13 20 249 https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/c9271efa146c269f9dd41bd326e6340b.JPG 32da2fb41868423d653707d79e87118d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Catching Stories (of Infectious Disease In Ireland) <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Catching-Stories-w-logos-3.png" style="width:350px;height:100px;" alt="Catching-Stories-w-logos-3.png" /> Subject The topic of the resource Life History; Ireland; Health; Communicable diseases; Epidemics; Poliomyelitis; Polio; Postpoliomyelitis syndrome; Tuberculosis; TB; Measles; Diphtheria; COVID-19; Vaccines; Description An account of the resource Catching Stories is a folklore-STEM collaboration project funded through the <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://www.sfi.ie/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Science Foundation Ireland</a> (SFI) Discover Programme. The project was concerned with those who had first had experiences of being stricken with the disease, their family members and the public health practitioners who served on the frontline of past epidemics. The diseases the project focused on were: polio, tuberculosis, diphtheria and measles, Spanish flu and COVID-19. The project grew from seed funding through the Irish Research Council and University College Cork's(UCC) College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences. This funding enabled the team to collate material in the Cork Folklore Project's archive and create a pilot online resource. In 2022 the project was awarded an SFI Discover grant that allowed the team to undertake new bespoke interviews and grow the online dissemination platform. To date (February 2023), Catching Stories consists of XX interviews. 'Catching Stories' has also been drawn from the Cork Folklore Project Sound Archive for other related material. The project's main output is an online resource (<a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="http://www.catchingstories.org" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.catchingstories.org</a>). This website places personal oral testimonies adjacent to scientific information about the diseases. There was also a series of talks and presentations for <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://catchingstories.org/events/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Heritage Week 2022, Culture Night 2022 and Science Week 2022</a>. With support from <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://www.ucc.ie/en/apc/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">APC Microbiome</a>, SFI and UCC's <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://libguides.ucc.ie/library" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Boole Library,</a> the Catching Stories team curated the interactive multimedia exhibition, Catching Stories of Infectious Disease in Ireland (16 February - 25 June 2023), in UCC's Boole Library. The Exhibition was subsequently taken by the Heatlh Service Executive and displayed in their campuses and buildings throughout Cork and Kerry. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-2023 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Interviewees: Lesley Cox; Evelyn Wainwright; Emma Conway Clarke; Michael Hussey; Paul O'Brien, James Hoare Nagle; Edward Tanner; Michael and Theresa O'Sullivan, Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Ireland; 1920s-2020s Relation A related resource Website <a href="https://catchingstories.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.catchingstories.org</a> <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/e9fc50934d016888e8a29de8e14d25d4.JPG" style="width:500px;height:250px;" alt="e9fc50934d016888e8a29de8e14d25d4.JPG" /> Here you can engage with the collected material side by side with biomedical commentary from immunologist Dr Elizebeth Brint. Presentation and Listening Events Heritage Week 2022 <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Heritage-Week-2022-Library-talk-300x169.jpg" alt="Heritage-Week-2022-Library-talk-300x169.jpg" /> For Heritage Week project coordinator James Furey gave a presentation of the project at Cork City Library Grand Parade. Culture Night 2022 <img class="size-medium wp-image-407 alignnone" src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Culture-Night-2020-30-300x224.jpg" alt="Culture-Night-2020-30-300x224.jpg" /><img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Culture-Night-2020-6-300x224.jpg" alt="Culture-Night-2020-6-300x224.jpg" /> For Culture night the team went to the streets to set up a ‘time travelling’ vaccination clinic outside the old medical centre on Grattan St Cork City. Willing participants sat on a bench and heard Joe Scanlon’s story of receiving the ‘Branding Iron’, Joe’s term for the vaccine apparatus used in the 1950s. Joe’s story and the event elicited a great response from those who took part. Science Week 2022 <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Science-Week-2022-2-724x1024.png" style="width:200px;height:300px;" alt="Science-Week-2022-2-724x1024.png" /> Celebrate Science Family Day on 13th November 2022 <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5840-300x200.jpg" alt="IMG_5840-300x200.jpg" /> Our first outing for Cork Science Festival was at the ‘Celebrate Science’ Family Day at University College Cork’s Western Gateway Building. For this event, we fired up the ‘Time-machine’ to bring participants on a trip to 1958, the day Joe Scanlon received a vaccine, or as Joe calls it, <a href="https://catchingstories.org/getting-the-vaccine/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">‘The Branding Iron’</a>. <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5844-300x200.jpg" alt="IMG_5844-300x200.jpg" /> The Catching Stories team held four sessions. We played Joe’s story and quizzed our audience on their knowledge of infectious diseases and their memory of receiving vaccines. There was excellent engagement with both young and old. The younger participants left with a greater understanding of diseases like polio and tuberculosis. And the older members relayed their stories of getting vaccinated and how infectious diseases had encroached on their lives. Science Week Talk UCC Student Hub Those who braved the horrendous rain on November 15th were delighted to shelter in The Shtepps to hear the presentation from James Furey and Beth Brint on how folklore and STEM can work together to bring new perspectives on health education and understanding. Exhibition <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/d3170f22a998193439e53217786f14ea.jpg" style="width:200px;height:300px;" alt="d3170f22a998193439e53217786f14ea.jpg" /> The exhibition in UCC's Boole Library (16 February - 25 June 2023), was an innovative exploration of how to engage people with a topic that does not lend itself too easily to public dissemination. The exhibition foregrounded the human voice through audio installations (Made by Dr Jeffery Weeter), links to interviews, and interaction with physical objects. It invited visitors to join interviewees in the experience of manually ventilating a child with polio throughout the night in 1956 and to move along a waiting-room bench when facing vaccination by the dreaded ‘Branding Iron’ or to imagine the loss of a childhood classmate from measles. Artworks by <a href="https://lesleycoxart.com/earlier-works-3-polio-series/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lesley Cox</a> also explore the impact of polio on families and communities. <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595601-scaled.jpg" style="width:350px;height:650px;" alt="1676973595601-scaled.jpg" /><img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595744-scaled.jpg" style="width:300px;height:650px;" alt="1676973595744-scaled.jpg" /> <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595665-scaled.jpg" style="width:650px;height:350px;" alt="1676973595665-scaled.jpg" /> <img src="https://lesleycoxart.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/image29.jpg" style="width:350px;height:650px;" alt="image29.jpg" />(©Lesley Cox) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Furey Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cork Folklore Project Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Cork Folklore Project Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .wav Files Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Emma Clarke Conway Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview James Furey Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 51m 37s Location The location of the interview Online Through MS Teams Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data .wav Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Emma Clarke Conway Subject The topic of the resource Polio Description An account of the resource Emma is the Communications and development officer for <a href="https://polio.ie/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Polio Survivors Ireland</a>. She spoke about the history of polio in Ireland, about the work PSI do and the current state of polio in Ireland. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 8 August 2022 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Interviewee: Emma Clarke Conway Interviewer: James Furey Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CFP_SR00836_clarkeconway_2022 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Ireland; 1920s -2020s Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cork Folklore Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Folklore Project Sound Archive Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cork Folklore Project Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Cork Folklore Project Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 1 .wav file Communicable diseases Health Polio Polio outbreak 1956 Polio Survivors Ireland Poliomyelitis Postpoliomyelitis syndrome stigma Trauma https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/96de18b7842b6a2ff3219d6fd1219a7d.jpg 328fc840557cf068feedc0eaf1a835d6 https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/3aa497532aca8d941e617768ca1ca0be.mp3 497f20a8e38e129315bb5a8a83a97a6f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Catching Stories (of Infectious Disease In Ireland) <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Catching-Stories-w-logos-3.png" style="width:350px;height:100px;" alt="Catching-Stories-w-logos-3.png" /> Subject The topic of the resource Life History; Ireland; Health; Communicable diseases; Epidemics; Poliomyelitis; Polio; Postpoliomyelitis syndrome; Tuberculosis; TB; Measles; Diphtheria; COVID-19; Vaccines; Description An account of the resource Catching Stories is a folklore-STEM collaboration project funded through the <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://www.sfi.ie/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Science Foundation Ireland</a> (SFI) Discover Programme. The project was concerned with those who had first had experiences of being stricken with the disease, their family members and the public health practitioners who served on the frontline of past epidemics. The diseases the project focused on were: polio, tuberculosis, diphtheria and measles, Spanish flu and COVID-19. The project grew from seed funding through the Irish Research Council and University College Cork's(UCC) College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences. This funding enabled the team to collate material in the Cork Folklore Project's archive and create a pilot online resource. In 2022 the project was awarded an SFI Discover grant that allowed the team to undertake new bespoke interviews and grow the online dissemination platform. To date (February 2023), Catching Stories consists of XX interviews. 'Catching Stories' has also been drawn from the Cork Folklore Project Sound Archive for other related material. The project's main output is an online resource (<a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="http://www.catchingstories.org" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.catchingstories.org</a>). This website places personal oral testimonies adjacent to scientific information about the diseases. There was also a series of talks and presentations for <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://catchingstories.org/events/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Heritage Week 2022, Culture Night 2022 and Science Week 2022</a>. With support from <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://www.ucc.ie/en/apc/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">APC Microbiome</a>, SFI and UCC's <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://libguides.ucc.ie/library" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Boole Library,</a> the Catching Stories team curated the interactive multimedia exhibition, Catching Stories of Infectious Disease in Ireland (16 February - 25 June 2023), in UCC's Boole Library. The Exhibition was subsequently taken by the Heatlh Service Executive and displayed in their campuses and buildings throughout Cork and Kerry. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-2023 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Interviewees: Lesley Cox; Evelyn Wainwright; Emma Conway Clarke; Michael Hussey; Paul O'Brien, James Hoare Nagle; Edward Tanner; Michael and Theresa O'Sullivan, Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Ireland; 1920s-2020s Relation A related resource Website <a href="https://catchingstories.