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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,…

Tags: Accident and Emergency, Alcohol, Autism, Baths, Being a Man, Blarney Street, Boys, Bubble Car, Cards, Career, Career Path, Cathedral Road, CBC, Characters, Child Rearing, Childbirth, Childhood Games, Children’s Games, Chipper, Christian Brothers, Cigarettes, Class, Cork, Cork city, Cork Exhibition, Cork University Hospital, Cycling, Disease, Doctor, dyslexia, Eglington Street Baths, Eglinton Street Baths, Elitism, Emigration, Fish, Fitzgerald’s Park, Food, Games, GP, Grandparents, Guilt, Gurranebraher Road, Hettyfield, Hollyhill, Hospital, Houses, Hypothyroid, Injuries, Intuition, Knitting, Lavitt's Quay, Leaving Certificate, Maylor Street, Measles, Medical Training, Medical Treatment, Medicine, Mental Health, Mercy Hospital, North Infirmary, Northside, Nursing, One Day A Week School, Parents, Patients, Pawn Shops, Placenames, Playing, Polio, Ponnies, Psychiatric, Public Baths, Public Health, Public Health Nurse, Pubs, Respectability, Role of Women, Rugby, Sarsfield Court, School, Schooldays, Shawlie, Shawlies, Shawls, Social Media, Social Status, Spanish Civil War, St Aloysius, stigma, TB, Teachers, Templeacre Bar, Tenements, The Marsh, Tuberculosis, UCC Philosoph, Uniforms, University, University College Cork, Vaccines, whooping cough, Winter's Hill, Working, Working life, Workplace, Wyses Hill

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…

Philomena Cassidy: Grattan Street, Healthcare, The Marsh

Phil grew up in a tenement on Grattan Street and worked in O’Gorman’s Hat Factory and Dunlop’s before getting married and starting a family. She gives a very detailed description of the lanes, houses, shops and families on Grattan Street and the…

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

Imelda Cunning: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life

Imelda grew up in Bathgate between Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland. Her mother was from Cork so Imelda spent time in Whitegate in her youth where she enjoyed the relative freedom she had there playing children’s games and spending time on beaches…

Tags: Administration, Alcohol, Amputation, Area Medical Officer, Ballyphehane, Beach, Biomechanics, Camaraderie, Canteen, Car Park, Car Parking, Career, Childhood, Children, Children’s Games, Christmas, Client, Clients, Community, Cork, Corkbeg, Corkbeg Beach, Counselling, Course, Deformity, Diabetes, Disease, Diseases, Dispensary, Doctor, Edinburgh, Employment, Family, Feet, Flood, Floods, Foot, Foot Care, Gangrene, Glasgow, GP, Grand-aunt, Grandfather, Grandmother, Grandparents, Grattan Street, Grattan Street Medical Centre, Greenmount, Gurranabraher, Health, Health Career, History Curriculum, Holiday, Holidays, HSE, Illness, Inch beach, Infection, Irish History, Irish Medicines Board, Job, Marriage Registrar, Marsh, Medical, Medicine, Middle Parish, Music, Nail Surgery, Nails, Neurovascular Disease, Optician, Optometrist, Parking, Patient, Patients, Playing, Podiatry, Polio, Prescription, Quakers, Refugees, Rickets, Roches Point, School, Scotland, Sickness, Ski, Skiing, Speech and Language, St. Mary’s Primary Care Centre, Staff, Surgery, Swine Flu, TB, Teacher, Teachers, The Marsh, The Middle Parish, Trabolgan, Training, Tuberculosis, Ulcer, University, Vaccination, vaccine, Vaccines, Whitegate, Work, Work Environment, Working life

Aoife O'Brien: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life

Aoife describes growing up on the Northside near Cathedral Road and playing games with her friends. Describes her grandmother who ran a shop on Churchfield Green. Her grandmother was a confidante to many locals. Her grandmother eventually moved into…

