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    Interview with Ravinder Gill recorded in Birmingham, England on 12/02/2025.

    Cite as: Beecher, Ruth (2025): Interview with Ravinder Gill recorded in Birmingham, England on 12/02/2025. Birkbeck College, University of London.

    Description

    Ravinder was born in Cork in 1984 after her parents had moved to Ireland from India. She describes her early memories of living there with her family. When she was five they moved to England and settled in the West Midlands. However, she has always considered herself to be Irish and in the interview describes why this identity is important to her and why she, and her father, have retained their Irish passports.

    Ravinder reflects on the experience of being part of Irish, English and Indian communities and how this has affected her life as a young woman and given her a unique outlook. She describes her time in school and university and her travels afterwards. Ravinder tells of the positive benefit that she gained from being part of the Irish community whilst working in Hong Kong.

    Ravinder also talks about how being Irish has resulted in involvement in and commitment to the Irish Blind and Visually Impaired Tennis team and to the Birmingham Irish Association which has recently resulted in employment as Activities and Wellbeing Officer with the Association.

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    1 - Audio Track interviews with Ravinder Gill recorded in Birmingham, England on 12/02/2025; Interview Accession No: 0UNA-U1X0023 (0UNA-U1X0023XX-0001M0.mp3)

    Collection Method

    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 Ravinder Gill recorded in Birmingham, England on 12/02/2025.
    Creators:

    Beecher, Ruth
    Dataset Contributors:

    ContributionNameEmailORCID
    NarratorGill, RavinderUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
    InterviewerPat, RodwellUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
    School/Department:

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

    Cork, Birmingham, Hong Kong, ethnic identity, education, diaspora, community involvement.
    Data collection method:

    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
    12 February 202512 February 2025
    Temporal coverage:

    FromTo
    19842025
    Statement on legal, ethical, and access issues:

    The research proposal was ethically approved by the School of Historical Studies at Birkbeck, University of London.
    Depositing User: Ruth Beecher
    Date Deposited: 03 Feb 2026 17:32
    Last Modified: 03 Feb 2026 17:32
    Publisher: Birkbeck College, University of London

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    Cite as: Beecher, Ruth (2025): Interview with Ravinder Gill recorded in Birmingham, England on 12/02/2025. Birkbeck College, University of London.

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