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Performers:
Gunn, Tommy, speech in English;
Morton, Robin, speech in English

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about coming back after the war, men who were killed at war, Joe Russell, landing in England, 'de-mobed', going home to Ireland, Tommy Martin, Matt Dugar,
2. Speech: talk about leaving England to go home, Gerry and Molly Tully, work with the Post Office Engineers in 1949, decription of crash-landing planes in Burma
3. Speech: talk about music, Cluanard, McPeake Family, James MacMahon (flute), Corrigan (banjo), Jimmy McPeake (accordion), Francie McPeake (pipes), Tommy ? (whistle & bass fiddle), Jim McKendrick (fiddle), ? Galway, ? Lavery (drums), The Bay Hotel, Corey Fleadh competitions, Johnny Doherty, John Rea (dulcimer & fiddle), Brian O'Donnell, Comhaltas branch 1954, Fergus Tagert (fiddle), Willie Jones (fiddle), Cormac Lunny (accordion), Jimmy Grimes (banjo), Billie Brown (accordion), Frank Sweeney, Liam Donnelly (fiddle), Sean Maguire (fiddle), 'Ann McCoys dancers', Jim Seary, Paddy Gunn, Pat McManus, ? McConnell, John Joe Maguire, John Mac
4. Speech: talk about pipe pipe makers, Chris Maguire, Frank McFadden, Rowesome, Sean McAluan,
5. Speech: talk about Frank Sweeney (Newry), Billie Brown, John Rea, Mickey MacAlhatten
6. Speech: talk about poitin, Johnny Concart, good long description of the process of making poitin [END OF BAND ONE]
7. Speech: description of process of making poitin, uses for poitin,
8. Speech: talk about bad poitin, problems with the police
9. Speech: talk about hiding the poitin, hiding the poitin still, being caught making poitin, six months in prison
10. Speech: talk about the priests attitude to poitin, police raids
11. Speech: description of the use of the 'seperator', making poitin in a kettle, tools for making poitin
12. Speech: talk about cock fighting, smuggling poitin over the border
13. Speech: talk about the island people on Lough Erne
14. Speech: talk about disasters on Lough Erne, Willie and James Rooney, Iniscorkish, Benny McBrine, Dr McQuade
15. Speech: talk about the living in 95 Botanic Avenue, Belfast
16. Speech: talk about old musicians, Eddie Corrigan, Johnny Cathcart, Hugh Gunn, John McCusker, Old Johnny Gunn, Phil Hoynes, Francie Tommans, Eddie Catcart, homemade fiddle made by Eddie Corrigan, homemade silk strings, mule-hair bow, larch tree roisin, the tune 'Poor Old Joe', Ellen McBrine, Tommy McBrine [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Gunn, Tommy, speech in English throughout;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about country weddings, mummers (straw-men), music, dance, island weddings, description of a typical wedding, tricks played on the married couple, the dowry
2. Speech: talk about a farmer offering dowries for his three daughters, wedding parties,
3. Speech: talk about a wife's role/duties in the house
4. Speech: talk about the straw-boys
5. Speech: talk about wedding customs, different times to get married, getting pregnant outside of marriage,
6. Speech: talk about special wedding tunes, 'Haste to the Wedding'
7. Speech: talk about the birth of a child, putting silver in the child's hand
8. Speech: talk about death, the wake, clay pipes, carrying the coffin, story about Andy Murphy at a wake
9. Speech: talk about neighbours helping widows with farm work, people dying from the pneumonia, remedies for ailments
10. Speech: talk about people marrying a second time
11. Speech: talk about suicide, customs during a wake
12. Speech: talk about neighbours helping during the funeral
13. Speech: talk about Tom Gunn's earlier years in London, war, the army, going to India [END OF BAND ONE]
14. Speech: talk about going to India, troop-ship, three months at sea, landing in India, 'the north-west frontier', tribesmen disguised as goats, dum dum bullet,
15. Speech: talk about why the army were at the north-west frontier
16. Speech: talk about the first army camp for training (Lady Budburn College) near Calcutta
17. Speech: talk about the Razmac camp at the north-west frontier, jungle warfare training, two weeks leave in Darjeeling, Tiger Hill,
18. Speech: talk about the begining of war, Japanese invasions, fighting at Ramrie Island, Rangoon in 1943, Pagoo, The Arawadi River, northern Burma, the silent century, battles in Burma,
19. Speech: talk about going home on leave in 1943, getting married in London, Vincie Martin, Harry Potter
20. Speech: talk about returning to Calcutta
21. Speech: talk about fighting the Japanese in Siam, the Gurkas, Lord Mount Baton, Sir Oliver Lees, the 14th Army, the Forgotten Army
22. Speech: talk about Wingate, the end of the war and going home

