Browse Items (68 total)
- Tags: 1950s
Liam Ó hUigín: Henry Street, Bonfire Night, Childhood Games, Messenger Boys.
He was a messenger boy in the 1950s; he talks about the job and its good and bad aspects. He…
Pat Speight: Northside, Childhood Games, Schooldays,
Billy McCarthy: Childhood, Catholicism, GAA.
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
Noreen Hanover: Christmas, Childhood Games, Cinema, Ghost stories, Milk and Cake Shops, Pawnbrokers, St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Working life,
Kay O’Carroll: The Northside, Emigration, Childhood Games, Music, Tenements,
Kay was…
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Catholicism, Celebration, Childhood Games, Children, Christenings, Churchfield, City Hall, Cork 2005, Croppy Boy, Emigration, Fairhill, Farming, Fitzgerald’s Park, Glassey Alleys, Grants, Gurranabraher, Holy Communion, Humour, Kay O’Carroll, Music, Nash’s Boreen, North Main Street, Oliver Plunkett Street, Patrick’s Street, Pawn Shops, Picky, School, Scullys, Shawls, Singers, Social Class, Sun Valley Drive, Tenements, The Mardyke, The Munster Arcade, The Queen’s Old Castle, The Savoy, The Tivoli Restaurant, Weddings, Wolfe Tone Street, Youghal
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
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
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)
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
Pat Nolan: Northside, Cork Academy School of Music
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Boom Boom Room, Clipper Carlton, Cork Academy School of Music, Irish Defence Forces, Michael O’Callaghan showband, Michael O’Mahony, Music, North Mon, North Monastery school, Northern Ireland, Northside, Pat Nolan, Rory Gallagher, Showbands, Sunbeam, UCC, Viceroy Showband, Victor Showband
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
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
Noreen Hannover: South Main Street
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Bishop Lucey Park, Christchurch, Coal Quay, Cove Street, CP shoes (free social welfare shoes), Enterprise Bar, Godsil’s (Castle Street), Grand Parade, Hadden’s Bakery, Hadden’s shop, Kilgrew’s, Killgrew’s, Nicholas Church Place, Noreen Hannover, North Cathedral, North Main Street, Roman House, Sean Jennings, Shandon, Social Class, South Main Street, The Brown Derby, The Flying Enterpris, Triskel Arts Centre
Kieran Edwards & Noreen Crowley: Ballyphehane, Childhood, Community
Tony Doherty: Rainbow Ramblers, Cork Gay Mens’ Cooperative, Cruising.
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, CAT Club, Cork Gay Mens’ Cooperative, Cruising, David Gordon, Decriminalisation, Dogging, Grindr, Hilton Edwards, Iron Toilet, Le Chateau, LGBT, Marriage Referendum, Michael Mac Liammoir, Mother Gordon, Rainbow Ramblers, The Other Place, Tony Doherty
Breda Sheehan: Blackpool, Childhood Games, Slogging for Apples
She remembers a childhood game of swinging on a rope put up an ESB electricity pole. She remembers a number…
Breda Sheehan: Halloween Games, Childhood Games, Family
Geraldine Healy: Children's Games, Schooldays, Western Road,
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