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Oral history interviews

This series contains 54 audio cassette tapes of oral history interviews conducted by a group of students during the summers of 1982 and 1983 as part of the Benevolent Irish Society's oral history project. The interviews cover a wide range of...

Oral history documentation and genealogies

This series consists of documentation for the interviews conducted for the Benevolent Irish Society's oral history project during the summers of 1982 and 1983. Files include informant consent forms, interview questions, and detailed intervie...

Photographs, negatives, and documentation

The series includes a few photographs of informants and homes of informants, landscape shots from the Emerald and Shamrock areas of PEI, and several photographs of St. Malachy's Church and cemetery in Kinkora. Negatives are also available fo...

Parish histories

This series contains historical information about twenty three Prince Edward Island parishes. The material appears to have been collected from informants during the course of the Benevolent Irish Society's oral history project.

Minutes

This series consists of the minutes of the Benevolent Irish Society for the period 1871 to 1880. During this period, meetings were held quarterly in the St. Andrew's Hall, St. Patrick's Hall, and St. Dunstan's Reading Room in Charl...

Interviews

This series contains 61 videocassettes of taped interviews with fiddle players from across Prince Edward Island. The interviews, which were conducted by Ken Perlman and filmed by volunteers, were often held in the kitchen or living room of the in...

Festivals, ceilidhs, and house parties

This series consists of 18 videocassettes filmed by Ken Perlman and his volunteer team during July and August 1992. The tapes include the 1992 Rollo Bay Fiddle Festival and Atlantic Fiddle Jamboree, as well as the house parties that followed each...

Project inventory and publicity

This series consists of a detailed inventory of the Gaelic field recording project conducted by Dr. John Shaw in 1987. The project inventory, created by Dr. Michael Kennedy in 2002, includes a preface, a brief history of Gaelic on Prince Edward I...

Field recordings and field notes

This series contains 33 reel-to-reel audio tapes and 3 videocassettes of interviews in Gaelic and English of twenty Islanders, including John MacLennan, the last fluent Gaelic speaker in PEI at that time. The interviews were conducted by Dr. Shaw ...

Local Histories : [ca. 1895, ca. 1965]

This series contains photocopies of two short local histories which Dr. Shaw appears to have collected while he was working on the Gaelic field recording project. These include a booklet celebrating the Strathalbyn Jubilee (ca. 1895) and a handw...