Item AOH-18693/1/258668 - Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 61 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
O'Brien, Aly, speech in English A1-11;
O'Hara, Aidan, incidental speech in English throughout;
[background music throughout]

Running Order:
1. Speech [impressions of Ireland] / Aly O’Brien, speech in English
2. Speech [why they left Ireland, many tradesmen and shopkeepers Irish, disputing the impression that immigrants left because of oppression] / Aly O’Brien, speech in English
3. Speech [Aly's people were farmers, came over around 1800-1820] / Aly O’Brien, speech in English
4. Speech [Irish Youngsters, a stopping off point before going to Boston, hiring men] / Aly O’Brien, speech in English
5. Speech [Aly's grandfather clearing the land of trees] / Aly O’Brien, speech in English
6. Speech [living conditions in the early years, grain brought in from New England, early houses known as the 'tilt', description of houses and their construction] / Aly O’Brien, speech in English
7. Speech [farming methods, crops, oats a suitable crop, every household had a small garden, Harry Peddigo? bought butter] / Aly O’Brien, speech in English
8. Speech [the families of Freshwater Valley] / Aly O’Brien, speech in English
9. Speech [story told by Long Art Neil about Jimmy O'Leary] / Aly O’Brien, speech in English
10. Speech [the fairy meadow, fairies playing hurling, sweet music heard, unlucky to build a house on a path, being given bread to put in your pocket, fairies at the crossroads, thumb and forefinger in the sign of the cross, three drops of milk, never walk over a plough, earth thrown over the plough horse] / Aly O’Brien, speech in English
11. Speech [words from Gaelic retained in the English language, ‘pure Irish’ versus dialect adaptations, Aly's grandmother would throw an ember over the roof to protect the house from fire] / Aly O’Brien, speech in English [END OF BAND ONE]