Transcript of a life history interview with 'Teresa' from Cohort 1 (born before 1935) of the Life Histories and Social Change collection; Female, Roman Catholic, widowed, and a mother. Teresa discusses growing up on the family farm in the Border region and how she, her sister, an
Families | Parents | Parental Role
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Interview with Lilian. Transcript of life history interview with 'Lilian' from Cohort A (born 1916 - 1934) of the Life Histories and Social Change collection; Female, Wife, Mother. Lilian started off by describing her childhood and the loss of her mother, how the family adapted t
Child Labour | Gender Roles | Community life
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Interview with Mary. Transcript of life history interview with 'Mary' from Cohort A (born 1916 - 1934) of the Life Histories and Social Change collection; Female, Twin, married and a grandmother of fifteen. Mary live in border region and had previously worked in Dublin as a nurse
Childhood | Leisure time activities | Customs and Traditions
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Transcript of a life history interview with 'Anne' from Cohort 2 (born 1945-1954) of the Life Histories and Social Change collection; Female, Roman Catholic, married, a mother. Anne discusses her happy and well-off family life within a friendly Dublin community and the mores aro
Families | Childhood | Customs and Traditions
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Audio clip from life history interview with 'Sharon' from Cohort B (born 1945-1954) of the larger collection Life Histories and Social Change. All names have been anonymised. Access to the audio clip is restricted to bona fide academic researchers and teachers, and to students th
Qualitative interview clips
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Audio clip from life history interview with 'Sharon' from Cohort B (born 1945-1954) of the larger collection Life Histories and Social Change. All names have been anonymised. Access to the audio clip is restricted to bona fide academic researchers and teachers, and to students th
Qualitative interview clips
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Audio clip from a life history interview where the interviewee describes travelling by train to Dublin as a child in the 1950s. This audio clip was extracted from an interview with ‘David’ from Cohort B of the Life Histories and Social Change collection (see Related Materials) wh
Qualitative interview clips | Open audio clips
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Audio clip from a life history interview in which the interviewee describes the arrival of electricity in his local area during his childhood, and its impact on daily life. He describes how the radio brought exposure to the world outside the immediate environment for the first ti
Qualitative interview clips | Open audio clips
Mixed Types
Transcript of life history interview with 'Sean' from Cohort B (born 1945-1954) of the Life Histories and Social Change collection (see Related Materials); Male, Roman Catholic, married and a father. Sean grew up in a town in a border county. After his father during Sean's infanc
Poverty | Church and state | Organisations
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Transcript of life history interview with 'Sharon' from Cohort B (born 1945-1954) of the Life Histories and Social Change collection (see Related Materials); Female, Roman Catholic, married and a mother. Sharon grew up in a village near the border with Northern Ireland, close eno
Emigration | Poverty | Telephone operators
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Transcript of life history interview with 'Bernard' from Cohort B (born 1945-1954) of the Life Histories and Social Change collection (see Related Materials); Male, Roman Catholic, married and grandfather. Bernard grew up in rural west in a railway cottage, his grandfather and f
Poverty | Emigration | Construction workers
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Transcript of life history interview with 'Desmond' from Cohort B (born 1945-1954) of the Life Histories and Social Change collection (see Related Materials); Male, Roman Catholic, married; Desmond grew up in the border region, in a council house with no sewerage nor electricity.
Emigration | Construction workers
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