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- Tags: Working life
Noel Dempsey: Orthopaedic Hospital, Working Life, Healthcare
Peter Sargent: Orthopaedic Hospital, Working Life, Healthcare
Peter left this job for a position at St Mary's Hospital as a theatre attendant. …
Patrick Cooney: Stonemasons,
They brought their history with them- an oral history. They talked about Cork occasionally. One side of his family were masons- so…
Noreen Hanover: Christmas, Childhood Games, Cinema, Ghost stories, Milk and Cake Shops, Pawnbrokers, St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Working life,
Michael Murphy: Worklife; Murphy's Brewery; Childhood
Maura O’Connell: Orthopaedic Hospital, Working Life, Healthcare
Maura recalls that the nurses residents on the…
Mary O'Sullivan: Orthopaedic Hospital, Working Life, Kitchen Staff
She describes the type of work that the kitchen staff had to preform, from cooking in the kitchen to scrubbing the walls in the corridors.
Mary says there there would be 7 staff on per…
Mary O’Sullivan: Masonry, Family Life,
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Bantry, Cork city, Dances, Family Life, Mary O'Sullivan, Rationing, Stonemasons, The Emergency, West Cork, Working life, World War II
Margaret Newman: Greenmount, Cures, Working Life,
She got cocoa and buns at her primary school. She tells a story about finding out that…
Tags: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 2000s, Christamas, Cures, Dancing, Food, Greenmount, Herbalism, Margaret Newman, McKechnie’s, Social Care, St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Working life, World War II
Kevin Leahy: Gurranabraher, Irish Army, Docklands,
He remembers Blarney Street, and women who…
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 2000s, Childhood Games, Civil War, Confectionery, Courting, Crubeens, Damie Goggins, Dancing, Dock Workers, Dockers, Drinking, Farranree, Greenmount, Gurranabraher, Irish Army, Irish music, Kelly’s Lane, Kevin Leahy, Kick the Can, Langer, Milk and Cake Shops, Munster Selection, Pubs, Skating, Steering Cars, Steernas, The Congo, Women, Working life
Johnny Chris Kelleher: The Evening Echo, Schooldays, Tuberculosis
Tags: Allotments, Anglesea Street, Barrett’s Buildings, BBC, Bingo, Bird-Catching, Blackpool, Bowling, Boxing, Boy Murphy, Card Games, Children’s Games, Children’s Mass, Christy Ring, Churchfield, Coliseum Theatre, Corbett’s Lane, Cork Corporation, Don, Donncha Ó Céileachair, Drisheen, Echo Boys, Evening Echo, Fair Hill, Fairs, Father O’Flynn, Faulkner’s Lane, Food, Gurranabraher, Gurranabraher Road, Hiroshima, Housey Housey, Housing, Irish Language, Jack Lynch, Johnny Chris Kelleher, Kearney’s Lane, Margaret O’Sullivan, Mossy Condon, Newsboys, Newspapers, Nicknames, Northside, O’Flynn family; O’Gorman’s Factory, Pádraig Ó hÓgáin, Polly Kelleher, Seán O’Mahony, Sketchy Roche, Slaughterhouses, Social Housing, Sport, St Anne’s Hurling Club, Street names, TB, The Holly Bough, Tommy Hyde, Tommy Kelleher, Trimbath Mulcahy, Trimbath’s Lane, Tripe, Tripe Houses, Tuberculosis, Walter McEvilly, Working class, Working life, World War II
Dr. John Curtin: Orthopaedic Hospital, Working Life, Healthcare
He remembers thinking St. Mary’s was a very progressive hospital but the layout…
Joesph Fahy: Masonry, Working Life, Family
James 'Jim' McKeon: Northside, Sport, Writing,
Jack Johnson: Masonry, Fishing, Working Life
He then talks about social events and going to dances at The Arcadia club. Jack then mentions his growing up in Monkstown and schooldays.…
Helen Prout: Self-sufficiency, Childbirth, Film Making,
Helen talks about surviving economically…
Edward Buckley: Stonemasons,
Breda McShane: Orthopaedic Hospital
Philomena Cassidy: Grattan Street, Healthcare, The Marsh
Tags: Altar Boys, Arcadia, Bicycles, Bikes, Catholics and Protestants, Céilí, Chemist, Childcare, Children, Children’s Games, Christmas, Churches, Churchgoing, Class, Clothes, Community, Cycling, Dancehalls, Dances, Dancing, Diphtheria, Dispensary, Doctors, Dunlops, Employment, Family, Father, Food, Formality, Forms of Address, Grattan Street, Grattan Street Medical Centre, Graveyard, Hat Making, Home, Home Ownership, House, Houses, Housing, Landlords, Lanes, LDF, Living Conditions, Local Defence Force, Massgoing, Meals, Measles, Mechanic’s Hall, Medical Costs, Medicine, Middle Parish, Money, Mother, Munster Arcade, Music, Neighbourhood, O’Gorman’s Hat Factory, Parents, Pawn Shops, Pawns, Pharmacist, Pharmacy, Plays, Prescriptions, Pride, Protestant, Pub, Quakers, Rationing, Rations, Religion, Rent, Respectability, Role of Women, Sanitation, Sarsfield’s Court, School, Sense of Community, Shandon, Shop, Sick Pay, Sickness, St Francis Church, St Francis Hall, St Peter and Paul’s, St. Francis Hall, Stew, Streets, Streetscape, Sweets, Tanora, TB, Tenement, Tenement life, The Marsh, Time, Timekeeping, Traffic, Transport, Treat, Tuberculosis, Vouchers, Water Pump, Wellington Boots, Work, Working, Working life
Edith O'Regan: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life
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