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- Tags: Pawn Shops
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…
Noreen Hanover: Christmas, Childhood Games, Cinema, Ghost stories, Milk and Cake Shops, Pawnbrokers, St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Working life,
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
Breda Sheehan: Halloween Games, Childhood Games, Family
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
Noreen Cronin: Shandon, The North Infirmary, 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…
Joseph Lane: Gurranabraher, Milk and Cake Shops, Pranks
Joe recalls a childhood…
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
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
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