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.catchingstories.org</a> <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/e9fc50934d016888e8a29de8e14d25d4.JPG" style="width:500px;height:250px;" alt="e9fc50934d016888e8a29de8e14d25d4.JPG" /> Here you can engage with the collected material side by side with biomedical commentary from immunologist Dr Elizebeth Brint. Presentation and Listening Events Heritage Week 2022 <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Heritage-Week-2022-Library-talk-300x169.jpg" alt="Heritage-Week-2022-Library-talk-300x169.jpg" /> For Heritage Week project coordinator James Furey gave a presentation of the project at Cork City Library Grand Parade. Culture Night 2022 <img class="size-medium wp-image-407 alignnone" src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Culture-Night-2020-30-300x224.jpg" alt="Culture-Night-2020-30-300x224.jpg" /><img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Culture-Night-2020-6-300x224.jpg" alt="Culture-Night-2020-6-300x224.jpg" /> For Culture night the team went to the streets to set up a ‘time travelling’ vaccination clinic outside the old medical centre on Grattan St Cork City. Willing participants sat on a bench and heard Joe Scanlon’s story of receiving the ‘Branding Iron’, Joe’s term for the vaccine apparatus used in the 1950s. Joe’s story and the event elicited a great response from those who took part. Science Week 2022 <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Science-Week-2022-2-724x1024.png" style="width:200px;height:300px;" alt="Science-Week-2022-2-724x1024.png" /> Celebrate Science Family Day on 13th November 2022 <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5840-300x200.jpg" alt="IMG_5840-300x200.jpg" /> Our first outing for Cork Science Festival was at the ‘Celebrate Science’ Family Day at University College Cork’s Western Gateway Building. For this event, we fired up the ‘Time-machine’ to bring participants on a trip to 1958, the day Joe Scanlon received a vaccine, or as Joe calls it, <a href="https://catchingstories.org/getting-the-vaccine/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">‘The Branding Iron’</a>. <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5844-300x200.jpg" alt="IMG_5844-300x200.jpg" /> The Catching Stories team held four sessions. We played Joe’s story and quizzed our audience on their knowledge of infectious diseases and their memory of receiving vaccines. There was excellent engagement with both young and old. The younger participants left with a greater understanding of diseases like polio and tuberculosis. And the older members relayed their stories of getting vaccinated and how infectious diseases had encroached on their lives. Science Week Talk UCC Student Hub Those who braved the horrendous rain on November 15th were delighted to shelter in The Shtepps to hear the presentation from James Furey and Beth Brint on how folklore and STEM can work together to bring new perspectives on health education and understanding. Exhibition <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/d3170f22a998193439e53217786f14ea.jpg" style="width:200px;height:300px;" alt="d3170f22a998193439e53217786f14ea.jpg" /> The exhibition in UCC's Boole Library (16 February - 25 June 2023), was an innovative exploration of how to engage people with a topic that does not lend itself too easily to public dissemination. The exhibition foregrounded the human voice through audio installations (Made by Dr Jeffery Weeter), links to interviews, and interaction with physical objects. It invited visitors to join interviewees in the experience of manually ventilating a child with polio throughout the night in 1956 and to move along a waiting-room bench when facing vaccination by the dreaded ‘Branding Iron’ or to imagine the loss of a childhood classmate from measles. Artworks by <a href="https://lesleycoxart.com/earlier-works-3-polio-series/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lesley Cox</a> also explore the impact of polio on families and communities. <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595601-scaled.jpg" style="width:350px;height:650px;" alt="1676973595601-scaled.jpg" /><img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595744-scaled.jpg" style="width:300px;height:650px;" alt="1676973595744-scaled.jpg" /> <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595665-scaled.jpg" style="width:650px;height:350px;" alt="1676973595665-scaled.jpg" /> <img src="https://lesleycoxart.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/image29.jpg" style="width:350px;height:650px;" alt="image29.jpg" />(©Lesley Cox) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Furey Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cork Folklore Project Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Cork Folklore Project Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .wav Files Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Pauline Matthews Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 9 min 53 sec Location The location of the interview Cork, Ireland Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data .mp3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pauline Matthews Subject The topic of the resource Tuberculosis Description An account of the resource Pauline Matthews was born in 1950 in the Ballintemple area of Cork city. When she was an infant her mother contracted tuberculosis and was confined to the chest hospital in Mallow. Shortly afterwards, Pauline contracted the disease, leading her to be hospitalised in St Raphel's Montenotte. Pauline's father was in the merchant navy, meaning he was away for long periods. After an accident at sea, he too was hospitalised, in Australia. The loss of the father's income meant that Pauline's aunt had to not only be the sole visitor to her sister and niece in the hospital but also, hold down a job to provide for her three relatives. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10 February 2020 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Interviewee: Pauline Matthews Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Ireland; Cork; 1950s; Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cork Folklore Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Folklore Project Sound Archive Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cork Folklore Project Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Cork Folklore Project Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 1 .mp3 file Health Heatherside Sanatrium Merchant Navy Public Health Sanatorium TB The Green Door Tuberculosis (TB) https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/99b965993d0856638fdb06cd9c574183.jpg 57a617368d7dd4ac84fd635ecffafdfd https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/e86d0e14410c7b4995f0b42da62aaf33.wav e849b1244ac6ce09d018f80f0c92ce13 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Catching Stories (of Infectious Disease In Ireland) <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Catching-Stories-w-logos-3.png" style="width:350px;height:100px;" alt="Catching-Stories-w-logos-3.png" /> Subject The topic of the resource Life History; Ireland; Health; Communicable diseases; Epidemics; Poliomyelitis; Polio; Postpoliomyelitis syndrome; Tuberculosis; TB; Measles; Diphtheria; COVID-19; Vaccines; Description An account of the resource Catching Stories is a folklore-STEM collaboration project funded through the <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://www.sfi.ie/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Science Foundation Ireland</a> (SFI) Discover Programme. The project was concerned with those who had first had experiences of being stricken with the disease, their family members and the public health practitioners who served on the frontline of past epidemics. The diseases the project focused on were: polio, tuberculosis, diphtheria and measles, Spanish flu and COVID-19. The project grew from seed funding through the Irish Research Council and University College Cork's(UCC) College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences. This funding enabled the team to collate material in the Cork Folklore Project's archive and create a pilot online resource. In 2022 the project was awarded an SFI Discover grant that allowed the team to undertake new bespoke interviews and grow the online dissemination platform. To date (February 2023), Catching Stories consists of XX interviews. 'Catching Stories' has also been drawn from the Cork Folklore Project Sound Archive for other related material. The project's main output is an online resource (<a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="http://www.catchingstories.org" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.catchingstories.org</a>). This website places personal oral testimonies adjacent to scientific information about the diseases. There was also a series of talks and presentations for <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://catchingstories.org/events/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Heritage Week 2022, Culture Night 2022 and Science Week 2022</a>. With support from <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://www.ucc.ie/en/apc/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">APC Microbiome</a>, SFI and UCC's <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://libguides.ucc.ie/library" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Boole Library,</a> the Catching Stories team curated the interactive multimedia exhibition, Catching Stories of Infectious Disease in Ireland (16 February - 25 June 2023), in UCC's Boole Library. The Exhibition was subsequently taken by the Heatlh Service Executive and displayed in their campuses and buildings throughout Cork and Kerry. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-2023 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Interviewees: Lesley Cox; Evelyn Wainwright; Emma Conway Clarke; Michael Hussey; Paul O'Brien, James Hoare Nagle; Edward Tanner; Michael and Theresa O'Sullivan, Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Ireland; 1920s-2020s Relation A related resource Website <a href="https://catchingstories.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.catchingstories.org</a> <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/e9fc50934d016888e8a29de8e14d25d4.JPG" style="width:500px;height:250px;" alt="e9fc50934d016888e8a29de8e14d25d4.JPG" /> Here you can engage with the collected material side by side with biomedical commentary from immunologist Dr Elizebeth Brint. Presentation and Listening Events Heritage Week 2022 <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Heritage-Week-2022-Library-talk-300x169.jpg" alt="Heritage-Week-2022-Library-talk-300x169.jpg" /> For Heritage Week project coordinator James Furey gave a presentation of the project at Cork City Library Grand Parade. Culture Night 2022 <img class="size-medium wp-image-407 alignnone" src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Culture-Night-2020-30-300x224.jpg" alt="Culture-Night-2020-30-300x224.jpg" /><img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Culture-Night-2020-6-300x224.jpg" alt="Culture-Night-2020-6-300x224.jpg" /> For Culture night the team went to the streets to set up a ‘time travelling’ vaccination clinic outside the old medical centre on Grattan St Cork City. Willing participants sat on a bench and heard Joe Scanlon’s story of receiving the ‘Branding Iron’, Joe’s term for the vaccine apparatus used in the 1950s. Joe’s story and the event elicited a great response from those who took part. Science Week 2022 <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Science-Week-2022-2-724x1024.png" style="width:200px;height:300px;" alt="Science-Week-2022-2-724x1024.png" /> Celebrate Science Family Day on 13th November 2022 <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5840-300x200.jpg" alt="IMG_5840-300x200.jpg" /> Our first outing for Cork Science Festival was at the ‘Celebrate Science’ Family Day at University College Cork’s Western Gateway Building. For this event, we fired up the ‘Time-machine’ to bring participants on a trip to 1958, the day Joe Scanlon received a vaccine, or as Joe calls it, <a href="https://catchingstories.org/getting-the-vaccine/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">‘The Branding Iron’</a>. <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5844-300x200.jpg" alt="IMG_5844-300x200.jpg" /> The Catching Stories team held four sessions. We played Joe’s story and quizzed our audience on their knowledge of infectious diseases and their memory of receiving vaccines. There was excellent engagement with both young and old. The younger participants left with a greater understanding of diseases like polio and tuberculosis. And the older members relayed their stories of getting vaccinated and how infectious diseases had encroached on their lives. Science Week Talk UCC Student Hub Those who braved the horrendous rain on November 15th were delighted to shelter in The Shtepps to hear the presentation from James Furey and Beth Brint on how folklore and STEM can work together to bring new perspectives on health education and understanding. Exhibition <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/d3170f22a998193439e53217786f14ea.jpg" style="width:200px;height:300px;" alt="d3170f22a998193439e53217786f14ea.jpg" /> The exhibition in UCC's Boole Library (16 February - 25 June 2023), was an innovative exploration of how to engage people with a topic that does not lend itself too easily to public dissemination. The exhibition foregrounded the human voice through audio installations (Made by Dr Jeffery Weeter), links to interviews, and interaction with physical objects. It invited visitors to join interviewees in the experience of manually ventilating a child with polio throughout the night in 1956 and to move along a waiting-room bench when facing vaccination by the dreaded ‘Branding Iron’ or to imagine the loss of a childhood classmate from measles. Artworks by <a href="https://lesleycoxart.com/earlier-works-3-polio-series/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lesley Cox</a> also explore the impact of polio on families and communities. <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595601-scaled.jpg" style="width:350px;height:650px;" alt="1676973595601-scaled.jpg" /><img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595744-scaled.jpg" style="width:300px;height:650px;" alt="1676973595744-scaled.jpg" /> <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595665-scaled.jpg" style="width:650px;height:350px;" alt="1676973595665-scaled.jpg" /> <img src="https://lesleycoxart.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/image29.jpg" style="width:350px;height:650px;" alt="image29.jpg" />(©Lesley Cox) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Furey Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cork Folklore Project Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Cork Folklore Project Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .wav Files Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Michael Hussey Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview James Furey Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 88min 09sec Location The location of the interview Youghal, Co. Cork, Ireland Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data .wav Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 24bit / 48kHz Time Summary A summary of an interview given for different time stamps throughout the interview <table> <tbody> <tr> <td> 0.00.00 - 0.10.06 </td> <td> Intro - Background. Schooling, Presentation convent, CBS Primary (Horrendous experience), Secondary school CBS not as tough as primary. Actual education. Stresses to say he is not anti-church. Changed to the Vocational school in 3rd year. An absolute eye opener. Group cert then inter cert, stayed on, and petitioned for the school to have leaving cert. Explains the sadistic behaviour of both the lay and Christian brother teachers and the difference in their physical punishment. Fear of going to the toilet. Fear of principal. After School very different. Chatting, TV etc. Loved the American TV shows. Space was big in his early life, first man on the moon, Star Trek etc. Not brought up with traditional Irish values or the GAA. Gravitated to the beach side of town. Morning, Noon, and night. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.10.06- 0.13.20 </td> <td> Childhood Pastimes Summertime gravitated to the beach side of town. Morning, Noon, and night. Played rounders and chainey, Glassey Alleys (Marbles) Pickey (like hopscotch) on the street. Girls would brake glass. Glass was used as currency. Trade broken glass for comics. Coloured glass was worth more. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.13.20- 0.14.23 </td> <td> Cork Examiner newspaper cut in strips and strung up for toilet paper. Micks’ uncle thought that posh, he just tore as he went. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.14.23 - 0.19.37 </td> <td> Mick says from a young age took an interest in the past. Mentions his love for the new in terms of culture. Glam rock and Punk. Not Horselips though. Critical of ‘Reeling in the years’ tv program for their use of contemporary music, RTE never played that music at the time. Radio Luxemburg was the station of choice. Micks’ sister was first in Youghal to wear mini skirt. Mentions that nobody had a problem with Tom Robinson being gay. Questions the modern viewpoint on these topics. Father was critical of modern music called them the ESB bands because they needed to be plugged in </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0. .19.37 - 0.22.00 </td> <td> Uncle with Diphtheria James (Jim) Harris. Lived on Windmill Lane. Came from the ‘Bog’ (Ballyvergan marsh). Jim’s brother Ned worked in the background of BBC radio in London, Jim worked Copy on Fleet Street London. Good relationship with Youghal resident and journalist and notorious communist Claude Cockburn. Jim and Ned’s childhood home had open sewer outside. Jim caught, what Mick thinks was Diphtheria and was brought to the fever hospital on Raheen road Youghal. Other Uncle went to fever hospital in Cork, not as good experience as brother. Horrendous Isolation. Even when he returned to Youghal he wasn’t allowed to hang out with his friends had to live with Grandparents. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.22.01 - 0.26.30 </td> <td> Cont… The house on Sarsfield Road was the place where it all happened. The generation gap between Mick and siblings made for a great melting pot. The family home was Micks mothers’ family home. Mick mentions that everyone had fleas. Everyone when returning to England would check under collar. Lice were called Boodies. Mentions the treatments. Fine tooth comb and late chemicals. Remembers seeing ‘local tramp’ as mass and seeing fleas and live all over his head. Mick brings up the socio-economic element to this. Mentions the work in the town, fishing so-so, more in the textile factories. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.26.31 - 0.30.30 </td> <td> No such thing as pocket money. Comics big thing but are looked down on. Comic swapping. Girls and boys. Mentions the un-pc language in the comic strips. Mick finds it humorous that the younger generation refers to the English as the ‘hun’. Remembers a knock on the door and young boy was looking to swap girl's comics. Mick says that while this was strange it wasn’t an issue. Say that today there is an obsession with words. Mortgage was unpronounceable. Conscious of not lauding poverty. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.30.31 - 0.34.00 </td> <td> Mick’s Father When micks father passed away, lots of stories from local farmers. Mick's father traded cattle. Used his communion money to buy first animal to sell. He was the go-to to trade livestock. Had money when others didn’t. Mentions always having meat compared to neighbours eating sugary bread. Neighbours would call for vegetables. Father was only person on street with a Car. Alcohol major part of his life. The office was the pub. Wonderful but the cost was high. Not just money but health etc. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.34.01 - 0.42.20 </td> <td> Fathers TB Mick’s father was always away working. Mentions Uncles in London sending money. Late 1960s Foot and Mouth outbreak. Mick remembers big sponges in St Raphael’s hospital nearby. And cattle grid to stop the cattle from entering. Mick mentions having a great relationship with patients in the hospital. Father would be away in the cold and wet a lot. Got TB and some stage. Mick not very aware of it. Father was brought Sarsfield's hospital in Glanmire. Very difficult time for family. 7 kids and half the street living in the house. Visitations were difficult. Mother couldn’t drive. Public transport terrible. Social welfare was non-existent. Milkman would drive mother to visit. Mick remembers having to stay in the car park and wave at father from there. Older sister would mind the kids when mother would visit hospital. Mick remembers Shirley Temple and the Marx brother helping to take attention away but knowing that something was wrong. To this day Shirley Temple triggers memories of his father’s TB. From his time in hospital micks, father made lots of picture frames and models from lollypop sticks and matchsticks. But they had no sideboard to put them on. No trappings of affluence in house. Warm love. No wallpaper but mother painted the walls artistically. Mick mentions that when he moved and took over the house that when he was modernising it he stripped back wallpaper that revealed his mother’s paintings. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.42.21 - 0.44.45 </td> <td> The House No bathroom in the house. All impeccably clean though. Everything worked off one cold tap. No central heating. Bathed in tin bath. Everything was used. Nothing was disposable. Hand-me-downs. Element of embarrassment having to share books with siblings. Mentions alcohol again. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.44.46 - 0.48.45 </td> <td> Mick always had an interest in people’s lives and history. Talks about the class element. The 1960s didn’t happen here till the 1970s. Extra money went around. Music was the big thing. Don’t get that buzz anymore from music as he did. It was part of your upbringing. Crossed barriers. Depending on the genre you lived that way. Although Mick studied folklore, he still has a strange relationship with Irish. Hangover from schooling. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.48.46 - 0.59.55 </td> <td> Father's TB cont… Mick found out later about the stigma associated with a house having TB. And still is to this day. Compares it to the early reactions to COVID in 2020. Say’s it was interesting to watch the attitude of people’s inference that there was something wrong with you if you got COVID. Mick remembers a social welfare guy called Mulligan calling the house when his father was in hospital. With what looked like 'a priests incense burner’ burning sulphur to kill the TB. Draws comparison to neighbour being brought away to hospital with COVID by the army. Found these public health measures to be intrusive. Speaks on TB prevention. Careful of overcoats, wrap up well, stay away from damp clothes, and spitting (huge prevalence of spitting, Mentions the spittoon in pubs). A crack in a cup was a no-no. even today he frets over cracks in cups. Mentions the sharing of the butt of an apple or the lick of an ice cream cone, these could have caused spread. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.59.56 - 1.03.43 </td> <td> Polio and Vaccines Talks of speaking to a woman from Cork during COVID who had strong memories of being confined to the garden during the polio outbreak in the 1950s. Remembers the Cork polio charity that one would donate to. Does remember some people with polio but not anyone close. Remembers getting the booster. Has a scar from the 6in1 on his arm. And remembers the sugar cube. Talks on modern views on vaccines wouldn’t be anti-vax. Is naturally sceptical in general. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 1.03.44- 1.10.05 </td> <td> Mick Talks about how happy his childhood was and life in general, but the hardships crept in. Talks about an RTE film ‘A week in the life of Martin Cluxton’ having a profound effect on him. Film about the reality of industrial schools. Talks of politician Brian Linehan visiting a Magdalene laundry his driver said that Linehan said ‘get me the fuck out of here’ complicity of the state and Doctors stranglehold on the wellbeing of certain elements of the country. Divorce spoken of by his mother. No mention of abortion. Mother very liberal but religious. Everyone was religious. Mick's brother became a priest, cannon question his religiousness. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 1.10.06 - 1.22.00 </td> <td> Town and Country. Living in the corporation estate was mixed with time out of the bog in the grandparents’ place. Tilling hay etc. rented piece of land there. Remembers richer farmers calling Christmas week putting the squeeze on. Remembers family telling them to sling their hook. The bog was where the Army rifle range was. So, shooting practice was happening. Speaks of the old farmers maintaining the land better than any modern ecologist. Farming wasn’t enough to live off, so they fished also. The beach was divided into ‘Berths’ and Harris’ Berth by butts of the rifle range, which was prominent and belonged to his family. No town people allowed fish there. House was by the main road. Land closer to beach was prone to flooding. ‘The long acre’, which had an element of shame. Tells story of a rich farmer's son and a lowly farmer's daughter's love affair and being divided. ‘Sanctuary no shooting’ was for the gun clubs where they raised birds to shoot. Spring well near cottage ‘above’ the train tracks. Finest fresh water and lots of farmers came for it. Recalls a man named Cox that dug down and syphoned off the well. Uncle went a sorted it out without the authorities. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 1.22.01 - 0.00.00 </td> <td> Speaks of the younger generation does not have awareness of what they have. Speaks of how the obsession with the overarching church element of society is. Knows it was there but it was not the whole thing. Speaks of old fellas using cling film as contraception. That it wasn’t black and white. The 1970s brought colour. There was a church and state but also the local. Class distinction went down to the level of neighbours. Especially pre-1970s. Mentions uncle becoming ‘Navi’ in England and did not contact the family for 26 years. When he returned could not get his head around the mixing of classes in modern society. [Interview Ends] </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michael Hussey Subject The topic of the resource Infectious Disease; Tuberculosis Description An account of the resource This interview was completed for the Catching Stories of infectious Disease in Ireland project. Mick spoke of his father having TB and the effect that had on his family life. His father contracted TB when Mick was 8 or 9 (1967-68). Mick mentions the toll it had on his mother, the difficulty of visiting and the stigma that having TB in your house brought. He also mentions the over baring public health measures. Mick also mentions his uncles contracting Diphtheria before this. Throughout the interview, Mick brings up how all this fit in Irish society at the time. And how he perceived it then and now versus what he sees as the modern consensus of mid-20th century Ireland Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11 August 2022 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Interviewee: Michael Hussey Interviewer: James Furey Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CFP_SR00837_hussey_2022 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Ireland; 1920s -2020s Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cork Folklore Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Folklore Project Sound Archive Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cork Folklore Project Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Cork Folklore Project Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 1 .wav file https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/c97d0ed0c19070be9c510d67ad04dab3.jpg 737f81f6bdad6486031978735479dada https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/7b99916ff1a3ad18a04fa8a8c8697fc3.wav 90cd3ddb8b11236c3e458d7c24c488e2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Catching Stories (of Infectious Disease In Ireland) <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Catching-Stories-w-logos-3.png" style="width:350px;height:100px;" alt="Catching-Stories-w-logos-3.png" /> Subject The topic of the resource Life History; Ireland; Health; Communicable diseases; Epidemics; Poliomyelitis; Polio; Postpoliomyelitis syndrome; Tuberculosis; TB; Measles; Diphtheria; COVID-19; Vaccines; Description An account of the resource Catching Stories is a folklore-STEM collaboration project funded through the <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://www.sfi.ie/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Science Foundation Ireland</a> (SFI) Discover Programme. The project was concerned with those who had first had experiences of being stricken with the disease, their family members and the public health practitioners who served on the frontline of past epidemics. The diseases the project focused on were: polio, tuberculosis, diphtheria and measles, Spanish flu and COVID-19. The project grew from seed funding through the Irish Research Council and University College Cork's(UCC) College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences. This funding enabled the team to collate material in the Cork Folklore Project's archive and create a pilot online resource. In 2022 the project was awarded an SFI Discover grant that allowed the team to undertake new bespoke interviews and grow the online dissemination platform. To date (February 2023), Catching Stories consists of XX interviews. 'Catching Stories' has also been drawn from the Cork Folklore Project Sound Archive for other related material. The project's main output is an online resource (<a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="http://www.catchingstories.org" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.catchingstories.org</a>). This website places personal oral testimonies adjacent to scientific information about the diseases. There was also a series of talks and presentations for <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://catchingstories.org/events/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Heritage Week 2022, Culture Night 2022 and Science Week 2022</a>. With support from <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://www.ucc.ie/en/apc/" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">APC Microbiome</a>, SFI and UCC's <a style="color:#4a6ee0;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" target="_blank" href="https://libguides.ucc.ie/library" class="editor-rtfLink" rel="noreferrer noopener">Boole Library,</a> the Catching Stories team curated the interactive multimedia exhibition, Catching Stories of Infectious Disease in Ireland (16 February - 25 June 2023), in UCC's Boole Library. The Exhibition was subsequently taken by the Heatlh Service Executive and displayed in their campuses and buildings throughout Cork and Kerry. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-2023 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Interviewees: Lesley Cox; Evelyn Wainwright; Emma Conway Clarke; Michael Hussey; Paul O'Brien, James Hoare Nagle; Edward Tanner; Michael and Theresa O'Sullivan, Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Ireland; 1920s-2020s Relation A related resource Website <a href="https://catchingstories.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.catchingstories.org</a> <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/e9fc50934d016888e8a29de8e14d25d4.JPG" style="width:500px;height:250px;" alt="e9fc50934d016888e8a29de8e14d25d4.JPG" /> Here you can engage with the collected material side by side with biomedical commentary from immunologist Dr Elizebeth Brint. Presentation and Listening Events Heritage Week 2022 <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Heritage-Week-2022-Library-talk-300x169.jpg" alt="Heritage-Week-2022-Library-talk-300x169.jpg" /> For Heritage Week project coordinator James Furey gave a presentation of the project at Cork City Library Grand Parade. Culture Night 2022 <img class="size-medium wp-image-407 alignnone" src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Culture-Night-2020-30-300x224.jpg" alt="Culture-Night-2020-30-300x224.jpg" /><img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Culture-Night-2020-6-300x224.jpg" alt="Culture-Night-2020-6-300x224.jpg" /> For Culture night the team went to the streets to set up a ‘time travelling’ vaccination clinic outside the old medical centre on Grattan St Cork City. Willing participants sat on a bench and heard Joe Scanlon’s story of receiving the ‘Branding Iron’, Joe’s term for the vaccine apparatus used in the 1950s. Joe’s story and the event elicited a great response from those who took part. Science Week 2022 <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Science-Week-2022-2-724x1024.png" style="width:200px;height:300px;" alt="Science-Week-2022-2-724x1024.png" /> Celebrate Science Family Day on 13th November 2022 <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5840-300x200.jpg" alt="IMG_5840-300x200.jpg" /> Our first outing for Cork Science Festival was at the ‘Celebrate Science’ Family Day at University College Cork’s Western Gateway Building. For this event, we fired up the ‘Time-machine’ to bring participants on a trip to 1958, the day Joe Scanlon received a vaccine, or as Joe calls it, <a href="https://catchingstories.org/getting-the-vaccine/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">‘The Branding Iron’</a>. <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5844-300x200.jpg" alt="IMG_5844-300x200.jpg" /> The Catching Stories team held four sessions. We played Joe’s story and quizzed our audience on their knowledge of infectious diseases and their memory of receiving vaccines. There was excellent engagement with both young and old. The younger participants left with a greater understanding of diseases like polio and tuberculosis. And the older members relayed their stories of getting vaccinated and how infectious diseases had encroached on their lives. Science Week Talk UCC Student Hub Those who braved the horrendous rain on November 15th were delighted to shelter in The Shtepps to hear the presentation from James Furey and Beth Brint on how folklore and STEM can work together to bring new perspectives on health education and understanding. Exhibition <img src="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/d3170f22a998193439e53217786f14ea.jpg" style="width:200px;height:300px;" alt="d3170f22a998193439e53217786f14ea.jpg" /> The exhibition in UCC's Boole Library (16 February - 25 June 2023), was an innovative exploration of how to engage people with a topic that does not lend itself too easily to public dissemination. The exhibition foregrounded the human voice through audio installations (Made by Dr Jeffery Weeter), links to interviews, and interaction with physical objects. It invited visitors to join interviewees in the experience of manually ventilating a child with polio throughout the night in 1956 and to move along a waiting-room bench when facing vaccination by the dreaded ‘Branding Iron’ or to imagine the loss of a childhood classmate from measles. Artworks by <a href="https://lesleycoxart.com/earlier-works-3-polio-series/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lesley Cox</a> also explore the impact of polio on families and communities. <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595601-scaled.jpg" style="width:350px;height:650px;" alt="1676973595601-scaled.jpg" /><img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595744-scaled.jpg" style="width:300px;height:650px;" alt="1676973595744-scaled.jpg" /> <img src="https://catchingstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1676973595665-scaled.jpg" style="width:650px;height:350px;" alt="1676973595665-scaled.jpg" /> <img src="https://lesleycoxart.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/image29.jpg" style="width:350px;height:650px;" alt="image29.jpg" />(©Lesley Cox) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Furey Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cork Folklore Project Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Cork Folklore Project Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .wav Files Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Paul O'Brien Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview James Furey Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 40min 10sec Time Summary A summary of an interview given for different time stamps throughout the interview <table> <tbody> <tr> <td> 0.00.00 - 0.01.35 </td> <td> Paul gives his background. Lived in Military Hill Cork City, His father worked for Great Western Railway. Paul attend Christians and Went to University College Cork where he studied medicine </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.01.36 - 0.04.29 </td> <td> In 1952 Pauls final year of secondary school a mobile x-ray unit came. Paul was nominated to be x-rayed first. which showed a shadow on his lungs. Which they told him was TB After spending a short time confined to his bed at home on a course of streptomycin injections and salicylic acid tablets Paul was sent to Heatherside sanitorium in Doneraile Co. Cork. This meant he missed participating in the Muster Schools cup in rugby. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.04.30 - 0.06.32 </td> <td> Paul speaks of Dr Noel Browne’s campaign against TB. Paul also mentions that he never spat up the infection and questions whether he had TB at all. He then goes on to mention his ward mate in the hospital. He a teenage mixed in with adult men </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.06.32 - 0.07.12 </td> <td> Speaks briefly about his mother visiting and bringing him eggs to cure him, and the odd visit from teammates when they were on their way back from games in Limerick. Paul mentions here that he was in Heatherside for four months </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.07.14 - 0.11.00 </td> <td> Paul tells a story about the night before a patient got discharged, they had a party in the ‘Panzer ward’. Songs sung, cigarettes and drink. They were interrupted by the DR Con O’Leary. Paul jumped into a bed with another patient and was subsequently caught by DR. The nest day he was summoned to the DR and told that ‘a nice boy from a good family shouldn’t be acting as such’. He was then moved to Lota on the outskirts of Cork City. Paul mentions that years later in Canada he met the son of the DR and relayed the story to him. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.11.01 - 0.15.16 </td> <td> Paul mentions his undertaking of pre med at UCC and that in his second year he and other student were given the opportunity to help out with the polio epidemic that had taken hold in Cork 1956 for four weeks. Eight students were assigned to ST Finbarr’s hospital to relive the nurses at night-time. Paul describes the fever ward and the hissing of machines and the dark dim light. He then relays a story of how he had to manually ventilate a four-year-old girl called Margot. Who was too small for the iron lungs. Paul further this by explain how Margot lived till she was seventeen and that she had a great relationship with the nurses. Paul has written about this in various publications. Holy Bough, UCC alumni magazine. Margot’s family say the article and contacted Paul. Pairs of students would be assigned a patient and alternate manually bagging and sucking out secretions. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.15.17 - 0.19.15 </td> <td> Paul speaks of how working in the epidemic made them fell. He mentions that his girlfriend at the time (now his wife) was asked to leave her digs. And how another volunteer came home one night to find all his belongings on the doorstep. Paul goes on to talk about how good the nurses were especially Nancy Reardon and Kathleen Stoker He refers to polio outbreak in Chicago a year earlier and how the vaccine was rolled out there. And how the same didn’t happen in Cork. Though he did hear that some were offered the vaccine but not those helping in the hospital, only those who went iin ambulance to retrieve patients. None of his colleagues contracted the disease, one did get meningitis but not extreme case. Mention of Patrick Cockburn’s book ‘Broken Boy’ </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.19.15 - 0.21.42 </td> <td> Pauls talks of the public health response. How Cork took British Laisses faire attitude. How the country was in a panic but the measure did not stack up. He mentions the closer of some aspects of society like sports and swimming pools. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.21.42 - 0.24.47 </td> <td> Paul speaks of a woman called Lou Fitzgerald and how she helped his mother when he was sick. Lou (real name Julia) had been in Cummann na mBan during War of Independence. Talk veers towards independence period </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.24.47 - 0.27.15 </td> <td> Paul speaks of the fear he had when diagnosed with TB. Fear of chest surgery. We speak about Heatherside and Sean O’Riordan </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.27.15 - 0.28.07 </td> <td> Paul brings up how in the sanitorium the topic of a ‘cure’ was always a subject of conversation. Tells story of trying to recreate swizz conditions as a means of getting better. Tis entailed his pushing his bed to the veranda and letting the snow fall on him as he slept. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.28.07- 0.3112 </td> <td> We talk about the crafts that patients did in Heatherside. Wallet making etc. Paul mentions that there was a one man that controlled that. He also mentions that crafts were one way of getting ladies attention. Paul mentions how once he was put on Iduronic acid hydroxide he rapidly improved. He even remembers a Life magazine with drug on front cover being brought into ward. How this drug was the reason the sanitoria closed. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.31.12 - 0.33.30 </td> <td> Some talk about COVID and TB and Polio similarities. Lockdowns ETC. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 0.33.30 - 0.40.10 </td> <td> End Chat where we talked about our families. Paul mentions his brother Brendan being in the showband the Dixies. INTERVIEW ENDS </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Paul O'Brien Subject The topic of the resource Infectious Disease; Tuberculosis; Polio. Description An account of the resource Paul was born in 1935. His father worked for Great Southern Railway which meant the family moved a lot during Paul’s youth. Paul would call Military Hill in Cork City his ‘home. Paul attended Christians Collage on Wellington Road. Here he was class and rugby team captain. In his final year of secondary school, a mobile x-ray unit came to his school Paul was nominated to be x-rayed first. which showed a shadow on his lungs (TB). After spending a short time confined to his bed at home Paul was sent to Heatherside sanitorium in Doneraile Co. Cork. It is here that Paul made the decision to change from studying law to doing pre-med. During his time as a medical student Cork experienced a polio epidemic. This gave Paul and his colleagues an opportunity to volunteer on the frontline. Paul tells of how after 70 plus years that memories of that time still are at the forefront of his mind. In 1969 Paul moved to Toronto Canada to work as a doctor where he has lived ever since. Paul’s brother is <a href="https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/446" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Brendan O’Brien</a> singer with the showband The Dixies. Pauls nephew is Daire O’Brien presenter of rugby coverage on RTÉ . Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 22nd August 2022 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Interviewee: Paul O'Brien Interviewer: James Furey Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CFP_SR00838_OBrien _2022 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Ireland; 1940s-1960s Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cork Folklore Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cork Folklore Project Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Cork Folklore Project Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 1.wav File Recorded over teams and using a ZOOM H5 recorder. Canada Christian Brother College Cork Christians (CBC) Cork city Covid 19 Dr Con O’Leary Heatherside Sanatrium Hospitals Infectious Disease Polio Polio outbreak 1956 Poliomyelitis Public Health Rugby Sanitoria St Finbarr’s Hospital TB Toronto Tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB) UCC University College Cork Vaccination Vaccines https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/9bc110bd58afd06419818942f7167534.jpg c749eda90e16fa92bb8fcc1bdb0b02f4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource LGBT Collection Subject The topic of the resource Stories and memories of LGBT life in Cork City and County. Description An account of the resource The LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) collection was launched and created in August 2014 by Stephen Dee and Dermot Casey, researchers at the Cork Folklore Project. The Project was established to record and preserve stories and memories of LGBT life in Cork City and County, with a focus prior to decriminalization in 1993 but also to document the important achievements and struggles that contributed to a society that today is far more accepting of LGBT people. This is proven today with the legalisation of same sex marriage through popular vote and the increased visibility of LGBT people in all areas of public life. The collection’s aims are to explore three main aspects: ‘Personal Recollections’ including but not limited to identity, coming out and experiences of homophobia; ‘Community Stories’ based on certain areas, streets, and forms of social interaction within the LGBT community; and ‘Political Movements’, chronicling political events, motivations and outcomes such as the creation of the Cork-based Irish Gay Rights Movement in 1976, Cork Gay Collective in 1980, and UCC Gay Soc in 1980. Each interview we conducted was unique with each interviewee covering some or all of these topics and with some areas being explored in depth. We hope the material can complement LGBT research in Ireland and also stimulate further interest amongst the public in LGBT history. To date we have distributed some of this material to the public with an audio visual presentation on YouTube and in 2016 in conjunction with Cork City Partnership for LGBT Awareness week we produced a public exhibition of our sound excerpts at Cork City Library. Special thanks to all our interviewees and also to Alvina Cassidy whose research also features in this collection. This LGBT collection of interviews is stored within the Cork Folklore Project permanent oral history archive run in conjunction with UCC’s Folklore and Ethnology Department and Northside Community Enterprises, with both a physical and digital presence. As with all our material, access to full interviews is supervised through a variety of permissions and forms. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012 and onwards Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Interviewees: Derrick Gerrety; Eddie Kay; Christine Browne; Stephen Dee; Dermot Casey; Padraig McCarthy; Clive Davis; Finbarr Kiely; Ken Curtin; Paul McAllister; Jonathan Neville; Tara Whelan; Edmund Lynch; Tony Doherty; Cathal Kerrigan; Barra O’Donnabhain Interviewers: Alvina Cassidy; Stephen Dee; Dermot Casey Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/85">CFP_SR00502_kay_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/86">CFP_SR00516_browne_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/87">CFP_SR00518_dee_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/88">CFP_SR00519_casey_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/89">CFP_SR00521_mccarthy_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/90">CFP_SR00532_davis_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/91">CFP_SR00534_kiely_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/92">CFP_SR00547_curtin_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/93">CFP_SR00548_mcallister_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/94">CFP_SR00549_neville_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/96">CFP_SR00555_whelan_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/97">CFP_SR00556_lynch_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/98">CFP_SR00558_doherty_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/99">CFP_SR00561_kerrigan_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/100">CFP_SR00576_odonnabhain_2016;</a> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Ethnographic interviews carried out with members of the LGBT community in Cork city and county Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cork Folklore Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cork Folklore Project Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Cork Folklore Project Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 16 .wav files Relation A related resource Youtube video showcasing interviews from our LGBT Archive Collection. Ten voices, eight topics, ranging from First Discovery, Coming Out, The Scene, Marriage and more. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enopWLdeOAw&t=2s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enopWLdeOAw&t=2s</a> Other CFP Material Realting to LGBT Life in Cork: <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/130">CFP_SR00418_gerrety_2012</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Stephen Dee & Dermot Casey Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Clive Davis Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 54min 48sec Location The location of the interview Cork Folklore Project Farranferris Cork Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data .wav Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 24bit / 48kHz Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound SD So did you have a big coming out experience or was it just a general realisation. CD No I think of a general realisation, I suppose because I am a very private kind of a person, I don’t think I am came dashing out through the snow, or like running out from the back of the bushes or anything like that, I just kept it to myself, and I you know, it wasn’t until later years that I was when I was with my current partner, I told my mum, and I told my family and you know, so I don’t think it was a big coming out event, it wasn’t that big of a deal, I told her, I expected she wasn’t going to be very happy about it but she actually, she was very happy about it, she didn’t mind, you know, I had the bags packed at the door, but you know. And I think it is good in my mind, it was kind of easier, because I was gay with somebody else, that you know because sometimes, I find that in that thing, I think I over thought it for so long, like I was twenty-six about the time I told my mother, it was kind of like all the time thinking, oh Jesus what is she, what will happen if this, if, if , if, if all the ifs and buts were going through my head, and finally I said, look I will do, but I think being with somebody else helped me, you know, and I know now that annoys people when I say that, that you have to be in a relationship to come out, I don’t think that at all, for me it was an easier path to take. SD Okay. DC And did your parents, did your mother have any suspicions, when you were a teenager? CD She asked me before and I looked not at all, that is nonsense you know, but I think, I think that is because I didn’t realise myself, you know, I was kind of fighting with it myself, because in school, you know there was a few bullies and things and they used to call me gay, and I used always be trying to know I am not. I am not different at all I had girlfriends and blah blah blah, you know but I so, she did ask, and she kind of ‘oh well I always knew that’ and that kind of annoyed me even more, because you see, what was it about me that you thought like, how dare you, you know, and I am going through the series of having to be in front of the person when I came out so I have to sit in front of the person to see the reaction, and if their eyes were a bit skewed or if they looked down or looked up, then, oh that person, they are okay with it so I can’t be talking to them but my mother went on a spree of telling everyone, when I told her she just, I think she got up on top of the, the truck at the back of the house and just told everyone, so Clive is gay, Clive is gay, Clive is gay, Clive and I hated that because I wanted to see the reaction you know of people, but I think one of the sadder things about being gay, is that you have to, you are constantly telling people, it is not just when I was twenty one or eighteen or when you are meeting new people, [phone rings in the background] constantly your, your telling people, and you know that is very, you know it is hard, you know that you are always having to tell people about your, you know, about your sexuality. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Clive Davis: Gay life, The Other Place, South Main Street Subject The topic of the resource Stories and memories of LGBT life in Cork City and County. Description An account of the resource Clive talks about his experience coming out as a gay man. He comments about helping others with their difficulties or with coming out but regretting that once out he would never see them again. He talks about the role and history of The Other Place, a café for the gay community. He explains how the idea of a resource centre has had to change as people use the internet instead. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 28 September 2014 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Interviewee: Clive Davis Interviewer: Stephen Dee & Dermot Casey Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CFP_SR00532_davis_2014 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Cork, Laois, Ireland, 1960s-2010s Relation A related resource <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/85">CFP_SR00502_kay_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/86">CFP_SR00516_browne_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/87">CFP_SR00518_dee_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/88">CFP_SR00519_casey_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/89">CFP_SR00521_mccarthy_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/90">CFP_SR00532_davis_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/91">CFP_SR00534_kiely_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/92">CFP_SR00547_curtin_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/93">CFP_SR00548_mcallister_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/94">CFP_SR00549_neville_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/96">CFP_SR00555_whelan_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/97">CFP_SR00556_lynch_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/98">CFP_SR00558_doherty_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/99">CFP_SR00561_kerrigan_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/100">CFP_SR00576_odonnabhain_2016;</a> <div class="element-text">Youtube video showcasing interviews from our LGBT Archive Collection. Ten voices, eight topics, ranging from First Discovery, Coming Out, The Scene, Marriage and more. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enopWLdeOAw&t=2s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enopWLdeOAw&t=2s</a></div> <div class="element-text"> Other CFP Material Realting to LGBT Life in Cork: <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/130">CFP_SR00418_gerrety_2012</a></div> <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/100"></a> Clive's Interview was also used in Penny Johnston: <a href="http://corksmainstreets.corkfolklore.org/cms/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cork's Main Streets Project</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cork Folklore Project . Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cork Folklore Project. Language A language of the resource English Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 1 .wav File Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Chambers Clive Davis Coming Out Cork Gay Project Gay life Gay Pride LGBT Linc South Main Street The Other Place https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/e69d42285b456a583c982f382a0c4a85.jpg c749eda90e16fa92bb8fcc1bdb0b02f4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource LGBT Collection Subject The topic of the resource Stories and memories of LGBT life in Cork City and County. Description An account of the resource The LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) collection was launched and created in August 2014 by Stephen Dee and Dermot Casey, researchers at the Cork Folklore Project. The Project was established to record and preserve stories and memories of LGBT life in Cork City and County, with a focus prior to decriminalization in 1993 but also to document the important achievements and struggles that contributed to a society that today is far more accepting of LGBT people. This is proven today with the legalisation of same sex marriage through popular vote and the increased visibility of LGBT people in all areas of public life. The collection’s aims are to explore three main aspects: ‘Personal Recollections’ including but not limited to identity, coming out and experiences of homophobia; ‘Community Stories’ based on certain areas, streets, and forms of social interaction within the LGBT community; and ‘Political Movements’, chronicling political events, motivations and outcomes such as the creation of the Cork-based Irish Gay Rights Movement in 1976, Cork Gay Collective in 1980, and UCC Gay Soc in 1980. Each interview we conducted was unique with each interviewee covering some or all of these topics and with some areas being explored in depth. We hope the material can complement LGBT research in Ireland and also stimulate further interest amongst the public in LGBT history. To date we have distributed some of this material to the public with an audio visual presentation on YouTube and in 2016 in conjunction with Cork City Partnership for LGBT Awareness week we produced a public exhibition of our sound excerpts at Cork City Library. Special thanks to all our interviewees and also to Alvina Cassidy whose research also features in this collection. This LGBT collection of interviews is stored within the Cork Folklore Project permanent oral history archive run in conjunction with UCC’s Folklore and Ethnology Department and Northside Community Enterprises, with both a physical and digital presence. As with all our material, access to full interviews is supervised through a variety of permissions and forms. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012 and onwards Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Interviewees: Derrick Gerrety; Eddie Kay; Christine Browne; Stephen Dee; Dermot Casey; Padraig McCarthy; Clive Davis; Finbarr Kiely; Ken Curtin; Paul McAllister; Jonathan Neville; Tara Whelan; Edmund Lynch; Tony Doherty; Cathal Kerrigan; Barra O’Donnabhain Interviewers: Alvina Cassidy; Stephen Dee; Dermot Casey Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/85">CFP_SR00502_kay_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/86">CFP_SR00516_browne_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/87">CFP_SR00518_dee_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/88">CFP_SR00519_casey_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/89">CFP_SR00521_mccarthy_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/90">CFP_SR00532_davis_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/91">CFP_SR00534_kiely_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/92">CFP_SR00547_curtin_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/93">CFP_SR00548_mcallister_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/94">CFP_SR00549_neville_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/96">CFP_SR00555_whelan_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/97">CFP_SR00556_lynch_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/98">CFP_SR00558_doherty_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/99">CFP_SR00561_kerrigan_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/100">CFP_SR00576_odonnabhain_2016;</a> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Ethnographic interviews carried out with members of the LGBT community in Cork city and county Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cork Folklore Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cork Folklore Project Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Cork Folklore Project Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 16 .wav files Relation A related resource Youtube video showcasing interviews from our LGBT Archive Collection. Ten voices, eight topics, ranging from First Discovery, Coming Out, The Scene, Marriage and more. