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Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel. Philips Tape 1 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Flynn, Paddy, singing in English A1;
speech in English A4-5, 15;
Keilly, Catherine (aged 10), singing in English A2-3;
Delaney, Nelly, singing in English A6;
Delaney, Tom, singing in English A7;
Gavin, Paddy, singing in English A8;
Gavin, Francie, singing in English A9;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A10, 16-17, 23-24, 26-30;
Donovan, Martin, whistle A11-12;
O'Donoghue, Joe, speech in English A13;
Keilly, Nancy, singing in English A14;
Unidentified performer[s], whistle, A18-19, 21, 25, 33;
Unidentified performer, lilting, A20;
Unidentified performer, mouth organ, A22;
Unidentified performer [Catherine Keilly?], singing in English A31-32

Running Order:
1. Song: The Gallant Wexford Boys
2. Song: Untitled
3. Song: Untitled [Molly Malone]
4. Speech: Untitled [Poem: The Harp that Once]
5. Speech: Untitled poems and sayings
6. Song: Untitled
7. Song: The Banks of the Foyle
8. Song: I Must Go [He'll Have to Go]
9. Song: The Cliffs of Dooneen
10. Song: Untitled [Little Town in the Old County Down]
11. Air: Roddy McCorley
12. Jig: Untitled [Gallagher's Frolics]
13. Speech: [Identification of performers and performance items]
14. Song: Untitled [Down by the Sally Gardens, version]
15. Song: Grand Bungle Rye
16. Song: Untitled [The Wild Side of Life]
17. Song: Don't Laugh at Me Because I'm a Fool
18. Reel, Hornpipes, Reel: Untitled [Down the Broom], untitled [Harvest Home], untitled [The Boys of Blue Hill], untitled [Jenny Picking Cockles]
19. Reel: Jenny Picking Cockles
20. Reels: Jenny Picking Cockles, untitled [Tarbolton]
21. Reel: Untitled [Tarbolton]
22. Air: Untitled [Wooden Heart]
23. Song: Untitled [I'll Tell My Ma]
24. Song: Untitled
25. Air: Untitled [He'll Have to Go]
26. Song: Untitled [A Bunch of Violets Blue]
27. Song: Untitled [Just for Old Times Sake]
28. Song: The Beggarman
29. Song: Untitled [The Hills of Knocknashee]
30. Song: Untitled [The Cliffs of Dooneen]
31. Song: Untitled [Billy Boy]
32. Song: Untitled [Molly Malone]
33. Air, Reels: Untitled, untitled [The Star of Munster], untitled [The Sally Gardens] [END OF BAND TWO]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel. Philips Tape 2 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, singing in English A1, 4, 14;
O'Donoghue, Joe, singing in English A3, 5;
rhythm accompaniment B1-5;
speech in English A2, A6, throughout;
O'Donoghue, Mary, singing in English A3, 5;
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English A7;
Court, Artelia, singing in English B11;
speech in English A7;
Unidentified performer [Martin Donovan?], whistle B1-5, 7-10, 12;
Connors, Toodler, singing in English B6;
Unidentified performer [Martin Donovan?], singing in English B12;
Unidentified performers, singing in English B13-14, 18;
?, Tom, singing in English B15;
Flynn, Paddy, singing in English B16;
Unidentified performers, speaking in English B17

Running Order:
1. Song: The Blackboard of My Heart
2. Speech: Joe O'Donoghue speaking [Introduction to the song on Track A3]
3. Song: Campaign song - bad recording [The Travellers' Campaign, composed by Joe O'Donoghue]
4. Song: Untitled [The Harbour of Love?]
5. Song: Campaign song - second recording - too slow [The Travellers' Campaign, composed by Joe O'Donoghue]
6. Speech: Untitled [Conversation about many topics]
7. Sound Effects and Speech [END OF BAND ONE]
8. Jig / Slide, song air, slip jig: Untitled [The Peeler and the Goat], untitled [The Pride of Petrovore], untitled [The Rocky Road to Dublin]
9. Reel, Hornpipe: Untitled [The Sally Gardens], untitled [Harvest Home]
10. Reel, Hornpipe, Reel: Untitled [Jenny Picking Cockles], untitled [The Boys of Blue Hill], untitled [Down the Broom]
11. Reel: The Sligo Maid
12. Jigs: Untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], The Battering Ram
13. Song: Mother, the Queen of My Heart
14. Jigs: Untitled [The Old Grey Goose], untitled [Haste to the Wedding], untitled [Lanigan's Ball]
15. Reels: Untitled [Rakish Paddy], untitled [The Primrose Lass]
16. Jigs: Untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], untitled [The Battering Ram]
17. Song Air: Untitled [Buttons and Bows]
18. Song: Untitled
19. Air, Song: Untitled [Cod Liver Oil], untitled [Cod Liver Oil]
20. Song: Untitled [The Answer to Everything]
21. Song: Don't Laugh at Me Because I'm a Fool
22. Song: Untitled
23. Song: Father Murphy
24. Speech: Untitled [Conversation]
25. Song: Untitled [The Rocks of Bawn] END OF BAND TWO

