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John Connolly: Childhood Games; John F. Kennedy

John Connolly describes John F. Kennedy's visit to Cork.
He talks about Christy Ring and Cork GAA and the atmosphere of match day.
John also talks a bout some childhood games. He mentions a holy well in Failhill called Fahy's Well.

Tags: Childhood Games, Christy Ring, Fahy’s Well, GAA, Holy Wells, John F. Kennedy, The Glen

John Connolly: Childhood Games; Corporal Punishment; Family Life

John Connolly describes growing up in Fairhill. He gives details of various childhood games, including Kick the Can and Cat and Dog. His mother died when he was about two years old and he and his two sisters were raised by their relatives while their…

Tags: Childhood Games, Confirmation, Corporal Punishment, Fahy’s Well, Fairhill, Holy Communion, Holy Wells, John Connolly

John Collins: Working Life, Railways, Greyhounds

John talks about some of his experiences working on the railway, and about his interest in greyhound breeding and racing.
He relates incidents from his working life on the trains, such as episodes of vandalism, and describes how a thief was caught.…

Tags: Greyhound Racing, John Collins, Railways, Trains

John Collins: Working Life, Railways, Corporal Punishment,

John was born in 1928. His family was from Bandon. His father worked on the Cork and Bandon Railway and was transferred to the city in 1929, the family living at Killbarry Cottages, Blackpool. The family moved to a house in Lower Road which was also…

Tags: Bantry Fair, Corporal Punishment, John Collins, Railways, Supernatural, Youghal

John Chute: Ballyphehane

John talks about his early life, growing up on the northside in Knapps square, attending school in Easons Hill and being involved in pipe bands.

Tags: Ballyphehane, Ballyphehane Oral History Project, Barrack Street Band, Battle of Ballyphehane, Blarney Street Band, Cork City Pipe Band, Easons Hill, Fianna Band, Fianna Boy Scouts, GAA, Hurling, Jack Lynch, Knapps Square, Sinn Fein, Tadgh Crowley, The Marsh, Thomas Ashe Hall

Joesph Fahy: Masonry, Working Life, Family

Joesph starts off the interview by talking through his work history. From working for Sisks at 16 to his job as a foreman for the Cork city council. Joesph mentions some of the building projects he has been involved in, from the churched in Blackrock…

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Family Life, Joesph Fahy, Nicknames, Parliament Bridge, Sisks (Building Contractors), South Gate Bridge, Stonemasons, Trades, Working life

Joe Scanlan: Grattan Street, Healthcare, The Marsh

Joe recalls the dispensary on Grattan Street, its waiting room and the names of the doctors who worked there. He describes in detail his visit there to get a vaccination as a child. Discusses medical treatments administered at home by his mother…

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Joe Fahy: Masonry

Joe speaks about his life in the trade. Joe's Father and Cousin were also interviewed for the project.CFP_SR00577_fahy_2016; & CFP_SR00566_fahy_2015;

Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Carpenter’s Hall, Stonemasons, Trade Union, Trades

Jim Horgan: Pouladuff, Theatre, Superstitions

Jim (born 1960) grew up in Croaghtamore Cottages, Pouladuff. His father was a draughtsman with Cork City Council. He was also an amateur film-maker, who made films with Jim and his siblings as actors. Some films required significant splicing by…

Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Amateur Dramatics, Blackrock Players, Cinema, Cork Arts Theatre, Fidelma Supple Agency, Home Movies, Jim Horgan, Musgraves, Penny Youth Theatre, Pouladuff Road, Social Care, Theatre

Jim Fahy: Masonry, Apprenticeships, Emigration

Jim Fahy is a stonemason who was interviewed in 2015 by Michael Moore from the Cork Folklore Project, also a stonemason. Jim Fahy comes from several generations of stonemasons on both sides of his family. He describes the ‘closed trade’ system, which…

Jane Ward: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life

Jane grew up in Balbriggan and Skerries County Dublin. Describes her love of the Georgian house her family lived in and her love of old buildings and antiques before they moved to a smaller home. Recalls her first holy communion where one girl…

