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"Mary": Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life

‘Mary’ grew up on a farm in county Limerick, part of which was rented to a mental hospital to be worked by patients. By interacting with these patients she quickly learned who you could trust and who you couldn’t. Mentions her brother’s physical and…

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Alice Delay: Togher, Country Life, Childhood

Alice remembers visiting her grandmother in Togher, which was the country, and eating bread and home-made butter. Her grandfather was a farm labourer. The house had an earth floor, and a ceiling made of sewn flour bags. Someone described the house as…

Tags: 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 2000s, Alice Delay, Bonfire Night, Christy Ring, Cinema, Civil War, Housing, I.R.A, Jewish, Lido, Poulraddy Harbour, Prison, Republicanism, Second World War, Sex, Slogging Apples, Social Class, The Emergency, War of Independence, World War II

Barry Murphy: Cork Civic Trust

Barry Murphy, originally from Bantry Co. Cork. From 1959 until 1970 Barry lodged in the historic building that later became the home of Cork Civic Trust. He remembers the house and its inhabitants.

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Barry Murphy, Civic Trust House, Inchigeela Dairy, Pope’s Quay

Bernard Casey: Cathedral Road, Childhood, Cork Jazz Festival

Bernard, at the time of this interview, was the chairman of the 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…

Tags: 1940s, 1950s, Alter Boy, Bernard Casey, Blackberry-picking, Cathedral Road, Cork Jazz festival, Slogging Apples

Bernie McLoughlin: Turner's Cross, Ford's, UCC,

Bernie was born in 1939 and reared in Turner’s Cross. His mother had been a bookkeeper and his father was a supervisor in the post office. He had an older brother and an older sister, and he spent a lot of time with his parents.
He remembers queues…

Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Bernie McLoughlin, Childhood, Cork Opera House, Ford, Schooldays, Sullivan’s Quay, Turner’s Cross, UCC, University College Cork

Billy McCarthy: Childhood, Catholicism, GAA.

Billy, a one-time Cork Folklore Project member of staff and long-term collaborator, was born in Cork in 1941 and grew up with his six siblings in Quaker Road. His mother was born in Cork and his father came from Dunmanway. Billy attended St Marie’s…

Billy McCarthy: Quaker Road, Public Baths, Childhood

Billy was born in 1941. His mother, Mary Ann Cronin, was from Mayfield; her father, William Cronin served with the British army during the First World War, and later became a postman. His father’s family came from Dunmanway, West Cork. His father,…

Tags: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, Eglington Street Baths, Kiley’s Chip Shop, Milk and Cake Shops, Murphy’s Bacon Factory, Piggeries, Polio, Public Baths, The Lee Baths

Breda McNamara: Orthopaedic Hospital

Breda details her earliest memories. She says her family moved to Templeacre when she was 1 or 2. There were not many houses around then. The houses were new and surrounded by lots of fields. The Orthopaedic Hospital was up the road in a field. They…

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Breda McNamara, Gurranabraher, Healthcare, St Mary's Orthopeadic Hospital

Breda Sheehan: Blackpool, Childhood Games, Slogging for Apples

Breda (born circa 1950) grew up in Spring Lane, Blackpool. It was an industrial area with Goulding’s fertilizer factory and Ellis’s quarry.
She remembers a childhood game of swinging on a rope put up an ESB electricity pole. She remembers a number…

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Breda Sheehan, Goulding’s Glen, Placenames, Slaughterhouses, Spring Lane, Thomas Davis Street

Breda Sheehan: Halloween Games, Childhood Games, Family

Breda (born circa 1950) grew up in Spring Lane, Blackpool. As a child she used to play in The Glen, which was then in the countryside. The neighbourhood houses were small, with an outside toilet, so that every Saturday the children were washed in a…

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, All Saints’ Night, Breda Sheehan, Childhood Games, Christmas, Dancing, Dating, Ellis’s Lodge, Halloween, Pawn Shops, The One Day a Week

