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- Tags: Childhood Games
Denis O'Flaherty
Tags: Accommodation, army, ball, Ballincollig, barrel, Bold Gendarmes, Cake, Childhood Games, choir, Communion, Cooking, Cork, Danny Hobbs, Emigration, England, Family, Farm, field, fight, Food, Football, Games, Garda, Greenmount School, Home, Horgan’s Buildings, House, Hurling, kettle, Lee Baths, Lough Church, Magazine Road, market garden, Marriage, Mother, pitch and putt, Pouladuff, Racism, RAF, Railways, relationship, road, Robert McCarthy, Sergeant Sullivan, sing, song, steering car, the brown bomber, The Lough, Thompsons Bakery, westgate, Work, Worklife, wren, Wycherley Terrace, Youghal, Youth
Una Lyons: Oliver Plunkett Street, Cinemas, English Market
The street was quite residential but…
Tom Jones: Shandon Street, Emigration, Childhood
He remembers watching the Cork Opera House on fire in 1955. He recalls childhood games and explains the game of Kick the Can and Pitch and Toss. He talks about the nature of…
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…
Sheila Dalton: Family Life; Marriage; Childhood
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
Karina Abdulbaneeva: Art, Russia, London, Spirituality, Nature, Nationality, New Year’s Day, Religion,
Rev John Farris: Civil Rights, Christianity, Northern Ireland
Reverend…
Patrick O’Connor
He discusses the Polio outbreak in Cork in the 1950s and…
Tags: A Lop, Abatoirs, Acting, Aloys Fleischmann senior, Altar boy, Andy Gaw, Appendicitis, Aruba Coughlan, Bags of flour, Ballet, Bandon Railway line Albert Quay, Barrys Auction House Academy St, Bells Field, Bellsa, Bert, Billa O Connell, Billy Mahoney, Bing Crosby, Bishop Con Lucey, Bishop Daniel Cohalan, Bishops Palace, Black and Tans, Blackpool, Blackpool church, Blarney Castle Hotel, boxcars, Boxing, Brassballs sign, Bringing turf in boxcar, Bristol, Brother Andrews, Bunting, Burkie, Burning of Cork, Cart Horses, Cathedral Credit Union, Cattle droving, Charles Lynch, Chevonier, Chevron door, Childhood Games, Chimney stack, choir, Chris Curran, Christmas, Christy Ring, Church Of Ireland, Cinemas, Civil War, Classical music, Coal Quay, Coliseum, Comedian, Cork boatmen, Cork Characters, Cork City Hall, Cork Examiner, Cork Shakespearean Company, Cork slang, Corporal Punishment, Coupon for turf, Crane Lane office, Crubeens, Currys Rock, Daughters Of Charity, Denny’s meats, Dickie Glue, Dockers, Dodge Car, Dog Bran, Domestic violence, Dominicans, Donnellys Bakery, Doors in North Chapel nicknames, Dr Dundon, Dr Healy, Dr Kevin Burke, Drag Hunt, Dwyers Fire Escape, Eamon de Valera, Eileen Curran, Eucharistic Hurling Match, Eucharistic Procession, Feck, Fever Hospital, Fever Steps, Films shown North Mon, Fishermen, Flour bags recycled to bedsheets, Ford Boxes, Fords, Forrest Family, Fr Daly, Fr O Flynn, GAA match ferry, Gardai, Germany, Getting a langie, Glen & the Barrs, Gravedock, Grenades, Gutties, Gutty, Halfpenny Door, Hardchaw, Hattons Bakery, Herr Fleischmann, Holy Joe, Hurling, Hurling matches, Industrial Revolution, Innishfallen Ferry, IRA, IRA pensions, Jack Lynch, Jamjars, Jews in Cork, Jeyes Fluid, Jimmy Crowley, John F Kennedy Cork Visit, John Redmond St, John St, Johnny Jump Up, Jones Pawn Shop, Jussi Björling, Kathy Barry, Kenmare cattle boat, Keysers Hill, Kilgrews Shop, Kippins, Klondyke, Langey On The Bus, Laurel And Hardy, Lee Fields, Lee Road, Lee Road Waterworks, Lido, Lifeboats, Linehans Sweet Factory, Lofty, Lower Glanmire Road, Malting House, Mass, Maureens Bar, Mental Health, Michael Collins, Mills Bombs, Moneylenders, Mortuary, Mr Burke bomb maker, Mr Horsford, Mr McCarthy, Mrs Horowitz, Murphys Brewery, Murphys Houses, Murphys Rock, Murphys shaft, Music, Nana Connell, National Grain Silo, Niall Toibin, North Cathedral, North Chapel, North Chapel Renovations, North Gate Bridge, North Infirmary, North Mon, North Monastery, North Pres, Northside versus Southside, Nuns, O Flynn brothers, On The Lang, Opera, Opera House fire, Organ, Our Lady’s Mental Hospital, Pa Coughlans bar, Pairc Ui Caoimh, Panto, Parkinsons disease, Passage West, Pat Buckleys Bar, Patricks Hill, Pawn Shops, Peck of coal, Penny Door, Penny on railway