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Patrick Varian: Stonemasons, America, Trades
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, Apprenticeship, Boston, Stonemasons, Trades
Patrick Walsh: Cork Waterworks, Cork Prison and Cinemas
He talks about Cork waterworks and being awed as a child by its workings, and about Cork Prison, which he and his parents visited…
Paul McCallister: Homosexuality, Catholic Church, Decriminalisation
Paul O'Brien
Tags: 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
Pauline Matthews
Peggy Kelleher: The Lough, Marriage, World War 2
Pete Newman: Shandon Street, Unemployment, Machoness,
Cyclists going up Shandon Street used to hold on to the back of buses, which…
Peter Sargent: Orthopaedic Hospital, Working Life, Healthcare
Peter left this job for a position at St Mary's Hospital as a theatre attendant. …
Philomena Cassidy: Grattan Street, Healthcare, The Marsh
Tags: Altar Boys, Arcadia, Bicycles, Bikes, Catholics and Protestants, Céilí, Chemist, Childcare, Children, Children’s Games, Christmas, Churches, Churchgoing, Class, Clothes, Community, Cycling, Dancehalls, Dances, Dancing, Diphtheria, Dispensary, Doctors, Dunlops, Employment, Family, Father, Food, Formality, Forms of Address, Grattan Street, Grattan Street Medical Centre, Graveyard, Hat Making, Home, Home Ownership, House, Houses, Housing, Landlords, Lanes, LDF, Living Conditions, Local Defence Force, Massgoing, Meals, Measles, Mechanic’s Hall, Medical Costs, Medicine, Middle Parish, Money, Mother, Munster Arcade, Music, Neighbourhood, O’Gorman’s Hat Factory, Parents, Pawn Shops, Pawns, Pharmacist, Pharmacy, Plays, Prescriptions, Pride, Protestant, Pub, Quakers, Rationing, Rations, Religion, Rent, Respectability, Role of Women, Sanitation, Sarsfield’s Court, School, Sense of Community, Shandon, Shop, Sick Pay, Sickness, St Francis Church, St Francis Hall, St Peter and Paul’s, St. Francis Hall, Stew, Streets, Streetscape, Sweets, Tanora, TB, Tenement, Tenement life, The Marsh, Time, Timekeeping, Traffic, Transport, Treat, Tuberculosis, Vouchers, Water Pump, Wellington Boots, Work, Working, Working life
Rev John Farris: Civil Rights, Christianity, Northern Ireland
Reverend…
Ria O’Sullivan: Blackrock Castle, Pirates, Observatory,
Note: this interview was conducted…
Rob Stafford: Aboriginals, Australia, Fiddle, Racial Prejudice, Traditional music, Willy Clancy
Describes his neighbourhood as forested where the main source of income was…
Robert Fourie: Hiberno-English, Holy Communion, Language, South Africa,
Robert (b. 1969) is from a gold-mining town in South Africa. He talks about mining conditions there. He comments that South Africa has…
Roger Herlihy: Barrack Street, Saint Fin Barre’s cathedral, William Burgess, Elizabeth Fort, Jimmy Page, Pavilion cinema, Second World War
Ronnie (b. circa 1963)talks about the laying of the foundation stone for Saint Fin…
Roger Herlihy: Imperial Hotel, South Mall, Commercial Buildings
He explains that South Mall used to be a channel of the River Lee and that is why some buildings on the street have…
Rosarii Comber: North Gate Chemist
Sandra Byrne: Commons Road, Tucker's Field, Family Life.
Sean Higgisson: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life
Tags: Admin, Administration, Adrmore, Ardmore, Atmosphere, Aunts, Baking, Ballincollig, Ballincollig Regional Park, Ballyphehane, Bedroom, Bishopstown, Bon Secours Hospital, Bons, Book, Books, Bread, Brothers, Building, Building Maintenance, Buildings, Built Heritage, Camera, Car Theft, Career, Career Choice, Career Decision, Career Options, Childhood, Childhood Games, Children, Children’s Games, Class, Clothes, Clothing, Coláiste Spioraid Naoimh, Colleagues, Community Welfare, Community Welfare Officer, Cork, Course, Courses, Crime, CSN, Death, Decision Making, Decisions, Disrepair, Duties, Dying, Elderly, Emigrant, Emigrant Experience, Emigration, Engineering, England, Family, Family Life, Floods, Food, Football, France, Free Time, Games, ghost, Ghosts, Gift, Gifts, Grandfather, Grandmother, Grandparents, Health, Health Centre, Health Services, Healthcare, Heating, Hill, Hill Walk, Hill Walking Club, Hills, Hillwalk, Hillwalking, Hillwalking Guide, Hobbies, Hobby, Holiday, Holidays, Home, House, HSE, Independent, Ireland, Irish Language, Knitting, Latin, Leaving Cert, Leaving Certificate, Leisure, Life, Liverpool, London, Lough, Mahon, Maintenance, Mardyke, Marriage, Mass, Mercy Hospital, Middle Parish, Mother, Mountain, Mountain Ranges, Mountains, North Main Street, Northside, Nurse, Nursing Home, Outdoors, Outlook on Life, Outook, Paint, Painter, Painting, Paints, Parents, Patient, Patients, PBC, Perspective on Life, Photographs, Photography, Playing, Porter, Pres, Present, Presentation Brothers, Presents, Public Amenities, Publish, Publishing, Quakers, Redemption Road, Responsibility, Role of Women, School, School Days, Schooldays, Science, Scool, Siblings, Social Media, Solitude, Sport, St Joseph’s School, Staff, Stories, Taxi, Taxis, Teacher, Teachers, The Lough, The Marsh, Training, Uncles, Vaccination, Vaccines, Walk, Walking, Women, Women in Work, Work, Working life, Worklife, Workplace
Seán Lane: Blarney Street, Butchers, Bowling,
He talks about his childhood. Children were always on the lookout for any opportunity to make a penny, such as cow-herding…