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Life Journeys: Living Folklore in Ireland Today
Subject
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Life history interviews from the inhabitants of Cork city's Northside.
Description
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27 oral history interviews focusing on the life of Cork city's Northsiders. This interviews in this collection were used in the Cork Folklore Project's (then the Northside Folklore Project) first book; Life Journeys: Living Folklore in Ireland Today. The book, published in 1999, was compiled and edited by former Cork Folklore Project researcher Stephen Hunter.
Date
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1996-2001
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<strong>Interviewees:</strong> Willy Good; Margaret Farmer; Eileen O'Sullivan; Tina Noonan; Michael Murphy; Sheila Dalton; Eibhlis deBarra; Denis P. Long; Catherine McCarthy; Helen Donovan; Billy McCarthy; Maria Lopez; Nicholas Hennessy; John Connolly; Liam Foley; John Collins; Jack Byrne; Thomas McCarthy; Rev John Farris; Brother Higgins; Mary Healy; Helen Prout; Eddie Daly; Alan Kennefick; Kay Dunne; George Glendon; Colin Rynne:<br />
<strong>Interviewers: </strong>Stephen Hunter (16); Caroline Crowley (4); Caroline Cronin (3); Lorraine Cahalane (1); Catherine Fray (1); Valarie Kelly-Curtain (1); Liam Hurley (1); Martin O'Mahony (1):
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CFP_SR00002_good_1996; CFP_SR00104_farmer & osullivan_1997; CFP_SR00127_mccarthy_1998; CFP_SR00134_noonan_1998; CFP_SR00140_murphy_1998; CFP_SR00154_dalton_1998; CFP_SR00176_debarra_1997; CFP_SR00177_long_1998; CFP_SR00181_farmer,mccarthy & donovan _1997:
Coverage
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Cork, Ireland: 20th Century
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<strong>Published Material:<br /><br /><br /></strong>Hunter, Stephen (1999), Life Journeys: Living Folklore in Ireland Today, Cork: The Northside Folklore Project. <br />
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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
Language
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English
Type
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Audio
Format
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.wav
Oral History
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Interviewee
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George Glendon
Interviewer
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Stephen Hunter
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69min 57sec
Location
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Wellington Rd, Cork
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Cassette
Transcription
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<strong>The following is a short extract from the interview transcript relating to the audio extract above. Copyright of the Cork Folklore Project. If you wish to access further archival material please contact CFP, folklorearchive@gmail.com</strong>
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<p>S H: Was Tshombe’s army quite a well-disciplined army by the standards of the place?</p>
<p> </p>
<p>G G: Tshombe’s army was mainly controlled by mercenaries and the mercenaries came from all over the world, mercenaries from New Zealand, Australia and South America. They were mercenaries proper, mad for a fight, to fight was their lifestyle, you know. We found that they were great, they were white number one. When I went into Luena and took it over, there were Congolese army just on the edge of town and there was a Belgian in charge of it. Jack -- can’t remember his name now, Jack something. But the first night that I was there, I went over into his camp, I rang him up first on the phone, on the army line and I said who I was and that we were here to do a job to stop killing and he said ‘that’s my policy too, in taking this place we killed only a half dozen in the place’. So I went over into his camp, sitting at the table and I said for a start off ‘I have no gun on me, no gun on me, have you?’, ‘I always carry a gun’ he says, you know. I said ‘I wouldn’t like to talk to you with the gun there’, so he took the gun and he said here you have it he says, so that changed that, it went pleasantly then, we had comfort there but if any bit of trouble started I went to him or he went to me. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>S H: He was a Belgian was he?</p>
<p>G G: A Congolese born Belgian, he was a gentleman, only a gentleman. No bother getting on with him, as I said they cleared that area now of the local Congolese tribe and kept the killing down to the minimum anyway. That was the rule.</p>
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George Glendon: Irish Army, World Wars, The Congo
Subject
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Life History;
Description
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George was born in Slievenamon, Co. Tipperary in 1915. He served in as a commandant in the Irish army from 1935 to 1971. His parents married in 1895. George's father was a serviceman in the British army. Both George's father and eldest brother fought on the western front during the First World War. His brother was captured and held a prisoner of war until fighting ceased. On his return from the war, his brother joined the IRA's 3rd Tipperary battalions flying column and was heavily involved till the end of the Civil War.
George speaks of the societal and technological change that happened in his early life. How most people lived on credit and those who were subsistent farmer like his family had little to no social life. He mentions women performing physical tasks on the farmers due to not being able to afford male labourers.
He speaks of attending a pattern day at a holy well in county Waterford and mentions that other calendar customs weren't really observed
George was in involved with the Local Defense force before joining the regular army in 1935. He speaks of the lead up to the second world war and how he did not see it coming. Once the war did begin he felt that the country pull together and he expresses that he thought 'it was our most united time as a nation'.
Georges goes on to speak of Ireland being Anti Soviet and that communism never taking hold here. He finishes by outlining his time spent in the Congo with the army.
Date
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14 July 1999
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Interviewee: George Glendon
Interviewer: Stephen Hunter
Identifier
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CFP_SR00297_glendon_1999
Coverage
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Ireland; Tipperary; Cork; Africa; The Congo
Relation
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<strong>Published Material:<br /><br /></strong>Hunter, Stephen (1999), Life Journeys: Living Folklore in Ireland Today, Cork: The Northside Folklore Project.
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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
Language
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English
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2 .wav files
Type
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Sound
Civil War
Farming
First World War
IRA
Irish Army
Irish Defence Forces
LDF
Pattern Day
The British Army
The Congo
The Emergency
The Local Defence Force
War of Independence
World War I
World War II