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    Interview with Mary Heffernan recorded via Zencaster on 06.04.2021

    Cite as: Beecher, Ruth (2021): Interview with Mary Heffernan recorded via Zencaster on 06.04.2021. Birkbeck College, University of London. doi: https://doi.org/10.18743/DATA.00175

    Description

    Mary talks about growing up in Terranure, Dublin in the 1980s. She describes her school life, the close female friendships and socialising she enjoyed as a teenager. She recalls many examples of how girls and boys were treated differently and describes how she learnt about sex, sexuality and contraception. Mary recalls meeting her husband and falling in love and the thrill of going to university at UCD. Her best friend Mark was gay and Mary described how she felt more seen and heard with her gay male friends than in straight male spaces. Mary described the way the psychology department at UCD was dominated by the clergy; she recounted her battle with the department to do psychology with history rather than double psychology. She gave many examples of her close relationship with her father; his belief in her and his empathy for her as a woman and a mother. She reflected on her own intellectual development in learning Irish history in Dublin and in London and some of the assumptions she had encountered about different historical understandings of Irish history and revisionism.

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    1 - Interview with Mary Heffernan recorded via Zencaster on 06.04.2021 (0UNA-U1X0013XX-0001bM0MUTED.mp3)

    Collection Method

    Tá Úna Gan A Gúna Irish Women’s Oral History Project

    Interviews with a range of women born in Ireland during the twentieth century or those with Irish connections. The aim was to gather the stories, memories and opinions of Irish women born in each decade of the twentieth century, about their experiences between the approximate ages of 15 and 25. The sample was found simply through women with whom volunteer interviewers had a connection or through Irish organisations. Interviews were recorded and participants checked and approved the transcripts and recordings.
    See website https://unaganaguna.org/

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    Dataset Title:

    Interview with Mary Heffernan recorded via Zencaster on 06.04.2021
    Creators:

    Beecher, Ruth
    Dataset Contributors:

    ContributionNameEmailORCID
    NarratorHeffernan, MaryUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
    InterviewerRussell, AilsaUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
    School/Department:

    Birkbeck Schools and Research Centres > School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy > History, Classics and Archaeology
    Keywords:

    Terranure, Dublin, school, gender roles, family, socialising, friendship, sexuality and reproductive rights, university, gay and straight male attitudes, psychology and Irish history.
    Data collection method:

    Tá Úna Gan A Gúna Irish Women’s Oral History Project

    Interviews with a range of women born in Ireland during the twentieth century or those with Irish connections. The aim was to gather the stories, memories and opinions of Irish women born in each decade of the twentieth century, about their experiences between the approximate ages of 15 and 25. The sample was found simply through women with whom volunteer interviewers had a connection or through Irish organisations. Interviews were recorded and participants checked and approved the transcripts and recordings.
    See website https://unaganaguna.org/
    Collection period:

    FromTo
    1 July 20196 April 2021
    Temporal coverage:

    FromTo
    17 August 19666 April 2021
    Statement on legal, ethical, and access issues:

    The research proposal was ethically approved by the School of Social Science, History and Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London
    Depositing User: Ruth Beecher
    Date Deposited: 26 Nov 2021 11:33
    Last Modified: 01 Jul 2022 15:16
    Publisher: Birkbeck College, University of London

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    Cite as: Beecher, Ruth (2021): Interview with Mary Heffernan recorded via Zencaster on 06.04.2021. Birkbeck College, University of London. doi: https://doi.org/10.18743/DATA.00175

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