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Recorded from Richard O'Driscoll (spare-time weaver, native Irish-speaker) in the garage-cum-weaving room of his house Glenawilling, Knockadoon, Co. Cork, and from Mrs Mary Wall, 18 August 1972 (tracks 1–19)

Performers:
Wall, Mary, singing in English Tracks 1, 7-11, 17, speech in English Track 2, singing in Irish Tracks 3, 13;
O'Driscoll, Richard, singing in Irish Tracks 4, 6, 14, 16, 18, speech in English Tracks 5, 15, speech in Irish Track 19, singing in English Track 12;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 2, 5, 15, speech in Irish Track 19

Running Order:
1. Knockadoon (‘I’ll sing tonight of a lovely spot in a village by the sea...’), song [words by her uncle, Michael Welsh] / Mrs Mary Wall (aged about 55, of Glenawilling, was native speaker as a child in Knockadoon), singing in English
2. Talk about the songs ‘Knockadoon’ and ‘Baile Mhic Coda’, speech / Bill Shanahan, speech in English ; Mary Wall, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
3. Baile Mhic Códa (‘A Bhaile Mhic Códa, táim tinn lag breoite...’), song [words by Michael Welsh] / Mrs Mary Wall, singing in English
4. Eochaill (‘Maidin Domhnaigh ’s mé ag dul go hEochaill...’), song [learnt from local man Séamus Welsh] / Richard O’Driscoll, singing in Irish
5. Talk about the source of the song ‘Eochaill’, speech / Richard O’Driscoll, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
6. Casadh an tsúgáin, song [learnt from Séamus Welsh] / Richard O’Driscoll, singing in Irish
7. Good luck to those people (‘Good luck to those people and safe may they land...’), song [learnt from her uncle Michael Welsh] / Mrs Mary Wall, singing in English
8. I am longing for the day (‘I am longing for the day when my barque shall sail away...’), song [Knockadoon song, words recently composed, air: Snowy-breasted pearl]  / Mrs Mary Wall, singing in English
9. Barbara Allen (‘It was early early all in the spring-time of the year...’), song / Mrs Mary Wall, singing in English
10. The curly fair moustache (‘Once I loved a charming boy...’), song [air: Close of an Irish day, in 6:8] / Mrs Mary Wall, singing in English  [END OF BAND ONE]
11. Johnny me darling lad (‘Oh when will we get married, Johnny me darling lad...’) / Mrs Mary Wall, singing in English  
12. Seán O Duír an ghleanna (‘After Aughrim’s great disaster...’), song [literary version, learnt from a Cork city man] / Richard O’Driscoll, singing in English
13. Cáit Ni Dhuír (‘Tráthnóinín beag déanach...’), song [incomplete, learnt locally] / Richard O’Driscoll, singing in Irish
14. Donal óg, song [learnt from an old woman in Ring, Co. Waterford] / Richard O’Driscoll, singing in Irish
15. Conversation about the song ‘Donal óg’[which R. O’D sang at the Oireachtas and which the adjudicator, Sorcha Ní Ghuairim, condemned on the grounds that it was a song ‘from the Deise’ and he had no business singing it], speech / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Richard O’Driscoll, speech in English
16. Ná beadh buachaillín deas ag sile (‘Ná beadh buachaillín deas ag sile dá bpósadh sí mé féin mar fhear...’), song [learnt locally] / Richard O’Driscoll, singing in Irish
17. Seana Eire na nGael go deo (‘The song I sing is a song of hope ...’), song / Mrs Mary Wall, singing in English
18. Cá rabhais ar feadh an lae uaim, song [Irish version of the old ballad ‘Lord Randal’ learnt locally in his childhood] / Richard O’Driscoll, singing in Irish
19. Conversation about the song ‘Cá rabhais ar feadh an lae uaim’,  speech / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Richard O’Driscoll, speech in English [end of session] [END OF BAND TWO

Recorded from Dennis Healy (aged in his 70s at least) in the house of his niece at Moneystown, Roundwood. Co. Wicklow, May 1971 [tracks 1–5]

Performers:
Healy, Dennis, singing in English Tracks 1-4;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 5

Running Order:
1. ’Twas on the sixth of January (‘ ’Twas on the sixth of January the year nineteen nought four...’), song [about the Laragh football team] / Dennis Healey, singing in English
2. The dark-eyed gypsy (There were three gypsies lived in the East...’), song ] / Dennis Healey, singing in English
3. The blind beggar’s daughter (‘There was a blind beggar a long time was blind...’), song [one verse only] / Dennis Healey, singing in English
4. Johnny Hart, son [fragments of a song he knew in its entirety] / Dennis Healey, singing in English
5. [voice of Hugh Shields and sound of middle C on tuning fork] [end of session] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil crossroads, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 17 September 1970 [tracks 1–5] [session continued from 7009]

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 1-5

Running Order:
1. The Moorlough shore (‘Oh you hills and dales and flowery vales lies near to the Moorlough shore...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Blow the candle out (‘It’s of a young apprentice boy...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. The bonny Irish boy (‘His real name I won’t mention...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. Now there is something else, song [extra verse added to the song ‘The new Mallard bar, words by Eddie Butcher (see 6901)], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [end of recording session]
5. My Aunt Biddy (‘My aunt Biddy had a boil on her diddy...’), song [Eb used to hear small boys singing this] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [session resumed next morning and ended here] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil crossroads, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 17 September 1970 [tracks 1–4]

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 1, 3-4, speech in English Track 2;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 2

