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- 02-Nov-67 (Creation)
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Stokes, Patrick, speech in English A1-3, 5-7, B3;
storytelling in English A3, 5-6, B1-2;
singing in English A4, B5-8;
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English A1;
Stokes, Mary Ellen, singing in English B4
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1. Speech: Interview with Pat Stokes about his life story - growing up; learning his trade; travelling; working; his shyness on account of poverty; smoking clay pipes. [As supplied information, plus: being sent to Letterfrack; regret that he never got any education; spending money foolishly; demoralisation and shame due to impoverishment; his mother drinking pints of Guinness and smoking a pipe; smoking briars and tea during the war; rationing; father an ex-soldier from World War 1.]
2. Speech: Untitled [Conversation about music and storytelling in the families of Patrick and Mary Ellen Stokes; the Irish language]
3. Speech: Story about fund-raising priests.
4. Speech: Story about bacon - Paddy the Irishman, etc
5. Song: Erin's Lovely Lee
6. Speech: Story about the shaving ghost
7. Speech: Story, untitled, unfinished [END OF BAND ONE]
8. Speech: Tale about haunted house and the tramp
9. Speech: Goose and turkey tale
10. Speech: Remembrances of Johnny Cassidy and his habits
11. Song: Mother the Queen of My Heart
12. Song: Long Way from Bangor to Donaghadee
13. Song: Untitled [The Galway Shawl]
14. Song: McDonagh the Fighting Thrush
15. Song: She Moved Through the Fair [END OF BAND TWO]
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- Irish
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This reel which is one in a series of one hundred 5 and one 10 reel was donated to the Archive by Alen MacWeeney. The material is for the most part exclusively drawn from the travelling community. Around seventy seven of the reels contain material of relevance to the Archive's collection.
Imported from Reeldubs July 2013
Dubbed to DAT May 1997
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Spoken information on tape ; See related ephemera ; Carton: `15B-1 / STORIES / STOKES / NOV 2 '67' ; Spool: `15B-1 / 15B-2'
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- English