The wonderful entertainment enjoyed in various venues around Cork city in earlier decades is recalled in this podcast which features the voices of many of the participants and performers. These people were hugely passionate about their craft and provided enormous entertainment, wit, humour and banter in the city, and the memories of those glorious nights in the Cork Opera House, the Group Theatre and elsewhere, live on in the collective Cork memory.
This collection of audio clips from the Irish Life and Lore archive, compiled in 2008, features the following voices:
Noel Barrett
Maeve Delaney
Dick and Sheila Healy
Bella O’Connell
Declan Hassett
Paddy Comerford
Charlie Hennessy
Dan Donovan
Frank Duggan
Michael Twomey
Gretta Owens
Vass Anderson
Donal O’Donovan
Siobhan O’Brien
