Ted Crosbie (part 1)
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Ted Crosbie (part 1)

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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”.

Additional information

Type:

Disk, MP3

Audio series:

Cork Theatrical Collection

Bitrate:

128 kbps

Download time limit:

48 hours

File size(s):

13.13 MB, 19.73 MB, 5.84 MB, 6.40 MB, 21.37 MB

Number of files:

10

Product ID:

CDCKCY02-37

Subject:

The ‘Cork Examiner’ newspaper

Recorded by:

Charlie Ginanne