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Ireland: Singing in English With digital objects
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Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 15B [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 1

Speech: Interview with Pat Stokes about his life story - growing up; learning his trade; travelling; working; his shyness on account of poverty; smoking clay pipes. [As supplied information, plus: being sent to Letterfrack; regret that he never got any education; spending money foolishly; demoralisation and shame due to impoverishment; his mother drinking pints of Guinness and smoking a pipe; smoking briars and tea during the war; rationing; father an ex-soldier from World War 1.]

MacWeeney, Alen - speech in English
Stokes, Patrick - speech in English

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