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Sheila Dalton: Family Life; Marriage; Childhood
Sheila was second youngest in a family of 7 girls and 4 boys. Her father worked in a government building as the lift…
Tags: Childbirth, Childhood, Childhood Games, Clothing, Communion, Family Life, Marriage, Pawn Shops, Schooldays, Toys
Patrick O’Connor
He discusses the Polio outbreak in Cork in the 1950s and…
Tags: A Lop, Abatoirs, Acting, Aloys Fleischmann senior, Altar boy, Andy Gaw, Appendicitis, Aruba Coughlan, Bags of flour, Ballet, Bandon Railway line Albert Quay, Barrys Auction House Academy St, Bells Field, Bellsa, Bert, Billa O Connell, Billy Mahoney, Bing Crosby, Bishop Con Lucey, Bishop Daniel Cohalan, Bishops Palace, Black and Tans, Blackpool, Blackpool church, Blarney Castle Hotel, boxcars, Boxing, Brassballs sign, Bringing turf in boxcar, Bristol, Brother Andrews, Bunting, Burkie, Burning of Cork, Cart Horses, Cathedral Credit Union, Cattle droving, Charles Lynch, Chevonier, Chevron door, Childhood Games, Chimney stack, choir, Chris Curran, Christmas, Christy Ring, Church Of Ireland, Cinemas, Civil War, Classical music, Coal Quay, Coliseum, Comedian, Cork boatmen, Cork Characters, Cork City Hall, Cork Examiner, Cork Shakespearean Company, Cork slang, Corporal Punishment, Coupon for turf, Crane Lane office, Crubeens, Currys Rock, Daughters Of Charity, Denny’s meats, Dickie Glue, Dockers, Dodge Car, Dog Bran, Domestic violence, Dominicans, Donnellys Bakery, Doors in North Chapel nicknames, Dr Dundon, Dr Healy, Dr Kevin Burke, Drag Hunt, Dwyers Fire Escape, Eamon de Valera, Eileen Curran, Eucharistic Hurling Match, Eucharistic Procession, Feck, Fever Hospital, Fever Steps, Films shown North Mon, Fishermen, Flour bags recycled to bedsheets, Ford Boxes, Fords, Forrest Family, Fr Daly, Fr O Flynn, GAA match ferry, Gardai, Germany, Getting a langie, Glen & the Barrs, Gravedock, Grenades, Gutties, Gutty, Halfpenny Door, Hardchaw, Hattons Bakery, Herr Fleischmann, Holy Joe, Hurling, Hurling matches, Industrial Revolution, Innishfallen Ferry, IRA, IRA pensions, Jack Lynch, Jamjars, Jews in Cork, Jeyes Fluid, Jimmy Crowley, John F Kennedy Cork Visit, John Redmond St, John St, Johnny Jump Up, Jones Pawn Shop, Jussi Björling, Kathy Barry, Kenmare cattle boat, Keysers Hill, Kilgrews Shop, Kippins, Klondyke, Langey On The Bus, Laurel And Hardy, Lee Fields, Lee Road, Lee Road Waterworks, Lido, Lifeboats, Linehans Sweet Factory, Lofty, Lower Glanmire Road, Malting House, Mass, Maureens Bar, Mental Health, Michael Collins, Mills Bombs, Moneylenders, Mortuary, Mr Burke bomb maker, Mr Horsford, Mr McCarthy, Mrs Horowitz, Murphys Brewery, Murphys Houses, Murphys Rock, Murphys shaft, Music, Nana Connell, National Grain Silo, Niall Toibin, North Cathedral, North Chapel, North Chapel Renovations, North Gate Bridge, North Infirmary, North Mon, North Monastery, North Pres, Northside versus Southside, Nuns, O Flynn brothers, On The Lang, Opera, Opera House fire, Organ, Our Lady’s Mental Hospital, Pa Coughlans bar, Pairc Ui Caoimh, Panto, Parkinsons disease, Passage West, Pat Buckleys Bar, Patricks Hill, Pawn Shops, Peck of coal, Penny Door, Penny on railway line, Pianist, Pigs, Polio outbreak 1956, Psychiatric nurse, Public Baths Blackrock, Queen Elizabeth 2, Queen Of England, Raids, Railway overalls, Recovering bodies, Redemption Road, Rifle butts, River Lee, Road Bowling, Roman Street, Royal Doctor, Rubrics, Salonica song, Santa Claus, Savoy, School, Sculpture, Seamus Murphy, Shandon St, Shawlies, Shawls, Sheep, Shell Oil, Shipbuilding, Ships scrapped, Shops on Roman St, Sing songs, Sister Monica McCarthy, Slaughtering geese, Small Nana, Smather of snuff, smoking, Speech training, St Annes Church Shandon, St Marys Hall, St Stephens Day, Steering Cars, Street children, Sunbeam Woolsey, Tenor, The Bells Of St Marys, The Loft, The Log, The Mardyke, The Old Reliable bar, The Rancher, The Wran, Thunder up the alley, Tilly Fleischmann, Trade Unions, Treaty, turf, turkeys, UCC Music Department, University College Cork, Vatican 2, Veterans, Walcker Orgelbau Organ builders, War of Independence, Washing windows, Watercourse Road, Westerns, William Dunlea, William Dwyer, Wolfe Tone St, Woodbines, World War 1, Wren Boys
Noreen Cronin: Shandon, The North Infirmary, Childhood
Noreen Hanover: Christmas, Childhood Games, Cinema, Ghost stories, Milk and Cake Shops, Pawnbrokers, St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Working life,
Michael O’Connell: Faranree, Politics, Childhood,
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Andy Gaw, Blarney Woollen Mills, Churchfield, Cissy O’Connell, Emigration, Farranree, GAA, Gurranabraher, Inisfallen, Jagging, Madden's, Mayfield, Michael O’Connell, Pawn Shops, Politics, Poverty, Queen Elizabeth II, Sport, Sunbeam, The North Infirmary
Liam Ó hUigín: Henry Street, Bonfire Night, Childhood Games, Messenger Boys.
