Item HSH-18739/1/259087 - Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 112 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Recorded in the car of Hugh Shields outside the house of Harry Alcorn, Horn Head, Dunfanaghy, Co. Donegal, 17 August 1977 [tracks 1-10)
Recorded at the house of Joe McCafferty, Derryconor, Co. Donegal, 30 July 1977 [copied from 7701] [track 11]
Recorded at the house of Joe McCafferty, Derryconor, Co. Donegal, 17 August 1977, from his uncle's widow Kate (Cait) McCafferty [track 12]
Recorded in the house of Barney Beag Gallagher (67), Gortgearra, Arranmore Island. His mother Biddy Bheag Néillí (aged 89) lives with them. 24 August 1977 [tracks 13-14]
Recorded in the house of Dan Phaidí Hiudan Rogers and his wife Neilí Bheag Rogers, Torries, Arranmore Island, Co. Donegal, 24 August 1977 [tracks 15-18]
Recorded in the house of Joe Phil Beag Rogers (77, a native of Inishkeeragh), Ballard, Arranmore, 25 August 1977. [track 19]

Performers:
Alcorn, Harry, singing in English Tracks 1-2, 4-10, speech in English 3;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 3,17;
McCafferty, Joe, singing in Irish Track 11, speech in Irish Track 12;
McCafferty, Cáit (Kate) , speech in Irish Track 12;
Gallagher, Biddy Bheag Néillí, speech in Irish Tracks 13-14;
Rogers, Neilí Bheag, singing in Irish Tracks 15, 18, speech in English Track 17;
Rogers, Dan Phaidí Hiudan, singing in Irish 16, speech in English 17;
Rogers, Joe Phil Beag, singing in English Track 19

Running Order:
1. Largymore (‘It’s of an Irish lad that I’m going to tell you’...), song / Harry Alcorn, singing in English
2. The Banks of Newfoundland, song (‘You landsmen and you seamen bold of high and low degree ...’) / Harry Alcorn, singing in English
3. Talk about the song 'The Banks of Newfoundland', speech / Harry Alcorn, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
4. The Shoals of Herring (‘It being on a bright and a pleasant day...’) [unfinished], song / Harry Alcorn, singing in English
5. When I was young without care or sorrow, song / Harry Alcorn, singing in English
6. Going to Mass last Sunday (‘Oh, courting is a pleasure between my love and I...’), song / Harry Alcorn, singing in English
7. Sailing away from Ireland [Dear old Granuaile] (‘There’s a farm[?] in old Ireland in a place called sweet Tralee...’), song / Harry Alcorn, singing in English
8. I'm a man you won't meet every day (‘Oh, fill up your glasses and have what you may...’), song [fragment] / Harry Alcorn, singing in English
9. Deep Sheephaven Bay (‘Away behind the Rosses hills the sun had sunk to rest...’), song / Harry Alcorn, singing in English
10. Cashel's [?] Well (‘Come all you loyal [jovial?] lovers and listen to my song...’), song [fragmen]t / Harry Alcorn, singing in English [end of session]
11. Seacht ndolás na Maighdine Muire (‘Na seacht ndólás a fuair an Mhaighdean Muire ... ‘) [copy of 7701 cassette], song / Joe McCafferty, singing in Irish [END OF BAND ONE]
12. Rosary, prayer / Joe McCafferty speech in Irish ; Cáit McCafferty, speech in Irish [end of session]
13. Seacht subhailce na Maighdine Muire, prayer / Biddy Bheag Néillí Gallagher, speech in Irish
14. Dán na hAoine (‘Seo an Aoine, seo an Aoine...’), prayer [fragment] / Biddy Bheag Néillí Gallagher, speech in Irish [end of session]
15. Buachaill ón Éirne (‘Buachaill ón Éirne mé is bréagfaidh mé an cailín deas óg...’), song / Neilí Bheag Rogers, singing in Irish
16. Má théann tú go hÉirinn tabhair mo bheannacht anonn, song [ words by Pete Sweeney, Gortgearra, died 1975] / Dan Phaidí Hiudan Rogers, singing in Irish
17. Talk about the song 'Má théann tú go hÉirinn', speech / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Dan Phaidí Hiudan Rogers, speech in English ; Neilí Bheag Rogers, speech in English
18. Níl sé ina Lá, song (‘Chuaidh mé isteach i dteach aréir ...’) / Dan Phaidí Hiudan Rogers, singing in Irish [reading text from the book ‘Abair amhrán’] [end of session]
19. The Boys of Belfast (‘One August night by the moon’s bright light...’), song / Joe Phil Beag Rogers, singing in English [session continued on 7706] [END OF BAND TWO]