Irene Cisar interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Australian Generations pilot oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 4397475
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Cisar, Irene, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Written permission is required for research, personal copies and public use for 10 years from the date of the interview.
- Description:
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- 2008
- 4 sound files (ca. 240 min.)
- Series:
- Australian Generations pilot oral history project.
- Summary:
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Irene Cisar talks about her early memories of Yarrawonga and surrounding districts; Yarrawonga during WWII; local social functions; her education; beginning work at Yarrawonga Hospital in 1959; moving to Melbourne to work at the Kew Cottages at the age of 19; life and staff at Kew Cottages in the 1960s; her husband's migration story from Czechoslovakia to Australia; "New Australians"; games played as a child; organised school sport; important place of the nuns in family and community life; the place of faith in her husband's life and its difference from her own; different role of church in community life in rural and metropolitan context; Kensington saleyards; reunions and significant birthdays; homemade and delivered fruits and vegetables; living arrangements after marriage; the birth of her first child and subsequent childbirth experiences; swimming in the Yarra River; camping holidays; keeping cool in the heat; dust storms; family leisure activities; Cubs and Brownies; her husband's illness and retirement and impact on the family; working outside the house, going to technical school; the benefits of living in the Westgarth neighbourhood for so long; how the demographics have changed since 1959; the value in security of knowing your neighbours; importance of medical advances.
Cisar discusses rationing during the war; sharing home-grown produce in the country; hand making clothing; financial arrangements after leaving school; paying board; using Layby; balls and ballgowns; Debutante Balls; forms of education received at the local schools; fundraising for the school funds; buying a house; life insurance policies; the importance of living within your means; budgeting; their first car and the difference having a car made to their lives; health insurance; relationships with banks and bank managers; attitudes to consumerism and materialism; the importance of faith in her life; coping with the loss of a child; politics of the Catholic Church; relationship between her Catholic upbringing and the development of her personal faith; volunteering with elderly people when she was older; the impact of Soviet crackdown in Czechoslovakia in 1968; the biggest changes over her life.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on June 17-18, 2008 at Melbourne, Vic.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (10 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 122 leaves)
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Henningham, Nicola, 1960-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Australian Generations pilot oral history project.
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- Creation date:
- 2008
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