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Catholic and Protestant neighbours. |
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Mrs M. J. Phair: Before the Welfare State come in people depended more on each other, y'know? And then it come in, people got independent.
Interviewer: Well did, did you, y'know before this welfare state, did you have more or less contact with your Catholic neighbours?
Mrs M. J. Phair: Oh we’re very great, always with them. They would have come down even at that time of the thrasher you were talking about. They would all come down here and help. They’d come down and help to gather potatoes and staff here would go up and help them. That time there was more the neighbours, mixed more together, now they don’t.
Interviewer: Well, why do you think they don’t mix so much now?
Mrs M. J. Phair: I don’t know. I think the young people are all out working and no one has time for each other. That’s just the truth of it. That time people depended more on each other, y'know? But now they don’t.
Interviewer: Are they any happier do you think?
Mrs M. J. Phair: I don’t think they are. [Laughing]
Ref: 99-053-113.
Interviewer: Joan Duffy, Women's Oral History Project.
© Fermanagh County Museum and Clogher Historical Society. |
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M. J. Phair |
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99-053-113.mp3
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