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Tom Falvey: Ballyphehane, Market Gardens

Tom speaks about how he was born on Bandon Road. On moving to and growing up on Killeenreendowney Avenue and then Pearse Road in Ballyphehane. The primary school in Glasheen. Activities such as walking the Lee Fields. Playing hurling with the Barrs.…

Stephen Wimpenny: Leeds United, Soccer, Yorkshire,

Stephen grew up in Yorkshire, and talks about football and coming to Cork.
Stephen visited Midleton in 2002 and settled in Cork in 2003, having met a woman who later became his wife.
He compares people in Yorkshire and Cork. He talks about…

Tags: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Cork 2005, Football, Leeds United, Orkney, Soccer, Sport, Stephen Wimpenny, Yorkshire

Pat Saville: Blackpool, Working Life, Sport,

Pat Saville was born in 1946. He had a twin brother, Charlie, and an older brother, Ray. He moved from England with his family when he was 4 years old. He grew up in Welsh’s Lane, Blackpool. His father died when he was 10.
He describes the shops and…

Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Alice Frain, Allotments, Blackpool, Bonfire Night, CIE [Córas Iompair Éireann], Cremin’s Piggery, Lucey’s Piggery, Pat Saville, Piggeries, Sport, Thomas Davis Street, Welsh’s Lane

Noel Keohane

Noel Keohane grew up in the area around Gardiner's Hill on the North side of Cork city, and describes the surrounding area of his youth including Kiely's Field. He mentions places and people, including Gardaí, as well as childhood games, sports…

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, accountant, Alcohol, Amby Fogarty, Apprenticeship, Arcadia grand parade, Bailiff, ball-hopping, Ballyvollane road, Ban on foreign games, Ban on foreign sports, Bicycle, Bike, Blackpool, Blackrock, Blarney Castle Knitwear, boxcar, Brian Dillon’s, Buckley’s, Café, Career, career progression, Cars, Cavan, Chessies, chestnutes, chicken, Childhood Games, Chips, choir, Christmas, Clothes, Coal Quay, Coburg Street, Collins’ Barracks, Conkers, Cork, Cork Celtic, Cork Hibs, Cork Shoe Company, cork sport, Coronation Street, Corsses Green, cowboys and Indians, credit business, Croke Park, Crosshaven, deafness, Dementia, Doctors, Donnacha O’Callaghan, Dr English, Dr Kiely, Dr Kingston, Factory, fairy garden, Family, Father, Fish, Fishing, Flynns, Fob and Gill, Food, GAA, Gardai, Gardening, Gardiner’s Hill, George Dwyer, Golf, Good Wear, Grandmother, Health, holiday home, IRA, Ireland’s Got Talent, Jack Healy’s, John Daly, jumpers, Kiely's field, Killarney, knitwear industry, Knitwear Technician, Lee Hosiery, machines, Majorca, Mallow Road, manager, Mayfield Community School, McCurtain Street, McSweeney’s shop, Medicine, Men’s Shed, Miah Dennehy, Mischief, Money, Montenotte, Mr Good, Neil Prendeville, Nicknames, North Monastery Tech, Northside, Parents, Paul Quill, personality, playground, poaching, Poverty, priests, Quills, Raleigh, rally driving, Regal Show Band, respect, Ringmahon Rangers, Roy Orbison, Saint Patrick’s boy School, Saint Patrick’s Girl’s School, sawdust, schools, Sewing Machine Mechanic industry, Shandon Street, Showbands, Singing, slagging, smoking, Soccer, Spain, Sport, Springmount Lodge, St Killian’s, stoker, strawkhauling, Super Valu, Tank Field, Television, textiles, The Glen, Thunder up the alley, trade show, Train, Trains, Travel, Uniforms, Vegetables, VG Stores, Wolseley, woodwork, Work, Worklife

