02437cid a2200373 a 450000100070000000500170000700800410002401900120006503300130007703500110009004000290010104200090013010000330013924501080017226000180028030000500029844000450034850000200039350001760041350600620058952008090065153001040146055500460156460000400161065000460165065000630169665000580175970000220181771000340183971000590187371000430193277300610197598400270203658584420071112090115.0890301s1987 xx nnn tn eng 1 a613693100a19871019 a585844 aANL:ObengcANL:OdANL:O aanuc1 aRyan, Edna,d1904-1997.4ive10aEdna Ryan interviewed by Lucy Taksa in the NSW Bicentennial oral history collectionh[sound recording]. c1987 Oct. 19. a2 sound cassettes (ca. 90 min.) :b1 7/8 ips. 0aNSW Bicentennial oral history collection aIncludes index. aRecorded 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). aAccess open for research, personal copies and public use. aBorn 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. aDCM record;bNational Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore collection;dnla.oh-2301-01560 aTranscript available : 2 v. (33 p., 9 p.)10aRyan, Edna,d1904-1997vInterviews. 0aOlder peoplezNew South WalesvBiography. 0aSocialistszNew South WalesxSocial conditionsy1901-1945. 0aWomenzNew South WalesxSocial conditionsy1901-1945.1 aTaksa, Lucy.4ivr2 aN.S.W. Council on the Ageing.2 aOral History Association of Australia.bN.S.W. Branch.2 aNSW Bicentennial Oral History Project.0 tNSW Bicentennial oral history collectionw(AuCNL)1361367 aANLcORAL TRC 2301/156