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Donnie Walsh: Gardiner's Hill, Sport, Republicanism,
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Bonfire Night, Catholic Church, Coca-Cola, Donnie Walsh, Electrification, IRA, Puck Fair, Sport, The Curragh, Well’s
Helen Prout: Fairhill, World War 2, Worklife,
In this interview, Helen recalls life in…
Denis Murphy: Blackpool, Pubs, Food,
Millfield Cottages were built near the mill houses that existed there since…
Paddy Marshall: Blackpool, Pidgeon Racing, Cinema,
Mary Marshall: Blackpool, Childhood, Hunting,
Noel Magnier: Gerald Griffin Street, Shops, Box Cars,
Denny’s cellar was a…
Pat Saville: Blackpool, Working Life, Sport,
He describes the shops and…
Eileen Jones: Blackpool, Shawlies, Sunbeam,
There was…
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Banks, Blackpool, Bonfire Night, Childhood Games, Christenings, Clothing, Dublin Hill, Eileen Jones, Killcully, Midwifery, Murphy's Rock, Razza, Roches Stores, Shandon Street, Shawlie, Shawls, St Mary's Hall, Sunbeam, Thomas Davis Street, Traveling Community, Welsh's Lane
Pat O'Brien: Northside, Pubs, Childhood,
He talks briefly about the pub trade. The Holy Hour was observed within the city limits (a break…
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…
Breda St Ledger: Blackpool, Childhood Games, Family Life,
She talks briefly about…
Tags: Blackpool, Breda St Ledger, Child Rearing, Childhood, Conkers, Food, Scraps, Shopping
Brenda Twomey: Coal Quay, Peg Twomey's, Childhood Games
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Brenda Twomey, Childhood Games, Coal Quay, Peggy Twomey
James 'Jim' McKeon: Northside, Sport, Writing,
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
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
Geraldine Healy: Children's Games, Schooldays, Western Road,
Breda Sheehan: Halloween Games, Childhood Games, Family
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…
Barra O’Donnabhain: Homosexuality, UCC, David Norris,
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, AIDS, David Norris, Homosexuality, UCC, University College Cork
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