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Audio Recording Interview with Mary O'Reilly about her work in the Folk Fair with Irish Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois, part 3

Interview with Mary O'Reilly about her work in the Folk Fair with Irish Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois, part 3

About this Item

Title

  • Interview with Mary O'Reilly about her work in the Folk Fair with Irish Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois, part 3

Names

  • Moloney, Mick, 1944- (Collector)
  • O'Reilly, Mary (Interviewee)

Created / Published

  • Chicago, Illinois, May 4, 1977

Headings

  • -  Irish Americans
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Illinois -- Chicago

Genre

  • Ethnography
  • Interviews

Notes

  • -  Mary O'Reilly, part 3
  • -  Part 3 of 5-part interview with Mary O'Reilly about her work in the Folk Fair with Irish Exhibition, and other topics, including attitudes of Irish Americans toward folk crafts, persistence and lack of persistence of some Irish traditions in America, Irish American roles in industry; topic sequence includes charter air travel back to Ireland; about the generations, what class, ages; about the attraction of festivals, motives, cheap prices for travel; about the negative effect of the Northern Irish situation; about the loack of impetus to keep traditional Irish crafts going in Chicago; about traditional Irish craft and how it is financially impractical; there are products imported from Ireland but a small market here for the more esoteric crafts, the reasons that Mary O’Reilly buys traditional products; about the attitude of Irish Americans to Folk Fair exhibit, Irish Americans lack knowledge about Irish culture, e.g. literature, the older generations of Irish in America had different value systems, heavily tied in with the church, Irish Americans used to be the police but not any more; children born here become American through peer association and schools, and only have St. Patrick's Day Irishness; about the Irish Fellowship Club in Chicago, an elite group that included Mayor Daley, only met once a year.; about the Irish Tourist Board, diplomats, some lecture series and elite cultural events; about the way that the Irish-born view Irish Americans; Mary O’Reilly's own biases, she is proud to be Irish if successful; about the persistence (or lack) of patterns of behavior around Irish rites of passage and festivals in Chicago; Mary O’Reilly thinks not, theses died out 40 years ago; Roman Catholicism is more standardized now and today Irish Americans are no different in religious observance than other ethnic groups, no particular devotion to Irish saints, but novenas are still popular, and First Friday Devotions.

Medium

  • audiocassette, C-60

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1981/004: AFS 20576a
  • MBRS Shelflist: RYA 0638
  • Field Project Identifier: CH77-T053-C

Source Collection

  • Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line: Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Moloney, Mick, and Mary O'Reilly. Interview with Mary O'Reilly about her work in the Folk Fair with Irish Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois, part 3. Chicago, Illinois, May 4, 1977. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20576a/.

APA citation style:

Moloney, M. & O'Reilly, M. (1977) Interview with Mary O'Reilly about her work in the Folk Fair with Irish Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois, part 3. Chicago, Illinois, May 4. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20576a/.

MLA citation style:

Moloney, Mick, and Mary O'Reilly. Interview with Mary O'Reilly about her work in the Folk Fair with Irish Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois, part 3. Chicago, Illinois, May 4, 1977. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20576a/>.