Embedded Files
Activity
Activity
Interview with P.J. Haverty,
University of Galway,
Asset Id 17091, Archival Record Id TOHP.
Instructions
Instructions
Having listened to the audio from P.J. Haverty, review the pre-listening supports for teachers and students below.
Individually listen to one other piece of audio provided below.
Consider and respond to the questions in the downloadable support.
In your groups, share and note your responses.
Nominate one person to give feedback to the main room.
Step 1: Review the two supports
Step 1: Review the two supports
Step 2: Listen to one of the audios below
Step 2: Listen to one of the audios below
Catherine Corless
Historian
Discusses her research process into the Tuam Mother and Baby home.
Teresa O'Sullivan
Survivor Testimony
(Tuam Oral History Project).
Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley
Senior Lecturer in Galway University.
Teaches undergraduate modules on children and the state, gender in Irish history, twentieth-century Britain, British social movements and the family in modern Ireland.
Daniel MacSweeney
Director of the Authorised Intervention Tuam. Former ICRC Envoy on Missing Persons in the Caucasus from 2021-2023, the ICRC’s Head of Protection Operations from 2016-2021.
Step 3: Consider the following approached to using oral testimony.
Step 3: Consider the following approached to using oral testimony.
Which approach would suit your classroom context? Why? Can you suggest your own approach?
Pauses: stop the recording at key moments for discussion or for students to reflect
Play in full and pause: at key moments during the second listening and pose questions
Promote active listening: clear the desk
Effective questions: have preplanned questions
Note-making: free-hand, sketching, mind-mapping, etc.
Step 4: How would you use and adapt these supports to suit your classroom context?
Questions
What considerations would have to be taken into account before playing audio of this nature to students?
Which approach would suit your classroom context? Why?
What strategies would you include to support and stretch students with your chosen approach?
Further supports
Further supports
Timeline of life for women in 20th Century Ireland
Link to the NCCA History materials on the Mother and Baby homes
Link to the NCCA History materials on the Mother and Baby homes
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