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- Tags: Music
Vincent Power: Send ‘em Home Sweatin’
He talks in detail about the showband scene. Irish audiences had no access to rock’n’roll and its performers, but showbands were copycat…
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Albert Reynolds, Brendan Bowyer, Brendan O’Brien, Butch Moore, Capitol showband, Clipper Carlton, Elvis Presley, Grand Parade, Horan’s Ballroom, Jutland ballroom, Las Vegas, Limerick city, Majestic Ballroom, Mallow, Mayo, Music, Radio Luxembourg, Rory Gallagher, Royal Showband, Sexuality, Stardust ballroom (Cork), The Devil, The Dixies, The Magic Band
Tony Henderson: Canada, Music, London
His father was Irish, his mother English. He talks about growing up in Canada, where he learned the guitar and played in a band. He came to…
Tags: 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Canada, Celtic Tiger, Cork 2005, London, Music, Tony Henderson
Tommy Rooney: Second City Jazzband, Cork Academy School of Music
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Arcadia, Clipper Carlton, Cork Academy School of Music, Cork Opera House, Crosshaven, Donny Collins, Glasheen, Irish Defence Forces, Jazz (music), Joe McGrinty, Lonnie Donegan, Michael O’Callaghan, Music, Northern Ireland, Northside, Pat Crowley, Rory Gallagher, Royal Showband, Sean Lemass, Second City Jazz Band, Shandon Street, Showbands, Skiffle (music), Sunbeam, Taste (band), The Dixies, The Emergency, Tommy Rooney, Unionists
The Rory Gallagher Memorial
Sean Lucey, Terry McCarthy: Blackpool, Dixies Showband
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Aloys Fleischmann senior, Arcadia, Butter Exchange Band, Carnegie Hall, Cavern Club, Clipper Carlton showband, Dixies showband, Las Vegas, Leitrim Street, Lonnie Donegan, Lower Glanmire Road, Music, Northern Ireland, Northside, Radio Luxembourg, Rory Gallagher, Shandon Street, Showbands, Taste (band), The Sunset (band)
Rob Stafford: Aboriginals, Australia, Fiddle, Racial Prejudice, Traditional music, Willy Clancy
Describes his neighbourhood as forested where the main source of income was…
Pat Nolan: Northside, Cork Academy School of Music
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Boom Boom Room, Clipper Carlton, Cork Academy School of Music, Irish Defence Forces, Michael O’Callaghan showband, Michael O’Mahony, Music, North Mon, North Monastery school, Northern Ireland, Northside, Pat Nolan, Rory Gallagher, Showbands, Sunbeam, UCC, Viceroy Showband, Victor Showband
Mary O’Sullivan: Travelling Community, Education, Prejudice,
Mary was born in…
Liam Foley: Blackpool, Showbands, Arcadia
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Arcadia, Bill Haley, Bill Haley and the Comets, Blackpool, Blackpool National School, Clipper Carlton, Clothing, Commons Road, Donnie Collins Showband, Elvis Presley, ghost, Great William O'Brien Street, Joe Lynch, leper colony, Liam Foley, Music, Northside, Shane Fenton and the Fentones showband, The Devil, The Dixies showband
Liam Foley: The war of Independence, Corporal Punishment, Music
Liam was born in 1940 in Water Lane. His father, John, was a cabinet maker, who also liked to play music, and could play…
Kieran O Leary: Cillian Murphy, Queens Old Castle, Ballinlough
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
Donal Ring
Tags: accordion, band, Brendan Bowyer, Career, Cars, Céilí, Ceili Band, Clothes, Dancehalls, Dillon’s Cros RTE, media, Music, Sean O Riada, Sean O Se, Showbands
Balaska O’Donoghue: Bulgaria, Cork City, Food, Music, Slovakia, Travel, Celebrations
Mícheál Ó Geallabháin: Family, Community, Social Class, Sport, Music, Emigration.
