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- Tags: Childhood Games
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
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…
Mary Sheehy: Gurranabraher, Street Traders, Bonfire Night
As a child, she had to wear…
Noreen Cronin: Shandon, The North Infirmary, Childhood
Liam Ó hUigín: Henry Street, The Marshes, Childhood
He recalls the practice of adding “a” to the end of some placenames, such as Pana for Patrick Street. There…
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Childhood Games, Churches, Clothing, Confectionery, Daly’s Bridge, Dunnes Stores, English market, Henry Street, Liam Ō hUigín, Mackey Gumboil, Mardyke, Milk and Cake Shops, Ogilvy and Moore’s, ohn Daly, Patrick Street, Pike family, Pike’s Marsh, Portney’s Lane, Pubs, Quakers, River Lee, Robert Day’s, Shaky Bridge, Sheares Street, Shops, Slang, Sport, Tenements, The Savoy, William Penn
Una Lyons: Oliver Plunkett Street, Cinemas, English Market
Michael O'Callaghan: Togher, Emigration, Summer Holidays,
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
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
Eibhlís de Barra: Northside, Gender, Childhood Games
She recalls childhood games such as The Chaineys, and The Gobs, and Scaa, the latter two played with small stones. She quotes some of the skipping…
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, Childhood Games, Death, Eibhlís de Barra, Gender Roles, Halloween, Mardyke, Northside
Kieran O Leary: Cillian Murphy, Queens Old Castle, Ballinlough
John Connolly: Childhood Games; Corporal Punishment; Family Life
John Connolly: Childhood Games; John F. Kennedy
He talks about Christy Ring and Cork GAA and the atmosphere of match day.
John also talks a bout some childhood games. He mentions a holy well in Failhill called Fahy's Well.
Rev John Farris: Civil Rights, Christianity, Northern Ireland
Reverend…
Edith O'Regan: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life
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
"Mary": Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Accommodation, ADHD, Ambulance, Animals, Anti-Vax, Australia, Babies, Baby, Bales of Hay, Bed Wetting, Bedtime, Bicycle, Bicycles, Bicycling, Bike, Bike. Bikes, Birth, Bread, bread and breadmaking, Breadmaking, Building, Buildings, Built Heritage, Bullying, Bureaucracy, Bus, Calf, Camaraderie, Candle, Candles, Canteen, Car Park, Car Parking, Career, Career Choice, Career Decision, Career Guidance, Career Path, Careers, Castletroy, Change, Chemist, Child Welfare, Childhood, Childhood Games, Children, Christmas, City Hall, Cleaners, Clinic, Clinics, Clothes, Clothing, Co. Limerick. County Limerick, Coal Quay, Colleagues, Community, Community Welfare, Cooking, Cork, Cork city, Court, Court Case, Cow, Death, Decision, Dementia, Disability, Disease, Diseases, Dispensary, Disrepair, Dressings, Drisheen, Duties, Educate Together, Electricity, Emigration, English market, Family, Family Life, Farm, Farming, Farmlife, Father, Flats, Fleas, Flooding, Floods, Food, Frustration, Games, Glasgow, GP, Grattan Street, Hay, Health, Health Promotion, Health Services, Healthcare, Healthy, Hens, History, Hoarding, Home, Hospital, House, Houses, Housing, HPV, HPV Vaccine, HSE, Hygiene, Illness, Illnesses, Income, Irish Language, Kitchen, Knocknaheeney, Labour Ward, Lane, Laneway, Learning, Limerick, Limerick city, Marriage, Marsh, Meals, Medicine, Medicines, Memories, Memory, Mental Hospital, Mental Issues, Mercy Hospital, Middle Parish, Midwife, Midwifery, MMR, Mother, Mushrooms, Music, Night Work, North Main Street, Nun, Nuns, Nurse, Nurse Training, Nurses, Nursing, Nursing Home, Nursing Training, Orthopaedic, Our Lady’s Hospital, Paperwork, Parents, Parking, Patient, Patient Care, Patient Environment, Patients, Pharmacy, PHN, Polio, Pop Music, Porter, Potatoes, Priest, Public Health Nurse, Public Health Nursing. PHNs, Public Transport, Quakers, Religion, Remarriage, Rent, Role of Women, Routine, Sarsfield Court, Sarsfield’s