| Description | Tracks 1 - 7: Actuality recording with Irish man, 'Tony Crumlin' and Charles Parker. Tony speaks about drinking in Manchester and hearing the word 'crack' / 'craic' in a new context for him, and phrases such as 'queer fella'. Tony talks about the other Irish men in his digs, and antipathy towards him as a man from Dublin. Tony speaks about murders and crime in the area in which he was living in Manchester (1950s). Tony tries to explain how the Irish men would be unified against non-Irish people but there were still hostilities between people from different parts of Ireland in pubs, Irish clubs and dancehalls.
Total: 15.37 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF571E0571880 |