Browse Items (68 total)
- Tags: 1950s
Geraldine Healy: Children's Games, Schooldays, Western Road,
Helen Goulding: Shandon, Catholic Church, Childhood
She talks about her childhood. People had little but shared a lot. Boiled eggs were eaten at Easter time. Everyone was involved…
Helen Prout: Fairhill, World War 2, Worklife,
In this interview, Helen recalls life in…
James 'Jim' McKeon: Northside, Sport, Writing,
Joesph Fahy: Masonry, Working Life, Family
Joseph Lane: Gurranabraher, Milk and Cake Shops, Pranks
Joe recalls a childhood…
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
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
Kieran Edwards & Noreen Crowley: Ballyphehane, Childhood, Community
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
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…
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
Lorraine Twomey: Orthopaedic Hospital, Family Life
Lorraine was one of…
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Family Life, Gurranabraher, St Mary's Orthopeadic Hospital, Working
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
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…
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
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…