Performers:
Gunn, Tommy, speech in English throughout;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about Christmas, early service, dinner, poitin, music, dancing on Boxing night, presents and Santa Claus, hunt on Boxing day
2. Speech: story about 'The Flood', Robbie Doonan, Derravan river, rucks of hay
3. Speech: story about 'The Heifer'
4. Speech: talk about bringing in the hay, rucks of hay, ruck shifter, stack of hay, haggart, food and drink after the work, music and dance, story about a house dance
5. Speech: talk about cutting the last sheaf of corn
6. Speech: talk about ways to ensure a good crop for the coming year (surperstitions)
7. Speech: talk about Easter, Easter eggs
8. Speech: talk about St.Patrick's Day, marching bands, shamrock
9. Speech: talk about Halloween, practical jokes
10. Speech: talk about drowning the shamrock on St Patricks Day, taking the pledge not to drink
11. Speech: talk about Easter Sunday, the sun dancing on the bog hole, cutting your hair on Good Friday and Holy Thursday, spreading holy water on crops for good luck
12. Speech: talk about Easter, no fishing on Easter Sunday, women wearing Easter bonnets, no drinking during lent, no meat on Wedensday or Friday during lent, stations of the cross on Good Friday
13. Speech: talk about people buying new suits for special occasions, not working over Easter
14. Speecg: talk about St Bridgets Day, May Day [END OF BAND ONE]
15. Speech: talk about superstitions regarding being born on Easter Sunday
16. Speech: talk about football matches ,the fight at the Fermanagh county final (O'Connell's vs Lisnaskee), Johnny McCruden
17. Speech: story about a married couple
18. Speech: talk about the reasons for getting married
19. Speech: talk about match-makers
20. Speech: talk about the dowry, matches were not compulsory, bad matches
21. Speech: talk about match makers, men marrying late in life
22. Speech: talk about farms being handed down from father to son
23. Speech: talk about middle aged men marrying late in life
24. Speech: talk about priests monitoring the dances, monitoring dancing couples
25. Speech: talk about parents disapproving of courting couples, story about a courting couple
26. Speech: talk about men leaving their wives, the song 'Praise of John Magee', Edddie Corrigan [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, singing and speech in English with A1-11 [off-air dubs];
Unidentified performers, singing and speech in English with A12-19;
Morton, Robin, singing in English 20-22

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled
2. Speech/Song: Seven Gypsies
3. Song: Untitled
4. Song: Untitled
5. Song: Untitled
6. Song: Untitled
7. Song: Untitled
8. Song: Untitled
9. Song: Untitled
10. Song: Untitled
11. Song: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
12. Song/Speech: Untitled
13. Song/Speech: Untitled
14. Song: Blackwater Town
15. Song: She Moved Through the Fair
16. Song/Speech: Untitled
17. Song: Roll Me from the Wall
18. Song: Untitled
19. Song: Untitled (fragment)
20. Song: Untitled
21. Song: Untitled (fragment)
22. Song: Roll Me from the Wall [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Mullarky, Peter, singing in English in duet A1, 6-8;
Mullarky, Nelly, singing in English in duet A1, 6-8, singing in English A2;
Maguire, Biddy, singing in English A3-5, speech in English A3;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A9

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled [The Shady Woods of Trugh]
2. Song: Untitled
3. Song: The Strabane Hiring Fair (fragmented)
4. Song: The Strabane Hiring Fair
5. Song: The Strabane Hiring Fair [END OF BAND ONE]
6. Song: Untitled [The Shady Woods of Trugh] (fragment)
7. Song: Untitled [The Shady Woods of Trugh]
8. Song: Untitled [The Shady Woods of Trugh]
9. Song: Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Maguire, John, speech in English A1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 14, singing in English A2, 4, 6, 11, 14;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout;
Unidentified Performers:
singing in English A8-10, 12-13, 15, speech in English throughout band two

