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"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…

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Alison Morley: Family Life, German Measles

Alison Morley was born and raised on the Northside in Cork. She was blind to the age of four due to an early bout of German measles. Here she recounts her personal memories of growing up in Cork. Her descriptions include: her first day at school at…

Tags: 1980s, 1990s, Alison Morley, Family Life, German Measles, Holy Communion, Rubella, Schooldays, The Grand Parade Hotel

Andy Hawkins: Australia, Culture, Celtic Tiger, Coal Quay, Holy Communion, Inishfallen, London

Andy Hawkins was born in The Marsh and lived there until he was 7 when his family moved to Mayfield. He was the youngest of nine. He went to St Francis School. His father ran a small carpentry business in The Marsh. His father died when Andy was…

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

Barra O’Donnabhain: Homosexuality, UCC, David Norris,

Barra was born in Shannon Co. Clare but moved to Cork in the late seventies to attend UCC at a time when the first student gay society was being set up. He had experience of gay life and the emerging gay social scene in Cork and Dublin in the early…

Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, AIDS, David Norris, Homosexuality, UCC, University College Cork

Bernie McLoughlin: Turner's Cross, Ford's, UCC,

Bernie was born in 1939 and reared in Turner’s Cross. His mother had been a bookkeeper and his father was a supervisor in the post office. He had an older brother and an older sister, and he spent a lot of time with his parents.
He remembers queues…

Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Bernie McLoughlin, Childhood, Cork Opera House, Ford, Schooldays, Sullivan’s Quay, Turner’s Cross, UCC, University College Cork

Breda McNamara: Orthopaedic Hospital

Breda details her earliest memories. She says her family moved to Templeacre when she was 1 or 2. There were not many houses around then. The houses were new and surrounded by lots of fields. The Orthopaedic Hospital was up the road in a field. They…

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Breda McNamara, Gurranabraher, Healthcare, St Mary's Orthopeadic Hospital

Breda McShane: Orthopaedic Hospital

Breda grew up in Dungarvan Co. Waterford. She moved to Cork in 1975 after getting a job as a clerical worker for the Southern Health Board. Breda moved to Hollyhill in 1980. Six years later she got a transfer to the Orthopedic hospital payroll…

Tags: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Breda McShane, Gurranabraher, Magic Mushrooms, St Mary's Orthopeadic Hospital, Working life

Brenda Stillwell: Crawford Art College, Irish language, Slang

Brenda moved to Cork when she was 17, to go to Art College. She remembers hearing people conversing in Irish. She has lived in Cork for 30 years.

Tags: 1980s, Brenda Stillwell, Crawford Art College, Inchigeela Dairy, Irish Language, Sir Henry’s

Brenda Twomey: Coal Quay, Peg Twomey's, Childhood Games

Brenda talks about the Coal Quay, and about her family’s shop Peggy Twomey’s , also known as the Food Emporium. She describes the business as her mother’s concern. She talks about the family nature of the business. She feels that Cork Corporation has…

Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Brenda Twomey, Childhood Games, Coal Quay, Peggy Twomey

Brigid Carmody: Traveling Community, Tradition, Change,

Brigid is a Traveller. She talks about her childhood within an extended family, and about Traveller heritage and culture.
Brigid talks about growing up quickly within an extended family. She describes adult life in a caravan and the difficulties of…

Tags: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Barrel Top Wagon, Change, Childhood Games, Cork 2005, Tradition, Traveling Community, Travellers

Denis Murphy: Blackpool, Pubs, Food,

Denis was born in Dublin Street, Blackpool. [1960s.] His family owned a pub there called the Bowler’s Rest. His parents were from West Cork. He went to school in Rathpeacon.
Millfield Cottages were built near the mill houses that existed there since…

Derrick Gerrety: Douglas Street, Loafers, Dublin,

Derrick was born in 1950. He grew up in St Joseph's Square, Vernon Avenue, Clontarf, in a working-class enclave within a middle-class area. He describes his childhood as idyllic. The houses in the square were rented from the Sisters of Charity;…

Dr. John Curtin: Orthopaedic Hospital, Working Life, Healthcare

John, worked at St Mary's Hospital from 1972 to 2003 when he took early retirement. Initially he worked as an orthopaedic register but from 1978 he was consultant.

He remembers thinking St. Mary’s was a very progressive hospital but the layout…

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Gurranabraher, Healthcare, John Curtin, Maura O'Connell, St Mary's Orthopeadic Hospital, Working life

Edmund Lynch: Irish Gay Rights Movement, Marriage Referendum, Activism,

Edmund Lynch is a gay activist from Dublin. He came out to his family in 1974/5. He discusses the Irish gay rights movement from the 1970s through decriminalisation and the Marriage Referendum in 2015.

Tags: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Activism, AIDS, David Norris, Decriminalisation, Edmund Lynch, Irish Gay Rights Movement, LGBT, Marriage Referendum, RTE

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

Finbarr Kiely: Loafers Bar, Homosexuality, Decriminalisation.

Finbarr Kiely describes life in Cork for a gay man through the early ‘70s, the ‘90s up to the present. He recalls first realising that he is gay and how he blends this part of his personal life with social and professional lives. He relates stories…

Tags: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Decriminalisation, Homosexuality, Loafer's, The Othe Place

Frances McCarthy and Betty O’Mahony: The Dixies, Christy O'Mahony

Frances has always lived on the Northside. She was born in Poulraddy, went to school in North Presentation school. When she was seven she moved to Ballyvolane and went to school at St Patrick’s College, Gardiner’s Hill, and Mayfield Community School.…

Isabelle Sheridan: English Market, Food, Culture

Isabelle Sheridan is from a suburb outside Paris called Le Pleine de Mont Esson. She moved to Ireland in 1986 and eventually established the well-known charcuterie called ‘On the Pig’s Back’ in the English Market in Cork. She discusses her childhood…

Tags: 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Agriculture, Alcohol, Catholicism, Celebration, Childhood Games, Christmas, Community, Cork 2005, Culture, Diet, English market, Festivals, Festivities, Food, French Culture, French Food, Holidays, Holy Communion, Isabelle Sheridan, Paris, School, Snow, Vegetables

James 'Jim' McKeon: Northside, Sport, Writing,

Jim (b. 1940s) remembers that his father worked for the railways and had a tied cottage in an area known as Kilbarry Cottages, or Railway Cottages. Then the family moved to Paddock House, Fairhill. The house was at the top of Washbrew Lane, and came…

Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 2000s, Animals, Brus, Cal Herlihy, Cork, Eucharistic Procession, Fahy’s Well, Frank O’Connor, House Shops, Jim McKeon, Kilbarry Cottages, Northside, Paddock Hill, Paddock House, Travellers, Working life, Youghal

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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