Running Order:
1. Bonny Portmore (‘Bonny Portmore, you shine where you stand...’), song [17 verses, air: Green bushes] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Talk about the song ‘Bonny Portmore’ / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
3. Lovely Armoy (‘Draw near, my kind friends and relations...’), song [known since childhood, but text may be partly learnt from Joe Holmes, Ballymoney, Co. Antrim, air: cf. Banks of Kilrea]
4. The maid of Culmore (‘From fair Londonderry unto fair London town...’), song [amalgam of two songs ? Air: cf. Sailing to America] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [session continued on 6910] [END OF BAND ONE]

[Recorded from Eddie Butcher (of Magilligan, Co. Derry) for Hugh Shields in the Avondale Studio, Dublin] Copy of studio recording

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English [tracks 1-5]

Running Order:
1. The 'Trader' ('Oh, come all you gallent seamen bold, now listen here a while to me...'), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Inniskilling dragoon [= Enniskillen dragoon] [clipped at start], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. The mountain stream where the moorcock crows ('With my dog and gun through the blooming heather...') , song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. The Fan [= The Bold lieutenant] ('In sweet Argyll there lived a lady ..'), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
5. Another man's wedding [= Nobleman's wedding] ('I was invited to another man's wedding...'), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English

Recorded at the house of John Butcher (brother of Eddie), Drumavally, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 17 July 1969 [tracks 1–3]

Performers:
Butcher, John, singing in English Tracks 1-2, speech in English Track 2;
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Track 3;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 2

Running Order:
1. Tossing the hay (‘It being on a summer’s morning abroad as I did go...’), song / John Butcher, singing in English [session continued from 6904]
2. The cocks are crowing (‘The cocks is crowing, daylight’s appearing...’), song ; speech / John Butcher, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
3. It is now for New England (‘It is now for New England fain would I go...’), song [clipped: for complete see 6906] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [session continued at 6906] [END OF BAND ONE]

[Recorded from Eddie Butcher (of Magilligan, Co. Derry) for Hugh Shields in the Avondale Studio, Dublin, July 1966] Copy of studio recording

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 1-8

Running Order:
1. Down by the canal (‘As I went a-walking one evening in June...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. When a man’s in love (When a man’s in love he feels no cold...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. Tossing the hay (‘It being on a pleasant evening abroad as I did go...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. Pat Reilly (‘Oh, as I went a-walking one morning in May, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
5. The ship carpenter’s wife, (‘Oh, come all you gay fellows, you flourishing folk...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
6. When a man’s in love (‘When a man’s in love he feels no cold...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
7. The bold lieutenant [= The fan] (‘In sweet Argyle there lived a lady...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
8. The mountain streams where the moorcock crows (‘With my dog and gun through yon blooming heather...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English

Recorded from Jack Devereux of Kilmore Quay in Keating's Farmhouse, Ballinconnigar, Co. Wexford, July 1967. [tracks 1–9, 49–55]
Recorded in Ballyconniger and Blackwater area, Co Wexford [in Keating’s farmhouse, Matt Curran’s house and elsewhere], July 1967. [tracks 10–48]

Performers:
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 1-4, 6-7, 11, 29-30, 35, 39, 41, 44, 48, 50-52, 54;
Devereux, Jack, (Kilmore Quay}, speech in English Tracks 1-6, 8, 50-52, 54, singing in English Tracks 1-5, 7-9, 49, 51-53, 55, recitation in English 6;
Sheil, Dick, Blackwater, speech in English Track 6, recitation in English Track 6, singing in English Tracks 19-20, 26;
Unidentified performer [Mr Delahunty?], speech in English Track 10;
Sinnott, Art, Boulavogue, singing in English Track 11, 13, 16, speech in English Track 11;
Dempsey, Jim, Ball Alley, Blackwater, singing in English Tracks 18, 21-25;
Fitzgerald, Bridget, New Range, Blackwater, singing in English Tracks 12, 14-15, 17, 36-37, 39, 41, 43, 45-48, speech in English, Tracks 39, 41, 48;
Unidentified performers, singing in English Track 27;
Unidentified female performer, singing in English Track 28;
Golden, Jack (Ballyesker, Blackwater), singing in English Track 29, 31-34, speech in English Tracks 29-30;
Curran, Matt, Blackwater, singing in English Tracks 25, 38, 42, speech in English Track 44
Unidentified female performer, singing in English Track 40

