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- Tags: 1960s
Dr. John Curtin: Orthopaedic Hospital, Working Life, Healthcare
He remembers thinking St. Mary’s was a very progressive hospital but the layout…
Ed Hinchy: Beamish & Crawford
Tags: 1800s, 1920s, 1930s, 1960s, 1970s, Ale, Bass, Beamish and Crawford, Beer, Brewer’s Guild, Brewery, Bushmills, Canadian Breweries, Carlsberg, Charringtons United Breweries, Cork, Ed Hinchy, England, Group Theatre, Guinness, Ken Richards, Les Auchincloss, Lloyd George, Mark Wilikins, Richard Beamish, Roy Hammond, Sharman Crawford, South London Brewery, South Main Street, Stout, Tied Houses, United Kingdom, University College Cork
Edward Buckley: Stonemasons,
Eileen Claffey: Childhood Games, Food, Farming, Festivals, Irish Language,
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Celebration, Childhood Games, Cork 2005, Eileen Claffey, Farming, Festivals, Food, Irish Language, West Cork
Eileen Jones: Blackpool, Shawlies, Sunbeam,
There was…
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Banks, Blackpool, Bonfire Night, Childhood Games, Christenings, Clothing, Dublin Hill, Eileen Jones, Killcully, Midwifery, Murphy's Rock, Razza, Roches Stores, Shandon Street, Shawlie, Shawls, St Mary's Hall, Sunbeam, Thomas Davis Street, Traveling Community, Welsh's Lane
Frances McCarthy and Betty O’Mahony: The Dixies, Christy O'Mahony
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Abu Dhabi, Arcadia, Ballyvolane, Betty O’Mahony, Blackpool, Blackpool Brass Band, Carnegie Hall, Christy O’Mahony, Churchfield, Fairhill, Farranree, Frances McCarthy, Gardiner's Hill, Glen Rovers hurling club, Mayfield Community School, North Presentation school, Northside, Second World War, St Patrick’s College, The Dixies showband, The Emergency, Tivoli
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,
Jim Fahy: Masonry, Apprenticeships, Emigration
Jim Horgan: Pouladuff, Theatre, Superstitions
Joe Fahy: Masonry
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Carpenter’s Hall, Stonemasons, Trade Union, Trades
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, 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