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Helen Prout: Fairhill, World War 2, Worklife,
In this interview, Helen recalls life in…
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…
Geraldine Healy: Personal memories of Cork in the 1960s, 70s & 80s
Geraldine Healy: Jewish community in Cork
She describes how Jews arrived in two distinct waves in the eighteenth century and the nineteenth century, scattering after the Second World War. She describes the Cork synagogue and…
Geraldine Healy: Children's Games, Schooldays, Western Road,
Geraldine Healy: Boole Library, Cinemas, The Pavillion Cinema, Univesity College Cork,
George Glendon: Irish Army, World Wars, The Congo
Geoffrey D’Sousa: Immigration, India, English Market, Food
Geoffrey came to work in Cork at the invitation of two Irish…
Tags: 2000s, Cork 2005, English market, Food, Geoffrey D’Sousa, Immigration, India
Frank Steele and John Steele
Tags: Above the Bride/Below the Bridge, Arcadia Ballroom, Arcadia bouncer, Back Line, Baldy Green, Black-eye, Dean Sexton’s Boxing Club, Frank Steele, Garda, Gardai, Glasheeen, Hoops, John Steele, Lower Road, Runaway Knock, St Patrick’s School, the Coliseum, the Fisheries, Thunder up the alley, Tivoli, Tivoli Regatta
Frances McCarthy and Betty O’Mahony: The Dixies, Christy O'Mahony
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Abu Dhabi, Arcadia, Ballyvolane, Betty O’Mahony, Blackpool, Blackpool Brass Band, Carnegie Hall, Christy O’Mahony, Churchfield, Fairhill, Farranree, Frances McCarthy, Gardiner's Hill, Glen Rovers hurling club, Mayfield Community School, North Presentation school, Northside, Second World War, St Patrick’s College, The Dixies showband, The Emergency, Tivoli
Fitz Spengeman: Unitarian religious tradition, and the Unitarian Church
He mentions a number of notable Cork men who were Unitarians. Temperance movement founder Father Mathew had a connection to the building, and slavery…
Finbarr Kiely: Loafers Bar, Homosexuality, Decriminalisation.
Tags: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Decriminalisation, Homosexuality, Loafer's, The Othe Place
Fergal Crowley: Patrick Street, Munster Arcade, Black and Tans
Evelyn Wainwright
Erin O'Brien: Historic Spine
Tags: Barrack Street, Beamish and Crawford, Castle Street, City Centre Strategy, Coal Quay, Cork City Hall, Erin O’Brien, Historic Spine, Living Above the Shops Scheme, MacCurtain Street, Medieval, Munster Furniture, North Main Street, Oliver Plunkett Street, Patrick Street, Shandon Street, South Main Street, Vision Centre, Washington Street
Emma Clarke Conway
Emeka Ikebuasi: Customs, Nigeria, Political Unrest, Stories, Refugee
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