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Recorded in the house of Terence McCaughey, Magheraroarty, Co. Donegal, from Joe McCafferty, 12 September 1969 [tracks 1–3]

Performers:
McCafferty, Joseph, singing in Irish Track 1, speech in Irish Track 2, singing in English Track 3

Running Order:
1. Ó, triallaigh liom ar bhord mo luing (‘O, triallaigh liom ar bhord mo luing, arsa’n caiftín beal binn bréagach...’), song [learnt from his mother when he was 9] / Joe McCafferty, singing in Irish
2. The words of the song ‘O, triallaigh liom ar bhord mo luing’, recitation ] / Joe McCafferty, speech in Irish
3. Jack the rover (‘She then arose, she put on some clothing...’), song [night visit: see Notes]   / Joe McCafferty, singing in English [session continued on 6951] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded by Arthur Coulter (aged about 70) or a member of his family in his house at Carnaughliss, Muckamore, Co Antrim (on a tape sent to him for the purpose by Hugh Shields), 1968 or early 1969. Performers are Arthur Coulter, his daughter Mrs Mary Heaney, and Mrs Graham of Crumlin, Co. Antrim. [tracks 1–37].

Performers:
Coulter, Arthur, singing in English Tracks 1-5, 11-13, 15, speech in English Tracks 10, 14, 18, 35;
Heaney, Mary, singing in English Tracks 6-9, 17;
Unidentified performer, mouth organ solo Track 16;
Graham, Mrs, singing in English Tracks 19-29, 31-34;
Unidentified performer [Arthur Coulter’s son?], singing in English Track 30;
Coulter, Arthur, speech in English Track 17, singing in English Tracks 36-37

