Irish Female. 11 years old. Plus an older Irish female. From a family of musicians. Discussing the allegory of the Fox and the Hound about an Irishman who's evicted from his home during English rule. The man eventually makes it to America.

Evicted Irishman, English rule, Song themes, Animal allegory, Ireland, Fox, Hound

 

17 year old male, from Tralee, discusses trying to grow up proper; the issues of Joyriders and drugs; why he took up boxing; country slang. Contains drug and alcohol references.

 

Teen, Male, Tralee, Tallaght, Dublin, values, Joyriders, boxing, fights, soccer, Shamrock Rovers, drinking, drugs, marijuana, The Square Tallaght, Shopping Center, slang, Cork

Another recording of a younger male, aged around 25 years old, from Belfast, Ireland shares his thoughts on some problems that Ireland faces.  His male friends also share their thoughts about problems.

 

A younger male, around 30 years of age from the Belfast area from Ireland talks about the problems in the country.

 

A younger Irish woman in her 20's from the Belfast area talks about how she spends her time.

 

A male bartender aged around 30 years old that lives in Cork, Ireland talks about what it's like living in that area.  This is a good recording of the long "O" in the Irish accent.

 

 

An Irish nun, aged around 40 years old from Macroom, Ireland talks about what it's like being a sister of the church.

 

 

A woman in her 20's from northern Ireland talks about an incident that her family faced when she was a child.  There was a bomb that went off near a motorway in Belfast in 1991. She has a smoother, more suttle Irish accent.

 

Female talks about travellers and their language. She discusses their living situation and how they are perceived by others.

Ireland, travellers, language, gaelic, cant, discrimination, bias

Female. Late 30's. From Macroom, Ireland. Religious Sister (Nun). Teaches primary school, 6 to 7 year olds. Became a sister when she was 18. Lives in the 'big house' with 16 other sisters. Gets up at 7am, does mass, and then teaches. After school does visits to places like elderly homes and hospitals. Finishes at 6pm and then has free time. On holiday.

 

Macroom, Ireland, Parish, Religious Sister, Teacher, Mass, Holiday, Hospital, Nursing home, elderly, primary school, counseling, big house

A man and woman ask Eliza questions and talk about a sheep farmer. He has a lot of unfinished projects that he’s like to finish. He says he’s seen too many changes and more for the bad than for the good. Tells how he stopped drinking and found a wife.  He used to dance for the fun of it. He talks about the museum he started from his collections. 

Ireland, Rural, Killarney Galway, museum, collection, sheep, dance

Male in his 70's from Sneem, Ireland. His ambition was to get a house, property, settle down with a wife. He saw a woman in a fur coat when he was drunk as a young man and decided he'd get sober right then and get all those things...and the fur coat. He is married with two children, but no fur coat. Met his wife dancing. Competed in waltzing competitions and filled his house with plaques.

Sneem, Ireland, ambition, dancing, waltzing, wife, children, fur coat, drinking, marriage, competition, plaques

 

Irish man tells joke about a waitress having her thumbs in a man's soup

Ireland, Irish, soup, joke, story, bar, waitress, thumbs