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Christy Ring, Coal Quay, Cork 2005, Cork Athletic, Disability, Education, Electricity, Emigration, Farming, Fitzgerald’s Park, Football, Gas Light, Hurling, Liam McCarthy Cup, London, Michael O’Geallabhain, Music, Musical Instruments, Opera, Politics, Poverty, Religion, Sean O’Riada, Social Class, Spirituality, Sport, The Inisfallen, The Middle Parish, Trinity College Dublin, UCC, Uileann pipes, University College Cork
Aimée Setter: Immigration, Music, Pirate Radio, Freak FM,
Aimée moved from London to Cork with her family when she was 8 years old. She says she…
Tags: 2000s, Amy Setter, Cork 2005, Cork City of Culture, Immigration, Music, Pirate Radio
Philomena Cassidy: Grattan Street, Healthcare, The Marsh
Tags: Altar Boys, Arcadia, Bicycles, Bikes, Catholics and Protestants, Céilí, Chemist, Childcare, Children, Children’s Games, Christmas, Churches, Churchgoing, Class, Clothes, Community, Cycling, Dancehalls, Dances, Dancing, Diphtheria, Dispensary, Doctors, Dunlops, Employment, Family, Father, Food, Formality, Forms of Address, Grattan Street, Grattan Street Medical Centre, Graveyard, Hat Making, Home, Home Ownership, House, Houses, Housing, Landlords, Lanes, LDF, Living Conditions, Local Defence Force, Massgoing, Meals, Measles, Mechanic’s Hall, Medical Costs, Medicine, Middle Parish, Money, Mother, Munster Arcade, Music, Neighbourhood, O’Gorman’s Hat Factory, Parents, Pawn Shops, Pawns, Pharmacist, Pharmacy, Plays, Prescriptions, Pride, Protestant, Pub, Quakers, Rationing, Rations, Religion, Rent, Respectability, Role of Women, Sanitation, Sarsfield’s Court, School, Sense of Community, Shandon, Shop, Sick Pay, Sickness, St Francis Church, St Francis Hall, St Peter and Paul’s, St. Francis Hall, Stew, Streets, Streetscape, Sweets, Tanora, TB, Tenement, Tenement life, The Marsh, Time, Timekeeping, Traffic, Transport, Treat, Tuberculosis, Vouchers, Water Pump, Wellington Boots, Work, Working, Working life
Imelda Cunning: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life
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
Don Morrissy: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life
Tags: Arcadia, Bands, Business, Cars, Childhood, Childhood Games, Children’s Games, Clare, Coal Quay, Commercial Travellers, Cooking, Corporal Punishment, Dancehalls, Dances, Entrepreneur, Fermoy, Fitzgerald’s Park, Food, Gobs, Grattan Street, Guesthouse, Healthcare, Honan Chapel, Katty Barry, Mardyke, Marriage, Medicine, Medicines, Middle Parish, Music, Musical Instruments, Parents, Playing, Presentation Brothers, Public Baths, Respectability, School, Schooldays, Shawlie, Shawlies, Shawls, Sheares Street, Spanish Flu, Sport, St Joseph's School, The Marsh, Tripe, Tripe and Drisheen, UCC, UCC Philosoph, University, University College Cork, Weddings, Working, Working life
Aoife O'Brien: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life
Tags: Accident, Accidents, Admin, Administration, Apron, Build Heritage, Building, Buildings, Built Heritage, Cake, Cake Shop, Canteen, Car, Car Park, Car Parking, Career, Career Decisions, Career Path, Cars, Cathedral Road, CD, CD Player, Cervical Test, Chalk, Change, Childhood, Childhood Games, Children’s Games, Christamas, Christamas Dinner, Christmas, Churchfield Green, Cigarettes, Clerical Officer, Clerical Work, Clinic, Colleagues, Community, Computer, Crime, Crimes, Database, Disability, Dispensary, Disrepair, Dolls, Drisheen, Dublin Hill, Duties, Fairies, Fairy, Family, Father, Floods, Food, Friends, Games, ghost, Glasses, Grandparents, Grattan Street, Grattan Street Medical Centre, Gurranabraher, Health Centre, HPV, HPV Vaccine, HSE, Instruments, Irish Steel, Job, Leaks, Lunch, Marriage, Meals, Medical Centre, Medicine, Memory, Music, Name, Names, Neighbour, Neighbourhood, Neighbours, News, North Main Street, Northside, Nurse, Office, Organising, Parents, Parking, Parties, Party, Patient, Patients, Perceptions, Picky, Porter, Poverty, Registry Office, Responsibility, Sanitary Towels, School, Schooldays, Scone, Scones, Secretarial Skills, Secretary, Shop, Shopping, Shops, Sibling, Sister, Skills, Skipping, Smell, Smells, smoking, Social life, St Mary's Health Campus, St Mary's Orthopeadic Hospital, St Mary’s Primary Care Centre, St Vincent's, Staff, Stories, Summer Holidays, Traditional Food, Traditions, Training, Tripe, Tripe and Drisheen, Vaccination, Vaccinations, vaccine, Vaccine Hesitancy, Vaccines, Wedding, Weddings, Work, Work Colleagues, Working, Working life, Worklife, Workplace, Youghal