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Hannah Cronin talks about An Leigheas Traidisiúnta Inniu, Obair sa Ghort (Traditional Medicine Today, Work in the Field).

Mabel Baylor talks about An Leigheas Traidisiúnta Inniu, Obair sa Ghort (Traditional Medicine Today, Work in the Field).

Excerpt 1: Naming traditional meat cuts; foodways

Excerpt 2: Eating traditional meats growing up in the 1950s

Excerpt 3: Changes and gentrification on Shandon street

Excerpt 4: Changes and gentrification on Shandon street

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Excerpt 1: Narrative on how Whether's Well got its name

Excerpt 2: Calendar customs: paying the rounds at Wether's Well

Excerpt 3: Miracle cures at Wether's Well

Excerpt 4: Difference between locals and tourists visiting the well

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Excerpt 1: Industrialisation of Cork city in the mid-1940s

Excerpt 2: Leaving school at 14 during the 1940s

Excerpt 3: women's work in Cork city in the 1940s

Excerpt 4: Cinema going in the 1940s and 50s; stealing jars from cemeteries to sell…

Excerpt 1: Harriers Clubs on the Northside of Cork city

Excerpt 2: The making of the scent for drag hunting

Excerpt 3: using horseflesh to make up the drag

Excerpt 4: grading dogs for drag hunting

Excerpt 5: training puppy dogs for…

Excerpt 1: Leaving school at 14 and going into work

Excerpt 2: Engagement was for the rich

Excerpt 3: Dowries and matches;

Excerpt 4: Marital violence and breakups in the late 1980s, before divorce, was legal.

Excerpt 1: Pulley Lamps to lights shops or big places

Excerpt 2: Tilly and Aladdin Lamps

Excerpt 3: Snuffers to trim candle wicks

Excerpt 4: Memories of people making makeshift lamps during wartime

Excerpt 5: Religious custom of Easter…

Excerpt 1: Song Holyhill About sports on the Northside of Cork city (original composition)

Excerpt 2: Memories and opinions About the urbanisation of Hollyhill and the compulsory purchase orders which transformed the rural environment.

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Excerpt 1: About Pawnshops, their symbolism and their necessary role when men were put on slackage for a week.

Excerpt 2: Occasionally the pawnshop would lend back a suit for no money to be paid off the week after.

Excerpt 3: Buy very cheap…