| Description | Tracks 1 - 6: Actuality with 'Jim McHugh' from Edenderry, County Offaly, and a man from County Limerick, and an unidentified Irish man, with Charles Parker. McHugh and his companions describe the treatment of unmarried mothers by the Catholic church in Ireland who were sent to workhouses, and the difference between the way young women from rich families were treated. They discuss how the church could control the people in the parishes, including reference to the dues paid to the church by the parishioners. The men discuss the prejudices against poor people in the church community, even when it came to singing in the choir. McHugh speculates on why the poorer parishioners were better singers than the richer children. He describes the songs they would sing as children, and the music they would listen to on gramophone records (including John McCormack and Gracie Fields). McHugh describes games he and the other local children would play (1930s).
Total: 17.14 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF571E0571480 |