Mary Byrnes
Mary Byrnes & Tom Byrnes, Sydney, NSW provided details of some of the Australian tunes in this archive, as described by John Meredith.
"John Meredith recorded Mary Byrnes singing in 1954. She was then aged about seventy-three years and living in the Sydney suburb of Concord. She was of Irish-Australian descent, and had spent her early life on a farm at Springside, a small village near Orange, NSW. Her large repertoire was mostly of Irish derivation, for the Irish were numerous in the district." -- J Meredith, H Anderson, Folk Songs of Australia Vol 1, UNSW Press, 1967, p67-68.
There is a recording of Mary Byrnes interviewed by John Meredith and also Tom Byrnes, Mary Byrnes and Alf Fuller interviewed by John Meredith, in the National Library of Australia in Canberra, in which she talks, recites & sings.
