Preceded by Jimmy Reidy’s Archival Show No. 110 from Dunmanway on Cork Music Station at 8pm on this Tuesday, 20th August 2024…..“Radio Treasures” (from 9.15pm to 11.30pm) features Part Two of a special Interview at 10pm with Ger O’Rourke from Donoughmore. At 9.30pm a special Interview with Visitors Supreme Denis J. Hickey and Josephine O’Sullivan. All this and so much more on tonight’s very special Show. Feel most welcome to contact us on 086 – 825 0074 or by emailing corkmusicstation @gmail.com . Tap on the images below to enlarge. (S.R.)
Eily’s Report 20th August
Dia is Mhuire dióbh go léir a cairde and welcome to my Report.
106 and counting, that is the attitude of the lovely Tessie Kelleher, the lady who is making headlines at the moment because of her advanced years and her spritely disposition. To use an age old cliché, Tessie and I go back a long way. Where do I begin. Tessie worked in a little haberdashery shop in the Main St. when I was a child. It was about next door to Jimmy Hickey’s Bicycle shop on the upper side. Further down you had Murphy’s, Liam was an All Ireland Fiddle player and below that a place called Mrs. Potts. The lady who Tessie worked for was called Han Corkery, a single lady a relation of ours. As you know by now our Mother died when we were very young, I was just over three. She was an only child so we had no uncles or aunties and because our Dad was not very well favoured by her people in the area, we were never told anything about her relations in the locality. It’s amazing how the mind of a child can retain items of things of the past. Han Corkery seemed to have been the only one of my mother’s relations to befriend the Da and as she sold children’s clothes he would go there to get ours. Being the only two girls we needed the “unmentionables ” and small and all as I was, about 4 or 5 I can remember how embarrassed he was at trying ask for our “smalls” Perhaps it was his first time after the demise of our Mom. Tessie worked there and she was always very friendly and smiling and as the years went on and our step-mother came, the trips to Han Corkery’s continued. In time she passed away and her little place closed and life took over. Maybe it was because we were living in an all-male home that the friendly face of Tessie remained solid in my mind. She lived in Cullen which was a world apart back then. I’d get a chance sight of her in the very seldom now and then. But my childhood memories of her never faded.