Running Order:
1. Talk about the following carol ; [Jerusalem, first carol for 12th day] (‘Jerusalem our happy home...’), speech ; song [titles of these carols supplied by Lisa Shields from Father Ranson’s article on the Kilmore carols] / Jack Devereux, speech in English, singing in English
2. Talk about the following carol ; [Song for twelfth day] (‘Now to conclude our Christmas mirth...’), speech ; song] / Jack Devereux, speech in English, singing in English
3. Talk about the Kilmore carols ; Bannow’s lonely shore (‘To Bannow’s lovely banks farewell...’) ; talk about the preceding, speech ; song ; speech] / Jack Devereux, speech in English, singing in English
4. Patrick O’Donnell (‘My name is Pat O’Donnell, I belong to Donegal...’) ; talk about the preceding and following songs, song : speech] / Jack Devereux, speech in English, singing in English
5. I traced her little footprints in the snow, song] / Jack Devereux, singing in English
6. Conversation on the ‘mumming’ traditions of Blackwater and Kilmore in Wexford with examples, speech Dick Sheil, speech in English ; Jack Devereux, speech in English
7. My Mary of the curling hair, song] / Jack Devereux, singing in English
8. Who comes tapping to my window (‘Mary took the bloodstained dagger...’) talk about the preceding, song [one verse] ; speech] / Jack Devereux, speech in English, singing in English
9. Ballyshannon lane (‘In ninety-six as the moon did fix her beams...’) / Jack Devereux, singing in English
10. Untitled [Welshman tricks Paddy into buying a ‘race-horse’s egg’], story [end of band one] / Unknown performer [Mr Delahunty?], speech in English
11. Boolavogue (‘At Boolavogue as the sun was setting ; talk about the preceding song / Art Sinott (Boulavogue), singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
12. The river Sow (‘I’m an Irish exile out on a foreign shore...’), song [learned from her father] / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald (New Range, Blackwater), singing in English
13. I’m lonely in a foreign land, song [good air] Art Sinott, singing in English
14. She was a rich merchant’s daughter all in her prime of years (Canada-i-o), song / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
15. Borris’s groves (‘Through Borris’s groves along I strolled...’), song / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English
16. The old bog road (‘My feet are here on Broadway...’), song / Art Sinott, singing in English
17. [The land where the green shamrock grows] (‘One night as I lay on my pillow...’), song / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English
18. Dearest love don’t you remember the day we first did meet, song / Jim Dempsey Ball Alley, Blackwater, singing in English
19. O land of love and beauty, to you our hearts are wed, song / [Dick Sheil, Blackwater], singing in English
20. The little shirt my mother made for me (‘I’ll never forget the night that I was born...’), song / [Dick Sheil], singing in English
21. Tootle um tootle um too (‘I’m a band in a terrible way...’), song / Jim Dempsey, singing in English
22. Love it’s pleasing (‘When I was young I was well beloved...’), song / Jim Dempsey, singing in English
23. The queen of Conamara (‘My boat she safely floats...’), song / Jim Dempsey, singing in English
24. Fare thee well false girl, I love you, song / Jim Dempsey, singing in English
25. Norah Malone (‘For when you’ll be teasing when we should be pleasing...’), song / Jim Dempsey, singing in English
26. Erin’s lovely home ('When I was young and in my prime...'), song / [Dick Sheil], singing in English
27. [The boys from the County Armagh] (‘There’s one fair county in Ireland...’)song / unknown performers, singing in English
28. The Boston burglar (‘I was born and reared in Boston...’), song / unknown female performer, singing in English
29. Talk about singing, The drowning of Thomas Murphy (‘Oh you feeling-hearted Christians...’), speech ; song / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Jack Golden (Ballyesker, Blackwater), speech in English, singing in English
30. Talk about the local mumming tradition, especially the role of the doctor, speech / Jack Golden, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
31. The Rathaspeck boys (‘Oh, you muses nine assist me...’), song [local, about drownings] / Jack Golden, singing in English
32. The nobleman’s wedding/ Another man’s wedding (‘Why should you lie on another man’s pillow?...’), song [one verse only] / Jack Golden, singing in English
33. Mary’s dream [= Mary weep no more for me (‘The moon had climbed the highest hill...’), song [ghost of drowned sailor visits his true love] / Jack Golden, singing in English
34. The faithful sailor boy (‘One dark and stormy night as the snow lay on the ground...’), song / Jack Golden, singing in English [end of band two]
35. Good old Wexford town [= Sweet Kingwilliamstown] (‘My bonny barque bounds light and free across the surging foam...’) ; talk about the preceding, song ; speech / Matt Curran (Blackwater), singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
36. Song: I’ve seen the mud cabin he’d dance his wilds jigs in (Teddy O’Neill), song / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald (New Range, Blackwater), singing in English
37. Song: Dan O’Hara ’Tis poor I am today for God gave and took away...’) / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English
38. Song: [Ireland I love you, acushla mo chroí] (‘Far away O’er the sea there’s a little green island...’), song / Matt Curran, singing in English,
39. Molly Lowry [= Molly Bawn] (‘A story a story I’ll tell you no lie...’) ; talk about the preceding, song ; speech / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
40. Song:...’ [The shooting of President Kennedy] (‘In the town of Dallas, Texas, November ‘63...’) / unidentified female performer, singing in English
41. Who comes tapping to my window ; talk about the preceding, song ; speech / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
42. Song: The old widow of Oulart Young maidens draw near, I crave your attention...’), song / Matt Curran, singing in English
43. Song: Noreen Bawn There’s a glen in old Tyrconnell...’), song / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English
44. The Poulshone fishermen (‘On the 23rd of April in the year of sixty-three...’), talk about the preceding, song ; speech / Matt Curran, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
45. Song: Green bushes (‘As I went a-walking one evening in May...’), song song / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English
46. Song: [Eileen McMahon] (‘One night as I lay on my pillow a vision appeared in my view...’), song / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English
47. Song: The river Sow (‘I am a Irish exile out on a foreign shore...’), song / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English
48. Song: Borris’s groves (‘Through Borris’s groves alone I strolled...’), song / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
49. Song: [On Christ’s nativity: 1st carol for Christmas morning] The darkest midnight in December...’), song / Jack Devereux, singing in English
50. Talk about the ‘Kilmore carols’ and the Kilmore choir / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Jack Devereux, speech in English
51. Talk about the following song ; [2nd carol for Christmas day] (‘Christmas day is come, let us prepare for mirth...’), speech / Jack Devereux, speech in English, singing in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
52. [3rd carol for Christmas day] (‘Ye sons of men with me rejoice...’) ; Talk about the preceding song and the Kilmore carol tradition, song ; speech / Jack Devereux, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
53. [Song for St. Stephen’s day] (‘This is St. Stephen’s day...’), song, / Jack Devereux, singing in English
54. Talk about the local dialect / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Jack Devereux, speech in English
55. [Song for the Holy Innocents] (‘Hail ye flowers of martyrs, hail blossoms of heavenly spring...’), song / Jack Devereux, singing in English [end of session] [end of band three]

