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Tom Falvey: Ballyphehane, Market Gardens

Tom speaks about how he was born on Bandon Road. On moving to and growing up on Killeenreendowney Avenue and then Pearse Road in Ballyphehane. The primary school in Glasheen. Activities such as walking the Lee Fields. Playing hurling with the Barrs.…

Peggy Kelleher: The Lough, Marriage, World War 2

Peggy (born 1930s) grew up in Hartland's Road, near The Lough. She was an only child. Her father, William Power, from County Waterford; he worked at the Munster Arcade and lived through the Burning of Cork by the Black and Tans in 1920; he was…

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…

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Patricia McCarthy: Shandon Street, War of Independence, Trades

Pat McCarthy (née Byrnes) is from Shandon Street. She grew up in Mahony’s Terrace, overlooking Pope’s Quay which she knew as the Sand Quay. Her father worked as a lorry driver. She remembers Shandon Street having bakeries and butchers. There were…

Pat Gunn: Cork Shakespeare Company, Fr O Flynn, War Of Independence, Black And Tans, Tom Barry.

Pat Gunn grew up on Barrack Street. He talks of early life there plus his involvement with The Cork Shakespearean Company and of his knowing FR O Flynn in his final years plus the 1961 BBC film on The Loft. Also about his Fathers involvement in The…

Tags: Black and Tans, Civil War, Cork Shakespearean Company, Fr O'Flynn, RIC, The Loft, Theatre, Tom Barry, War of Independence

Mary Morgan

Mary Was born in west Cork near Kilmichael in 1922, her parents were small farmers. Their house and that of her grandmothers were ‘safehouses’ during the war of independence and civil war. In her twenty’s she moves to the city to work in public…

Tags: Black and Tans, Blueshirts, Churching, Civil War, Economic War, I.R.A, Pubs, Republicanism, Shops, Spainish Flu, The Famine, The Great Famine, Tom Barry, War of Independence

Mary O’Donovan

Mary is an elderly woman who recalls her life history. She feels that her memory is not so good, but she clearly recalls personal rather than more general events. Mary was born (circa 1901) in Sarsfield Terrace. Her aunt was ‘a lady’s companion’ to…

Tags: Ballad Singers, Bonfire Night, Churching, Clothes, Dwyer’s factory, Farranferris Avenue., Hunger Strike, Mary O’Donovan, Midwife, Poetry, Republicans, Rosary, Sarsfield Terrace, Tomás Mac Curtain, War of Independence

Mary O’Sullivan: Travelling Community, Education, Prejudice,

Mary is a Traveller who developed a love of education, which she has tried to instil in others. She talks in detail about her experience of being a Traveller and about the lives of older generations and the history of her community.
Mary was born in…

Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Black and Tans, Cork 2005, Education, Food, Ghost stories, Kenmare, Mary O’Sullivan, Music, Pecker Dunne, Prejudice, Racism, Storytelling, Traveling Community, Travellers, War of Independence

Marie Crean: South Parish, Cinemas, Black and Tan’s

Marie was born (in the 1950s) and reared in High Street, in the South Parish, off Douglas Street; she thinks the street was formerly Quarry Lane. Some of her area was altered to make a new road. She went to school in South Presentation.
She recalls…

Margaret Farmer, Catherine McCarthy, Helen Donovan: The Emergency; The Black and Tans;

Margaret remembers that her father used to shout “Up the Mollies” when he had drink taken. [Note: These particular Mollies were agitators controlled by Joseph Devlin MP in opposition to William O’Brien]. She recalls the days of the Black and Tans; on…

Liam Foley: The war of Independence, Corporal Punishment, Music

Liam is a musician and he discusses his introduction to playing, as well as talking about his family and his schooldays.
Liam was born in 1940 in Water Lane. His father, John, was a cabinet maker, who also liked to play music, and could play…

Tags: Black and Tans, Blackpool, Cork, Corporal Punishment, Music, O'Mahony's Square, Snuff, War of Independence

Kieran Edwards & Noreen Crowley: Ballyphehane, Childhood, Community

Kieran Edwards and his sister Noreen Crowley (nee Edwards) are originally from Fr Dominic Road Ballyphahane, they start the interview by discussing the community that Ballypheheane nurtured. Noreen then talks of her youth and how she used to look…

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Ballyphehane, Ballyphehane Oral History Project, Ceela's Pub, Childhood, Family, Fr Dominic Rd, Joe Murphy Hungerstiker, War of Independence

George Glendon: Irish Army, World Wars, The Congo

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…

Tags: 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

Fergal Crowley: Patrick Street, Munster Arcade, Black and Tans

Fergal worked in the Munster Arcade, Patrick Street. He describes the shop. His father started work there in 1901. After the building was burned by the Black and Tans during the Burning of Cork, the British government paid to have buildings on one…

Tags: 1920s, 1940s, 1950s, Black and Tans, Burning of Cork, Cinema, Fergal Crowley, Milk and Cake Shops, Munster Arcade, Panna, Patrick Street, Poverty, Second World War, St Patrick Street, The Savoy, War of Independence, World War II

Billy McCarthy: Childhood, Catholicism, GAA.

Billy, a one-time Cork Folklore Project member of staff and long-term collaborator, was born in Cork in 1941 and grew up with his six siblings in Quaker Road. His mother was born in Cork and his father came from Dunmanway. Billy attended St Marie’s…

Biddy Barrett, Mary Healy, Aisling Murphy, Denis O'Flaherty

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Biddy, Mary and Denis, in the presence of social worker Aisling, gather to recall and share memories of Lent, family, War of Independence, Cobh and Childhood as part of the Wetgate Collection.

Tags: Ash Wednesday, Childhood, Church, Cobh, Down Syndrome, Family, Fasting, Half-Door, Lent, Palm Sunday, Pouladuff, turf, War of Independence

Alice Delay: Togher, Country Life, Childhood

Alice remembers visiting her grandmother in Togher, which was the country, and eating bread and home-made butter. Her grandfather was a farm labourer. The house had an earth floor, and a ceiling made of sewn flour bags. Someone described the house as…

Tags: 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 2000s, Alice Delay, Bonfire Night, Christy Ring, Cinema, Civil War, Housing, I.R.A, Jewish, Lido, Poulraddy Harbour, Prison, Republicanism, Second World War, Sex, Slogging Apples, Social Class, The Emergency, War of Independence, World War II

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