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- Tags: 1970s
Pat Nolan: Northside, Cork Academy School of Music
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Boom Boom Room, Clipper Carlton, Cork Academy School of Music, Irish Defence Forces, Michael O’Callaghan showband, Michael O’Mahony, Music, North Mon, North Monastery school, Northern Ireland, Northside, Pat Nolan, Rory Gallagher, Showbands, Sunbeam, UCC, Viceroy Showband, Victor Showband
Padraig O’Horgain: Church Street, Funeral Customs, Republicanism,
O’Gorman’s hat factory and other businesses were cited in the…
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 Cronin: Shandon, The North Infirmary, Childhood
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 O’Flynn: Fire Brigade; Vandalism; Change;
Michael grew up in Turner’s Cross.
He works as a fireman. In the 1960s there…
Tags: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Bonfire Night, Celebration, Change, Christmas, Cork 2005, Fire Brigade, Halloween, Vandalism
Maura O’Connell: Orthopaedic Hospital, Working Life, Healthcare
Maura recalls that the nurses residents on the…
Mary O'Sullivan: Orthopaedic Hospital, Working Life, Kitchen Staff
She describes the type of work that the kitchen staff had to preform, from cooking in the kitchen to scrubbing the walls in the corridors.
Mary says there there would be 7 staff on per…
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…
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 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
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…
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
Lorraine Twomey: Orthopaedic Hospital, Family Life
Lorraine was one of…
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Family Life, Gurranabraher, St Mary's Orthopeadic Hospital, Working
Liz Steiner Scott: America, Customs, English market, Children's Games, Maternity, Religion,
Tags: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, America, Celebration, Childhood Games, Cork 2005, Crawford Art Gallery, Customs, Education, English market, Festivals, Food, Hanukkah, Jewish, Liz Steiner Scott, Maternity, New Year, Religion, Rosh Hashana, Social Class, Spirituality, UCC, University College Cork, Women’s Movement, Yom Kippur
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
Kieran Edwards & Noreen Crowley: Ballyphehane, Childhood, Community
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