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:LePage, Geoff
- Contributor:Murphy, Cletus
- Abstract:This is Geoff LePage interviewing Cletus Murphy in Charlottetown PEI. Cletus discusses his grandparents family, talks about storytelling and ghosts influence on the Irish. Cletus also tells about famine, church and politics, the Scottish, Irish, and French, and social gatherings.
- Date Recorded:1983-07-02
- Duration:00:57:52
- Type:Interview
- Contributor:LePage, Geoff
- Contributor:Morrison, Clint
- Abstract:Clint Morrison is interview by Geoff LePage. He speaks about the Boyle family tree and the large family of lot eleven. He mentions three family names that he believes to be are the true Irish settlers and speaks about the Absentee Landlords along with the Walsh family. He also makes mention of some old early Irish homes.
- Date Recorded:1983-07-19
- Duration:00:25:26
- Type:Interview
- Contributor:MacAdam, Ann
- Contributor:McGuire, Louis
- Abstract:This is Ann MacAdam interviewing Louis McGuire in Morell, PEI. Louis shares information from a book about the Maguire Kings of Ireland, talks about family members of James McGuire, Fort Augustus, splitting up land and MacSwain and Sons.
- Date Recorded:1983-05-31
- Duration:00:11:18
- Type:Interview
- Contributor:Kilbride, Kevin
- Contributor:Kilbride, Margaret
- Contributor:LePage, Geoff
- Abstract:This is Geoff LePage interviewing married couple Margaret and Kevin Kilbride in Foxley River, PEI. They talk about family heirlooms, their parents, grandparents family members, and superstitions. They also discuss businesses, customs, land ownership, community events, and share stories about various other topics.
- Date Recorded:1983-07-19
- Duration:01:11:52
- Type:Interview
- Contributor:Fitzgerald, Edward
- Contributor:LePage, Geoff
- Abstract:This is Geoff LePage interviewing Edward Fitzgerald at Summerset Manor in Summerside. Edward talks about his family's arrival to PEI, original homes in PEI, education and schoolteachers, superstitions and ghost stories, his parents and grandparents, and entertainment in his early life.
- Date Recorded:1983-08-03
- Duration:00:28:53
- Type:Interview
- Contributor:LePage, Geoff
- Contributor:Norton Court, Hazel
- Abstract:This is Geoff LePage interviewing Hazel Norton Court in Charlottetown, PEI, where they discuss her young life, customs and superstitions, entertainment, and shares stories of her young life and relatives. Hazel also talks about Lady Fane and her land donations, as well as Hazel's father's jobs as an undertaker and carriage builder.
- Date Recorded:1983-08-08
- Duration:00:23:08
- Type:Interview
- Contributor:Berrigan, Artie
- Contributor:MacKenzie, David
- Abstract:This is David MacKenzie interviewing Artie Berrigan at Sacred Heart Home in Charlottetown, where they discuss his family leaving Ireland, their occupations, Scottish-Irish relations, religion, entertainment, graves, and marriages.
- Date Recorded:1983-06-09
- Duration:00:10:07