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- Tags: Polio
Michael O'Sullivan and Theresa O’Sullivan
Tags: blood, Cattle, Cigarettes, Cork city, Coughing, Covid 19, Doctor, Fairhill, Handcrafts, Heatherside Sanatrium, Leather, Michael O’ Sullivan, Mortuary, Mount Desert Sanatorium, Noel Browne, North Infirmary Hospital, Pleurisy, Polio, preparing the dead, Priest, Sanatorium, Sarsfield Court Sanatorium, smoking, St. Finbarr’s Hospital, Theresa O’ Sullivan, Tuberculosis (TB), Woodbines
Maura O’Connell: Orthopaedic Hospital, Working Life, Healthcare
Maura recalls that the nurses residents on the…
Lesley Cox
Humphrey Twomey: Aloys Fleischmann, Murphys Brewery, Cork polio outbreak
Evelyn Wainwright
Noel Dempsey
In the first half of the interview Noel instructs Janusz on how to play Twenty-One and describes in detail the childhood games played by boys and girls in his neighbourhood. The second half concentrates on Noel’s early…
Tags: bastible, Bicycle, Bike, Blackas, blackberries, Blackjack, Bob-a-Job, Bonfire-Night, Chessies, Childhood Games, Christmas, Conkers, Corporal Punishment, Credit, Eglington Baths, Eyedrops, Food, Glassy-Alleys, Gobs, Goody, Halloween, Holidays, Hoops, Lee Baths, messages, Nearest-To-The-Wall, Pawn, Pawnbrokers, Pawns, Pawnshop, Pickey, Pitch-And-Toss, Polio, Ponnie, ponny, Pontoon, Poverty, Radio, Rasa, raspberry cordial, Release, Ropes-Up-The-Pole, Scraps, shop credit, Snap-Apple-Night, Statues, Steering Cars, Steeringa, store credit, TB, Television, The book, The book(messages/food bought in the local shop were written in and paid for at the end of the week), Thrasher, Tory-tops, Twenty-One, Working life
Billy McCarthy: Quaker Road, Public Baths, Childhood
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
Mary Mulcahy: Grattan Street, Healthcare, The Marsh
Tags: Alcohol, Baths, Candy Apples, Children’s Games, Christmas, Class, Class Attitudes, Coal Quay, Confession, Cork Boat Club, Diphtheria, Division of Housework, Drinking, Elite, English market, Fasting, Fitzgerald’s Park, Food, Franciscans, Friends, Friendship, Funerals, Gerald Griffin Street, Gratitude, Grattan Street, Gresham Rooms, Happiness, Happy Memories, Health, Holidays, Illness, LDF, Lee Fields, Lent, Local Defence Force, Marriage, Massgoing, Medicine, Memories, Middle Parish, Neighbours, North Cathedral, Offal, Philosophy of life, Polio, Pub Culture, Pubs, Quakers, Religion, Religious Observation, Role of Men, Role of Women, Routine, Sanitation, School, Sex, Sheares Street, Shopping, Shops, Showbands, Singing, Skirts and Kidneys, Slang, Songs, St Francis Church, St Francis Hall, St Maries of the Isle, St Peter and Paul’s Church, St. Francis Hall, Sweets, Swim, Swimming, Tenements, The Arcadia, The Marsh, Traffic, Train, Transport, Tripe, Tripe and Drisheen, Work, Working class, Youghal
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
"Mary": Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Accommodation, ADHD, Ambulance, Animals, Anti-Vax, Australia, Babies, Baby, Bales of Hay, Bed Wetting, Bedtime, Bicycle, Bicycles, Bicycling, Bike, Bike. Bikes, Birth, Bread, bread and breadmaking, Breadmaking, Building, Buildings, Built Heritage, Bullying, Bureaucracy, Bus, Calf, Camaraderie, Candle, Candles, Canteen, Car Park, Car Parking, Career, Career Choice, Career Decision, Career Guidance, Career Path, Careers, Castletroy, Change, Chemist, Child Welfare, Childhood, Childhood Games, Children, Christmas, City Hall, Cleaners, Clinic, Clinics, Clothes, Clothing, Co. Limerick. County Limerick, Coal Quay, Colleagues, Community, Community Welfare, Cooking, Cork, Cork city, Court, Court Case, Cow, Death, Decision, Dementia, Disability, Disease, Diseases, Dispensary, Disrepair, Dressings, Drisheen, Duties, Educate Together, Electricity, Emigration, English market, Family, Family Life, Farm, Farming, Farmlife, Father, Flats, Fleas, Flooding, Floods, Food, Frustration, Games, Glasgow, GP, Grattan Street, Hay, Health, Health Promotion, Health Services, Healthcare, Healthy, Hens, History, Hoarding, Home, Hospital, House, Houses, Housing, HPV, HPV Vaccine, HSE, Hygiene, Illness, Illnesses, Income, Irish Language, Kitchen, Knocknaheeney, Labour Ward, Lane, Laneway, Learning, Limerick, Limerick city, Marriage, Marsh, Meals, Medicine, Medicines, Memories, Memory, Mental Hospital, Mental Issues, Mercy Hospital, Middle Parish, Midwife, Midwifery, MMR, Mother, Mushrooms, Music, Night Work, North Main Street, Nun, Nuns, Nurse, Nurse Training, Nurses, Nursing, Nursing Home, Nursing Training, Orthopaedic, Our Lady’s Hospital, Paperwork, Parents, Parking, Patient, Patient Care, Patient Environment, Patients, Pharmacy, PHN, Polio, Pop Music, Porter, Potatoes, Priest, Public Health Nurse, Public Health Nursing. PHNs, Public Transport, Quakers, Religion, Remarriage, Rent, Role of Women, Routine, Sarsfield Court, Sarsfield’s Court, School, Schooldays, Sheares Street, Shift Work, Siblings, Sickness, Singing, Smell, Smells, smoking, Social Conditions, Songs, Spinster, St Francis Church, St Mary's Health Campus, St. Mary’s Primary Care Centre, Staff Canteen, Tea, Tea Room, Teacher, Teachers, Tenements, Textbooks, Thatch, The Marsh, The Middle Parish, Traditional Food, Transport, Tripe, Tripe and Drisheen, Uniform, USA Biscuits, Vaccination, Vaccinations, vaccine, Vaccines, Vegetables, Vocation, Ward, Wastage, Waste, Wheelchair, Winter, Women, Women's Lives, Work, Work Colleagues, Working, Working life, Worklife, Workplace, York Hill