Browse Items (24 total)
- Tags: Emigration
Josie Casey
Tags: 1930s, America, Arsenal, Aubrey De Vere, bandleader, Bandon, Buck McGrath, Catherine McGrath, Change, Christian Brothers, City Manager, Clothing, coat, Cork, Dublin, Dublin Hill, Emigration, Family, Football, Frank O'Farrell, Fulhams, GAA, Grandparents, Holidays, ICA, Irish Language, March to Kinsale, Music, North Cathedral, Northern Ireland, Parents, Patrick Farrell, poems, Rent, RIC, Road Bowling, School, Siblings, Soccer, South Monastery, St. Augustines, Sunbeam, Troubles, Turner’s Cross, West Ham United, wool, Youghal
Denis O'Flaherty
Tags: Accommodation, army, ball, Ballincollig, barrel, Bold Gendarmes, Cake, Childhood Games, choir, Communion, Cooking, Cork, Danny Hobbs, Emigration, England, Family, Farm, field, fight, Food, Football, Games, Garda, Greenmount School, Home, Horgan’s Buildings, House, Hurling, kettle, Lee Baths, Lough Church, Magazine Road, market garden, Marriage, Mother, pitch and putt, Pouladuff, Racism, RAF, Railways, relationship, road, Robert McCarthy, Sergeant Sullivan, sing, song, steering car, the brown bomber, The Lough, Thompsons Bakery, westgate, Work, Worklife, wren, Wycherley Terrace, Youghal, Youth
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…
Rosarii Comber: North Gate Chemist
Patrick Cooney: Stonemasons,
They brought their history with them- an oral history. They talked about Cork occasionally. One side of his family were masons- so…
Noreen Cronin: Shandon, The North Infirmary, Childhood
Murty O’Sullivan: Masonry, building Trade, Celtic Tiger
Michael O’Connell: Faranree, Politics, Childhood,
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Andy Gaw, Blarney Woollen Mills, Churchfield, Cissy O’Connell, Emigration, Farranree, GAA, Gurranabraher, Inisfallen, Jagging, Madden's, Mayfield, Michael O’Connell, Pawn Shops, Politics, Poverty, Queen Elizabeth II, Sport, Sunbeam, The North Infirmary
Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ O’Sullivan: Ballyphehane
Tags: Arcadia, Ballyphehane, Ballyphehane Church, Ballyphehane Oral History Project, Bandon Train, Bonfire Night, Bridewell Garda Station, Camden Fort, Cork City Hall, Credit Union, Dunnes Stores, Dwyers Shoe Factory, Emigration, England, First World War, Gurranabraher, Hanover Street, Horseshoe Inn, Kent Road, Market Gardens, Mount Desert, Musgrave Park, North Presentation school, Pearse Road, Public Health, Sarsfield Court, Social Housing, Tenements, Tory Top Road, Tuberculosis, Wolfe Tone Street, WW1
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
Jim Fahy: Masonry, Apprenticeships, Emigration
Jack Byrne: Blackpool, World War Two, Sports
Jack (born circa 1926) grew up in O’Connell Street. His parents were both Northsiders. His father worked for the Post Office. His mother was born in 1888…
Jack Johnson: Masonry, Fishing, Working Life
He then talks about social events and going to dances at The Arcadia club. Jack then mentions his growing up in Monkstown and schooldays.…
Billy McCarthy: Childhood, Catholicism, GAA.
Billy McMurty
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Accidents, blitz, Canteen, Class, closure, Cobh, Cork, Corporal Punishment, craftsman, dangerous work, demarcation, Donal Varian, electricians, Emigration, Employment, Family, fitters, furnace, gender divide, health and safety, heavy industry, Industrial Relations, Irish Steel, labour and production process, Larne Bombings, mixed marriage, Money, Northern Ireland, Poverty, Royal Navy, School, Social activities, Social Class, Social life, South Armagh, sports, strikes, Teachers, The Troubles, Trade, Trade Union, Trade Unions, tradesman, Verlome, Work, Working Conditions, Working in Holland, Working life, World War 2
Arthur Walker Snr: Evergreen Road, Ballyphehane
Tags: Arthur Walker Snr, Ballyphehane, Ballyphehane Oral History Project, Ballyphehane Pipe Band, Bandon, Battle of Ballyphehane, Bishop Cornelius Lucey, Bull McCabe Pub, Canon Henchy, Credit Union, Eamon de Valera, Emigration, England, Evergreen Street, Fr Theobald Matthew, Hanover Shoe Company, Innisfallen, Neville’s Lane, Nuns Walk, Sean Jennings, Sinn Fein, St Finbarr’s Cemetery, Youghal
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
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 Flynn
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