| Description | Tracks 1 - 7: Actuality with an Irish man, 'Jim McHugh' (see reels above), and Charles Parker. McHugh speaks about his childhood in Edenderry, County Offaly (1930s), and about his father who fought in France in the First World War. He describes having to work as a child instead of going to school to help to support his family as his father had been injured in the war, and not having enough money to have boots to wear. McHugh describes the prejudice in his community against poor people. He describes the local schoolteacher denying some poor children their first communion. McHugh's companions (see MS 4000/6/1/42/51) join this discussion about the impact of religion and poverty on their families and communities. McHugh describes the emotions of being forced to leave Ireland due to poverty.
Total: 17.35mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF571E0571380 |