![Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 29B [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 1](/images/generic-icons/audio.png){kind=icon}
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- [November 1967] (Creation)
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Unidentified performer, speech in English A1;
Cassidy, Johnny, speech in English A1;
Stokes, Patrick, storytelling in English A2
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1. Speech: Recollections of storytelling with his father - about disciplining children and dogs, etc - their rearing
2. Speech: The Invisible Man - and other ghosts - eng. woods and experiences - ghost tricksters and misfortunes of mockery [[Stories and anecdotes, including: a story about a parrot; drunken man swims a river; how horses swim; selling and taming a wild horse; a sea-horse that returned to the sea after being tamed; story about a mermaid who marries and has a family, and later returns to the sea (cf An Mhaighdean Mhara); the invisible man; becoming invisible by using a special ring; experiences when stranded in a wood in Roscommon; story about a fake ghost] [END OF BAND ONE]
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- English
- Irish
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This reel which is one in a series of one hundred 5 and one 10 reel was loaned to the Archive for copying in May 1997. 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 Archives collection.
Digitised to CDR from the original reels because of problems with the DAT tape.
Imported from Reeldubs July 2013
Dubbed to DAT May 1997
Documentation:
Spoken information on tape ; See related ephemera ; Carton: `CASSIDY / STORIES / 29B / NOV '67' ; Spool: `29B-1'
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- English