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Performers:
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout;
Connor, Mary, Derry, speech in English A1, 3, 5-11, recitation in English A2, 4-9;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A3, 5-11;
Abraham, Mr, singing in English A13;
Marshall, Billy, singing in English A14;
McAdam, David, singing in English A16;
Foy, Jimmy, singing in English A18, 20;
McAdam, Wilson, singing in English A21;
Menish, George, singing in English A24;
Forbes, Tom, singing in English A25;
Menish, Davy, singing in English A26;
Allen, Sam, singing in English B2, 4;
Harper, David, singing in English B3, 5;
Downes, Joe, singing in English B6;
Unidentified performer, singing in English B7;
Unidentified performers, harmonica, bodhran duet B8;
Rodgers, Ernie, singing in English B9;
Matchett, Willie, singing in English B10;
Symington, Willie F, singing in English B11;
Matchett, Sam, singing in English B12;
Unidentified singer, singing in English B13;
Whiteside, Arthur, singing in English B14;
Forbes, ?, singing in English B15

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about Mary Connor's mother singing
2. Recitation: Young Betsy
3. Speech: talk about previous recitation, old times, convoys, dances, musicians (warpiper) playing for dances, where do you come from?
4. Recitation: The Priest
5. Speech/Recitation: talk about previous recitation, continuation of the recitation `The Priest'
6. Speech/Recitation: talk about recitation following and John Flanagan
7. Speech/Recitation: The Banks of Claudy
8. Speech: true local tragic story about a young girl who fell for a local man Willie Doyle
9. Speech/Recitation: The London Lights
10. Speech: talk about how she learned song from a girl from Bellaghey
11. Speech: talk about Harry/Henry McKey (local singer)
12. Speech: background noise
13. Song: Untitled
14. Speech/Song: The Rose of Tralee
15. Speech: background noise
16. Song: My Mother's Day
17. Speech: background noise
18. Recitation: Sarah Anne
19. Speech: background noise
20. Recitation: The Company of the Boozer
21. Speech/Song: The Ould Bog Road
22. Song: Untitled [unfinished]
23. Speech: background noise
24. Song: The Black Velvet Band
25. Song: Still I Love Him
26. Song: Closing the Gates [END OF BAND ONE]
27. Start: Speech
28. Song: Portadown
29. Song: Cromie's Buck
30. Song: King Billy at the Boyne
31. Song: The Buck Around the World
32. Song: Clover Hill
33. Song: Untitled [unfinished]
34. Jigs: Unfinished [unfinished]
35. Song: Old House
36. Song: Gypse Rover
37. Song: Orange Hall (Wrecking of the Hall)
38. Song: The Mystic Ground
39. Song: The Rocks of Bawn
40. Song: The Armagh Market Cross
41. Song: Murder of Mullan (?) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout, lilting B15, 16;
Whiteside, Arthur, Canary Moy, aged 80, speech in English A1, 9, 11, 12, 14, B1, 2, 4-10, 16, 18, singing in English A7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 15, B1-3, 5, 7-9, 18, fiddle solo B10-17;
Rodgers, Ernie, singing in English A2;
Matchett, ?, singing in English A3;
Matchett, Sam, singing in English A4;
W. J, ?, singing in English A5, 6;
Unidentified, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about the song 'Tullyrone'
2. Song: Townlands of Bowvane (fragment)
3. Song: 1st Creation
4. Song: 1st of July
5. Song: The Flowers of Sweet Strabane
6. Song: Inniskilling Dragoons
7. Song: Londonderry
8. Song: Tullyrone
9. Speech: talk about the 'Armagh Market Cross'
10. Song: Armagh Market Cross
11. Speech: talk about singing and the source of songs
12. Song/Speech: Bonny Bunch of Roses
13. Song/Speech: The Ladder Out of Purgatory
14. Speech: talk about Orange songs
15. Song: Banks of the Boyne [END OF BAND ONE]
16. Speech/Song: The Town of Belfast
17. Song/Speech: Farewell Ballyroney
18. Song: Derry the Maiden City
19. Speech: talk about the songs 'No Surrender' and 'Cromie's Orange Buck'
20. Speech/Song: The Bones of Portadown
21. Speech: talk about their attitudes towards Catholics and mention of songs about women dressing up in men's clothes
22. Song/Speech: On Patrick's Day in the Morning
23. Song/Speech: Fal da dal laddie (Priest Song)
24. Song/Speech: Transubstantiation
25. Speech/March: [The Sash]
26. March: Untitled
27. Reel: Untitled
28. Jig: Untitled
29. Reel/Hornpipe: Untitled
30. Jigs/Lilting: The Racks of Malin, Haste to the Wedding
31. Speech/Lilting: Untitled
32. Jig/Speech: Untitled
33. Speech/Song: Reared on the Orange and the Blue [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout;
Whiteside, Arthur, Canary Moy, speech in English A1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, singing in English A1, 3-7, recitation in English A9;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A2;
Abraham, Mr, Portadown, singing in English A10, recitation in English A11;
Dunlop, Jimmy, singing in English in duet B1, singing in English 8, 10, 14;
Menish, Davy, singing in English in duet B1, singing in English B11;
Menish, George, singing in English B2, 12, 13;
Forbes, Tommy, singing in English B4;
Unidentified performers, singing in English in ensemble throughout band two;
?, Jackie, singing in English B5;
Unidentified performer, singing in English B6;
Foy, Jimmy, recitation in English B7;
Unidentified performer, singing in English B16;
Menish, ?, singing in English B18;
Turkington, Bertie, singing in English B19

