Cletus Murphy

This is Geoff LePage interviewing Cletus Murphy in Charlottetown PEI. Cletus discusses his grandparents family, talks about storytelling and ghosts influence on the Irish. Cletus also tells about famine, church and politics, the Scottish, Irish, and French, and social gatherings.

Interview

LePage, Geoff

Murphy, Cletus

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1983-07-02

Held by UPEI Library — SMI-ARCH 1983-001. Series 1

00:57:52

Families fond of storytelling, people dont always believe the stories, but his remembers people enjoying scaring the young kids with stories
Ghost influences and the Irish, the English also liked ghost stories but he thinks theyve picked that up in Ireland
His father and mothers families came from the famine, he wonders how they managed after having brought so little with them and building up lives in a short period of time, hes impressed with his parents/grandparents making a life and being successful after being famine people
Interviewer asks about famous people, Cletus says his family was tradespeople, not professionals. His father was a school teacher but didnt pursue that (go any further with education to ministry or law). Many boys in his family but no famous people
The Boston Irish
The role of church and politics in his fathers life and grandfathers life
Interviewer asks about Irish and Scottish relations, Cletus said if anything that the Irish and French don’t mix so well, which he found odd
Racism involving the Irish
Religion on the island and differences in religions
People loved to "scrap" at dances
Cletus says differences didnt come from where people are from, more so what their religion was
The fights was more for entertainment than anything else, compared it to hockey games

Held by UPEI Library — SMI-ARCH 1983-001. Series 1