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Geraldine talks about her time at UCC in the late 1970s and 1980s, and about the then new Boole Library. She mentions a superstition about walking on the grass of the quadrangle before graduation. (She reads aloud about the Crawford Observatory from…

Geraldine grew up near the top of Western Road. She describes the area and comments on some changes that have taken place there over time. She talks briefly about her schooldays.

Geraldine Healy recounts her personal memories of going to the Everyman Palace Theatre in the late 60s, early 70s. She gives brief accounts of changes to the UCC campus from the mid 70s and early 80s. She mentions brief facts about Collins Barracks,…

Geraldine shares her knowledge of the Jewish community in Cork.

She describes how Jews arrived in two distinct waves in the eighteenth century and the nineteenth century, scattering after the Second World War. She describes the Cork synagogue and…