Recorded from Eddie Butcher at Frank Harte’s house in Dublin, July 1966. [tracks 1–6]
Recorded from Eddie Butcher on a journey between Dublin and Magilligan, July 1966. [tracks 7–8]
[Copies of] s recordings made by members of the Butcher family at O'Hagan’s pub in Coleraine, Co. Derry, July 1966. [tracks 9–17]
Recorded at Jimmie Butcher’s house in Limavady, Co. Derry, from members of the Butcher family, July 1966. [tracks 18–28]
Recorded from Eddie Butcher [at his house] in Magilligan, Co. Derry, July 1966. [tracks 29–57]
Recorded from Eddie Butcher [at his house] in Magilligan, Co. Derry, March 1966. [tracks 58–70]
Domestic recordings of commercial discs. [tracks 71–83

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, Aughil, Magilligan, co. Derry [1900-1980], singing in English Tracks 1-8, 18, 28-29, 30-39, 45-46, 49-52, 54, 56, 58-59, 64-65, 66-70, speech in English Tracks 19, 34, 36, 59, 63-64, 66, recitation in English 60;
Butcher, Robert, singing in English Tracks 9-12;
Butcher, John Junior, Downhill, Dunboe, singing in English Tracks 14, 16-17;
Unidentified performer, singing in English Track 13;
O'Hagan, Lizzie, singing in English Track 15;
Butcher, Jimmie, Limavady, co. Derry, singing in English Tracks 20-27;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 34, 42, Tracks 59-61, 63-64, 66;
B[utcher], Mrs [Maria, wife of John B. senior], singing in English Tracks 44, 54
Butcher, John senior, Magilligan, co. Derry, singing in English , Tracks 40-43, 47-48, 54-55, 57, speech in English Track 42, lilting Track 53;
Tunney, Paddy, singing in English Tracks 71-78, speech in English Track 76;
McMahon, Dolly, singing in English Tracks 80-81, singing in Irish Tracks 80-81;
Ennis, Seamus, pipes solo Track 79 , singing in English Track 79, singing in Irish Track 79, whistle solo Track 79;
Unidentified Ulster performers, singing in English Track 82, fifes and drums in group instrumental Track 82;
Unidentified performers, singing in English Track 83, singing in Irish Track 83, singing in Scots Gaelic Track 83

