Southside Pints

Southside Pints

Patricia McCarthy's father used to travel southwards for his pint.

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 pint

Transcript
"We didn't actually, it's amazing we never actually strayed from Shandon Street. I was fifteen for the first time I went up to Guarran, never, we never ever strayed from our area. My father was from Wicklow and my mother lived in the house next door to us. But coming from my father's side of the family like my parent's house was after being burned out with the Tans in Wicklow. When he was a small child, 'twas burned to the ground. 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 pint; old and all as he was, do you know and he was a Southsider, through and through, never, actually I think he thought like the Northside people were different. I don't know how he felt this but I think he thought the Northside people were different. Like my grandmother now as I said would go to the snug, whereas his mother wouldn't. She'd be shocked. You know, so I think 'twas a bit of a culture shock, a small bit anyway like he got over it."

Cork Folklore Project

CFP_SR00440_mccarthy_2011

Cork Folklore Project

20th of April 2016

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Pat McCarthy Brown Derby Final.mp3