Browse Items (43 total)
- Tags: Childhood Games
Liam Ó hUigín: Henry Street, Bonfire Night, Childhood Games, Messenger Boys.
He was a messenger boy in the 1950s; he talks about the job and its good and bad aspects. He…
Pat Speight: Northside, Childhood Games, Schooldays,
Eileen Claffey: Childhood Games, Food, Farming, Festivals, Irish Language,
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Celebration, Childhood Games, Cork 2005, Eileen Claffey, Farming, Festivals, Food, Irish Language, West Cork
Noreen Hanover: Christmas, Childhood Games, Cinema, Ghost stories, Milk and Cake Shops, Pawnbrokers, St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Working life,
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
Isabelle Sheridan: English Market, Food, Culture
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
Kay O’Carroll: The Northside, Emigration, Childhood Games, Music, Tenements,
Kay was…
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Catholicism, Celebration, Childhood Games, Children, Christenings, Churchfield, City Hall, Cork 2005, Croppy Boy, Emigration, Fairhill, Farming, Fitzgerald’s Park, Glassey Alleys, Grants, Gurranabraher, Holy Communion, Humour, Kay O’Carroll, Music, Nash’s Boreen, North Main Street, Oliver Plunkett Street, Patrick’s Street, Pawn Shops, Picky, School, Scullys, Shawls, Singers, Social Class, Sun Valley Drive, Tenements, The Mardyke, The Munster Arcade, The Queen’s Old Castle, The Savoy, The Tivoli Restaurant, Weddings, Wolfe Tone Street, Youghal
Emeka Ikebuasi: Customs, Nigeria, Political Unrest, Stories, Refugee
Noreen Geaney: Childhood Games, Céilí, Halloween, School, The Stations.
Noreen was born in Cuileann Ui Chaoimh in Co. Cork. She had three sisters and one brother. She attended Owen na Bui National School. She lived…
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Céilí, Celebration, Childhood Games, Cork 2005, Corporal Punishment, Dublin, Farming, Fish, Food, Funerals, Halloween, Noreen Geaney, School, Teachers, The Stations
Karina Abdulbaneeva: Art, Russia, London, Spirituality, Nature, Nationality, New Year’s Day, Religion,
Brigid Carmody: Traveling Community, Tradition, Change,
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
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…
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
Breda Sheehan: Halloween Games, Childhood Games, Family
Brenda Twomey: Coal Quay, Peg Twomey's, Childhood Games
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Brenda Twomey, Childhood Games, Coal Quay, Peggy Twomey
Eileen Jones: Blackpool, Shawlies, Sunbeam,
There was…
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Banks, Blackpool, Bonfire Night, Childhood Games, Christenings, Clothing, Dublin Hill, Eileen Jones, Killcully, Midwifery, Murphy's Rock, Razza, Roches Stores, Shandon Street, Shawlie, Shawls, St Mary's Hall, Sunbeam, Thomas Davis Street, Traveling Community, Welsh's Lane
Mary Marshall: Blackpool, Childhood, Hunting,
Paddy Marshall: Blackpool, Pidgeon Racing, Cinema,
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