Running Order:
1. My barque leaves the harbour tomorrow, song / Eddie Butcher, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Ballycartin ball (‘Assist me lads of merriment attend both one and all...’) , song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. Skewball (‘Come all you noble gentlemen...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. I'll climb up a high high tree [fragment], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
5. True lovers' discussion (‘Oh one pleasant evening when pinks and daisies...’) [= True lovers' discourse], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
6. Lovely Derry on the banks of the Foyle (‘There's a spot on this earth it's a spot of great fame...’),song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
7. Jack the jolly ploughboy was ploughing up his land, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
8. There was a widow woman (‘There was a widow-woman in the west moorlands...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
9. When a man's in love [copied in Coleraine, beginning defective], song / Robert Butcher, singing in English
10. Maid of seventeen (‘Down by a shady harbour there resides a pleasant maid...’) [copied posthumously in Coleraine], song / Robert Butcher, singing in English
11. Nothing (‘When rhyming and verses came first into fashion...’) [copied posthumously in Coleraine], song / Robert Butcher, singing in English
12. Granny's Heiland hame (‘[In the Heilands of Scotland] there stands a wee hoose...’) [copied posthumously in Coleraine], song / Robert Butcher, singing in English
13. Blue velvet band (‘Come listen till I tell you a story...’) / unidentified performer, singing in English
14. Maggie (‘I wander a day [?] to the hills, Maggie...’), song / John Butcher, junior, singing in English
15. Bonny Irish boy (‘Once I was courted by a bonny Irish boy...’), song Lizzie O’Hagan, singing in English
16. Town of Coleraine, song (‘There's a sweet little spot in the county of Derry...’), song / John Butcher, junior, singing in English
17. Fare you well lough Derg, song / John Butcher, junior, singing in English
18. Pat McGuire (‘Oh come all you true bred Irish men of country and town...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
19. The lodger (‘An ould fella was married to a woman...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
20. Erin's lovely home (‘You patriot sons of Paddy's land come listen unto me...’), song / Jimmy Butcher, singing in English
21. James McKee (‘James McKee they do call me the same I'll ne'er deny...’) [incomplete], song / Jimmy Butcher, singing in English
22. James McKee (‘James McKee they do call me the same I'll ne'er deny...’), song / Jimmy Butcher, singing in English
23. Beautiful Bundoran (‘In the heart of old Tirchonaill...’), song / Jimmy Butcher, singing in English
24. Banks of Kilrea ‘One evening for my recreation as I strayed by the lovely Moss Ban...’), song / Jimmy Butcher, singing in English
25. Eileen McManus (‘One day as I strolled along Broadway...’), song / Jimmy Butcher, singing in English
26. Ann O'Brien (‘You young and old I now make bold, I pray you lend an ear...’), song / Jimmy Butcher, singing in English
27. Far far away in an African desert, song / Jimmy Butcher, singing in English
28. The Royal Charter (‘From fair Australia with a pleasant gale...’) , song / Eddie Butcher singing in English
29. Lowlands low (‘Emily sat lamenting when young Edmond first did roam...’) (fragment], song / Eddie Butcher singing in English [end of band one]
30. Lowlands low (‘Young Emily sat lamenting when young Edmond first did roam...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
31. The night of the wedding (‘Och but that was the terrible tear...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
32. I wish my love was a red red rose growing in yon garden fair [fragment], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
33. [Murlough shore=Murloch Mary], (‘Oh you hills and dales and flowery vales lies nigh to the Murlough shore...’) [fragment], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
34. Oh Cofer John gave me a wink, talk about this song, song and speech, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English, speech in Enlish ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
35. Casey Jones (‘Come all you gay people...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
36. Town of Garvagh (‘Captain D.... says my boys...’) [one verse], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
37. Patrick Sheehan (‘My name is Patrick Sheehil [sic]...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
38. Shores of Benone (‘Oh kind friends I'm just come here tonight to sing to all of you...’),
39. Strands of Magilligan (I'm a stranger in this country from America I came...’) [two-line fragment], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
40. Star of Donegal (‘One evening fair to take the air alone I chanced to stray...’) [incomplete], song / John Butcher, senior, singing in English
41. By the side of a clear crystal fountain (interrupted), song / John Butcher, senior, singing in English song / John Butcher, senior, singing in English
42. Oh, it's just about ten years ago as far as I can tell, talk about the preceding song; song and speech / John Butcher, senior, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
43. Tossing the hay (‘It being on a summer's morning...’), song / John Butcher, senior, singing in English
44. Moville along the Foyle (‘There's a dear old spot I often...’), song / Mrs Maria Butcher (wife of John Butcher senior), singing in English
45. Sailor boy (‘One dark and stormy wintry night as the snow lay on the ground...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
46. Father's serving boy (‘I live between Dungannon and the town of Aghnacloy...’), song / Eddie Butcher singing in English ; John Butcher, senior, singing in English
47. Maid of Culmore (‘From sweet Londonderry to fair London town...), song / John Butcher, senior, singing in English
48. Parish of Dunboe (‘I am a bold undaunted youth, I mean to let you know...’), song / John Butcher, senior, singing in English ; Eddie Butcher, singing in English
49. Down by the canal (‘As I went a walking one evening in June...), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
50. We're the true-born sons of Levi [fragment], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
51. Whose oul heid is that oul heid where my oul heid should be, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
52. Sailing to America (‘[Come all you] good people wherever you be...’), song / Eddie Butcher singing in English ; John Butcher, senior, singing in English
53. Untitled tune, lilt / John Butcher, senior, lilting
54. Green fields of America ‘Oh farewell to old Ireland, the home of my father ...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English ; John Butcher, senior, singing in English ; Mrs John Butcher, singing in English
55. Free and easy to jog along (‘Oh it's of my rambles I'm going to sing ...’), song / John Butcher, senior, singing in English
56. Todd's sweet rural shade (‘Oh one evening fair to take the air as I carelessly did stray ...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
57. Robin Thompson's smithy (‘Oh my mother mended my oul breeks ...’), song / John Butcher, senior, singing in English
58. Johnny and Molly (‘Oh says Johnny to Molly ...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
59. The green veil (‘Come all you gay fellows that wants to be mellow ...’) , talk about it, song ; speech / Eddie Butcher, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
60. First verse of ‘The green veil’ spoken, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
61. Nancy's whiskey (‘These five long quarters I have been weaving ...’), talk about it , song ; speech / Eddie Butcher, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
62. Bonny bunch of roses (‘By the margin of the ocean one morning in the month of June [fragment], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
63. Talk about the Butcher family and about Margaret Clyde's house, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
64. Flower of Corby mill (‘Oh come all you tenderhearted chaps I hope you'll lend an ear ...’) and talk about it, song ; speech / Eddie Butcher, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English ; [Gracie Butcher], speech in English
65. Walling of the men (‘Oh come all you jolly working men, ...’) , [unfinished], song [words by Eddie Butcher] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English, [end of band two]
66. Walling of the men (‘Oh, come all you jolly working men...’), talk about this song and about another ‘The smuggler’ also with words by Eddie, song [ words by Eddie Butcher] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
67. The ‘Trader’ (‘We bid them all a long farewell for we will never see them more...’) [1-verse fragment], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
68. Parish of Dunboe (‘I am a bold undaunted youth I mean for to let you know...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
69. Bonny Irish boy ‘Once I was courted by a bonny Irish boy...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
70. Johnny and Molly ‘Oh, says Johnny to Molly...’) [fragment of first verse], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
71. Craigie Hill (‘It being in Spring and the small birds were singing...’) [dub from Topic LP ‘The Irish edge’], song, / Paddy Tunney, singing in English
72. Lark in the morning (‘The lark in the morning she rises off her nest...’) [dub from Topic LP ‘The Irish edge’], song, / Paddy Tunney, singing in English
73. Johnny, lovely Johnny (‘Oh, Johnny, lovely Johnny, do you mind the day [Johnny, lovely Johnny] [dub from Topic LP ‘The Irish edge’], song, / Paddy Tunney, singing in English
74. The cow that drank the poteen (‘There's a man in Ardaghy...’) [dub from Topic LP ‘The Irish edge’], song, / Paddy Tunney, singing in English;
75. Blackwater side (‘Oh, as I roved out one bright summer's morn...’) [dub from Topic LP ‘The Irish edge’], song, / Paddy Tunney, singing in English, song, / Paddy Tunney, singing in English
76. Talk about the following song, Out of the window (My young love said to me, my mother won't mind...’) [dub from Topic LP ‘The Irish edge’], song and speech, / Paddy Tunney, singing in English,speech in English
77. The month of January (‘It was in the month of January...’) [dub from Topic LP ‘The Irish edge’], song, / Paddy Tunney, singing in English
78. The wearing of the britches (‘Come all you men where'er you be...’) [dub from Topic LP ‘The Irish edge’], song, / Paddy Tunney, singing in English
79. [off-disc dub]: 'Bonny bunch of roses', LP by Seamus Ennis (Tradition TLP 1013)
80. [off-disc dub from]: 'Dolly' LP by Dolly McMahon (Claddagh CC3) [end of band three]
81. [off-disc dub ]: 'Dolly' LP by Dolly McMahon (Claddagh CC3) continued [off-disc dub]
82. Orangemen of Ulster (Folkways FW3033, 1961) [off-disc dub]
83. [off-disc dub]: (Folksongs of Britain vol. 6: 'Sailors and serving maids' (Topic 12t194) [end of band four]

