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Recorded in the house of Mrs Jean Carson (sister of Hugh Shields), Ballyclare Road, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim from her daughters Ruth (10), Linda (8) and Carol (5), 16 March 1975 [tracks 1–30]
Recorded in the house of Eddie Butcher at Aughil crossroads, Magilligan, Co. Derry, from Eddie and Gracie Butcher and Joe Holmes (from Ballymoney, Co. Antrim), 19 March 1975 [tracks 31–44]

Performers:
Carson, Ruth, singing in English Tracks 1-2, 3-9, 11-21, 24, 28, 30, speech in English Track 26, recorder solo Track 29
Carson, Linda, speech in English Tracks 25, 27, singing in English Tracks 10, 30
Carson, Carol, speech in English Track 21, singing in English Tracks 22-23, 28
Holmes, Joe, singing in English Tracks 31, 34
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 32-33, 37, 39, 41, 43, speech in English Tracks 35, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 35, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44
Butcher, Gracie, speech in English Track 38

Running order:
1. Teddy bear teddy bear, song [sung to skipping] / Ruth Carson, singing in English [see Notes]
2. I like coffee, rhyme [spoken to skipping] / Ruth Carson, speech in English
3. On a hillside stands a lady, song [sung to skipping] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
4. On a hillside stands a lady, song [fresh start, sung to skipping] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
5. Granny in the kitchen, rhyme [spoken to skipping] / Ruth Carson, speech in English ; Linda Carson, speech in English
6. Cinderella, rhyme [spoken to skipping] / Ruth Carson, speech in English
7. A, B, C, D, rhyme [spoken to skipping] / Ruth Carson, speech in English
8. I had a little bubble car, rhyme [spoken to skipping] / Ruth Carson, speech in English
9. Bluebells, cockleshells, song [sung to skipping with Linda] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
10. One, two, three, rhyme / Linda Carson, speech in English
11. Vote, vote, vote, song [sung while swinging] / Ruth Carson, singing in English ; Linda Carson, singing in English
12. Over the garden wall, song [sung while playing two-ball] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
13. Over the garden wall, song [take two] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
14. Over the garden wall, song [take three] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
15. One, two, three a plainsy, song [sung while playing two-ball] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
16. One, two, three a plainsy, song [take two] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
17. One, two, three a plainsy. song [take three] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
18. One, two. three alero, song [fragment, sung while playing two-ball] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
19. Teddy bear, teddy bear, song [sung while skipping with Carol] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
20. Plainsy Mamma Brown, song [sung while playing two-ball] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
21. Plainsy Mamma Brown, song [take two] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
22. Teddy bear teddy bear, song [sung to skipping] / Carol Carson, singing in English
23. Jelly on the plate, rhyme [fragment, spoken to skipping] / Carol Carson, speech in English
24. I like coffee, song [sung to skipping with Carol / Ruth Carson, singing in English
25. Recitation: Spring song, poem [by William Blake] / Linda Carson, speech in English
26. Recitation: Jabberwocky, poem [by Lewis Carroll] / Ruth Carson, speech in English
27. Recitation: Bulldozers, poem [by Patricia Hubble] / Linda Carson, speech in English
28. This old man, he played one, song / Carol Carson, singing in English
29. Believe me if all those endearing young charms, song air / Ruth Carson, recorder
30. Wee Willie lost his marley, song [see Notes] / Ruth Carson, singing in English ; Linda Carson, singing in English [end of session]
31. The dark-eyed gipsy(‘There were three gipsies lived in the East...’), song / Joe Holmes, singing in English
32. The piss pot (‘Oh, there were an old farmer and he had a nice wife...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
33. The piss pot, song [fresh start] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
34. Lovely Armoy [‘Draw near, my kind friends and relations...’), song [cf. 6925 and 7009] / Joe Holmes, singing in English [end of session]
35. Talk about local matters [see Documentation] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English [END OF BAND ONE]
36. Talk about local matters [continued from track 35, see Documentation] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
37. A sprig of ivy (‘Far away a sprig of ivy...’), song [sung from a cutting out of Ireland’s own] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
38. Talk about local matters [see Documentation] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Gracie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
39. Down with Geordie Lee (‘Sitting on a benty ditch it doesn’t suit me well...’), song [words by Hugh Campbell] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
40. Talk about the song ‘Down with Geordie Lee’ and its author Hugh Campbell / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
41. The castle maid (‘I’m a decent farm labourer and I earn whate’er I can...’), song [words by Hugh Cambell] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
42. Talk about the song ‘The castle maid’ and about the author of ‘The shores of sweet Benone’ / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
43. The maid of Faughanvale (‘Oh, as I roved out one morning for to view the pleasant strand...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
44. Talk about the song ‘The maid of Faughanvale’ / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English [end of session] [END OF BAND TWO]

