Browse Items (81 total)
- Tags: 1960s
Padraig O’Horgain: Church Street, Funeral Customs, Republicanism,
O’Gorman’s hat factory and other businesses were cited in the…
Noreen Hanover: Christmas, Childhood Games, Cinema, Ghost stories, Milk and Cake Shops, Pawnbrokers, St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Working life,
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
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
Noreen Cronin: Shandon, The North Infirmary, Childhood
Noel Dempsey: Orthopaedic Hospital, Working Life, Healthcare
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
Michael O’Connell: Faranree, Politics, Childhood,
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Andy Gaw, Blarney Woollen Mills, Churchfield, Cissy O’Connell, Emigration, Farranree, GAA, Gurranabraher, Inisfallen, Jagging, Madden's, Mayfield, Michael O’Connell, Pawn Shops, Politics, Poverty, Queen Elizabeth II, Sport, Sunbeam, The North Infirmary
Michael O'Callaghan: Togher, Emigration, Summer Holidays,
Michael Murphy: Worklife; Murphy's Brewery; Childhood
Maura O’Connell: Orthopaedic Hospital, Working Life, Healthcare
Maura recalls that the nurses residents on the…
Mary Sheehy: Gurranabraher, Street Traders, Bonfire Night
As a child, she had to wear…
Mary O’Sullivan: Travelling Community, Education, Prejudice,
Mary was born in…
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
Mary Montgomery-McConville: Shandon Street, Peter and Paul's Church, Coal Quay
Marie-Annick Desplanques: Brittany, Breton, Coiffe, Crêperie, Foodways, France, Children's Games.
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Brittany, Childhood Games, Christmas, Cork 2005, Customs, Folklore, Foodways, France, Marie-Annick Desplanques, Newfoundland
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…
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
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