Recorded from Frank Harte [in Hugh Shields’s house in Dublin], June 1966. [tracks 22–25]
Recorded, mainly from Eddie & Grace Butcher, in Dublin [Hugh Shields’s house], July 1966. [tracks 26–73]
Recorded from Maria Regina Amorim (TCD summer-school student?) [in Hugh Shields's house in Dublin or in Trinity College, 1966 or 1967]. [tracks 74–75]
Copies of recordings in Scots Gaelic provided by Rev. Terence McCaughey. [tracks 1–21]
Domestic recording of RTÉ programme 'Shamrock, rose and thistle', by Hugh Shields, July 1967. [track 76]
Domestic recording of BBC 3rd programmes broadcast, August 1966, May 1967. [tracks 77–78]

Performers:
Unidentified male performer, recitation in Scots Gaelic Track 1, singing in Scots Gaelic Track 1;
Unidentified female performer, singing in Scots Gaelic Track 2, 5, speech in Scots Gaelic Track 5;
Unidentified performers, singing in Scots Gaelic Track 3-4, speech in Scots Gaelic Track 6;
McGuinness, Peter,S. Lochboisdale, S. Uist, speech in Scots Gaelic Track 7;
Unidentified performer, speech in Scots Gaelic Track 7;
Unidentified male performer, singing in Scots Gaelic Track 8;
Unidentified male performer, speech in Scots Gaelic, singing in Scots Gaelic Tracks 9-12;
Unidentified [female?] performer, singing in Scots Gaelic Track 12;
Unidentified [male] performer, speech in Scots Gaelic Track 12;
Unidentified female performer, singing in Scots Gaelic Track 13;
Unidentified [male] performer, speech in Scots Gaelic Tracks 14-15;
Unidentified performers led by [Penny Morrison?], singing in Scots Gaelic Track 14;
Unidentified [male] performer, speech in Scots Gaelic Tracks 15-16;
Unidentified performers led by [Caitriona MacMillan?], singing in Scots Gaelic Track 15;
Unidentified performer [Donald McDonald?], singing in Scots Gaelic Track 16;
Unidentified male] performer, speech in Scots Gaelic Track 17;
Unidentified performer [Mary Morrison?], singing in Scots Gaelic Track 17;
Unidentified performer (radio announcer), speech in English Track 17;
Unidentified performers, singing in Scots Gaelic Tracks 18-19;
Unidentified male performer, speech in Scots Gaelic Track 19;
Unidentified female performer [Mrs Celia Costello], singing in English Track 20;
Unidentified performer [Terence McCaughey], speech in English, speech in Irish Track 21;
Unidentified performers, speech in Irish Track 21;
Harte, Frank, singing in English Track 22-25;
Harte, Frank, speech in English Track 22;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 22, 27, 36, 51, 63, 76;
Butcher, Eddie, Aughil, Magilligan, co. Derry [1900-1980], singing in English Tracks 26-29, 34-48, 50, 52-57, 76 speech in English Tracks 30-33, 58, 63, recitation in English Tracks 49, 59-60, 62;
Butcher, Grace (Eddie's wife) speech in English 36, 51, 63, recitation in English 61;
Shields, Michael, Dublin, age 5+, recitation in English Tracks 66-67, 70-73, singing in English Track 68, singing in French Track 69;
Amorim, Maria Regina, singing in Portuguese Tracks 74-75;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English D25, singing in English Track 76;
Barry, Margaret, singing in English Track 76;
Lloyd, A.L, speech in English Track 77;
Unidentified performers, (instrumental) Track 77;
Unidentified performers, singing in various languages Track 77;
McDonagh, Sean, singing in Irish Track 77;
Spahni, Jean-Coristian, speaking in English Track 78;
Unidentified instrumentalists Track 78;
Unidentified performers, singing in Spanish Track 78

