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| Interviewee: Dan Donovan (part 1) |  |
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| Audio series: Cork city, first series | |
| Product ID: CDCKCY01-01 | |
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| Recorded by: Maurice O’Keeffe | |
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| Dan Donovan was born in Ballincollig in 1926. His father was an ex-Royal Irish Constabulary man from Glandore in west Cork and his mother was a teacher who came from a family with a very strong teaching tradition. Dan Donovan went to school in Presentation College in Cork, and later taught there. In first recording, Dan speaks about his involvement with the Irish Dramatic Society, about joining the Local Defence Force during the Emergency period and organising the production of plays in the school each year with the students. He fondly recalls Dermot Breen and the growth of the drama festival from the 1940s onwards which evolved into the Everyman Theatre. He also speaks about how his perspective changed after 1959 following the setting up of a company which worked with John B. Keane on the production of ‘Sive’. | |
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| Interviewee: Mary Rohan (part 3) |  |
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| Audio series: Cork city, first series | |
| Product ID: CDCKCY01-13 | |
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| Recorded by: Maurice O’Keeffe | |
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| This recording begins with Mary Rohan’s account of the political situation in Ireland after the formation of the Free State and her career in secondary teaching in the Ursuline Convent in Limerick city. She discusses how difficult it was at that time for a lay person to get a teaching job because of the great number of teaching nuns. Mary describes her happy social life enjoyed in the company of her best friend, Eithne Brennan (mother of politicians Mary O’Rourke and the late Brian Lenihan Senior). Her next position as a teacher was at the Presentation Convent in Thurles, where she had the good fortune to meet GAA founder, Dr Croke. Her next place of employment was in Clontarf, in North County Dublin for most of the 1930s, at the beginning of World War II. She gives a very interesting account of her own interpretation of the personalities of Hitler and Churchill at that time. | |
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| Interviewee: Mary Rohan (part 4) |  |
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| Audio series: Cork city, first series | |
| Product ID: CDCKCY01-14 | |
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| Recorded by: Maurice O’Keeffe | |
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| Mary Rohan arrived back in Cork city with her husband, John Rohan, during the Emergency period, provided much fascinating information about the management of domestic affairs at that time, and the careful utilisation of everyday items. She recalls her husband’s work in a chemist’s shop in Oliver Plunkett Street, later managing it and eventually becoming its owner. It was interesting to record stories about the ‘glimmerman’, whose job it was to look out for the illegal use of the gas supply. She recalled her visits regularly to the Opera House, which provided great entertainment and was a distraction from mundane everyday life. She recalls the garden allotments which were allocated to neighbours in Montenotte for the growing of vegetables where the size of the plot was proportionate to the number in the family. This recording brought to an end an incredible and most valuable collection of memories from Mary Rohan, a truly wonderful lady. | |
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| Interviewee: Joe O'Driscoll |  |
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| Audio series: Cork city, first series | |
| Product ID: CDCKCY01-23 | |
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| Recorded by: Maurice O’Keeffe | |
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| Joe O’Driscoll has been in the boat-building business for all of his working life, as was his father before him. In this recording, Joe recalls that his father began work in a boatyard in Baltimore, and later moved into management of the Naval Dockyard at Haulbowline. He explains that the craft in earlier days were all wooden-framed. During the Second World War, Joe’s father purchased the ‘Ice Sail’, a three-masted sail training ship, and formed the South of Ireland Shipping Company. Through working with his father, Joe grew to love the trade of boat-building and later set up his own business in Ringaskiddy. Also, in this recording Joe talks about the drawing-loft, and the great Cork boat builders who served their time with himself and his father. Joe went on to manage a boatyard in Crosshaven, employing 45 people until 1973, and he speaks at great length about the Air India crash in the 1980s and recalls that the remains of the passengers and the debris were brought to another of his boatyards, the O’Driscoll Boat Building Company in Baltimore, which had been hired by the government for this purpose. | |
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| Interviewee: Betty Murphy (Part 2) |  |
| Interview location: Wilton, Cork city | |
| Audio series: Cork Theatrical Collection | |
| Product ID: CDCKCY02-06 | |
| Subject: Music, song and dance | |
| Recorded by: Maurice O’Keeffe | |
| Recording date: 2009 | |
| Length: 55:11 | |
| Track 1: While looking through old memorabilia, she discusses some of the actors and actresses who performed in Cork down through the years. Track 2: The people who worked to make the Gilbert and Sullivan shows in Cork a success. Track 3: Other performances at different venues around the city and the dress designers. Track 4: Betty’s recollections of the Emergency period in Cork City and her family’s tannery business. Track 5: Other businesses in the city. Track 6: A discussion on the talent of James Stack and his driving force, and some additional family stories, to do with wartime experiences and sport. | |
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Number of files: 6 File size(s): 19.63 MB, 8.70 MB, 4.83 MB, 14.53 MB, 5.77 MB, 9.75 MB Bitrate: 128 kbps Download time limit: 48 hours |
| Interviewee: Madoline O’Connell (née Horgan) |  |
| Interview location: Cork City | |
| Audio series: Cork Theatrical Collection | |
