Jack Roche
Vanishing Ireland
English - August 06, 2021 14:00 - 18 minutes - 18.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsHistory Society & Culture heritage ireland irish irishheritage irishhistory oldireland turtlebunbury vanishingireland Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This week’s interview features 77 year old Jack Roche, who spent his working career as greengrocer in Dublin’s Liberties on the city’s southside. He recalls the lively days of buying fruit and veg at auction and transporting it back to Meath Street by horse and cart, an age when cabbage was the top-seller and pineapples the stuff of dreams, and when the older generations’ toothpaste of choice was a cocktail of soot and salt.
Music by Liam Mulvaney