Running Order:
1. Untitled, story [copied from Rev. Terence McCaughey] / unidentified [male] performer, speech in Scots Gaelic
2. Untitled, solo waulking song [copied from Rev. Terence McCaughey] / unidentified [female] performer, singing in Scots Gaelic
3. Untitled waulking song with chorus [copied from Rev. Terence McCaughey] / unidentified performers, singing in Scots Gaelic
4. Untitled, waulking song with chorus / unidentified performers, singing in Scots Gaelic [copied from Rev. Terence McCaughey]
5. Talk about the following song ; untitled song [copied from Rev. Terence McCaughey] / unidentified [female] performer, speech in Scots Gaelic, singing in Scots Gaelic,
6. Conversation, speech [copied from Rev. Terence McCaughey] / unidentified performers, speech in Scots Gaelic
7. Conversation with Peter McGuinness of South Uist, speech [copied from Rev. Terence McCaughey] / unidentified performer, speech in Scots Gaelic Peter McGuinness, speech in Scots Gaelic
8. Untitled, song [copied from Rev. Terence McCaughey] / unidentified [male] performer, singing in Scots Gaelic
9. Untitled chantefable, [story with song included] [copied from Rev. Terence McCaughey] [BBC, re Ness in Lewis?] / unidentified [male] performer, speech in Scots Gaelic, singing in Scots Gaelic
10. Talk about the following performer and untitled song, speech ; song [copied from Rev. Terence McCaughey] [BBC, re Ness in Lewis?] ?] / unidentified [male] performer, speech in Scots Gaelic ; unidentified [male] performer, singing in Scots Gaelic
11. Talk about the following song ; untitled song, speech ; song [copied from Rev. Terence McCaughey] [BBC, re Ness in Lewis?] / unidentified [male] performer, speech in Scots Gaelic ; unidentified [male] performer, singing in Scots Gaelic
12. Talk about the following song ; untitled waulking song [copied from Rev. Terence McCaughey] [BBC, by J. Ross?] / unidentified [male] performer, speech in Scots Gaelic ; unidentified [female?] performer, singing in Scots Gaelic
13. Talk about the following song ; untitled waulking song [copied from Rev. Terence McCaughey] [BBC, by J. Ross?] / unidentified [male] performer, speech in Scots Gaelic ; unidentified female performer, singing in Scots Gaelic
14. Talk about the following song ; untitled waulking song [copied from Rev. Terence McCaughey] [BBC, by J. Ross? ?] / unidentified [male] performer, speech in Scots Gaelic ; unidentified performers led by [Penny Morrison?], singing in Scots Gaelic
15. Talk about the following song ; untitled waulking song [copied from Rev. Terence McCaughey] [BBC, by J. Ross?] / unidentified [male] performer, speech in Scots Gaelic ; unidentified performers led by [Caitriona MacMillan?], singing in Scots Gaelic
16. Talk about the following song ; untitledsong [copied from Rev. Terence McCaughey] [BBC, by J. Ross?] / unidentified [male] performer, speech in Scots Gaelic ; unidentified performer [Donald McDonald?], singing in Scots Gaelic
17. Speech/Talk about the following song ; untitled song, spoken credits to the preceding performers (using English names) [copied from Rev. Terence McCaughey] [BBC, by J. Ross?] ?] / unidentified [male] performer, speech in Scots Gaelic ; unidentified performer [Mary Morrison?], singing in Scots Gaelic ; radio announcer, speech in English
18. Untitled Gaelic psalm [copied from Rev. Terence McCaughey] / unidentified [male] performer, speech in Scots Gaelic ; / choir with male soloist, singing in Scots Gaelic
19. Untitled Gaelic psalm: talk about the following psalm [copied from Rev. Terence McCaughey] / unidentified performer, speech in Scots Gaelic ; choir with male soloist, singing in Scots Gaelic
20. Untitled song [= The green wedding] (‘There was a squire in Hainborough lived and a squire of high degree...’), song [copied from Rev. Terence McCaughey, cf Leader Records LEE 4054, from BBC Sound Archives] / unidentified female performer [Mrs Celia Costello], singing in English [end of band one]
21. Donegal vowel length, speech [copy of tapes recorded by Rev. Terence McCaughey, includes child’s recitation] / unidentified performer [Terence McCaughey], speech in English, speech in Irish ; unidentified performers, speech in Irish
22. The lion’s den [= The fan] (‘There were two brothers, both noted warriors...’) ; talk about the preceding, song ; speech / Frank Harte, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English [new recording session]
23. [Bold Belfast shoemaker] (‘Come all you true-born Irishmen, wherever you may be...’), song / Frank Harte, singing in English
24. [The Sheffield apprentice] (‘I was brought up in Sheffield...’), song / Frank Harte, singing in English
25. ‘[The traveller all over the world] (‘Come all you fellow travelling men of every rank and station...’), song / Frank Harte, singing in English
26. Nancy’s whiskey (‘Those five long quarters I have been weaving...’), song [learned by Eddie Butcher from a Derry woman before his marriage] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
27. Woods of Drumboe (‘On the feast of St. Patrick at the dawn of the day...’) ; talk about ’Woods of Drumboe’, song [learnt from a Derry woman before his marriage] ; speech] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English; Hugh Shields, speech in English
28. Where the Blarney roses grow (‘It was on a Sunday morning on a cold September’s day...’), song] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
29. Burns and his Highland Mary (’In green Caledonia there were ne’er two lovers...’), song ] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
30. The hard loaf (‘There were an old couple lived in our country...’), story ] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
31. They were saying the rosary one night, story ] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
32. Two old boys and they had beards, story ] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
33. Two old misers, story ] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
34. Two sweethearts (‘A group of young soldiers one night had a spree...’), song ] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
35. Donald’s return to Glencoe (‘As I went a walking one evening of late...’), song] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
36. No come again (‘Oh the first place that I saw my love it was at a wake...’), talk about’No come again’, song [learnt from the singing of Grace Butcher’s aunt Tilda Cook from Bellareena] ; speech ] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Mrs Grace Butcher, speech in English
