Siobhan McHugh
ORAL HISTORIAN
WRITER
DOCUMENTARY-MAKER
Gay Wilson
Siobhan was appointed Lecturer in Journalism at the University of Wollongong from February 2008.
Siobhan is currently doing a doctorate in creative arts at the University of Wollongong on the topic of mixed marriage (between Catholics & Protestants, 1930s-1970).
The audio clip (right) is of Gay Wilson from Sydney, who grew up in a mixed marriage in the '40s.
John and Helen Haynes
Mixed Marriage - Podcast
Conference Paper presented at Monash University, August 2008. This 25' talk features audio clips from my oral history interviews on the controversies around marriage between Catholics and Protestants in Australia from the 1920s-80s.
John Haynes was disinherited by his Protestant father when he married Helen, a Catholic, in rural New South Wales, 1961.
The Aerobic Art of Interviewing
Siobhan's reflections on 25 years of interviewing punters and powerbrokers.
Beagle Bay: Irish nuns and Stolen Children
Siobhan's documentary was showcased as part of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Bringing Them Home report on the Stolen Generations.
My Story: Snowy – the diary of Eva Fischer
Siobhan was one of three writers in the Scholastic ‘My Story’ series on a panel about history and truth in children’s fiction. The Diary of Eva Fischer, describes a year in the life of an eleven year old girl whose father works on the Snowy Mountains scheme.