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Edna Ryan interviewed by Lucy Taksa in the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection [sound recording]
Bib ID 585844
Format AudioAudio
Author Ryan, Edna, 1904-1997
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 World War I ; 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).

DCM record; National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore collection;

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 Taksa, Lucy  |  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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506 |aAccess open for research, personal copies and public use.
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