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- Tags: 1920s
Marie Crean: South Parish, Cinemas, Black and Tan’s
She recalls…
Tags: 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Alfred Street, Bandon railway, Black and Tans, Blackberry-picking, Cinema, Civil War, Courtship, Douglas Street, English market, Funerals; Hanlon’s, High Street, Jackson’s Terrace, Marie Crean, Sayoy Cinema, Sisters of Reparation, Sunbeam, Trains, Transport, War of Independence, Williamson’s, Windmill Road
Margaret Farmer, Catherine McCarthy, Helen Donovan: The Emergency; The Black and Tans;
Margaret Newman: Shawlies, Blackberry-picking, Laneways,
She talks about the Bandon railway line, which was so slow you could lean out of the windows and pick blackberries.…
Margaret Newman: Greenmount, Cures, Working Life,
She got cocoa and buns at her primary school. She tells a story about finding out that…
Tags: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 2000s, Christamas, Cures, Dancing, Food, Greenmount, Herbalism, Margaret Newman, McKechnie’s, Social Care, St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Working life, World War II
Fergal Crowley: Patrick Street, Munster Arcade, Black and Tans
Ed Hinchy: Beamish & Crawford
Tags: 1800s, 1920s, 1930s, 1960s, 1970s, Ale, Bass, Beamish and Crawford, Beer, Brewer’s Guild, Brewery, Bushmills, Canadian Breweries, Carlsberg, Charringtons United Breweries, Cork, Ed Hinchy, England, Group Theatre, Guinness, Ken Richards, Les Auchincloss, Lloyd George, Mark Wilikins, Richard Beamish, Roy Hammond, Sharman Crawford, South London Brewery, South Main Street, Stout, Tied Houses, United Kingdom, University College Cork
Denis P. Long: Working Life; Balckpool; Austrailia
He worked for the ESB (Electricity Supply Board) but wanted to earn better money and went to Australia in the 1950s. He tells a funny story about visiting a rocket range and meeting someone…