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John O’Callaghan

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Tags: 1980s, Boston, CAT Club, Childhood, Concert, Covid, Emigrant Community, gigs, IRA, Irish, Irish American, Jazz Festival, Kieran O’Leary, Lower Glanmire Road, Music, Northern Ireland, Northside Cork, Parents, Passport, Pearse Gunn, Quaker, Quakers, Quay Co-op, School, September 11th, Shakespeare, The Loft, Theatre, Troubles, U2, USA

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Tom Jones: Shandon Street, Murphy’s Rock, Television

Tom is from Shandon Street. In this interview, he remembers a helicopter landing in a field, sometime in the late 1950s or early 1960s, which caused great excitement amongst the locals.
He mentions the arrival of televisions to Cork around 1963. Tom…

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, Childhood, Murphy's Rock, Shandon Street, Television, Tom Jones

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

Sheila Dalton: Family Life; Marriage; Childhood

Sheila was born and raised on Gurranabraher Avenue. Her father was from the Fail hill area and her mother came from Whitechurch.
Sheila was second youngest in a family of 7 girls and 4 boys. Her father worked in a government building as the lift…

Tags: Childbirth, Childhood, Childhood Games, Clothing, Communion, Family Life, Marriage, Pawn Shops, Schooldays, Toys

Paddy Marshall: Blackpool, Pidgeon Racing, Cinema,

Paddy was born in 1941 in Great William O’Brien Street, and grew up in Narrow Lane, nearby; he describes the area around it which constituted his neighbourhood. He came from a family of 10. His mother was from Watercourse Road, his father from Narrow…

Tags: Allotments, Childhood, Childhood Games, Christy Ring, Cinema, Housing, Lido, Paddy Marshall, Pigeon Racing, Royal Munster Fusiliers

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

Mary Marshall: Blackpool, Childhood, Hunting,

Mary grew up in Thomas Davis Street, Blackpool. Both her parents were from Blackpool. Her mother liked to use Grand Parade library, and her father was an avid reader who told stories from Greek mythology. At the time the area bounded onto the…

Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, Blackpool, Childhood, Childhood Games, Goulding’s, Goulding’s Glen, Gypsy Lee, Hunting, Mary Marshall, Otter hunting, Piggeries, Tomas Davis Street, Traditional Songs, Welsh’s Lane

Kieran Edwards & Noreen Crowley: Ballyphehane, Childhood, Community

Kieran Edwards and his sister Noreen Crowley (nee Edwards) are originally from Fr Dominic Road Ballyphahane, they start the interview by discussing the community that Ballypheheane nurtured. Noreen then talks of her youth and how she used to look…

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Ballyphehane, Ballyphehane Oral History Project, Ceela's Pub, Childhood, Family, Fr Dominic Rd, Joe Murphy Hungerstiker, War of Independence

Hilary Lyons: Ballyphehane, Childhood.

Hillary Lyons (nee Hayes) Originally from Fr Dominic Road Ballyphahane, first discusses her maternal grandparents and how they came to live in the city from Kilfinin. Her grandmother worked in Pitman training and her grandfather was a bookkeeper.…

Breda St Ledger: Blackpool, Childhood Games, Family Life,

Breda (b. 1949) grew up in Thomas Davis Avenue, in Blackpool. The houses were built new in the 1960s. They lived with a relative who told her and her brother scary stories. She went to the North Presentation Convent school.

She talks briefly about…

Tags: Blackpool, Breda St Ledger, Child Rearing, Childhood, Conkers, Food, Scraps, Shopping

Biddy Barrett, Mary Healy, Aisling Murphy, Denis O'Flaherty

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Biddy, Mary and Denis, in the presence of social worker Aisling, gather to recall and share memories of Lent, family, War of Independence, Cobh and Childhood as part of the Wetgate Collection.

