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- Tags: Shandon Street
Creena O’Connell: Gurranabraher, Shawls, Allotments
She recalls a…
Eileen Jones: Blackpool, Shawlies, Sunbeam,
There was…
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Banks, Blackpool, Bonfire Night, Childhood Games, Christenings, Clothing, Dublin Hill, Eileen Jones, Killcully, Midwifery, Murphy's Rock, Razza, Roches Stores, Shandon Street, Shawlie, Shawls, St Mary's Hall, Sunbeam, Thomas Davis Street, Traveling Community, Welsh's Lane
Erin O'Brien: Historic Spine
Tags: Barrack Street, Beamish and Crawford, Castle Street, City Centre Strategy, Coal Quay, Cork City Hall, Erin O’Brien, Historic Spine, Living Above the Shops Scheme, MacCurtain Street, Medieval, Munster Furniture, North Main Street, Oliver Plunkett Street, Patrick Street, Shandon Street, South Main Street, Vision Centre, Washington Street
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…
Margaret Farmer & Eileen O’Sullivan: Toys, Christmas, Nosey Keefe’s
Eileen O’Sullivan also talks Christmas and about Woollams’ toy shop, and about Hadji Bey, an Armenian who sold Turkish Delight on McCurtain St.
Michael Murphy: Worklife; Murphy's Brewery; Childhood
Noel Magnier: Gerald Griffin Street, Shops, Box Cars,
Denny’s cellar was a…
Padraig O’Horgain: Church Street, Funeral Customs, Republicanism,
O’Gorman’s hat factory and other businesses were cited in the…
Patricia McCarthy: Shandon Street, War of Independence, Trades
Pete Newman: Shandon Street, Unemployment, Machoness,
Cyclists going up Shandon Street used to hold on to the back of buses, which…
Sean Lucey, Terry McCarthy: Blackpool, Dixies Showband
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Aloys Fleischmann senior, Arcadia, Butter Exchange Band, Carnegie Hall, Cavern Club, Clipper Carlton showband, Dixies showband, Las Vegas, Leitrim Street, Lonnie Donegan, Lower Glanmire Road, Music, Northern Ireland, Northside, Radio Luxembourg, Rory Gallagher, Shandon Street, Showbands, Taste (band), The Sunset (band)
Tom Jones: Shandon Street, Emigration, Childhood
He remembers watching the Cork Opera House on fire in 1955. He recalls childhood games and explains the game of Kick the Can and Pitch and Toss. He talks about the nature of…
Tom Jones: Shandon Street, Murphy’s Rock, Television
He mentions the arrival of televisions to Cork around 1963. Tom…
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, Childhood, Murphy's Rock, Shandon Street, Television, Tom Jones
Tommy Rooney: Second City Jazzband, Cork Academy School of Music
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Arcadia, Clipper Carlton, Cork Academy School of Music, Cork Opera House, Crosshaven, Donny Collins, Glasheen, Irish Defence Forces, Jazz (music), Joe McGrinty, Lonnie Donegan, Michael O’Callaghan, Music, Northern Ireland, Northside, Pat Crowley, Rory Gallagher, Royal Showband, Sean Lemass, Second City Jazz Band, Shandon Street, Showbands, Skiffle (music), Sunbeam, Taste (band), The Dixies, The Emergency, Tommy Rooney, Unionists