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- Tags: Gurranabraher
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
Noel Dempsey: Orthopaedic Hospital, Working Life, Healthcare
Peter Sargent: Orthopaedic Hospital, Working Life, Healthcare
Peter left this job for a position at St Mary's Hospital as a theatre attendant. …
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
Maura O’Connell: Orthopaedic Hospital, Working Life, Healthcare
Maura recalls that the nurses residents on the…
Mary O'Sullivan: Orthopaedic Hospital, Working Life, Kitchen Staff
She describes the type of work that the kitchen staff had to preform, from cooking in the kitchen to scrubbing the walls in the corridors.
Mary says there there would be 7 staff on per…
Margaret Newman: Shawlies, Blackberry-picking, Laneways,
She talks about the Bandon railway line, which was so slow you could lean out of the windows and pick blackberries.…
Lorraine Twomey: Orthopaedic Hospital, Family Life
Lorraine was one of…
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Family Life, Gurranabraher, St Mary's Orthopeadic Hospital, Working
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
Kevin Leahy: Gurranabraher, Irish Army, Docklands,
He remembers Blarney Street, and women who…
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 2000s, Childhood Games, Civil War, Confectionery, Courting, Crubeens, Damie Goggins, Dancing, Dock Workers, Dockers, Drinking, Farranree, Greenmount, Gurranabraher, Irish Army, Irish music, Kelly’s Lane, Kevin Leahy, Kick the Can, Langer, Milk and Cake Shops, Munster Selection, Pubs, Skating, Steering Cars, Steernas, The Congo, Women, Working life
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
Joseph Lane: Gurranabraher, Milk and Cake Shops, Pranks
Joe recalls a childhood…
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
Dr. John Curtin: Orthopaedic Hospital, Working Life, Healthcare
He remembers thinking St. Mary’s was a very progressive hospital but the layout…
Helen Prout: Film-making, Cinema, Youth
Helen grew up in Millstreet, where her father’s cousin ran a cinema, through which she developed a love of film.…
Creena O’Connell: Gurranabraher, Shawls, Allotments
She recalls a…
Breda McShane: Orthopaedic Hospital
Breda McNamara: Orthopaedic Hospital
John O’Shea
Tags: abattoir, Alcohol, Ambulance, Blackpool church, Cattle, Christian Brothers College, church abuse scandals, class distinction, clergy, Cork, Crosshaven, Cycling, Dance, Dancehall, Delivery boy, discrimination, Dunlops, Employment, ESB, factories, Factory, factory work, farmer, Fire Brigade, firefighters, Food, Fords, Gurranabraher, Lee Boot, machines, Majorca, Mardyke, Marriage, Mother, Orthopaedic Hospital, pay, Post Office, priests, Religion, River Lee, Role of Women, Shifts, snobbery, Social Class, socks, squalor, Sunbeam, Sunbeam Girls, terrace, textiles, Travellers, Work, Working class, Working Conditions, Working life, Worklinglife
John O’Shea
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1947 winter, abattoir, Agricultural Work, Ballymacthomas, Ballymacthomas area, Billy Bulman, Boats, boxcars, Brick, Buildings, Built Heritage, Cathedral School, Cattle, City Manager, Cork, Cork slum conditions, Docks, Education, Employment, Family Life, Food, Fr.O’Flynn, frugal, Gurannabraher, Gurranabraher, Leather, Maurice Quinlivan, Money, Neighbours, Philip Monahan, pre-war, quays, Slate, Social Conditions, Social Conditions in Cork, song, Songs, Sunbeam, Sunbeam Wolsey Dwyers, Tannery, Textile Industry, Trade Union, Transition, Tripe, Union, Work, Working life