|
|
|
|
|
| Title |
Helping each other in hard times. |
| |
| Description |
The usual way in the country when nobody paid anything for anything really, they swapped y'know? And if you got it this year; it might've been next year before you swapped back. But you swapped when you had. They swapped seed potatoes for instance and they swapped settings of eggs, the women did, y'know to get a change of breed. They sometimes even swapped roosters. About the only thing that would ever have been traded for money would have been an animal. Normally you exchanged the same thing or you borrowed and paid back when you had. For instance, supposin' somebody had missed out on their hay and come March or April were short of hay and somebody else had. They might buy from their neighbour but the chances were they borrowed, and come the followin' year they would hope to have a surplus and repay. That was the more usual system, simply because there wasn't money, there just wasn't. It would've been very rare for anybody to have a few pounds.
Ref: 90-04-24.
Interviewer: Sandra Matchett, Fermanagh County Museum.
© Fermanagh County Museum. |
| |
| Speaker |
Robert Thompson |
| |
| Sound |
90-04-24.mp3
|
|