| Product ID: CDCKCY02-32 | |
| Subject: Lady medical doctor | |
| Recorded by: Maurice O’Keeffe | |
| Recording date: 2010 | |
| Length: 72:20 | |
| Track 1: Tracing her father’s ancestors, and growing up in the 1910s and 1920s in the Big House. Her mother’s untimely death when Madoline was five years old. She traces her mother’s side of the family, and her education, boarding school and UCC in the 1930s are recalled. Track 2: Her interest in anatomy and her graduation in medicine. Track 3: Emigration to England in 1940, soon after the outbreak of war. Travelling to Worcester. Meeting her husband-to-be. Her medical work. Track 4: Returning to Ireland in 1950 and starting work as an orthopaedic surgeon in St Finbarr’s Hospital, Cork. Track 5: Social life in Cork City in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Track 6: A discussion on the Economic War in the 1930s and how it affected the O’Connell’s farm in Macroom. Track 7: Family photograph albums, and a discussion on Madoline’s family home. Track 8: Madoline traces her family connections to the Somervilles. | |
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Number of files: 8 File size(s): 13.83 MB, 19.44 MB, 10.24 MB, 4.92 MB, 11.59 MB, 5.14 MB, 7.59 MB, 10.13 MB Bitrate: 128 kbps Download time limit: 48 hours |
| Interviewee: Denis Hayes (part 1) |  |
| Interview location: Kilkenny | |
| Audio series: Cork Theatrical Collection | |
| Product ID: CDCKCY02-35 | |
| Subject: Memories of west Cork and the Forestry Commission | |
| Recorded by: Maurice O’Keeffe | |
| Recording date: 2011 | |
| Length: 74:01 | |
| Track 1: Denis was born in 1915 in Glandore, west Cork. He discusses the maternal side of his family, the O’Sullivans, who had a public house in the village, which also sold hardware and groceries. His father was a naval officer in the First World War. He describes his days in the National School for Industry, in Leap. Track 2: A discussion on the Ascendancy families in the area, and the relationship between Protestants and Catholics in the area. Track 3: Anecdotal stories about the Black and Tans, the fishing, farming and mining families in the locality. Track 4: In 1936, joining the Forestry Service, after his short teaching career in Dunmanway. Track 5: The different locations he was transferred to during the Emergency period. Track 6: Recalling the family-run sawmills in the midlands, the cutting and carting of large trees from the estates of landed gentry and the planting of fire trees in the 1950s. He recalls a meeting in Shannonbridge held by the Land Commission, attended by Oliver Flanagan. Finally, he discusses his memories of the Eucharistic Congress in 1932, and de Valera’s visit to West Cork. | |
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Number of files: 7 File size(s): 9.41 MB, 13.03 MB, 8.40 MB, 15.10 MB, 18.02 MB, 10.03 MB, 10.81 MB Bitrate: 128 kbps Download time limit: 48 hours |
| Interviewee: Ted Crosbie (part 1) |  |
| Interview location: Cork city | |
| Audio series: Cork Theatrical Collection | |
| Product ID: CDCKCY02-37 | |
| Subject: The ‘Cork Examiner’ newspaper | |
| Recorded by: Maurice O’Keeffe | |
| Recording date: 2009 | |
| Length: 58:03 | |
| Track 1: His ancestral background and the family involvement with the ‘Cork Examiner’. The politics of the Crosbies and the burning of the newspaper offices in the 1920s. Track 2: A description of Woodlands House, Montenotte, where he was brought up. The Whitaker family, his mother’s people. Track 3: Joining the engineering department of the newspaper in 1949. Track 4: The Emergency period in Cork, and his father’s involvement in manoeuvres. Track 5: He discusses his first cousin George Crosbie, who joined the newspaper in 1948, the directorship at that time, and an account of printing in those days. Track 6: The introduction of the computer to the business, and the retraining of staff. This interview has been published in the Irish Life and Lore pubication "Chronicles of Cork". | |
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Number of files: 5 File size(s): 13.13 MB, 19.73 MB, 5.84 MB, 6.40 MB, 21.37 MB Bitrate: 128 kbps Download time limit: 48 hours |
| Interviewee: THE HON. HEDLEY VICKERS STRUTT, BORN 1915, MANOR VAUGHAN HOUSE, CARRIGART (Part 3) |  |
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| Audio series: Donegal county, first series | |
| Product ID: CDDL01-11 | |
| Subject: A family history | |
| Recorded by: Maurice O’Keeffe | |
| Recording date: 2010 | |
| Length: 49:51 | |
| In the third recording, the recent Troubles in the North of Ireland are discussed. Hedley Strutt also recalls the Rosapenna Hotel which was run by his grandparents and which was built from local timber, and to which many notable people came to stay. He recalls his life of great discipline, his successes and challenges, the huge tragedy that befell his platoon of Scots Guards during the Second World War as a result of friendly fire. His family’s extraordinary ability to survive in politics and in business, and their successes in the world of science are explored in the latter part of this recording. | |
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Number of files: 5 File size(s): 11.60 MB, 2.62 MB, 12.37 MB, 8.15 MB, 10.82 MB Bitrate: 128 kbps Download time limit: 48 hours |
| Interviewee: KATIE SHOVLIN (née Boyle), BORN 1918, SANDFIELD, ARDARA |  |
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| Audio series: Donegal county, first series | |
| Product ID: CDDL01-17 | |
| Subject: A busy life | |
| Recorded by: Maurice O’Keeffe | |
| Recording date: 2010 | |
| Length: 53:22 | |
| Katie Shovlin is the mother of ten children and, in this recording, she recalls her very busy young life. She was married to the late Hugh Shovlin. She traces back her own family — the Boyles, who lived three miles from Ardara. Her mother’s people, the Roartys, came from Glenties. Katie has clear memories of the Civil War and of the appearance of three uniformed soldiers at her home. At the age of fourteen years, she was assigned to the task of looking after the farm for her grandmother at Glenties where she spent two years. She recalls working as a cook in Belfast during the Second World War and has a vivid memory of the events of ‘D Day’. She married Hugh Shovlin and the couple moved into his aunt’s farm at Sandfield, where she still lives and where she reared her family. | |
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