Running Order:
1. The banks of Claudy (‘As I roved out one evening...’), song / Arthur Coulter, singing in English
2. I took Miss Jane McGinty (‘ I took Miss Jane McGinty to a fancy sort of ball...’), song [comic] / Arthur Coulter, singing in English
3. The maid of the sweet brown knowe (‘Oh come all you lads and lasses...’], song / Arthur Coulter, singing in English ; Mrs Mary Heaney, singing in English
4. Barbro Allen (‘In Scarlet town where I was born...’), song / Arthur Coulter, singing in English
5. Spanking Maggie (‘Come all you sporting gentlemen...’), song [about a horse race] / Arthur Coulter, singing in English
6. Red is the rose (‘Come over the hills to your bonny blue-eyed lass...’), song [air: Loch Lomond] / Mrs Mary Heaney, singing in English
7. Mother of mine (‘Oh there’s not another fellow...’) song [air non-traditional] / Mrs Mary Heaney, singing in English
8. I met a little girl in Knoxville, song [traditional American murder song] / Mrs Mary Heaney, singing in English
9. The bunch of violets (‘Out in a moonlit garden...’), song [sentimental favourite] / Mrs Mary Heaney, singing in English [problem with speed of machine]
10. Arthur Coulter introducing the singers and songs, speech / Arthur Coulter, speech in English
11. You should have seen them go (‘It’s just last Monday morning...’), song [non-traditional] / Arthur Coulter, singing in English
12. If I don’t be living, boy (‘One cold and winter’s evening...’), song [war song localized in Belfast] / Arthur Coulter, singing in English
13. The Ulster Volunteers (‘Come all ye loyal Ulster boys...’) song [war song, air: Tara’s halls] / Arthur Coulter, singing in English
14. Arthur Coulter introducing the singers and songs, speech / Arthur Coulter, speech in English
15. Poor Dan O’Hara (‘Oh, it’s poor I am today...’), song [sentimental, non-traditional]  song / Arthur Coulter, singing in English ; Mrs Mary Heaney, singing in English
16. Believe me if all those endearing young charms ; Come back to Erin, waltzes / unidentified performer, harmonica
17. Rocking alone (‘Sitting alone in an old rocking chair...’), song [non-traditional] / Mrs Mary Heaney, singing in English
18. Arthur Coulter introducing the singers and songs, speech / Arthur Coulter, speech in English [END OF BAND ONE]
19. I could hear the darkies singing (‘One morning bright and clear...’), song [non-traditional] / Mrs Graham, singing in English
20. Glenavy dear (‘Glenavy dear, my native soil...’), song [words by Hugh McWilliams? Air: Caledonian Hunt’s delight] /  Mrs Graham, singing in English
21. Where the river Shannon flows (‘There’s a pretty spot in Ireland...’),  song [non-traditional] / Mrs Graham, singing in English
22. The banks of Claudy (‘As I strolled out one evening...’), song / Mrs Graham, singing in English
23. There’s an oldfashioned homestead, song [non-traditional] / Mrs Graham, singing in English
24. The cabin with the roses round the door (‘The cabin with the roses round the door it is fading fast...’), song [non-traditional] / Mrs Graham, singing in English
25. The darkest cloud that crossed my life, song [non-traditional] / Mrs Graham, singing in English
26. The orange and purple (‘There is not in this wide world a colour so fine...’), song [‘party’ song. Air: The meeting of the waters] / Mrs Graham, singing in English
27. The factory girl (‘One fine summer’s morning the bright sun was shining...’), song [air: cf. Burns and his Highland Mary] / Mrs Graham, singing in English
28. Far far away on the banks of the Nile, song [non-traditional] / Mrs Graham, singing in English
29. Bonny Woodhall (‘Down by yon green bushes near Bonny Woodha’...), song / Mrs Graham, singing in English
30. Kellyburn braes [=The farmer’s curst wife] (‘There was an oul’ man from Kellyburn braes...’) song [dramatic, parlando] / unidentified performer [Arthur Coulter’s son?], singing in English
31. Just as the bells were ringing (‘Just as the bells were ringing a soldier lad returned again...’) , song [non-traditional] / Mrs Graham, singing in English
32. Sweet Kitty Farrell [=The blind Irish girl] (‘In my native home Liscarroll...’) , song [non-traditional] / Mrs Graham, singing in English
33. James Magee (‘It is James Magee they do call me...’), song / Mrs Graham, singing in English
34. For he’s only a private soldier, song [non-traditional] / Mrs Graham, singing in English
35. Arthur Coulter introducing the singers and songs
36. Doran’s ass (‘Paddy Downey he lived in Killarney...’) , song [comic, air: Spanish lady] / Arthur Coulter, singing in English
37. Night came on and the war was over, song  / Arthur Coulter, singing in English [end of recordings by Arthur Coulter] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded in Main Street, Newcastle, Co. Down from Willie Burns of Ballykeel, Kilkeel, 24 July 1970 [track 1]
Recorded in the house of James Cunningham (‘wee Jim’), Long Stone, Annalong, Co. Down, 24 July 1970 [tracks 2–14]

Performers:
Burns, Willie, speech in English Track 1;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 1, 9;
Cunningham, Eileen, singing in English Track 2;
Cunningham, Mary Ann, singing in English Tracks 2-7, 10-14, speech in English Track 9

