Interview with Anne Angela Liddy [sound recording] Interviewer: Beth M. Robertson, Part 3 of 8

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Interview details

CreatorLiddy, Anne Angela, 1901-1986Additional creatorRobertson, Beth M., 1957-TitleInterview with Anne Angela Liddy [sound recording] Interviewer: Beth M. Robertson, Part 3 of 8Date (year)1985Date recordedRecorded on 19 & 26 August 1985Description

Anne Liddy was born in Dawson into an Irish Catholic family 'with a genius for going to dry places where they don't make any money' (preliminary interview). In 1904 three generations of the family joined the exodus from the Upper North and became part of the 'second settlement' of Eyre Peninsula, taking up virgin scrub at Yallunda Flat near Tumby Bay. Anne Liddy left the Yalunda Flat School in 1914, the year that the family farm went bankrupt and her father became a railway ganger. Her first job, for six years, was as domestic and mother's helper for the family of the Tumby Bay Bank of Adelaide manager. After returning to help on her family's new share farm venture, she began nursing training at the Tumby Bay Hospital in 1923, recognising this as one of the very limited employment alternatives for local girls. Miss Liddy finished training at the Adelaide Hospital and began her career as a private nurse with the Royal British Nurses' Association in 1927

Recording length4 hours

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Collection titleS. A. Speaks': An Oral History of Life in South Australia before 1930SubjectLiddy, Anne Angela, 1901-1986Tumby Bay HospitalRoyal Adelaide Hospital (S.A.)Royal British Nurse's Association. South Australian BranchIrish -- South AustraliaFarmers -- South Australia -- Tumby Bay RegionNurses -- South AustraliaCatholics -- South Australia -- DawsonCatholics -- South Australia Tumby BayBankruptcy -- South AustraliaHousehold employees -- South Australia -- Tumby BayDroughts -- South AustraliaSingle womenYallunda Flat (S.A.)Tumby Bay (S.A.)

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Keeping up appearances. 50 secs
Having an accent and trying to speak without one. 89 secs
Shedding her accent. 52 secs
Schoolfriends not sharing their family troubles. 46 secs
Wishing for a nice house and boarding school. 61 secs
Families that sent their children to boarding... 87 secs
Second class citizens - Anne's thoughts about... 63 secs
Anne's mother's ambitions and disappointments. 82 secs
Anne's description of the family's Yallunda F... 129 secs
Irish style kitchens and iron building additions. 143 secs
A description of the kitchen, its contents an... 89 secs
No cellar - one of them might drown. 21 secs
Sleeping in the same bed and fighting like 'c... 24 secs
The most important room in the house. 28 secs
History lessons from her father. 90 secs
Anne's parents' opinion on royalty and religion. 94 secs
Another bedroom built for Anne and Vera. 99 secs
Anne's mother - housework and fieldwork. 78 secs
Needing a bigger haystack - about nosebags, b... 46 secs
The 'rye paddock' and vegetable garden. 37 secs
A 'deep green loathing' for cabbage. 43 secs
House yard, sheds and barn. 58 secs
Cows, horses, dogs and the 1914 drought. 135 secs
Clearing the land and leaving some scrub for ... 83 secs
Farm acreage and crops planted. 31 secs
Clearing the land by burning and bushfires. 31 secs
Farm machinery - the reaper and the winnower. 38 secs

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Interview with Anne Angela Liddy [sound recording] Interviewer: Beth M. Robertson, Part 3 of 8