Sound recordings and transcriptions of interviews by Joan Smith of Harry McShane, Marxist activist... 2.1 "Parents early" (side A); 2.2 (side B), [c1972]
Subjects of 2.1 include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): McShane’s parents, grandparents, siblings and other relatives, including their working lives; educational effect on McShane of attending religious and political debates and lectures on Glasgow Green and at other venues before First World War (15-19).
Subjects of 2.2 include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): teachers at St Margaret’s Roman Catholic school in Glasgow attended by McShane, including effective but brutal headmaster (1-3); McShane asking a Catholic lecturer about Catholicism and socialism when a schoolboy (4-5); lectures on Glasgow Green around 1907 in favour of free thought and science by Emmanuel Shinwell and others (6-7); sale of free thought and anti-religious publications by Joseph McCabe, R G Ingersoll, Robert Blatchford and others (7-8, 14); support by Glasgow branch of United Irish League for voting Labour rather than Liberal, in defiance of national policy (8-9); support for Irish Home Rule in Glasgow (9); involvement of three future Lord Provosts of Glasgow in unemployment agitation in 1908 (10-11); local Independent Labour Party activists (12-14); child-naming ceremonies at Kingston Socialist Sunday School, at which Socialist songs were sung (13); belief of Independent Labour Party in using democratic structures, including electoral organisation of trade unionists (14-16).
Interviewer faint on side 1.
Brand: unbranded C90.