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Edna Ryan interviewed by Lucy Taksa in the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection [sound recording]
Bib ID 585844
Format AudioAudio, OnlineOnline [sound recording]
Author
Ryan, Edna, 1904-1997, Interviewee
 
Online Versions
Access Conditions Access open for research, personal copies and public use. 
Description 1987 Oct. 19 
2 sound cassettes (ca. 90 min.) : 1 7/8 ips. 
Series

NSW Bicentennial oral history collection.

Summary

Born in Pyrmont, Sydney, Ryan speaks of her early life; going to school; clerical employment; studying at business college; different homes in Sydney; strikes; family life; memories of and attitudes during WWI; memories of the 1917 general strike; the working classes; International Workers of the World (IWW); politics of 1910-1930; her political interests; street corner meetings; family reading material; memories of the Domain; life as a Socialist, meeting places and haunts; favourite speakers; socialists being framed for crimes; socialist/working class communication; social conditions, her own research of the period; the War Precautions Act; socialism and the Labor Party; her interest in, and reading of Lenin and Russia; Justice Beeby and working class leaders.

Notes

Includes index.

Recorded by the NSW Bicentennial Oral History Project, funded by a bicentennial grant to the NSW Council on the Ageing and the Oral History Association of Australia (NSW).

Also available online at: http:/­/­nla.gov.au/­nla.oh-vn585844

Index/Finding Aid Note Transcript available : 2 v. (33 p., 9 p.) 
Subjects Ryan, Edna, - 1904-1997 - Interviews.  |  Older people - New South Wales - Biography.  |  Socialists - New South Wales - Social conditions - 1901-1945.  |  Women - New South Wales - Social conditions - 1901-1945.
Other authors/contributors Taksa, Lucy, Interviewer  |  N.S.W. Council on the Ageing  |  Oral History Association of Australia. N.S.W. Branch  |  NSW Bicentennial Oral History Project

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ORAL TRC 2301/156
Copy: Recording
Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)
ORAL TRC 2301/156 (transcript)
Copy: Transcript
Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)

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