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Breda St Ledger: Blackpool, Childhood Games, Family Life,

Breda (b. 1949) grew up in Thomas Davis Avenue, in Blackpool. The houses were built new in the 1960s. They lived with a relative who told her and her brother scary stories. She went to the North Presentation Convent school.

She talks briefly about…

Tags: Blackpool, Breda St Ledger, Child Rearing, Childhood, Conkers, Food, Scraps, Shopping

Liam Ó hUigín: Henry Street, Bonfire Night, Childhood Games, Messenger Boys.

Liam was born circa 1940. His father was a docker. His mother died when he was 10 and his aunt reared him; she was a widow at 32 and had her own children.
He was a messenger boy in the 1950s; he talks about the job and its good and bad aspects. He…

Tags: 1940s, 1950s, Allotments, Bonfire Night, Celebration, Childhood Games, Cork Cold Storage, Food, Hang dog Road, Liam ÓhUigín, Messenger Boys, Musgraves, Pawn Shops, Slogging Apples, The Marsh, The One Day a Week, Tom Barry

Pat Speight: Northside, Childhood Games, Schooldays,

Cork Storyteller Pat Speight (b. 1940s) was born near the North Cathedral, known by locals as the North Chapel. His first house in Cork he thinks was a kind of tenement, with three families living in one house; his father later bought out this…

Breda Sheehan: Blackpool, Childhood Games, Slogging for Apples

Breda (born circa 1950) grew up in Spring Lane, Blackpool. It was an industrial area with Goulding’s fertilizer factory and Ellis’s quarry.
She remembers a childhood game of swinging on a rope put up an ESB electricity pole. She remembers a number…

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Breda Sheehan, Goulding’s Glen, Placenames, Slaughterhouses, Spring Lane, Thomas Davis Street

Breda Sheehan: Halloween Games, Childhood Games, Family

Breda (born circa 1950) grew up in Spring Lane, Blackpool. As a child she used to play in The Glen, which was then in the countryside. The neighbourhood houses were small, with an outside toilet, so that every Saturday the children were washed in a…

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, All Saints’ Night, Breda Sheehan, Childhood Games, Christmas, Dancing, Dating, Ellis’s Lodge, Halloween, Pawn Shops, The One Day a Week

Geraldine Healy: Children's Games, Schooldays, Western Road,

Geraldine grew up near the top of Western Road. She describes the area and comments on some changes that have taken place there over time. She talks briefly about her schooldays.

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, Children’s Games, Crow’s Nest Pub, Geraldine Healy, Mardyke, O’Leary’s Shop, Schooldays, St Brigid’s School, Western Road, White’s Pub

Johnny Chris Kelleher: The Evening Echo, Schooldays, Tuberculosis

Johnny Chris was born in 1929 in Fair Lane, later called Wolfe Tone Street. His mother, Mary Margaret Kelleher (1901 - 1970) was married twice; her first husband died of TB in 1924; she had to get a job selling newspapers to support her family. His…

Tags: Allotments, Anglesea Street, Barrett’s Buildings, BBC, Bingo, Bird-Catching, Blackpool, Bowling, Boxing, Boy Murphy, Card Games, Children’s Games, Children’s Mass, Christy Ring, Churchfield, Coliseum Theatre, Corbett’s Lane, Cork Corporation, Don, Donncha Ó Céileachair, Drisheen, Echo Boys, Evening Echo, Fair Hill, Fairs, Father O’Flynn, Faulkner’s Lane, Food, Gurranabraher, Gurranabraher Road, Hiroshima, Housey Housey, Housing, Irish Language, Jack Lynch, Johnny Chris Kelleher, Kearney’s Lane, Margaret O’Sullivan, Mossy Condon, Newsboys, Newspapers, Nicknames, Northside, O’Flynn family; O’Gorman’s Factory, Pádraig Ó hÓgáin, Polly Kelleher, Seán O’Mahony, Sketchy Roche, Slaughterhouses, Social Housing, Sport, St Anne’s Hurling Club, Street names, TB, The Holly Bough, Tommy Hyde, Tommy Kelleher, Trimbath Mulcahy, Trimbath’s Lane, Tripe, Tripe Houses, Tuberculosis, Walter McEvilly, Working class, Working life, World War II

