Lee Cusack interviewed by Chris Sullivan in the Chris Sullivan folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 1897767
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Cusack, Lee, 1921-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research; written permission required for public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 1985 Jan. 17
- 3 tape reels (ca. 95 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono ; 7 in.
- Series:
- Chris Sullivan folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. Lee Cusack speaks of the Irish community around Boorowa, NSW up to World War II, tells stories and sings. He talks about his family background; Galong monastery; Ryan family; Dan Slattery; annual Queensland droving trips; local music making, story-telling. Yarns: motorbike that would not stop; snake squashed under wheat bags; tree cutting. Conversation: step dancing in the heat; uncle's fiddle & concertina playing, murder stories; haunted places; local nicknames; black Irish; local boasts; Shea family and their music; expression "curling it" to denote finishing a piece of music; Sorley's vaudeville show in Boorowa; Gaelic singing & speaking in district; Irish-born locals; usage of Irish words; Irish songs; Ned Kelly; Ben Hall; O'Brien the snake catcher; Boorowa St Patricks Day gathering; grass wrestling; dancing; parade; Orangemen; travelling to the ball; banshee or cooee bird; wakes, death superstitions; Irish attitude to joining up for wars; men marrying in their 30s; waltzing competition at sheep dipping; step dancing boots; reading The Bulletin.
- Full contents:
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- Yarns: ghost in a cemetery
- on being Irish
- Singing: I'm a jolly ploughman (fragment)
- Repeats some words of comic song about a christening of twins
- Wild colonial boy (fragment)
- My wife's got the fever (fragment)
- The red flag.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on 17 January 1985, at "Oakleigh" via Murringo, N.S.W.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Transcript available (1 p.)
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Sullivan, Chris (Christopher Daniel), 1953-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Chris Sullivan folklore collection.
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- Until 2055 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1985
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