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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

Phil Corcoran: The Low Road, Slogging Apples, Chocolate Crumb

Phil grew up in Low Road, near Water Street. As a child Phil used to go to the quays to get chocolate crumb from some of the ships that came in. She also talks about slogging apples.

Tags: 1960s, Chocolate Crumb, Phil Corcoran, Slogging Apples, The Low Road

Alice Delay: Togher, Country Life, Childhood

Alice remembers visiting her grandmother in Togher, which was the country, and eating bread and home-made butter. Her grandfather was a farm labourer. The house had an earth floor, and a ceiling made of sewn flour bags. Someone described the house as…

Tags: 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 2000s, Alice Delay, Bonfire Night, Christy Ring, Cinema, Civil War, Housing, I.R.A, Jewish, Lido, Poulraddy Harbour, Prison, Republicanism, Second World War, Sex, Slogging Apples, Social Class, The Emergency, War of Independence, World War II

Barry Murphy: Cork Civic Trust

Barry Murphy, originally from Bantry Co. Cork. From 1959 until 1970 Barry lodged in the historic building that later became the home of Cork Civic Trust. He remembers the house and its inhabitants.

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Barry Murphy, Civic Trust House, Inchigeela Dairy, Pope’s Quay

Bernard Casey: Cathedral Road, Childhood, Cork Jazz Festival

Bernard, at the time of this interview, was the chairman of the Cork Jazz festival.
He recalls air raid shelters in Cork during the 1940s. He talks about his routine as an altar boy. The first housing developments of Cathedral Road. The countryside…

Tags: 1940s, 1950s, Alter Boy, Bernard Casey, Blackberry-picking, Cathedral Road, Cork Jazz festival, Slogging Apples

Bernie McLoughlin: Turner's Cross, Ford's, UCC,

Bernie was born in 1939 and reared in Turner’s Cross. His mother had been a bookkeeper and his father was a supervisor in the post office. He had an older brother and an older sister, and he spent a lot of time with his parents.
He remembers queues…

Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Bernie McLoughlin, Childhood, Cork Opera House, Ford, Schooldays, Sullivan’s Quay, Turner’s Cross, UCC, University College Cork

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

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

Brenda Stillwell: Crawford Art College, Irish language, Slang

Brenda moved to Cork when she was 17, to go to Art College. She remembers hearing people conversing in Irish. She has lived in Cork for 30 years.

Tags: 1980s, Brenda Stillwell, Crawford Art College, Inchigeela Dairy, Irish Language, Sir Henry’s

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

Creena O’Connell: Gurranabraher, Shawls, Allotments

Creena was born in 1932. Her family were one of the first to get a house in Gurranabraher, an estate built in 1934. Her father was able to get part-time employment with Cork Corporation working on the roads; he died when he was 58.
She recalls a…

Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Allotments, Creena O’Connell, Gurranabraher, Milk and Cake Shops, Shandon Street, Shawls

Denis Murphy: Blackpool, Pubs, Food,

Denis was born in Dublin Street, Blackpool. [1960s.] His family owned a pub there called the Bowler’s Rest. His parents were from West Cork. He went to school in Rathpeacon.
Millfield Cottages were built near the mill houses that existed there since…

Derrick Gerrety: Douglas Street, Loafers, Dublin,

Derrick was born in 1950. He grew up in St Joseph's Square, Vernon Avenue, Clontarf, in a working-class enclave within a middle-class area. He describes his childhood as idyllic. The houses in the square were rented from the Sisters of Charity;…

Donnie Walsh: Gardiner's Hill, Sport, Republicanism,

Donie was born in 1948. His family lived in Stream Hill, and then in Gardiner’s Hill. He used to visit his grandmother’s house in Carrigadrohid, which had no running water nor electricity. He talks about going to the well and collecting…

Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Bonfire Night, Catholic Church, Coca-Cola, Donnie Walsh, Electrification, IRA, Puck Fair, Sport, The Curragh, Well’s

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…

Fergal Crowley: Patrick Street, Munster Arcade, Black and Tans

Fergal worked in the Munster Arcade, Patrick Street. He describes the shop. His father started work there in 1901. After the building was burned by the Black and Tans during the Burning of Cork, the British government paid to have buildings on one…

Tags: 1920s, 1940s, 1950s, Black and Tans, Burning of Cork, Cinema, Fergal Crowley, Milk and Cake Shops, Munster Arcade, Panna, Patrick Street, Poverty, Second World War, St Patrick Street, The Savoy, War of Independence, World War II

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

Helen Goulding: Shandon, Catholic Church, Childhood

Helen, nee Bourke was born and reared in Barrack View near the North Cathedral. Her family later moved to Leitrim Street.
She talks about her childhood. People had little but shared a lot. Boiled eggs were eaten at Easter time. Everyone was involved…

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, Andy Gaw, Barrack View, Bonfire Night, Cinema, Cold Storage, Dancehalls, Dancing, Helen Bourke, Helen Goulding, Pawn Shops, Picky, Shandon Street, Squeezy Lemon, Sunbeam, Youghal

Helen Prout: Fairhill, World War 2, Worklife,

Helen established the Cork Youth International Film, Video and Arts Festival in 1980 and has spent her life voluntarily teaching thousands of young people about film and the arts in workshops all over Cork.

In this interview, Helen recalls life in…

Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Cork Youth Film Video and Arts Group, Employment, Helen Prout, Matchmaking, Millstreet, Millstreet Horse Fair, World War II

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