Tags: Accident, Accidents, Admin, Administration, Apron, Build Heritage, Building, Buildings, Built Heritage, Cake, Cake Shop, Canteen, Car, Car Park, Car Parking, Career, Career Decisions, Career Path, Cars, Cathedral Road, CD, CD Player, Cervical Test, Chalk, Change, Childhood, Childhood Games, Children’s Games, Christamas, Christamas Dinner, Christmas, Churchfield Green, Cigarettes, Clerical Officer, Clerical Work, Clinic, Colleagues, Community, Computer, Crime, Crimes, Database, Disability, Dispensary, Disrepair, Dolls, Drisheen, Dublin Hill, Duties, Fairies, Fairy, Family, Father, Floods, Food, Friends, Games, ghost, Glasses, Grandparents, Grattan Street, Grattan Street Medical Centre, Gurranabraher, Health Centre, HPV, HPV Vaccine, HSE, Instruments, Irish Steel, Job, Leaks, Lunch, Marriage, Meals, Medical Centre, Medicine, Memory, Music, Name, Names, Neighbour, Neighbourhood, Neighbours, News, North Main Street, Northside, Nurse, Office, Organising, Parents, Parking, Parties, Party, Patient, Patients, Perceptions, Picky, Porter, Poverty, Registry Office, Responsibility, Sanitary Towels, School, Schooldays, Scone, Scones, Secretarial Skills, Secretary, Shop, Shopping, Shops, Sibling, Sister, Skills, Skipping, Smell, Smells, smoking, Social life, St Mary's Health Campus, St Mary's Orthopeadic Hospital, St Mary’s Primary Care Centre, St Vincent's, Staff, Stories, Summer Holidays, Traditional Food, Traditions, Training, Tripe, Tripe and Drisheen, Vaccination, Vaccinations, vaccine, Vaccine Hesitancy, Vaccines, Wedding, Weddings, Work, Work Colleagues, Working, Working life, Worklife, Workplace, Youghal

Sean Higgisson: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life

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Sean grew up by the Lough in Cork city and spent holidays in Ardmore. Describes his family home and memories of his grandparents. Talks about playing football and the game Red Rover as a child. His mother was not allowed to keep her job in the public…

Tags: Admin, Administration, Adrmore, Ardmore, Atmosphere, Aunts, Baking, Ballincollig, Ballincollig Regional Park, Ballyphehane, Bedroom, Bishopstown, Bon Secours Hospital, Bons, Book, Books, Bread, Brothers, Building, Building Maintenance, Buildings, Built Heritage, Camera, Car Theft, Career, Career Choice, Career Decision, Career Options, Childhood, Childhood Games, Children, Children’s Games, Class, Clothes, Clothing, Coláiste Spioraid Naoimh, Colleagues, Community Welfare, Community Welfare Officer, Cork, Course, Courses, Crime, CSN, Death, Decision Making, Decisions, Disrepair, Duties, Dying, Elderly, Emigrant, Emigrant Experience, Emigration, Engineering, England, Family, Family Life, Floods, Food, Football, France, Free Time, Games, ghost, Ghosts, Gift, Gifts, Grandfather, Grandmother, Grandparents, Health, Health Centre, Health Services, Healthcare, Heating, Hill, Hill Walk, Hill Walking Club, Hills, Hillwalk, Hillwalking, Hillwalking Guide, Hobbies, Hobby, Holiday, Holidays, Home, House, HSE, Independent, Ireland, Irish Language, Knitting, Latin, Leaving Cert, Leaving Certificate, Leisure, Life, Liverpool, London, Lough, Mahon, Maintenance, Mardyke, Marriage, Mass, Mercy Hospital, Middle Parish, Mother, Mountain, Mountain Ranges, Mountains, North Main Street, Northside, Nurse, Nursing Home, Outdoors, Outlook on Life, Outook, Paint, Painter, Painting, Paints, Parents, Patient, Patients, PBC, Perspective on Life, Photographs, Photography, Playing, Porter, Pres, Present, Presentation Brothers, Presents, Public Amenities, Publish, Publishing, Quakers, Redemption Road, Responsibility, Role of Women, School, School Days, Schooldays, Science, Scool, Siblings, Social Media, Solitude, Sport, St Joseph’s School, Staff, Stories, Taxi, Taxis, Teacher, Teachers, The Lough, The Marsh, Training, Uncles, Vaccination, Vaccines, Walk, Walking, Women, Women in Work, Work, Working life, Worklife, Workplace

"Mary": Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life

‘Mary’ grew up on a farm in county Limerick, part of which was rented to a mental hospital to be worked by patients. By interacting with these patients she quickly learned who you could trust and who you couldn’t. Mentions her brother’s physical and…

