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Excerpt from an oral history interview where the narrator reflects on memories of his grandmother's house in the 1960s.

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"And the other way round then, wed come home every summer and my Grandmother lived in Gillabbey Street. And she…

Excerpt from an oral history interview where the narrator reflects on skating on Lavitts Quay, a local hall used by the scouts and the Legion of Mary and the sorting of potatoes in the Coal Quay and eating the ones that were thrown away.…

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 the narrator Eglington Street public baths.

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"Mostly, like all there was going to a dancehall or going to the cinema. You didn’t do anything else, there was nothing else there. Now I myself…

Excerpt from oral history interview where the narrator comes to terms with the demise of his trade

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"The thing about it is now I’m the last of my family as a mason, once I die there’ll be no one to take it up after me and that’ll be the…

Excerpt from oral history interview where the narrator tells of a rat frequenting a bar

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"But anyway yeah so I went up to the end of the bar and there was a guy just standing next to me and he was eh he was a punk and he had mohawk but…

Excerpt from an oral history archive about the organ in the Savoy cinema being played by Mr Bridgeman. Patrick Street location on Memory Map.

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"Really, I loved the Savoy because the music - they had the organ and it used come up from…

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…

Description of memorable patients in the North Infirmary

Marie Crean recalls some dos and don’ts associated with laying out the dead.

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"I remember characters. There was an elderly lady that used wash the dead and the dying, and she was very particular, you know. There was just --whether it…