Browse Items (22 total)
- Tags: 1930s
Billy McCarthy: Quaker Road, Public Baths, Childhood
Margaret Farmer, Catherine McCarthy, Helen Donovan: The Emergency; The Black and Tans;
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…
Eibhlís de Barra: Northside, Gender, Childhood Games
She recalls childhood games such as The Chaineys, and The Gobs, and Scaa, the latter two played with small stones. She quotes some of the skipping…
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, Childhood Games, Death, Eibhlís de Barra, Gender Roles, Halloween, Mardyke, Northside
Mary O’Sullivan: Masonry, Family Life,
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Bantry, Cork city, Dances, Family Life, Mary O'Sullivan, Rationing, Stonemasons, The Emergency, West Cork, Working life, World War II
Alice Delay: Togher, Country Life, Childhood
Mary Montgomery-McConville: Shandon Street, Peter and Paul's Church, Coal Quay
Creena O’Connell: Gurranabraher, Shawls, Allotments
She recalls a…
Peggy Kelleher: The Lough, Marriage, World War 2
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: Sunbeam Factory; Christmas, Nicknames,
How children ordered their presents from Santa.
Note: This is one of 4 interviews conducted with…
Kevin Leahy: Gurranabraher, Irish Army, Docklands,
He remembers Blarney Street, and women who…
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 2000s, Childhood Games, Civil War, Confectionery, Courting, Crubeens, Damie Goggins, Dancing, Dock Workers, Dockers, Drinking, Farranree, Greenmount, Gurranabraher, Irish Army, Irish music, Kelly’s Lane, Kevin Leahy, Kick the Can, Langer, Milk and Cake Shops, Munster Selection, Pubs, Skating, Steering Cars, Steernas, The Congo, Women, Working life
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
Mary Marshall: Blackpool, Childhood, Hunting,
Eileen Jones: Blackpool, Shawlies, Sunbeam,
There was…
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Banks, Blackpool, Bonfire Night, Childhood Games, Christenings, Clothing, Dublin Hill, Eileen Jones, Killcully, Midwifery, Murphy's Rock, Razza, Roches Stores, Shandon Street, Shawlie, Shawls, St Mary's Hall, Sunbeam, Thomas Davis Street, Traveling Community, Welsh's Lane
James 'Jim' McKeon: Northside, Sport, Writing,
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
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
Frances McCarthy and Betty O’Mahony: The Dixies, Christy O'Mahony
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Abu Dhabi, Arcadia, Ballyvolane, Betty O’Mahony, Blackpool, Blackpool Brass Band, Carnegie Hall, Christy O’Mahony, Churchfield, Fairhill, Farranree, Frances McCarthy, Gardiner's Hill, Glen Rovers hurling club, Mayfield Community School, North Presentation school, Northside, Second World War, St Patrick’s College, The Dixies showband, The Emergency, Tivoli
Tommy Rooney: Second City Jazzband, Cork Academy School of Music
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Arcadia, Clipper Carlton, Cork Academy School of Music, Cork Opera House, Crosshaven, Donny Collins, Glasheen, Irish Defence Forces, Jazz (music), Joe McGrinty, Lonnie Donegan, Michael O’Callaghan, Music, Northern Ireland, Northside, Pat Crowley, Rory Gallagher, Royal Showband, Sean Lemass, Second City Jazz Band, Shandon Street, Showbands, Skiffle (music), Sunbeam, Taste (band), The Dixies, The Emergency, Tommy Rooney, Unionists