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Noel Dempsey: Orthopaedic Hospital, Working Life, Healthcare

The interview explores Noel's memories of working at the Orthopaedic Hospital, nature of work, Sisters in charge, surgeons, theatre work, night shifts, carrying corpses to the mortuary, reflections on working at the hospital, new developments. …

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Gurranabraher, Healthcare, Noel Dempsey, St Mary's Orthopeadic Hospital, Working life

Breda McNamara: Orthopaedic Hospital

Breda details her earliest memories. She says her family moved to Templeacre when she was 1 or 2. There were not many houses around then. The houses were new and surrounded by lots of fields. The Orthopaedic Hospital was up the road in a field. They…

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Breda McNamara, Gurranabraher, Healthcare, St Mary's Orthopeadic Hospital

Maura O’Connell: Orthopaedic Hospital, Working Life, Healthcare

Maura was matron of the Orthopaedic Hospital for 20 years until her retirement in 1997. In this interview Maura recalls the various roles she had in the hospital prior to her being appointed matron.
Maura recalls that the nurses residents on the…

Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Christmas, Dunlop, Ford, Gurranabraher, Healthcare, Joe Mac, Maura O'Connell, Nursing, Polio, St Mary's Orthopeadic Hospital, The Dixies, Working life

Dr. John Curtin: Orthopaedic Hospital, Working Life, Healthcare

John, worked at St Mary's Hospital from 1972 to 2003 when he took early retirement. Initially he worked as an orthopaedic register but from 1978 he was consultant.

He remembers thinking St. Mary’s was a very progressive hospital but the layout…

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Gurranabraher, Healthcare, John Curtin, Maura O'Connell, St Mary's Orthopeadic Hospital, Working life

Peter Sargent: Orthopaedic Hospital, Working Life, Healthcare

Peter moved to Cork in his early twenties when he had got a job as a typewriter mechanic. The job involved a lot of travel which did not suit him once he got married.
Peter left this job for a position at St Mary's Hospital as a theatre attendant. …

Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Annie’s Bar, Gurranabraher, Healthcare, Joe O’Callaghan, Peter Sargent, Sister Buckley, Social life, St Mary's Orthopeadic Hospital, Unions, Workers Rights, Working life

Dr Carol Dundon: Seamus Murphy, Aloys Fleischmann, Burning of Cork

Carol talks about life growing up St Patricks Place in Cork in a historic 18th century house where her father had his doctor’s practise. She speaks about how her father was one of only six people in the city issued with a pass during the curfew at…

Tags: Aloys Fleiscmann, Cork Shakespearean Company, Fr O'Flynn, Healthcare, Joan Denise Moriarty, Medicine, Seamus Murphy, St Patrick's Place, The Loft, Wellington Road

Edith O'Regan: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life

Edith grew up in Youghal where she recalls playing childhood games including Red Rover, chainey, a makeshift tennis and sandcastles on the beach. Describes attending school in cold substandard buildings. Preferred self-directed learning to rote…

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"Mary": Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life

‘Mary’ grew up on a farm in county Limerick, part of which was rented to a mental hospital to be worked by patients. By interacting with these patients she quickly learned who you could trust and who you couldn’t. Mentions her brother’s physical and…

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Sean Higgisson: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life

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Sean grew up by the Lough in Cork city and spent holidays in Ardmore. Describes his family home and memories of his grandparents. Talks about playing football and the game Red Rover as a child. His mother was not allowed to keep her job in the public…

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Don Morrissy: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life

Don recalls his entrepreneurial great-aunt who owned the Grand Hotel in Fermoy. Recounts early years in the Grattan Street Dispensary building where his father was the pharmacist. Describes growing up on the Mardyke close to St Joseph’s School and…

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