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Jack Johnson: Masonry, Fishing, Working Life

Jack Johnson again with Monkstown football team crop.jpg

Jack begins by describing his family background in the mason trade and his own beginnings as a mason.

He then talks about social events and going to dances at The Arcadia club. Jack then mentions his growing up in Monkstown and schooldays.…

Tags: Bearlager na soar (Masons Language), Dances, Emigration, England, Family Life, Fishing, Monkstown, Nicknames, Stonemasons, The Arcadia, Trades, Working life

Mary Mulcahy: Grattan Street, Healthcare, The Marsh

Mary grew up on in a tenement on Grattan Street where there was a toilet in the yard strong sense of community. She attended school in St. Maries of the Isle as most children from The Middle Parish did and Came home for lunch. Played children’s games…

Tags: Alcohol, Baths, Candy Apples, Children’s Games, Christmas, Class, Class Attitudes, Coal Quay, Confession, Cork Boat Club, Diphtheria, Division of Housework, Drinking, Elite, English market, Fasting, Fitzgerald’s Park, Food, Franciscans, Friends, Friendship, Funerals, Gerald Griffin Street, Gratitude, Grattan Street, Gresham Rooms, Happiness, Happy Memories, Health, Holidays, Illness, LDF, Lee Fields, Lent, Local Defence Force, Marriage, Massgoing, Medicine, Memories, Middle Parish, Neighbours, North Cathedral, Offal, Philosophy of life, Polio, Pub Culture, Pubs, Quakers, Religion, Religious Observation, Role of Men, Role of Women, Routine, Sanitation, School, Sex, Sheares Street, Shopping, Shops, Showbands, Singing, Skirts and Kidneys, Slang, Songs, St Francis Church, St Francis Hall, St Maries of the Isle, St Peter and Paul’s Church, St. Francis Hall, Sweets, Swim, Swimming, Tenements, The Arcadia, The Marsh, Traffic, Train, Transport, Tripe, Tripe and Drisheen, Work, Working class, Youghal

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