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Biographical Note

Phyllis Powell was born Phyliss Igoe in 1938 in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland. She worked as a nurse and a midwife. She married Timothy Powell in 1968. They have two children. She was a founding member of the Tara Association in New Jersey in 1971.

Scope and Contents

This interview was conducted by Miriam Nyhan at Phyllis Powell's home in North Brunswick, New Jersey on November 2, 2014. The interview covers Powell's childhood in Ireland and her working life in Ireland and the United States (US). Powell discusses her family, her parents's working lives, and her education. She discusses her training as a nurse and midwife in England and Scotland in the 1950s and 1960s. She describes her work as a nurse in a hospital in County Galway and her decision to immigrate to the US in the early 1960s. She discusses meeting her husband and deciding to remain in the US. She recounts the fact that she and her husband always intended to return to Ireland, the reasons why they remained in the US, and the fact that they visited Ireland every year with their sons. She discusses her work to establish the Tara Association in New Jersey in 1971, her work as the first treasurer, and the work of the organization.