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Eileen Kearney: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life
Eileen grew up in Tallow in west Waterford in a family of seven. Her father ran the family butcher business attached to the house. She recalls him singing and whistling, and the sawdust on the shop floor. Recalls meat and tripe being sold and…
Eileen Jones: Blackpool, Shawlies, Sunbeam,
Eileen Jones (b. 1931) was born in Millfield Cottages. When she was 4 years old her family moved to Welsh’s Lane in Blackpool; members of her extended family lived nearby. Her mother was born in 1896. Her father was a builder’s labourer.
There was…
There was…
Eileen Claffey: Childhood Games, Food, Farming, Festivals, Irish Language,
Eileen grew up on a farm in Inchaclough, West Cork with one brother and four sisters. She was the third child. They had a cousin and a neighbour’s child living with them. Her parents were hardworking– her mother used to work at least 12 hours a day.…
Eibhlís de Barra: Northside, Gender, Childhood Games
Eibhlís was born on the Southside of Cork. Her husband was from Blarney Street, on the Northside.
She recalls childhood games such as The Chaineys, and The Gobs, and Scaa, the latter two played with small stones. She quotes some of the skipping…
She recalls childhood games such as The Chaineys, and The Gobs, and Scaa, the latter two played with small stones. She quotes some of the skipping…
Eibhlín Gleeson: Cork Opera House, Athenaeum, Theatre,
Eibhlín talks about Cork Opera House, its history and its role in the life of the city.
The building was established in 1855 as the Athenaeum, a rebuild of an earlier exhibition hall, and remodelled as the Munster Hall in 1872 and again in…
The building was established in 1855 as the Athenaeum, a rebuild of an earlier exhibition hall, and remodelled as the Munster Hall in 1872 and again in…
Edward Buckley: Stonemasons,
Edward a born a bred Cobh man was born in 1949. After finishing his leaving certificate he attended University College Cork for a year, but says it was not for him. Luckily Seán Lemass had changed the rules on who could be accepted into trades…
Edmund Lynch: Irish Gay Rights Movement, Marriage Referendum, Activism,
Edmund Lynch is a gay activist from Dublin. He came out to his family in 1974/5. He discusses the Irish gay rights movement from the 1970s through decriminalisation and the Marriage Referendum in 2015.
Edith O'Regan: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life
Edith grew up in Youghal where she recalls playing childhood games including Red Rover, chainey, a makeshift tennis and sandcastles on the beach.
Describes attending school in cold substandard buildings. Preferred self-directed learning to rote…
Eddie Kay: Drag queens, Gay scene, Alternative Miss Ireland,
Eddie Kay was interviewed for an article on the Alternative Miss Cork competition that will feature in the Archive Magazine Issue 18. He was chosen as an interviewee because of his experience of organising and co-founding the Cork event. The…
Eddie Daly: Road Bowls
Eddie plays road bowling. He talks about the sport, about how he became involved in it, and about some of the players and characters associated with it.
Eddie (born circa 1949) grew up in Cloghroe, where road bowling was popular and started playing…
Eddie (born circa 1949) grew up in Cloghroe, where road bowling was popular and started playing…
Ed Hinchy: Beamish & Crawford
Ed talks about his involvement with Beamish and Crawford
Dr. John Curtin: Orthopaedic Hospital, Working Life, Healthcare
John, worked at St Mary's Hospital from 1972 to 2003 when he took early retirement. Initially he worked as an orthopaedic register but from 1978 he was consultant.
He remembers thinking St. Mary’s was a very progressive hospital but the layout…
He remembers thinking St. Mary’s was a very progressive hospital but the layout…
Dr Carol Dundon: Seamus Murphy, Aloys Fleischmann, Burning of Cork
Carol talks about life growing up St Patricks Place in Cork in a historic 18th century house where her father had his doctor’s practise. She speaks about how her father was one of only six people in the city issued with a pass during the curfew at…
Donnie Walsh: Gardiner's Hill, Sport, Republicanism,
Donie was born in 1948. His family lived in Stream Hill, and then in Gardiner’s Hill. He used to visit his grandmother’s house in Carrigadrohid, which had no running water nor electricity. He talks about going to the well and collecting…
Donal Ring
Donal speaks about his career in music with the Donal Ring Ceili Band. How his interest in music stemmed from his father, a melodeon player. His first band with Donal Coleman from Grenagh. The Celtic Ceili Band from Mallow. Accordian player Noel…
Don Morrissy: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life
Don recalls his entrepreneurial great-aunt who owned the Grand Hotel in Fermoy.
Recounts early years in the Grattan Street Dispensary building where his father was the pharmacist.
Describes growing up on the Mardyke close to St Joseph’s School and…
Derrick Gerrety: Douglas Street, Loafers, Dublin,
Derrick was born in 1950. He grew up in St Joseph's Square, Vernon Avenue, Clontarf, in a working-class enclave within a middle-class area. He describes his childhood as idyllic. The houses in the square were rented from the Sisters of Charity;…
Derek O'Connell: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life
Originally from Winter’s Hill, Derek describes his home and family: siblings, grandmother, his GP mother and his father who worked in insurance. He outlines his mother’s tasks and equipment as a GP.
He describes his routine on school days,…
Denise Gabuzda: Quakerism and the Cork Quaker Meeting House
Denise Gabuzda briefly discusses Quakerism in general and the Cork Quaker Meeting House.
Denis P. Long: Working Life; Balckpool; Austrailia
Denis grew up in Blackpool. His father was a train driver.
He worked for the ESB (Electricity Supply Board) but wanted to earn better money and went to Australia in the 1950s. He tells a funny story about visiting a rocket range and meeting someone…
He worked for the ESB (Electricity Supply Board) but wanted to earn better money and went to Australia in the 1950s. He tells a funny story about visiting a rocket range and meeting someone…