37. No come again (‘Come all you pretty fair maids a warning take from me...’, song [final? verse missing from preceding] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
38. The road to Dundee The pale moon was rising behind yon green mountain...’), song] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
39. Song/Speech: The factory girl (‘As I went out walking one fine summer’s morning...’), song [learnt by Eddie Butcher from his father] ; talk about the preceding song ] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Mrs Grace Butcher, speech in English
40. You gallant sons of Britain’s shore, song [fragment, learnt from his father] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
41. Old woman and tinker (‘Come all you gay fellow that wants to be mellow...’), song [4 verses, one missing, learnt from his father] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
42. Moorlough Mary (‘The first place I saw Moorlough Mary...’), song [one verse only] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
43. It was in the Queen’s Co. I was tenderly rearen, song [about murder of gang foreman] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
44. Erin’s green shore (‘One evening of late as I strayed...’), song [verse 2, omitted at first, is added at the end.] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
45. I wish that the war was over (‘Oh my parent’s reared me tenderly sure I being their only son...’), song ] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
46. Glenswilly (‘Oh listen awhile my countrymen and hear my native news...’), song
47. Down by the canal (‘As I went a-walking one evening in June...’), song [incomplete] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [voice pitches sound too high in the next four items]
48. India’s burning sands (‘In blithe and bonny fair Scotland...’) ; extra verse of preceding, song, / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
49. Indias’s burning sands [spoken fragments] (‘Young Henry fought right manfully...’), recitation, ] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
50. Raggle taggle gypsies (‘Charles he put spurs to his horse...’), song [fragment] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
51. Grace Butcher talking about Eddie’s family, speech] / Mrs Grace Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English [end of band two]
52. Oh it’s of a brisk young butcher, song [c.f. Basket of eggs, Last verse not recorded and only partly remembered], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
53. The pot [= The pisspot](‘There were an old farmer and he had a nice wife...’) , song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
54. The hiring fair (‘My friends and I left sweet Armoy...’), song [fragments] , song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
55. The crockery ware (‘Oh my love she’s but a lassie-o...’) , song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
56. Another man’swedding [=Nobleman’s wedding]I was invited to another man’s wedding...’) , song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
57. The cocks is crowing The cocks is crowing, daylight’s appearing...’) , song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
58. There were a farmer one time, story [about the scythe] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
59. There’s the one that broke the barn, rhyme / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
60. Kitty and Michael and Denis, rhyme / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
61. I’ve ten little fingers, rhyme, Mrs Grace Butcher, speech in English
62. Jack Smith, rhyme / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
63. Drawing buckets of water song ; talk about the preceding children’s game song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English, speech in English / Hugh Shields, speech in English / Mrs Grace Butcher, speech in English
64. Two little girls in blue An old man gazed at a photo one day...’) , song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
65. Father father build me a boat ('It was early early all in the spring...’) , song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
66. This is the one that broke the barn, rhyme / Michael Shields (5+), speech in English
67. This is the one that broke the barn, rhyme / Michael Shields, speech in English
68. My aunt Jane, song / Michael Shields, singing in English
69. Frere Jacques, song / Michael Shields, singing in French
70. Pounds, shillings, and pence, rhyme / Michael Shields, speech in English
71. Mrs Kelly, rhyme / Michael Shields, speech in English
72. Mrs. White, rhyme / Michael Shields, speech in English
73. Have a cigarette sir, rhyme / Michael Shields, speech in English
74. Cuando yo era pequeniña, song / Maria Regina Amorim [TCD summer-school student?], singing in Portuguese
75. Untitled folk song / Maria Regina Amorim [TCD summer-school student?], singing in Portuguese
76. Shamrock rose and thistle, off-air recording of radio programme on Ulster singing, written and presented by Hugh Shields, songs sung by Eddie Butcher (RTÉ, July 1967) [Songs featured are: The Faughan side, The weary gallows, The banks of the Bann, My bonny Irish boy, She moved through the fair (one verse sung by Margaret Barry), Down by the canal (one verse sung by Hugh Shields), Our wedding day (complete), Free and easy to jog along (complete), The crockery ware, My love wears the tarry trousers, Barbara Allen]
77. The folk music virtuoso, radio programme [off-air recording from BBC 3rd programme, by A.L. Lloyd August 1966: field recordings from Venezuela (native harps etc), Uganda (drums), South Transylvanian gypsies (7/8 time, fiddle, lute), Bulgaria (reaping song), Asturian cattle drovers, Ireland (Seán McDonagh singing ‘Úna Bhán), Tanu Tuve (Altai region, ‘two voiced’ by single singer in imitation of flute accompaniment) / various musicians ; various singers, singing in various languages (including Irish)]
78. Music from Atacama desert (Chile) & Festival at Lake Titicaca (borders of Chile and Bolivia), radio programme [off-air recording from BBC 3rd programme, introduced by Jean-Coristian Spahni, May 1967] [end of band four] / [Jean-Coristian Spahni], speaking in English ; various instrumentalists ; unidentified singers, singing in Spanish [end of band three]