Excerpts from an interview with Denis McGarry about Blazon Populaire and heroic fallout in Cork Northside sporting ballads. For this interview's catalogue entry click here

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.

Excerpt 3: Memories of heating up the bowls and wearing rubber boots to go bowl playing after school.

Excerpt 4: Memories About Timmy Delaney, Jack Shea and other famous Road bowlers in the 1920s Also About the importance of the roadshower.

Excerpt 5: Song I'd doubt ya boy, and what prompted him to compose it.

Excerpt 6: About Northside identity as expressed in sports and songs, reference to the Armoured car.

Excerpt 7: About Northide identity and cognitive mapping.

Excerpt 8: About the process of writing the Hollyhill song and the cognitive mapping of Hollyhill.

Excerpt 9: About communal working-class song writing.

Excerpt 10: Going to the plots (allotments) and be inspired to write a song.

Excerpt 11: About the psychological impact of compulsory purchasing orders and resettlement.

Excerpt 12: Changes from rural ways to urbanisation.

Excerpt 13: About the threshing on Hollyhill in the 1950s.

Excerpt 14: Bird catching and pigeon fanciers on the Northside of cork city.

21/01/1996

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