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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

Balaska O’Donoghue: Bulgaria, Cork City, Food, Music, Slovakia, Travel, Celebrations

Balaska grew up in the central city area of Kosice , Slovakia until she was 19. Her father was Bulgarian and her mother Slovakian. She has one-half brother. She came to Cork because she met a Cork man whilst visiting London. She spent a lot of time…

Tags: 2000s, Bulgaria, Celebration, Communism, Cork 2005, Cork city, Food, Holidays, Music, Slovakia, Travel, Weather

Alan Botan: Immigration, Iraq, Kurdistan, Ireland,

Alan is from Kurdistan. He briefly describes his childhood in Iraq and his experience of Cork city and Ireland.
Alan is an asylum seeker. He came to Cork in 2002 and describes his efforts to integrate, and how he experienced Cork and its people. He…

Tags: 2000s, Alan Botan, Arran Islands, Cork 2005, Holidays, Immigration, Iraq, Kurdistan, Travel

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…

Tags: A & E, A and E, Accident and Emergency, Addiction, Administration, Adult Supervision, Alcohol, Ambition, Ambitions, Anatomy, Appointment, Appointments, Attitudes to Health, Authority, Autonomy, Babies, Baby, Beach, Bicycle, Bicycles, Bicycling, Bike, Bikes, Books, Bored, Boredom, Building, Buildings, Built Heritage, Bull, Bullying, Bureaucracy, Car Park, Car Parking, Career, Career Path, Careers, Central Heating, Child Abuse, Childhood, Childhood Games, Children, Children’s Games, Clerical, Clerical Staff, Clinic, Clinics, Communal, Community, Computer, Computers, Confidence, Consultant, Consultants, Cork University Hospital, CUH, Cycling, Decision-Making, Decisions, Degree, Deprivation, Deprived Areas, Disability Access, Discipline, Dispensary, Dissection, Doctor, Doctoring, Doctors, Documents, Drink, Drunk, Edel House, Emigration, Employment, Exam, Examination, Examinations, Exams, Expectation, Expectations, Feminism, Feminist, Fields, Files, Filing, Game, Games, General Practice, GP, Grattan Street, Gurranabraher, Health, Healthcare, Heat, Heating, Hierarchy, Home Life, Homeless, Hospital, Hospital Ward, Hospital Wards, HSE, Hurt, Husband, Injury, Job, Late, Lateness, Learning, Marriage, Marriages, Marsh, Mathematics, Maths, Medical Centre, Medical Student, Medical Students, Medical Training, Medication, Medication Training, Medicine, Medicines, Mental Health, Mercy Hospital, Middle Parish, Middle Parish Community Centre, Nature, New Zealand, Nuns, Nurse, Nurses, Nursing, Occupation, Paper, Paperwork, Parents, Parking, Patient, Patients, PHN, Playing, Power, Premature Babies, Premature Baby, Public Health, Public Health Nurse, Public Health Nurses, Quaker, Quakers, Registry Office, Religion, Reluctant Patient, Reluctant Patients, Reputation, Resilience, Resilient, Resource, Resources, Responsibility, Role of Women, Room, Rooms, Routine, RTE, Rules, Sandcastles, School, School Days, Schooldays, Schoolwork, Sea, Seaside, Security, Services, SHARE, Social Disadvantage, Social Work, Social Worker, Social Workers, Sport, Spouse, St Mary's Health Campus, St Mary’s Health Campus, Staff, Student, Student Life, Students, Substance Abuse, Teacher, Teachers, Teaching, Technology, Television, Temperature Control, Tennis, The Marsh, The Middle Parish, Tide, Tides, Time, Training, Transport, Transportation, Travel, TV, UCC, University, University College Cork, Vocation, Ward, Wards, Wedding, Weddings, Welfare, Wellington, Women, Women in Work, Women's Lives, Work, Working, Working life, Workload, Youghal

Mary Flynn

Spoke of growing up in a fearful childhood environment in North Cork, moving to London to free herself from her past, training as a nurse, then being introduced to the Soka Gakkai Buddhist practices of chanting and intention-setting in her late 20s.…

Tags: Buddhism, Cancer, Death, Emigration, Family, Feminism, Japan, London, Mother, Patriarchy, Personal Growth, Primary Education, Resolving Conflict, Sexual Abuse, Travel, unsafe environment, Work, young adult

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