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- Tags: 1970s
Yossi Valdman: Israel, Jaffa, Jews, Customs,
Yossi’s father lived in Israel and then moved to Jaffa where he opened a shop. Yossi lived in Jaffa and Israel and then travelled…
Vincent Power: Send ‘em Home Sweatin’
He talks in detail about the showband scene. Irish audiences had no access to rock’n’roll and its performers, but showbands were copycat…
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Albert Reynolds, Brendan Bowyer, Brendan O’Brien, Butch Moore, Capitol showband, Clipper Carlton, Elvis Presley, Grand Parade, Horan’s Ballroom, Jutland ballroom, Las Vegas, Limerick city, Majestic Ballroom, Mallow, Mayo, Music, Radio Luxembourg, Rory Gallagher, Royal Showband, Sexuality, Stardust ballroom (Cork), The Devil, The Dixies, The Magic Band
Una Lyons: Oliver Plunkett Street, Cinemas, English Market
The street was quite residential but…
Tony McGillicuddy: The Low Road, Jack Lynch, Ford's
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, Ford, Jack Lynch, The Low Road, Tony McGillicuddy
Tony Doherty: Rainbow Ramblers, Cork Gay Mens’ Cooperative, Cruising.
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, CAT Club, Cork Gay Mens’ Cooperative, Cruising, David Gordon, Decriminalisation, Dogging, Grindr, Hilton Edwards, Iron Toilet, Le Chateau, LGBT, Marriage Referendum, Michael Mac Liammoir, Mother Gordon, Rainbow Ramblers, The Other Place, Tony Doherty
Tommy Rooney: Second City Jazzband, Cork Academy School of Music
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Arcadia, Clipper Carlton, Cork Academy School of Music, Cork Opera House, Crosshaven, Donny Collins, Glasheen, Irish Defence Forces, Jazz (music), Joe McGrinty, Lonnie Donegan, Michael O’Callaghan, Music, Northern Ireland, Northside, Pat Crowley, Rory Gallagher, Royal Showband, Sean Lemass, Second City Jazz Band, Shandon Street, Showbands, Skiffle (music), Sunbeam, Taste (band), The Dixies, The Emergency, Tommy Rooney, Unionists
Tom McCarthy: Stonemasons, Sculpture, Seamus Murphy
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Apprenticeship, Joe Mac, McCarthy's, Sculpture, Seamus Murphy, Stonemasons, The Dixies, Trades
Tina Noonan: Blackpool; Sunbeam; Childhood **Restricted Content**
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
Tim O’Brien: Cork Fire Brigade, Murphy’s Brewery, Murphy’s Rock,
Tim was born in Watercourse Road. His father worked in Murphy’s Brewery. His mother came from West…
Noel Dempsey: Orthopaedic Hospital, Working Life, Healthcare
Tommy Lysaght: Masonry, Horticulture,
He mentions the ‘lads’ in Dingle, The west of Ireland have a special…
Tags: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Arran Islands, Blackwater Valley, Britanny, Dingle, Fermoy, Horticulture, Stonemasons, Trades
Stephen Wimpenny: Leeds United, Soccer, Yorkshire,
Stephen visited Midleton in 2002 and settled in Cork in 2003, having met a woman who later became his wife.
He compares people in Yorkshire and Cork. He talks about…
Sean Lucey, Terry McCarthy: Blackpool, Dixies Showband
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Aloys Fleischmann senior, Arcadia, Butter Exchange Band, Carnegie Hall, Cavern Club, Clipper Carlton showband, Dixies showband, Las Vegas, Leitrim Street, Lonnie Donegan, Lower Glanmire Road, Music, Northern Ireland, Northside, Radio Luxembourg, Rory Gallagher, Shandon Street, Showbands, Taste (band), The Sunset (band)
Peter Sargent: Orthopaedic Hospital, Working Life, Healthcare
Peter left this job for a position at St Mary's Hospital as a theatre attendant. …
Pete Newman: Shandon Street, Unemployment, Machoness,
Cyclists going up Shandon Street used to hold on to the back of buses, which…
Peggy Kelleher: The Lough, Marriage, World War 2
Patrick O’Brien: Patrick Street, The Swan and Cygnet, Seamus Murphy
Pat Saville: Blackpool, Working Life, Sport,
He describes the shops and…
Pat O'Brien: Northside, Pubs, Childhood,
He talks briefly about the pub trade. The Holy Hour was observed within the city limits (a break…