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Helen Goulding: Shandon, Catholic Church, Childhood
She talks about her childhood. People had little but shared a lot. Boiled eggs were eaten at Easter time. Everyone was involved…
Una Lyons: Oliver Plunkett Street, Cinemas, English Market
Jim Horgan: Pouladuff, Theatre, Superstitions
Nicola Meacle: Tullamore, UCC, Independant Living
She moved to Cork where…
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
Noreen Cronin: Shandon, The North Infirmary, Childhood
Sandra Byrne: Commons Road, Tucker's Field, Family Life.
Peggy Kelleher: The Lough, Marriage, World War 2
Derrick Gerrety: Douglas Street, Loafers, Dublin,
Bernie McLoughlin: Turner's Cross, Ford's, UCC,
He remembers queues…
Mary Sheehy: Gurranabraher, Street Traders, Bonfire Night
As a child, she had to wear…
Michael O’Connell: Faranree, Politics, Childhood,
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Andy Gaw, Blarney Woollen Mills, Churchfield, Cissy O’Connell, Emigration, Farranree, GAA, Gurranabraher, Inisfallen, Jagging, Madden's, Mayfield, Michael O’Connell, Pawn Shops, Politics, Poverty, Queen Elizabeth II, Sport, Sunbeam, The North Infirmary
Padraig O’Horgain: Church Street, Funeral Customs, Republicanism,
O’Gorman’s hat factory and other businesses were cited in the…
Marie Finn: Barrack Street, Blackberry-picking, Catholic Church,
She talks about the games she played as a child and recites part of a rhyme. You could pick blackberries and sell them to a sweet-makers. Oranges and bananas as…
Margaret Newman: Shawlies, Blackberry-picking, Laneways,
She talks about the Bandon railway line, which was so slow you could lean out of the windows and pick blackberries.…
Margaret Newman: Sunbeam Factory; Christmas, Nicknames,
How children ordered their presents from Santa.
Note: This is one of 4 interviews conducted with…
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
Margaret Newman: Blackpool, Housing, Childbirth,
She tells a story about…
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Alcoholism, Blackpool, Childbirth, Housing, Mount Farran, UCC, University College Cork
Margaret Newman: Greenmount, Cures, Working Life,
She got cocoa and buns at her primary school. She tells a story about finding out that…
Tags: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 2000s, Christamas, Cures, Dancing, Food, Greenmount, Herbalism, Margaret Newman, McKechnie’s, Social Care, St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Working life, World War II
Helen Prout: Self-sufficiency, Childbirth, Film Making,
Helen talks about surviving economically…