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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…
Tina recalls some of a skipping rhyme she used to sing as…
Rev John Farris: Civil Rights, Christianity, Northern Ireland
Reverend Faris is a Presbyterian minister. His family had connections with Cork. He discusses his childhood impressions of differences between Northern Ireland and the Republic, as well as commenting on aspects of the Christian ritual year.
Reverend…
Reverend…
Peggy Kelleher: The Lough, Marriage, World War 2
Peggy (born 1930s) grew up in Hartland's Road, near The Lough. She was an only child. Her father, William Power, from County Waterford; he worked at the Munster Arcade and lived through the Burning of Cork by the Black and Tans in 1920; he was…
Patrick O’Connor
Patrick O'Connor grew up on Roman St down the road from North Chapel/Cathedral. He recalls playing in the graveyard of St Annes Shandon. and speaks of childhood games of the time.
He discusses the Polio outbreak in Cork in the 1950s and…
He discusses the Polio outbreak in Cork in the 1950s and…
Noreen Cronin: Shandon, The North Infirmary, Childhood
Noreen grew up in a tenement in Dominick Street next to Shandon in the early 1950s. She went to the North Pres School and worked at the North Infirmary. Her mother used to deliver babies in the area and helped to wash and lay out the dead. Her…
Noreen Hanover: Christmas, Childhood Games, Cinema, Ghost stories, Milk and Cake Shops, Pawnbrokers, St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Working life,
Noreen grew up during the 1950s in Nicholas Church Place, off Cove Street. She says the house was a tenement house shared with a family who lived upstairs. She went to the South Presentation Convent School. Her father died when she was 10. She left…
Noel Keohane
Noel Keohane grew up in the area around Gardiner's Hill on the North side of Cork city, and describes the surrounding area of his youth including Kiely's Field. He mentions places and people, including Gardaí, as well as childhood games, sports…
Noel Magnier: Gerald Griffin Street, Shops, Box Cars,
Noel has written a book about growing up in Cork in the 1940s and 1950s, called Is That You, Boy? He was born (1939) and reared in Gerald Griffin Street. He has 4 siblings. He recalls the shops and businesses on the street.
Denny’s cellar was a…
Denny’s cellar was a…
Michael O’Flynn: Fire Brigade; Vandalism; Change;
Michael has worked most of his life with Cork fire brigade, a job he loves, and he describes the nature of his job, the training required, and its dangers and rewards.
Michael grew up in Turner’s Cross.
He works as a fireman. In the 1960s there…
Michael grew up in Turner’s Cross.
He works as a fireman. In the 1960s there…
Maura O’Connell: Orthopaedic Hospital, Working Life, Healthcare
Maura was matron of the Orthopaedic Hospital for 20 years until her retirement in 1997. In this interview Maura recalls the various roles she had in the hospital prior to her being appointed matron.
Maura recalls that the nurses residents on the…
Maura recalls that the nurses residents on the…
Mary O'Sullivan: Orthopaedic Hospital, Working Life, Kitchen Staff
Mary worked in the hospital kitchen for 35 years from 1973.
She describes the type of work that the kitchen staff had to preform, from cooking in the kitchen to scrubbing the walls in the corridors.
Mary says there there would be 7 staff on per…
She describes the type of work that the kitchen staff had to preform, from cooking in the kitchen to scrubbing the walls in the corridors.
Mary says there there would be 7 staff on per…
Marie-Annick Desplanques: Brittany, Breton, Coiffe, Crêperie, Foodways, France, Children's Games.
Marie-Annick Desplanques grew up in Brittany, west France. She moved about frequently as a child because her father worked on the railways. She discusses food, games, Christmas in France as well as moving to Ireland from Newfoundland and the…
Margaret Newman: Sunbeam Factory; Christmas, Nicknames,
Margaret Newman was born in 1922. She explains that before the Sunbeam factory there was a flax mill, which employed some children in the late 1800s.
How children ordered their presents from Santa.
Note: This is one of 4 interviews conducted with…
How children ordered their presents from Santa.
Note: This is one of 4 interviews conducted with…
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…
Emeka Ikebuasi: Customs, Nigeria, Political Unrest, Stories, Refugee
Emeka Ikebuasi from Nigeria describes the harrowing political events which led to his family coming to Cork as refugees. He talks, in depth, of his village upbringing in Nigeria and highlights village ceremonies, the telling of stories, witch doctors…
Breda Sheehan: Halloween Games, Childhood Games, Family
Breda (born circa 1950) grew up in Spring Lane, Blackpool. As a child she used to play in The Glen, which was then in the countryside. The neighbourhood houses were small, with an outside toilet, so that every Saturday the children were washed in a…
Biddy Barrett, Felix Barrett, Anthony Hegarty, Denis O'Flaherty
Biddy, Felix, Tony and Denis gather to reminisce and share their early memories of Christmas traditions in Donoughmore, Cork city, Liverpool and Northern Ireland, family life, cooking on the bastible and range, supernatural belief, ‘the wran’ and…
Eleanor Ford and Rita Sisk
Rita Sisk: Grew up in Shandon. Worked in Sunbeam during the 1960s until the birth of her first child.
Eleanor Ford: Grew up in Gurranbraher. Worked in Sunbeam during the 1960s before emigrating to London. Later returned to Ireland.
Philomena Cassidy: Grattan Street, Healthcare, The Marsh
Phil grew up in a tenement on Grattan Street and worked in O’Gorman’s Hat Factory and Dunlop’s before getting married and starting a family. She gives a very detailed description of the lanes, houses, shops and families on Grattan Street and the…