were no masks, but you did avoid people if they coughed, you got out of the way fast, but we were told it wasn’t contagious. Sensitisation was never mentioned. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 40:33 </td> <td> Did people cover their mouths when they coughed? </td> <td> No </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 40:50 </td> <td> Were patients allowed to leave the sanatorium? </td> <td> No, they were confined to the grounds, a lot of the time they were dressed, in suits and ties etc. Reading books </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 41:30 </td> <td> What about exercise? </td> <td> There was no talk of exercise. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 42:50 </td> <td> Cont. </td> <td> Interviewees mention a pink ointment that was often used for various illnesses, but can’t recall its name. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 43:00 </td> <td> Were there any visible markings caused by TB? </td> <td> Could be hunched up from coughing. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> *44:30 </td> <td> Did you see nurses at the sanatoriums? </td> <td> Yes, dressed in white, no masks, gloves or aprons. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 45:00 </td> <td> Was music played? </td> <td> Yes people came in to play music, but can’t remember who. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 45:56 </td> <td> Any advice for younger people today and Covid 19? </td> <td> Not to smoke. Everybody smoked in 1940’s and 50s, no warnings of danger. Woodbines cigarettes. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 47:00 </td> <td> Did they smoke in the sanatoriums? </td> <td> Outside </td> </tr> <tr> <td> *47:30 </td> <td> Cont. </td> <td> People got relief from smoking. There were very few that didn’t smoke, Theresa’s father smoked to get relief from dust inhaled in his job as a shoemaker. Michael’s father worked in a flour mill and he would get relief from the inhaled flour by smoking. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 49:00 </td> <td> Did the sisters that had TB smoke? </td> <td> No another sister did and she never contracted TB </td> </tr> <tr> <td> *49:30 </td> <td> When did you find out that you might have had TB as a child? (Michael). </td> <td> 2 years ago. I was spitting up blood, had x-ray and doctor said lungs were scarred from TB. But I didn’t know I had TB. I had Pleurisy in the 1950s with the same symptoms. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> *50:20 </td> <td> Do you think people had TB and didn’t know it? </td> <td> Yes, some were afraid to go to the doctor, others didn’t wasn’t to go to doctor because they could end up in a sanatorium </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 51:00 </td> <td> Cont. </td> <td> I wonder what bloated my brother in the sanatorium. He was very heavy when he came out. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 51:30 </td> <td> Maybe because he wasn’t very active there? </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> *52:00 </td> <td> Is there anything that comes to mind before we finish the interview? </td> <td> We are lucky to have survived this long, I haven’t been sick a day in my life (Michael jokingly). We are after our Covid vaccine now and we are not doing too badly. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 53: 34 </td> <td> Thank you for doing this interview </td> <td> Thank You, we didn’t get your name (Michael jokingly). </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michael O'Sullivan and Theresa O’Sullivan Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 22.03.2021 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Cork Folklore Project Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CFP_SR00795_Osullivan_2021 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cork Folklore Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Folklore Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cork Folklore Project Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Cork Folklore Project Language A language of the resource English Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource wav Description An account of the resource Michael and Theresa are husband and wife and live on Fairhill on the north side of Cork city. Michael is 87 years old and Theresa is 85 years old. In this interview they both talk about their experiences of TB in Cork during the 1940s and the 1950s. In particular Michael talks about 3 siblings that contracted TB and spent time in sanatoriums. His brother spent 4 years at Heatherside Sanatorium in north Cork before being transferred to St. Finbarr’s hospital for a further 3 years. Two of Michael’s sisters spent between 2-4 years at Sarsfield Court sanatorium. Michael talks about visiting his sisters but not his brother because of distance and lack of transport. To this end he did not see his brother for 7 years. Michael talks about the emotions experienced when his brother came home. Michael talks about visiting his sister at Sarsfield sanatorium on his wedding day with his wife and talks about the car breaking down en route. Michael also talks about learning that he had TB when a chest x-ray in circa 2018 revealed scarring on his lungs reminiscent of TB. Theresa talks about her cousin Elsie who spent time in Mount Desert Sanatorium. Theresa talks about how Elsie would help to lay out the dead in the mortuary. Theresa also talks about the many young girls that died of TB at the sanatorium. During the interview the girls are referred to as country girls which Theresa explains was a term used to describe the daughters of farmers. Theresa talks about the girls catching TB from cattle on the farm. Theresa also talks about a friend called John who spent time at Sarsfields Court sanatorium with TB. When John was released home he was never able to work again due to a weak chest as a result of recurring chest infections. Michael and Theresa discuss family, community and societal attitudes towards TB. They talk about what people were told about TB and how they believed TB was transmitted. They talk about visiting the sanatoriums and the lack of social restrictions that they observed there. They talk about how fresh air was considered a treatment for TB and how the patients spent a lot of time outdoors. Michael and Theresa talk about the popularity of smoking and describe how some would find relief from breathing difficulties through smoking. Michael and Theresa conclude their interview with a discussion on the current Covid 19 pandemic and discuss the differences and similarities with the TB pandemic of the 1940s and the 1950s. Subject The topic of the resource Tuberculosis blood Cattle Cigarettes Cork city Coughing Covid 19 Doctor Fairhill Handcrafts Heatherside Sanatrium Leather Michael O’ Sullivan Mortuary Mount Desert Sanatorium Noel Browne North Infirmary Hospital Pleurisy Polio preparing the dead Priest Sanatorium Sarsfield Court Sanatorium smoking St. Finbarr’s Hospital Theresa O’ Sullivan Tuberculosis (TB) Woodbines https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/775e37276dd84401fa3c08b29276308b.jpg 2c0cab7f061923cca009df8adc177d9c https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/2d2c6f3191f08ce1f4c837499cf38761.mp3 1ea7b4d5bb8188fcb9649e30834029d7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Catching Stories (of Infectious Disease In Ireland) <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Catching-Stories-w-logos-3.png" style="width:350px;height:100px;" alt="Catching-Stories-w-logos-3.png" /> Subject The topic of the resource Life History; Ireland; Health; Communicable diseases; Epidemics; Poliomyelitis; Polio; Postpoliomyelitis syndrome; Tuberculosis; TB; Measles; Diphtheria; COVID-19; Vaccines; Description An account of the resource Catching Stories is a folklore-STEM collaboration project funded through the <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://www.sfi.ie/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Science Foundation Ireland</a> (SFI) Discover Programme. The project was concerned with those who had first had experiences of being stricken with the disease, their family members and the public health practitioners who served on the frontline of past epidemics. The diseases the project focused on were: polio, tuberculosis, diphtheria and measles, Spanish flu and COVID-19. The project grew from seed funding through the Irish Research Council and University College Cork's(UCC) College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences. This funding enabled the team to collate material in the Cork Folklore Project's archive and create a pilot online resource. In 2022 the project was awarded an SFI Discover grant that allowed the team to undertake new bespoke interviews and grow the online dissemination platform. To date (February 2023), Catching Stories consists of XX interviews. 'Catching Stories' has also been drawn from the Cork Folklore Project Sound Archive for other related material. The project's main output is an online resource (<a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="http://www.catchingstories.org" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.catchingstories.org</a>). This website places personal oral testimonies adjacent to scientific information about the diseases. There was also a series of talks and presentations for <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://catchingstories.org/events/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Heritage Week 2022, Culture Night 2022 and Science Week 2022</a>. With support from <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://www.ucc.ie/en/apc/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">APC Microbiome</a>, SFI and UCC's <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://libguides.ucc.ie/library" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Boole Library,</a> the Catching Stories team curated the interactive multimedia exhibition, Catching Stories of Infectious Disease in Ireland (16 February - 25 June 2023), in UCC's Boole Library. The Exhibition was subsequently taken by the Heatlh Service Executive and displayed in their campuses and buildings throughout Cork and Kerry. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-2023 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Interviewees: Lesley Cox; Evelyn Wainwright; Emma Conway Clarke; Michael Hussey; Paul O'Brien, James Hoare Nagle; Edward Tanner; Michael and Theresa O'Sullivan, Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Ireland; 1920s-2020s Relation A related resource Website <a href="https://catchingstories.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.catchingstories.org</a> <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/e9fc50934d016888e8a29de8e14d25d4.JPG" style="width:500px;height:250px;" alt="e9fc50934d016888e8a29de8e14d25d4.JPG" /> Here you can engage with the collected material side by side with biomedical commentary from immunologist Dr Elizebeth Brint. Presentation and Listening Events Heritage Week 2022 <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Heritage-Week-2022-Library-talk-300x169.jpg" alt="Heritage-Week-2022-Library-talk-300x169.jpg" /> For Heritage Week project coordinator James Furey gave a presentation of the project at Cork City Library Grand Parade. Culture Night 2022 <img class="size-medium wp-image-407 alignnone" src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Culture-Night-2020-30-300x224.jpg" alt="Culture-Night-2020-30-300x224.jpg" /><img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Culture-Night-2020-6-300x224.jpg" alt="Culture-Night-2020-6-300x224.jpg" /> For Culture night the team went to the streets to set up a ‘time travelling’ vaccination clinic outside the old medical centre on Grattan St Cork City. Willing participants sat on a bench and heard Joe Scanlon’s story of receiving the ‘Branding Iron’, Joe’s term for the vaccine apparatus used in the 1950s. Joe’s story and the event elicited a great response from those who took part. Science Week 2022 <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Science-Week-2022-2-724x1024.png" style="width:200px;height:300px;" alt="Science-Week-2022-2-724x1024.png" /> Celebrate Science Family Day on 13th November 2022 <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5840-300x200.jpg" alt="IMG_5840-300x200.jpg" /> Our first outing for Cork Science Festival was at the ‘Celebrate Science’ Family Day at University College Cork’s Western Gateway Building. For this event, we fired up the ‘Time-machine’ to bring participants on a trip to 1958, the day Joe Scanlon received a vaccine, or as Joe calls it, <a href="https://catchingstories.org/getting-the-vaccine/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">‘The Branding Iron’</a>. <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5844-300x200.jpg" alt="IMG_5844-300x200.jpg" /> The