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- Tags: 1960s
Donnie Walsh: Gardiner's Hill, Sport, Republicanism,
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Bonfire Night, Catholic Church, Coca-Cola, Donnie Walsh, Electrification, IRA, Puck Fair, Sport, The Curragh, Well’s
Derrick Gerrety: Douglas Street, Loafers, Dublin,
Denis Murphy: Blackpool, Pubs, Food,
Millfield Cottages were built near the mill houses that existed there since…
Denis P. Long: Working Life; Balckpool; Austrailia
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…
Dan Jones: Stonemasons, Family Life, Poetry
Creena O’Connell: Gurranabraher, Shawls, Allotments
She recalls a…
Brenda Twomey: Coal Quay, Peg Twomey's, Childhood Games
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Brenda Twomey, Childhood Games, Coal Quay, Peggy Twomey
Brenda McCarthy: Schooldays; Communion; Dating
She recalls her…
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, Brenda McCarthy, Communion, Marriage, Schooldays, Social Class
Breda Sheehan: Blackpool, Childhood games, Lido cinema, Spring Lane.
She grew up in a row of cottages that she believes dated back to the Seventeenth Century.…
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, Blackpool, Breda Sheehan, Childhood Games, Cinema, Ellis’s, Family, Goulding's, Scraps, Spring Lane, The Lido
Breda McNamara: Orthopaedic Hospital
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
Billy McCarthy: Childhood, Catholicism, GAA.
Bernie McLoughlin: Turner's Cross, Ford's, UCC,
He remembers queues…
Barry Murphy: Cork Civic Trust
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Barry Murphy, Civic Trust House, Inchigeela Dairy, Pope’s Quay
Barra O’Donnabhain: Homosexuality, UCC, David Norris,
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, AIDS, David Norris, Homosexuality, UCC, University College Cork
Andy Hawkins: Australia, Culture, Celtic Tiger, Coal Quay, Holy Communion, Inishfallen, London
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Andy Hawkins, Australia, Blackpool School, Building sites, Carpentry, Catholicism, Celebration, Celtic Tiger, Cinema, Coal Quay, Conscription, Cork 2005, Culture, Fairfield, Fishing, Gaelic football, Gardening, Holy Communion, Horses, Inishfallen, London, Nature, Perth, Pigeons, Ross’s Wood
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
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