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Christine Browne: Homosexuality, Lesbianism, Gay Marriage.
Christine talks about realising she was gay, talking to boys but being attracted to women. Christine speaks about her experience of coming out to her family and friends. Christine also describes her time working in a laundrette, Duds n Suds on…
Cathal Kerrigan: Activism, Gay Scene, Quay Co-op,
Cathal speaks about first becoming aware of his sexual orientation in his teens. Mayfield mixed secondary school. Eglington St Baths. His father Patrick Kerrigan, Labour TD and senator and Cork Lord Mayor. The Irish literary magazine Hibernia. RTE TV…
Dr Carol Dundon: Seamus Murphy, Aloys Fleischmann, Burning of Cork
Carol talks about life growing up St Patricks Place in Cork in a historic 18th century house where her father had his doctor’s practise. She speaks about how her father was one of only six people in the city issued with a pass during the curfew at…
Brother Con Higgins: Christian brothers, Education, Sport
Brother Higgins describes his childhood and praises his education at the North Mon school. He later became a teacher at the school, and he comments on education and on religious life.
Brother Higgins (born circa 1956) grew up in Madden’s Buildings,…
Brother Higgins (born circa 1956) grew up in Madden’s Buildings,…
Brigid Carmody: Traveling Community, Tradition, Change,
Brigid is a Traveller. She talks about her childhood within an extended family, and about Traveller heritage and culture.
Brigid talks about growing up quickly within an extended family. She describes adult life in a caravan and the difficulties of…
Brigid talks about growing up quickly within an extended family. She describes adult life in a caravan and the difficulties of…
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…
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.
Brenda McCarthy: Schooldays; Communion; Dating
Brenda (b. 1963), had 5 sisters and 6 brothers; she was the youngest child in her family. Her mother was from Boyce’s Street. Her father was from near Macroom, and his family was well-off. She always lived on the Northside.
She recalls her…
She recalls her…
Breda Sheehan: Blackpool, Childhood games, Lido cinema, Spring Lane.
Breda grew up in Spring Lane, off Thomas Davis Street, Blackpool. She grew up with five sisters. Her father was a soldier in the Irish Army and was away a lot.
She grew up in a row of cottages that she believes dated back to the Seventeenth Century.…
She grew up in a row of cottages that she believes dated back to the Seventeenth Century.…
Breda McShane: Orthopaedic Hospital
Breda grew up in Dungarvan Co. Waterford. She moved to Cork in 1975 after getting a job as a clerical worker for the Southern Health Board. Breda moved to Hollyhill in 1980. Six years later she got a transfer to the Orthopedic hospital payroll…
Breda McNamara: Orthopaedic Hospital
Breda details her earliest memories. She says her family moved to Templeacre when she was 1 or 2. There were not many houses around then. The houses were new and surrounded by lots of fields. The Orthopaedic Hospital was up the road in a field. They…
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…
She remembers a childhood game of swinging on a rope put up an ESB electricity pole. She remembers a number…
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…
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…
She talks briefly about…
Kathleen O’ Driscoll
Born in the 1920s Kathleen (Kitty) O’Driscoll recalls memories of the Coal Quay and its vicinity. She remembers shops including Mrs Twomeys and Mrs Punch’s. Speaks of the shawls worn by the women there. She also mentions Andy Gaw a well-known Cork…
Billy McCarthy: Childhood, Catholicism, GAA.
Billy, a one-time Cork Folklore Project member of staff and long-term collaborator, was born in Cork in 1941 and grew up with his six siblings in Quaker Road. His mother was born in Cork and his father came from Dunmanway. Billy attended St Marie’s…
Billy McCarthy: Quaker Road, Public Baths, Childhood
Billy was born in 1941. His mother, Mary Ann Cronin, was from Mayfield; her father, William Cronin served with the British army during the First World War, and later became a postman. His father’s family came from Dunmanway, West Cork. His father,…
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…
He remembers queues…
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…
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…
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.