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Jack O'Neill interviewed by Chris Sullivan in the Chris Sullivan folklore collection [sound recording]
Bib ID 1881070
Format AudioAudio [sound recording]
Author
O'Neill, Jack, 1889?-, Interviewee
 
Access Conditions Access open for research; written permission required for personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee. 
Description 1985 
1 sound tape reel (ca. 30 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono ; 7 in. 
Series

Chris Sullivan folklore collection.

Summary

Folkloric recording. Jack O'Neill, former bush worker, talks about his early life in a farming district near Goulburn; growing up on a farm near Goulburn, NSW, leased from the Costigan brothers; uncle's racehorses; family background; cattle and crops grown; district community feeling; music played by family members; step dancing; other dancing; local musicians; old songs; dances in people's houses; sharing of meat within community; meat smoking in chimney; home produce; slab and earth houses; nicknames; family names; places worked; greenhide plaiting; bullock wagons; father's horse wagon; carting trips with his father; their tuckerbox.

Full contents
  • Jack O'Neill, recitation: Ben Hall (fragment)
  • No place to Camp / Lawson (fragment)
  • Farewell My Sister / Gordon (fragment)
 
Notes

Recorded in November 1985, at Harbison Home, Moss Vale, N.S.W.

Index/Finding Aid Note Transcript available (1 p.) 
Subjects O'Neill, Jack, - 1889?- - Interviews.  |  Agricultural laborers - New South Wales - Interviews.  |  Farm life - New south Wales - Goulburn Region - History.  |  Goulburn Region (N.S.W.) - Social life and customs.
Other authors/contributors Sullivan, Chris (Christopher Daniel), 1953-, Interviewer

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    Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)
    ORAL TRC 2750/316 (transcript)
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    Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)

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