Court, School, Schooldays, Sheares Street, Shift Work, Siblings, Sickness, Singing, Smell, Smells, smoking, Social Conditions, Songs, Spinster, St Francis Church, St Mary's Health Campus, St. Mary’s Primary Care Centre, Staff Canteen, Tea, Tea Room, Teacher, Teachers, Tenements, Textbooks, Thatch, The Marsh, The Middle Parish, Traditional Food, Transport, Tripe, Tripe and Drisheen, Uniform, USA Biscuits, Vaccination, Vaccinations, vaccine, Vaccines, Vegetables, Vocation, Ward, Wastage, Waste, Wheelchair, Winter, Women, Women's Lives, Work, Work Colleagues, Working, Working life, Worklife, Workplace, York Hill
Sean Higgisson: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life
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
Aoife O'Brien: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life
Tags: Accident, Accidents, Admin, Administration, Apron, Build Heritage, Building, Buildings, Built Heritage, Cake, Cake Shop, Canteen, Car, Car Park, Car Parking, Career, Career Decisions, Career Path, Cars, Cathedral Road, CD, CD Player, Cervical Test, Chalk, Change, Childhood, Childhood Games, Children’s Games, Christamas, Christamas Dinner, Christmas, Churchfield Green, Cigarettes, Clerical Officer, Clerical Work, Clinic, Colleagues, Community, Computer, Crime, Crimes, Database, Disability, Dispensary, Disrepair, Dolls, Drisheen, Dublin Hill, Duties, Fairies, Fairy, Family, Father, Floods, Food, Friends, Games, ghost, Glasses, Grandparents, Grattan Street, Grattan Street Medical Centre, Gurranabraher, Health Centre, HPV, HPV Vaccine, HSE, Instruments, Irish Steel, Job, Leaks, Lunch, Marriage, Meals, Medical Centre, Medicine, Memory, Music, Name, Names, Neighbour, Neighbourhood, Neighbours, News, North Main Street, Northside, Nurse, Office, Organising, Parents, Parking, Parties, Party, Patient, Patients, Perceptions, Picky, Porter, Poverty, Registry Office, Responsibility, Sanitary Towels, School, Schooldays, Scone, Scones, Secretarial Skills, Secretary, Shop, Shopping, Shops, Sibling, Sister, Skills, Skipping, Smell, Smells, smoking, Social life, St Mary's Health Campus, St Mary's Orthopeadic Hospital, St Mary’s Primary Care Centre, St Vincent's, Staff, Stories, Summer Holidays, Traditional Food, Traditions, Training, Tripe, Tripe and Drisheen, Vaccination, Vaccinations, vaccine, Vaccine Hesitancy, Vaccines, Wedding, Weddings, Work, Work Colleagues, Working, Working life, Worklife, Workplace, Youghal
Jane Ward: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life
Tags: Abbey Court House, America, Antique, Antiques, Apartments, Balbriggan, Ballyfermot, Belfast, Blackpool, Books, Boycott, Broken Leg, Buildings, Built Heritage, Car Park, Car Parking, Child, Childhood Games, Childhoood, Children, Children’s Health, Christmas Party, Co Dublin, Community, Confirmation, Cork, County Dublin, Court, Croke Park Agreement, Discipline, Drogheda, Dublin, Edel House, Emigrant, Emigrant Experience, Emigrants, Emigration, Enid Blyton, Family, Flats, Games, Garda, Georgian, ghost, Ghosts, Graffiti, Grattan Street, Grattan Street Health Centre, Gurranabraher, Haddington Road Agreement, Haunted house, Health, Hierarchy, Holy Communion, Holy Communion Breakfast, Home, Hospital, House, Housing, Hunger Strikes, Hygiene, Industry, Injection, Irish Language, Jervis Street Hospital, Knocknaheeny, Management, Martello Tower, Matron, Medical, Medicine, Medicines, Mercy Hospital, Midwife, Midwifery, MRSA, Needle, Needle Exchange, Neptune Stadium, Nun, Nuns, Nurse, Nursing, Nursing Training, Parking, PHN, Playing, Public Health, Public Health Nurse, Public Health Nursing, Quaker Meeting House, Quakers, Queens University Belfast, Reading, Regret, Regrets, Religion, Religion in Hospitals, Rent, Renting, Rotunda, Sea, Seaside, Shops, Siblings, Skerries, Social Work, St. Finbarr’s Hospital, St. Vincent de Paul, Storm, Swine Flu, Teenager, The Cold Chain, Trade Union, Trade Unions, Trades Union, Union, Unions, USA, Vaccination, vaccine, Vaccine Fridge, Vaccine Myths, Vaccine Storage, Vaccines