line, Pianist, Pigs, Polio outbreak 1956, Psychiatric nurse, Public Baths Blackrock, Queen Elizabeth 2, Queen Of England, Raids, Railway overalls, Recovering bodies, Redemption Road, Rifle butts, River Lee, Road Bowling, Roman Street, Royal Doctor, Rubrics, Salonica song, Santa Claus, Savoy, School, Sculpture, Seamus Murphy, Shandon St, Shawlies, Shawls, Sheep, Shell Oil, Shipbuilding, Ships scrapped, Shops on Roman St, Sing songs, Sister Monica McCarthy, Slaughtering geese, Small Nana, Smather of snuff, smoking, Speech training, St Annes Church Shandon, St Marys Hall, St Stephens Day, Steering Cars, Street children, Sunbeam Woolsey, Tenor, The Bells Of St Marys, The Loft, The Log, The Mardyke, The Old Reliable bar, The Rancher, The Wran, Thunder up the alley, Tilly Fleischmann, Trade Unions, Treaty, turf, turkeys, UCC Music Department, University College Cork, Vatican 2, Veterans, Walcker Orgelbau Organ builders, War of Independence, Washing windows, Watercourse Road, Westerns, William Dunlea, William Dwyer, Wolfe Tone St, Woodbines, World War 1, Wren Boys
Paddy Marshall: Blackpool, Pidgeon Racing, Cinema,
Noreen Cronin: Shandon, The North Infirmary, Childhood
Noreen Hanover: Christmas, Childhood Games, Cinema, Ghost stories, Milk and Cake Shops, Pawnbrokers, St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Working life,
Noel Keohane
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, accountant, Alcohol, Amby Fogarty, Apprenticeship, Arcadia grand parade, Bailiff, ball-hopping, Ballyvollane road, Ban on foreign games, Ban on foreign sports, Bicycle, Bike, Blackpool, Blackrock, Blarney Castle Knitwear, boxcar, Brian Dillon’s, Buckley’s, Café, Career, career progression, Cars, Cavan, Chessies, chestnutes, chicken, Childhood Games, Chips, choir, Christmas, Clothes, Coal Quay, Coburg Street, Collins’ Barracks, Conkers, Cork, Cork Celtic, Cork Hibs, Cork Shoe Company, cork sport, Coronation Street, Corsses Green, cowboys and Indians, credit business, Croke Park, Crosshaven, deafness, Dementia, Doctors, Donnacha O’Callaghan, Dr English, Dr Kiely, Dr Kingston, Factory, fairy garden, Family, Father, Fish, Fishing, Flynns, Fob and Gill, Food, GAA, Gardai, Gardening, Gardiner’s Hill, George Dwyer, Golf, Good Wear, Grandmother, Health, holiday home, IRA, Ireland’s Got Talent, Jack Healy’s, John Daly, jumpers, Kiely's field, Killarney, knitwear industry, Knitwear Technician, Lee Hosiery, machines, Majorca, Mallow Road, manager, Mayfield Community School, McCurtain Street, McSweeney’s shop, Medicine, Men’s Shed, Miah Dennehy, Mischief, Money, Montenotte, Mr Good, Neil Prendeville, Nicknames, North Monastery Tech, Northside, Parents, Paul Quill, personality, playground, poaching, Poverty, priests, Quills, Raleigh, rally driving, Regal Show Band, respect, Ringmahon Rangers, Roy Orbison, Saint Patrick’s boy School, Saint Patrick’s Girl’s School, sawdust, schools, Sewing Machine Mechanic industry, Shandon Street, Showbands, Singing, slagging, smoking, Soccer, Spain, Sport, Springmount Lodge, St Killian’s, stoker, strawkhauling, Super Valu, Tank Field, Television, textiles, The Glen, Thunder up the alley, trade show, Train, Trains, Travel, Uniforms, Vegetables, VG Stores, Wolseley, woodwork, Work, Worklife
Michael O'Callaghan: Togher, Emigration, Summer Holidays,
Mary Sheehy: Gurranabraher, Street Traders, Bonfire Night
As a child, she had to wear…
Mary Marshall: Blackpool, Childhood, Hunting,
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 McAllen: Ballyphehane
Tags: Ballincollig, Ballyphehane, Ballyphehane House, Black and Tans, Blackrock, Bodice, Burning of Cork, Capwell, Childhood Games, Coláiste Chríost Rí, Connolly Road, Doyle Road, Dunlop, Food, Fr Theobald Matthew, Friars Walk, Games, Glassey Alleys, Gobs, Halloran’s Orchard, Hangdog Road, Haunted house, I.R.A, Innisfallen, Leaders Clothing Shop, Liam ÓhUigín, Marbles, Market Gardens, McAllen, Nicknames, Pouladuff Road, Reendowny Place, Rhymes, Ska, Skipping, St Joseph's Cemetery, St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Tory Top Lane, Tramore Road, Tripe and Drisheen
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…
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