Mary O'Sullivan and Timothy O'Sullivan, Full Interview

Collection: This recording is part of the Queens College Irish Studies Oral History Project Records at the Archives at Queens Library and is available in digital audio.

Date: Time Period: 1930 - 2015; 2015-01-18; Interview recorded: January 18, 2015 Material: Digital audio recording made using Zoom H2 digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth. Dimension: Total running time: 0:33:52

Creator: Mary and Timothy O'Sullivan interviewed by Eileen Sprague Identifier: aql:18076 osullivan_full

Description: Mary and Timothy O’Sullivan talk about their respective journeys in immigrating to New York. Mary talks about growing up on a small farm on Ireland and coming to America by boat. She talks about all the different places she lived in Queens. Timothy talks about how he came to New York by plane. He started working at the New York Telephone Company and stayed until he retired in 1988. They both talk about how much they loved going to the dance halls in the city, the Irish associations they joined and are still a part of, and about their children and grandchildren. They reminisce about their respective first trips back to Ireland and how much of a journey that was. Recorded for the Queens College Irish Studies Oral History Project. Only edited excerpts from oral history interviews are available online. For access to full interviews, contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org

Title : Mary O'Sullivan and Timothy O'Sullivan, Full Interview

Collection : aql:20455; aql:18449

Creator : Mary and Timothy O'Sullivan interviewed by Eileen Sprague

Date : Time Period: 1930 - 2015; 2015-01-18; Interview recorded: January 18, 2015

Summary/Description : Mary and Timothy O’Sullivan talk about their respective journeys in immigrating to New York. Mary talks about growing up on a small farm on Ireland and coming to America by boat. She talks about all the different places she lived in Queens. Timothy talks about how he came to New York by plane. He started working at the New York Telephone Company and stayed until he retired in 1988. They both talk about how much they loved going to the dance halls in the city, the Irish associations they joined and are still a part of, and about their children and grandchildren. They reminisce about their respective first trips back to Ireland and how much of a journey that was. Recorded for the Queens College Irish Studies Oral History Project. Only edited excerpts from oral history interviews are available online. For access to full interviews, contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org

Subject : Irish American families; Irish American older people; Irish Americans; Emigration and immigration

Relation : This recording is part of the Queens College Irish Studies Oral History Project Records at the Archives at Queens Library and is available in digital audio.

Rights : Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.

Coverage : Locations discussed: Woodside, Queens, NY; Catskills (N.Y.); Ireland Woodside (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.) Catskill Mountains (N.Y.) Ireland

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using Zoom H2 digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth.; Total running time: 0:33:52

Identifier : aql:18076 osullivan_full