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enopWLdeOAw&t=2s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enopWLdeOAw&t=2s</a> Other CFP Material Realting to LGBT Life in Cork: <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/130">CFP_SR00418_gerrety_2012</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Stephen Dee & Dermot Casey Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Finbarr Kiely Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 44min 44sec Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data .wav Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 24bit / 48kHz Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound FK I was actually doing a line with a girl in the early eighties and do you know even when I was with her I still thought I would prefer to be with a guy and that kind of relationship broke down and I didn’t do any more about chasing women after that and eventually I got the courage up to go over there with Ned and then I think from there on I started accepting it and, accepted it in my own head anyway that this head wasn’t going to change like you know its not going to go away at this stage, em, still didn’t really tell anybody other than the guy that I went over with, but one night then I suppose two or three years later I was living a secret life going in there for a while but I told a good friend of mine at the time, he was a married man, much older than me with a family. I told him one night, it was around Christmas, his family had gone to bed and we were still having a few drinks and I told him by the way and even authorised that he could tell everyone the following day if he wanted so it got out around that particular circle eventually. I never told anybody at work as such except one fellow and that was pure accident, em, I used to work down west Cork at the time but I lived in the city but this one character he used to like to come up to Cork for a few drinks, wouldn’t say every week now but every second week and he tried to make a point of meeting me and we used to always meet on Douglas Street, the Gables generally at the time and eh, I’d want to get down to Loafers before closing time do you know just to see who was around, whatever, he used go nightclubbing the nights he would come up, stay in Cork for the night and go nightclubbing. I was always escaping from him around eleven o clock and em, one night he says to me, em, Fi (possibly short for Finbarr) where do you go now, you always go away around this time, where do you go? I’m dying to know, ah I said I just go down the road to some other pup down there. Which one do you go to and maybe I had a few pints that night and I said well Dennis actually its fucking Loafers and I told him straight out then and he got the biggest land of his life, em, he more or less said he thought I would be the last person in the world to be gay but anyway he said you know what I always wanted to see what that pub is like can I come down with you, so he actually came down with me for a drink that night. DC Ah cool! FK And em I still meet the same guy, I’m gone out of that firm nine years now maybe and he’s gone out of it even before me but we still meet regularly for a drink, well when I say regularly maybe once a year, twice a year max and he never told anyone else down in work so as far as I’m concerned work never knew but I was always, I worked in west Cork, lived in Cork city so the two lives didn’t clash you know, I kept my social life completely separate from work life so as far as I know nobody down there knew, for as long as I was there now maybe I’m wrong maybe they did know and they were just been polite you know as I’m a good actor you know. I worked with another fellow in Cork, em, up to three years ago and god he was every day he’d be telling me about his conquests for the night with different various women whatever, I met the guy there last year for a drink and em, there was another member with us who he had got to know we used to meet kind of regularly and he got to know another gay character with me and the gay fellow was going away one night and my friend says where are you going now and he said I’m going down to Loafers and he said uh and when he was gone the other fellow asked me I never knew he was gay and I says sure you never asked him, I suppose not he said, by the way I am too he said whaaaat…(laughter) now a week later I met him again or two weeks later and as it turned out he ended up coming back here and initiated some sexual activity. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Finbarr Kiely: Loafers Bar, Homosexuality, Decriminalisation. Subject The topic of the resource Stories and memories of LGBT life in Cork City and County. Description An account of the resource Finbarr Kiely describes life in Cork for a gay man through the early ‘70s, the ‘90s up to the present. He recalls first realising that he is gay and how he blends this part of his personal life with social and professional lives. He relates stories of the gay cultural scene in Cork, well known bars, characters and events. He discusses decriminalisation and, briefly, gay marriage. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11 November 2014 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Interviewee: Finbarr Kiely Interviewers: Dermot Casey & Stephen Dee Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CFP_SR00534_kiely_2014 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Cork, Ireland, 1970s-2010s Relation A related resource <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/85">CFP_SR00502_kay_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/86">CFP_SR00516_browne_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/87">CFP_SR00518_dee_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/88">CFP_SR00519_casey_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/89">CFP_SR00521_mccarthy_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/90">CFP_SR00532_davis_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/91">CFP_SR00534_kiely_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/92">CFP_SR00547_curtin_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/93">CFP_SR00548_mcallister_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/94">CFP_SR00549_neville_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/96">CFP_SR00555_whelan_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/97">CFP_SR00556_lynch_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/98">CFP_SR00558_doherty_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/99">CFP_SR00561_kerrigan_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/100">CFP_SR00576_odonnabhain_2016;</a> <div class="element-text">Youtube video showcasing interviews from our LGBT Archive Collection. Ten voices, eight topics, ranging from First Discovery, Coming Out, The Scene, Marriage and more. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enopWLdeOAw&t=2s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enopWLdeOAw&t=2s</a></div> <div class="element-text"> Other CFP Material Realting to LGBT Life in Cork: <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/130">CFP_SR00418_gerrety_2012</a></div> <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/100"></a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cork Folklore Project. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cork Folklore Project. Language A language of the resource English Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 1 .wav File Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Decriminalisation Homosexuality Loafer's The Othe Place https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/0512ab2a25d7c5249618709fe6975b61.jpg c749eda90e16fa92bb8fcc1bdb0b02f4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource LGBT Collection Subject The topic of the resource Stories and memories of LGBT life in Cork City and County. Description An account of the resource The LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) collection was launched and created in August 2014 by Stephen Dee and Dermot Casey, researchers at the Cork Folklore Project. The Project was established to record and preserve stories and memories of LGBT life in Cork City and County, with a focus prior to decriminalization in 1993 but also to document the important achievements and struggles that contributed to a society that today is far more accepting of LGBT people. This is proven today with the legalisation of same sex marriage through popular vote and the increased visibility of LGBT people in all areas of public life. The collection’s aims are to explore three main aspects: ‘Personal Recollections’ including but not limited to identity, coming out and experiences of homophobia; ‘Community Stories’ based on certain areas, streets, and forms of social interaction within the LGBT community; and ‘Political Movements’, chronicling political events, motivations and outcomes such as the creation of the Cork-based Irish Gay Rights Movement in 1976, Cork Gay Collective in 1980, and UCC Gay Soc in 1980. Each interview we conducted was unique with each interviewee covering some or all of these topics and with some areas being explored in depth. We hope the material can complement LGBT research in Ireland and also stimulate further interest amongst the public in LGBT history. To date we have distributed some of this material to the public with an audio visual presentation on YouTube and in 2016 in conjunction with Cork City Partnership for LGBT Awareness week we produced a public exhibition of our sound excerpts at Cork City Library. Special thanks to all our interviewees and also to Alvina Cassidy whose research also features in this collection. This LGBT collection of interviews is stored within the Cork Folklore Project permanent oral history archive run in conjunction with UCC’s Folklore and Ethnology Department and Northside Community Enterprises, with both a physical and digital presence. As with all our material, access to full interviews is supervised through a variety of permissions and forms. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012 and onwards Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Interviewees: Derrick Gerrety; Eddie Kay; Christine Browne; Stephen Dee; Dermot Casey; Padraig McCarthy; Clive Davis; Finbarr Kiely; Ken Curtin; Paul McAllister; Jonathan Neville; Tara Whelan; Edmund Lynch; Tony Doherty; Cathal Kerrigan; Barra O’Donnabhain Interviewers: Alvina Cassidy; Stephen Dee; Dermot Casey Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/85">CFP_SR00502_kay_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/86">CFP_SR00516_browne_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/87">CFP_SR00518_dee_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/88">CFP_SR00519_casey_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/89">CFP_SR00521_mccarthy_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/90">CFP_SR00532_davis_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/91">CFP_SR00534_kiely_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/92">CFP_SR00547_curtin_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/93">CFP_SR00548_mcallister_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/94">CFP_SR00549_neville_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/96">CFP_SR00555_whelan_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/97">CFP_SR00556_lynch_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/98">CFP_SR00558_doherty_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/99">CFP_SR00561_kerrigan_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/100">CFP_SR00576_odonnabhain_2016;</a> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Ethnographic interviews carried out with members of the LGBT community in Cork city and county Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cork Folklore Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cork Folklore Project Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Cork Folklore Project Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 16 .wav files Relation A related resource Youtube video showcasing interviews from our LGBT Archive Collection. Ten voices, eight topics, ranging from First Discovery, Coming Out, The Scene, Marriage and more. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enopWLdeOAw&t=2s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enopWLdeOAw&t=2s</a> Other CFP Material Realting to LGBT Life in Cork: <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/130">CFP_SR00418_gerrety_2012</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Stephen Dee & Dermot Casey Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Ken Curtin Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 35min 31sec Location The location of the interview North mall, Cork City Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data .wav Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 24bit / 48kHz Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound SD Em, was there a specific event that happened that made you get into equality in general in your fight for it? KC Em, I suppose do you know what, I actually think probably becoming a student union officer in the late 90s, or mid to late 90s would have been really where my view changed, because I grew up in a part of rural very, em, [pause] let’s just say we weren’t very forward-looking in our thought perspective, like I give the example of-- there was a gran-aunt of mine, now deceased, a lovely lady, but she got a -- she got a blood transfusion in hospital and her two-- her biggest concern when she got the blood transfusion because she had black and blue bruising around it was that she was after getting a black-man’s blood and I explained to that wasn’t how it worked, ‘twas just bruising and I also had to explain to her, look the blood could come from anywhere and of course this sent her into free-fall, because as bad as it was the idea that it was a black man’s blood, she then realised that she could’ve got protestant blood and that would’ve been the ultimate no-no, that there was protestant blood gone into her system so I had to get a priest to come along and literally give her a blessing and things to make sure that this protestant blood was dealt with, em, and that wasn’t a hundred years ago, that was literally a little over-- that was within the last twenty years that happened, and I know to this day I’m still interacting with people in different walks of life who haven’t embraced or haven’t opened their eyes to the wider community particularly, so, I suppose, I’ve always been very strong on feminist issues, I’ve been strong on, I suppose, on this particular issue, but like, and I remember when the-- I remember having to explain to people years ago when I took part in a protest about em-- which one that I still to this day can’t get my head around is the blood transfusion, that men-- that gay men can’t give blood, em, and I-- I got-- I was on the television at the time talking about it and I had umpteen people onto me afterwards “Jesus Ken, what were doing, supporting the gays, what’s that all about like?” Whereas to me it just seemed insane, I’m a blood donor as well, there’s a huge shortage of blood donations all the time. These were people for every solid medical reason they could give blood, for, they were willing to give blood when an awful lot of people weren’t and we were turning them down, and unfortunately to this day it still hasn’t been resolved. So em, there’s been-- there was no one issue but a kind of a combination of all that like, I was always going to be supportive when something like this came along then. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ken Curtin: Marriage Referendum, Political Activism, Marriage Equality, Subject The topic of the resource Stories and memories of LGBT life in Cork City and County Description An account of the resource Ken was the campaign director for the Yes Equality! which campaigned for a yes vote in the marriage equality referendum in 2015. Ken, a heterosexual man, outlines his relationship to the gay community. en then explains his background in politics and other campaigns that he has been involved with. Ken then goes on to explain the nuances of the debate around marriage equality referendum. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 31 March 2015 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Interviewee: Ken Curtin Interviewers: Stephen Dee & Dermot Casey Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CFP_SR00547_curtin_2015 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Cork, Ireland, 2010s, Relation A related resource <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/85">CFP_SR00502_kay_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/86">CFP_SR00516_browne_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/87">CFP_SR00518_dee_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/88">CFP_SR00519_casey_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/89">CFP_SR00521_mccarthy_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/90">CFP_SR00532_davis_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/91">CFP_SR00534_kiely_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/92">CFP_SR00547_curtin_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/93">CFP_SR00548_mcallister_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/94">CFP_SR00549_neville_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/96">CFP_SR00555_whelan_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/97">CFP_SR00556_lynch_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/98">CFP_SR00558_doherty_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/99">CFP_SR00561_kerrigan_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/100">CFP_SR00576_odonnabhain_2016;</a> <div class="element-text">Youtube video showcasing interviews from our LGBT Archive Collection. Ten voices, eight topics, ranging from First Discovery, Coming Out, The Scene, Marriage and more. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enopWLdeOAw&t=2s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enopWLdeOAw&t=2s</a></div> <div class="element-text"> Other CFP Material Realting to LGBT Life in Cork: <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/130">CFP_SR00418_gerrety_2012</a></div> <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/100"></a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 1 .wav File Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cork Folklore Project. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cork Folklore Project. Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound 2010s LGBT Marriage Equality Marriage Referendum Political Activism https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/9c50bb85dee444027590a3f3dc026fc9.jpg c749eda90e16fa92bb8fcc1bdb0b02f4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource LGBT Collection Subject The topic of the resource Stories and memories of LGBT life in Cork City and County. Description An account of the resource The LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) collection was launched and created in August 2014 by Stephen Dee and Dermot Casey, researchers at the Cork Folklore Project. The Project was established to record and preserve stories and memories of LGBT life in Cork City and County, with a focus prior to decriminalization in 1993 but also to document the important achievements and struggles that contributed to a society that today is far more accepting of LGBT people. This is proven today with the legalisation of same sex marriage through popular vote and the increased visibility of LGBT people in all areas of public life. The collection’s aims are to explore three main aspects: ‘Personal Recollections’ including but not limited to identity, coming out and experiences of homophobia; ‘Community Stories’ based on certain areas, streets, and forms of social interaction within the LGBT community; and ‘Political Movements’, chronicling political events, motivations and outcomes such as the creation of the Cork-based Irish Gay Rights Movement in 1976, Cork Gay Collective in 1980, and UCC Gay Soc in 1980. Each interview we conducted was unique with each interviewee covering some or all of these topics and with some areas being explored in depth. We hope the material can complement LGBT research in Ireland and also stimulate further interest amongst the public in LGBT history. To date we have distributed some of this material to the public with an audio visual presentation on YouTube and in 2016 in conjunction with Cork City Partnership for LGBT Awareness week we produced a public exhibition of our sound excerpts at Cork City Library. Special thanks to all our interviewees and also to Alvina Cassidy whose research also features in this collection. This LGBT collection of interviews is stored within the Cork Folklore Project permanent oral history archive run in conjunction with UCC’s Folklore and Ethnology Department and Northside Community Enterprises, with both a physical and digital presence. As with all our material, access to full interviews is supervised through a variety of permissions and forms. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012 and onwards Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Interviewees: Derrick Gerrety; Eddie Kay; Christine Browne; Stephen Dee; Dermot Casey; Padraig McCarthy; Clive Davis; Finbarr Kiely; Ken Curtin; Paul McAllister; Jonathan Neville; Tara Whelan; Edmund Lynch; Tony Doherty; Cathal Kerrigan; Barra O’Donnabhain Interviewers: Alvina Cassidy; Stephen Dee; Dermot Casey Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/85">CFP_SR00502_kay_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/86">CFP_SR00516_browne_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/87">CFP_SR00518_dee_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/88">CFP_SR00519_casey_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/89">CFP_SR00521_mccarthy_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/90">CFP_SR00532_davis_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/91">CFP_SR00534_kiely_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/92">CFP_SR00547_curtin_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/93">CFP_SR00548_mcallister_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/94">CFP_SR00549_neville_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/96">CFP_SR00555_whelan_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/97">CFP_SR00556_lynch_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/98">CFP_SR00558_doherty_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/99">CFP_SR00561_kerrigan_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/100">CFP_SR00576_odonnabhain_2016;</a> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Ethnographic interviews carried out with members of the LGBT community in Cork city and county Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cork Folklore Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cork Folklore Project Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Cork Folklore Project Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 16 .wav files Relation A related resource Youtube video showcasing interviews from our LGBT Archive Collection. Ten voices, eight topics, ranging from First Discovery, Coming Out, The Scene, Marriage and more. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enopWLdeOAw&t=2s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enopWLdeOAw&t=2s</a> Other CFP Material Realting to LGBT Life in Cork: <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/130">CFP_SR00418_gerrety_2012</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Stephen Dee & Dermot Casey Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Paul McAllister Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 30min 29sec Location The location of the interview To the side of the Wolff Mardyke Pedestrian Bridge Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data .wav Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 24bit / 48kHz Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound DC And did you ever go on the scene before you came out or did that all happen after? PM No, no I started going to the Otherplace at twenty-seven, twenty-eight, kind of, every Saturday night, sneaking in and sneaking out, I knew nobody so I was just going there, I used to get the last bus up, hop in, down the dark alley, sneak in the door, mortified, knocking at the door, please let me in, and going in so for the first kind of I’d say two days before I came out to myself I was kind of dabbling, not meeting anyone, just going to the club and stuff and then met a few friends and it got a bit more regular every week and then it was going to Loafers every week and then it kind of worked from there. SD Can you tell us a little bit more about your first time going to the Otherplace, the atmosphere, the feelings? PM Oh nightmare, nightmare, I used to stress, I don’t drink so I used to go up on the bus and I used to be getting ready at home and I used to get the twenty past ten bus now cause at that stage I knew no one so I used to go on my own and its down in the middle of town but its down a very dark street so you walk down, its two kind of doors and one is kind of closed off but not knowing it I used to knock at the wrong door so for the first few weeks I was like slow, knocking at the wrong door with no one coming out to me and eventually I kind of cased the joint and go out again and come around and eventually I learned that there was cameras inside so they were all watching me, laughing at me because over the time they said you were always going to the wrong door why did you keep picking the wrong door, and you had to be a member at that time so the first few times was a nightmare, walking in and this big blurry, burly bouncer said do you know where you are and I said yeah cringing, then the people behind the counter taking your coat and I’m saying I hope I know no one, you walk up a stairs, then you open a door and everyone turns and then you die, and then after a while you kind of, once I’m in there then I’m fine its just initially getting inside the door was a nightmare, for about a month, it took me months to get used to walking in there, hated it, cause you could open the door and see anyone, it could be a woman dressed as a man, or a man dressed as a woman, sorry, and it could be a bit intense so yeah, nightmare, but after a few months of that it was grand. DC What year would this have been around? PM I’m now forty-four so twenty eight how long ago is that, sixteen years ago, so it would have been 1990’s, late 1990’s, so I was doing the club scene from the 1990s onwards and then I was doing Loafers now and again, like once, depending on who I was with and hanging around with but yeah it was around that time, 1990’s, late 1990’s when I started to kind of dabble in that part of life. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Paul McCallister: Homosexuality, Catholic Church, Decriminalisation Subject The topic of the resource Stories and memories of LGBT life in Cork City and County Description An account of the resource Paul talks about the challenges of being gay in Ireland, coming out, family reactions and the evolution of social attitudes toward homosexuality in Catholic Ireland. He talks about the club scene in late 1990s Cork and the legalisation of homosexuality in 1993. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9 April 2015 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Interviewee: Paul McAllister Interviewers: Stephen Dee & Dermot Casey Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CFP_SR00548_mcallister_2015 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Cork, Ireland, 1990s-2010s Relation A related resource <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/85">CFP_SR00502_kay_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/86">CFP_SR00516_browne_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/87">CFP_SR00518_dee_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/88">CFP_SR00519_casey_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/89">CFP_SR00521_mccarthy_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/90">CFP_SR00532_davis_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/91">CFP_SR00534_kiely_2014</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/92">CFP_SR00547_curtin_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/93">CFP_SR00548_mcallister_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/94">CFP_SR00549_neville_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/96">CFP_SR00555_whelan_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/97">CFP_SR00556_lynch_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/98">CFP_SR00558_doherty_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/99">CFP_SR00561_kerrigan_2015</a>; <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/100">CFP_SR00576_odonnabhain_2016;</a> <div class="element-text">Youtube video showcasing interviews from our LGBT Archive Collection. Ten voices, eight topics, ranging from First Discovery, Coming Out, The Scene, Marriage and more. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enopWLdeOAw&t=2s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enopWLdeOAw&t=2s</a></div> <div class="element-text"> Other CFP Material Realting to LGBT Life in Cork: <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/130">CFP_SR00418_gerrety_2012</a></div> <a href="http://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/items/show/100"></a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 1 .wav File Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cork Folklore Project. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cork Folklore Project. Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound 1990s 2000s 2010s Catholic Church David Norris Decriminalisation Homosexuality LGBT Loafer's Paul McCallister Taboo The Other Place https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/0685584d4ab1fd5d933f9d4abc60aadc.jpg 5a5e5ac48ff50b7450cd59aca0999d4a https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/files/original/b727f4b2d6799672b1aa884f32e344cc.mp3 27e8b56cfdd4715fe6b18552652def2d Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Shanti Hill-Gauer Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Breda Sheehan Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 52m 43s Location The location of the interview Blackpool, Cork. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound 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 BS ‘Twould depend now on whether I was very very close to my grandmother so my mother was a very bad cook even though my father was a cook in the army so I suppose that compensated a bit but she was a very bad cook. But then I learned from a very young age that my grandmother, my grandmother was a great cook, so my grandmother lived in Farranree in St.Michael’s Road, so I would go from school maybe at half-past twelve to my grandmother’s house, for my dinner and then I’d go back to school then for two o’clock and I think we’d finish at half past three. Then I’d come home and then I’d have, I suppose we’d play on the road for a while. We’d do our homework. That time we had no television so a lot of our activities would have been outdoors, you know, we would have been maybe on the street until maybe half eight, nine o’clock in the evening playing games. S HG What type of games would you play? B S I suppose when I was kind of maybe ten, eleven, twelve, we would have been playing, it would have varied, there would have been boys games and girls games. You know girls would have played skipping now and we would have been, there was a game we used to call, I can’t remember what we used to call it but we would get five small little stones that would have been very smooth so you’d throw one up and while that’s coming down, you’d try and catch the one that’s below, until eventually, you’d catch the five, you’d have the whole five in the palm of your hand. We’d have marbles that you’d, you know you’d put up against the kerb of a footpath and we used to call ‘em glassie allies and you’d get those in all different shapes and colours they were. They were lovely glass marbles and you know they’d reflect colours and everything in ‘em. So you’d have to hit one, so if you, if you managed to hit one you won it. But if you lost then and you didn’t hit it, you forfeited your marble. We’d have scraps, that time you could buy scraps like they, they were like for all the world, they were paper but they were shiny paper if you know what I mean of all different shapes and you could get circus animals, you could get anything at all in the scraps so we’d swap those, and we’d have copy books then and we’d have all our scraps in the copybooks. We’d play chasing, then we had a game where, I can’t remember the name of it, but we’d like say stand at the footpath and run, where I lived now there was no houses opposite me, like there was the wall of the factory, which would have been Gouldings and that wall would have ran the whole length of Spring Lane, so opposite our house we just had the wall, a big wall, so we would run from there to the wall, but you’d be told stop. So you could take so many steps and stop and whoever would reach the wall first would be the winner of the game, you know. So that’s what we did to occupy ourselves. I was sixteen, I think when we got a television and we were the first on the road to get a television. And it was in black and white, we had one station and everybody in the road came in, to look at the television. So. S HG And just to go back, you mention the pocket money you’d get for you’d save it from the bus, what would you spend your pocket money on? B S I would spend my pocket money on whatever would last longest and I would, that was something that I really thought out, I didn’t spend it now stupidly. I would buy Cleeves Toffee which was, it was like squares of toffee but you would buy it in a bar, for all the world now, it would be like a Cadburys bar of chocolate but instead of it being chocolate, it would be toffee where you could break off one square at a time, so I think that was around sixpence and that would last you for a long time. But as a result like that had, we didn’t realise going back that time about you know the danger of sweets or sugary foods with your teeth so I lost a lot of my teeth when I, before I was eighteen and it was over, over the Cleeves Toffee. [laughs] S HG [laughs] Where would you buy your toffee? Was there a sweet shop or? B S Oh there would have been lots of shops. When I was growing up in Blackpool, Thomas Davis Street was all shops. Like it was residential and commercial but it was mainly commercial. There would have been, the main street would have been mainly commercial but off the main street then which was Thomas Davis Street, you’d lots of laneways. You would have had Bird’s Quay, Welshs Lane, Green Lane, Slattery's Lane and Fosters Lane which would have been renamed and it would have been called Thomas Davis Avenue after we got our independence but nobody locally referred to it as Thomas Davis Avenue, we always called it Fosters Lane. And on the other side of the street then, you would have Prosperous Place and you would have Wherlands Lane and there was Haylans Lane as well. There was Corcoran's Quay. So you had the commercial main street but you had all these laneways running off the street and running parallel then to Thomas Davis Street would have been, what we would have called locally as the High Bank. It was, it was part of the Glen, it was the Glen River, the Glen river ran through Gouldings Glen and came down behind Spring Lane, behind Gouldings and down, running parallel with Thomas Davis Street so that would have been a place where we would have played as well because it, you had stream, it was a bank for all the world and you had a stream running down the side. Growing up we were very lucky, as I said we were very near the country at that time and we had Gouldings Glen which is literally on our doorstep so Gouldings Glen was like kind of set in a valley, and you know you had the Glen River running through so you could swim there in the summer. Oh, you could, you’d spend hours up there, you know in a glen you’d have great fun. S HG Would a lot of families go down to take their children or would children just go down to play or? B S Oh, we’d play there on our own, that’s a thing now that has changed as well, you couldn’t leave children out today and especially going to, what would have been really a very lonely place looking back on it, to us it was tranquil and it was a fantastic place like to play you know, because there was all high furze bushes, now I don’t know what the proper name for those would be, but they would have been, you could hide and play, you had the streams and you could be, you know running over the streams. It was great and also we had another stream, not very far from us as well, it was Ellis’ House, Ellis’, I told you about Ellis gravel yard, but they had a house, not very far from us, and running by their house as well was another stream. I don’t know the name of that stream. S HG How would you, you said children could go off and play on their own back when you were growing up, how would you compare that to today in terms of safety and you know leaving your child go off to the shop or is that even possible? B S It is possible to a degree. Today now it is possible to a degree to leave children out, where I live now at the moment which wouldn’t have been very far from where I was reared, I live now in Dublin Hill. And children are always playing in Dublin Hill on the streets, and it is quite safe and they could go to the shop as well, but to leave them go off out to somewhere in the country, you know what would be regarded now as the country and to leave them go into woods, you know that wouldn’t be safe. You know, I think even I was more nervous even when my own children. Even though I did it as a child and we all did and it was quite safe even when my own children were growing up, you would have been more wary. They were allowed to go but they always had to have older children with them, like maybe somebody twelve, thirteen minding the smaller ones but today now again that wouldn’t be safe. S HG And going back as well to the old laneways, can you just describe those laneways and what sort of activities that take place? B S I suppose as a child, you take things for granted and you don’t really take in much about what’s going on around you, you just take it for granted, but the laneways in Blackpool, I suppose they would have been very similar to Spring Lane only Spring Lane like was a very very long lane, you know, Spring Lane like went from Thomas Davis Street right up to, to where actually to where the fire station is now, on the new ring road, the new north ring road, Spring Lane would have ran parallel with that the whole way up nearly as far as there. Whereas with the laneways in Blackpool, they were much shorter little laneways and I’d say they were, they were communities. I’d say the neighbours were very neighbourly as they were in Spring Lane. I can only compare the laneways now I suppose to my own laneway and in our own laneway, if a child came home and there happened to be nobody at home, the neighbour always brought you in and cared for you. If you were sick the neighbour was always sent for to come in and diagnose what was wrong with you. Just looking back on it, I thought it was normal at the time but looking back on it was very very unusual, we had a family that lived next door to us, and they were a large family because both, both parents had been widowed, and with, had lost their partners and they had remarried so in a sense there was like three families. There was the woman’s family and the man’s family, and then their family together, so they would have had, the bread man used to come around that time, well I don’t know if the bread man goes around now, but that time the bread man would come around and her windows, she had two windows, she had a window at either side of her door, and the two window sills would have been full of bread. Now all homemade bread, so if I came home from school or if my mother wasn’t there and I’d, there was no bread, I’d go out and I’d have a look at what kind of bread they’d have on the window and she’d have all different varieties of bread so I would choose what loaf that I would, that I would fancy and I would take it in and then when my mother would come in, oh I’d say to my mom, mom I took a loaf of bread belong to next door. So we’d be sent to the shop then to get it to replace it, but you know, thinking about it that woman never ever objected to me going out and taking a loaf of her bread. You couldn’t do that today, you know. S HG Its amazing the difference in the. B S Yeah, you couldn’t do that today. And you know you could have a neighbour up the road that would maybe, we had one single neighbour up the road now, and if she cooked a stew for herself and she’d cooked too much, she’d come down with her big jug and all the stew in it for us, you know, because like I suppose my father’s wages weren’t very good and like, there was, we were a large family but it was a different world, you know, totally different world to what it is now. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data MiniDisc Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 16bit / 44.1kHz Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Breda Sheehan: Blackpool, Childhood games, Lido cinema, Spring Lane. Subject The topic of the resource Life History: Blackpool, Childhood games, Ellis’s, Goulding's, Lido cinema, Spring Lane. Description An account of the resource Breda grew up in Spring Lane, off Thomas Davis Street, Blackpool. She grew up with five sisters. Her father was a soldier in the Irish Army and was away a lot. She grew up in a row of cottages that she believes dated back to the Seventeenth Century. People rented their houses until the 1950s, when they began to buy them. In the 1970s, the area bounded both the city and the countryside. It was also an industrial area, with Goulding’s fertilizer factory and Ellis’s gravel yard. During the 1950s men queued at Gouldings looking for casual work. She lists the games and pastimes she played as a child: catching stones, marbles (‘glassy allies’) and scraps (scrapbooks). She names the lanes around Thomas Davis Avenue, which residents called by its old name, Foster’s Lane. Neighbours looked out for each other’s children and for each other. She tells a story about looking for apples at the Ellis family house, nearby. The Lido cinema in Blackpool showed episodic films, which she loved to see with her grandmother; she describes the seating inside. She talks about how Blackpool has changed, and how the lanes have gone or been renamed and the old shops have gone. Changes came in the way shopping was done, with the arrival of city centre supermarkets, while the lanes were replaced with new housing. Yet she thinks that Spring Lane has basically remained unchanged; she remembers that there was an orchard behind the lane, which was replaced by Glen Rovers GAA club. She comments on Blackpool Post office, about which there has been a local dispute; she mentions that one site of the post office had been the home of Thomas MacCurtain, Mayor of Cork, who had been shot during the War of Independence. She mentions Madden’s Buildings as being among the oldest social housing in Cork, built in 1885 [1886]. She comments that demolishing Blackpool’s lanes meant removing people and that its community spirit declined as a result; she notes the arrival of immigrants. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 16 April 2008 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Interviewee: Breda Sheehan. Interviewer: Shanti Hill-Gauer. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CFP_SR00328_sheehan_2008 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Cork: Ireland; 1950s-2000s. Relation A related resource As Interviewee: CFP00328, CFP00387, CFP00388. As Interviewer: CFP00389_Healy, CFP00396_Lane, CFP00398_Jones, CFP00399_Savile, CFP00401_Marshall, CFP00402_Marshall, CFP00450_Dwyer, CFP00480_Cremin 1960s 1970s Blackpool Breda Sheehan Childhood Games Cinema Ellis’s Family Goulding's Scraps Spring Lane The Lido