Catching Stories team held four sessions. We played Joe’s story and quizzed our audience on their knowledge of infectious diseases and their memory of receiving vaccines. There was excellent engagement with both young and old. The younger participants left with a greater understanding of diseases like polio and tuberculosis. And the older members relayed their stories of getting vaccinated and how infectious diseases had encroached on their lives. Science Week Talk UCC Student Hub Those who braved the horrendous rain on November 15th were delighted to shelter in The Shtepps to hear the presentation from James Furey and Beth Brint on how folklore and STEM can work together to bring new perspectives on health education and understanding. Exhibition <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/d3170f22a998193439e53217786f14ea.jpg" style="width:200px;height:300px;" alt="d3170f22a998193439e53217786f14ea.jpg" /> The exhibition in UCC's Boole Library (16 February - 25 June 2023), was an innovative exploration of how to engage people with a topic that does not lend itself too easily to public dissemination. The exhibition foregrounded the human voice through audio installations (Made by Dr Jeffery Weeter), links to interviews, and interaction with physical objects. It invited visitors to join interviewees in the experience of manually ventilating a child with polio throughout the night in 1956 and to move along a waiting-room bench when facing vaccination by the dreaded ‘Branding Iron’ or to imagine the loss of a childhood classmate from measles. Artworks by <a href="https://lesleycoxart.com/earlier-works-3-polio-series/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lesley Cox</a> also explore the impact of polio on families and communities. <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595601-scaled.jpg" style="width:350px;height:650px;" alt="1676973595601-scaled.jpg" /><img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595744-scaled.jpg" style="width:300px;height:650px;" alt="1676973595744-scaled.jpg" /> <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595665-scaled.jpg" style="width:650px;height:350px;" alt="1676973595665-scaled.jpg" /> <img src="https://lesleycoxart.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/image29.jpg" style="width:350px;height:650px;" alt="image29.jpg" />(©Lesley Cox) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Furey Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cork Folklore Project Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Cork Folklore Project Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .wav Files Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Lesley Cox Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview James Furey Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 35m 24s Location The location of the interview 5 Elderwood, College Road, Cork City Time Summary A summary of an interview given for different time stamps throughout the interview <table> <tbody> <tr> <td> 0.00.50 - 0.02.49 </td> <td> Fathers Background. Patrick Massey. Contracted Polio around 10 years of age. He was a French polisher. Walked with a limp. Spent 4 years in Cappagh hospital. Born in Clonbrassil Street, father a driver for Massey brother’s funeral home. Moved to Dun Laoghaire. Sickly child, mother doted on him. Youngest of 14 children of which 11 survived. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.02.49 - 0.04.37 </td> <td> Contracting Polio. Lesley thinks it was 1939. Didn’t talk about time in hospital at all. Did mention his doctor was called to the War. Patrick had 6 operations none of which worked to any great measure. He was left with bad limp, no heel, leg half the width of his other leg, completely distorted, walked on his toes underneath his foot. Big scar on shin. Callipers after hospital. Children jeered him for having limp. Awful stigma. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.04.38 - 0.08.35 </td> <td> Learning to walk again Ashamed of Calliper so locked himself in room to teach himself to walk unaided. Used to wrap his foot in “wadding”. Lesley describes the process. Describes how he walked and how painful it was and how he adapted. Used razor blades to manicure his feet. Did not admit he needed help. Very proud and did not describe himself as disabled. Did not take wheelchair till 73 years old. Died at 76. Lesley describes how he stood with his leg pointing out, Lesley says that she too walks like him. Nobody knew he had Polio, everyone thought he had “a bad leg” Had 6 gins to help him walk Lesley down the aisle on her wedding day. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.08.35 - 0.10.19 </td> <td> Lesley discovers her father had polio when she was in her 20s. Always understood him to just have a bad leg. Did not find out till she was in hospital with him when he had pneumonia. Doctor asked what was wrong with leg, Patrick said he had had infantile paralysis. Lesley did not know what that was. Wasn’t even that familiar with polio. Didn’t talk about it even talk about after that. Her mother did talk about it a little bit. Lesley goes on to mention that her father hated nurses, doctors, and the clergy. Never relied on the medical profession, refused ambulance when he had a heart attack. Had lung cancer, signed himself of hospital 2 days after getting lung removed. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.10.19- 0.11.20 </td> <td> Cappagh Hospital Finglas. Patrick did not speak to often about his experience in Cappagh. He did mention the exercises that he had to do like pulling himself with a rope, Physio every day. Didn’t talk of other patients. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.11.20 - 0.12.34 </td> <td> Stigma and Coping Lesley mentions that Patrick’s friend La-la (Lawrence) told her after Patrick’s death that Patrick had asked La-la not to tell anyone that why he was in hospital. Gave no explanation as to why he was away. Developed bad coping mechanism. Would get physically violent with people that abused or jeered him. Lesley tells of occasion where La-la held a boy and Patrick broke the boy’s hand for calling him “hop a long”. Very strong upper body strength </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.12.34- 0.15.30 </td> <td> Lesley’s understanding of polio. Lesley had no understanding of Polio until after finding out about her father having it. In her 20s (1990s). But wasn’t until after her father died that she learned more on the subject. Met with other polio survivors. Then realised how hard it was for him. Patrick didn’t complain about it till later in life. Didn’t wear orthopaedic shoes etc Describes her fathers hip problems and pain. How it was evident that he was in pain. Would pull his toenails out with razor blades. Didn’t even complain when he had lung cancer. Lesley’s mother knew everything but also didn’t talk about it. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.15.30 - 0.17.20 </td> <td> Lesley’s mother Lesley’s mother knew everything but also didn’t talk about it. Her family were not too happy with her marrying Patrick because of the limp. They did not know it was polio. Describes how Patrick had trouble getting jobs, He was a French polisher, moved to England in the late 1960s but didn’t stay long, unable to find job. Eventually got job in the Shelbourne Hotel as in-house polisher, had apprentices etc. Patrick’s wife was also a French polisher, they met at PYE radio. He had worked for Massey’s making and polishing coffins but after the “big snow” in Dublin in the late 1940s (1947?) where a lot of children from the tenements died Patrick left the job, couldn’t bear to “coffin” the children so left Massey’s after that. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.17.20- 0.18.29 </td> <td> Stigma and Abuse as an adult People would make comments “what’s wrong with your leg?”. Wouldn’t respond to adults but would sit with a child if they asked him and explain that he “hurt it as a baby”. Might get angry with adults. Patrick drank a lot so would get into scraps. He was very strong in his upper body. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.18.29 - 0.19.34 </td> <td> Learning to walk again Lesley describes how her uncle Frank told her how her father learned how to walk again. Threw callipers out the window, lined chairs up in the room and thought himself how to walk over a 2-week period. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.19.35- 0.20.32 </td> <td> Patricks Family relationships His mother and siblings very caring to wards him. Father supported doctors wishes to amputate leg. Mother said no. Father dismissed him due to the limp, that there was something wrong with Patrick </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.20.33 - 0.24.38 </td> <td> Distrust of medical profession and Clergy Had a lot of dealings with medical profession, Pleurisy, cancer etc. Doctors pleaded with him to get physio and help, he refused, didn’t think he could transition to new way of care. Lesley remembers time when lay Chaplin came to him in hospital and asked if they were “a sky pilot” and told them to go away. Lesley’s family used to look after her cousin who had heart problems and cleft pallet. Patrick took a shine to him and when he died on the operating table Patrick never went to church again or had any religious inclination. “no God”. Lesley’s mother very religious. Lesley mentions that Patrick was overprotective of her and her sister. She suspects some form of abuse happened in Cappagh hospital when he was there. No babysitters etc, very suspicious people. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.24.39- 0.31.37 </td> <td> Lesley’s Artwork relating to Polio “” The march of the shillings” Lesley describes her polio focused art. massive research. Talked to Polio Survivors Ireland. Philip Boxberger and Jenny Richardson form West Cork. Told Lesley of the horrible experiences. Both were sent to posh hospitals in Scotland. Talks about her research and the art that came from that. The numbers in the newspaper the only way to find out what condition child was in. Lesley becomes slightly emotional when she spoke of her work. How it helped her deal with grief of her father’s passing and helped her understand fathers’ life. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.31.38 - 0.32.41 </td> <td> Lesley’s Abiding memory of her father Him standing at the door, arm against door frame holding court, half in kitchen half in the Livingroom. Comfortable to be in his normal position. Very funny </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.32.42 - 0.35.24 </td> <td> Patrick’s brother breaks in to Cappagh Hospital Patrick’s brother Brian was leaving to join British navy when he was 17. Patrick did not recognise him. Patrick very grateful that he did so. Brian a bit of a rebel. Later in life Brian lived with Lesley’s family [Interview Ends] </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Catching Stories (of Infectious Disease In Ireland) <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Catching-Stories-w-logos-3.png" style="width:350px;height:100px;" alt="Catching-Stories-w-logos-3.png" /> Subject The topic of the resource Life History; Ireland; Health; Communicable diseases; Epidemics; Poliomyelitis; Polio; Postpoliomyelitis syndrome; Tuberculosis; TB; Measles; Diphtheria; COVID-19; Vaccines; Description An account of the resource Catching Stories is a folklore-STEM collaboration project funded through the <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://www.sfi.ie/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Science Foundation Ireland</a> (SFI) Discover Programme. The project was concerned with those who had first had experiences of being stricken with the disease, their family members and the public health practitioners who served on the frontline of past epidemics. The diseases the project focused on were: polio, tuberculosis, diphtheria and measles, Spanish flu and COVID-19. The project grew from seed funding through the Irish Research Council and University College Cork's(UCC) College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences. This funding enabled the team to collate material in the Cork Folklore Project's archive and create a pilot online resource. In 2022 the project was awarded an SFI Discover grant that allowed the team to undertake new bespoke interviews and grow the online dissemination platform. To date (February 2023), Catching Stories consists of XX interviews. 