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- Tags: Milk and Cake Shops
Billy McCarthy: Quaker Road, Public Baths, Childhood
Creena O’Connell: Gurranabraher, Shawls, Allotments
She recalls a…
Fergal Crowley: Patrick Street, Munster Arcade, Black and Tans
Joseph Lane: Gurranabraher, Milk and Cake Shops, Pranks
Joe recalls a childhood…
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
Liam Ó hUigín: Henry Street, The Marshes, Childhood
He recalls the practice of adding “a” to the end of some placenames, such as Pana for Patrick Street. There…
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Childhood Games, Churches, Clothing, Confectionery, Daly’s Bridge, Dunnes Stores, English market, Henry Street, Liam Ō hUigín, Mackey Gumboil, Mardyke, Milk and Cake Shops, Ogilvy and Moore’s, ohn Daly, Patrick Street, Pike family, Pike’s Marsh, Portney’s Lane, Pubs, Quakers, River Lee, Robert Day’s, Shaky Bridge, Sheares Street, Shops, Slang, Sport, Tenements, The Savoy, William Penn
Marie Finn: Barrack Street, Blackberry-picking, Catholic Church,
She talks about the games she played as a child and recites part of a rhyme. You could pick blackberries and sell them to a sweet-makers. Oranges and bananas as…
Noel Magnier: Gerald Griffin Street, Shops, Box Cars,
Denny’s cellar was a…