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Interview with Edna Ryan [sound recording] / interviewer, Sara Dowse
Bib ID 1398562
Format AudioAudio
Author
Ryan, Edna, 1904-1997
 
Access Conditions Written permission required for research, personal copies and public use from the interviewee's family. Audio closed 
Description 1991-1994. 
16 sound tape reels. 
Summary

Ryan talks about her family background; political discussions at home; general domestic situation; bubonic plague in 1900 and growing up in Pyrmont, N.S.W. She then describes her introduction to the I.W.W. (Industrial Workers of the World); anti-conscription campaign; impact of WWI and the Russian Revolution. Ryan also describes her Bohemian days; 1st jobs; Australian Socialist Party; timber workers' strike of 1929 and her involvement with the Communist Party.

Notes

Recorded on Aug. 20-23, 1991, Feb.16 and Mar. 16, 1994 in Canberra.

Index/Finding Aid Note Corrected transcript (typescript, 200 leaves) for the 1991 interview. An uncorrected transcript (typescript, 32 leaves) is available for the 1994 interviews. 
Subjects Ryan, Edna, - 1904-1997 - Interviews.
Other Authors Dowse, Sara, 1938-
Details Collect From
ORAL TRC 2742
Copy: Recording
Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)
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ORAL TRC 2742 (transcript)
Copy: Transcript
Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)
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