'Catching Stories' has also been drawn from the Cork Folklore Project Sound Archive for other related material. The project's main output is an online resource (<a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="http://www.catchingstories.org" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.catchingstories.org</a>). This website places personal oral testimonies adjacent to scientific information about the diseases. There was also a series of talks and presentations for <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://catchingstories.org/events/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Heritage Week 2022, Culture Night 2022 and Science Week 2022</a>. With support from <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://www.ucc.ie/en/apc/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">APC Microbiome</a>, SFI and UCC's <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://libguides.ucc.ie/library" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Boole Library,</a> the Catching Stories team curated the interactive multimedia exhibition, Catching Stories of Infectious Disease in Ireland (16 February - 25 June 2023), in UCC's Boole Library. The Exhibition was subsequently taken by the Heatlh Service Executive and displayed in their campuses and buildings throughout Cork and Kerry. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-2023 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Interviewees: Lesley Cox; Evelyn Wainwright; Emma Conway Clarke; Michael Hussey; Paul O'Brien, James Hoare Nagle; Edward Tanner; Michael and Theresa O'Sullivan, Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Ireland; 1920s-2020s Relation A related resource Website <a href="https://catchingstories.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.catchingstories.org</a> <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/e9fc50934d016888e8a29de8e14d25d4.JPG" style="width:500px;height:250px;" alt="e9fc50934d016888e8a29de8e14d25d4.JPG" /> Here you can engage with the collected material side by side with biomedical commentary from immunologist Dr Elizebeth Brint. Presentation and Listening Events Heritage Week 2022 <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Heritage-Week-2022-Library-talk-300x169.jpg" alt="Heritage-Week-2022-Library-talk-300x169.jpg" /> For Heritage Week project coordinator James Furey gave a presentation of the project at Cork City Library Grand Parade. Culture Night 2022 <img class="size-medium wp-image-407 alignnone" src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Culture-Night-2020-30-300x224.jpg" alt="Culture-Night-2020-30-300x224.jpg" /><img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Culture-Night-2020-6-300x224.jpg" alt="Culture-Night-2020-6-300x224.jpg" /> For Culture night the team went to the streets to set up a ‘time travelling’ vaccination clinic outside the old medical centre on Grattan St Cork City. Willing participants sat on a bench and heard Joe Scanlon’s story of receiving the ‘Branding Iron’, Joe’s term for the vaccine apparatus used in the 1950s. Joe’s story and the event elicited a great response from those who took part. Science Week 2022 <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Science-Week-2022-2-724x1024.png" style="width:200px;height:300px;" alt="Science-Week-2022-2-724x1024.png" /> Celebrate Science Family Day on 13th November 2022 <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5840-300x200.jpg" alt="IMG_5840-300x200.jpg" /> Our first outing for Cork Science Festival was at the ‘Celebrate Science’ Family Day at University College Cork’s Western Gateway Building. For this event, we fired up the ‘Time-machine’ to bring participants on a trip to 1958, the day Joe Scanlon received a vaccine, or as Joe calls it, <a href="https://catchingstories.org/getting-the-vaccine/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">‘The Branding Iron’</a>. <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5844-300x200.jpg" alt="IMG_5844-300x200.jpg" /> The Catching Stories team held four sessions. We played Joe’s story and quizzed our audience on their knowledge of infectious diseases and their memory of receiving vaccines. There was excellent engagement with both young and old. The younger participants left with a greater understanding of diseases like polio and tuberculosis. And the older members relayed their stories of getting vaccinated and how infectious diseases had encroached on their lives. Science Week Talk UCC Student Hub Those who braved the horrendous rain on November 15th were delighted to shelter in The Shtepps to hear the presentation from James Furey and Beth Brint on how folklore and STEM can work together to bring new perspectives on health education and understanding. Exhibition <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/d3170f22a998193439e53217786f14ea.jpg" style="width:200px;height:300px;" alt="d3170f22a998193439e53217786f14ea.jpg" /> The exhibition in UCC's Boole Library (16 February - 25 June 2023), was an innovative exploration of how to engage people with a topic that does not lend itself too easily to public dissemination. The exhibition foregrounded the human voice through audio installations (Made by Dr Jeffery Weeter), links to interviews, and interaction with physical objects. It invited visitors to join interviewees in the experience of manually ventilating a child with polio throughout the night in 1956 and to move along a waiting-room bench when facing vaccination by the dreaded ‘Branding Iron’ or to imagine the loss of a childhood classmate from measles. Artworks by <a href="https://lesleycoxart.com/earlier-works-3-polio-series/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lesley Cox</a> also explore the impact of polio on families and communities. <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595601-scaled.jpg" style="width:350px;height:650px;" alt="1676973595601-scaled.jpg" /><img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595744-scaled.jpg" style="width:300px;height:650px;" alt="1676973595744-scaled.jpg" /> <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595665-scaled.jpg" style="width:650px;height:350px;" alt="1676973595665-scaled.jpg" /> <img src="https://lesleycoxart.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/image29.jpg" style="width:350px;height:650px;" alt="image29.jpg" />(©Lesley Cox) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Furey Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cork Folklore Project Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Cork Folklore Project Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .wav Files Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Evelyn Wainwright Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview James Furey Location The location of the interview Togher, Cork Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 83m 08s Time Summary A summary of an interview given for different time stamps throughout the interview <table> <tbody> <tr> <td> 0.00.00 - 0.05.55 </td> <td> Introduction and background Born on Douglas St/Nicolas Hill. One brother 11 months older, Mother from Roches Buildings Richmond hill and father from Douglas St. Contracted Polio while in Youghal on a trip at 3 years of age. First brought to fever hospital Cork, then 2 years in Cappagh hospital Baldoyle. Evelyn has no memory pf contacting the disease or her time in the hospital Evelyn very attached to her mother, thinks maybe to do with being away for so long. Father not on the scene after her birth, only met him twice in her life. He worked in Ford in Dagenham. Sent wire/money every 2 weeks to his mother. Evelyn’s mother reared them hand to mouth. Had cleaning jobs, referred to as “Hurely”. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.05.55- 0.10.51 </td> <td> First memory of Polio St Finbarr’s hospital, Surgeon O’Connell said couldn’t operate till her bones had grown. Waited 5 years for first operation, was operated on during 1956 polio epidemic. Hated going to the Orthopaedic hospital. Describes the wards. Death not on her mind at that stage. No real memory of the 1956 epidemic. Her mother said that is it didn’t happen then the Orthopaedic would not have been used for polio suffers and Evelyn would have had to go to Dublin for operations. Mother didn’t like St Finbarr’s “Had a name” although they did have to visit every 6 months. 2 callipers from when she was 5. Couldn’t walk without them. Wasn’t treated differently at home, had chores etc </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.10.51- 0.14:15 </td> <td> School Christ the King Turners Cross No wheelchairs, went to school in a Go-kart, wheels often fell off. Local girl volunteered to assist Evelyn going to school, still great friends. Felt very isolated due to not being allowed to play in yard, attend concerts in school or do cooking. Couldn’t read till after she left school. Head nun very good to Evelyn (Mother Rose) </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.14:15 - 0.17.32 </td> <td> Lourdes Applied in newspaper draw to go to Lourdes in 1958. Early pick up from North Cathedral, Aeroplane. Mixed well with stranger. They weren’t allowed to mix with other only those they travelled with. Doesn’t know why [Paused recording 16m 25s] Not allowed go to torchlight procession. Felt excluded. Mother had thought her not to get bogged down by exclusion of jeering </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.22.35 - 0.27.25 </td> <td> Employment No secondary school. Was meant to go to school in cork polio new school in Montenotte but it never materialised in time. But was given tutoring by a nun in Maria Assumpta in Ballyphehane At 14 went to Mel industries. South terrace made gloves. Some days she couldn’t get to work with broken callipers, they would give her work from home. Worked there for 2 years then moved to the Sunbeam. Was in the invisible mending department. Got the 3 buses from Ballyphehane to Blackpool than had to walk all the way to the other side of the sunbeam campus. Good money, good condition, well treated. Good comradery. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.27.25 - 0.32.31 </td> <td> Her neighbourhood and her brother Barry Neighbours would all help out. If mother was working, they would bread butter and sugar. Mother even delivered a baby. Mother was called upon for lots of things. Brother would go on the lang (skipped school). Was given option to get job or go to the one-day-a-week. Got a job in bakery on Blarney st. Mother worked in Thompson’s of Thompson’s bakery house; Sam Thompson even made Evelyn’s wedding cake. Brother went into mechanical work. O’Shea’s builders on South Mall. Tells story of him putting greasy clothes on chair and madness ensued. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.32.31- 0.33.05 </td> <td> Employment Cont. Sunbeam for 4 years. 5 uncles worked there too but they would never meet there. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.33.05- 0.36.03 </td> <td> Evelyn’s Aunt with polio Tells of an Aunt Maureen (fathers sister) who contracted polio as a teenager and moved to England shortly afterwards. Never had an operation had a raised shoe about 15 inches different. Marries with 3 children. Evelyn’s Mother Evelyn’s paternal grandmother and Evelyn’s mothers’ relationship Single mother in the late 1940s/1950s. Not looked down upon or treated different </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.36.03- 0.38.25 </td> <td> Specialist shoes etc Used to buy special shoes in Saxone, not made to order. But had to be altered to fit calliper. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.38.25 - 0.40.33 </td> <td> Friends Positive relationship. There was name calling especially on crutches, didn’t affect her. Catherine always by her side. Stayed in classroom with Evelyn. Mary from her estate would also helped out. volunteered </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.40.33 - 0.48.17 </td> <td> Marriage Married at 21. Tells story of meeting husband on a social gathering. How getting connected with the Legion of Mary expanded her social group and led to more excursions. Gougane Barra trip with this group led to her meeting husband Terry through a friend who had bumped into him in Tralee. Terry returned to Liverpool, they kept up correspondence for months. Terry visits for Christmas, Evelyn visits for Easter, Married in the August in Ballyphehane. Moved to Liverpool that day. Too soon. Evelyn’s mother visited in October and stayed for 7 months until they all moved back to Ireland. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.48.17 - 0.53.05 </td> <td> Husband Terry and her Children Worked in scrap, then John A. Wood, then a bin collector. Worked 3 jobs at one stage. Shared paper sales job with Evelyn’s mother. Terry was great father. He would prepare all nappies and bottles before he went to work. First child Michelle born in 1968 England. Apartment not suitable for Evelyn to rear child. Michelle never left her side. Another child “wild” No mishaps or falls when children were young. