Excerpts from an interview with Eilís de Barra about Life and Marriage For this interview's catalogue entry click here

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 to shops for the price of the cinema.

Excerpt 5: The Merries (fun fairs)

Excerpt 6: Cork dance halls in the 1940s and 50s.

Excerpt 7: Teenage courtship in the 1940s

Excerpt 8: Marriage ideals

Excerpt 9: Weddings in 1950s cork city

Excerpt 10: Family life organisation in Cork tenement houses in 1940s and50s

Excerpt 11: Mothers and grandmother's roles in raising children in Cork city 1940s and 50s

Excerpt 12: Moving from the Southside to the Northside

Excerpt 13: The price of babies. Having 'buying' children

Excerpt 14: Bucolic views on emigration

Excerpt 15: nostalgic views on social life changes

Excerpt 16: Foodways: Feeding a family on very little money in the 1950s

Excerpt 17: Home economics and women working outside the home. Memories of the mother

Excerpt 18: Views on women's social status in the 1940s and 50s

Excerpt 19: Differences between city girls and country girls getting paid work

Excerpt 20: Views on men and women's roles

Excerpt 21: Apologetic view on violence against women

Excerpt 22: Nostalgic view on women's roles and status in the past

Excerpt 23: Views on children's freedom and safety in the past

Excerpt 24: Unmarried women pregnancies and Bessborough house

Excerpt 25: Marriage and social class

Excerpt 26: Views on emigration to England in 1950s

Excerpt 27: Teenage emigration in the 1940s and 50s

Excerpt 28: People remaining single