Browse Items (249 total)
Breda Sheehan: Blackpool, Childhood games, Lido cinema, Spring Lane.
She grew up in a row of cottages that she believes dated back to the Seventeenth Century.…
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, Blackpool, Breda Sheehan, Childhood Games, Cinema, Ellis’s, Family, Goulding's, Scraps, Spring Lane, The Lido
Paul McCallister: Homosexuality, Catholic Church, Decriminalisation
Ken Curtin: Marriage Referendum, Political Activism, Marriage Equality,
Finbarr Kiely: Loafers Bar, Homosexuality, Decriminalisation.
Tags: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Decriminalisation, Homosexuality, Loafer's, The Othe Place
Clive Davis: Gay life, The Other Place, South Main Street
He talks about the role and history of The Other Place,…
Paul O'Brien
Tags: Canada, Christian Brother College Cork, Christians (CBC), Cork city, Covid 19, Dr Con O’Leary, Heatherside Sanatrium, Hospitals, Infectious Disease, Polio, Polio outbreak 1956, Poliomyelitis, Public Health, Rugby, Sanitoria, St Finbarr’s Hospital, TB, Toronto, Tuberculosis, Tuberculosis (TB), UCC, University College Cork, Vaccination, Vaccines
Pauline Matthews
Emma Clarke Conway
Mary O’Donovan
Evelyn Wainwright
Kathleen O’ Driscoll
Tags: Andy Gaw, begging, blackberries, children's games, Clothes, Coal Quay, Cork, Crubeens, Dennhy’s pub, Food, Gurranbraher, Horses, Kinsale, Kitty Barry, Macroom, Mrs Punch, Mrs Twomey, Rosary, Shawls, Shops
Lesley Cox
Frank Steele and John Steele
Tags: Above the Bride/Below the Bridge, Arcadia Ballroom, Arcadia bouncer, Back Line, Baldy Green, Black-eye, Dean Sexton’s Boxing Club, Frank Steele, Garda, Gardai, Glasheeen, Hoops, John Steele, Lower Road, Runaway Knock, St Patrick’s School, the Coliseum, the Fisheries, Thunder up the alley, Tivoli, Tivoli Regatta
The Rory Gallagher Memorial
Donal Ring
Tags: accordion, band, Brendan Bowyer, Career, Cars, Céilí, Ceili Band, Clothes, Dancehalls, Dillon’s Cros RTE, media, Music, Sean O Riada, Sean O Se, Showbands
Michael O'Sullivan and Theresa O’Sullivan
Tags: 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
Derek O'Connell: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life
Tags: Accident and Emergency, Alcohol, Autism, Baths, Being a Man, Blarney Street, Boys, Bubble Car, Cards, Career, Career Path, Cathedral Road, CBC, Characters, Child Rearing, Childbirth, Childhood Games, Children’s Games, Chipper, Christian Brothers, Cigarettes, Class, Cork, Cork city, Cork Exhibition, Cork University Hospital, Cycling, Disease, Doctor, dyslexia, Eglington Street Baths, Eglinton Street Baths, Elitism, Emigration, Fish, Fitzgerald’s Park, Food, Games, GP, Grandparents, Guilt, Gurranebraher Road, Hettyfield, Hollyhill, Hospital, Houses, Hypothyroid, Injuries, Intuition, Knitting, Lavitt's Quay, Leaving Certificate, Maylor Street, Measles, Medical Training, Medical Treatment, Medicine, Mental Health, Mercy Hospital, North Infirmary, Northside, Nursing, One Day A Week School, Parents, Patients, Pawn Shops, Placenames, Playing, Polio, Ponnies, Psychiatric, Public Baths, Public Health, Public Health Nurse, Pubs, Respectability, Role of Women, Rugby, Sarsfield Court, School, Schooldays, Shawlie, Shawlies, Shawls, Social Media, Social Status, Spanish Civil War, St Aloysius, stigma, TB, Teachers, Templeacre Bar, Tenements, The Marsh, Tuberculosis, UCC Philosoph, Uniforms, University, University College Cork, Vaccines, whooping cough, Winter's Hill, Working, Working life, Workplace, Wyses Hill
Don Morrissy: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life
Tags: Arcadia, Bands, Business, Cars, Childhood, Childhood Games, Children’s Games, Clare, Coal Quay, Commercial Travellers, Cooking, Corporal Punishment, Dancehalls, Dances, Entrepreneur, Fermoy, Fitzgerald’s Park, Food, Gobs, Grattan Street, Guesthouse, Healthcare, Honan Chapel, Katty Barry, Mardyke, Marriage, Medicine, Medicines, Middle Parish, Music, Musical Instruments, Parents, Playing, Presentation Brothers, Public Baths, Respectability, School, Schooldays, Shawlie, Shawlies, Shawls, Sheares Street, Spanish Flu, Sport, St Joseph's School, The Marsh, Tripe, Tripe and Drisheen, UCC, UCC Philosoph, University, University College Cork, Weddings, Working, Working life
Philomena Cassidy: Grattan Street, Healthcare, The Marsh
Tags: Altar Boys, Arcadia, Bicycles, Bikes, Catholics and Protestants, Céilí, Chemist, Childcare, Children, Children’s Games, Christmas, Churches, Churchgoing, Class, Clothes, Community, Cycling, Dancehalls, Dances, Dancing, Diphtheria, Dispensary, Doctors, Dunlops, Employment, Family, Father, Food, Formality, Forms of Address, Grattan Street, Grattan Street Medical Centre, Graveyard, Hat Making, Home, Home Ownership, House, Houses, Housing, Landlords, Lanes, LDF, Living Conditions, Local Defence Force, Massgoing, Meals, Measles, Mechanic’s Hall, Medical Costs, Medicine, Middle Parish, Money, Mother, Munster Arcade, Music, Neighbourhood, O’Gorman’s Hat Factory, Parents, Pawn Shops, Pawns, Pharmacist, Pharmacy, Plays, Prescriptions, Pride, Protestant, Pub, Quakers, Rationing, Rations, Religion, Rent, Respectability, Role of Women, Sanitation, Sarsfield’s Court, School, Sense of Community, Shandon, Shop, Sick Pay, Sickness, St Francis Church, St Francis Hall, St Peter and Paul’s, St. Francis Hall, Stew, Streets, Streetscape, Sweets, Tanora, TB, Tenement, Tenement life, The Marsh, Time, Timekeeping, Traffic, Transport, Treat, Tuberculosis, Vouchers, Water Pump, Wellington Boots, Work, Working, Working life