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Liam Ó hUigín: Henry Street, Bonfire Night, Childhood Games, Messenger Boys.

Liam was born circa 1940. His father was a docker. His mother died when he was 10 and his aunt reared him; she was a widow at 32 and had her own children.
He was a messenger boy in the 1950s; he talks about the job and its good and bad aspects. He…

Tags: 1940s, 1950s, Allotments, Bonfire Night, Celebration, Childhood Games, Cork Cold Storage, Food, Hang dog Road, Liam ÓhUigín, Messenger Boys, Musgraves, Pawn Shops, Slogging Apples, The Marsh, The One Day a Week, Tom Barry

Noreen Hanover: Christmas, Childhood Games, Cinema, Ghost stories, Milk and Cake Shops, Pawnbrokers, St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Working life,

Noreen Hanover Photographed by Gráinne McGee

Noreen grew up during the 1950s in Nicholas Church Place, off Cove Street. She says the house was a tenement house shared with a family who lived upstairs. She went to the South Presentation Convent School. Her father died when she was 10. She left…

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, Celebration, Childhood Games, Christmas, Cinema, Cork 2005, Ghost stories, Jews, Noreen Hanover, Pawn Shops, St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Working life

Kay O’Carroll: The Northside, Emigration, Childhood Games, Music, Tenements,

Kay O’Carroll describes her early life growing up in Gurranabraher giving engaging and colourful detail about childhood games and activities, the community spirit, women’s work, going out to the cinema and show bands as a young woman.

Kay was…

Breda Sheehan: Halloween Games, Childhood Games, Family

Breda (born circa 1950) grew up in Spring Lane, Blackpool. As a child she used to play in The Glen, which was then in the countryside. The neighbourhood houses were small, with an outside toilet, so that every Saturday the children were washed in a…

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, All Saints’ Night, Breda Sheehan, Childhood Games, Christmas, Dancing, Dating, Ellis’s Lodge, Halloween, Pawn Shops, The One Day a Week

Michael O’Connell: Faranree, Politics, Childhood,

Michael was born in the 1950s and grew up in Farranferris Ave below the Church of the Redemption in Farranree. He came from a family of 13 children. He was a student at the North Mon. His mother was a great GAA fan and a sporting person who played…

Noreen Cronin: Shandon, The North Infirmary, Childhood

Noreen grew up in a tenement in Dominick Street next to Shandon in the early 1950s. She went to the North Pres School and worked at the North Infirmary. Her mother used to deliver babies in the area and helped to wash and lay out the dead. Her…

Helen Goulding: Shandon, Catholic Church, Childhood

Helen, nee Bourke was born and reared in Barrack View near the North Cathedral. Her family later moved to Leitrim Street.
She talks about her childhood. People had little but shared a lot. Boiled eggs were eaten at Easter time. Everyone was involved…

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, Andy Gaw, Barrack View, Bonfire Night, Cinema, Cold Storage, Dancehalls, Dancing, Helen Bourke, Helen Goulding, Pawn Shops, Picky, Shandon Street, Squeezy Lemon, Sunbeam, Youghal

Joseph Lane: Gurranabraher, Milk and Cake Shops, Pranks

Joseph grew up in Gurranabraher. He remembers three pawnshops of Cork. When people left Ballymacthomas to move into new corporation houses, they left their old houses behind, still complete with furniture and fittings.
Joe recalls a childhood…

Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Ballymacthomas, Cinema, Cold Storage, Gurranabraher, Joseph Lane, Milk and Cake Shops, Pawn Shops, The Lido, Thunder up the alley, World War II

Sheila Dalton: Family Life; Marriage; Childhood

Sheila was born and raised on Gurranabraher Avenue. Her father was from the Fail hill area and her mother came from Whitechurch.
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

Liam Ó hUigín: Grattan Street, Healthcare, The Marsh

Liam grew up on Henry Street in The Marsh and recalls playing football on Grattan Street which was busy and full of activity with businesses, pubs, shops a fire station, barber shops and tenements. He discusses some shops and games in more…

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Joe Scanlan: Grattan Street, Healthcare, The Marsh

Joe recalls the dispensary on Grattan Street, its waiting room and the names of the doctors who worked there. He describes in detail his visit there to get a vaccination as a child. Discusses medical treatments administered at home by his mother…

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Philomena Cassidy: Grattan Street, Healthcare, The Marsh

Phil grew up in a tenement on Grattan Street and worked in O’Gorman’s Hat Factory and Dunlop’s before getting married and starting a family. She gives a very detailed description of the lanes, houses, shops and families on Grattan Street and the…

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Derek O'Connell: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life

Originally from Winter’s Hill, Derek describes his home and family: siblings, grandmother, his GP mother and his father who worked in insurance. He outlines his mother’s tasks and equipment as a GP. He describes his routine on school days,…

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