[Oral history interview with Katherine Donohue] [sound recording]. 1982-1983.

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[Oral history interview with Katherine Donohue] [sound recording]. 1982-1983.

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Series of three interviews conducted by Eugenia Kaledin with Katherine Donohue on December 10 and 18, 1982, and January 20, 1983. Donohue discusses her emigration to the United States, employment, and discrimination. She recalls growing up in the West of Ireland on the Sligo/Mayo border; discusses poverty, farming, schooling, and politics. In the second interview, she discusses her grandmother, mother, education, religion, Druids, and relates the story of Queen Meabh, a warrior queen in Irish mythology, among other stories.

3 sound cassettes (210 min.) : analog.

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Kaledin, Eugenia

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A graduate of Radcliffe College, Kaledin received her doctorate in American Studies from Boston University in 1977. She taught in the Adult Day Program at Northeastern University (1964-1980) and is the author of The Education of Mrs. Henry Adams (1982) and Mothers and More: American Women in the 1950s (1984). She was a founding member of the Alliance of Independent Scholars, an organization based in Cambridge, Mass., that sought to sustain the scholarly pursuits of those unaffiliated with any ac...

Donohue, Katherine,

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Katherine Donohue grew up in County Mayo, Ireland and emigrated to the United States in 1910. She worked as a domestic in the United States, married a fellow Irish immigrant, had two sons and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From the description of [Oral history interview with Katherine Donohue] [sound recording]. 1982-1983. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 599860904 ...