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about writing the song the following song
2. Song: The Molly Maguires
3. Speech: talk about the following song
4. Song: Untitled
5. Speech: talk about the previous song, The Hibernians, political songs, uniform of The Molly Maguires
6. Song: Texas Isle
7. Speech: talk about the previous song, John Fox, cock fighting, types of spades, McMahon spades, quarrying rock
8. Song: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
9. Song: Plains of Kildare
10. Song/Speech: Thatched Cabin on the Hill
11. Song/Speech: Untitled [Kate from Ballinamore]
12. Song/Speech: Untitled
13. Song/Speech: Untitled
14. Song/Speech: Untitled
15. Song/Speech: Young Mary From Kilmore [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Maguire, John, singing in English A1-4, speech in English A1-3

Running Order:
1. Speech/Song: The Wee Tailor from Tyrone
2. Song/Speech: The Hot Asphalt
3. Song/Speech: The Rambler from Clare
4. Song: Untitled (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Unidentified performers [Vincent Griffen, Geraldine Carrig ?] fiddle and harp duet A1-4;
Griffen, Vincent, speech in English A5, 7, 9, fiddle solo A6, 8;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Air: Untitled
2. Air: Untitled
3. Air: Untitled (fragment)
4. Air: Untitled
5. Speech: talk about music in the family, musicians in the area, Jim Mac Namara (Rua), Johnny Allen, Patrick Maloney,
6. Reel: Untitled (fragment)
7. Speech: talk about learning fiddle from Patty Powell, playing with the Shamrock Ceili Band, Hibernian Ceili Band in England, working in England, fiddle competitions
8. Reel: Untitled
9. Speech: talk about touring England and America with music groups, teaching music locally, breeding greyhounds, Paddy Fahy, Martin Rochford, Paddy Canny, Ed Reavy [END OF BAND ONE]
10. [BAND TWO NOT USED]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, fiddle with flute and whistle in trio A1-3, flute and whistle in duet A4-5;
[Griffen, Vincent ?], fiddle solo A6-10, speech in English A6-7;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Reels/Speech: Untitled
2. Reels: Untitled
3. Reels/Speech: Untitled
4. Reels: Untitled
5. Reels/Speech: Untitled
6. Reels/Speech: Untitled
7. Reels/Speech: Untitled
8. Reels/speech: Untitled
9. Jigs: Untitled
10. Reels/Speech: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Higgenbottom, Mr, singing in English A1, speech in English A2;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A5-6, singing in English in chorus A3-5, 11, speech in English throughout band one;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout band one, A13, 15, B1-2, 4, singing in English B8;
Marshall, ?, singing in English A3;
Dunlop, Jimmy, singing in English A4;
Simmons, W.J., singing in English A7, 9, speech in English A8;
Menish, Davie, singing in English A10;
McCreery, Mrs Sally, singing in English A11, singing in English in duet A12;
McCreery, Sam, singing in English A12;
McColl, Ewan, singing in English with guitar [dulcimer?] A14, B3, singing in English A16, B1, 5;
Unidentified performers, speech in English B6-7

Running Order:
1. Song/Speech: Copper and Donnelly
2. Speech: talk about the previous song, songs about Armagh
3. Song/Speech: There's Gold in the Mountains
4. Song/Speech: Lay My Head Beneath the Rose
5. Song/Speech: Untitled
6. Song/Speech: Untitled
7. Song/Speech: The Pride of Keevan Hall
8. Speech: talk about the previous song
9. Song: The Bachelors Walk
10. Song/Speech: The Harbour of Dundee
11. Song/Speech: Granny's Old Armchair
12. Song: Auld HeelBall You're Boozin Again
13. Speech: talk about the following song
14. Song: We Poor Labouring Men
15. Speech: talk about the following song
16. Song: Bramble Briar (Strawberry Town) [END OF BAND ONE]
17. Speech/Song: talk about the following song, Bramble Briar (Strawberry Town) [repeat of tracks A15-16]
18. Speech: talk about the following song
19. Song: The Manchester Angel
20. Speech: talk about songs with the theme of madness
21. Song: Through Moorfields
22. Speech: talk and stories about hares
23. Speech: talk and stories about hares
24. Song: Untitled (fragment) [END OF BAND TWO]