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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
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
Edmund Lynch: Irish Gay Rights Movement, Marriage Referendum, Activism,
Jonathan Neville: Cork Gay Project, Cork Pride, Fatherhood, Gay Marriage.
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…
Stephen Dee: Gay life, LGBT, Loafers Bar, Coming Out.
Tags: 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Coming Out, Gay life, GayCork.com, Homophobia, Instinct, Lesbians, LGBT, Loafer's, The Other Place
Christine Browne: Homosexuality, Lesbianism, Gay Marriage.
Tags: 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Douglas Street, Gay life, Gay Marriage, Homosexuality, Lesbianism, LGBT, Loafer's
Eddie Kay: Drag queens, Gay scene, Alternative Miss Ireland,
Kieran Edwards & Noreen Crowley: Ballyphehane, Childhood, Community
Pádraig Ó Duinnín: River Lee
Pádraig says he grew up in Coolcower, Macroom on a peninsula between the rivers lee and Sullane. He says it had a formative influence on his life. His father was a bus…
Tom Spalding: River Lee
Tom speaks about how he was born in England and came to live in Cork aged seven when his father got…
Tags: Ballincollig, Blackrock Railway, Canoeing, Cork Exhibition, Cork Main Drainage project, Daly's Bridge, England, Ferries, Fishing, Fitzgerald’s Park, Immigration, Irish Language, Killer Whales, Meitheal Mara, Nigeria, River Lee, Rochestown, Save Cork City, Shaky Bridge, Tom Spalding, University College Cork
Tom Falvey: Ballyphehane, Market Gardens
Tags: Ballyphehane, Ballyphehane Oral History Project, Ballyphehane Pipe Band, Battle of Ballyphehane, Bob Marley, Buttevant Train Crash, Credit Union, Eamon de Valera, Fastnet Disaster, GAA, Hurling, Papal Visit 1979, Road Bowling, Sport, St. Finbarr's Cemetery, St. Finbarr's GAA, Stonemasons, The Lough, Tom Barry, Travellers, Tuskar Rock Air Tragedy, War of Independence
Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ O’Sullivan: Ballyphehane
Tags: Arcadia, Ballyphehane, Ballyphehane Church, Ballyphehane Oral History Project, Bandon Train, Bonfire Night, Bridewell Garda Station, Camden Fort, Cork City Hall, Credit Union, Dunnes Stores, Dwyers Shoe Factory, Emigration, England, First World War, Gurranabraher, Hanover Street, Horseshoe Inn, Kent Road, Market Gardens, Mount Desert, Musgrave Park, North Presentation school, Pearse Road, Public Health, Sarsfield Court, Social Housing, Tenements, Tory Top Road, Tuberculosis, Wolfe Tone Street, WW1
Marie McAllen: Ballyphehane
Tags: Ballincollig, Ballyphehane, Ballyphehane House, Black and Tans, Blackrock, Bodice, Burning of Cork, Capwell, Childhood Games, Coláiste Chríost Rí, Connolly Road, Doyle Road, Dunlop, Food, Fr Theobald Matthew, Friars Walk, Games, Glassey Alleys, Gobs, Halloran’s Orchard, Hangdog Road, Haunted house, I.R.A, Innisfallen, Leaders Clothing Shop, Liam ÓhUigín, Marbles, Market Gardens, McAllen, Nicknames, Pouladuff Road, Reendowny Place, Rhymes, Ska, Skipping, St Joseph's Cemetery, St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Tory Top Lane, Tramore Road, Tripe and Drisheen