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Interview with Aileen Daly

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Date

4 Feb 1988 - 04 Feb 1988

By

Daly, Aileen Winifred, 1917-1992

Reference

OHInt-0048/02

Description

Aileen Connor was born in Dunedin. Discusses her family and strict Catholic upbringing, church socials, her fear of religion and her parents. Discusses her mother's talents as a tailor, her grooming and Aileen Daly's views on clothes and appropriate dressing. Talks about her father Bertrand Stanislaus, his political beliefs and job at Hallensteins, her opportunities as a child, the family home and the Depression years. Discusses leaving school, Karitane nursing care and her mother's health.

Compares the lack of sex education during her youth with more recent trends. Discusses being dux at primary school, wanting to do clerical study at secondary school and the Dominican Convent in Dunedin. Talks about her job in the clothing department of the DIC in Dunedin, social life, alcohol and double standards. Discusses her job as salaries and wage manager for EMI, Lower Hutt from 1957-1987.

Recalls her husband, his tuberculosis infection after World War II, drinking and the deaths of two of their children from tubercular meningitis. Discusses difficult living conditions, sewing, to subsidise the family wage, negativity towards working mothers of young children and working at Kirkcaldie and Stains.

Talks about her surviving daughter and son, attitudes to life and age, the advent of her love of marching and positions held in the Wellington Marching Association. Talks about the role of chief recorder and judge, marching competitions, the satisfaction of marching, commitment, technical skill and its competitive nature.

Discusses the development of marching by Roly Hill, Joe Meldrum and Bill Smith, the magazine `Quick March' and the heyday of marching. Describes retirement, family and voluntary work.

Venue - Wellington : 1988

Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe

Venue - Karori, Wellington

Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004155-OHC-004157; LC-2328-LC-2330; LC-3206-LC-3208

Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration.

Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-1639 and OHDL-000578.

Additional description

Alternative form available: Listening copies available at LC-2328 to LC-2330 and LC-3206 to LC-3208

Both printed and digital versions of the transcript are available

Use/Reproduction

Public use requires the written permission of the donor and the interviewee Copyright: Judith Fyfe

Access restrictions

Restricted - Content cannot be accessed without permission - Requires written permission of both the donor and interviewee

Part of

The Matriarchs Oral History Project

Format

3 C60 cassette(s), 1 transcript(s), 1 Electronic document(s), 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration, Oral histories, Electronic records (Digital records), Electronic documents, Equipment used: Marantz superscope recorder ; Sony neck microphones

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Interview with Aileen Daly, printed transcript

From: The Matriarchs Oral History Project

Reference: OHA-1639

Description: Quantity: 1 transcript(s).

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Interview with Aileen Daly, digital transcript

From: The Matriarchs Oral History Project

Reference: OHDL-000578

Description: Quantity: 1 transcript(s). Processing information: This file may have been migrated to a different format for purposes of preservation and/or access.