Item HSH-18739/1/259032 - Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 47 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 19 July 1969 [tracks 1–5]
Recorded in the house of Eddie Butcher, Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, from Robert Butcher junior (age about 48), son of Eddie’s elder brother Robert (deceased) and his brother John Butcher junior (age about 45), 21 July 1969 [tracks 6–8]

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Track 1, speech in English Tracks 2-5;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 2;
Butcher, John, singing in English Track 6;
Butcher, Robert, singing in English Tracks 7-8

Running Order:
1. Father Tom O’Neill (There were a widow lived in this town and she reared three darling sons...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Talk about the song ‘Father Tom O’Neill, speech / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Eddie Butcher, speech in English
3. Mouse, man and a woman, story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
4. ‘Oh what a darkness!’, story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
5. The minister and the big family, story [clipped: should end ‘...if you brought her up about dinner-time you’d get her hame at night’] , story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English [end of session] [END OF BAND ONE]
6. The Arranmore disaster (‘Good people dear, pray lend an ear, I’ll tell you one and all...’), song [learnt from a ballot] / John Butcher junior, singing in English [session continued from 6910]
7. Mulroy Bay (‘When the golden sun was setting far behind the ocean blue...’), song / Robert Butcher junior, singing in English
8. Greencastle shore (‘From Derry quay we sailed away, it being in the month of May...’), song / Robert Butcher junior, singing in English [session continued on 6902] [END OF BAND TWO]