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Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 95 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 5

Speech [song introduction] ; The hat McGuinness wore, song ; Speech [Information provided by AOH: the song just sung was written by local man, Neil Kearney from Carndonagh. McGuinness was from nearby Ballyloskey. Neil also wrote 'My Lovely Irish Rose' and 'The Green Fields of Annagh': The Hat McGuinness Wore, Untitled] / Jimmy Clingan, speech in English, singing in English ; Neil Kearney, composer [END OF BAND ONE]

Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 95 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 7

The mountain streams where the moorcocks crow, song ; Speech [Information provided by AOH: The performer says that he heard his mother singing it, a very old song as old as you'd get anywhere. http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=46396 ; also http://www.informatik.unihamburg.de/~zierke/peter.bellamy/songs/themountainstreamswherethemoorcockscrow.html / Jimmy Clingan, singing in English, speech in English

Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 95 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 8

Speech [The performer introduces the next song, saying it's a dream a girl had about her lover] ; My love he is a miner lad, singing in English; Speech [Information provided by A O'H: the lad in question is named John Sleddin in the song (see the same song, ITMA Reference Number: 185-ITMA-MP3, recorded by Jimmy McBride)] / Jimmy Clingan, singing in English, speech in English ; Aidan O’Hara, speech in English

Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 96 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 2

Speech [Talk about learning songs off records, people selling ballad sheets; Jimmy talks about his love of Gilbert and Sullivan songs which he learned from a recording of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company; he saw ballad song sellers at markets and fairs in Carndonagh the last thirty years ago; tinkers, men and women sold the songs which they had printed up, songs by Thomas Moore and the like. Sheets would be three pence or four pence each; how they know what air to sing the song to; He showed me a song called 'The Bonnie Wee Lass o' the Glen', written out for him 30 or 40 years earlier by a man from Balleighan, Malin, his name, John White Paddy, a Doherty or a McLaughlin man. Jimmy said the man had a lovely voice and he liked the song; talks about the 'timbre' in a good singer's voice. "I haven't that," he said.' (description provided by AOH)] / Jimmy Clingan, speech in English ; Aidan O’Hara, speech in English]

Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 97 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
English, John Joe, singing in English A1, 3-4, 6-7, speech in English A2-7;
O'Hara, Aidan, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Peter Emberley, song / John Joe English, singing in English
2. Speech [born in 1896, John Joe's family, music in his family, his younger brother Michael Joseph's death at age 13 from appendicitis, his mother's reaction to Michael's death, seeing a vision of him after his death, being sick himself, regaining his strength, land the family owned] / John Joe English, speech in English
3. Speech [crossing the Gut by ferry, fishing as a young boy of eleven with his uncle] ; The old leather britches, song / John Joe English, speech in English, singing in English
4. Speech [finishing school aged eleven, Brian O'Lynn, learning about Ireland] ; Father O'Flynn, song / John Joe English, speech in English, singing in English ; Aidan O’Hara, speech in English, singing in English
5. Speech [fishing and carpentry, his father was a carpenter and fisherman, building a motorboat] / John Joe English, speech in English [END OF BAND ONE]
6. Speech [the local school master Mr. Sullivan and his son Dinny Sullivan who composed sons, song fragments, Lucy Foley, being 'shipped' (hired out as farm labour), others who were 'shipped' from St John's, women’s and men’ s jobs] / John Joe English, speech in English
7. Speech [penicillin arriving, humorous story, milking, his mother being ill, hemp nets for fishing, his mother dying, leaving Branch for Montreal, practising songs with Mrs MacDonald] ; [untitled], song [fragment] / John Joe English, speech in English, singing in English [END OF BAND TWO]

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