Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 15B [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 1
- AMW-18694/258750/01
- Part
- 02-Nov-67
Part of Alen MacWeeney Collection
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