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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;">Cork’s Main Streets Collection</p>
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Cork city's North and South main Streets.
Date
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2014
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Interviewees: Erin O'Brien; Rosarii Comber; John O'Leary; Liam Ohiugin; Tom Spalding; Noreen Hanover; Michael Creedon; Patrick Leader;
Interviewers: Aisling Byron; Tara Arpaia; Dermot Casey; Stephen Dee; Margaret Steele; Mark Wilkins;
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<strong>Catalogue Numbers:</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/64" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00536_oleary_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/65" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00537_hanover_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/66" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00538_spalding_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/67" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00539_hUigin_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/68" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00543_obrien_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/69">CFP_SR00544_comber_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/70">CFP_SR00545_leader_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/71" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00546_creedon_2015</a>;
Coverage
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Cork City's North and South Main Streets.
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Cork Folklore Project
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Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive
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Cork Folklore Project
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Cork Folklore Project
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English
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Audio
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8 .wav files
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This collection of eight interviews concentrates on Cork City’s historic spine, North and South Main Streets. These streets link the island of the city centre with the North and South Sides of the city. They form a shopping and business area, which has also served a residential purpose down through the years. Although our broader collection contains much description of and stories from the area, these interviews (carried out between January and March 2015 and totalling 4 hours 28 minutes in duration) focus specifically on the streets, their past and their future. Interviewees include residents of the streets and their environs and those who work and have worked there, and the interviews encompass memories of the area from the 1940s onwards, descriptions of change in the area, and reflection on the area’s future. Interviews were carried out with local residents, one of whom is a local historian, representatives of three multi-generational family businesses (Leader’s clothing, the North Gate Pharmacy and Bradley’s Off-licence), a South Main Street resident and city planner, a cityscape historian, and a promoter who was particularly active in organising events in the nightclub Sir Henry’s in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Take a stroll down these streets using the interactive website developed by Penny Johnston: <a href="http://corksmainstreets.corkfolklore.org/cms/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">corksmainstreets.corkfolklore.org</a>
Cork Civic Trust supported this interviewing project.
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Penny Johnston based a digital oral history mapping pilot project called ‘Cork’s Main Streets’ on the audio interviews from this collection in 2016, as part of her PhD research. The 2018 website and the map layer can be viewed at: <a href="http://corksmainstreets.corkfolklore.org/cms/">http://corksmainstreets.corkfolklore.org/cms/ </a><br /><br />Penny’s PhD dissertation can be accessed at: <a href="https://cora.ucc.ie/handle/10468/5469">https://cora.ucc.ie/handle/10468/5469</a>
<strong><br />Other Material Realating to Cork's Main Streets:</strong><strong></strong><br /><br /><a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/62">CFP_SR00448_hinchy_2012</a>: Interview of ex-Beamish Brewery (South Main Street) staff member Ed Hinchy.<br /><br /><a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/90">CFP_SR00532_davis_2014</a>: Interview with former manager of The Other Place Resource Centre (South Main Street), Clive Davis, conducted by Stephen Dee and Dermot Casey, as part of the LGBT Archive Collection <br /><br />CFP_SR00535_wilkins_2014: Mark Wilkins was interviewed by Aisling Byron on the music scene of Cork City in the 1980s and 1990s: the interview contains in-depth discussion of South Main Street music venue Sir Henry’s and of the South Main Street pub The Liberty.
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Interviewer
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Margaret Steele
Interviewee
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Tom Spalding
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38 mins 40 secs
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Farrenferris, Cork
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.wav
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24bit / 48kHz
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Audio
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The following is a short extract from the interview transcript, copyright of the Cork Folklore Project. If you wish to access further archival material please contact CFP, folklorearchive@gmail.com
MS: Em no I was just asking you about Paradise Place
TS: Oh Paradise Place yeah so on the North Main Street and the South Main Street em generally the street is, is, is simply numeric you know starting from Castle Street, Liberty Street intersection north and south right em but for some reason there’s a little section there on the corner of South Main Street and Castle Street which is Paradise Place with about four little business’ there and they CCYMSA hall above it, there was a, it’s hard to explain but kind of a fortified town house on that corner which was called Paradise and it was owned by the I think it was the Terry’s but if you check June Johnson’s book you’ll get this, get the correct thing but one of the merchant families of the city they were the Roches’ and the Terry’s you know the old English Catholic families em and they called their home Paradise sometimes it’s spelt with a zed sometimes with an s em and I don’t know the, the reason for the name and it’s kind of lost in time at this stage it could have been to do with they thought it was paradise em I don’t know but obviously that building is long gone but the memory of their home is preserved in Paradise Place which is why that’s there em like, there is another funny street name on North Main Street which is Piccadilly Lane and June Johnson doesn’t em sug, suggest any reason in her book why it’s called Piccadilly Lane at least from my memory anyway em but she does note that it, that it had been renamed and that’s, that’s very common on the North Main and South Main Streets that all the little side lanes have been renamed many times and I am not even including just spelling the name differently with or without a y or an e or whatever the names have changed frequently em usually to do with a change of ownership because a lot of those lanes more or less were originally intended as private access to peoples houses so they were named after a family or a business that was on the lane or near the lane but yeah Piccadilly Lane my suspicions is it something to do with the reference to do with the reference to the London place named Piccadilly because we have quite a few London place names in Cork not as many as they do in Dublin like where they have Temple Bar and they have Portobello and these things you know we have, we have the Mall like the Mall in London and we have, em, we have Piccadilly and there’s a couple of others too em and I suspect there might have been a bit of a red light district, [laughing] that’s my hunch but again very hard to prove, em it’s not the kind of thing that would get reported in polite newspapers.
