Mary Byrnes
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Jump to navigationJump to searchMary Byrnes & Tom Byrnes, Sydney, NSW provided details of some of the Australian tunes in this archive.
The National Library of Australia holds aural recordings of interviews conducted with Mary Byrnes. She was interviewed by:
- John Meredith in 1955, [1]. Also available online [2]
- John Meredith in 1955, [3], Also available online [4]
- John Meredith in 1955, [5], "Edwin Goodwin, Mary Byrnes, Jack Luscombe, Ina Popplewell, Jim Bourke, Joseph Cashmere, Colin Lee, Jack Lee and Mac McCullock interviewed", Also available online [6]
"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.
