| Description | An interview with Yvonne SHEERAN, a single woman with no children, who is a Shop assistant & waitress, born in Birmingham and now living in Birmingham. Yvonne SHEERAN’s father was a Builder, born in Ireland and her mother a Caretaker born in Ireland. In the interview, she talks about …
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SHEERAN, Yvonne. Logged by Sonia Southern.
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Born in 1976 in Birmingham, her parents are Irish and they come from Donegal. They are both separated.
33” Earliest memory playing in a garden in a house she lived at in Sparkbrook.
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1980’s Mother worked as a caretaker in Highgate, she met a lot of different people, actors and music players.
1:02” Birmingham theatre school and the people she remembers.
2:00” Tells of how different it was having her mother be a caretaker and living in the centre, compared to her friends' life style, and the Roman Catholic school that she attended.
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1990’s - going to Raves.
1:40” Describes about the culture of Raves, drugs and the style of clothes that people wore.
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Gives a description of Birmingham nightlife and how it revolves around drinking and fighting.
40” Growth of pubs and clubs on Broad Street and recalls her job as a waitress at Ronnie Scotts.
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“Now that I am 24 and it’s the year 2000”, talks of her opinion of Broad Street now.
50” “Most of my friends are boys”, talks of her friends.
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“I went to Holy Trinity School in Small Heath”, old school friends and her social circumstances now.
1:19” Talks of her gay friends and how she discovered their sexuality and race in her school days.
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“We do go down to Hurst Street”, talks of her gay friends and going to Gay Pride in Birmingham City Centre with her family.
1:00” Gives a description of what the word ‘Biker’ represents and that she is associated with Sports Bikes.
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Tells how the whole biking scene is sexist, she sees herself as a feminist only when men degrade woman.
1:40” Her father never did any work in the house.
2:30” Doesn’t see herself as the settling down type.
3:05” “Left school in 1991”, tells of the different types of work she has done.
4:15” Discusses about pay and how unfair it is between managers and the work staff.
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30” Currently works in a café bar.
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She also works in a clothes shop in the daytime and she earns £180 a week including both jobs.
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“Last year I was thinking about going back to college”.
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Re-start.
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Describes how she has never been in trouble with the police, but gets pulled over on the road because she looks too young to be riding her motor bike.
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Describes her relationship with her brother and what he does for a living. Tells of her relationship with her sisters.
3:00” Describes her relatoinship with her sister Monica and the places they go together.
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Tells of travelling to Amsterdam and how things are more flexible in comparison to her mother's generation.
1:30” “I’m proud that my parents are Irish”, Tells of her opinion of Irish culture. Also about the Irish community in Birmingham.
4:30” Talks of the changes in the Irish Village.
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“My mother remembers the Irish bombings”.
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Describes how she feels to be English, and how she feels more Irish than she does English.
1:00” Gives her opinion of the redevelopment of Birmingham and talks of the rougher areas in Birmingham such as Handsworth and Lozells.
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“I think Birmingham has always been rough”, gives her reasons for having this opinion and discusses immigrants, race and single parent families.
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Gives a description of Highgate and the types of people that she knows.
1:00” Says how Moseley is full of students and Newtown is rough.
2:24” Talks of her experience of prostitution in the area that she lives.
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Concludes about prostitution on Cheddar Road.
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“My attitude to sex is pretty straightforward really”, goes on to give her opinion about safe sex and S.T.D’s. Also the age that her friends got interested in sex.
2:30” Talks of her first boyfriend and their relationship.
3:00” Tells of her current relationship and the difference in outlook to the future.
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Political views - talks of tax and how she finds it ridiculous.
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Tells of what she does when she stays in her home of a night and what programmes she watches. She reads a lot of books.
1:20” Future aspirations.
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“I’ve been working two jobs at a time”, late 90’, and the advantages of working.
53” Talks about her work for the council, she works in a café in the building.
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“I think what’s stopping me from getting a good job…..”
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Talks about feeling safe living in Highgate, but is wary about walking the streets at night. There are fears about being attacked, but that’s just human nature.
1:20” Explains about a girl in the area getting attacked and raped as she walked home on the night.
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