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Oral Interview with Peter Mulryan
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Collection Peter Mulryan
Title Oral Interview with Peter Mulryan
Description Interview with Peter Mulryan, and his wife Kathleen Mulryan, as part of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home Oral History Project. Interview conducted by Mary Cunningham. The interview records Peter's experiences and earliest memories, regarding his treatment with his foster family in County Galway, following his leaving St. Marys Mother and baby Home, Tuam, as a young child. Peter discusses his experiences in school in Tuam as a child; his later working life and education, his relationship and family with his wife, Kathleen; how he discovered that he was born in the Tuam Moter and Baby Home; the role of Catherine Corless; experiences of meeting his birth-mother at the the Magdalene Laundry in Galway, as well as details of his work and legal challenges in order to secure his own records as well as more information regarding his sister, also born in the Tuam Mother and Baby Home.
Date Issued 03/03/2021
Resource Type Sound recording
Archival Record Id TOHP
Publisher University of Galway
Extent 0.0605787037037037
Topic Peter Mulryan,Tuam Mother and Baby Home,Mother and Baby Home,Oral History
Geographic Tuam,Galway,Ireland
Temporal Twentieth century
Genre Sound recording
Creator / Author Name Mary Cunningham