Running Order:
1. Shouting herring (‘Mackereel a herring alive...’), street cry [see Notes] Willie Burns, speech in English [shouted] ; Hugh Shields, speech in English [end of session]
2. They ask what makes the darkie weep, song [non-traditional] / Eileen Cunningham (daughter of Jim), singing in English
3. Look how those Belfast lights are shining, song / song [non-traditional], Mary Anne Cunningham (wife of of Jim, native of Newtownhamilton, Co. Armagh), singing in English
4. Willy Leonard (‘It was early this morning Willy Leonard arose...’), song / Mary Anne Cunningham, singing in English
5. Johnny Varner (‘My name is Johnny Varner, I’m a carver of stone...’), song / Mary Anne Cunningham, singing in English
6. Johnny Varner (fresh start) [END OF BAND ONE]
7. The factory girl (‘As I went a-walking one fine summer morning...’), song / Mary Anne Cunningham, singing in English (see Notes)
8. Lisburn lass (‘Come all ye boys [?] where’er you be...’), song / Mary Anne Cunningham, singing in English
9. Talk about the song ‘The Lisburn lass’ and her mother and native place, speech / Mary Anne Cunningham, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
10. The keeper of the game [= Captain Wedderburn's courtship (Child 46)] (‘As I went out one evening down by a narrow lane...’), song [fragment, learnt from Mrs Rose McCartin: see Notes] / Mary Anne Cunningham, singing in English
11. The keeper of the game (fresh start), song / Mary Anne Cunningham, singing in English
12. The Union Jack below her apron (‘Mary was a servant girl for sweeping up the room...’), song [‘you see, that’s not a party song, mister’] / Mary Anne Cunningham, singing in English
13. Last night I dreamt that Paisley died (‘Last night I dreamt that Paisley died, although I didn’t care...’), song [air: The glens of Aherlow] / Mary Anne Cunningham, singing in English 
14. Girls, when you’re young never wed an old man, song [unfinished] / Mary Anne Cunningham, singing in English [session continued on 7003] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded in the house of Arthur Coulter, Carnaughliss, Loanends, Muckamore, Co. Antrim 25–26 June, 1968 from Arthur Coulter (age about 70), his son and his daughter Mrs Mary Heaney (of Killead, Co. Antrim), 25–26 June, 1968 [tracks 1–11]
Recorded from Mrs Eileen Keaney (age 76) in her house in Belfast, 28 June, 1968 [tracks 12–16]

Performers:
Arthur Coulter, singing in English Tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, speech in English Track 2
Mary Heaney, singing in English, Tracks 2, 6–7
? Coulter (Arthur Coulter's Son), flute solo, Tracks 8–11
Eileen Keaney, singing in English 12–16

Running Order:
1. Donegore hill (‘As I journeyed to Antrim last Hallowday fair...’), song / Arthur Coulter, singing in English [session continued from 6802]
2. Story of the following song ; The Crumlin line (‘Oh come all ye ranting rambling boys, come listen unto me...’), story ; song [words by Arthur Coulter] / Arthur Coulter, speech in English ; Mrs Mary Heaney, singing in English
3. The Banks of the Boyne in the morning (‘Listen to me while I relate...’), song / Arthur Coulter, singing in
4. It was up in London fair (’Twas up in London fair sure there’s a maid and she lives there...’), song [incomplete version] / Arthur Coulter, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
5. It was up in London fair [complete version], song / Arthur Coulter, singing in English
6. The Castlebar boy (‘I’m a boy from old Ireland, that beautiful place...’), song / Mrs Mary Heaney, singing in English
7. Some say the Divil’s dead, song / Mrs Mary Heaney, singing in English
8. Oh my Scotland, march / Arthur Coulter’s son, fife
9. The rowan tree, march / Arthur Coulter’s son, fife
10. The Orange lily, march / Arthur Coulter’s son, fife
11. Nelly Gray, march / Arthur Coulter’s son, fife [end of recording session]
12. The hat my father wore (‘I’m Paddy Miles an Irishman just come across the sea...’), song / Mrs Eileen Keaney, singing in English
13. Rocking the cradle (‘Oh it’s rocking the cradle...’) , song [with lilt] / Mrs Eileen Keaney, singing in English, lilt
14. You’re a wee bonny wean, song / Mrs Eileen Keaney, singing in English
15. Rocking the cradle, song [with lilt, second rendition] / Mrs Eileen Keaney, singing in English, lilt
16. You’re a wee bonny wean, song [second rendition, last word missing] / Mrs Eileen Keaney, singing in English [session continued at 6804] [END of BAND TWO]

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 in the house of John Gillespie, Doonalt, Glencolmkille, Co. Donegal from Charles Boyle (aged about 74) and his son Bernard (aged about 30), 2 September 1968 [tracks 1–3]
Recorded in the house of John Gillespie, Doonalt, Glencolmkille, Co. Donegal, 3 September 1968 [tracks 4–11]
Recorded in Gillespie’s public house, Main Street, Cashel, Glencolumkille, Co. Donegal, from Patrick Heekin (aged about 52), of Garraros, Glencolumkille, 10 September 1968 [tracks 12–22]
Recorded in the house of John Gillespie, Doonalt, Glencolmkille, Co. Donegal from Charles Boyle (AGED ABOUT 74) and his son Bernard (aged about 30), 2 September 1968 [tracks 1–3]

