Letters sent by Michael D. Higgins in 1980 to Irish Press and Irish Times in relation to Trade Unions and Gay Rights. Part of press cuttings collected by Cork Gay Collective.

Gay rights | Trade Unions | Labour Party (Ireland)

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Transcripts of life history interview with ‘Barney’ from Cohort B (Born 1945-1954) of the Life Histories and Social Change collection (see Related Materials); Male, Roman Catholic, unmarried. Barney is 1 of 11 living children in his family. He grew up in the mid-east of Ireland,

Family | Education | Religion

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Transcript of life history interview with 'Niamh' from Cohort C (born 1965-1974) of the Life Histories and Social Change collection; Female, Roman Catholic (lapsed), unmarried, mother. Niamh is 1 of 6 children in her family, and she grew up and has lived in the South East of Irel

Education | Family | Parenting

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The austerity that followed the recent economic and financial crisis has led to impassioned debates across the social sciences and the public at large. Although Ireland was not its only victim, the depth of the interacting economic, banking and budgetary crises has meant that the

social sciences | politics | economics

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Transcripts of life history interview with ‘Sarah’ from Cohort B (1945-1954) of the Life Histories and Social Change collection (see Related Materials);Female, Roman Catholic, married, mother and grandmother. Sarah grew up in the mid-west of Ireland in a disadvantaged area. In he

Family | Education | Immigration

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Transcripts of life history interview with ‘Vincent’ from Cohort B (1945-1954) of the Life Histories and Social Change collection (see Related Materials); Male, Roman Catholic, married, and father. Vincent grew up in the Dublin region and was the second youngest of 7 children. In

Family | Politics | Relationships

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Transcript of life history interview with 'Edward' from Cohort B (born 1945-1954) of the Life Histories and Social Change collection; Male, Roman Catholic, single. Edward grew up in a close-knit family in the Mid-West region and following the death of his father he became the ful

Poverty | Politics | Construction workers

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This is a letter from Abdur Razzaq, an Indian student. The letter regards a resolution passed in a meeting of Indian students in Dublin on 17 April 1916. The letter requests that an enclosure is passed on to Lord Wimborne, Ivor Guest (1873-1939), the lord lieutenant of Ireland. T

City and town life | Politics

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Audio clip from life history interview with 'Bernard' 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 t

Qualitative interview clips | Politics

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Transcript of life history interview with 'Donal' from Cohort C (born 1965-1974) of the Life Histories and Social Change collection; Male, Roman Catholic, married and a father. Donal describes growing up in a housing estate in one of the new commuter suburbs outside of Dublin. He

Social welfare | IT professionals | Politics

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Transcript of life history interview with 'Mandy' from Cohort C (born 1965-1974) of the Life Histories and Social Change collection; Female, Roman Catholic. Mandy grew up in urban area of Northern Ireland during the ‘Troubles’ - her family had moved to the North because of her fa

Community life | Inheritance | Well-being

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