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel. Philips Tape 4 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Kiely [Keilly ?], Mary, singing in English A1-2, A4;
O'Donoghue, Joe, singing in English A3;
speech in English A15;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A5, 7, 9-13;
Weldon, Liam, Dublin, singing in English A6;
Flynn, Paddy, singing in English A8;
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English A15;
O'Donoghue, Pat, whistle A16-23

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled
2. Song: Untitled
3. Song: Lough Sheelin Side
4. Song: Untitled
5. Song: Untitled
6. Song: Untitled [The Lambs on the Green Hills]
7. Song: Untitled
8. Song: Untitled [Skibbereen]
9. Song: Untitled [I'll Tell My Ma]
10. Song: Untitled [Roses Are Red]
11. Song: Untitled [From the Candy Store on the Corner]
12. Song: Untitled [The Wild Side of Life]
13. Song: Untitled [Galway Bay]
14. Sound Effects: [Animal noises]
15. Speech: Interview discontinued [sic] with Joe
16. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Boys of Blue Hill]
17. Song Air: Untitled [Buttons and Bows]
18. Hornpipe: Untitled [Off to California]
19. Song Air: Untitled [Buttons and Bows]
20. Jig: The Connachtman's Rambles
21. Hornpipes: Untitled [Off to California], untitled [The Leitrim Fancy]
22. Hornpipe: Untitled [Harvest Home]
23. Song Air: Untitled [Buttons and Bows] [END OF BAND TWO]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel. Philips Tape 5 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Donovan, Martin, whistle A1-5, 7, 10, 14, 28;
lilting/jigging A4;
speech in English A13, 17-18, 28;
Court, Artelia, singing in English A6;
O'Donoghue, Olivene, singing in English A8;
Unidentified performer (child), singing in English A9;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A11, 12, 22, 24-25;
?, Mary, singing in English A23;
Unidentified performers, speech in English A15-16;
O'Donoghue, Joe, speech in English A18;
Flynn, Paddy, singing in English A26-27

Running Order:
1. Jigs: Untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], untitled [The Battering Ram], untitled [Lanigan's Ball]
2. Hornpipes: Leitrim Concert [The Leitrim Fancy], Boys of the Blue [The Boys of Blue Hill], Me Old Rigadoo [The Jolly Beggarman]
3. Reel: The Sligo Maid, Rakish Paddy
4. Reel: Untitled [Tarbolton]
5. Jigs: Untitled [The Rakes of Clonmel], untitled [Old Man Dillon], untitled [The Frost is All Over]
6. Song: Untitled [The Days of Forty Nine]
7. Hornpipe: The Planes of Boyle [The Plains of Boyle]
8. Song: The Bold Fenian Men
9. Song: Child's song - Billy or Joey [The Harvest of Love ?]
10. Set Dance: The King of the Fairies
11. Song: Untitled [Let's Twist Again]
12. Song: The Little Beggar Man
13. Speech: Stories - priest / tramp
14. Song air: The Boys of the West [The Men of the West]
15. Speech: Story - Irish / Scotchman
16. Speech: Story - Ass / harmless people
17. Speech: Story [END OF BAND ONE]
18. Speech: Story - bad & conversation
19. Song: Candy Store on the Corner
20. Jigs: Untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], untitled [The Battering Ram]
21. Reels: The Stone in the Field, The Star of Munster
22. Song: Untitled [I Am Sighing Tonight for Killarney and You]
23. Song: Hills of Sweet Mayo, The
24. Song: Untitled [The Cliffs of Dooneen] (unfinished)
25. Song: Untitled [Fraulein] (unfinished)
26. Song: Standing at the Corner
27. Song: Gallant Wexford Boys
28. Air, Song: Untitled [Cod Liver Oil] [END OF BAND TWO]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel. Philips Tape 6 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer [Martin Donovan?], singing in English A1;
Donovan, Martin, singing in English A3, 5, 16;
whistle A2-4, 16;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A6-9, 21-24;
?, (nephew of Joe O'Donoghue), singing in English A10;
?, Pat, singing in English A11-13;
Flynn, Paddy, singing in English A14;
O'Donoghue, Joe, singing in English A18;
speech in English A15, 17;
O'Donoghue, Mary, singing in English A18;
?, Mick, singing in English A19-20