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.53.05 - 0.55.23 </td> <td> Operations and mobility Evelyn explains her mobility after her operations. Tells story of difficulty manoeuvring hill. 4 operations in the orthopaedic first at 9 last at 16 Difficulty visiting grandparents </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.55.23- 0.58.19 </td> <td> Maternal Grandparents Lived on Richmond hill, Grandfathers job was to lift the Brian Boru bridge. Strict man, no fun when he was home. Lovely man and supportive. Boiled mutton dinner every Sunday. Evelyn was in her teens when they died, 8 years apart. Grandmother bought her Bush radio. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.58.19- 1.07.34 </td> <td> Evelyn’s Health. 21 years after last operation was next time she went to a doctor. Gynaecological issue. Contracted Pneumonia the next week, very bad, cardiac arrest, 10 days in hospital. Second daughter sick as a child. Years of uncertainty. Evelyn worked out it was a sugar allergy. She is over 6ft tall and no longer allergic to sugar. Her experience with polio was not as bad as others. No polio syndrome. Evelyn tells on incident where she broke her femur in Galway 1999. Doctor who operated did not know reason for her legs being different lengths and corrected them. This led to Evelyn having serious issues later. Evelyn explains that she has to use 2 walking stick, that she has driven a car since the 1970s, and is only using a motorised wheelchair for 2 years and only on doors. Had 2 more falls in the last 8 years. Broken ankles and kneecap. Now terrified of falling. So got the wheelchair, not HSE supported. Takes the strain of the everyday. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 1.07.34 – 1.15.21 </td> <td> Disability Services etc. Cork Polio general aftercare, Disabled Drivers Ireland. Evelyn tells of getting one driving lesson and being on her own after that. Has driven since the early 1970s. then was driving instructor for disabled drivers Ireland, was given a vehicle to teach other how to drive. Through AGM with disabled driver’s, she heard of new group for polio survivors, attended first meeting later became a director of the group for 10 years. Still very involved in organising event. Evelyn teel of using Vienna Woods hotel for monthly meetings but they had to stop using the hotel due to a new entrance that was built with steps and no disabled access. “Now we are barred form there”. Evelyn expresses her anger at such a backward step. Evelyn describes how many strides have been taken to help give access to those with disability. But is angered at the change to disabled parking in Cork city which effectively means that she can no longer visit there. Describes how difficult it is. Has to always check ahead if a restaurant or hotel is accessible. Long drives also a problem due to lack of facilities. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 1.15.22 – 1.16.35 </td> <td> Other Polio cases in Ballyphehane Mention Marie O’Mahoney form Pearse Road, Met a couple of times in hospital. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 1.16.35 – 1.17.35 </td> <td> Faith Major part of her life. Rosery most nights as a child, Starts her day with mass. Hasn’t passed it on to her children. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 1.17.35 – 1.20.20 </td> <td> Relationship with Aunts. Not much pf relationship with her Aunt Maureen who had polio, met her when she visited. More of a relationship with her aunt Rita, Rita was more like a sister only 7 years apart. Very close all their lives, Rita only died a few years ago. Still close to Rita’s family. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 1.20.20 – 1.23.08 </td> <td> Final Thoughts Doesn’t like the condescending element people can give off. Literal patting on the head etc. Doesn’t let the negative bother her. Some disabled people demand not ask which leads to bitterness. Her mother raised her better [Interview Ends] </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Evelyn Wainwright Description An account of the resource Evelyn was born in the 1940s. Her parents were living in England prior to her birth. Father worked for Ford in Dagenham. Evelyn only met her father a handful of times. After her parent’s relationship ended Evelyn’s mother and her older brother Barry moved to the corporation estate of O’Growney Crescent in Ballyphehane. At the age of 3 Evelyn contracted polio. Two years were spent in Cappagh Hospital in Finglas Co. Dublin. Evelyn brings us through her live, from schooling Turners Cross which she made lifelong friendships but also had her first instance of isolation. Not following on to secondary education Evelyn got a job in the Textile industry, first at Mel Industries then in the Sunbeam. Evelyn talks about her life getting married and having a family in her early 20s, the realities of living with polio and raising children. She talks about her involvement in groups such as Disabled Driver Ireland and Polio Survivors Ireland. Evelyn also describes her mother character in a time when single mother s might have been looked down upon. She mentions an aunt the also had polio. Evelyn also touches on how disability access while it has improved from the days of her youth has not really been thought through with any real concern for those with disabilities. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 29 June 2022 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CFP_SR00800_Wainwright_2022 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cork Folklore Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Folklore Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cork Folklore Project Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Cork Folklore Project Language A language of the resource English Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .wav Subject The topic of the resource Polio Ballyphehane Callipers Cappagh Hospital Cork city Disabled Drivers Association of Ireland Motherhood Polio Polio Survivors Ireland School Sunbeam https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/c9271efa146c269f9dd41bd326e6340b.JPG 32da2fb41868423d653707d79e87118d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Catching Stories (of Infectious Disease In Ireland) <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Catching-Stories-w-logos-3.png" style="width:350px;height:100px;" alt="Catching-Stories-w-logos-3.png" /> Subject The topic of the resource Life History; Ireland; Health; Communicable diseases; Epidemics; Poliomyelitis; Polio; Postpoliomyelitis syndrome; Tuberculosis; TB; Measles; Diphtheria; COVID-19; Vaccines; Description An account of the resource Catching Stories is a folklore-STEM collaboration project funded through the <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://www.sfi.ie/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Science Foundation Ireland</a> (SFI) Discover Programme. The project was concerned with those who had first had experiences of being stricken with the disease, their family members and the public health practitioners who served on the frontline of past epidemics. The diseases the project focused on were: polio, tuberculosis, diphtheria and measles, Spanish flu and COVID-19. The project grew from seed funding through the Irish Research Council and University College Cork's(UCC) College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences. This funding enabled the team to collate material in the Cork Folklore Project's archive and create a pilot online resource. In 2022 the project was awarded an SFI Discover grant that allowed the team to undertake new bespoke interviews and grow the online dissemination platform. To date (February 2023), Catching Stories consists of XX interviews. 'Catching Stories' has also been drawn from the Cork Folklore Project Sound Archive for other related material. The project's main output is an online resource (<a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="http://www.catchingstories.org" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.catchingstories.org</a>). This website places personal oral testimonies adjacent to scientific information about the diseases. There was also a series of talks and presentations for <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://catchingstories.org/events/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Heritage Week 2022, Culture Night 2022 and Science Week 2022</a>. With support from <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://www.ucc.ie/en/apc/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">APC Microbiome</a>, SFI and UCC's <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://libguides.ucc.ie/library" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Boole Library,</a> the Catching Stories team curated the interactive multimedia exhibition, Catching Stories of Infectious Disease in Ireland (16 February - 25 June 2023), in UCC's Boole Library. The Exhibition was subsequently taken by the Heatlh Service Executive and displayed in their campuses and buildings throughout Cork and Kerry. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-2023 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Interviewees: Lesley Cox; Evelyn Wainwright; Emma Conway Clarke; Michael Hussey; Paul O'Brien, James Hoare Nagle; Edward Tanner; Michael and Theresa O'Sullivan, Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Ireland; 1920s-2020s Relation A related resource Website <a href="https://catchingstories.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.catchingstories.org</a> <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/e9fc50934d016888e8a29de8e14d25d4.JPG" style="width:500px;height:250px;" alt="e9fc50934d016888e8a29de8e14d25d4.JPG" /> Here you can engage with the collected material side by side with biomedical commentary from immunologist Dr Elizebeth Brint. Presentation and Listening Events Heritage Week 2022 <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Heritage-Week-2022-Library-talk-300x169.jpg" alt="Heritage-Week-2022-Library-talk-300x169.jpg" /> For Heritage Week project coordinator James Furey gave a presentation of the project at Cork City Library Grand Parade. Culture Night 2022 <img class="size-medium wp-image-407 alignnone" src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Culture-Night-2020-30-300x224.jpg" alt="Culture-Night-2020-30-300x224.jpg" /><img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Culture-Night-2020-6-300x224.jpg" alt="Culture-Night-2020-6-300x224.jpg" /> For Culture night the team went to the streets to set up a ‘time travelling’ vaccination clinic outside the old medical centre on Grattan St Cork City. Willing participants sat on a bench and heard Joe Scanlon’s story of receiving the ‘Branding Iron’, Joe’s term for the vaccine apparatus used in the 1950s. Joe’s story and the event elicited a great response from those who took part. Science Week 2022 <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Science-Week-2022-2-724x1024.png" style="width:200px;height:300px;" alt="Science-Week-2022-2-724x1024.png" /> Celebrate Science Family Day on 13th November 2022 <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5840-300x200.jpg" alt="IMG_5840-300x200.jpg" /> Our first outing for Cork Science Festival was at the ‘Celebrate Science’ Family Day at University College Cork’s Western Gateway Building. For this event, we fired up the ‘Time-machine’ to bring participants on a trip to 1958, the day Joe Scanlon received a vaccine, or as Joe calls it, <a href="https://catchingstories.org/getting-the-vaccine/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">‘The Branding Iron’</a>. <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5844-300x200.jpg" alt="IMG_5844-300x200.jpg" /> The Catching Stories team held four sessions. We played Joe’s story and quizzed our audience on their knowledge of infectious diseases and their memory of receiving vaccines. There was excellent engagement with both young and old. The younger participants left with a greater understanding of diseases like polio and tuberculosis. And the older members relayed their stories of getting vaccinated and how infectious diseases had encroached on their lives. Science Week Talk UCC Student Hub Those who braved the horrendous rain on November 15th were delighted to shelter in The Shtepps to hear the presentation from James Furey and Beth Brint on how folklore and STEM can work together to bring new perspectives on health education and understanding. Exhibition <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/d3170f22a998193439e53217786f14ea.jpg" style="width:200px;height:300px;" alt="d3170f22a998193439e53217786f14ea.jpg" /> The exhibition in UCC's Boole Library (16 February - 25 June 2023), was an innovative exploration of how to engage people with a topic that does not lend itself too easily to public dissemination. The exhibition foregrounded the human voice through audio installations (Made by Dr Jeffery Weeter), links to interviews, and interaction with physical objects. It invited visitors to join interviewees in the experience of manually ventilating a child with polio throughout the night in 1956 and to move along a waiting-room bench when facing vaccination by the dreaded ‘Branding Iron’ or to imagine the loss of a childhood classmate from measles. Artworks by <a href="https://lesleycoxart.com/earlier-works-3-polio-series/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lesley Cox</a> also explore the impact of polio on families and communities. <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595601-scaled.jpg" style="width:350px;height:650px;" alt="1676973595601-scaled.jpg" /><img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595744-scaled.jpg" style="width:300px;height:650px;" alt="1676973595744-scaled.jpg" /> <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595665-scaled.jpg" style="width:650px;height:350px;" alt="1676973595665-scaled.jpg" /> <img src="https://lesleycoxart.