Performers:
Charles Boyle, singing in English Tracks 1–2;
Bernard Boyle, singing in Irish Track 3;
Patrick Gillespie (Paddy Phrioniais), fiddle solo Tracks 4, 9;
Christopher Byrne, singing in English Tracks 5–6, 8, 10;
Margaret Byrne, singing in English Tracks 7, 11;
Patrick Heekin, speech in Irish Track 12, singing in English Tracks 13–22

Running Order:
1. The flower of sweet Strabane (‘If I were king of Ireland and all things at my will...’), song / Charles Boyle (aged about 73), singing in English [session continued from 6824]
2. The valley of Knockanure (‘You may boast and speak about Easter week...’), song / Charles Boyle, singing in English
3. Rhyme: Bhí Humpty-Dumpty ina shuí ar an bhalla, rhyme [from school], Bernard Boyle, speech in Irish [end of session]
4. Gillespie’s favourite, jig / Patrick (Paddy Phroinsiais) Gillespie (aged about 45), fiddle
5. The bonny bunch of roses (‘By the margin of the ocean one pleasant morning in the month of June...’), song / Christopher Byrne (aged about 20), singing in English
6. Molly Bawn (‘Come all you young fowlers who handle a gun...’), song [learnt from Packy Manus Byrne, Bruckless, Co. Donegal] / Christopher Byrne, singing in English
7. Bold Robert Emmet (‘The struggle is over, the boys are defeated...’), song / Maraget Byrne, singing in English
8. The Shamrock Shore, song (‘With grief of mind [?] and me combine...’), song / Christopher Byrne, singing in English
9. Lyons’ favourite, jig / Patrick (Paddy Phroinsiais) Gillespie, fiddle
10. Galway Bay (’Tis far away I am today...’) / Christopher Byrne, singing in English
11. The Drumboe martyrs (’Twas the feast of St Patrick by the dawn of the day...’), song / Maraget Byrne, singing in English [end of session] [END OF BAND ONE]
12. D’ith damh dubh uibh amh ar neamh indiu, saying [used by an Englishman to prove that the Irish language sounds like dogs barking] ; Tá bean bheag amuigh ansin, ta sí ró-fhranncach, Gúna beag buff uirthi, bearad is plaincéid, riddle [beathóg: bee] ; Teachtaire beag ó theach go theach [sic] Agus bhíonn sé amugih san oíche, riddle [Casán: path] ; Chuaidh mé amach maidin brea ceo Agus chonnaic mé an marbh ag iompar an bheo, riddle [bád: boat] / Patrick Heekin, speech in Irish 
13. The bark and the tree [=The nobleman’s wedding] (‘In yon weeping willow there grows a nice flower...’), song / Patrick Heekin, singing in English
14. [Stock and wall] [=Captain Wedderburn’s courtship] (‘A nobleman’s fair dauaghter walked down a narrow lane...’), song / Patrick Heekin, singing in English
15. The banks of sweet Dundee (‘It being of a farmer’s daughter, most beautiful I’m told...’), song / Patrick Heekin, singing in English
16. The bonny moorhen (‘As I was going over yon mulberry bog...’) song / Patrick Heekin, singing in English
17. The grey mare (‘Roger the miller came courting of late...’) song / Patrick Heekin, singing in English
18. There lived in this town a very nice couple, song / Patrick Heekin, singing in English
19. Cock-a-doodle-doo (‘Delaney from the market brought a fowl a month ago...’), song [ending clipped] / Patrick Heekin, singing in English [session continued at 6830] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded in the house of Andrew Maguire, Drim, Glencolmkille from his wife Agnes (aged about 50) and their daughter-in-law Teresa Maguire, née Cannon (aged about 24), 4 September 1968 [tracks 1–5]
Recorded outside the house of Bernard (Barney) Maguire (aged 87) and his son Bernard (aged about 45), Largybrack, Glencolumkille, Co. Donegal, 5 September 1968 [tracks 6–9]
Recorded in the house of John Bán Byrne (aged about 52), Malinbeg, Co. Donegal, 5 September 1968 [tracks 10–11]