Tags: Ash Wednesday, Childhood, Church, Cobh, Down Syndrome, Family, Fasting, Half-Door, Lent, Palm Sunday, Pouladuff, turf, War of Independence

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

Edith O'Regan: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life

Edith grew up in Youghal where she recalls playing childhood games including Red Rover, chainey, a makeshift tennis and sandcastles on the beach. Describes attending school in cold substandard buildings. Preferred self-directed learning to rote…

Tags: A & E, A and E, Accident and Emergency, Addiction, Administration, Adult Supervision, Alcohol, Ambition, Ambitions, Anatomy, Appointment, Appointments, Attitudes to Health, Authority, Autonomy, Babies, Baby, Beach, Bicycle, Bicycles, Bicycling, Bike, Bikes, Books, Bored, Boredom, Building, Buildings, Built Heritage, Bull, Bullying, Bureaucracy, Car Park, Car Parking, Career, Career Path, Careers, Central Heating, Child Abuse, Childhood, Childhood Games, Children, Children’s Games, Clerical, Clerical Staff, Clinic, Clinics, Communal, Community, Computer, Computers, Confidence, Consultant, Consultants, Cork University Hospital, CUH, Cycling, Decision-Making, Decisions, Degree, Deprivation, Deprived Areas, Disability Access, Discipline, Dispensary, Dissection, Doctor, Doctoring, Doctors, Documents, Drink, Drunk, Edel House, Emigration, Employment, Exam, Examination, Examinations, Exams, Expectation, Expectations, Feminism, Feminist, Fields, Files, Filing, Game, Games, General Practice, GP, Grattan Street, Gurranabraher, Health, Healthcare, Heat, Heating, Hierarchy, Home Life, Homeless, Hospital, Hospital Ward, Hospital Wards, HSE, Hurt, Husband, Injury, Job, Late, Lateness, Learning, Marriage, Marriages, Marsh, Mathematics, Maths, Medical Centre, Medical Student, Medical Students, Medical Training, Medication, Medication Training, Medicine, Medicines, Mental Health, Mercy Hospital, Middle Parish, Middle Parish Community Centre, Nature, New Zealand, Nuns, Nurse, Nurses, Nursing, Occupation, Paper, Paperwork, Parents, Parking, Patient, Patients, PHN, Playing, Power, Premature Babies, Premature Baby, Public Health, Public Health Nurse, Public Health Nurses, Quaker, Quakers, Registry Office, Religion, Reluctant Patient, Reluctant Patients, Reputation, Resilience, Resilient, Resource, Resources, Responsibility, Role of Women, Room, Rooms, Routine, RTE, Rules, Sandcastles, School, School Days, Schooldays, Schoolwork, Sea, Seaside, Security, Services, SHARE, Social Disadvantage, Social Work, Social Worker, Social Workers, Sport, Spouse, St Mary's Health Campus, St Mary’s Health Campus, Staff, Student, Student Life, Students, Substance Abuse, Teacher, Teachers, Teaching, Technology, Television, Temperature Control, Tennis, The Marsh, The Middle Parish, Tide, Tides, Time, Training, Transport, Transportation, Travel, TV, UCC, University, University College Cork, Vocation, Ward, Wards, Wedding, Weddings, Welfare, Wellington, Women, Women in Work, Women's Lives, Work, Working, Working life, Workload, Youghal

Sean Higgisson: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life

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Sean grew up by the Lough in Cork city and spent holidays in Ardmore. Describes his family home and memories of his grandparents. Talks about playing football and the game Red Rover as a child. His mother was not allowed to keep her job in the public…