Michael O’Connell: Faranree, Politics, Childhood,

Michael was born in the 1950s and grew up in Farranferris Ave below the Church of the Redemption in Farranree. He came from a family of 13 children. He was a student at the North Mon. His mother was a great GAA fan and a sporting person who played…

Liam Ó hUigín: Henry Street, The Marshes, Childhood

Liam grew up in Henry Street during the 1940s. He talks about the marshes of Cork and Pike’s Marsh, named after a Quaker merchant family.
He recalls the practice of adding “a” to the end of some placenames, such as Pana for Patrick Street. There…

Johnny Chris Kelleher: The Evening Echo, Schooldays, Tuberculosis

Johnny Chris was born in 1929 in Fair Lane, later called Wolfe Tone Street. His mother, Mary Margaret Kelleher (1901 - 1970) was married twice; her first husband died of TB in 1924; she had to get a job selling newspapers to support her family. His…

Tags: Allotments, Anglesea Street, Barrett’s Buildings, BBC, Bingo, Bird-Catching, Blackpool, Bowling, Boxing, Boy Murphy, Card Games, Children’s Games, Children’s Mass, Christy Ring, Churchfield, Coliseum Theatre, Corbett’s Lane, Cork Corporation, Don, Donncha Ó Céileachair, Drisheen, Echo Boys, Evening Echo, Fair Hill, Fairs, Father O’Flynn, Faulkner’s Lane, Food, Gurranabraher, Gurranabraher Road, Hiroshima, Housey Housey, Housing, Irish Language, Jack Lynch, Johnny Chris Kelleher, Kearney’s Lane, Margaret O’Sullivan, Mossy Condon, Newsboys, Newspapers, Nicknames, Northside, O’Flynn family; O’Gorman’s Factory, Pádraig Ó hÓgáin, Polly Kelleher, Seán O’Mahony, Sketchy Roche, Slaughterhouses, Social Housing, Sport, St Anne’s Hurling Club, Street names, TB, The Holly Bough, Tommy Hyde, Tommy Kelleher, Trimbath Mulcahy, Trimbath’s Lane, Tripe, Tripe Houses, Tuberculosis, Walter McEvilly, Working class, Working life, World War II

Donnie Walsh: Gardiner's Hill, Sport, Republicanism,

Donie was born in 1948. His family lived in Stream Hill, and then in Gardiner’s Hill. He used to visit his grandmother’s house in Carrigadrohid, which had no running water nor electricity. He talks about going to the well and collecting…

Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Bonfire Night, Catholic Church, Coca-Cola, Donnie Walsh, Electrification, IRA, Puck Fair, Sport, The Curragh, Well’s

Mícheál Ó Geallabháin: Family, Community, Social Class, Sport, Music, Emigration.

An in-depth, evocative interview about growing up in The Middle Parish highlighting poverty and the power of education in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Mícheál Ó Geallabháin gives intimate and warm detail about family life, community spirit, class,…

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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Sean Higgisson: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life

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Sean grew up by the Lough in Cork city and spent holidays in Ardmore. Describes his family home and memories of his grandparents. Talks about playing football and the game Red Rover as a child. His mother was not allowed to keep her job in the public…

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Liam Ó hUigín: Grattan Street, Healthcare, The Marsh

Liam grew up on Henry Street in The Marsh and recalls playing football on Grattan Street which was busy and full of activity with businesses, pubs, shops a fire station, barber shops and tenements. He discusses some shops and games in more…

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

Eileen Kearney: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life

Eileen grew up in Tallow in west Waterford in a family of seven. Her father ran the family butcher business attached to the house. She recalls him singing and whistling, and the sawdust on the shop floor. Recalls meat and tripe being sold and…

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Don Morrissy: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life

Don recalls his entrepreneurial great-aunt who owned the Grand Hotel in Fermoy. Recounts early years in the Grattan Street Dispensary building where his father was the pharmacist. Describes growing up on the Mardyke close to St Joseph’s School and…

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