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Three deaths in a year: John 'Chris' Kelleher, in conversation with CFP interviewer Michael Daly, explains how his mother lost her husband and two sons, to tuberculosis, diphtheria and the croup within a year of each other.
John was born in 1929 in Fair Lane, later called Wolfe Tone Street. His mother, Mary Margaret Kelleher (1901 - 1970) was married twice; her first husband died of Tuberculosis in 1924. In this excerpt, Johnny tells of his mother being widowed and…
Michael and Theresa O’ Sullivan
Michael and Theresa are husband and wife and live on Fairhill on the north side of Cork city. Michael is 87 years old and Theresa is 85 years old. In this interview they both talk about their experiences of TB in Cork during the 1940s and the 1950s.…