There was everything that I remember about these poor times from the voucher shoes that people mentioned to erm – we had a turf docket where myself and my brother would have eh to use a pram because it had multi-uses and we collected the turf from…
But he loved Cork, he made Cork his life. He lived on the Southside and when he got married he spent forty, fifty years in the Northside and he'd still go to the Southside for his pint. He still looked at himself, he'd go to the Brown Derby for his…
Excerpt from oral history interview where narrator reflects on his memories of leaving Cork on the Inisfallon, with a vivid description of the journey to and from England.
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"Michael O' Callaghan, I'm from Togher. My mother, my father…
Excerpt from the Memory Map where the Echo man Johnny Kelleher finds out from a friend who works at the mortuary that Christy Ring has died and passes the sad news onto Jack Lynch.
"There was a chap called Sean O'Mahony. He's still alive, I think…
It's always exciting I think for anyone moving away from home for the first time and realize you actually have to buy your own milk. It's one of the things, because we, I grew up on a farm and it was the first time I ever had to buy milk in my life.…