Artie Berrigan [Int 1]

This is David MacKenzie interviewing Artie Berrigan at Sacred Heart Home in Charlottetown, where they discuss his family leaving Ireland, their occupations, Scottish-Irish relations, religion, entertainment, graves, and marriages.

Interview

MacKenzie, David

Berrigan, Artie

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1983-06-09

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

00:10:07

Introduction
Grandparents, 6 brothers, Ontario, Boston, New Zealand, PEI land from landlords.
Sewing grain by hand, scythe, bought a reaper, put out sheath, didnt bind. Left farmland to Arties father Michael, bought land for Pat, bought farm
Married Catherine, Wiltshire, her father Martin, double relations
Left Ireland because of bloody block, large crowd left
Tape drops out
Discussion about Scottish-Irish relationships, great relationships, no radio, neighbors visiting, religion didnt interfere, dig graves in each others graveyards, work together. Fights over election time, liquor, terrible drinking. No time to drink during regular season. Oxen pulling carts
Discussion about social gatherings, tea parties, fights at get togethers, jumping other people, fighting whoever was around, Scottish, English, Irish
Grandparents, Irish people didnt settle all together, arrive at different times, Scottish around too, never worried
Protestants dug his fathers grave, dispels stories about fights
Story about a horse reaching over a fence, stealing grain, farmer gets after it
Arranged marriages on the boat, someone to cook, to take care of someone. First lived in a shack, hard times, hard working

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