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Excerpt 1: About early working life socialising (in the 1930s)

Excerpt 2: About going for picnics in, Blackrock, the Marina and the fields of Ballyphehane, (the 1920s

Excerpt 3: About going to bingo in maddens buildings

Excerpt 4: Her views…

Excerpt 1: About housework and making time for sewing Excerpt 2: About going shopping and her concept of leisure timeFor more clips from this interview click here

Excerpt 1: About housework and making time for sewing

Excerpt 2: About going shopping and her concept of leisure time

Excerpt 3: going to the cinema with friends in the early 60s

Excerpt 4: Going dancing and going out for walks into town in…

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: 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

Excerpt 5:…

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:About Parafin oil lamps Excerpt 2:Parafin oil lamps used in circuses Excerpt 3:Sacred heart lamps Excerpt 4: Lamps used in parlours in the early 20th century Excerpt 5: People making candle type of lamps Excerpt 6:Taylors' lights…

Excerpt 1: How satellite antennae have replaced druids altars in Cnoc an Fhirinne

Excerpt 2: Mythological excerpt and connection to the local landscape

Excerpt 3: Mythological and historical connections with the local people satirical comment…