Interviews with Gillian Beecher in Cork, Ireland recorded on 13.02.2017 and 29.10.2017.|个人历史数据集|社会历史数据集

Mrs Gillian Beecher talks to her daughter Ruth about her home Dalmally on the Ballinlough road in Cork, Ireland and about her mother and sister. She talks about going to church 'socials,' i.e. dances, and her friends and boyfriends in the 1960s. She recalls the stigma of her mother’s suicide in 1958 and her time in the Baptist Church in Cork. In the second interview, Mrs Beecher talks about attending Rochelle School in Cork in the 1950s, about her first summer job and her first full-time job in a stockbroker’s office. She revisits her mother’s suicide and what she remembered of her mother and father meeting, and speaks again about her time in the Baptist Church. Mrs Beecher’s interviews were recorded in a nursing home in Cork in 2017. She had been diagnosed with vascular dementia in April 2016 and moved into the nursing home in November of that year. Her memory was starting to fail so there is some repetition and her sentences are shorter and less fluid than they had been. The content of her interviews, however, was not different to when she had previously recounted these memories.