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Tom Spalding: North Main Street
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North Main Street and South Main Street
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In this interview, Tom Spalding, a local historian and author, discusses his research methods and interests concerning the development of the North and South Main Street area over time. His interest lies primarily in what he calls “street furniture” – street signage and other fixtures on the street within public areas (such as benches, bronze plaques, and post boxes). When prompted, he discusses the nature of changing street names within Cork: streets like Wellington Road will have multiple other street names associated with them and for which the properties receive their own address numbers, such as Montpellier Terrace, Connaught Place, and Garfield Terrace. Tom also lists Paradise Place on the corner of South Main Street and Castle Street, as another example of this phenomenon and describes the history behind the name “Paradise”. He also states that names may have been changed on paper, which can be traced through painstaking archival research reaching back 150 years, but that street names did not necessarily always catch on “on the ground”. Another topic of discussion is where North Main Street ends and South Main Street begins. Tom presents evidence for the divide occurring at the Liberty Street and Castle Street junction, explaining that Washington Street would have been cut through the medieval part of the city in the 18th and 19th centuries. There is some discussion of local pubs and businesses that Tom frequents: Leaders, the Benny McCabe pubs, the Raven, the Vicarstown, and the Castle. Lastly, Tom gets into a discussion of renovations and construction over old ‘street furniture’ evidence of prior businesses and old artisanship within the city. Some examples he lists are the renovation of North Main Street “20 years ago” (in the 1990s) as well as City Council pedestrianizing Prince’s Street in the 1980s. He advocates keeping things that are of heritage value that are still in functioning order and do not present a hazard to pedestrians.
Date
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14 January 2015
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Interviewee: Tom Spalding
Interviewer: Margaret Steele
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CFP_SR00538_spalding_2015
Coverage
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Cork; Ireland; 1800s - 2000s;
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Cork Folklore Project
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English
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1.wav File
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Cork Folklore Project
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Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive
Relation
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<strong>Other Interviews with Tom Spalding:<br /></strong><a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/81" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00636_spalding_2017</a><strong><br /></strong>
<strong>Other Interviews in the Collection<br /></strong><br /><a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/64" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00536_oleary_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/65" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00537_hanover_2015</a>;<br /><a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/67" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00539_hUigin_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/68" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00543_obrien_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/69">CFP_SR00544_comber_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/70">CFP_SR00545_leader_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/71" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CFP_SR00546_creedon_2015</a>;
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<div class="element-text">Penny Johnston based a digital oral history mapping pilot project called ‘Cork’s Main Streets’ on the audio interviews from this collection in 2016, as part of her PhD research. The 2018 website and the map layer can be viewed at: <a href="http://corksmainstreets.corkfolklore.org/cms/">http://corksmainstreets.corkfolklore.org/cms/ </a><br /><br />Penny’s PhD dissertation can be accessed at: <a href="https://cora.ucc.ie/handle/10468/5469">https://cora.ucc.ie/handle/10468/5469</a></div>
<div class="element-text"><strong><br /></strong><strong>Other Material Relating to Cork's Main Streets:</strong><strong></strong><br /><br />CFP_SR00448_hinchy_2012: Interview of ex-Beamish Brewery (South Main Street) staff member Ed Hinchy.<br /><br /><a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/90">CFP_SR00532_davis_2014</a>: Interview with the former manager of The Other Place Resource Centre (South Main Street), Clive Davis, conducted by Stephen Dee and Dermot Casey, as part of the LGBT Archive Collection <br /><br />CFP_SR00535_wilkins_2014: Mark Wilkins was interviewed by Aisling Byron on the music scene of Cork City in the 1980s and 1990s: the interview contains an in-depth discussion of South Main Street music venue Sir Henry’s and of the South Main Street pub The Liberty.</div>
<br /><a href="http://corkfolklore.org/cmm/neatline/fullscreen/cork-memory-map#records/34"><strong>Click here to access Tom's entry on the Memory Map</strong></a>
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Cork Folklore Project
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Sound
Academy Street
Adelaide Street
Barrack Street
Camden Quay
Carron Foundry
Castle Inn
Castle Street
Cork Exhibition
Dalton’s Avenue
Fishamble Street
Fitzgerald’s Park
Leader’s
Liberty Street
Lower Glanmire Road
North Main Street
Paradise Place
Piccadilly Lane
Post boxes
Pubs
Rutland Street
Signage
South Main Street
St. Peter’s Church
Street Furniture
Street names
Tom Spalding
Vandeleur‘s Lane
Wellington Road