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Anyone live in or near Cork???

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horseshoe · 03/02/2008 15:12

I'm trying to get a phone number for Lineham's sweets. Cant find on Google and directories do not have it.

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horseshoe · 03/02/2008 15:13

Sorry Linehan's

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horseshoe · 03/02/2008 21:00

Bump

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maggiems · 03/02/2008 22:41

I am from Cork but havent lived there for a long time. family still there though. I had a look in the Irish phone directory but like you i presume, couldnt find anything. By looking on google I found the address and website but no phone no. Not sure if the address would be sufficient for you or if you have this already. If not I can check with my parents to see if they can find anything. its a bit strange that there doesnt seem to be a number in the on line directory

expatinscotland · 03/02/2008 22:50

Um, good luck!

We are looking to go there this summer, to search for the roots of DH's maternal grandmother, who was orphaned and brought up by nuns.

This woman was brought up to be a domestic servant for an English laird.

This laird had a summer home in N. Berwick, in the Borders area of Scotland.

And whilst this woman, Roisin, was there one summer, she met a fisherman fron New Haven.

This man would die afore she went back to Ireland, and told her as much, and even gave her a ring.

So she married him, in the same Registry House where her grandson, my husband, and I were married, despite she and I both being Catholics.

So she lived the rest of her days in New Haven, near Edinburgh, and had a very fair daughter, Elspeth, with black hair and very blue eyes, of whom my husband is her second child and after whom our own second daughter is called.

Her daughter often longed to go there, to Cork where her mother was from, but now her health is ill and she's not got the chance.

So her son longs to go in the summer!

And his wife and children including wee Roisin, her namesake and her fair great-grandchild, Aillidh.

expatinscotland · 03/02/2008 22:57

Her daughter Elspeth sings all her songs, and has passed them on to fair Aillidh and so I have recorded her singing them, as she pegs out the washing and does her chores and crochets and knits, things she's passed on to her granddaughters.

How happy she was when our children were girls!

The wee things she gave to me, 'From Roisin, to pass on to the lassies' - embroidery and that.

Treasures I keep in a kist from here for them for their 21st.

Sazisi · 03/02/2008 23:09

DH remembers Linehan's Newsagents on Washington street; is that what you were looking for?
Not sure if it's still there - checked golden pages and the only business I can find in the Linehan name in Cork City is Linehan's Design

Sazisi · 03/02/2008 23:09

That's beautiful, Expat

expatinscotland · 03/02/2008 23:11

I don't want to go, go to those islands where on a clear day we can see you, Ireland, but in a couple of years, I fear we'll have no choice.

So you will be what the blind woman at Blair Atholl said, DD1, when you were but a baby.

'The Lowland ben'shee. Her eyes are green, her hair goes gold in summer, tall and slim as sapling in Norwa'

It is all they are offering us, and all we can take.

We will be so far, so far from your Grandmother Mackenzie. So much closer to her mother.

expatinscotland · 03/02/2008 23:13

It's no such thing, Saz.

It is windy and cold and harsh and white, so white.

It is far, far, far from where she and DH and her sister were born.

The sea is rough now, and the ferries cancelled, even from here.

Her accent has changed.

She sounds like from here.

horseshoe · 03/02/2008 23:16

Expat that is lovely...

Linehans is a sweet shop. What web address did you find maggiems??

My dad has always gone on about these sweets...fizzle sticks. They were made by Linehans but went out from newsagents when I was just a wee girl - 20 odd years ago

Anyway I really want to do something special for him and Linehans still exists in Cork but that is the only place in the world where you can get these sweets (they handmake them).

They dont even sell them on the web which is silly as I notice loads of website dedicated to these sweets in particular.

I thought if I could contact them and ask them to send me a bag for whatever money...then I could get them for him. I live in London so a bit far for me to go. I just cant find a contact anywhere.

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expatinscotland · 04/02/2008 00:01

Sweets here are yucky.

