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- Tags: Food
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
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
Mary O’Sullivan: Travelling Community, Education, Prejudice,
Mary was born in…
Michael Creedon: Bradley's
Noel Magnier: Gerald Griffin Street, Shops, Box Cars,
Denny’s cellar was a…
Noreen Geaney: Childhood Games, Céilí, Halloween, School, The Stations.
Noreen was born in Cuileann Ui Chaoimh in Co. Cork. She had three sisters and one brother. She attended Owen na Bui National School. She lived…
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Céilí, Celebration, Childhood Games, Cork 2005, Corporal Punishment, Dublin, Farming, Fish, Food, Funerals, Halloween, Noreen Geaney, School, Teachers, The Stations
Padraig O’Horgain: Church Street, Funeral Customs, Republicanism,
O’Gorman’s hat factory and other businesses were cited in the…
Pat Speight: Northside, Childhood Games, Schooldays,
Patricia McCarthy: Shandon Street, War of Independence, Trades
Peggy Kelleher: The Lough, Marriage, World War 2
Philomena Cassidy: Grattan Street, Healthcare, The Marsh
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
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…
Sandra Byrne: Commons Road, Tucker's Field, Family Life.
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
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…