Excerpts from an interview with Joan Spriggs about divorce. For this interview's catalogue entry click here.

Excerpt 1: About the Millfield cottages built for the Sunbeam workers.

Excerpt 2: Emigration narrative.

Excerpt 3: About the mother working full time and raising a family with an alcoholic husband.

Excerpt 4: Opinion about unmarried mothers getting more money than married ones.

Excerpt 5: Opinions about nuns, people and various schools in Cork.

Excerpt 6: Dying mother giving instructions on how to be laid out.

Excerpt 7: About women who are midwives and also layout the dead.

Excerpt 8: Wakes vs funeral homes.

Excerpt 9: Narrative about the first divorce referendum (1986).

Excerpt 10: Opinion about and against divorce.

Excerpt 11: Opinion: divorce should be only for people with no children.

Excerpt 12: Family history narrative about evictions and emigration.

Excerpt 13: Opinion about contraception and class and the Church.

Excerpt 14: Narrative and opinion about a woman who died in childbirth after being refused contraception on a priest's order.

Excerpt 15: About orphan children sent to Good Shepherd's Orphanages.

Excerpt 16: About children born out of wedlock stigmatised in the Good Shepherd's orphanages.

Excerpt 17: About babies taken away from unmarried mothers in the Good Shepherds.

Excerpt 18: Opinion about the importance of having a father in children's lives whether divorced or not.

Excerpt 19: Different generations opinion about marriage and virginity.

Excerpt 20: Opinion about rearing children and disciplining them.

Excerpt 21: About having children late

Excerpt 22: About non-existing sex education and euphemisms for pregnancy (she has a child at college).

04/03/1996

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