He was a messenger boy in the 1950s; he talks about the job and its good and bad aspects. He…
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
Joseph Lane: Gurranabraher, Milk and Cake Shops, Pranks
Joe recalls a childhood…
Helen Goulding: Shandon, Catholic Church, Childhood
She talks about her childhood. People had little but shared a lot. Boiled eggs were eaten at Easter time. Everyone was involved…
Breda Sheehan: Halloween Games, Childhood Games, Family
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
Derek O'Connell: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life
Tags: Accident and Emergency, Alcohol, Autism, Baths, Being a Man, Blarney Street, Boys, Bubble Car, Cards, Career, Career Path, Cathedral Road, CBC, Characters, Child Rearing, Childbirth, Childhood Games, Children’s Games, Chipper, Christian Brothers, Cigarettes, Class, Cork, Cork city, Cork Exhibition, Cork University Hospital, Cycling, Disease, Doctor, dyslexia, Eglington Street Baths, Eglinton Street Baths, Elitism, Emigration, Fish, Fitzgerald’s Park, Food, Games, GP, Grandparents, Guilt, Gurranebraher Road, Hettyfield, Hollyhill, Hospital, Houses, Hypothyroid, Injuries, Intuition, Knitting, Lavitt's Quay, Leaving Certificate, Maylor Street, Measles, Medical Training, Medical Treatment, Medicine, Mental Health, Mercy Hospital, North Infirmary, Northside, Nursing, One Day A Week School, Parents, Patients, Pawn Shops, Placenames, Playing, Polio, Ponnies, Psychiatric, Public Baths, Public Health, Public Health Nurse, Pubs, Respectability, Role of Women, Rugby, Sarsfield Court, School, Schooldays, Shawlie, Shawlies, Shawls, Social Media, Social Status, Spanish Civil War, St Aloysius, stigma, TB, Teachers, Templeacre Bar, Tenements, The Marsh, Tuberculosis, UCC Philosoph, Uniforms, University, University College Cork, Vaccines, whooping cough, Winter's Hill, Working, Working life, Workplace, Wyses Hill
Liam Ó hUigín: Grattan Street, Healthcare, The Marsh
Tags: Accommodation, Adelaide Street, Air Raid Shelter, Alcohol, Bakeries, Bakery, Ballypheane, Ballyphehane, Barbers, bars, Bathing, Baths, Billycan, Bonfire Night, Bread, Breakfast, Broad Lane, Buildings, Bullycans, Business, businesses, Buying on Credit, Cagney, Car, Cars, Catholic Devotion, Catholicism, Cemetery, changing technology, Chase, Chemist, Childhood, Childhood Games, Children, Children’s Games, Christmas, Christmas Cake, Church, Churches, Cigarettes, Class, Clothes, Clothing, Coal, Coal Quay, Coleman’s Lane, Community Centre, Connie Dodgers, Cooking, Corner Shop, Corner Shops, Credit, Credit Union, Crubeen, Crubeens, Customer, Customers, Dagenham Yank, Death, Dermot’s Shop, Disease, Diseases, Dispensary, Docker, Dockers, Docks, Dr, Drink, Drisheen, Eglinton Baths, Elizabeth Fort, Elysian Tower, Emigrant, Emigrants, Emigration, Employment, Families, Family, Fast, Fasting, Father, Fighting, Fights, Fire Brigade, Fire Station, Fishermen, Food, Football, Friends, Friendship, Fuel, Fuel Poverty, Gender Roles, Golf, Grandmother, Grattan Street, Grattan Street Health Centre, Grattan Street Medical Centre, Graveyard, Great Coat, Hair Lice, Hairdresser, Hairdressers, Headstones, Health, Heating, Henry Street, Hobbies, Home, Hospital, House, Illness, Illnesses, Jewellery, Lanes, Laneways, LDF, Lee, Lee Baths, Lee Fields, Lent, Lice, Living Arrangements, Local Defence Force, Lunch, Manning’s Shop, Mardyke, Marsh, Mass, Mass-Going, Meal, Meals, Meat, Medication, Medicine, Medicines, Meningitis, Mental