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Alan Kennefick: Irish Dancing

Alan was 14 years old at the time of this interview. He talks about his involvement in Irish Dancing.

Aisling Byron: Architectural conservation work at Fota House

Aisling talks about her architectural conservation work at Fota House, Cork.
She describes the purpose of some of the rooms and of the layout of the house. She comments on the difference between conservation work and renovation work, emphasizing…

Tags: Aisling Byron, Conservation, Fota House, The Big House

Aimée Setter: Immigration, Music, Pirate Radio, Freak FM,

Aimée grew up in London. She works as a DJ and comments on the music scene in Cork. She also talks, sometimes critically, about the city and its people.
Aimée moved from London to Cork with her family when she was 8 years old. She says she…

Tags: 2000s, Amy Setter, Cork 2005, Cork City of Culture, Immigration, Music, Pirate Radio

Adam Skotarczak: Immigration, Poland, Weddings,

Adam was born in Poland, and talks in very brief terms about his childhood and about living in Cork.

Note; This interview was conducted as part of the Cork 2005 Project

Tags: Adam Skotarczak, Celebration, Cork 2005, Immigration, Poland, Weddings

Liam Ó hUigín: Grattan Street, Healthcare, The Marsh

Liam grew up on Henry Street in The Marsh and recalls playing football on Grattan Street which was busy and full of activity with businesses, pubs, shops a fire station, barber shops and tenements. He discusses some shops and games in more…

Tags: Accommodation, Adelaide Street, Air Raid Shelter, Alcohol, Bakeries, Bakery, Ballypheane, Ballyphehane, Barbers, bars, Bathing, Baths, Billycan, Bonfire Night, Bread, Breakfast, Broad Lane, Buildings, Bullycans, Business, businesses, Buying on Credit, Cagney, Car, Cars, Catholic Devotion, Catholicism, Cemetery, changing technology, Chase, Chemist, Childhood, Childhood Games, Children, Children’s Games, Christmas, Christmas Cake, Church, Churches, Cigarettes, Class, Clothes, Clothing, Coal, Coal Quay, Coleman’s Lane, Community Centre, Connie Dodgers, Cooking, Corner Shop, Corner Shops, Credit, Credit Union, Crubeen, Crubeens, Customer, Customers, Dagenham Yank, Death, Dermot’s Shop, Disease, Diseases, Dispensary, Docker, Dockers, Docks, Dr, Drink, Drisheen, Eglinton Baths, Elizabeth Fort, Elysian Tower, Emigrant, Emigrants, Emigration, Employment, Families, Family, Fast, Fasting, Father, Fighting, Fights, Fire Brigade, Fire Station, Fishermen, Food, Football, Friends, Friendship, Fuel, Fuel Poverty, Gender Roles, Golf, Grandmother, Grattan Street, Grattan Street Health Centre, Grattan Street Medical Centre, Graveyard, Great Coat, Hair Lice, Hairdresser, Hairdressers, Headstones, Health, Heating, Henry Street, Hobbies, Home, Hospital, House, Illness, Illnesses, Jewellery, Lanes, Laneways, LDF, Lee, Lee Baths, Lee Fields, Lent, Lice, Living Arrangements, Local Defence Force, Lunch, Manning’s Shop, Mardyke, Marsh, Mass, Mass-Going, Meal, Meals, Meat, Medication, Medicine, Medicines, Meningitis, Mental Health, Mercy Hospital, Middle Parish, Midwife, Mischief, Money, Mother, North Main Street, Nurse, Nurses, Opening Hours, Outdoor Baths, Outdoor Swimming, Outdoor Toilet, Parents, Pastimes, Patrick Hanley Buildings, Pawn Shops, Pawning, Pawns, Pawnshops, Peter Church Lane, Pharmacist, Pharmacy, Phone, Phones, Planking, Playing, Poverty, Public House, Public Houses, Pubs, Race, Radio, Religion, River Lee, Sandwich, Sanitation, School, Schooldays, Second World War, Shandon, Shandon Bells, Sheares Street, Shoes, Shopkeeper, Shops, Sick, Sickness, Skipping, Skipping School, Slang, Soccer, Social Conditions, South Main Street, Spinning Top, Sport, St Francis Church, St Peter’s, St Peter’s Cemetery, St. Francis Church, Street Games, Streets, Sugar, Sullivan’s Quay, Sweets, Swim, Swimming, Telephone, Telephones, Tenement, tenement houses, Tenements, Terence MacSwiney, The Lee, The Marsh, The Middle Parish, Theft, Tin, Tinsmith, Toilet, Toilets, Tory Top Road, Traditions, Traffic, Tripe, Tripe and Drisheen, Vaccination, vaccine, Vaccines, Vegetables, Vincent’s Bridge, Voucher, Vouchers, Watches, Weir, Winter, Woolworths, Work, Working, World War II, World War Two, WW2