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]

Recorded in the house of Eddie Butcher, Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 19 July 1969 [tracks 1–4]
Recorded in the house of Michael (Mick) O’Hara (age about 60), Tartnakelly, Glack, Limavady, Co. Derry, from Mick O'Hara and his wife Lizzie, 20 July 1969 [tracks 5–7]

Performers:
Quigley, Bill, singing in English Track 1;
Butcher, John, singing in English Tracks 2-3;
Quigley, Tilly, singing in English Track 4;
O' Hara, Michael, singing in English Tracks 5, 7;
O' Hara, Lizzie, singing in English Tracks 6-7

Running Order:
1. A lady walked in her father’s garden [= Seven years since I had a sweetheart], song [resumed from 6914] / Bill Quigley, singing in English [session continued from  6914]
2. The jigging at the wake (‘Oh, as we were coming home by the glimmering of the moon...’), song [fragment of one verse] / John Butcher (of  Drumavalley), singing in English
3. The shores of America (‘I am a sporting Irish boy now far across the foam...’), song / John Butcher, singing in English
4. Song: I’ve been a servant girl now (‘I’ve been a servant girl now this fourteen years and ten...’), song / Tilly Quigley, singing in English [session continued on 6916]
5. In steps the Connaughtman and in steps me, song [fragment of one verse]  / Tilly Quigley, singing in English
6. In steps the Connaughtman and in steps me, song [different fragment of one verse] / Tilly Quigley, singing in English
7. Killyburn Brae (‘There was an oul’ man on the Killyburn Brae, song [learned from record of Richard Hayward] / Tilly Quigley, singing in English [session continued on 6903] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded in the house of James Osborne (age about 50), native of Ballymoney district, farmer at Bellaney, Dunboe, Coleraine, Co. Derry, 21 July 1969 [track 1], out of doors [tracks 2–5], in a big barn [track 6], indoors [tracks 7–10]

Performers:
Osborne, Mary, singing in English Tracks 1-2, 7;
Osborne, Helen, speech in English A3-6, singing in English Tracks 9-10;
Dillon, James, speech in English Tracks 4-6;
?, Orla, speech in English Tracks 4-6;
Osborne, Ena, speech in English Tracks 4-6;
Dillon, Maeve, speech in English Tracks 4-6;
Osborne, Rosemary, speech in English Tracks 4-6;
Osborne, Seamus, speech in English Tracks 4-6;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 4;
Osborne, Margeret, speech in English Track 6, singing in English Tracks 8, 10

