| Title: |
Maíre N&iacte; Challanaiín
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
National University of Ireland, Cork. Irish Center for Migration Studies
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| Collection: |
Breaking the Silence
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| Description: |
The interview starts with family background details. Maire talks about her father's involvement in the Civil War and his unwillingness to talk about it. Her mother was also active during the Civil War in Cork. Maire's childhood was lived between Dublin where her parents lived and Cork where her grandmother, aunts and uncles lived. She was brought to Cork for the first time when she was 2 years and 10 months by her aunt. Her grandparents in Cork were better off than her family in Dublin and she spent six months in her grandmother's house where her uncles and aunts also lived, as her mother had given birth to her brother. She became particularly close to her uncle who was severely paralysed because of a beating he received in Cork Gaol in the early 1920s. He had to be cared for by his mother and siblings for the rest of his life. She gives detailed account of her father's efforts to fend for the family and the daily routine in the home. After Christmas 1950 her father was working with a gas company and had a cycling accident on his way home from work. He got flu after Christmas and as a result of both died in the following January. The family had to survive on very little after he died, as there was no pension.
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| URL: |
http://migration.ucc.ie/oralarchive/testing/breaking/narrators/Maire%20Ni%20Challanain/summary.htm
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Audio: |
[Audio available]
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| Speaker: |
N&iacte; Challanaiín, Maíre, 1934-
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1934
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Dublin, Leinster, Ireland; Leinster, Ireland; Ireland; Europe
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Speaker occupation: |
Retail worker
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| Document location: |
Ireland
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Interviewer: |
Gray, Breda
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| Locations discussed: |
Europe; Ireland
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Europe; Ireland; Ireland--Civilization; Ireland--History; Ireland--Social conditions; Irish--Ireland; Oral history
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0024299-25920
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