Health, Mercy Hospital, Middle Parish, Midwife, Mischief, Money, Mother, North Main Street, Nurse, Nurses, Opening Hours, Outdoor Baths, Outdoor Swimming, Outdoor Toilet, Parents, Pastimes, Patrick Hanley Buildings, Pawn Shops, Pawning, Pawns, Pawnshops, Peter Church Lane, Pharmacist, Pharmacy, Phone, Phones, Planking, Playing, Poverty, Public House, Public Houses, Pubs, Race, Radio, Religion, River Lee, Sandwich, Sanitation, School, Schooldays, Second World War, Shandon, Shandon Bells, Sheares Street, Shoes, Shopkeeper, Shops, Sick, Sickness, Skipping, Skipping School, Slang, Soccer, Social Conditions, South Main Street, Spinning Top, Sport, St Francis Church, St Peter’s, St Peter’s Cemetery, St. Francis Church, Street Games, Streets, Sugar, Sullivan’s Quay, Sweets, Swim, Swimming, Telephone, Telephones, Tenement, tenement houses, Tenements, Terence MacSwiney, The Lee, The Marsh, The Middle Parish, Theft, Tin, Tinsmith, Toilet, Toilets, Tory Top Road, Traditions, Traffic, Tripe, Tripe and Drisheen, Vaccination, vaccine, Vaccines, Vegetables, Vincent’s Bridge, Voucher, Vouchers, Watches, Weir, Winter, Woolworths, Work, Working, World War II, World War Two, WW2
Joe Scanlan: Grattan Street, Healthcare, The Marsh
Tags: Accommodation, Addiction, Adelaide Street, Alcohol, Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholism, Alleys, Angler, Angling, Animals, Anti-Social Behaviour, Asylum, Bailiff, Bar, bars, boys fighting, Bread, Building, Built Heritage, Car, Car Park, Caretaker, Carpark, Cars, Cart, Cemetery, Characters, Childhood, Children, Children’s Games, Chipper, Chippers, Chips, Cigarettes, Cinema, City Centre, Clothes, Coal Quay, Cocoa, Coleman’s Lane, Community, Cooking, Cork Characters, Corporal Punishment, Crime, Dermot’s Shop, development, Disease, Diseases, Dispensary, Doctor, Doctors, Drink, Edel House, Families, Family, Farmers, Father, Fighting, Fights, Film, Films, Fish and Chips, Fishing, Fishing Rod, Fitzgerald’s Park, Fleas, Food, Forde’s, Friends, Fruit, Gamblers Anonymous, Games, Garda, Gardai, Grandmother, Grattan Street, Graveyard, Halloween, Headlice, Health, health and hygiene, Home, Home Ownership, Horse, Horse and Cart, Horses, House, House Ownership, Housing, HSE, Hygiene, Ice-cream, Illness, income inequality, Inequality, Joseph’s School, Kick the Bucket, Lee Fields, Lice, Liver, Liver Disease, London, markets, Marsh, Mass, Meals, Medication, Medicine, Mercy Hospital, Methodone, Middle Parish, Money, Mother, Mumps, Munster Furniture, Munster Furniture and Hardware, Narcotics Anonymous, North Main Street, Parents, Parking, Pawn, Pawn Shop, Pawn Shops, Pawning, Pawns, Pawnshop, Pawnshops, People, Pharmacist, Pictures, Playing, Pothole, Potholes, Poverty, Prescription, Presentation Brothers, Priest, Produce, protests, Pubs, Recycling, Religion, Ryan’s Bar, Ryan’s Pub, Safety, School, Selling, Shawl, Shawlies, Shawls, Sheares Street, Shoes, Shopkeeper, Shopping, Shops, Sickness, smoking, Sober, Sobriety, St Anne's Mental Asylum, St Joseph’s School, St Peter’s, St Peter’s Cemetery, St. Anne's Asylum, St. Anne’s, St. Francis Church, St. Francis School, St. Peter’s Cemetery, Stealing, student accommodation, Students, Sweets, Swim, Swimming, Tanora, Teacher, Teachers, Teenager, The Marsh, The Middle Parish, Theft, Tomb, Treat, Treats, Uptown Grill, Vaccination, vaccine, Vaccines, Vegetables, Violence, Waiting Room, Woodbine, Woodbines, Woodford Bourne, Woodford Bourne's, Woodford Bournes