Running Order:
1. The strands of Magilligan [=The American stranger] (‘I’m a stranger to this country, from America I came...’), song [take one] / Mrs Mary Osborne (née Somers, age about 45, of Avish, Downhill, Co. Derry), singing in English
2. The strands of Magilligan [=The American stranger] (‘I’m a stranger to this country, from America I came...’), song [take two] / Mrs Mary Osborne, singing in English
3. Charlie Chaplin went to France, rhyme [spoken to skipping] / Helen Osborne (10), speech in English
4. Conversation between Hugh Shields and the performing children / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Helen Osborne (11), speech in English ; James Dillon (7), speech in English ; Orla[?] (5, from Crossmolina), speech in English ; Ena Osborne (8), speech in English ; Maeve Dillon (10), speech in English ; Rosemary Osborne (10), speech in English ; Seamus Osborne (7) speech in English 
5. I had a little motor car, rhyme [spoken to skipping] / Helen Osborne (11), speech in English ; James Dillon (7), speech in English ; Orla[?] (5, from Crossmolina), speech in English ; Ena Osborne (8), speech in English ; Maeve Dillon (10), speech in English ; Rosemary Osborne (10), speech in English ; Seamus Osborne (7) speech in English
6. Bang, bang the dishes, children’s play[with extemporized dialogue] / Margaret Osborne (age about 13, acting the ‘Mother’), speech in English ; Helen Osborne (11), speech in English ; James Dillon (7), speech in English ; Orla[?] (age 5, from Crossmolina), speech in English ; Ena Osborne (8), speech in English ; Maeve Dillon (10), speech in English ; Rosemary Osborne (10), speech in English ; Seamus Osborne (7) speech in English
7. The maid of Lurgan town (‘ As I went a-walking one evening  When the bluebells were all drooping down...’), song / Mrs Mary Osborne, singing in English
8. Here I’m sitting sewing, game song / Margaret Osborne, singing in English
9. On the mountain stands a lady, game song / Helen Osborne, singing in English
10. On the mountain stands a lady, game song / Margaret Osborne, singing in English ; Helen Osborne, singing in English [session continued on 6921] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Charles (Charlie) Somers (aged about 75) in his house at The Bog, Bellarena, Co. Derry, 18 July 1969 [tracks 1–2]

Performers:
Somers, Charles , singing in English Tracks 1-2

Running Order:
1. The good ship Cambria (‘You Irishmen both one and all, wherever you may be...’], song / Charlie Somers, singing in English
2. A noble lord’s wedding [=Another man’s wedding=A nobleman’s wedding] (‘I being kindly invited till a noble lord’s wedding...’), song / Charlie Somers, singing in English [end of session] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded in Eddie Butcher's house, Magilligan, Co. Derry [in July 1969] [tracks 1-6]

Performers:
Somers, Hugh, singing in English Track 1;
Somers, Charles, singing in English Track 2;
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Track 3;
McCurry, Bob, speech in English Tracks 4-6

Running Order:
1. The bonny moorhen (‘[My bonny moorhen] she is feathered anew [?]...’), song [fragment] / Hugh Somers, singing in English [end of session]
2. The jug of punch (‘It being on the twenty-fourth of June...’), song / Charlie Somers, singing in English
3. The Myroe ploughing match (‘Oh you brave boys of Newtown and likewise Myroe...’), song [words perhaps by Jimmy McCurry, blind fiddler and great-uncle of Bob McCurry] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. ‘No daughter, whisky’, story / Bob McCurry (aged 69), speech in English
5. The minister, the cat and John, story / Bob McCurry, speech in English
6. John and the priest’s lily pond, story / Bob McCurry, speech in English [end of session][END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Robert Butcher [junior], aged about 48, in the house of Eddie Butcher in Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 21 July 1969 [tracks 1–3]
Recorded from Tom Anderson in Greta Deehan’s bar, Big Drain bridge, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 23 July 1969 [track 4]
Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 24 July 1969 [tracks 5–7]

Performers:
Butcher, Robert, singing in English Tracks 1-3;
Anderson, Tom, singing in English Track 4;
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Track 5-7

Running Order:
1. Carrowclare [=Killyclare] (‘On a fine and summer’s evening as my walks I did pursue...’), song [words by the blind fiddler Jimmy McCurry] / Robert Butcher junior, singing in English [session continued from 6902]
2. John Reilly (‘As I roved out one evening down by the riverside  I heard a lovely maiden complain till the tears fell from her eyes...’), song [learnt from his father Robert]  / Robert Butcher junior, singing in English [end of session]
3. [Unidentified] / Robert Butcher junior, singing in English
4. Turn you round, oh you wheel of fortune (‘When I was young I was well beloved...’), song [learnt from Mrs Sarah Sweeney of the Point Road, Magilligan, who died c. 1960 aged c. 108] / Tom Anderson, singing in English [session continued from 6926 and continued on 6904]
5. Lovely Armoy (‘I am taking my leave off this evening...’) song [first verse only, air: The banks of Kilrea] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
6. Greencastle shore (‘For three long days or better our big ship there she lay...’), song [one verse only, to same air as next song] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
7. The Portrush fishermen (‘On February the twenty-fourth in the year of eighty-six...’), song [two verses only, clipped during third, to same air as preceding song] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [end of session]  [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Eddie Butcher at the house of Hugh Shields, Dublin, 1–10 July 1968 [tracks 1–5]