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Accommodation, ADHD, Ambulance, Animals, Anti-Vax, Australia, Babies, Baby, Bales of Hay, Bed Wetting, Bedtime, Bicycle, Bicycles, Bicycling, Bike, Bike. Bikes, Birth, Bread, bread and breadmaking, Breadmaking, Building, Buildings, Built Heritage, Bullying, Bureaucracy, Bus, Calf, Camaraderie, Candle, Candles, Canteen, Car Park, Car Parking, Career, Career Choice, Career Decision, Career Guidance, Career Path, Careers, Castletroy, Change, Chemist, Child Welfare, Childhood, Childhood Games, Children, Christmas, City Hall, Cleaners, Clinic, Clinics, Clothes, Clothing, Co. Limerick. County Limerick, Coal Quay, Colleagues, Community, Community Welfare, Cooking, Cork, Cork city, Court, Court Case, Cow, Death, Decision, Dementia, Disability, Disease, Diseases, Dispensary, Disrepair, Dressings, Drisheen, Duties, Educate Together, Electricity, Emigration, English market, Family, Family Life, Farm, Farming, Farmlife, Father, Flats, Fleas, Flooding, Floods, Food, Frustration, Games, Glasgow, GP, Grattan Street, Hay, Health, Health Promotion, Health Services, Healthcare, Healthy, Hens, History, Hoarding, Home, Hospital, House, Houses, Housing, HPV, HPV Vaccine, HSE, Hygiene, Illness, Illnesses, Income, Irish Language, Kitchen, Knocknaheeney, Labour Ward, Lane, Laneway, Learning, Limerick, Limerick city, Marriage, Marsh, Meals, Medicine, Medicines, Memories, Memory, Mental Hospital, Mental Issues, Mercy Hospital, Middle Parish, Midwife, Midwifery, MMR, Mother, Mushrooms, Music, Night Work, North Main Street, Nun, Nuns, Nurse, Nurse Training, Nurses, Nursing, Nursing Home, Nursing Training, Orthopaedic, Our Lady’s Hospital, Paperwork, Parents, Parking, Patient, Patient Care, Patient Environment, Patients, Pharmacy, PHN, Polio, Pop Music, Porter, Potatoes, Priest, Public Health Nurse, Public Health Nursing. PHNs, Public Transport, Quakers, Religion, Remarriage, Rent, Role of Women, Routine, Sarsfield Court, Sarsfield’s Court, School, Schooldays, Sheares Street, Shift Work, Siblings, Sickness, Singing, Smell, Smells, smoking, Social Conditions, Songs, Spinster, St Francis Church, St Mary's Health Campus, St. Mary’s Primary Care Centre, Staff Canteen, Tea, Tea Room, Teacher, Teachers, Tenements, Textbooks, Thatch, The Marsh, The Middle Parish, Traditional Food, Transport, Tripe, Tripe and Drisheen, Uniform, USA Biscuits, Vaccination, Vaccinations, vaccine, Vaccines, Vegetables, Vocation, Ward, Wastage, Waste, Wheelchair, Winter, Women, Women's Lives, Work, Work Colleagues, Working, Working life, Worklife, Workplace, York Hill

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

Michael Murphy: Worklife; Murphy's Brewery; Childhood

Michael was born in 1941. He was born in Francis Street. He had 6 brothers and 5 sisters. His earliest memory is of his grandfather’s funeral, with a hearse pulled by two horses, in 1945. His mother’s pregnancies and the arrival of newborn children…

Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Childhood, Funeral Customs, Funerals, Jews, Murphy’s Bacon Factory, Murphy’s Brewery, Shandon Street, Working life

Edward Buckley: Stonemasons,

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Edward a born a bred Cobh man was born in 1949. After finishing his leaving certificate he attended University College Cork for a year, but says it was not for him. Luckily Seán Lemass had changed the rules on who could be accepted into trades…

Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Apprenticeship, Family Life, Hogan's (family history), Jeremiah Hogan, PJ Hegarty, Stonemasons, Trades, Working life

Patrick Cooney: Stonemasons,

Pat, who is not as stonemason but is from a long line of masons, grew up in London, his family left Cork in the 1880s
They brought their history with them- an oral history. They talked about Cork occasionally. One side of his family were masons- so…

Tags: Easter Rising, Emigration, Hogan's (family history), Jeremiah Hogan, London, Moore Street (campaign), Stonemasons, The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), Working life

Jack Johnson: Masonry, Fishing, Working Life

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Jack begins by describing his family background in the mason trade and his own beginnings as a mason.

He then talks about social events and going to dances at The Arcadia club. Jack then mentions his growing up in Monkstown and schooldays.…

Tags: Bearlager na soar (Masons Language), Dances, Emigration, England, Family Life, Fishing, Monkstown, Nicknames, Stonemasons, The Arcadia, Trades, Working life

Mary O’Sullivan: Masonry, Family Life,

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Mary begins the interview by talking through her earliest memories of Bantry, walking to school and robbing apples and nice and cross teachers. Mary’s then moves on to describe her family, and how she left school at 14, her father was a farm labourer…

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

Joesph Fahy: Masonry, Working Life, Family

Joesph starts off the interview by talking through his work history. From working for Sisks at 16 to his job as a foreman for the Cork city council. Joesph mentions some of the building projects he has been involved in, from the churched in Blackrock…

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Family Life, Joesph Fahy, Nicknames, Parliament Bridge, Sisks (Building Contractors), South Gate Bridge, Stonemasons, Trades, Working life

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