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ORAL HISTORIAN
WRITER
DOCUMENTARY-MAKER
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Siobhan McHugh
Born in Dublin in 1957, Siobhan McHugh graduated from University College Dublin with a B. Sc and worked as an editor, writer, and radio producer, before emigrating to Australia in 1985.
An award-winning writer and documentary-maker, Siobhan has broad experience of oral history as a practitioner, teacher and consultant. Her oral histories range across social, cultural, scientific, environmental, multicultural and political themes and have been made into books, films, TV and radio documentaries, CDs, a stage play, and featured on-line.
Siobhan has won the NSW Premier's literary award for non-fiction and been shortlisted twice for the NSW Premier's History awards. Her radio documentaries have been shortlisted for a Walkley, a Eureka science award and the United Nations Media Peace Prize.
Documentaries
Documentaries Siobhan has co-written include Echo of a Distant Drum, a series for ABC TV
on the Irish in Australia and The Irish Empire for SBS TV on the Irish diaspora. She has published six books, including The Snowy: The People Behind the Power, which won the NSW Premier's Douglas Stewart Award for Non-fiction in 1990.
Current
Siobhan has been 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 and Protestants, 1930s-197
 0).The audio clip below is of Gay Wilson from Sydney, who grew up in a mixed marriage in the '40s and '50s and has contributed her story to Siobhan's work. Brought up Catholic, Gay married a Presbyterian in 1960, against his family's wishes. The couple enjoyed a very happy marriage for 35 years, raising their 4 children as Catholics. Gay's husband converted to Catholicism on his death-bed in what she terms an act of love.
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