Tags: Admin, Administration, Adrmore, Ardmore, Atmosphere, Aunts, Baking, Ballincollig, Ballincollig Regional Park, Ballyphehane, Bedroom, Bishopstown, Bon Secours Hospital, Bons, Book, Books, Bread, Brothers, Building, Building Maintenance, Buildings, Built Heritage, Camera, Car Theft, Career, Career Choice, Career Decision, Career Options, Childhood, Childhood Games, Children, Children’s Games, Class, Clothes, Clothing, Coláiste Spioraid Naoimh, Colleagues, Community Welfare, Community Welfare Officer, Cork, Course, Courses, Crime, CSN, Death, Decision Making, Decisions, Disrepair, Duties, Dying, Elderly, Emigrant, Emigrant Experience, Emigration, Engineering, England, Family, Family Life, Floods, Food, Football, France, Free Time, Games, ghost, Ghosts, Gift, Gifts, Grandfather, Grandmother, Grandparents, Health, Health Centre, Health Services, Healthcare, Heating, Hill, Hill Walk, Hill Walking Club, Hills, Hillwalk, Hillwalking, Hillwalking Guide, Hobbies, Hobby, Holiday, Holidays, Home, House, HSE, Independent, Ireland, Irish Language, Knitting, Latin, Leaving Cert, Leaving Certificate, Leisure, Life, Liverpool, London, Lough, Mahon, Maintenance, Mardyke, Marriage, Mass, Mercy Hospital, Middle Parish, Mother, Mountain, Mountain Ranges, Mountains, North Main Street, Northside, Nurse, Nursing Home, Outdoors, Outlook on Life, Outook, Paint, Painter, Painting, Paints, Parents, Patient, Patients, PBC, Perspective on Life, Photographs, Photography, Playing, Porter, Pres, Present, Presentation Brothers, Presents, Public Amenities, Publish, Publishing, Quakers, Redemption Road, Responsibility, Role of Women, School, School Days, Schooldays, Science, Scool, Siblings, Social Media, Solitude, Sport, St Joseph’s School, Staff, Stories, Taxi, Taxis, Teacher, Teachers, The Lough, The Marsh, Training, Uncles, Vaccination, Vaccines, Walk, Walking, Women, Women in Work, Work, Working life, Worklife, Workplace

Liam Ó hUigín: Grattan Street, Healthcare, The Marsh

Liam grew up on Henry Street in The Marsh and recalls playing football on Grattan Street which was busy and full of activity with businesses, pubs, shops a fire station, barber shops and tenements. He discusses some shops and games in more…

Tags: Accommodation, Adelaide Street, Air Raid Shelter, Alcohol, Bakeries, Bakery, Ballypheane, Ballyphehane, Barbers, bars, Bathing, Baths, Billycan, Bonfire Night, Bread, Breakfast, Broad Lane, Buildings, Bullycans, Business, businesses, Buying on Credit, Cagney, Car, Cars, Catholic Devotion, Catholicism, Cemetery, changing technology, Chase, Chemist, Childhood, Childhood Games, Children, Children’s Games, Christmas, Christmas Cake, Church, Churches, Cigarettes, Class, Clothes, Clothing, Coal, Coal Quay, Coleman’s Lane, Community Centre, Connie Dodgers, Cooking, Corner Shop, Corner Shops, Credit, Credit Union, Crubeen, Crubeens, Customer, Customers, Dagenham Yank, Death, Dermot’s Shop, Disease, Diseases, Dispensary, Docker, Dockers, Docks, Dr, Drink, Drisheen, Eglinton Baths, Elizabeth Fort, Elysian Tower, Emigrant, Emigrants, Emigration, Employment, Families, Family, Fast, Fasting, Father, Fighting, Fights, Fire Brigade, Fire Station, Fishermen, Food, Football, Friends, Friendship, Fuel, Fuel Poverty, Gender Roles, Golf, Grandmother, Grattan Street, Grattan Street Health Centre, Grattan Street Medical Centre, Graveyard, Great Coat, Hair Lice, Hairdresser, Hairdressers, Headstones, Health, Heating, Henry Street, Hobbies, Home, Hospital, House, Illness, Illnesses, Jewellery, Lanes, Laneways, LDF, Lee, Lee Baths, Lee Fields, Lent, Lice, Living Arrangements, Local Defence Force, Lunch, Manning’s Shop, Mardyke, Marsh, Mass, Mass-Going, Meal, Meals, Meat, Medication, Medicine, Medicines, Meningitis, Mental Health, Mercy Hospital, Middle Parish, Midwife, Mischief, Money, Mother, North Main Street, Nurse, Nurses, Opening Hours, Outdoor Baths, Outdoor Swimming, Outdoor Toilet, Parents, Pastimes, Patrick Hanley Buildings, Pawn Shops, Pawning, Pawns, Pawnshops, Peter Church Lane, Pharmacist, Pharmacy, Phone, Phones, Planking, Playing, Poverty, Public House, Public Houses, Pubs, Race, Radio, Religion, River Lee, Sandwich, Sanitation, School, Schooldays, Second World War, Shandon, Shandon Bells, Sheares Street, Shoes, Shopkeeper, Shops, Sick, Sickness, Skipping, Skipping School, Slang, Soccer, Social Conditions, South Main Street, Spinning Top, Sport, St Francis Church, St Peter’s, St Peter’s Cemetery, St. Francis Church, Street Games, Streets, Sugar, Sullivan’s Quay, Sweets, Swim, Swimming, Telephone, Telephones, Tenement, tenement houses, Tenements, Terence MacSwiney, The Lee, The Marsh, The Middle Parish, Theft, Tin, Tinsmith, Toilet, Toilets, Tory Top Road, Traditions, Traffic, Tripe, Tripe and Drisheen, Vaccination, vaccine, Vaccines, Vegetables, Vincent’s Bridge, Voucher, Vouchers, Watches, Weir, Winter, Woolworths, Work, Working, World War II, World War Two, WW2