Performer:
Eddie Butcher, singing in English Tracks 1–5

Running Order:
1. I’ll climb up a high, high tree (‘As I roved out on a May morning for to hear true lovers talk...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Seventeen on Sunday (‘As I roved out one fine summer’s night when the moon was shining clearly...’), song  [complete text, orally derived] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. Burns and his Highland Mary (‘Oh in green Caledonia there ne’er were two lovers...’), song  / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. The Bureau (‘Oh come all you gay people, I pray pay attention...’) , song [words by  Eddie Butcher, to the air of ‘Teddy O’Neal’] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
5. The burning of Downhill (‘We then proceeded up the hill for to view the landscape o’er...’), song [fragment of a local song, to the air of ‘Flower of sweet Strabane’] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE

Recorded from Eddie Butcher at the house of Hugh Shields, Dublin, 1 –10 July, 1968 [tracks 1–3]

Performer:
Eddie Butcher, singing in English Tracks 1–3

Running Order:
1. The English harvest [=Irish harvest-men's triumph] (‘Come all your true-bred Irishmen that is intent to roam...’), song   [singer starts again] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Johnny my man (‘Johnny my man, do you not think of rising?...’) / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. The Shamrock Shore [‘Edward Conor’] (‘Oh come all you loyal lovers, give ear all for a while...’), song [incomplete: for complete text see 6813] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English  [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 16 July 1969 [tracks 1–3]
Recorded at the house of Michael O’ Hara, Tartnakelly, Glack, Limavady, Co. Derry, 17 July 1969 [tracks 4–6]
Recorded in the house of Eddie Butcher at Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, from Robert Butcher junior [age about 48, son of Eddie’s brother Robert, deceased] 21 July 1969 [tracks 7–8]
Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 23 July 1969 [track 9]

Performers:
Eddie Butcher, singing in English Tracks 1, 3, speech in English Tracks 2, 9;
Hugh Shields, speech in English Tracks 2, 5, 9;
Lizzie O' Hara, singing English Tracks 4, 6, speech in English Track 5;
Robert Butcher (junior), singing in English Tracks 7–8

Running Order:
1. The Boston burglar (‘I was born and bred in Boston, a city you all know well...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [session continued from 6901]
2. Conversation about ‘The Boston burglar’, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
3. The wild colonial Boy (‘It’s of a wild colonial boy, Dan Dolan was his name...’), song [learnt from Bill Quigley] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [end of session]
4. The bonny wee lass of the glen (‘It being on a bright summer’s morning, alone as I carelessly strayed...’), song [learnt from her elder sister] / Mrs Lizzie O’Hara (age about 56, from Carnymuff) singing in English
5. Conversation about ‘The bonny wee lass of the glen’, speech / Mrs Lizzie O’Hara, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
6. The bright silvery light of the moon (‘As I strayed by a cot, it being at the close of day...’), song / Mrs Lizzie O’Hara, singing in English [continued at 6903] [END OF BAND ONE]
7. Old Falcarragh town (‘Last week I had a pleasant trip, I treasured every mile...’), song [ words attributed to Paddy O’Grady of Balliness, & learnt by Robert from Falcarragh girls visiting, air ‘Lovely Leitrim’] / Robert Butcher junior singing in English
8. Lovely old Fintown (‘My countrymen, I take my pen to write a verse or two...’), song / Robert Butcher junior singing in English [session continued on 6925]
9. Queries on songs, speech / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Eddie Butcher, speech in English [session continued from 6919] [end of session] [END OF BAND TWO]