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Liam Ó hUigín: Henry Street, The Marshes, Childhood
He recalls the practice of adding “a” to the end of some placenames, such as Pana for Patrick Street. There…
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Childhood Games, Churches, Clothing, Confectionery, Daly’s Bridge, Dunnes Stores, English market, Henry Street, Liam Ō hUigín, Mackey Gumboil, Mardyke, Milk and Cake Shops, Ogilvy and Moore’s, ohn Daly, Patrick Street, Pike family, Pike’s Marsh, Portney’s Lane, Pubs, Quakers, River Lee, Robert Day’s, Shaky Bridge, Sheares Street, Shops, Slang, Sport, Tenements, The Savoy, William Penn
Liam Ó hUigín: Henry Street, Bonfire Night, Childhood Games, Messenger Boys.
He was a messenger boy in the 1950s; he talks about the job and its good and bad aspects. He…
Liam Ó hUigín: Henry Street
Tags: Between the Gates, Bradleys, Curran’s (Adelaide Street), Grattan Street, Henry Street, Hosford’s Bakery, Larry McCarthy’s Bakery, Leaders, Mary Ryan’s pub, Mrs Mullins’s Shop (Grattan Street), North Main Street, Old Weigh House, Paddy’s Market, Paradise Place, Petrossi’s chipper, Raven, Roman House, Simcox’s Bakery, South Main Street, Sunday Lop, Vicar Stone Bar, Vision Centre, Washington Street
Liam Foley: The war of Independence, Corporal Punishment, Music
Liam was born in 1940 in Water Lane. His father, John, was a cabinet maker, who also liked to play music, and could play…
Liam Foley: Blackpool, Showbands, Arcadia
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Arcadia, Bill Haley, Bill Haley and the Comets, Blackpool, Blackpool National School, Clipper Carlton, Clothing, Commons Road, Donnie Collins Showband, Elvis Presley, ghost, Great William O'Brien Street, Joe Lynch, leper colony, Liam Foley, Music, Northside, Shane Fenton and the Fentones showband, The Devil, The Dixies showband
Lesley Cox
Kieran O Leary: Cillian Murphy, Queens Old Castle, Ballinlough
Kieran Edwards & Noreen Crowley: Ballyphehane, Childhood, Community
Kevin Leahy: Gurranabraher, Irish Army, Docklands,
He remembers Blarney Street, and women who…
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 2000s, Childhood Games, Civil War, Confectionery, Courting, Crubeens, Damie Goggins, Dancing, Dock Workers, Dockers, Drinking, Farranree, Greenmount, Gurranabraher, Irish Army, Irish music, Kelly’s Lane, Kevin Leahy, Kick the Can, Langer, Milk and Cake Shops, Munster Selection, Pubs, Skating, Steering Cars, Steernas, The Congo, Women, Working life
Ken Curtin: Marriage Referendum, Political Activism, Marriage Equality,
Kay O’Carroll: The Northside, Emigration, Childhood Games, Music, Tenements,
Kay was…
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Catholicism, Celebration, Childhood Games, Children, Christenings, Churchfield, City Hall, Cork 2005, Croppy Boy, Emigration, Fairhill, Farming, Fitzgerald’s Park, Glassey Alleys, Grants, Gurranabraher, Holy Communion, Humour, Kay O’Carroll, Music, Nash’s Boreen, North Main Street, Oliver Plunkett Street, Patrick’s Street, Pawn Shops, Picky, School, Scullys, Shawls, Singers, Social Class, Sun Valley Drive, Tenements, The Mardyke, The Munster Arcade, The Queen’s Old Castle, The Savoy, The Tivoli Restaurant, Weddings, Wolfe Tone Street, Youghal
Kay Dunne: Childhood, Opera, Camogie
Kathleen O’ Driscoll
Tags: Andy Gaw, begging, blackberries, children's games, Clothes, Coal Quay, Cork, Crubeens, Dennhy’s pub, Food, Gurranbraher, Horses, Kinsale, Kitty Barry, Macroom, Mrs Punch, Mrs Twomey, Rosary, Shawls, Shops
Karina Abdulbaneeva: Art, Russia, London, Spirituality, Nature, Nationality, New Year’s Day, Religion,
Joseph Lane: Gurranabraher, Milk and Cake Shops, Pranks
Joe recalls a childhood…
Jonathan Neville: Cork Gay Project, Cork Pride, Fatherhood, Gay Marriage.
John X Miller: Cork Vision Centre, Marriage, St Peter’s Church, Supernatural,
The building was originally St Peter’s Church, completed in 1788, and sold into private hands in 1949, after which it fell into disrepair. It was restored by Cork Corporation and…
John O'Leary: Sir Henry's
In this interview, John…
Tags: Aisling Byron, Alan Jones (DJ), Alternative Music, Bill Twomey (Chicken), Cork Rocks, Dave Fanning, Frank and Walter's, Freakscene, Gigantic, Gorby's, Indie Music, John O’Leary, Liberty pub, Mercury Rev, North Main Street, Sir Henry’s, South Main Street, Sultans of Ping, Sweat, The Pogues, Therapy?, Tight on a Friday Night, Top of the Pops, Turnip Fish
John Farris: Cash’s Stores, Presbyterians, Social Class, Trinity Presbyterian Church, Unitarian church
He talks about the present church building, which was established in 1861. He comments on its crooked steeple and the stories associated with it. The site of…