Joe Scanlan: Grattan Street, Healthcare, The Marsh

Joe recalls the dispensary on Grattan Street, its waiting room and the names of the doctors who worked there. He describes in detail his visit there to get a vaccination as a child. Discusses medical treatments administered at home by his mother…

Tags: Accommodation, Addiction, Adelaide Street, Alcohol, Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholism, Alleys, Angler, Angling, Animals, Anti-Social Behaviour, Asylum, Bailiff, Bar, bars, boys fighting, Bread, Building, Built Heritage, Car, Car Park, Caretaker, Carpark, Cars, Cart, Cemetery, Characters, Childhood, Children, Children’s Games, Chipper, Chippers, Chips, Cigarettes, Cinema, City Centre, Clothes, Coal Quay, Cocoa, Coleman’s Lane, Community, Cooking, Cork Characters, Corporal Punishment, Crime, Dermot’s Shop, development, Disease, Diseases, Dispensary, Doctor, Doctors, Drink, Edel House, Families, Family, Farmers, Father, Fighting, Fights, Film, Films, Fish and Chips, Fishing, Fishing Rod, Fitzgerald’s Park, Fleas, Food, Forde’s, Friends, Fruit, Gamblers Anonymous, Games, Garda, Gardai, Grandmother, Grattan Street, Graveyard, Halloween, Headlice, Health, health and hygiene, Home, Home Ownership, Horse, Horse and Cart, Horses, House, House Ownership, Housing, HSE, Hygiene, Ice-cream, Illness, income inequality, Inequality, Joseph’s School, Kick the Bucket, Lee Fields, Lice, Liver, Liver Disease, London, markets, Marsh, Mass, Meals, Medication, Medicine, Mercy Hospital, Methodone, Middle Parish, Money, Mother, Mumps, Munster Furniture, Munster Furniture and Hardware, Narcotics Anonymous, North Main Street, Parents, Parking, Pawn, Pawn Shop, Pawn Shops, Pawning, Pawns, Pawnshop, Pawnshops, People, Pharmacist, Pictures, Playing, Pothole, Potholes, Poverty, Prescription, Presentation Brothers, Priest, Produce, protests, Pubs, Recycling, Religion, Ryan’s Bar, Ryan’s Pub, Safety, School, Selling, Shawl, Shawlies, Shawls, Sheares Street, Shoes, Shopkeeper, Shopping, Shops, Sickness, smoking, Sober, Sobriety, St Anne's Mental Asylum, St Joseph’s School, St Peter’s, St Peter’s Cemetery, St. Anne's Asylum, St. Anne’s, St. Francis Church, St. Francis School, St. Peter’s Cemetery, Stealing, student accommodation, Students, Sweets, Swim, Swimming, Tanora, Teacher, Teachers, Teenager, The Marsh, The Middle Parish, Theft, Tomb, Treat, Treats, Uptown Grill, Vaccination, vaccine, Vaccines, Vegetables, Violence, Waiting Room, Woodbine, Woodbines, Woodford Bourne, Woodford Bourne's, Woodford Bournes

