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Breda Sheehan: Blackpool, Childhood games, Lido cinema, Spring Lane.

Breda grew up in Spring Lane, off Thomas Davis Street, Blackpool. She grew up with five sisters. Her father was a soldier in the Irish Army and was away a lot.
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

"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…

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Accommodation, ADHD, Ambulance, Animals, Anti-Vax, Australia, Babies, Baby, Bales of Hay, Bed Wetting, Bedtime, Bicycle, Bicycles, Bicycling, Bike, Bike. Bikes, Birth, Bread, bread and breadmaking, Breadmaking, Building, Buildings, Built Heritage, Bullying, Bureaucracy, Bus, Calf, Camaraderie, Candle, Candles, Canteen, Car Park, Car Parking, Career, Career Choice, Career Decision, Career Guidance, Career Path, Careers, Castletroy, Change, Chemist, Child Welfare, Childhood, Childhood Games, Children, Christmas, City Hall, Cleaners, Clinic, Clinics, Clothes, Clothing, Co. Limerick. County Limerick, Coal Quay, Colleagues, Community, Community Welfare, Cooking, Cork, Cork city, Court, Court Case, Cow, Death, Decision, Dementia, Disability, Disease, Diseases, Dispensary, Disrepair, Dressings, Drisheen, Duties, Educate Together, Electricity, Emigration, English market, Family, Family Life, Farm, Farming, Farmlife, Father, Flats, Fleas, Flooding, Floods, Food, Frustration, Games, Glasgow, GP, Grattan Street, Hay, Health, Health Promotion, Health Services, Healthcare, Healthy, Hens, History, Hoarding, Home, Hospital, House, Houses, Housing, HPV, HPV Vaccine, HSE, Hygiene, Illness, Illnesses, Income, Irish Language, Kitchen, Knocknaheeney, Labour Ward, Lane, Laneway, Learning, Limerick, Limerick city, Marriage, Marsh, Meals, Medicine, Medicines, Memories, Memory, Mental Hospital, Mental Issues, Mercy Hospital, Middle Parish, Midwife, Midwifery, MMR, Mother, Mushrooms, Music, Night Work, North Main Street, Nun, Nuns, Nurse, Nurse Training, Nurses, Nursing, Nursing Home, Nursing Training, Orthopaedic, Our Lady’s Hospital, Paperwork, Parents, Parking, Patient, Patient Care, Patient Environment, Patients, Pharmacy, PHN, Polio, Pop Music, Porter, Potatoes, Priest, Public Health Nurse, Public Health Nursing. PHNs, Public Transport, Quakers, Religion, Remarriage, Rent, Role of Women, Routine, Sarsfield Court, Sarsfield’s Court, School, Schooldays, Sheares Street, Shift Work, Siblings, Sickness, Singing, Smell, Smells, smoking, Social Conditions, Songs, Spinster, St Francis Church, St Mary's Health Campus, St. Mary’s Primary Care Centre, Staff Canteen, Tea, Tea Room, Teacher, Teachers, Tenements, Textbooks, Thatch, The Marsh, The Middle Parish, Traditional Food, Transport, Tripe, Tripe and Drisheen, Uniform, USA Biscuits, Vaccination, Vaccinations, vaccine, Vaccines, Vegetables, Vocation, Ward, Wastage, Waste, Wheelchair, Winter, Women, Women's Lives, Work, Work Colleagues, Working, Working life, Worklife, Workplace, York Hill

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

Michael Murphy: Worklife; Murphy's Brewery; Childhood

Michael was born in 1941. He was born in Francis Street. He had 6 brothers and 5 sisters. His earliest memory is of his grandfather’s funeral, with a hearse pulled by two horses, in 1945. His mother’s pregnancies and the arrival of newborn children…

Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Childhood, Funeral Customs, Funerals, Jews, Murphy’s Bacon Factory, Murphy’s Brewery, Shandon Street, Working life

Tina Noonan: Blackpool; Sunbeam; Childhood Restricted Content

Tina’s father was from Blackpoool, and her mother was from Cove St. She has 8 siblings. She went to Blackpool School, which was since demolished; there they used to be given milk and buns.

Tina recalls some of a skipping rhyme she used to sing as…

Tags: 1960s, 1970s, Alcoholism, Bonfire Night, Childhood, Childhood Games, Christmas, Funerals, Murphy's Rock, Sunbeam, Tina Noonan, Youghal

Brenda McCarthy: Schooldays; Communion; Dating

Brenda (b. 1963), had 5 sisters and 6 brothers; she was the youngest child in her family. Her mother was from Boyce’s Street. Her father was from near Macroom, and his family was well-off. She always lived on the Northside.
She recalls her…

Tags: 1960s, 1970s, Brenda McCarthy, Communion, Marriage, Schooldays, Social Class

Edward Buckley: Stonemasons,

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Edward a born a bred Cobh man was born in 1949. After finishing his leaving certificate he attended University College Cork for a year, but says it was not for him. Luckily Seán Lemass had changed the rules on who could be accepted into trades…

Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Apprenticeship, Family Life, Hogan's (family history), Jeremiah Hogan, PJ Hegarty, Stonemasons, Trades, Working life

Tom McCarthy: Stonemasons, Sculpture, Seamus Murphy

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Tom belongs to a long line of stone craftsmen. In this interview je outlines McCarthy's relation to the trade. He talks about his early days in the business and that it took seven years to complete his apprenticeship. Throughout the interview, Tom…

Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Apprenticeship, Joe Mac, McCarthy's, Sculpture, Seamus Murphy, Stonemasons, The Dixies, Trades

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

Patrick Varian: Stonemasons, America, Trades

Patrick, originally from Greenmount, Cork city, at the age of 15 in 1957 started his apprenticeship. After a few years of working on sites in Cork city, Patrick emigrated to Boston Massachusetts, U.S.A. Where he continued working in the trade. In…

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, Apprenticeship, Boston, Stonemasons, Trades

Mary O’Sullivan: Masonry, Family Life,

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Mary begins the interview by talking through her earliest memories of Bantry, walking to school and robbing apples and nice and cross teachers. Mary’s then moves on to describe her family, and how she left school at 14, her father was a farm labourer…

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

Joesph Fahy: Masonry, Working Life, Family

Joesph starts off the interview by talking through his work history. From working for Sisks at 16 to his job as a foreman for the Cork city council. Joesph mentions some of the building projects he has been involved in, from the churched in Blackrock…

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Family Life, Joesph Fahy, Nicknames, Parliament Bridge, Sisks (Building Contractors), South Gate Bridge, Stonemasons, Trades, Working life

Joe Fahy: Masonry

Joe speaks about his life in the trade. Joe's Father and Cousin were also interviewed for the project.CFP_SR00577_fahy_2016; & CFP_SR00566_fahy_2015;

Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Carpenter’s Hall, Stonemasons, Trade Union, Trades

Jim Fahy: Masonry, Apprenticeships, Emigration

Jim Fahy is a stonemason who was interviewed in 2015 by Michael Moore from the Cork Folklore Project, also a stonemason. Jim Fahy comes from several generations of stonemasons on both sides of his family. He describes the ‘closed trade’ system, which…

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