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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
Peter Sargent: Orthopaedic Hospital, Working Life, Healthcare
Peter left this job for a position at St Mary's Hospital as a theatre attendant. …
Pete Newman: Shandon Street, Unemployment, Machoness,
Cyclists going up Shandon Street used to hold on to the back of buses, which…
Peggy Kelleher: The Lough, Marriage, World War 2
Pauline Matthews
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
Paul McCallister: Homosexuality, Catholic Church, Decriminalisation
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…
Patrick Varian: Stonemasons, America, Trades
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, Apprenticeship, Boston, Stonemasons, Trades
Patrick O’Brien: Patrick Street, The Swan and Cygnet, Seamus Murphy
Patrick Leader: Leader's Menswear
Patrick Cooney: Stonemasons,
They brought their history with them- an oral history. They talked about Cork occasionally. One side of his family were masons- so…
Patricia McCarthy: Shandon Street, War of Independence, Trades
Patricia Manresa : Catalonia, Immigration, Irish Language, Spain,
Patricia describes her childhood. Her mother was Irish, her father Spanish. She visited Cork and decided to stay, getting a job. She compares how…
Tags: 1990s, 2000s, Catalonia, Cork 2005, Immigration, Irish Language, Patricia Manresa, Spain
Pat Walsh: Barrack Street, Custom House, Dundanion Castle, Elizabeth Fort, Railways, Sculpture Factory, Trams, Transport,
He talks about the channels of the River Lee within the city and…
Pat Speight: Northside, Childhood Games, Schooldays,
Pat Saville: Blackpool, Working Life, Sport,
He describes the shops and…
Pat O'Brien: Northside, Pubs, Childhood,
He talks briefly about the pub trade. The Holy Hour was observed within the city limits (a break…