Performers:
Agnes Maguire (aged about 50 years), singing in Irish Tracks 1–2, speech in Irish Track 5;
Hugh Shields, speech in English Track 3;
Andrew Maguire, speech in English Track 3;
Teresa Maguire, singing in English Track 4;
Bernard Maguire, speech in Irish Tracks 6–8, singing in Irish Track 9;
John Byrne, singing in English Tracks 10–11

Running Order:
1. Tá gleann beag ro-aoibhinn i n-Éirinn, song [the air of ‘Erin’s green shore’] / Agnes Maguire (aged about 50), singing in Irish
2. Camas Binne (Bhí Camas Binne ag seinm ceoil díobh...’), song [about a shipwreck] / Agnes Maguire singing in Irish
3. Talk about the song (‘Camas Binne’), speech / Andrew Maguire, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
4. Columkille’s station (‘Between two mountains deep and grand lies Columkille’s old station...’), song [air of ‘The girl I left behind me’] / Teresa Maguire (aged about 24), singing in English
5. Spoken text of the song ‘Camas Binne’, recitation /Agnes Maguire, speech in Irish [end of session]
6. Spoken text of the song ‘[Eirigh] suas a fhear an tighe’, recitation / Bernard (Barney) Maguire (aged 87), speech in Irish
7. Spoken text of the song ‘Camas Binne’, recitation / Bernard (Barney) Maguire, speech in Irish
8. Spoken verse of the song ‘[Éirigh] suas is cuir ort do chuid éadaí’, recitation / Bernard (Barney) Maguire, speech in Irish
9. (Éirigh) suas is cuir ort do chuid éadaí, song / Bernard (Barney) Maguire, singing in Irish [end of session]
10. The rocks of Bawn (‘Come all you loyal heroes wherever that you be...’), song / John Bán Byrne, singing in English
11. Little Sir Hugh, song [old ballad, sung to the air of ‘Edward’ as sung by Paddy Tunney] / John Bán Byrne, singing in English [session continued on 6827] [END OF BAND ONE

Recorded in the house of John Bán Byrne (aged about 52), Malinbeg, Co. Donegal, 5 September 1968 [tracks 1–6]
Recorded in the house of Bernard Maguire senior (Barney), aged 87), Largybrack, Glencolmkille, Co. Donegal, 6 September 1968 [tracks 7–8]

Performers:
John Bán Byrne, singing in English Tracks 1–3, fiddle solo Tracks 4–6;
Barney Maguire, singing in Irish Tracks 7–8

Running Order:
1. Barbara Ellen (‘It being about the Christmas time when green leaves they were falling...’), song [old ballad] / John Bán Byrne, singing in English
2. The dark-eyed gipsy(‘There were three gipsies in the East...’), song [old ballad] / John Bán Byrne, singing in English
3. Willy O (‘[Willie, Willie,] where are the blushes...’), song [fragment] / John Bán Byrne, singing in English
4. Untitled [= Old man Dillon], jig / John Bán Byrne, fiddle
5. The 'Old foggy dew', march / John Bán Byrne, fiddle
6. Highland: Untitled, highland / John Bán Byrne, fiddle [end of session]
7. Tá mo ghrádh-sa pósta (‘O tá mo ghrádh-sa ‘póstaí’ Is níl stór agam le fáil...’), song / Barney Maguire (aged 87), singing in Irish [session continued from 6822]
8. An cailín Sian (‘ ’Sa filleadh aniar domh sa [?] chailín tSian...’), song / Barney Maguire, singing in Irish [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from John Duggan (aged about 48) at the house of John Gillespie, Doonalt, Glencolmkille, Co. Donegal , 8 September 1968 [tracks 1–2]

Performers:
John Duggan, singing in English Tracks 1–2

Running Order:
1. Molly Bawn (‘Oh come all you late fowlers, of hunting there [?] shun...’), song / John Duggan (aged about 48), singing in English [session continued from 6828] [END OF BAND ONE]
2. Barbry Ellen (‘It being about the Christmas time...’), song [old ballad] / John Duggan, singing in English [end of session] [END OF BAND TWO]