- Bib ID:
- 844251
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Molloy, Mary, 1943-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research and personal copies; written permission required for public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 2001 Jan. 2
- 3 digital audio tapes (ca. 168 min.)
- Series:
- Child migrants oral history project.
- Summary:
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Molloy, orphan and British child migrant, speaks of her birth in England to an unmarried Irishwoman working in Britain, how she was sent to a convent and later to an orphanage, recalls the stories told to her by her mother when they were finally united in 1999, her treatment while in the orphanage, her mother's attempt to see her, and the influence of the Church, her voyage to Australia, her treatment in Australian institutions, her lack of sexual education and sheltered life, the search for her parents, the lack of information until the final meeting with her mother in Ireland through the American 60 Minutes TV program.
- Notes:
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- Recorded with Olya Willis.
- Recorded on Jan. 2, 2001 at Rosehill, N.S.W.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary available (6 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 85 leaves)
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- Creation date:
- 2001
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