Item HSH-18739/1/259017 - Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 32 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Recorded from Miss Madge MacRory (aged about 65) at her house in Glencolmkille, Co. Donegal, 10 September 1968 [tracks 1–5]
Recorded from Alphonsus Ward (headmaster of Carrick National School, aged about 55) at his house in Teelin, Co. Donegal, 10 September 1968 [track 6]
Recorded from Patrick Heekin (aged about 52), of Garraros, Glencolumkille, in Gillespie’s public house, Main Street, Cashel, Glencolumkille, Co. Donegal, 10 September 1968 [track 7]

Performers:
Miss Madge MacRory, singing in English Tracks 1–2, singing in Irish and English Track 3, speech in Irish and English Track 4, singing in Irish Track 5;
Alphonsus Ward, singing in Irish Track 6;
Patrick Heekin, singing in English Track 7

Running Order:
1. Glenswilly (‘Attention pay, my countrymen, till I relate the news...’), song / Miss Madge MacRory (aged about 65), singing in English
2. [The Carrick courtship] (‘As I roved out one morning fair, it being on the first of July...’), song [words by local man from Lurahork] / Madge MacRory, singing in English
3. My match is a-making (‘My match is a-making since there last night...’), song [macaronic] / Madge MacRory, singing in English and Irish
4. Spoken text of the macaronic song ‘My match is a-making’, recitation / Madge MacRory, speech in English and Irish
5. An sean-duine dóite (‘Tharraing [?] mé mo shean-duine isteach ins an chófra...’), song [one-verse fragment] / Madge MacRory, singing in Irish [end of session]
6. An buinneán buí (‘O ’s a bhuinneáin bhuí, ’sé mo léan do luí...’), Alphonsus Ward, singing in Irish [end of session] [END OF BAND ONE]
7. Down by the riverside (‘As I roved out one evening fair down by yon riverside...’), song / Patrick Heekin, singing in English [end of session] [END OF BAND TWO]