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Stefan Wulff: Germany, Cycling, Currachs, Change,

A detailed interview with German born Stefan Wulff. He gives a really rich account of building currachs, of trips down the Lee and his impressions of Cork from the river side.
Stefan was born in Dortmund, in the Ruhr Valley, Germany. He has one…

Tags: 1990s, 2000s, Alcohol, Architecture, Cork 2005, Culture, Currachs, Cycling, Dortmund, Economy, Education, Environment, Germany, Meitheal Mara, Naomhoige Chorcai, River Lee, Rowing, Social Work, Stefan Wulff, Traffic, UCC, University College Cork

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…

Tags: Altar Boys, Arcadia, Bicycles, Bikes, Catholics and Protestants, Céilí, Chemist, Childcare, Children, Children’s Games, Christmas, Churches, Churchgoing, Class, Clothes, Community, Cycling, Dancehalls, Dances, Dancing, Diphtheria, Dispensary, Doctors, Dunlops, Employment, Family, Father, Food, Formality, Forms of Address, Grattan Street, Grattan Street Medical Centre, Graveyard, Hat Making, Home, Home Ownership, House, Houses, Housing, Landlords, Lanes, LDF, Living Conditions, Local Defence Force, Massgoing, Meals, Measles, Mechanic’s Hall, Medical Costs, Medicine, Middle Parish, Money, Mother, Munster Arcade, Music, Neighbourhood, O’Gorman’s Hat Factory, Parents, Pawn Shops, Pawns, Pharmacist, Pharmacy, Plays, Prescriptions, Pride, Protestant, Pub, Quakers, Rationing, Rations, Religion, Rent, Respectability, Role of Women, Sanitation, Sarsfield’s Court, School, Sense of Community, Shandon, Shop, Sick Pay, Sickness, St Francis Church, St Francis Hall, St Peter and Paul’s, St. Francis Hall, Stew, Streets, Streetscape, Sweets, Tanora, TB, Tenement, Tenement life, The Marsh, Time, Timekeeping, Traffic, Transport, Treat, Tuberculosis, Vouchers, Water Pump, Wellington Boots, Work, Working, Working life

Edith O'Regan: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life

Edith grew up in Youghal where she recalls playing childhood games including Red Rover, chainey, a makeshift tennis and sandcastles on the beach. Describes attending school in cold substandard buildings. Preferred self-directed learning to rote…

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

Derek O'Connell: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life

Originally from Winter’s Hill, Derek describes his home and family: siblings, grandmother, his GP mother and his father who worked in insurance. He outlines his mother’s tasks and equipment as a GP. He describes his routine on school days,…

Tags: Accident and Emergency, Alcohol, Autism, Baths, Being a Man, Blarney Street, Boys, Bubble Car, Cards, Career, Career Path, Cathedral Road, CBC, Characters, Child Rearing, Childbirth, Childhood Games, Children’s Games, Chipper, Christian Brothers, Cigarettes, Class, Cork, Cork city, Cork Exhibition, Cork University Hospital, Cycling, Disease, Doctor, dyslexia, Eglington Street Baths, Eglinton Street Baths, Elitism, Emigration, Fish, Fitzgerald’s Park, Food, Games, GP, Grandparents, Guilt, Gurranebraher Road, Hettyfield, Hollyhill, Hospital, Houses, Hypothyroid, Injuries, Intuition, Knitting, Lavitt's Quay, Leaving Certificate, Maylor Street, Measles, Medical Training, Medical Treatment, Medicine, Mental Health, Mercy Hospital, North Infirmary, Northside, Nursing, One Day A Week School, Parents, Patients, Pawn Shops, Placenames, Playing, Polio, Ponnies, Psychiatric, Public Baths, Public Health, Public Health Nurse, Pubs, Respectability, Role of Women, Rugby, Sarsfield Court, School, Schooldays, Shawlie, Shawlies, Shawls, Social Media, Social Status, Spanish Civil War, St Aloysius, stigma, TB, Teachers, Templeacre Bar, Tenements, The Marsh, Tuberculosis, UCC Philosoph, Uniforms, University, University College Cork, Vaccines, whooping cough, Winter's Hill, Working, Working life, Workplace, Wyses Hill

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