Tags: Abbey Court House, America, Antique, Antiques, Apartments, Balbriggan, Ballyfermot, Belfast, Blackpool, Books, Boycott, Broken Leg, Buildings, Built Heritage, Car Park, Car Parking, Child, Childhood Games, Childhoood, Children, Children’s Health, Christmas Party, Co Dublin, Community, Confirmation, Cork, County Dublin, Court, Croke Park Agreement, Discipline, Drogheda, Dublin, Edel House, Emigrant, Emigrant Experience, Emigrants, Emigration, Enid Blyton, Family, Flats, Games, Garda, Georgian, ghost, Ghosts, Graffiti, Grattan Street, Grattan Street Health Centre, Gurranabraher, Haddington Road Agreement, Haunted house, Health, Hierarchy, Holy Communion, Holy Communion Breakfast, Home, Hospital, House, Housing, Hunger Strikes, Hygiene, Industry, Injection, Irish Language, Jervis Street Hospital, Knocknaheeny, Management, Martello Tower, Matron, Medical, Medicine, Medicines, Mercy Hospital, Midwife, Midwifery, MRSA, Needle, Needle Exchange, Neptune Stadium, Nun, Nuns, Nurse, Nursing, Nursing Training, Parking, PHN, Playing, Public Health, Public Health Nurse, Public Health Nursing, Quaker Meeting House, Quakers, Queens University Belfast, Reading, Regret, Regrets, Religion, Religion in Hospitals, Rent, Renting, Rotunda, Sea, Seaside, Shops, Siblings, Skerries, Social Work, St. Finbarr’s Hospital, St. Vincent de Paul, Storm, Swine Flu, Teenager, The Cold Chain, Trade Union, Trade Unions, Trades Union, Union, Unions, USA, Vaccination, vaccine, Vaccine Fridge, Vaccine Myths, Vaccine Storage, Vaccines

James 'Jim' McKeon: Northside, Sport, Writing,

Jim (b. 1940s) remembers that his father worked for the railways and had a tied cottage in an area known as Kilbarry Cottages, or Railway Cottages. Then the family moved to Paddock House, Fairhill. The house was at the top of Washbrew Lane, and came…

Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 2000s, Animals, Brus, Cal Herlihy, Cork, Eucharistic Procession, Fahy’s Well, Frank O’Connor, House Shops, Jim McKeon, Kilbarry Cottages, Northside, Paddock Hill, Paddock House, Travellers, Working life, Youghal

Jack Johnson: Masonry, Fishing, Working Life

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Jack begins by describing his family background in the mason trade and his own beginnings as a mason.

He then talks about social events and going to dances at The Arcadia club. Jack then mentions his growing up in Monkstown and schooldays.…

Tags: Bearlager na soar (Masons Language), Dances, Emigration, England, Family Life, Fishing, Monkstown, Nicknames, Stonemasons, The Arcadia, Trades, Working life

Jack Byrne: Blackpool, World War Two, Sports

Jack talks briefly about life history and remembers local sporting heroes such as Christy Ring.
Jack (born circa 1926) grew up in O’Connell Street. His parents were both Northsiders. His father worked for the Post Office. His mother was born in 1888…

Tags: Christy Ring, Debtor’s Walk, Emigration, Foxy Lady, Hurling, Jack Byrne, Scoura Hill, Sunbeam, The Emergency, World War II

Isabelle Sheridan: English Market, Food, Culture

Isabelle Sheridan is from a suburb outside Paris called Le Pleine de Mont Esson. She moved to Ireland in 1986 and eventually established the well-known charcuterie called ‘On the Pig’s Back’ in the English Market in Cork. She discusses her childhood…

Tags: 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Agriculture, Alcohol, Catholicism, Celebration, Childhood Games, Christmas, Community, Cork 2005, Culture, Diet, English market, Festivals, Festivities, Food, French Culture, French Food, Holidays, Holy Communion, Isabelle Sheridan, Paris, School, Snow, Vegetables

Imelda Cunning: Grattan Street, Healthcare, Working Life

Imelda grew up in Bathgate between Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland. Her mother was from Cork so Imelda spent time in Whitegate in her youth where she enjoyed the relative freedom she had there playing children’s games and spending time on beaches…

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