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The Rory Gallagher Memorial
Stephen Wimpenny: Leeds United, Soccer, Yorkshire,
Stephen visited Midleton in 2002 and settled in Cork in 2003, having met a woman who later became his wife.
He compares people in Yorkshire and Cork. He talks about…
Stephen Dee: Gay life, LGBT, Loafers Bar, Coming Out.
Tags: 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Coming Out, Gay life, GayCork.com, Homophobia, Instinct, Lesbians, LGBT, Loafer's, The Other Place
Stefan Wulff: Germany, Cycling, Currachs, Change,
Stefan was born in Dortmund, in the Ruhr Valley, Germany. He has one…
Sr Marie Collins: Presentation Sisters, Childhood, Teaching
Sister Marie was born (circa 1920) in Limerick, to farming parents. She wanted to be a nun from an early age. She also became a…
Sheila Dalton: Family Life; Marriage; Childhood
Sheila was second youngest in a family of 7 girls and 4 boys. Her father worked in a government building as the lift…
Tags: Childbirth, Childhood, Childhood Games, Clothing, Communion, Family Life, Marriage, Pawn Shops, Schooldays, Toys
Sean Moraghan: Fota House and gardens
Sean Lucey, Terry McCarthy: Blackpool, Dixies Showband
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Aloys Fleischmann senior, Arcadia, Butter Exchange Band, Carnegie Hall, Cavern Club, Clipper Carlton showband, Dixies showband, Las Vegas, Leitrim Street, Lonnie Donegan, Lower Glanmire Road, Music, Northern Ireland, Northside, Radio Luxembourg, Rory Gallagher, Shandon Street, Showbands, Taste (band), The Sunset (band)
Seán Lane: Blarney Street, Butchers, Bowling,
He talks about his childhood. Children were always on the lookout for any opportunity to make a penny, such as cow-herding…
Sean Higgisson: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life
Tags: Admin, Administration, Adrmore, Ardmore, Atmosphere, Aunts, Baking, Ballincollig, Ballincollig Regional Park, Ballyphehane, Bedroom, Bishopstown, Bon Secours Hospital, Bons, Book, Books, Bread, Brothers, Building, Building Maintenance, Buildings, Built Heritage, Camera, Car Theft, Career, Career Choice, Career Decision, Career Options, Childhood, Childhood Games, Children, Children’s Games, Class, Clothes, Clothing, Coláiste Spioraid Naoimh, Colleagues, Community Welfare, Community Welfare Officer, Cork, Course, Courses, Crime, CSN, Death, Decision Making, Decisions, Disrepair, Duties, Dying, Elderly, Emigrant, Emigrant Experience, Emigration, Engineering, England, Family, Family Life, Floods, Food, Football, France, Free Time, Games, ghost, Ghosts, Gift, Gifts, Grandfather, Grandmother, Grandparents, Health, Health Centre, Health Services, Healthcare, Heating, Hill, Hill Walk, Hill Walking Club, Hills, Hillwalk, Hillwalking, Hillwalking Guide, Hobbies, Hobby, Holiday, Holidays, Home, House, HSE, Independent, Ireland, Irish Language, Knitting, Latin, Leaving Cert, Leaving Certificate, Leisure, Life, Liverpool, London, Lough, Mahon, Maintenance, Mardyke, Marriage, Mass, Mercy Hospital, Middle Parish, Mother, Mountain, Mountain Ranges, Mountains, North Main Street, Northside, Nurse, Nursing Home, Outdoors, Outlook on Life, Outook, Paint, Painter, Painting, Paints, Parents, Patient, Patients, PBC, Perspective on Life, Photographs, Photography, Playing, Porter, Pres, Present, Presentation Brothers, Presents, Public Amenities, Publish, Publishing, Quakers, Redemption Road, Responsibility, Role of Women, School, School Days, Schooldays, Science, Scool, Siblings, Social Media, Solitude, Sport, St Joseph’s School, Staff, Stories, Taxi, Taxis, Teacher, Teachers, The Lough, The Marsh, Training, Uncles, Vaccination, Vaccines, Walk, Walking, Women, Women in Work, Work, Working life, Worklife, Workplace
Sandra Byrne: Commons Road, Tucker's Field, Family Life.
Rosarii Comber: North Gate Chemist
Roger Herlihy: Imperial Hotel, South Mall, Commercial Buildings
He explains that South Mall used to be a channel of the River Lee and that is why some buildings on the street have…
Roger Herlihy: Barrack Street, Saint Fin Barre’s cathedral, William Burgess, Elizabeth Fort, Jimmy Page, Pavilion cinema, Second World War
Ronnie (b. circa 1963)talks about the laying of the foundation stone for Saint Fin…
Robert Fourie: Hiberno-English, Holy Communion, Language, South Africa,
Robert (b. 1969) is from a gold-mining town in South Africa. He talks about mining conditions there. He comments that South Africa has…
Rob Stafford: Aboriginals, Australia, Fiddle, Racial Prejudice, Traditional music, Willy Clancy
Describes his neighbourhood as forested where the main source of income was…
Ria O’Sullivan: Blackrock Castle, Pirates, Observatory,
Note: this interview was conducted…
Rev John Farris: Civil Rights, Christianity, Northern Ireland
Reverend…