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- Tags: 1940s
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
Margaret Newman: Blackpool, Housing, Childbirth,
She tells a story about…
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Alcoholism, Blackpool, Childbirth, Housing, Mount Farran, UCC, University College Cork
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: Sunbeam Factory; Christmas, Nicknames,
How children ordered their presents from Santa.
Note: This is one of 4 interviews conducted with…
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.…
Marie Finn: Barrack Street, Blackberry-picking, Catholic Church,
She talks about the games she played as a child and recites part of a rhyme. You could pick blackberries and sell them to a sweet-makers. Oranges and bananas as…
Mary Sheehy: Gurranabraher, Street Traders, Bonfire Night
As a child, she had to wear…
Bernie McLoughlin: Turner's Cross, Ford's, UCC,
He remembers queues…
Peggy Kelleher: The Lough, Marriage, World War 2
Liam Ó hUigín: Henry Street, The Marshes, Childhood
He recalls the practice of adding “a” to the end of some placenames, such as Pana for Patrick Street. There…
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Childhood Games, Churches, Clothing, Confectionery, Daly’s Bridge, Dunnes Stores, English market, Henry Street, Liam Ō hUigín, Mackey Gumboil, Mardyke, Milk and Cake Shops, Ogilvy and Moore’s, ohn Daly, Patrick Street, Pike family, Pike’s Marsh, Portney’s Lane, Pubs, Quakers, River Lee, Robert Day’s, Shaky Bridge, Sheares Street, Shops, Slang, Sport, Tenements, The Savoy, William Penn
Bernard Casey: Cathedral Road, Childhood, Cork Jazz Festival
He recalls air raid shelters in Cork during the 1940s. He talks about his routine as an altar boy. The first housing developments of Cathedral Road. The countryside…
Creena O’Connell: Gurranabraher, Shawls, Allotments
She recalls a…
Joseph Lane: Gurranabraher, Milk and Cake Shops, Pranks
Joe recalls a childhood…
Mary Montgomery-McConville: Shandon Street, Peter and Paul's Church, Coal Quay
Fergal Crowley: Patrick Street, Munster Arcade, Black and Tans
Alice Delay: Togher, Country Life, Childhood
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
Dan Jones: Stonemasons, Family Life, Poetry
Michael Murphy: Worklife; Murphy's Brewery; Childhood
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