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- Tags: Travellers
Felix Barrett
Tags: Accident, Alcohol, Changes, cheili, childhood chores, Communion, Confirmation, Cork, dance halls, Dances, Dancing, digging, Donoughmore, drowning, Farm, Farming, farmwork, Father, fire, Fishing, Food, Getting drunk, Injury, JCB, Jobs, Macroom, myxomatosis, Playing, playing tricks, river, Safety, School, Shournagh, Snaring rabbits, socialising, sports, Storytelling, Surgery, The fair, threshing, Travellers, trenches, turnips, village, village life, Wells, Working, Working with hands
Tom Falvey: Ballyphehane, Market Gardens
Tags: Ballyphehane, Ballyphehane Oral History Project, Ballyphehane Pipe Band, Battle of Ballyphehane, Bob Marley, Buttevant Train Crash, Credit Union, Eamon de Valera, Fastnet Disaster, GAA, Hurling, Papal Visit 1979, Road Bowling, Sport, St. Finbarr's Cemetery, St. Finbarr's GAA, Stonemasons, The Lough, Tom Barry, Travellers, Tuskar Rock Air Tragedy, War of Independence
Padraig O’Horgain: Church Street, Funeral Customs, Republicanism,
O’Gorman’s hat factory and other businesses were cited in the…
Mary O’Sullivan: Travelling Community, Education, Prejudice,
Mary was born in…
Margaret Newman: Shawlies, Blackberry-picking, Laneways,
She talks about the Bandon railway line, which was so slow you could lean out of the windows and pick blackberries.…
James 'Jim' McKeon: Northside, Sport, Writing,
Brigid Carmody: Traveling Community, Tradition, Change,
Brigid talks about growing up quickly within an extended family. She describes adult life in a caravan and the difficulties of…
Tags: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Barrel Top Wagon, Change, Childhood Games, Cork 2005, Tradition, Traveling Community, Travellers
John O’Shea
Tags: abattoir, Alcohol, Ambulance, Blackpool church, Cattle, Christian Brothers College, church abuse scandals, class distinction, clergy, Cork, Crosshaven, Cycling, Dance, Dancehall, Delivery boy, discrimination, Dunlops, Employment, ESB, factories, Factory, factory work, farmer, Fire Brigade, firefighters, Food, Fords, Gurranabraher, Lee Boot, machines, Majorca, Mardyke, Marriage, Mother, Orthopaedic Hospital, pay, Post Office, priests, Religion, River Lee, Role of Women, Shifts, snobbery, Social Class, socks, squalor, Sunbeam, Sunbeam Girls, terrace, textiles, Travellers, Work, Working class, Working Conditions, Working life, Worklinglife