Browse Items (43 total)
- Tags: 1940s
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: Blackpool, Housing, Childbirth,
She tells a story about…
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Alcoholism, Blackpool, Childbirth, Housing, Mount Farran, UCC, University College Cork
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
Donnie Walsh: Gardiner's Hill, Sport, Republicanism,
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Bonfire Night, Catholic Church, Coca-Cola, Donnie Walsh, Electrification, IRA, Puck Fair, Sport, The Curragh, Well’s
Helen Prout: Fairhill, World War 2, Worklife,
In this interview, Helen recalls life in…
Mary Marshall: Blackpool, Childhood, Hunting,
Noel Magnier: Gerald Griffin Street, Shops, Box Cars,
Denny’s cellar was a…
Pat Saville: Blackpool, Working Life, Sport,
He describes the shops and…
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
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…
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
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
Liam Foley: Blackpool, Showbands, Arcadia
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Arcadia, Bill Haley, Bill Haley and the Comets, Blackpool, Blackpool National School, Clipper Carlton, Clothing, Commons Road, Donnie Collins Showband, Elvis Presley, ghost, Great William O'Brien Street, Joe Lynch, leper colony, Liam Foley, Music, Northside, Shane Fenton and the Fentones showband, The Devil, The Dixies showband
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
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)
Mícheál Ó Geallabháin: Family, Community, Social Class, Sport, Music, Emigration.
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Christy Ring, Coal Quay, Cork 2005, Cork Athletic, Disability, Education, Electricity, Emigration, Farming, Fitzgerald’s Park, Football, Gas Light, Hurling, Liam McCarthy Cup, London, Michael O’Geallabhain, Music, Musical Instruments, Opera, Politics, Poverty, Religion, Sean O’Riada, Social Class, Spirituality, Sport, The Inisfallen, The Middle Parish, Trinity College Dublin, UCC, Uileann pipes, University College Cork
Noreen Geaney: Childhood Games, Céilí, Halloween, School, The Stations.
Noreen was born in Cuileann Ui Chaoimh in Co. Cork. She had three sisters and one brother. She attended Owen na Bui National School. She lived…
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Céilí, Celebration, Childhood Games, Cork 2005, Corporal Punishment, Dublin, Farming, Fish, Food, Funerals, Halloween, Noreen Geaney, School, Teachers, The Stations
Eileen Claffey: Childhood Games, Food, Farming, Festivals, Irish Language,
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Celebration, Childhood Games, Cork 2005, Eileen Claffey, Farming, Festivals, Food, Irish Language, West Cork
Pat Walsh: Barrack Street, Custom House, Dundanion Castle, Elizabeth Fort, Railways, Sculpture Factory, Trams, Transport,
He talks about the channels of the River Lee within the city and…