Running Order:
1. Song: Billy Boy
2. Jigs: Untitled [The Old Grey Goose], untitled [Old Man Dillon], untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], untitled [Lanigan's Ball]
3. Air, Song: Wings of a Swallow [Little Town in the Old County Down], ditto
4. Reels: The Sligo Maid, untitled [The Sally Gardens]
5. Song: Untitled
6. Song: The Wild Side of Life
7. Song: The Wild Side of Life
8. Song: A Mother's Love [A Mother's Love Is a Blessing]
9. Song: Untitled
10. Song: Bold O'Donoghue
11. Song: Paddy Purcell and Wm Scanlon [William Scanlon]
12. Song: Untitled (unfinished)
13. Song: The Green Hills of Kerry
14. Song: Grand Bungle Rye [END OF SIDE ONE]
15. Speech: Proverb
16. Air, Song, Jigs: What Will We Do When We're Sailing - By the Banks of the Lee, ditto, untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], The Battering Ram
17. Speech: [Address to radio listeners]
18. Song: Campaign Song, 3rd recording [The Travellers' Campaign, composed by Joe O'Donoghue]
19. Song: Pat from Bowlanier
20. Song: Bold Connaught Ranger Boy
21. Song: Sent to Charlestown [The Boston Burglar]
22. Song: Untitled [Lovely Derry on the Banks of the Foyle]
23. Song: Master [Master McGrath]
24. Song: Untitled [Kelly the Boy from Killane] [END OF BAND TWO]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 05B [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Furey, Finbar, Dublin, pipes A1-5;
Furey, Edward, Dublin, guitar A1-5;
Donaghue, Pat, speech in English B1;
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English B1

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled [The Verdant Braes of Skreen]
2. Jig / Slide: Untitled [Dingle Regatta]
3. Air: Roisin Dubh
4. Jig: Untitled [The Lark in the Morning]
5. Song: Pretty Saro (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]
6. Interview with Pat Donaghue about the countryside and catching birds, about Joe and police, etc [END OF BAND TWO]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 07A [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, singing in English A1-2, 4-6,;
Court, Artelia, singing in English A3;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A7;
Syke, lilting A10;
lilting with drum A11-12;
singing in English A8-9;
yodelling A9;
Unidentified performer, lilting with drum A9-10

Running Order:
1. Song: Hills of Mayo [The Hills of Sweet Mayo]
2. Song: The Black Velvet Band
3. Song: Untitled
4. Song: Untitled [Erin's Lovely Lee]
5. Song: Long Time A'Growing [My Bonny Boy]
6. Song: Untitled [Green Grows the Laurel]
7. Song: Untitled [Goodbye, Johnny Dear]
8. Song: By the Lee [Mary on the Banks of the Lee]
9. Song: My Blue Eyes [I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes]
10. Jig: Jigging [The Irish Washerwoman]
11. Set Dance: Jigging with Drum [The Blackbird]
12. Song Air: Jigging with Drum [The Rising of the Moon]
13. Song: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 09A [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, singing in English A1, 4, 9-11, 17-19;
O'Donoghue, Mary, singing in English A2-3;
O'Donoghue, Joe, singing in English A3;
D. [O'Donoghue?], Pat, whistle A5-8[?];
Donovan, Martin, whistle A15-16, 22;
lilting A14;
whistling A12;
singing in English A13, 22-23;
Weldon, Nellie, Dublin, singing in English A20;
Weldon, Liam, Dublin, singing in English A21

