| Description | Tracks 1 - 9: Actuality with 'Jim McHugh' from Edenderry, County Offaly, and Charles Parker. McHugh speaks about his friend who has had to leave his young family in order to find work to send money back to them. He speaks about the Irish government at the time. McHugh describes returning to Ireland but having to come back to England as the employment situation there had not improved. McHugh speaks about working in the clay pits in Scotland as a teenager; the work, conditions, his colleagues and pay. He relates a story about a particular colleague who became ill because of the dust in the pits and how they were made to have lung x-rays. McHugh talks about the difference between working in London and working in Scotland, and his first impressions of London. He talks about working on the building of a branch of the University College Hospital, London. He speaks about his colleagues on that building project, and what work he had to do there. He speaks about enjoying working on that job, but about abuse he received in London for being Irish.
Total: 18.00 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF571E0562780 |