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Tom Spalding: River Lee
Tom is the author of several books on design history relating to Cork City such as “Cork City: A Field Guide To Its Street Furniture and “Layers”.
Tom speaks about how he was born in England and came to live in Cork aged seven when his father got…
Tom speaks about how he was born in England and came to live in Cork aged seven when his father got…
Thomas McCarthy: Waterford, UCC, Fianna Fáil
Tom is a poet from County Waterford, who describes what University College Cork (UCC) was like in the 1970s. He is an admirer of Fianna Fáil and he discusses the party’s politics. He talks about his work and about other poets.
Tom was born in…
Tom was born in…
Robert Fourie: Hiberno-English, Holy Communion, Language, South Africa,
Robert talks in detail about growing up in South Africa, and makes some observations about Cork places and people.
Robert (b. 1969) is from a gold-mining town in South Africa. He talks about mining conditions there. He comments that South Africa has…
Robert (b. 1969) is from a gold-mining town in South Africa. He talks about mining conditions there. He comments that South Africa has…
Patrick O’Connor
Patrick O'Connor grew up on Roman St down the road from North Chapel/Cathedral. He recalls playing in the graveyard of St Annes Shandon. and speaks of childhood games of the time.
He discusses the Polio outbreak in Cork in the 1950s and…
He discusses the Polio outbreak in Cork in the 1950s and…
Michael Holland: William Crawford, Crawford Observatory, Eoin O’Mahony Eoin The Pope O’Mahony, Alfred O’Rahilly, William Kirby Sullivan, UCC, University College Cork
Michael talks about the Crawford Observatory building, about the instruments it housed, and about the advancement of scientific knowledge.
Michael is the curator of University College Cork. The Crawford Observatory was established on the campus in…
Michael is the curator of University College Cork. The Crawford Observatory was established on the campus in…
Margaret Newman: Blackpool, Housing, Childbirth,
Margaret was born circa 1920. She talks about her pregnancies and the births of her children. She lived with a relative and describes her housing situation at the time; she looked after her relative after he became blind.
She tells a story about…
She tells a story about…
Liz Steiner Scott: America, Customs, English market, Children's Games, Maternity, Religion,
Liz was born into an upper middle class, liberal, Jewish family in 1948 in a suburb of New Jersey, USA. She has one brother and one sister. Her maternal grandparents lived close and were part of their family life. Her father commuted daily to New…
Geraldine Healy: Boole Library, Cinemas, The Pavillion Cinema, Univesity College Cork,
Geraldine talks about her time at UCC in the late 1970s and 1980s, and about the then new Boole Library. She mentions a superstition about walking on the grass of the quadrangle before graduation. (She reads aloud about the Crawford Observatory from…
Ed Hinchy: Beamish & Crawford
Ed talks about his involvement with Beamish and Crawford
Dearbhla Kelleher: Clubbing, Slang, Social life, UCC,
Dearbhla is from Ballyvolane . She is interested in music and drama and has appeared in several productions. Her father was from Sheare’s Street, and she briefly relates some of his childhood escapades.
She talks about going out socialising and the…
She talks about going out socialising and the…
Bernie McLoughlin: Turner's Cross, Ford's, UCC,
Bernie was born in 1939 and reared in Turner’s Cross. His mother had been a bookkeeper and his father was a supervisor in the post office. He had an older brother and an older sister, and he spent a lot of time with his parents.
He remembers queues…
He remembers queues…
Barra O’Donnabhain: Homosexuality, UCC, David Norris,
Barra was born in Shannon Co. Clare but moved to Cork in the late seventies to attend UCC at a time when the first student gay society was being set up. He had experience of gay life and the emerging gay social scene in Cork and Dublin in the early…
Mícheál Ó Geallabháin: Family, Community, Social Class, Sport, Music, Emigration.
An in-depth, evocative interview about growing up in The Middle Parish highlighting poverty and the power of education in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Mícheál Ó Geallabháin gives intimate and warm detail about family life, community spirit, class,…
Stefan Wulff: Germany, Cycling, Currachs, Change,
A detailed interview with German born Stefan Wulff. He gives a really rich account of building currachs, of trips down the Lee and his impressions of Cork from the river side.
Stefan was born in Dortmund, in the Ruhr Valley, Germany. He has one…
Stefan was born in Dortmund, in the Ruhr Valley, Germany. He has one…
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…
Derek O'Connell: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life
Originally from Winter’s Hill, Derek describes his home and family: siblings, grandmother, his GP mother and his father who worked in insurance. He outlines his mother’s tasks and equipment as a GP.
He describes his routine on school days,…
Don Morrissy: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life
Don recalls his entrepreneurial great-aunt who owned the Grand Hotel in Fermoy.
Recounts early years in the Grattan Street Dispensary building where his father was the pharmacist.
Describes growing up on the Mardyke close to St Joseph’s School and…