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Tom Spalding: River Lee
Tom speaks about how he was born in England and came to live in Cork aged seven when his father got…
Tags: Ballincollig, Blackrock Railway, Canoeing, Cork Exhibition, Cork Main Drainage project, Daly's Bridge, England, Ferries, Fishing, Fitzgerald’s Park, Immigration, Irish Language, Killer Whales, Meitheal Mara, Nigeria, River Lee, Rochestown, Save Cork City, Shaky Bridge, Tom Spalding, University College Cork
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
Pádraig Ó Duinnín: River Lee
Pádraig says he grew up in Coolcower, Macroom on a peninsula between the rivers lee and Sullane. He says it had a formative influence on his life. His father was a bus…
Liam Ó hUigín: Henry Street, The Marshes, Childhood
He recalls the practice of adding “a” to the end of some placenames, such as Pana for Patrick Street. There…
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Childhood Games, Churches, Clothing, Confectionery, Daly’s Bridge, Dunnes Stores, English market, Henry Street, Liam Ō hUigín, Mackey Gumboil, Mardyke, Milk and Cake Shops, Ogilvy and Moore’s, ohn Daly, Patrick Street, Pike family, Pike’s Marsh, Portney’s Lane, Pubs, Quakers, River Lee, Robert Day’s, Shaky Bridge, Sheares Street, Shops, Slang, Sport, Tenements, The Savoy, William Penn
John O’Shea
Tags: abattoir, Alcohol, Ambulance, Blackpool church, Cattle, Christian Brothers College, church abuse scandals, class distinction, clergy, Cork, Crosshaven, Cycling, Dance, Dancehall, Delivery boy, discrimination, Dunlops, Employment, ESB, factories, Factory, factory work, farmer, Fire Brigade, firefighters, Food, Fords, Gurranabraher, Lee Boot, machines, Majorca, Mardyke, Marriage, Mother, Orthopaedic Hospital, pay, Post Office, priests, Religion, River Lee, Role of Women, Shifts, snobbery, Social Class, socks, squalor, Sunbeam, Sunbeam Girls, terrace, textiles, Travellers, Work, Working class, Working Conditions, Working life, Worklinglife
Stefan Wulff: Germany, Cycling, Currachs, Change,
Stefan was born in Dortmund, in the Ruhr Valley, Germany. He has one…
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