Paddy Marshall: Blackpool, Pidgeon Racing, Cinema,
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He tells a funny story about pigeon racing. He describes the housing around Quarry Lane.
His grandfather served in the Royal Munster Fusiliers from 1914 until 1917. He fought at Gallipoli, where he was mistakenly reported killed.
He describes some of the pranks that used to be played on people.
He recalls being told that people took furniture from Collins’ Barracks as it was being burned in the 1920s.
He remembers seeing cinema serials like Flash Gordon in the Lido cinema. He describes the condition of the cinema, and sneaking people inside. He describes playing hoops. He lists the pubs in and around Great William O’Brien Street. How pigeon racing was done. He recalls some of his experiences with the GAA, and talking to Christy Ring.
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CFP_SR00387_sheehan_2010; CFP_SR00388_sheehan_2010; CFP_SR00389_healy_2010; CFP_SR00390_kelleher_2010; CFP_SR00391_crean_2010; CFP_SR00392_mckeon_2010; CFP_SR00393_twomey_2010; CFP_SR00394_stleger_2010; CFP_SR00395_speight_2010; CFP_SR00396_lane_2010; CFP_SR00397_obrienoleary_2010; CFP_SR00398_jones_2010; CFP_SR00399_saville_2010; CFP_SR00400_magnier_2010; CFP_SR00401_marshall_2010; CFP_SR00403_murphy_2010; CFP_SR00404_prout_2011; CFP_SR00405_walsh_2011; CFP_SR00406_prout_2011; CFP_SR00407_newman_2010; CFP_SR00408_newman_2010; CFP_SR00409_leahy_2011; CFP_SR00411_newman_2010; CFP_SR00412_newman_2010; CFP_SR00413_finn_2011; CFP_SR00414_ohorgain_2011; CFP_SR00415_oconnell_2011; CFP_SR00416_sheehy_2011; CFP_SR00417_mcloughlin_2012; CFP_SR00418_gerety_2012; CFP_SR00419_kelleher_2012; CFP_SR00420_byrne_2012; CFP_SR00421_cronin_2012; CFP_SR00422_ohuigin_2012; CFP_SR00423_meacle_2012; CFP_SR00424_horgan_2012; CFP_SR00425_lyons_2012; CFP_SR00427_goulding_2011;
CFP_SR00491_fitzgerald_2013.
Heritage Week 2011: CFP_SR00429_casey_2011; CFP_SR00430_tomas_2011; CFP_SR00431_newman_2011; CFP_SR00432_stillwell_2011; CFP_SR00433_oconnell_2011; CFP_SR00434_lane_2011; CFP_SR00435_montgomery-mcconville_2011; CFP_SR00436_ocallaghan_2011; CFP_SR00437_corcoran_2011; CFP_SR00438_jones_2011; CFP_SR00439_ohuigin_2011; CFP_SR00440_mccarthy_2011; CFP_SR00441_crowley_2011; CFP_SR00442_obrien_2011; CFP_SR00443_jones_2011; CFP_SR00444_mcgillicuddy_2011; CFP_SR00445_delay_2011; CFP_SR00446_murphy_2011;
Video Interview: CFP_VR00486_speight_2014
Published Material:
O’Carroll, Clíona (2011) ‘The Cork Memory Map’, Béascna 7: 184-188.
O’Carroll, Clíona (2012) ‘Cork Memory Map: an update on CFP’s Online Project’, The Archive 16: 14. https://www.ucc.ie/en/media/research/corkfolkloreproject/archivepdfs/archive16.PDF
Dee, Stephen and O’Carroll, Clíona (2012) ‘Sound Excerpts: Interviews from Heritage Week’, The Archive 16: 15-17. https://www.ucc.ie/en/media/research/corkfolkloreproject/archivepdfs/archive16.PDF
O'Carrol, Clíona (2014) 'The children's perspectives: Place-centred interviewing and multiple diversified livelihood strategies in Cork city, 1935-1960'. Béaloideas - The Journal of Folklore of Ireland Society, 82: 45-65.
The Curious Ear/Documentary on One (Cork City Memory Map) http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2011/0816/646858-curious-ear-doconone-cork-city-memory-map/
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B.S: Would ye as children have played any pranks on neighbours or anything?
P.M: Yeah.
B.S: Could you tell me a little about that?
P.M: [Laughs] I could. I told you we used to play ball on the terrace, Seminary Terrace up in Water Lane and there were two unmarried ladies for want of a better word, living there, Father Harte used stay with one of them and they made our life a misery because they’d be taking the ball and they’d be cribbing about us and we used have em so one day anyway we found a bit of a rope and the two doors they had brass knobs in the centre of the door and the two unmarried ladies, living next door to one another and we would - got the bit of rope we tied both knobs and we left a small bit of slack and we knocked at one door first and we left a small pause before we knocked on the other, then we knocked on the other and then we knocked on the other, the first one we knocked on first, the lady in the house would have tried to open her door and she could only open it so far because the rope wouldn’t let it open any further and then the other one came out slightly after her and she tried to open her door so she closed the first one woman’s door. [laughs] We did make their lives a bit of a misery alright.