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Pauline Matthews

Pauline Matthews was born in 1950 in the Ballintemple area of Cork city. When she was an infant her mother contracted tuberculosis and was confined to the chest hospital in Mallow. Shortly afterwards, Pauline contracted the disease, leading her to be…

Tags: Health, Heatherside Sanatrium, Merchant Navy, Public Health, Sanatorium, TB, The Green Door, Tuberculosis (TB)

Paul O'Brien

Paul was born in 1935. His father worked for Great Southern Railway which meant the family moved a lot during Paul’s youth. Paul would call Military Hill in Cork City his ‘home. Paul attended Christians Collage on Wellington Road. Here he was class…

Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ O’Sullivan: Ballyphehane

Lizzie hails from Wolfe Tone Street on the Northside of the city. After spending a few years in England as a young adult she returned to Cork and was an early resident of the Corporation development in Ballyphehane. Lizzie has lived in Ballyphehane…

Edith O'Regan: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life

Edith grew up in Youghal where she recalls playing childhood games including Red Rover, chainey, a makeshift tennis and sandcastles on the beach. Describes attending school in cold substandard buildings. Preferred self-directed learning to rote…

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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,…

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

Jane Ward: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life

Jane grew up in Balbriggan and Skerries County Dublin. Describes her love of the Georgian house her family lived in and her love of old buildings and antiques before they moved to a smaller home. Recalls her first holy communion where one girl…

Tags: Abbey Court House, America, Antique, Antiques, Apartments, Balbriggan, Ballyfermot, Belfast, Blackpool, Books, Boycott, Broken Leg, Buildings, Built Heritage, Car Park, Car Parking, Child, Childhood Games, Childhoood, Children, Children’s Health, Christmas Party, Co Dublin, Community, Confirmation, Cork, County Dublin, Court, Croke Park Agreement, Discipline, Drogheda, Dublin, Edel House, Emigrant, Emigrant Experience, Emigrants, Emigration, Enid Blyton, Family, Flats, Games, Garda, Georgian, ghost, Ghosts, Graffiti, Grattan Street, Grattan Street Health Centre, Gurranabraher, Haddington Road Agreement, Haunted house, Health, Hierarchy, Holy Communion, Holy Communion Breakfast, Home, Hospital, House, Housing, Hunger Strikes, Hygiene, Industry, Injection, Irish Language, Jervis Street Hospital, Knocknaheeny, Management, Martello Tower, Matron, Medical, Medicine, Medicines, Mercy Hospital, Midwife, Midwifery, MRSA, Needle, Needle Exchange, Neptune Stadium, Nun, Nuns, Nurse, Nursing, Nursing Training, Parking, PHN, Playing, Public Health, Public Health Nurse, Public Health Nursing, Quaker Meeting House, Quakers, Queens University Belfast, Reading, Regret, Regrets, Religion, Religion in Hospitals, Rent, Renting, Rotunda, Sea, Seaside, Shops, Siblings, Skerries, Social Work, St. Finbarr’s Hospital, St. Vincent de Paul, Storm, Swine Flu, Teenager, The Cold Chain, Trade Union, Trade Unions, Trades Union, Union, Unions, USA, Vaccination, vaccine, Vaccine Fridge, Vaccine Myths, Vaccine Storage, Vaccines

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