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/image29.jpg" style="width:350px;height:650px;" alt="image29.jpg" />(©Lesley Cox) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Furey Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cork Folklore Project Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Cork Folklore Project Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .wav Files Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Emma Clarke Conway Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview James Furey Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 51m 37s Location The location of the interview Online Through MS Teams Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data .wav Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Emma Clarke Conway Subject The topic of the resource Polio Description An account of the resource Emma is the Communications and development officer for <a href="https://polio.ie/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Polio Survivors Ireland</a>. She spoke about the history of polio in Ireland, about the work PSI do and the current state of polio in Ireland. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 8 August 2022 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Interviewee: Emma Clarke Conway Interviewer: James Furey Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CFP_SR00836_clarkeconway_2022 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Ireland; 1920s -2020s Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cork Folklore Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Folklore Project Sound Archive Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cork Folklore Project Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Cork Folklore Project Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 1 .wav file Communicable diseases Health Polio Polio outbreak 1956 Polio Survivors Ireland Poliomyelitis Postpoliomyelitis syndrome stigma Trauma https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/96de18b7842b6a2ff3219d6fd1219a7d.jpg 328fc840557cf068feedc0eaf1a835d6 https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/3aa497532aca8d941e617768ca1ca0be.mp3 497f20a8e38e129315bb5a8a83a97a6f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Catching Stories (of Infectious Disease In Ireland) <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Catching-Stories-w-logos-3.png" style="width:350px;height:100px;" alt="Catching-Stories-w-logos-3.png" /> Subject The topic of the resource Life History; Ireland; Health; Communicable diseases; Epidemics; Poliomyelitis; Polio; Postpoliomyelitis syndrome; Tuberculosis; TB; Measles; Diphtheria; COVID-19; Vaccines; Description An account of the resource Catching Stories is a folklore-STEM collaboration project funded through the <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://www.sfi.ie/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Science Foundation Ireland</a> (SFI) Discover Programme. The project was concerned with those who had first had experiences of being stricken with the disease, their family members and the public health practitioners who served on the frontline of past epidemics. The diseases the project focused on were: polio, tuberculosis, diphtheria and measles, Spanish flu and COVID-19. The project grew from seed funding through the Irish Research Council and University College Cork's(UCC) College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences. This funding enabled the team to collate material in the Cork Folklore Project's archive and create a pilot online resource. In 2022 the project was awarded an SFI Discover grant that allowed the team to undertake new bespoke interviews and grow the online dissemination platform. To date (February 2023), Catching Stories consists of XX interviews. 'Catching Stories' has also been drawn from the Cork Folklore Project Sound Archive for other related material. The project's main output is an online resource (<a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="http://www.catchingstories.org" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.catchingstories.org</a>). This website places personal oral testimonies adjacent to scientific information about the diseases. There was also a series of talks and presentations for <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://catchingstories.org/events/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Heritage Week 2022, Culture Night 2022 and Science Week 2022</a>. With support from <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://www.ucc.ie/en/apc/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">APC Microbiome</a>, SFI and UCC's <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://libguides.ucc.ie/library" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Boole Library,</a> the Catching Stories team curated the interactive multimedia exhibition, Catching Stories of Infectious Disease in Ireland (16 February - 25 June 2023), in UCC's Boole Library. The Exhibition was subsequently taken by the Heatlh Service Executive and displayed in their campuses and buildings throughout Cork and Kerry. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-2023 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Interviewees: Lesley Cox; Evelyn Wainwright; Emma Conway Clarke; Michael Hussey; Paul O'Brien, James Hoare Nagle; Edward Tanner; Michael and Theresa O'Sullivan, Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Ireland; 1920s-2020s Relation A related resource Website <a href="https://catchingstories.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.catchingstories.org</a> <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/e9fc50934d016888e8a29de8e14d25d4.JPG" style="width:500px;height:250px;" alt="e9fc50934d016888e8a29de8e14d25d4.JPG" /> Here you can engage with the collected material side by side with biomedical commentary from immunologist Dr Elizebeth Brint. Presentation and Listening Events Heritage Week 2022 <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Heritage-Week-2022-Library-talk-300x169.jpg" alt="Heritage-Week-2022-Library-talk-300x169.jpg" /> For Heritage Week project coordinator James Furey gave a presentation of the project at Cork City Library Grand Parade. Culture Night 2022 <img class="size-medium wp-image-407 alignnone" src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Culture-Night-2020-30-300x224.jpg" alt="Culture-Night-2020-30-300x224.jpg" /><img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Culture-Night-2020-6-300x224.jpg" alt="Culture-Night-2020-6-300x224.jpg" /> For Culture night the team went to the streets to set up a ‘time travelling’ vaccination clinic outside the old medical centre on Grattan St Cork City. Willing participants sat on a bench and heard Joe Scanlon’s story of receiving the ‘Branding Iron’, Joe’s term for the vaccine apparatus used in the 1950s. Joe’s story and the event elicited a great response from those who took part. Science Week 2022 <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Science-Week-2022-2-724x1024.png" style="width:200px;height:300px;" alt="Science-Week-2022-2-724x1024.png" /> Celebrate Science Family Day on 13th November 2022 <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5840-300x200.jpg" alt="IMG_5840-300x200.jpg" /> Our first outing for Cork Science Festival was at the ‘Celebrate Science’ Family Day at University College Cork’s Western Gateway Building. For this event, we fired up the ‘Time-machine’ to bring participants on a trip to 1958, the day Joe Scanlon received a vaccine, or as Joe calls it, <a href="https://catchingstories.org/getting-the-vaccine/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">‘The Branding Iron’</a>. <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5844-300x200.jpg" alt="IMG_5844-300x200.jpg" /> The Catching Stories team held four sessions. We played Joe’s story and quizzed our audience on their knowledge of infectious diseases and their memory of receiving vaccines. There was excellent engagement with both young and old. The younger participants left with a greater understanding of diseases like polio and tuberculosis. And the older members relayed their stories of getting vaccinated and how infectious diseases had encroached on their lives. Science Week Talk UCC Student Hub Those who braved the horrendous rain on November 15th were delighted to shelter in The Shtepps to hear the presentation from James Furey and Beth Brint on how folklore and STEM can work together to bring new perspectives on health education and understanding. Exhibition <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/d3170f22a998193439e53217786f14ea.jpg" style="width:200px;height:300px;" alt="d3170f22a998193439e53217786f14ea.jpg" /> The exhibition in UCC's Boole Library (16 February - 25 June 2023), was an innovative exploration of how to engage people with a topic that does not lend itself too easily to public dissemination. The exhibition foregrounded the human voice through audio installations (Made by Dr Jeffery Weeter), links to interviews, and interaction with physical objects. It invited visitors to join interviewees in the experience of manually ventilating a child with polio throughout the night in 1956 and to move along a waiting-room bench when facing vaccination by the dreaded ‘Branding Iron’ or to imagine the loss of a childhood classmate from measles. Artworks by <a href="https://lesleycoxart.com/earlier-works-3-polio-series/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lesley Cox</a> also explore the impact of polio on families and communities. <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595601-scaled.jpg" style="width:350px;height:650px;" alt="1676973595601-scaled.jpg" /><img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595744-scaled.jpg" style="width:300px;height:650px;" alt="1676973595744-scaled.jpg" /> <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595665-scaled.jpg" style="width:650px;height:350px;" alt="1676973595665-scaled.jpg" /> <img src="https://lesleycoxart.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/image29.jpg" style="width:350px;height:650px;" alt="image29.jpg" />(©Lesley Cox) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Furey Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cork Folklore Project Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Cork Folklore Project Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .wav Files Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Pauline Matthews Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 9 min 53 sec Location The location of the interview Cork, Ireland Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data .mp3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pauline Matthews Subject The topic of the resource Tuberculosis Description An account of the resource Pauline Matthews was born in 1950 in the Ballintemple area of Cork city. When she was an infant her mother contracted tuberculosis and was confined to the chest hospital in Mallow. Shortly afterwards, Pauline contracted the disease, leading her to be hospitalised in St Raphel's Montenotte. Pauline's father was in the merchant navy, meaning he was away for long periods. After an accident at sea, he too was hospitalised, in Australia. The loss of the father's income meant that Pauline's aunt had to not only be the sole visitor to her sister and niece in the hospital but also, hold down a job to provide for her three relatives. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10 February 2020 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Interviewee: Pauline Matthews Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Ireland; Cork; 1950s; Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cork Folklore Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Folklore Project Sound Archive Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cork Folklore Project Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Cork Folklore Project Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 1 .mp3 file Health Heatherside Sanatrium Merchant Navy Public Health Sanatorium TB The Green Door Tuberculosis (TB) https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/99b965993d0856638fdb06cd9c574183.jpg 57a617368d7dd4ac84fd635ecffafdfd https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/e86d0e14410c7b4995f0b42da62aaf33.wav e849b1244ac6ce09d018f80f0c92ce13 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Catching Stories (of Infectious Disease In Ireland) <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Catching-Stories-w-logos-3.png" style="width:350px;height:100px;" alt="Catching-Stories-w-logos-3.png" /> Subject The topic of the resource Life History; Ireland; Health; Communicable diseases; Epidemics; Poliomyelitis; Polio; Postpoliomyelitis syndrome; Tuberculosis; TB; Measles; Diphtheria; COVID-19; Vaccines; Description An account of the resource Catching Stories is a folklore-STEM collaboration project funded through the <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://www.sfi.ie/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Science Foundation Ireland</a> (SFI) Discover Programme. The project was concerned with those who had first had experiences of being stricken with the disease, their family members and the public health practitioners who served on the frontline of past epidemics. The diseases the project focused on were: polio, tuberculosis, diphtheria and measles, Spanish flu and COVID-19. The project grew from seed funding through the Irish Research Council and University College Cork's(UCC) College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences. This funding enabled the team to collate material in the Cork Folklore Project's archive and create a pilot online resource. In 2022 the project was awarded an SFI Discover grant that allowed the team to undertake new bespoke interviews and grow the online dissemination platform. To date (February 2023), Catching Stories consists of XX interviews. 'Catching Stories' has also been drawn from the Cork Folklore Project Sound Archive for other related material. The project's main output is an online resource (<a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="http://www.catchingstories.org" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.catchingstories.org</a>). This website places personal oral testimonies adjacent to scientific information about the diseases. There was also a series of talks and presentations for <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://catchingstories.org/events/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Heritage Week 2022, Culture Night 2022 and Science Week 2022</a>. With support from <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://www.ucc.ie/en/apc/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">APC Microbiome</a>, SFI and UCC's <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://libguides.ucc.ie/library" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Boole Library,</a> the Catching Stories team curated the interactive multimedia exhibition, Catching Stories of Infectious Disease in Ireland (16 February - 25 June 2023), in UCC's Boole Library. The Exhibition was subsequently taken by the Heatlh Service Executive and displayed in their campuses and buildings throughout Cork and Kerry. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-2023 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Interviewees: Lesley Cox; Evelyn Wainwright; Emma Conway Clarke; Michael Hussey; Paul O'Brien, James Hoare Nagle; Edward Tanner; Michael and Theresa O'Sullivan, Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Ireland; 1920s-2020s Relation A related resource Website <a href="https://catchingstories.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.catchingstories.org</a> <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/e9fc50934d016888e8a29de8e14d25d4.JPG" style="width:500px;height:250px;" alt="e9fc50934d016888e8a29de8e14d25d4.JPG" /> Here you can engage with the collected material side by side with biomedical commentary from immunologist Dr Elizebeth Brint. Presentation and Listening Events Heritage Week 2022 <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Heritage-Week-2022-Library-talk-300x169.jpg" alt="Heritage-Week-2022-Library-talk-300x169.jpg" /> For Heritage Week project coordinator James Furey gave a presentation of the project at Cork City Library Grand Parade. Culture Night 2022 <img class="size-medium wp-image-407 alignnone" src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Culture-Night-2020-30-300x224.jpg" alt="Culture-Night-2020-30-300x224.jpg" /><img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Culture-Night-2020-6-300x224.jpg" alt="Culture-Night-2020-6-300x224.jpg" /> For Culture night the team went to the streets to set up a ‘time travelling’ vaccination clinic outside the old medical centre on Grattan St Cork City. Willing participants sat on a bench and heard Joe Scanlon’s story of receiving the ‘Branding Iron’, Joe’s term for the vaccine apparatus used in the 1950s. Joe’s story and the event elicited a great response from those who took part. Science Week 2022 <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Science-Week-2022-2-724x1024.png" style="width:200px;height:300px;" alt="Science-Week-2022-2-724x1024.png" /> Celebrate Science Family Day on 13th November 2022 <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5840-300x200.jpg" alt="IMG_5840-300x200.jpg" /> Our first outing for Cork Science Festival was at the ‘Celebrate Science’ Family Day at University College Cork’s Western Gateway Building. For this event, we fired up the ‘Time-machine’ to bring participants on a trip to 1958, the day Joe Scanlon received a vaccine, or as Joe calls it, <a href="https://catchingstories.org/getting-the-vaccine/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">‘The Branding Iron’</a>. <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5844-300x200.jpg" alt="IMG_5844-300x200.jpg" /> The Catching Stories team held four sessions. We played Joe’s story and quizzed our audience on their knowledge of infectious diseases and their memory of receiving vaccines. There was excellent engagement with both young and old. The younger participants left with a greater understanding of diseases like polio and tuberculosis. And the older members relayed their stories of getting vaccinated and how infectious diseases had encroached on their lives. Science Week Talk UCC Student Hub Those who braved the horrendous rain on November 15th were delighted to shelter in The Shtepps to hear the presentation from James Furey and Beth Brint on how folklore and STEM can work together to bring new perspectives on health education and understanding. Exhibition <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/d3170f22a998193439e53217786f14ea.jpg" style="width:200px;height:300px;" alt="d3170f22a998193439e53217786f14ea.jpg" /> The exhibition in UCC's Boole Library (16 February - 25 June 2023), was an innovative exploration of how to engage people with a topic that does not lend itself too easily to public dissemination. The exhibition foregrounded the human voice through audio installations (Made by Dr Jeffery Weeter), links to interviews, and interaction with physical objects. It invited visitors to join interviewees in the experience of manually ventilating a child with polio throughout the night in 1956 and to move along a waiting-room bench when facing vaccination by the dreaded ‘Branding Iron’ or to imagine the loss of a childhood classmate from measles. Artworks by <a href="https://lesleycoxart.com/earlier-works-3-polio-series/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lesley Cox</a> also explore the impact of polio on families and communities. <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595601-scaled.jpg" style="width:350px;height:650px;" alt="1676973595601-scaled.jpg" /><img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595744-scaled.jpg" style="width:300px;height:650px;" alt="1676973595744-scaled.jpg" /> <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595665-scaled.jpg" style="width:650px;height:350px;" alt="1676973595665-scaled.jpg" /> <img src="https://lesleycoxart.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/image29.jpg" style="width:350px;height:650px;" alt="image29.jpg" />(©Lesley Cox) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Furey Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cork Folklore Project Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Cork Folklore Project Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .wav Files Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Michael Hussey Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview James Furey Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 88min 09sec Location The location of the interview Youghal, Co. Cork, Ireland Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data .wav Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 24bit / 48kHz Time Summary A summary of an interview given for different time stamps throughout the interview <table> <tbody> <tr> <td> 0.00.00 - 0.10.06 </td> <td> Intro - Background. Schooling, Presentation convent, CBS Primary (Horrendous experience), Secondary school CBS not as tough as primary. Actual education. Stresses to say he is not anti-church. Changed to the Vocational school in 3rd year. An absolute eye opener. Group cert then inter cert, stayed on, and petitioned for the school to have leaving cert. Explains the sadistic behaviour of both the lay and Christian brother teachers and the difference in their physical punishment. Fear of going to the toilet. Fear of principal. After School very different. Chatting, TV etc. Loved the American TV shows. Space was big in his early life, first man on the moon, Star Trek etc. Not brought up with traditional Irish values or the GAA. Gravitated to the beach side of town. Morning, Noon, and night. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.10.06- 0.13.20 </td> <td> Childhood Pastimes Summertime gravitated to the beach side of town. Morning, Noon, and night. Played rounders and chainey, Glassey Alleys (Marbles) Pickey (like hopscotch) on the street. Girls would brake glass. Glass was used as currency. Trade broken glass for comics. Coloured glass was worth more. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.13.20- 0.14.23 </td> <td> Cork Examiner newspaper cut in strips and strung up for toilet paper. Micks’ uncle thought that posh, he just tore as he went. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.14.23 - 0.19.37 </td> <td> Mick says from a young age took an interest in the past. Mentions his love for the new in terms of culture. Glam rock and Punk. Not Horselips though. Critical of ‘Reeling in the years’ tv program for their use of contemporary music, RTE never played that music at the time. Radio Luxemburg was the station of choice. Micks’ sister was first in Youghal to wear mini skirt. Mentions that nobody had a problem with Tom Robinson being gay. Questions the modern viewpoint on these topics. Father was critical of modern music called them the ESB bands because they needed to be plugged in </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0. .19.37 - 0.22.00 </td> <td> Uncle with Diphtheria James (Jim) Harris. Lived on Windmill Lane. Came from the ‘Bog’ (Ballyvergan marsh). Jim’s brother Ned worked in the background of BBC radio in London, Jim worked Copy on Fleet Street London. Good relationship with Youghal resident and journalist and notorious communist Claude Cockburn. Jim and Ned’s childhood home had open sewer outside. Jim caught, what Mick thinks was Diphtheria and was brought to the fever hospital on Raheen road Youghal. Other Uncle went to fever hospital in Cork, not as good experience as brother. Horrendous Isolation. Even when he returned to Youghal he wasn’t allowed to hang out with his friends had to live with Grandparents. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.22.01 - 0.26.30 </td> <td> Cont… The house on Sarsfield Road was the place where it all happened. The generation gap between Mick and siblings made for a great melting pot. The family home was Micks mothers’ family home. Mick mentions that everyone had fleas. Everyone when returning to England would check under collar. Lice were called Boodies. Mentions the treatments. Fine tooth comb and late chemicals. Remembers seeing ‘local tramp’ as mass and seeing fleas and live all over his head. Mick brings up the socio-economic element to this. Mentions the work in the town, fishing so-so, more in the textile factories. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.26.31 - 0.30.30 </td> <td> No such thing as pocket money. Comics big thing but are looked down on. Comic swapping. Girls and boys. Mentions the un-pc language in the comic strips. Mick finds it humorous that the younger generation refers to the English as the ‘hun’. Remembers a knock on the door and young boy was looking to swap girl's comics. Mick says that while this was strange it wasn’t an issue. Say that today there is an obsession with words. Mortgage was unpronounceable. Conscious of not lauding poverty. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.30.31 - 0.34.00 </td> <td> Mick’s Father When micks father passed away, lots of stories from local farmers. Mick's father traded cattle. Used his communion money to buy first animal to sell. He was the go-to to trade livestock. Had money when others didn’t. Mentions always having meat compared to neighbours eating sugary bread. Neighbours would call for vegetables. Father was only person on street with a Car. Alcohol major part of his life. The office was the pub. Wonderful but the cost was high. Not just money but health etc. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.34.01 - 0.42.20 </td> <td> Fathers TB Mick’s father was always away working. Mentions Uncles in London sending money. Late 1960s Foot and Mouth outbreak. Mick remembers big sponges in St Raphael’s hospital nearby. And cattle grid to stop the cattle from entering. Mick mentions having a great relationship with patients in the hospital. Father would be away in the cold and wet a lot. Got TB and some stage. Mick not very aware of it. Father was brought Sarsfield's hospital in Glanmire. Very difficult time for family. 7 kids and half the street living in the house. Visitations were difficult. Mother couldn’t drive. Public transport terrible. Social welfare was non-existent. Milkman would drive mother to visit. Mick remembers having to stay in the car park and wave at father from there. Older sister would mind the kids when mother would visit hospital. Mick remembers Shirley Temple and the Marx brother helping to take attention away but knowing that something was wrong. To this day Shirley Temple triggers memories of his father’s TB. From his time in hospital micks, father made lots of picture frames and models from lollypop sticks and matchsticks. But they had no sideboard to put them on. No trappings of affluence in house. Warm love. No wallpaper but mother painted the walls artistically. Mick mentions that when he moved and took over the house that when he was modernising it he stripped back wallpaper that revealed his mother’s paintings. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.42.21 - 0.44.45 </td> <td> The House No bathroom in the house. All impeccably clean though. Everything worked off one cold tap. No central heating. Bathed in tin bath. Everything was used. Nothing was disposable. Hand-me-downs. Element of embarrassment having to share books with siblings. Mentions alcohol again. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.44.46 - 0.48.45 </td> <td> Mick always had an interest in people’s lives and history. Talks about the class element. The 1960s didn’t happen here till the 1970s. Extra money went around. Music was the big thing. Don’t get that buzz anymore from music as he did. It was part of your upbringing. Crossed barriers. Depending on the genre you lived that way. Although Mick studied folklore, he still has a strange relationship with Irish. Hangover from schooling. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.48.46 - 0.59.55 </td> <td> Father's TB cont… Mick found out later about the stigma associated with a house having TB. And still is to this day. Compares it to the early reactions to COVID in 2020. Say’s it was interesting to watch the attitude of people’s inference that there was something wrong with you if you got COVID. Mick remembers a social welfare guy called Mulligan calling the house when his father was in hospital. With what looked like 'a priests incense burner’ burning sulphur to kill the TB. Draws comparison to neighbour being brought away to hospital with COVID by the army. Found these public health measures to be intrusive. Speaks on TB prevention. Careful of overcoats, wrap up well, stay away from damp clothes, and spitting (huge prevalence of spitting, Mentions the spittoon in pubs). A crack in a cup was a no-no. even today he frets over cracks in cups. Mentions the sharing of the butt of an apple or the lick of an ice cream cone, these could have caused spread. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.59.56 - 1.03.43 </td> <td> Polio and Vaccines Talks of speaking to a woman from Cork during COVID who had strong memories of being confined to the garden during the polio outbreak in the 1950s. Remembers the Cork polio charity that one would donate to. Does remember some people with polio but not anyone close. Remembers getting the booster. Has a scar from the 6in1 on his arm. And remembers the sugar cube. Talks on modern views on vaccines wouldn’t be anti-vax. Is naturally sceptical in general. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 1.03.44- 1.10.05 </td> <td> Mick Talks about how happy his childhood was and life in general, but the hardships crept in. Talks about an RTE film ‘A week in the life of Martin Cluxton’ having a profound effect on him. Film about the reality of industrial schools. Talks of politician Brian Linehan visiting a Magdalene laundry his driver said that Linehan said ‘get me the fuck out of here’ complicity of the state and Doctors stranglehold on the wellbeing of certain elements of the country. Divorce spoken of by his mother. No mention of abortion. Mother very liberal but religious. Everyone was religious. Mick's brother became a priest, cannon question his religiousness. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 1.10.06 - 1.22.00 </td> <td> Town and Country. Living in the corporation estate was mixed with time out of the bog in the grandparents’ place. Tilling hay etc. rented piece of land there. Remembers richer farmers calling Christmas week putting the squeeze on. Remembers family telling them to sling their hook. The bog was where the Army rifle range was. So, shooting practice was happening. Speaks of the old farmers maintaining the land better than any modern ecologist. Farming wasn’t enough to live off, so they fished also. The beach was divided into ‘Berths’ and Harris’ Berth by butts of the rifle range, which was prominent and belonged to his family. No town people allowed fish there. House was by the main road. Land closer to beach was prone to flooding. ‘The long acre’, which had an element of shame. Tells story of a rich farmer's son and a lowly farmer's daughter's love affair and being divided. ‘Sanctuary no shooting’ was for the gun clubs where they raised birds to shoot. Spring well near cottage ‘above’ the train tracks. Finest fresh water and lots of farmers came for it. Recalls a man named Cox that dug down and syphoned off the well. Uncle went a sorted it out without the authorities. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 1.22.01 - 0.00.00 </td> <td> Speaks of the younger generation does not have awareness of what they have. Speaks of how the obsession with the overarching church element of society is. Knows it was there but it was not the whole thing. Speaks of old fellas using cling film as contraception. That it wasn’t black and white. The 1970s brought colour. There was a church and state but also the local. Class distinction went down to the level of neighbours. Especially pre-1970s. Mentions uncle becoming ‘Navi’ in England and did not contact the family for 26 years. When he returned could not get his head around the mixing of classes in modern society. [Interview Ends] </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michael Hussey Subject The topic of the resource Infectious Disease; Tuberculosis Description An account of the resource This interview was completed for the Catching Stories of infectious Disease in Ireland project. Mick spoke of his father having TB and the effect that had on his family life. His father contracted TB when Mick was 8 or 9 (1967-68). Mick mentions the toll it had on his mother, the difficulty of visiting and the stigma that having TB in your house brought. He also mentions the over baring public health measures. Mick also mentions his uncles contracting Diphtheria before this. Throughout the interview, Mick brings up how all this fit in Irish society at the time. And how he perceived it then and now versus what he sees as the modern consensus of mid-20th century Ireland Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11 August 2022 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Interviewee: Michael Hussey Interviewer: James Furey Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CFP_SR00837_hussey_2022 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Ireland; 1920s -2020s Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cork Folklore Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Folklore Project Sound Archive Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cork Folklore Project Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Cork Folklore Project Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 1 .wav file https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/c97d0ed0c19070be9c510d67ad04dab3.jpg 737f81f6bdad6486031978735479dada https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/7b99916ff1a3ad18a04fa8a8c8697fc3.wav 90cd3ddb8b11236c3e458d7c24c488e2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Catching Stories (of Infectious Disease In Ireland) <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Catching-Stories-w-logos-3.png" style="width:350px;height:100px;" alt="Catching-Stories-w-logos-3.png" /> Subject The topic of the resource Life History; Ireland; Health; Communicable diseases; Epidemics; Poliomyelitis; Polio; Postpoliomyelitis syndrome; Tuberculosis; TB; Measles; Diphtheria; COVID-19; Vaccines; Description An account of the resource Catching Stories is a folklore-STEM collaboration project funded through the <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://www.sfi.ie/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Science Foundation Ireland</a> (SFI) Discover Programme. The project was concerned with those who had first had experiences of being stricken with the disease, their family members and the public health practitioners who served on the frontline of past epidemics. The diseases the project focused on were: polio, tuberculosis, diphtheria and measles, Spanish flu and COVID-19. The project grew from seed funding through the Irish Research Council and University College Cork's(UCC) College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences. This funding enabled the team to collate material in the Cork Folklore Project's archive and create a pilot online resource. In 2022 the project was awarded an SFI Discover grant that allowed the team to undertake new bespoke interviews and grow the online dissemination platform. To date (February 2023), Catching Stories consists of XX interviews. 'Catching Stories' has also been drawn from the Cork Folklore Project Sound Archive for other related material. The project's main output is an online resource (<a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="http://www.catchingstories.org" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.catchingstories.org</a>). This website places personal oral testimonies adjacent to scientific information about the diseases. There was also a series of talks and presentations for <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://catchingstories.org/events/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Heritage Week 2022, Culture Night 2022 and Science Week 2022</a>. With support from <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://www.ucc.ie/en/apc/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">APC Microbiome</a>, SFI and UCC's <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://libguides.ucc.ie/library" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Boole Library,</a> the Catching Stories team curated the interactive multimedia exhibition, Catching Stories of Infectious Disease in Ireland (16 February - 25 June 2023), in UCC's Boole Library. The Exhibition was subsequently taken by the Heatlh Service Executive and displayed in their campuses and buildings throughout Cork and Kerry. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-2023 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Interviewees: Lesley Cox; Evelyn Wainwright; Emma Conway Clarke; Michael Hussey; Paul O'Brien, James Hoare Nagle; Edward Tanner; Michael and Theresa O'Sullivan, Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Ireland; 1920s-2020s Relation A related resource Website <a href="https://catchingstories.