No' lovely.

I can imagine we'll just wonder down that way, 'kenning naeone' as DH says, but he could chat up a brick wall so I imagine he'll be all right.

He did the same, when last we travelled from Stranear to Belfast and from Armagh to Dublin in our wee car, and then there was no motorway to Dublin.

We just drove and drove.

Took us over 3 hours to cover 116 miles by the map.

DH saying, 'I ken Dublin is here somewheres'.

chipmonkey · 04/02/2008 00:15

horseshoe, I have emailed my dsis who lives in Cork as I rang directory enquires for you but the lady there spent a good ten minutes on the phone with me and couldn't find anything even thought I gave her the surname, Christian names on the website and address! Dsis is good for knowing about little specialist food places so hopefully will have heard of them. I'll let you know!

maggiems · 04/02/2008 14:32

www.stmarysonthehill.ie/comenius/traditionalfoods/linehans.html
Saw on another site last night (cant find it now) that the address was John Redmond Street in Cork but there was no number

Expat - the roads are far better now between belfast and Cork. The fast ferry comes into Belfast now and you can be in Cork within 5 hours at an off peak time

GrapefruitMoon · 04/02/2008 14:54

Oh I remember fizzle sticks - don't remember them being especially delicious though!

I lived in Cork for a while but don't remember a sweet shop called Linehans - would have thought if they made the sweets they would have been confectionary manufacturers rather than a shop?

I don't think "loose" sweets are as widely available now as when I was a child/teenager...

GrapefruitMoon · 04/02/2008 14:56

Horseshoe, I will be in Cork at easter - if you haven't managed to get hold of any by then, let me know and I'll have a look for you.

The only MNetter i think of who lives near Cork is StLeger - don't know if she is still around...

maggiems · 04/02/2008 14:57

Linehan's Sweets**
When:Daily; not SunWhere:Linehan's SweetsVenue Information: Linehan's Sweets
Full Name:Linehan's Sweets, Cork, Republic of IrelandAddress
John Redmond Street
Directions
Top of John Redmond Street, Shandon, in the shadow of St Anne?s Church.
Other Information: Linehan's Sweets

the address

chipmonkey · 04/02/2008 15:56

Dsis hasn't replied. I'll ask on rollercoaster.ie.

horseshoe · 04/02/2008 18:15

Hi,
Thanks so much for trying everyone.

Sorry I haven't bin in touch all day. Hadd DD at hospital. She OK though

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chipmonkey · 05/02/2008 00:02

Hi horseshoe! Glad your dd is OK!
Just to let you know, I phoned dsis and she says that she thinks it is near where my niece does her drama class so she will investigate!

horseshoe · 05/02/2008 14:29

Thnx chip.....you have been sooooo helpful.

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Rosylily · 05/02/2008 15:07

I'll probably be there over valentines.

Dh lives and works there and I live in Belfast and he drives up and down. Mad eh?

chipmonkey · 06/02/2008 00:36

Oh no, Rosylily everyone one knows Belfast is in the Cork commuter belt!

Rosylily · 06/02/2008 09:42

I have children settled in school up north so I won't budge! He spends 3/4 days with us every 2 weeks.

He has never heard of Linehans but he isn't from Cork.

Maybe I'll move there eventually, it is a gorgeous and interesting place.

I have fond memories of buying a quarter of sweets for 10 or 12p so when I found a shop with sweets in old fashioned jars and I bought a quarter..it was £1.40 or something I nearly choked on my cola cube!

maggiems · 06/02/2008 13:00

I agree about Belfast being in the Cork commuter belt. I am from Cork but live outside Belfast. DH is from Belfast. We are up and down quite a bit. Would like to move back but jobs, school and MIL committments wouldnt make it easy

Buda · 06/02/2008 13:04

Ooh I liked Fizzle sticks!

From Dublin though so can't help I'm afraid.

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