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Noel Keohane

Noel Keohane grew up in the area around Gardiner's Hill on the North side of Cork city, and describes the surrounding area of his youth including Kiely's Field. He mentions places and people, including Gardaí, as well as childhood games, sports…

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Marie McAllen: Ballyphehane

Marie was born and raised in Ballyphehane, before and after development of corporation housing. Her Mother’s family name was Cronin and her grandmother was Halloran who owned Halloran’s orchard where the Ballyphehane Church now stands.

Margaret Newman: Sunbeam Factory; Christmas, Nicknames,

Margaret Newman was born in 1922. She explains that before the Sunbeam factory there was a flax mill, which employed some children in the late 1800s.
How children ordered their presents from Santa.

Note: This is one of 4 interviews conducted with…

Tags: 1800s, 1900s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, Christmas, Flax mill, Margaret Newman, Nicknames, Sunbeam, Sweet shops

Johnny Chris Kelleher: The Evening Echo, Schooldays, Tuberculosis

Johnny Chris was born in 1929 in Fair Lane, later called Wolfe Tone Street. His mother, Mary Margaret Kelleher (1901 - 1970) was married twice; her first husband died of TB in 1924; she had to get a job selling newspapers to support her family. His…

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

Joesph Fahy: Masonry, Working Life, Family

Joesph starts off the interview by talking through his work history. From working for Sisks at 16 to his job as a foreman for the Cork city council. Joesph mentions some of the building projects he has been involved in, from the churched in Blackrock…

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Family Life, Joesph Fahy, Nicknames, Parliament Bridge, Sisks (Building Contractors), South Gate Bridge, Stonemasons, Trades, Working life

Jim Fahy: Masonry, Apprenticeships, Emigration

Jim Fahy is a stonemason who was interviewed in 2015 by Michael Moore from the Cork Folklore Project, also a stonemason. Jim Fahy comes from several generations of stonemasons on both sides of his family. He describes the ‘closed trade’ system, which…

Jack Johnson: Masonry, Fishing, Working Life

Jack Johnson again with Monkstown football team crop.jpg

Jack begins by describing his family background in the mason trade and his own beginnings as a mason.

He then talks about social events and going to dances at The Arcadia club. Jack then mentions his growing up in Monkstown and schooldays.…

Tags: Bearlager na soar (Masons Language), Dances, Emigration, England, Family Life, Fishing, Monkstown, Nicknames, Stonemasons, The Arcadia, Trades, Working life

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