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Josie Casey

Tags: 1930s, America, Arsenal, Aubrey De Vere, bandleader, Bandon, Buck McGrath, Catherine McGrath, Change, Christian Brothers, City Manager, Clothing, coat, Cork, Dublin, Dublin Hill, Emigration, Family, Football, Frank O'Farrell, Fulhams, GAA, Grandparents, Holidays, ICA, Irish Language, March to Kinsale, Music, North Cathedral, Northern Ireland, Parents, Patrick Farrell, poems, Rent, RIC, Road Bowling, School, Siblings, Soccer, South Monastery, St. Augustines, Sunbeam, Troubles, Turner’s Cross, West Ham United, wool, Youghal

Karina Abdulbaneeva: Art, Russia, London, Spirituality, Nature, Nationality, New Year’s Day, Religion,

Russian born Karina Abdulbaneeva, talks about coming to Cork from London in 2001 and her impressions of the smallness and accessibility of the city. She describes the helpfulness of Cork people and the spirituality of the country in which she feels…

Tags: 1990s, 2000s, Art, Blarney Castle, Childhood Games, Community, Cork 2005, Holidays, Karina Abdulbaneeva, London, Moscow, Nationality, Nature, New Year’s Day, Religion, Rites, Russia, Spirituality, St Fin Barre’s Cathedral

Isabelle Sheridan: English Market, Food, Culture

Isabelle Sheridan is from a suburb outside Paris called Le Pleine de Mont Esson. She moved to Ireland in 1986 and eventually established the well-known charcuterie called ‘On the Pig’s Back’ in the English Market in Cork. She discusses her childhood…

Tags: 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Agriculture, Alcohol, Catholicism, Celebration, Childhood Games, Christmas, Community, Cork 2005, Culture, Diet, English market, Festivals, Festivities, Food, French Culture, French Food, Holidays, Holy Communion, Isabelle Sheridan, Paris, School, Snow, Vegetables

Noel Dempsey

Born in the 1950s.

In the first half of the interview Noel instructs Janusz on how to play Twenty-One and describes in detail the childhood games played by boys and girls in his neighbourhood. The second half concentrates on Noel’s early…

Balaska O’Donoghue: Bulgaria, Cork City, Food, Music, Slovakia, Travel, Celebrations

Balaska grew up in the central city area of Kosice , Slovakia until she was 19. Her father was Bulgarian and her mother Slovakian. She has one-half brother. She came to Cork because she met a Cork man whilst visiting London. She spent a lot of time…

Tags: 2000s, Bulgaria, Celebration, Communism, Cork 2005, Cork city, Food, Holidays, Music, Slovakia, Travel, Weather

Alan Botan: Immigration, Iraq, Kurdistan, Ireland,

Alan is from Kurdistan. He briefly describes his childhood in Iraq and his experience of Cork city and Ireland.
Alan is an asylum seeker. He came to Cork in 2002 and describes his efforts to integrate, and how he experienced Cork and its people. He…

Tags: 2000s, Alan Botan, Arran Islands, Cork 2005, Holidays, Immigration, Iraq, Kurdistan, Travel

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…

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

Mary Mulcahy: Grattan Street, Healthcare, The Marsh

Mary grew up on in a tenement on Grattan Street where there was a toilet in the yard strong sense of community. She attended school in St. Maries of the Isle as most children from The Middle Parish did and Came home for lunch. Played children’s games…

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

Imelda Cunning: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life

Imelda grew up in Bathgate between Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland. Her mother was from Cork so Imelda spent time in Whitegate in her youth where she enjoyed the relative freedom she had there playing children’s games and spending time on beaches…

Tags: Administration, Alcohol, Amputation, Area Medical Officer, Ballyphehane, Beach, Biomechanics, Camaraderie, Canteen, Car Park, Car Parking, Career, Childhood, Children, Children’s Games, Christmas, Client, Clients, Community, Cork, Corkbeg, Corkbeg Beach, Counselling, Course, Deformity, Diabetes, Disease, Diseases, Dispensary, Doctor, Edinburgh, Employment, Family, Feet, Flood, Floods, Foot, Foot Care, Gangrene, Glasgow, GP, Grand-aunt, Grandfather, Grandmother, Grandparents, Grattan Street, Grattan Street Medical Centre, Greenmount, Gurranabraher, Health, Health Career, History Curriculum, Holiday, Holidays, HSE, Illness, Inch beach, Infection, Irish History, Irish Medicines Board, Job, Marriage Registrar, Marsh, Medical, Medicine, Middle Parish, Music, Nail Surgery, Nails, Neurovascular Disease, Optician, Optometrist, Parking, Patient, Patients, Playing, Podiatry, Polio, Prescription, Quakers, Refugees, Rickets, Roches Point, School, Scotland, Sickness, Ski, Skiing, Speech and Language, St. Mary’s Primary Care Centre, Staff, Surgery, Swine Flu, TB, Teacher, Teachers, The Marsh, The Middle Parish, Trabolgan, Training, Tuberculosis, Ulcer, University, Vaccination, vaccine, Vaccines, Whitegate, Work, Work Environment, Working life

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