| Description | Tracks 1 - 10: Actuality with 'Jim McHugh' from Edenderry, County Offaly, and Charles Parker. McHugh describes his journey to Scotland from Ireland as a teenager (1950s), and his experiences there. He speaks about his old schoolmaster in Ireland, with reference to class prejudices and injustices in Ireland. McHugh relates the story of a peat workers' strike during the First World War in Ireland; what the authorities did to the workers and how the workers reacted. McHugh speaks about the tensions and relations between parish priests and their parishoners in Ireland at that time (1920s onwards). He describes the situation for Irish Travellers finding work, and relations with local communities in Ireland. He describes the duties of a peat moss bagger.
Total: 16.32 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF571E0562380 |