"Mary": Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life

‘Mary’ grew up on a farm in county Limerick, part of which was rented to a mental hospital to be worked by patients. By interacting with these patients she quickly learned who you could trust and who you couldn’t. Mentions her brother’s physical and…

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Accommodation, ADHD, Ambulance, Animals, Anti-Vax, Australia, Babies, Baby, Bales of Hay, Bed Wetting, Bedtime, Bicycle, Bicycles, Bicycling, Bike, Bike. Bikes, Birth, Bread, bread and breadmaking, Breadmaking, Building, Buildings, Built Heritage, Bullying, Bureaucracy, Bus, Calf, Camaraderie, Candle, Candles, Canteen, Car Park, Car Parking, Career, Career Choice, Career Decision, Career Guidance, Career Path, Careers, Castletroy, Change, Chemist, Child Welfare, Childhood, Childhood Games, Children, Christmas, City Hall, Cleaners, Clinic, Clinics, Clothes, Clothing, Co. Limerick. County Limerick, Coal Quay, Colleagues, Community, Community Welfare, Cooking, Cork, Cork city, Court, Court Case, Cow, Death, Decision, Dementia, Disability, Disease, Diseases, Dispensary, Disrepair, Dressings, Drisheen, Duties, Educate Together, Electricity, Emigration, English market, Family, Family Life, Farm, Farming, Farmlife, Father, Flats, Fleas, Flooding, Floods, Food, Frustration, Games, Glasgow, GP, Grattan Street, Hay, Health, Health Promotion, Health Services, Healthcare, Healthy, Hens, History, Hoarding, Home, Hospital, House, Houses, Housing, HPV, HPV Vaccine, HSE, Hygiene, Illness, Illnesses, Income, Irish Language, Kitchen, Knocknaheeney, Labour Ward, Lane, Laneway, Learning, Limerick, Limerick city, Marriage, Marsh, Meals, Medicine, Medicines, Memories, Memory, Mental Hospital, Mental Issues, Mercy Hospital, Middle Parish, Midwife, Midwifery, MMR, Mother, Mushrooms, Music, Night Work, North Main Street, Nun, Nuns, Nurse, Nurse Training, Nurses, Nursing, Nursing Home, Nursing Training, Orthopaedic, Our Lady’s Hospital, Paperwork, Parents, Parking, Patient, Patient Care, Patient Environment, Patients, Pharmacy, PHN, Polio, Pop Music, Porter, Potatoes, Priest, Public Health Nurse, Public Health Nursing. PHNs, Public Transport, Quakers, Religion, Remarriage, Rent, Role of Women, Routine, Sarsfield Court, Sarsfield’s Court, School, Schooldays, Sheares Street, Shift Work, Siblings, Sickness, Singing, Smell, Smells, smoking, Social Conditions, Songs, Spinster, St Francis Church, St Mary's Health Campus, St. Mary’s Primary Care Centre, Staff Canteen, Tea, Tea Room, Teacher, Teachers, Tenements, Textbooks, Thatch, The Marsh, The Middle Parish, Traditional Food, Transport, Tripe, Tripe and Drisheen, Uniform, USA Biscuits, Vaccination, Vaccinations, vaccine, Vaccines, Vegetables, Vocation, Ward, Wastage, Waste, Wheelchair, Winter, Women, Women's Lives, Work, Work Colleagues, Working, Working life, Worklife, Workplace, York Hill

Tags: Allotments, Anglesea Street, Barrett’s Buildings, BBC, Bingo, Bird-Catching, Blackpool, Bowling, Boxing, Boy Murphy, Card Games, Children’s Games, Children’s Mass, Christy Ring, Churchfield, Coliseum Theatre, Corbett’s Lane, Cork Corporation, Don, Donncha Ó Céileachair, Drisheen, Echo Boys, Evening Echo, Fair Hill, Fairs, Father O’Flynn, Faulkner’s Lane, Food, Gurranabraher, Gurranabraher Road, Hiroshima, Housey Housey, Housing, Irish Language, Jack Lynch, Johnny Chris Kelleher, Kearney’s Lane, Margaret O’Sullivan, Mossy Condon, Newsboys, Newspapers, Nicknames, Northside, O’Flynn family; O’Gorman’s Factory, Pádraig Ó hÓgáin, Polly Kelleher, Seán O’Mahony, Sketchy Roche, Slaughterhouses, Social Housing, Sport, St Anne’s Hurling Club, Street names, TB, The Holly Bough, Tommy Hyde, Tommy Kelleher, Trimbath Mulcahy, Trimbath’s Lane, Tripe, Tripe Houses, Tuberculosis, Walter McEvilly, Working class, Working life, World War II

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