Marie Crean: South Parish, Cinemas, Black and Tan’s

Marie was born (in the 1950s) and reared in High Street, in the South Parish, off Douglas Street; she thinks the street was formerly Quarry Lane. Some of her area was altered to make a new road. She went to school in South Presentation.
She recalls…

James 'Jim' McKeon: Northside, Sport, Writing,

Jim (b. 1940s) remembers that his father worked for the railways and had a tied cottage in an area known as Kilbarry Cottages, or Railway Cottages. Then the family moved to Paddock House, Fairhill. The house was at the top of Washbrew Lane, and came…

Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 2000s, Animals, Brus, Cal Herlihy, Cork, Eucharistic Procession, Fahy’s Well, Frank O’Connor, House Shops, Jim McKeon, Kilbarry Cottages, Northside, Paddock Hill, Paddock House, Travellers, Working life, Youghal

Brenda Twomey: Coal Quay, Peg Twomey's, Childhood Games

Brenda talks about the Coal Quay, and about her family’s shop Peggy Twomey’s , also known as the Food Emporium. She describes the business as her mother’s concern. She talks about the family nature of the business. She feels that Cork Corporation has…

Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Brenda Twomey, Childhood Games, Coal Quay, Peggy Twomey

Seán Lane: Blarney Street, Butchers, Bowling,

Seán Lane was born in 1942. His parents were both from Blarney Street, where he was raised. His father was a bacon butcher.

He talks about his childhood. Children were always on the lookout for any opportunity to make a penny, such as cow-herding…

Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Allotments, Blackberry-picking, Blarney Street, Bowling, Bowls, Food, Ogilvy and Moore’s, Seán Lane, Slaughterhouses

Pat O'Brien: Northside, Pubs, Childhood,

Pat O’Brien, talks of various locations on the Northside. Pat describes what activities he would have taken part in as a child in these locations.
He talks briefly about the pub trade. The Holy Hour was observed within the city limits (a break…

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Blackpool, Cork Docks, Fair Hill, Fairfield Green, Farranree, Mc Curtain Street, Murphy’s Rock, Nash’s Boreen, Pat O’Brien, Pubs, Ringabella, Ross’s Wood, Swan and Cygnet, Waterloo, Waterloo Woods

Eileen Jones: Blackpool, Shawlies, Sunbeam,

Eileen Jones (b. 1931) was born in Millfield Cottages. When she was 4 years old her family moved to Welsh’s Lane in Blackpool; members of her extended family lived nearby. Her mother was born in 1896. Her father was a builder’s labourer.
There was…

Pat Saville: Blackpool, Working Life, Sport,

Pat Saville was born in 1946. He had a twin brother, Charlie, and an older brother, Ray. He moved from England with his family when he was 4 years old. He grew up in Welsh’s Lane, Blackpool. His father died when he was 10.
He describes the shops and…

Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Alice Frain, Allotments, Blackpool, Bonfire Night, CIE [Córas Iompair Éireann], Cremin’s Piggery, Lucey’s Piggery, Pat Saville, Piggeries, Sport, Thomas Davis Street, Welsh’s Lane

Noel Magnier: Gerald Griffin Street, Shops, Box Cars,

Noel has written a book about growing up in Cork in the 1940s and 1950s, called Is That You, Boy? He was born (1939) and reared in Gerald Griffin Street. He has 4 siblings. He recalls the shops and businesses on the street.
Denny’s cellar was a…

Mary Marshall: Blackpool, Childhood, Hunting,

Mary grew up in Thomas Davis Street, Blackpool. Both her parents were from Blackpool. Her mother liked to use Grand Parade library, and her father was an avid reader who told stories from Greek mythology. At the time the area bounded onto the…

Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, Blackpool, Childhood, Childhood Games, Goulding’s, Goulding’s Glen, Gypsy Lee, Hunting, Mary Marshall, Otter hunting, Piggeries, Tomas Davis Street, Traditional Songs, Welsh’s Lane

Paddy Marshall: Blackpool, Pidgeon Racing, Cinema,

Paddy was born in 1941 in Great William O’Brien Street, and grew up in Narrow Lane, nearby; he describes the area around it which constituted his neighbourhood. He came from a family of 10. His mother was from Watercourse Road, his father from Narrow…

Tags: Allotments, Childhood, Childhood Games, Christy Ring, Cinema, Housing, Lido, Paddy Marshall, Pigeon Racing, Royal Munster Fusiliers

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