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- Tags: Coal Quay
Rosarii Comber: North Gate Chemist
Roger Herlihy: Imperial Hotel, South Mall, Commercial Buildings
He explains that South Mall used to be a channel of the River Lee and that is why some buildings on the street have…
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
Noreen Hannover: South Main Street
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Bishop Lucey Park, Christchurch, Coal Quay, Cove Street, CP shoes (free social welfare shoes), Enterprise Bar, Godsil’s (Castle Street), Grand Parade, Hadden’s Bakery, Hadden’s shop, Kilgrew’s, Killgrew’s, Nicholas Church Place, Noreen Hannover, North Cathedral, North Main Street, Roman House, Sean Jennings, Shandon, Social Class, South Main Street, The Brown Derby, The Flying Enterpris, Triskel Arts Centre
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
Mary Sheehy: Gurranabraher, Street Traders, Bonfire Night
As a child, she had to wear…
Mary Montgomery-McConville: Shandon Street, Peter and Paul's Church, Coal Quay
Erin O'Brien: Historic Spine
Tags: Barrack Street, Beamish and Crawford, Castle Street, City Centre Strategy, Coal Quay, Cork City Hall, Erin O’Brien, Historic Spine, Living Above the Shops Scheme, MacCurtain Street, Medieval, Munster Furniture, North Main Street, Oliver Plunkett Street, Patrick Street, Shandon Street, South Main Street, Vision Centre, Washington Street
Brenda Twomey: Coal Quay, Peg Twomey's, Childhood Games
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Brenda Twomey, Childhood Games, Coal Quay, Peggy Twomey
Kathleen O’ Driscoll
Tags: Andy Gaw, begging, blackberries, children's games, Clothes, Coal Quay, Cork, Crubeens, Dennhy’s pub, Food, Gurranbraher, Horses, Kinsale, Kitty Barry, Macroom, Mrs Punch, Mrs Twomey, Rosary, Shawls, Shops
Andy Hawkins: Australia, Culture, Celtic Tiger, Coal Quay, Holy Communion, Inishfallen, London
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Andy Hawkins, Australia, Blackpool School, Building sites, Carpentry, Catholicism, Celebration, Celtic Tiger, Cinema, Coal Quay, Conscription, Cork 2005, Culture, Fairfield, Fishing, Gaelic football, Gardening, Holy Communion, Horses, Inishfallen, London, Nature, Perth, Pigeons, Ross’s Wood
Mícheál Ó Geallabháin: Family, Community, Social Class, Sport, Music, Emigration.
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Christy Ring, Coal Quay, Cork 2005, Cork Athletic, Disability, Education, Electricity, Emigration, Farming, Fitzgerald’s Park, Football, Gas Light, Hurling, Liam McCarthy Cup, London, Michael O’Geallabhain, Music, Musical Instruments, Opera, Politics, Poverty, Religion, Sean O’Riada, Social Class, Spirituality, Sport, The Inisfallen, The Middle Parish, Trinity College Dublin, UCC, Uileann pipes, University College Cork
Mary Mulcahy: Grattan Street, Healthcare, The Marsh
Tags: Alcohol, Baths, Candy Apples, Children’s Games, Christmas, Class, Class Attitudes, Coal Quay, Confession, Cork Boat Club, Diphtheria, Division of Housework, Drinking, Elite, English market, Fasting, Fitzgerald’s Park, Food, Franciscans, Friends, Friendship, Funerals, Gerald Griffin Street, Gratitude, Grattan Street, Gresham Rooms, Happiness, Happy Memories, Health, Holidays, Illness, LDF, Lee Fields, Lent, Local Defence Force, Marriage, Massgoing, Medicine, Memories, Middle Parish, Neighbours, North Cathedral, Offal, Philosophy of life, Polio, Pub Culture, Pubs, Quakers, Religion, Religious Observation, Role of Men, Role of Women, Routine, Sanitation, School, Sex, Sheares Street, Shopping, Shops, Showbands, Singing, Skirts and Kidneys, Slang, Songs, St Francis Church, St Francis Hall, St Maries of the Isle, St Peter and Paul’s Church, St. Francis Hall, Sweets, Swim, Swimming, Tenements, The Arcadia, The Marsh, Traffic, Train, Transport, Tripe, Tripe and Drisheen, Work, Working class, Youghal
Liam Ó hUigín: Grattan Street, Healthcare, The Marsh
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
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
Don Morrissy: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life
Tags: Arcadia, Bands, Business, Cars, Childhood, Childhood Games, Children’s Games, Clare, Coal Quay, Commercial Travellers, Cooking, Corporal Punishment, Dancehalls, Dances, Entrepreneur, Fermoy, Fitzgerald’s Park, Food, Gobs, Grattan Street, Guesthouse, Healthcare, Honan Chapel, Katty Barry, Mardyke, Marriage, Medicine, Medicines, Middle Parish, Music, Musical Instruments, Parents, Playing, Presentation Brothers, Public Baths, Respectability, School, Schooldays, Shawlie, Shawlies, Shawls, Sheares Street, Spanish Flu, Sport, St Joseph's School, The Marsh, Tripe, Tripe and Drisheen, UCC, UCC Philosoph, University, University College Cork, Weddings, Working, Working life
"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