Running Order:
1. Song: Her Hair Hung Down in Ringlets
2. Song: The Patriot Game
3. Song: Untitled [The Travellers' Campaign, composed by Joe O'Donoghue]
4. Song: The Shoemaker
5. Song Air: Untitled [Buttons and Bows]
6. Jig: Untitled [The Connachtman's Rambles]
7. Reel: Untitled (unfinished) [The First House in Connacht]
8. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Leitrim Fancy]
9. Song: Untitled [In My Own Peculiar Way] [END OF BAND ONE]
10. Song: Untitled [The Old Triangle]
11. Song: Untitled [James Connolly]
12. Reel: Delvin Lasses [Fermoy Lasses]
13. Song: Luck in the House, whistling and jigging [Around the House There Is No Luck]
14. Reel, Jig: Untitled (unfinished) [Down the Broom], untitled [Gallagher's Frolics]
15. Jigs: Untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], untitled [The Battering Ram]
16. Hornpipes, Reel, Song Air: Untitled [The Stack of Wheat], untitled [Harvest Home], untitled [Jenny Picking Cockles], untitled [Buttons and Bows]
17. Song: Untitled [From the Candy Store on the Corner]
18. Song: Untitled [Are You Lonesome Tonight]
19. Song: Untitled [Every Step of the Way]
20. Song: I Wished I Lived in Carrickfergus [Carrickfergus]
21. Song: The Blue Tarred Road [The Blue Tar Road]
22. Air, Song, Air: Untitled [The Banks of the Lee], untitled [The Banks of the Lee], The Boys of the West [The Men of the West]
23. Reel: Untitled (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 10A [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, [Jack?], whistle A1-5;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A6-17;
O'Donoghue, Joe, singing in English A18-19

Running Order:
1. Barndance / Reel, Reel, Jig: Untitled, untitled [Tom Ward's Downfall], untitled [The Walls of Liscarroll]
2. Reel: Untitled [The Jolly Tinker]
3. Reels: The Duke of Leinster, untitled [The Duke of Leinster's Wife], untitled [London Lasses], untitled [The Sligo Maid]
4. Jigs: Untitled [The Battering Ram], untitled [The Maid on the Green], untitled [The Priest's Leap]
5. Jig: Untitled [Scatter the Mud]
6. Song: Untitled [Every Step of the Way]
7. Song: Untitled [The Nightingale]
8. Song: Untitled [Will You Go Lassie Go]
9. Song: Untitled
10. Song: Untitled [I'll Tell My Ma]
11. Song: Untitled (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]
12. Song: Untitled [From the Candy Store on the Corner]
13. Song: Untitled [The Old Woman from Wexford]
14. Song: Untitled [Liverpool Lou]
15. Song: Untitled [Are You Lonesome Tonight]
16. Song: Untitled [He'll Have To Go]
17. Song: Untitled [Theme song from the film Around the World in Eighty Days]
18. Song: Untitled [The Jolly Beggarman]
19. Song: Untitled [Down By the Green Bushes] [END OF BAND TWO]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 10B [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Cassidy, Jimmy, storytelling in English A1-3;
Cassidy, Bill, singing in English A4-5;
Cassidy, Tom, singing in English A6-8;
Cassidy, Billy, singing in English A9-10;
Cassidy, Kate, singing in English A11;
Cassidy, Nan, singing in English A12;
Furey, Mrs Nora, speech in English A13

Running Order:
1. Story: Repeat of the end of The Grey-haired Norese's Skull, folktale [The Grey-haired Norrissey's Skull]
2. Speech: Football match and imaginary commentary (Kilkenny v. Tipperary)
3. Speech: Football match and imaginary commentary (Wexford v. Kilkenny)
4. Song: Can't Stay in This World Any More, recorded on his wedding day at Saggart
5. Song: Fife and Drum [END OF BAND ONE]
6. Song: The Black and Tan Gun
7. Song: The Cowboy's Dream (unfinished)
8. Song: My Gentle Mother's Grave
9. Song: My Father's Serving Boy
10. Song: The Old Widow's Song
11. Song: Green Grow the Rushes
12. Song: W. Scandlon [William Scanlon]
13. Speech: Talk with Mrs Furey [END OF BAND TWO]

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