Creena O’Connell: Gurranabraher, Shawls, Allotments

Creena was born in 1932. Her family were one of the first to get a house in Gurranabraher, an estate built in 1934. Her father was able to get part-time employment with Cork Corporation working on the roads; he died when he was 58.
She recalls a…

Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Allotments, Creena O’Connell, Gurranabraher, Milk and Cake Shops, Shandon Street, Shawls

Dan Jones: Stonemasons, Family Life, Poetry

Dan, who describes himself as the ‘third oldest [stone]mason left in Cork’ at the time of this interview - outlines his youth in Bandon and Cork city, family background, married life and his wife’s early death, jobs, bowl-playing, ballroom dancing,…

Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Bandon, Bowling, Bowls, Dancehalls, Dancing, Electrification, Family Life, Gerry Jones, Patrick Jones (poet mason), Republicanism

Denis P. Long: Working Life; Balckpool; Austrailia

Denis grew up in Blackpool. His father was a train driver.
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…

Tags: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Australia, Bird-Catching, Blackpool, Corkeran’s Quay, Denis P. Long, Glen Rovers, Holy Wells, Micah Carroll, Michael Carroll, Sunday’s Well, Teaching

Derrick Gerrety: Douglas Street, Loafers, Dublin,

Derrick was born in 1950. He grew up in St Joseph's Square, Vernon Avenue, Clontarf, in a working-class enclave within a middle-class area. He describes his childhood as idyllic. The houses in the square were rented from the Sisters of Charity;…

Donnie Walsh: Gardiner's Hill, Sport, Republicanism,

Donie was born in 1948. His family lived in Stream Hill, and then in Gardiner’s Hill. He used to visit his grandmother’s house in Carrigadrohid, which had no running water nor electricity. He talks about going to the well and collecting…

Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Bonfire Night, Catholic Church, Coca-Cola, Donnie Walsh, Electrification, IRA, Puck Fair, Sport, The Curragh, Well’s

Dr. John Curtin: Orthopaedic Hospital, Working Life, Healthcare

John, worked at St Mary's Hospital from 1972 to 2003 when he took early retirement. Initially he worked as an orthopaedic register but from 1978 he was consultant.

He remembers thinking St. Mary’s was a very progressive hospital but the layout…

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Gurranabraher, Healthcare, John Curtin, Maura O'Connell, St Mary's Orthopeadic Hospital, Working life

Eileen Claffey: Childhood Games, Food, Farming, Festivals, Irish Language,

Eileen grew up on a farm in Inchaclough, West Cork with one brother and four sisters. She was the third child. They had a cousin and a neighbour’s child living with them. Her parents were hardworking– her mother used to work at least 12 hours a day.…

Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Celebration, Childhood Games, Cork 2005, Eileen Claffey, Farming, Festivals, Food, Irish Language, West Cork

Eileen Jones: Blackpool, Shawlies, Sunbeam,

Eileen Jones (b. 1931) was born in Millfield Cottages. When she was 4 years old her family moved to Welsh’s Lane in Blackpool; members of her extended family lived nearby. Her mother was born in 1896. Her father was a builder’s labourer.
There was…

Fergal Crowley: Patrick Street, Munster Arcade, Black and Tans

Fergal worked in the Munster Arcade, Patrick Street. He describes the shop. His father started work there in 1901. After the building was burned by the Black and Tans during the Burning of Cork, the British government paid to have buildings on one…

Tags: 1920s, 1940s, 1950s, Black and Tans, Burning of Cork, Cinema, Fergal Crowley, Milk and Cake Shops, Munster Arcade, Panna, Patrick Street, Poverty, Second World War, St Patrick Street, The Savoy, War of Independence, World War II

Frances McCarthy and Betty O’Mahony: The Dixies, Christy O'Mahony

Frances has always lived on the Northside. She was born in Poulraddy, went to school in North Presentation school. When she was seven she moved to Ballyvolane and went to school at St Patrick’s College, Gardiner’s Hill, and Mayfield Community School.…

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