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.catchingstories.org</a> <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/e9fc50934d016888e8a29de8e14d25d4.JPG" style="width:500px;height:250px;" alt="e9fc50934d016888e8a29de8e14d25d4.JPG" /> Here you can engage with the collected material side by side with biomedical commentary from immunologist Dr Elizebeth Brint. Presentation and Listening Events Heritage Week 2022 <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Heritage-Week-2022-Library-talk-300x169.jpg" alt="Heritage-Week-2022-Library-talk-300x169.jpg" /> For Heritage Week project coordinator James Furey gave a presentation of the project at Cork City Library Grand Parade. Culture Night 2022 <img class="size-medium wp-image-407 alignnone" src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Culture-Night-2020-30-300x224.jpg" alt="Culture-Night-2020-30-300x224.jpg" /><img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Culture-Night-2020-6-300x224.jpg" alt="Culture-Night-2020-6-300x224.jpg" /> For Culture night the team went to the streets to set up a ‘time travelling’ vaccination clinic outside the old medical centre on Grattan St Cork City. Willing participants sat on a bench and heard Joe Scanlon’s story of receiving the ‘Branding Iron’, Joe’s term for the vaccine apparatus used in the 1950s. Joe’s story and the event elicited a great response from those who took part. Science Week 2022 <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Science-Week-2022-2-724x1024.png" style="width:200px;height:300px;" alt="Science-Week-2022-2-724x1024.png" /> Celebrate Science Family Day on 13th November 2022 <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5840-300x200.jpg" alt="IMG_5840-300x200.jpg" /> Our first outing for Cork Science Festival was at the ‘Celebrate Science’ Family Day at University College Cork’s Western Gateway Building. For this event, we fired up the ‘Time-machine’ to bring participants on a trip to 1958, the day Joe Scanlon received a vaccine, or as Joe calls it, <a href="https://catchingstories.org/getting-the-vaccine/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">‘The Branding Iron’</a>. <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5844-300x200.jpg" alt="IMG_5844-300x200.jpg" /> The Catching Stories team held four sessions. We played Joe’s story and quizzed our audience on their knowledge of infectious diseases and their memory of receiving vaccines. There was excellent engagement with both young and old. The younger participants left with a greater understanding of diseases like polio and tuberculosis. And the older members relayed their stories of getting vaccinated and how infectious diseases had encroached on their lives. Science Week Talk UCC Student Hub Those who braved the horrendous rain on November 15th were delighted to shelter in The Shtepps to hear the presentation from James Furey and Beth Brint on how folklore and STEM can work together to bring new perspectives on health education and understanding. Exhibition <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/d3170f22a998193439e53217786f14ea.jpg" style="width:200px;height:300px;" alt="d3170f22a998193439e53217786f14ea.jpg" /> The exhibition in UCC's Boole Library (16 February - 25 June 2023), was an innovative exploration of how to engage people with a topic that does not lend itself too easily to public dissemination. The exhibition foregrounded the human voice through audio installations (Made by Dr Jeffery Weeter), links to interviews, and interaction with physical objects. It invited visitors to join interviewees in the experience of manually ventilating a child with polio throughout the night in 1956 and to move along a waiting-room bench when facing vaccination by the dreaded ‘Branding Iron’ or to imagine the loss of a childhood classmate from measles. Artworks by <a href="https://lesleycoxart.com/earlier-works-3-polio-series/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lesley Cox</a> also explore the impact of polio on families and communities. <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595601-scaled.jpg" style="width:350px;height:650px;" alt="1676973595601-scaled.jpg" /><img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595744-scaled.jpg" style="width:300px;height:650px;" alt="1676973595744-scaled.jpg" /> <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595665-scaled.jpg" style="width:650px;height:350px;" alt="1676973595665-scaled.jpg" /> <img src="https://lesleycoxart.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/image29.jpg" style="width:350px;height:650px;" alt="image29.jpg" />(©Lesley Cox) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Furey Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cork Folklore Project Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Cork Folklore Project Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .wav Files Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Paul O'Brien Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview James Furey Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 40min 10sec Time Summary A summary of an interview given for different time stamps throughout the interview <table> <tbody> <tr> <td> 0.00.00 - 0.01.35 </td> <td> Paul gives his background. Lived in Military Hill Cork City, His father worked for Great Western Railway. Paul attend Christians and Went to University College Cork where he studied medicine </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.01.36 - 0.04.29 </td> <td> In 1952 Pauls final year of secondary school a mobile x-ray unit came. Paul was nominated to be x-rayed first. which showed a shadow on his lungs. Which they told him was TB After spending a short time confined to his bed at home on a course of streptomycin injections and salicylic acid tablets Paul was sent to Heatherside sanitorium in Doneraile Co. Cork. This meant he missed participating in the Muster Schools cup in rugby. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.04.30 - 0.06.32 </td> <td> Paul speaks of Dr Noel Browne’s campaign against TB. Paul also mentions that he never spat up the infection and questions whether he had TB at all. He then goes on to mention his ward mate in the hospital. He a teenage mixed in with adult men </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.06.32 - 0.07.12 </td> <td> Speaks briefly about his mother visiting and bringing him eggs to cure him, and the odd visit from teammates when they were on their way back from games in Limerick. Paul mentions here that he was in Heatherside for four months </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.07.14 - 0.11.00 </td> <td> Paul tells a story about the night before a patient got discharged, they had a party in the ‘Panzer ward’. Songs sung, cigarettes and drink. They were interrupted by the DR Con O’Leary. Paul jumped into a bed with another patient and was subsequently caught by DR. The nest day he was summoned to the DR and told that ‘a nice boy from a good family shouldn’t be acting as such’. He was then moved to Lota on the outskirts of Cork City. Paul mentions that years later in Canada he met the son of the DR and relayed the story to him. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.11.01 - 0.15.16 </td> <td> Paul mentions his undertaking of pre med at UCC and that in his second year he and other student were given the opportunity to help out with the polio epidemic that had taken hold in Cork 1956 for four weeks. Eight students were assigned to ST Finbarr’s hospital to relive the nurses at night-time. Paul describes the fever ward and the hissing of machines and the dark dim light. He then relays a story of how he had to manually ventilate a four-year-old girl called Margot. Who was too small for the iron lungs. Paul further this by explain how Margot lived till she was seventeen and that she had a great relationship with the nurses. Paul has written about this in various publications. Holy Bough, UCC alumni magazine. Margot’s family say the article and contacted Paul. Pairs of students would be assigned a patient and alternate manually bagging and sucking out secretions. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.15.17 - 0.19.15 </td> <td> Paul speaks of how working in the epidemic made them fell. He mentions that his girlfriend at the time (now his wife) was asked to leave her digs. And how another volunteer came home one night to find all his belongings on the doorstep. Paul goes on to talk about how good the nurses were especially Nancy Reardon and Kathleen Stoker He refers to polio outbreak in Chicago a year earlier and how the vaccine was rolled out there. And how the same didn’t happen in Cork. Though he did hear that some were offered the vaccine but not those helping in the hospital, only those who went iin ambulance to retrieve patients. None of his colleagues contracted the disease, one did get meningitis but not extreme case. Mention of Patrick Cockburn’s book ‘Broken Boy’ </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.19.15 - 0.21.42 </td> <td> Pauls talks of the public health response. How Cork took British Laisses faire attitude. How the country was in a panic but the measure did not stack up. He mentions the closer of some aspects of society like sports and swimming pools. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.21.42 - 0.24.47 </td> <td> Paul speaks of a woman called Lou Fitzgerald and how she helped his mother when he was sick. Lou (real name Julia) had been in Cummann na mBan during War of Independence. Talk veers towards independence period </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.24.47 - 0.27.15 </td> <td> Paul speaks of the fear he had when diagnosed with TB. Fear of chest surgery. We speak about Heatherside and Sean O’Riordan </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.27.15 - 0.28.07 </td> <td> Paul brings up how in the sanitorium the topic of a ‘cure’ was always a subject of conversation. Tells story of trying to recreate swizz conditions as a means of getting better. Tis entailed his pushing his bed to the veranda and letting the snow fall on him as he slept. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.28.07- 0.3112 </td> <td> We talk about the crafts that patients did in Heatherside. Wallet making etc. Paul mentions that there was a one man that controlled that. He also mentions that crafts were one way of getting ladies attention. Paul mentions how once he was put on Iduronic acid hydroxide he rapidly improved. He even remembers a Life magazine with drug on front cover being brought into ward. How this drug was the reason the sanitoria closed. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.31.12 - 0.33.30 </td> <td> Some talk about COVID and TB and Polio similarities. Lockdowns ETC. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.33.30 - 0.40.10 </td> <td> End Chat where we talked about our families. Paul mentions his brother Brendan being in the showband the Dixies. INTERVIEW ENDS </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Paul O'Brien Subject The topic of the resource Infectious Disease; Tuberculosis; Polio. Description An account of the resource Paul was born in 1935. His father worked for Great Southern Railway which meant the family moved a lot during Paul’s youth. Paul would call Military Hill in Cork City his ‘home. Paul attended Christians Collage on Wellington Road. Here he was class and rugby team captain. In his final year of secondary school, a mobile x-ray unit came to his school Paul was nominated to be x-rayed first. which showed a shadow on his lungs (TB). After spending a short time confined to his bed at home Paul was sent to Heatherside sanitorium in Doneraile Co. Cork. It is here that Paul made the decision to change from studying law to doing pre-med. During his time as a medical student Cork experienced a polio epidemic. This gave Paul and his colleagues an opportunity to volunteer on the frontline. Paul tells of how after 70 plus years that memories of that time still are at the forefront of his mind. In 1969 Paul moved to Toronto Canada to work as a doctor where he has lived ever since. Paul’s brother is <a href="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/446" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Brendan O’Brien</a> singer with the showband The Dixies. Pauls nephew is Daire O’Brien presenter of rugby coverage on RTÉ . Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 22nd August 2022 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Interviewee: Paul O'Brien Interviewer: James Furey Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CFP_SR00838_OBrien _2022 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Ireland; 1940s-1960s Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cork Folklore Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cork Folklore Project Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Cork Folklore Project Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 1.wav File Recorded over teams and using a ZOOM H5 recorder. 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