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Excerpts from an interview with Breda O’ Connor about leisure timeFor this interview's catalogue entry 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 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…
Excerpts from an interview with Bridget Corcoran about Saint Stephen’s DayFor this interview's catalogue entry click here
Excerpt 1: St Stephen's originExcerpt 2: Older people on St Stephen's dayExcerpt 3: The hunting of the WrenExcerpt 4: Wrens would hide on St Stephen's dayExcerpt 5: Wren hunting as massacreExcerpt 6: Dead birds only on the holly bushesExcerpt 7:…
Excerpts from an interview with Christine Keanes and Allison about divorce.For this interview's catalogue entry click here
Excerpt 1: Unplanned pregnancy and enforced marriage as reasons to vote yes in the divorce referendum.
Excerpt 2: Accessibility to divorce will be easier for the rich.
Excerpt 3: Accessibility to divorce easier for the rich 'write to the pope…
Excerpt 2: Accessibility to divorce will be easier for the rich.
Excerpt 3: Accessibility to divorce easier for the rich 'write to the pope…
Excerpts from an interview with Dolly Horgan about Rent-collectors and Tenants. For this interview's catalogue entry click here
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Excerpt 1: About renting a house in Green lane and the tenant-landlord relationship from1930s til the 1960s.Excerpt 2: About 'orders', which was a local name for money lending, a side business run by landlords.Excerpt 3: About always…
Excerpts from an interview with Éibhlis de Barra about Saint Stephen’s DayFor this interview's catalogue entry click here
Excerpt 1: Children born on St Stephen's day are always called Stephen
Excerpt 2: St Stephen's day in Cork city in the 1930s
Excerpt 3: Cork story about the origin of 'the wren'
Excerpt 4: Wren boys in Cork city
Excerpt 5: Wren boys…
Excerpt 2: St Stephen's day in Cork city in the 1930s
Excerpt 3: Cork story about the origin of 'the wren'
Excerpt 4: Wren boys in Cork city
Excerpt 5: Wren boys…
Excerpts from an interview with Elizabeth O’ Sullivan Moynihan about experience in the fieldFor this interview's catalogue entry click here
Excerpt 1: Finding out that members of the Sullivans being 'in' the Little Sisters of the Poor
Excerpt 2: Reminiscing about a man who carried Michael Collins' coffin
Excerpt 3: Reminiscing about step-dancing
Excerpt 4: Eucharistic…
Excerpt 2: Reminiscing about a man who carried Michael Collins' coffin
Excerpt 3: Reminiscing about step-dancing
Excerpt 4: Eucharistic…
Excerpts from an interview with Felix Randles and Ettie Randles about past Irish country life. For this interview's catalogue entry click here
Excerpt 1: Piseogs, superstitions about findings eggs in haggard that a neighbour would have put there so nothing would grow.
Excerpt 2: Piseogs, superstitions about spells or people working piseogs on sick cows and getting holy water or the…
Excerpt 2: Piseogs, superstitions about spells or people working piseogs on sick cows and getting holy water or the…
Excerpts from an interview with Hollyhill Women's Group, Karen and Tracy about the folklore of women For this interview's catalogue entry click here
Excerpt 1: Elder women's knowledge of early signs of pregnancy
Excerpt 2: Personal experience narrative about older woman telling a young girl is pregnant but she was wrong and the young woman attributed the change to being married
Excerpt 3:…
Excerpt 2: Personal experience narrative about older woman telling a young girl is pregnant but she was wrong and the young woman attributed the change to being married
Excerpt 3:…
Excerpts from an interview with James Canty about urban folktales. For more clips from this interview click here.
Excerpt 1: About Earc Luachra (lizards) the Irish equivalent of tapeworm. How they get in your body and how to get rid of them.
Excerpt 2: Legend about fairy forts; a young woman went too near and got marked for life.
Excerpt 3: Legend and…
Excerpt 2: Legend about fairy forts; a young woman went too near and got marked for life.
Excerpt 3: Legend and…
Excerpts from an interview with Jennifer McSweeney and Lillian O’ Connor about religion. For this interview's catalogue entry click here.
Excerpt 1:About the differences between boring mass and interesting mass. It all depends on the priest who is saying it. Excerpt 2: About the teaching of religion at school.Excerpt 3: About what happens when you die.Excerpt 4: About Heaven and…