Cultures of Cork

Project Partner:
Northside Folklore Project & Cork Campus Radio 97.4FM
www.ucc.ie/ccr

Date: 7 June - 12 July 2005

Project Description:

The Northside Folklore Project brought everyday life and experiences to the fore in its Cultures of Cork radio project. The project asked what the city means to those who pass through its streets every day. It explored the different worlds existing in contemporary Cork through a series of oral history interviews concentrating on the informal in life: the chat, stories, childhood memories, nicknames, slang, jokes and songs.

The interviews gave a picture of the diversity of everyday experiences in the changing city and a flavour of the communities that people come from, whether from Shandon Street or Senegal. This multi-layered portrait of Cork was brought to the public through six radio programmes broadcast on Cork Campus Radio 97.4FM each Tuesday from 7 June to 12 July. Excerpts from the forty plus interviews are in the 2005 issue of ‘The Archive’

Cultures of Cork