Imelda Cunning: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life

Imelda grew up in Bathgate between Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland. Her mother was from Cork so Imelda spent time in Whitegate in her youth where she enjoyed the relative freedom she had there playing children’s games and spending time on beaches…

Tags: Administration, Alcohol, Amputation, Area Medical Officer, Ballyphehane, Beach, Biomechanics, Camaraderie, Canteen, Car Park, Car Parking, Career, Childhood, Children, Children’s Games, Christmas, Client, Clients, Community, Cork, Corkbeg, Corkbeg Beach, Counselling, Course, Deformity, Diabetes, Disease, Diseases, Dispensary, Doctor, Edinburgh, Employment, Family, Feet, Flood, Floods, Foot, Foot Care, Gangrene, Glasgow, GP, Grand-aunt, Grandfather, Grandmother, Grandparents, Grattan Street, Grattan Street Medical Centre, Greenmount, Gurranabraher, Health, Health Career, History Curriculum, Holiday, Holidays, HSE, Illness, Inch beach, Infection, Irish History, Irish Medicines Board, Job, Marriage Registrar, Marsh, Medical, Medicine, Middle Parish, Music, Nail Surgery, Nails, Neurovascular Disease, Optician, Optometrist, Parking, Patient, Patients, Playing, Podiatry, Polio, Prescription, Quakers, Refugees, Rickets, Roches Point, School, Scotland, Sickness, Ski, Skiing, Speech and Language, St. Mary’s Primary Care Centre, Staff, Surgery, Swine Flu, TB, Teacher, Teachers, The Marsh, The Middle Parish, Trabolgan, Training, Tuberculosis, Ulcer, University, Vaccination, vaccine, Vaccines, Whitegate, Work, Work Environment, Working life

Eileen Kearney: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life

Eileen grew up in Tallow in west Waterford in a family of seven. Her father ran the family butcher business attached to the house. She recalls him singing and whistling, and the sawdust on the shop floor. Recalls meat and tripe being sold and…

Tags: Acute Care, Addiction, Admin, Administration, Alcohol, Alcoholics, Alcoholism, Animals, Ante-natal, Barnardos, Behavioural Issues, Black Pudding, Boarding School, Building, Building Maintenance, Buildings, Built Heritage, Butchers, Camaraderie, Car Park, Car Parking, Care of Children, Carmelites, Change, Child, Child Protection, Child Welfare, Childhood, Children, Christmas, Christmas Party, Client, Clients, Colleagues, Community, Cooking, Cork, Corporal Punishment, Deprivation, Dinner, Disabilities, Disability, Drisheen, Education, European Health Insurance, Family Support, Farm, Fermoy, Fermoy Hospital, Food, Grandparents, Grattan Street, Happy Memories, Hockey, Hollis Street Hospital, Hollyhill, Home, Hospital, Hospital Ward, Hospitals, House, Housing, HSE, Junior Cert, Kitchen, Knocknaheeny, Loreto College Fermoy, Love, Maintenance, Management, Mart, Marts, Meal, Meals, Meat, Memories, Mental Health, Mercy Hospital, Midwife, Midwifery, Motherhood, North Cork, North Lee, Northside, Nurse, Nursing, Nursing Training, Parents, Patient, Patients, People, PHN, Playing, Polypharmacy, Pregnancy, Public Health Nursing, Religion, Religion in Medicine, Role of Religion, Rosary, School, School Expenses, Self-neglect, Shop, Siblings, Single Mothers, Sláinte Care, Slaughter House, Social, Social Conditions, Social Disadvantage, Sport, St Francis Church, St. Mary’s Primary Care Centre, Staff, Staff Turnover, Strike, Tallow, Training, Tripe, Tusla, Unemployment, Vaccines, Ward, Waterford, Work, Workers, Working, Workplace

Don Morrissy: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life

Don recalls his entrepreneurial great-aunt who owned the Grand Hotel in Fermoy. Recounts early years in the Grattan Street Dispensary building where his father was the pharmacist. Describes growing up on the Mardyke close to St Joseph’s School and…

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