Margaret Newman: Blackpool, Housing, Childbirth,

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Title

Margaret Newman: Blackpool, Housing, Childbirth,

Subject

Life History:

Description

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 looking after a visiting American relative, who was an alcoholic. She talks again about childbirth. How Mount Farran estate was built; what Blackpool was like in her time.
She tells a story about the removal and burying of a statue of Queen Victoria from University College Cork.

Note: This is one of 4 interviews conducted with Margaret.

Date

11 August 2010

Identifier

CFP_SR00408_newman_2010

Coverage

Cork, Ireland, 1920s-2000s

Relation

Interviews with Margaret Newman:
CFP00407; CFP00411; CFP00412:

Other Interviews in the Colection:

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_SR00402_marshall_2010; CFP_SR00403_murphy_2010; CFP_SR00404_prout_2011; CFP_SR00405_walsh_2011; CFP_SR00406_prout_2011; CFP_SR00407_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/

To view the Cork Memory Map Click Here

Source

Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive

Rights

Cork Folklore Project

Language

English

Type

Sound

Format

1 .wav File

Interviewee

Interviewer

Duration

73min 37sec

Location

Farrancleary, Cork

Original Format

.wav

Bit Rate/Frequency

24bit / 48kHz

Transcription

The following is a short extract from the interview transcript, copyright of the Cork Folklore Project. If you wish to access further archival material for this interview or other interviews please contact CFP, folklorearchive@gmail.com

M N: My husband's uncle married us because he was a priest. He was in Rome all the time and eh he came home. He was belong to the Rosminian’s order, and he came home and he married us in the Lough Church. And the only thing that we never thought of was my husband, as I told ya was a painter and he was working on houses that were on eh were being built excuse me and were suppose to be getting one of the new houses. Where were we going to stay because we had no apartment to stay. We couldn’t stay with his mother his mother had a shop and then eh my mother had no room for an extra person coming in. So my mother in law had a first cousin living in Thomas Davis Avenue in Blackpool, and he had three bedrooms and then like a kitchen you know and a hall to go out to the back garden. An eh she said wouldn’t ye go down and stay there until em until the ,the your houses that are ready like there only on the plan now like when you go out. But eh ten months after I had my oldest son. I got married on the 3rd of August and he got married eh or sorry he was born on the last day of May the following year. So and so when he saved my name by fours weeks so all my children were born in my mother's house they were all born on the Southside of the city. I wouldn’t go in didn’t go into any hospital or anything. I had a doctor and I had a nurse. I had the nurses from the lying in they used to call it in western road ‘tis closed now. Twas a maternity hospital so they shifted it all them up to the CUH.

Citation

Cork Folklore Project , “Margaret Newman: Blackpool, Housing, Childbirth,,” accessed October 14, 2024, https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/121.