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- Tags: Food
Mary O'Connell, Susan O'Donovan, Sheila Lee
Tags: Ballincollig, Blarney Street, Bradley’s, Burke, Childhood, Church, Cinema, Clothes, Cooking, Cork, Cork Anti-Poverty Project, Crosses Green House, Disability, Family, Fishing, Flynns, Food, Fr. Michael Muirne, Games, Gurranabraher, Housing, Hurling, Ice-cream, Kelleher’s, Knocknaheeney, Mannix & Culhane, Meningitis, milk, milk strike, Mother, Northside, Our Lady’s Hospital, Picky, Playing, plumbing, Safety, School, Shops, Southside, St. Peter & Paul’s School, St. Vincent’s Hurling & Football Clun, Streets, Strike, Vegetables, Women’s Education Action Group
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
Felix Barrett
Tags: Accident, Alcohol, Changes, cheili, childhood chores, Communion, Confirmation, Cork, dance halls, Dances, Dancing, digging, Donoughmore, drowning, Farm, Farming, farmwork, Father, fire, Fishing, Food, Getting drunk, Injury, JCB, Jobs, Macroom, myxomatosis, Playing, playing tricks, river, Safety, School, Shournagh, Snaring rabbits, socialising, sports, Storytelling, Surgery, The fair, threshing, Travellers, trenches, turnips, village, village life, Wells, Working, Working with hands
Seán Lane: Blarney Street, Butchers, Bowling,
He talks about his childhood. Children were always on the lookout for any opportunity to make a penny, such as cow-herding…
Sandra Byrne: Commons Road, Tucker's Field, Family Life.
Robert Fourie: Hiberno-English, Holy Communion, Language, South Africa,
Robert (b. 1969) is from a gold-mining town in South Africa. He talks about mining conditions there. He comments that South Africa has…
Peggy Kelleher: The Lough, Marriage, World War 2
Patricia McCarthy: Shandon Street, War of Independence, Trades
Padraig O’Horgain: Church Street, Funeral Customs, Republicanism,
O’Gorman’s hat factory and other businesses were cited in the…
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
Noel Magnier: Gerald Griffin Street, Shops, Box Cars,
Denny’s cellar was a…
Michael Creedon: Bradley's
Mary O’Sullivan: Travelling Community, Education, Prejudice,
Mary was born in…
Marie McAllen: Ballyphehane
Tags: Ballincollig, Ballyphehane, Ballyphehane House, Black and Tans, Blackrock, Bodice, Burning of Cork, Capwell, Childhood Games, Coláiste Chríost Rí, Connolly Road, Doyle Road, Dunlop, Food, Fr Theobald Matthew, Friars Walk, Games, Glassey Alleys, Gobs, Halloran’s Orchard, Hangdog Road, Haunted house, I.R.A, Innisfallen, Leaders Clothing Shop, Liam ÓhUigín, Marbles, Market Gardens, McAllen, Nicknames, Pouladuff Road, Reendowny Place, Rhymes, Ska, Skipping, St Joseph's Cemetery, St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Tory Top Lane, Tramore Road, Tripe and Drisheen
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…
Margaret Newman: Greenmount, Cures, Working Life,
She got cocoa and buns at her primary school. She tells a story about finding out that…
Tags: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 2000s, Christamas, Cures, Dancing, Food, Greenmount, Herbalism, Margaret Newman, McKechnie’s, Social Care, St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Working life, World War II
Liz Steiner Scott: America, Customs, English market, Children's Games, Maternity, Religion,
Tags: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, America, Celebration, Childhood Games, Cork 2005, Crawford Art Gallery, Customs, Education, English market, Festivals, Food, Hanukkah, Jewish, Liz Steiner Scott, Maternity, New Year, Religion, Rosh Hashana, Social Class, Spirituality, UCC, University College Cork, Women’s Movement, Yom Kippur
Liam Ó hUigín: Henry Street, Bonfire Night, Childhood Games, Messenger Boys.
He was a messenger boy in the 1950s; he talks about the job and its good and bad aspects. He…
Johnny Chris Kelleher: The Evening Echo, Schooldays, Tuberculosis
Tags: Allotments, Anglesea Street, Barrett’s Buildings, BBC, Bingo, Bird-Catching, Blackpool, Bowling, Boxing, Boy Murphy, Card Games, Children’s Games, Children’s Mass, Christy Ring, Churchfield, Coliseum Theatre, Corbett’s Lane, Cork Corporation, Don, Donncha Ó Céileachair, Drisheen, Echo Boys, Evening Echo, Fair Hill, Fairs, Father O’Flynn, Faulkner’s Lane, Food, Gurranabraher, Gurranabraher Road, Hiroshima, Housey Housey, Housing, Irish Language, Jack Lynch, Johnny Chris Kelleher, Kearney’s Lane, Margaret O’Sullivan, Mossy Condon, Newsboys, Newspapers, Nicknames, Northside, O’Flynn family; O’Gorman’s Factory, Pádraig Ó hÓgáin, Polly Kelleher, Seán O’Mahony, Sketchy Roche, Slaughterhouses, Social Housing, Sport, St Anne’s Hurling Club, Street names, TB, The Holly Bough, Tommy Hyde, Tommy Kelleher, Trimbath Mulcahy, Trimbath’s Lane, Tripe, Tripe Houses, Tuberculosis, Walter McEvilly, Working class, Working life, World War II