The collection is comprised of field recordings of oral history interviews conducted by BIS student researchers in 1982 and 1983 with elderly Irish residents of PEI.
Project Background
These recordings were digitized and provided with metadata records at the UPEI Robertson Library during the Spring and Summer of 2018, with further editing and enhancement of metadata in 2020. Financial support for this project, facilitated by the Benevolent Irish Society, was generously provided through the Government of Ireland's Emigrant Support Programme. Special acknowledgment is also due to the late Mr. George O'Connor, Past-President of the Benevolent Irish Society, whose patient-but-persistent advocacy helped bring this project to fruition. Go raibh maith agat!
Benevolent Irish Society - Oral History Interviews Collection
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- Type:Interview
- Contributor:Duffy, Mother Ethel
- Contributor:Stordy, Paul
- Abstract:Paul Stordy interviews Mother Ethel Duffey who resides at the Sacred Heart Home. Mother Duffey talks about the famine that brought on disease, her family tree as well as marriages and occupation. Cardinal McGuigan, ships coming to Charlottetown and the structures used to keep homes warm. She also mentions the average life structure More
- Date Recorded:1982-05-13
- Duration:01:08:08
- Type:Interview
- Contributor:Callaghan, James
- Contributor:Doyle, Karen
- Contributor:Wallace, Stella
- Abstract:Stella Wallace and Karen Doyle interviews James Callahan. He talks about the best farming lands to be found on the island, how the English, Scots and French had good land will the Irish was given the not so good land. He also speaks about how the Pope was a landlord and how the many people began selling their lands. Mr. Callahan also More
- Date Recorded:1982-05-26
- Duration:00:20:04