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Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 8 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Recorded from Joe Cooper (age about 65) and Mrs Nora Cooper at their house in Aughavilla, Warrenpoint, Co. Down, 30 June 1968 [tracks 1–7]

Performers:
Mrs. Nora Cooper, singing in English Tracks 1-2, 4-5
Mr. Joe Cooper (aged 65?), singing in English Tracks 3, 6-7, speech in English Track 6
Hugh Shields, speech in English Track 6

Running Order:
1. My father’s servant boy (‘You lovers all both great and small, pay attention to my theme...’), song [false start, v.1-2, text recommences and is completed] / Mrs Nora Cooper, singing in English [session continued from 6805]
2. How pleasant sweet birdies (‘How pleasant sweet birdies to wake in the dawn...’), song [fragmented] / Mrs Nora Cooper, singing in English
3. The wedding of Laghie M’Grath (‘Oh we had a terrible tear...’) / Joe Cooper, singing in English
4. The maid of the Mourne shore (‘Adieu green fields and flowery dales...’), song / Mrs Nora Cooper, singing in English
5. The bonny green tree (‘As I went a-walking one fine summer’s evening...’), song / Mrs Nora Cooper, singing in English
6. Talk about the song ; The Moygannon stream (‘I remember my young days, for younger I’ve been...’), speech ; song [words by Joe Cooper to the air of ‘The Muttonburn stream’] / Joe Cooper, speech in English, singing in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in Engish
7. My father’s big turnip (‘There’s a thorn tree that grows by the Moygannon river...’), song [words by Joe Cooper to the air of ‘Teddy O’Neal’] / Joe Cooper, singing in English [end of session] [END OF BAND ONE]

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 7 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Recorded from Mrs Nora Cooper at the house of Mr & Mrs Joe Cooper, Aughavilla, Warrenpoint, Co. Down, 30 June 1968 [tracks 1–9]

Performers:
Mrs. Nora Cooper, singing in English Tracks 1, 3, 5, 7–9 speech in English Tracks 2–4, 6–9
Hugh Shields, speech in English Tracks 2, 4

Running Order:
1. Squire Hall’s watery park (‘In the year eighteen hundred aye and forty-nine...’), song [learnt from John and Matt Rooney] / Mrs Nora Cooper, singing in English
2. Talk about the previous song ‘Squire Hall’s watery park’, speech / Mrs Nora Cooper, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
3. Willy Reilly, talk about it, song [air learnt from John and Matt Rooney, words learnt from Bessie Grant] ; speech / Mrs Nora Cooper, singing in English, speech in English
4. Talk of local singers, John and Matt Condy Rooney, speech / Mrs Nora Cooper, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
5. The Armagh Rover (‘I’m a rover from Armagh and the truth I will declare...’) / Mrs Nora Cooper, singing in English
6. Talk about the previous song, speech / Mrs Nora Cooper, speech in English
7. Talk about the following song ; Green gravel, speech ; song / Mrs Nora Cooper, singing in English, speech in English
8. Talk about the following song ; Cups and saucers, speech ; song / Mrs Nora Cooper, speech in English, singing in English
9. Talk about the following song ; Obadiah, speech ; song / Mrs Nora Cooper, speech in English, singing in English [session continued at 6806] [END OF BAND ONE]

Songs from Co. Down

Handwritten, typescript, and newspaper clippings of songs from Co. Down, mostly lyric sheets, but also a few with tonic sol-fa. Many transcribed by Nellie Walsh herself, but others clearly sent to her. Some attached to letters addressed to Walsh. One with a postcard, no words, no music, no address.

Recording 9. [videorecording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Armagh pipers club, uilleann pipes
Browne, Peter, Dublin, uilleann pipes
Morrison, Fred, Scotland, uilleann pipes
Dinkin, Tiarnan, Armagh, uilleann pipes
McLochlainn, Gearoid, poetry
Keenan, Paddy, Dublin, uilleann pipes
Vallely, Niall, Armagh, concertina
Vallely, Cillian, Armagh, uilleann pipes
Curran, Eamonn, Monaghan, uilleann pipes
Unidentified woman, uilleann pipes
Byrne, Claire, Armagh, uilleann pipes
Henderson, Jarlath, Armagh, uilleann pipes
Hannan, Robbie, Down, uilleann pipes

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 85 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Recorded in the house of James Cunningham (‘wee Jim’), Long Stone, Annalong, Co. Down, 24 July 1970 [tracks 1–5]
Recorded in the house of Charles McKibben (aged about 70), Annalong, Co. Down, 28 July 1970 [tracks 6–11]
Recorded in the house of William Haughton Crowe, Rostrevor, Co. Down, 30 July 1973 [track 12]

Performers:
Cunningham, Eileen, singing in English Tracks 1-2, 4-5
Cunningham, Mary Ann, singing in English Tracks 1-2, 4-5, speech in English Track 3;
McKibben, Chas, speech in English Track 6, singing in English Tracks 7-11;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 6, 12;
Haughton, William, speech in English Track 12

Running Order:
1. Girls, when you’re young (‘An old man came courting me,  Hey ding doorum day...’), song [learnt from radio or gramophone ?] / Eileen Cunningham (daughter of Jim), singing in English ; Mrs Mary Ann Cunningham (wife of Jim), singing in English [helping] [session continued from 7002]
2. The maid of Mourne Shore (‘Fare you well to Walmsley’s shady groves and her woods and her valleys green...’), song / Mary Ann Cunningham, singing in English ; / Eileen Cunningham, singing in English
3. Talk about the song ‘The maid of Mourne Shore’ / Mary Ann Cunningham, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
4. Rocking the baby to sleep (‘She is just forty-five and a tidy wee wife...’), song  / Mary Ann Cunningham, singing in English
5. The bonny Irish boy (‘His name I love to mention, in Ireland he was born, song [air: cf, Banks of Claudy] [end of session] [END OF BAND ONE]
6. Talk about new year customs / Charles McKibben, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
7. Londonderry on the banks of the Foyle (‘Sure I’ll sing you a song of a town of great fame...’), song / Charles McKibben, singing in English
8. Rathfriland on the hill (‘Sure if I was in Rathfriland now I’d call myself at home...’), song [fragment] / Charles McKibben, singing in English
9. The Annalong Volunteers (‘Oh you may talk about your Ballymartin boys...’), song [date 1913 or after, fragment, air: South Down militia] / Charles McKibben, singing in English
10. Queenstown (‘Will you give me your beautiful harbours...’), song [fragment] / Charles McKibben, singing in English
11. I was always light-hearted and airy, song [fragment, untraditional] ; talk about the song / Charles McKibben, singing in English, speech in English [end of session]
12. Story of the song ‘The maid of Mourne Shore’, speech / William Haughton Crowe, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English [end of session] [END OF BAND TWO]

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