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Padraig McCarthy: Homosexuality, Catholicism, Quay Co-Op,
He regrets that his early homosexual encounters were within the cottaging scene. He mentions places and pubs where gay men met. He mentions the Cork word ‘steamer’ used by the general public to…
Clive Davis: Gay life, The Other Place, South Main Street
He talks about the role and history of The Other Place,…
Finbarr Kiely: Loafers Bar, Homosexuality, Decriminalisation.
Tags: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Decriminalisation, Homosexuality, Loafer's, The Othe Place
Ken Curtin: Marriage Referendum, Political Activism, Marriage Equality,
Paul McCallister: Homosexuality, Catholic Church, Decriminalisation
Jonathan Neville: Cork Gay Project, Cork Pride, Fatherhood, Gay Marriage.
Edmund Lynch: Irish Gay Rights Movement, Marriage Referendum, Activism,
Tony Doherty: Rainbow Ramblers, Cork Gay Mens’ Cooperative, Cruising.
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, CAT Club, Cork Gay Mens’ Cooperative, Cruising, David Gordon, Decriminalisation, Dogging, Grindr, Hilton Edwards, Iron Toilet, Le Chateau, LGBT, Marriage Referendum, Michael Mac Liammoir, Mother Gordon, Rainbow Ramblers, The Other Place, Tony Doherty
Cathal Kerrigan: Activism, Gay Scene, Quay Co-op,
Tags: Activisim, Arthur Leahy, Campaign for Homosexual Equality, Cork Gay Collective, David Norris, Edmund Lynch, Gay Rights, Gaye Shortland, Hate Crime, Irish Queer Archive, Kieran Rose, Le Chateau, Marriage Referendum, Mind That Tis Me Brother, Mother Gordon, Netherlands, Quay Co-op, The Metropole, The Persian Room, UCC LGBT
Barra O’Donnabhain: Homosexuality, UCC, David Norris,
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, AIDS, David Norris, Homosexuality, UCC, University College Cork
Breda Sheehan: Blackpool, Childhood Games, Slogging for Apples
She remembers a childhood game of swinging on a rope put up an ESB electricity pole. She remembers a number…
Breda Sheehan: Halloween Games, Childhood Games, Family
Geraldine Healy: Children's Games, Schooldays, Western Road,
Johnny Chris Kelleher: The Evening Echo, Schooldays, Tuberculosis
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
Marie Crean: South Parish, Cinemas, Black and Tan’s
She recalls…
Tags: 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Alfred Street, Bandon railway, Black and Tans, Blackberry-picking, Cinema, Civil War, Courtship, Douglas Street, English market, Funerals; Hanlon’s, High Street, Jackson’s Terrace, Marie Crean, Sayoy Cinema, Sisters of Reparation, Sunbeam, Trains, Transport, War of Independence, Williamson’s, Windmill Road
James 'Jim' McKeon: Northside, Sport, Writing,
Brenda Twomey: Coal Quay, Peg Twomey's, Childhood Games
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Brenda Twomey, Childhood Games, Coal Quay, Peggy Twomey
Breda St Ledger: Blackpool, Childhood Games, Family Life,
She talks briefly about…
Tags: Blackpool, Breda St Ledger, Child Rearing, Childhood, Conkers, Food, Scraps, Shopping
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…