Running Order:
1. Speech/Song: Africa's Shore
2. Speech: talk about fiddles and fiddle making, guns and shooting
3. Song: The True Men of Ulster
4. Song: The Gooseberry Bush
5. Song/Speech: Rosy-Nell (swinging down the lane)
6. Speech/Song: The Road to Dundee
7. Song: Londonderry
8. Speech: talk about traditional song, style, and the new generation of singers
9. Song/Recitation: The Darling Girl
10. Song: The Dream
11. Recitation: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
12. Song: When the Star Begins to Fall
13. Song: The Black Velvet Band
14. Speech: background noise
15. Song: A World of Our Own
16. Song: Untitled
17. Song: Wild Mountain Thyme
18. Recitation: I'm Living in Drumlister
19. Song: I'm Coming Home to You, Love
20. Speech: background noise
21. Song: Untitled
22. Song: Music Hall Song [?]
23. Song: Texas Ranger
24. Song: Old Log Cabin
25. Songs: Poor Little Orphan Boy, It's No Secret
26. Song: The Queen
27. Song: The Mysterious Seven
28. Speech: background noise
29. Song: The Maple Leaf Forever
30. Speech/Song: Maghery Riots [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout, B6, accordion in duet B4;
Unidentified performers, speech in English A1-3;
Young, Robert, singing in English A1;
Turkington, Bertie, singing in English A3;
Kennedy, Peter, speech in English A4;
Bowman, Billy, Cockamerth, accordion in duet A4, 6, speech in English A5;
Wilson, Myles, singing in English A4, 6, speech in English A5;
Unidentified performer: singing in ? A8;
O'Riada, Sean, with unindentified performers, playing in ensemble A8;
Troy, Paddy, Doonaha, Co.Clare, singing in English A10, 13;
Shey, Hugh, singing in English A11;
Unidentified performer (landlord), singing in English A12;
Lee, Hugh, Co Fermanagh, singing in English A14-18, B5, 7, 8, 10-14, speech in English B9, 10, 13;
McConnell, Cathal, whistle in duet B1, flute solo B2, 3, whistle/flute in duet B4;
Unidentified performers, speech in English B9, 10

Running Order:
1. Speech/Song: The 1st Creation
2. Speech: background noise
3. Song/Speech: The Hills of Tandragee
4. Speech/Song: Untitled (hunting song)
5. Speech: talking about the tradition of hunting songs
6. Song: Untitled
7. Song: Untitled
8. Piece: Untitled (from the album 'Ding Dong')
9. Speech: background noise
10. Song: Navvy Shoes
11. Song: The Auld Cow
12. Song: South of Doonaha
13. Song: Still I Love Her
14. Song: Heather on the Moor (Queen among the Heather)
15. Song: Erin's Isle
16. Song: The Green and Happy Land of Erin
17. Song: Farmer's Boy
18. Song: Lovely Banks of Boyne [END OF BAND ONE]
19. Piece: O'Rourke's Feast
20. Piece: Planxty Maguire
21. Air: The Coolin (old version in two keys)
22. Air: Anach Chuain
23. Song: Young Edwin in the Lowlands
24. Speech: brief words about Hugh Lee and where these recordings of him originated
25. Song: Molly Bawn
26. Song: No Irish Need Apply
27. Speech: talking to Hugh Lee about singing, playing the fiddle and flute
28. Speech/Song: The Heights of Alma
29. Song: Are You the Maid of Erin ?
30. Song: Erin's Lovely Isle
31. Speech/Song: The Strayed Ass
32. Song: Pat and his Drum [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, speech in English throughout A;
Lee, Hugh, speech in English throughout A, singing in English, A1-9;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout A;
McMahon, Patrick, Walnut Place, Belfast, singing in English B1, 3, 5, 6, 10, speech in English B2 throughout B1-10;
McMahon, James, singing in English, B4, 7-9, speech in English throughout B2-9, (possible error in ephemera for credit of the performance on tracks B7-9);
Neill, Bob, singing in English B11, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, speech in English throughout B11-20

Running Order:
1. Speech/Song: Do You Want Your Auld Lobby Washed Down?
2. Speech/Song: The Parrot Song
3. Song: The Flannel Shirt
4. Song: Hugh O'Neill
5. Song: Father Tierney
6. Song: Poor Old Granuaile
7. Song: Blackbird of Avondale
8. Song: Green Mossy Banks of the Lee
9. Song: John Riley (middle missing) [END OF BAND ONE]
10. Song: The Boys of Kill
11. Speech: talking about where Patrick McMahon got the songs 'The Boys of Kill' and 'Edward Boyle'
12. Song: Edward Boyle
13. Song: The Blunderbus (written by performer)
14. Song/Speech: On Board of Victory (fragment)
15. Song/Speech: Mary Neill (fragment)
16. Song: Carronmore
17. Song/Speech: On the Banks of Lough Erne
18. Song: McMahon, Smith, and Connolly
19. Song/Speech: Untitled
20. Speech/Song: The Parish of Seagoe
21. Speech: talk about the singer Davy McCann and where Bob Neill learned his songs
22. Song: Portadown's a Pretty Place
23. Song: The Battle of the Boyne
24. Speech: talk about Alfey Dilworth
25. Song: 18th of December
26. Speech: talk about the song 'The Factory Girl'
27. Song/Speech: The Factory Girl
28. Song/Speech: The Bonny Bunch of Roses
29. Speech: talking about Bob Neill's time in America

Performers:
Unidentified performers, playing in ensemble A1;
Unidentified performers, speech in English throughout A;
Menish, David, singing in English A3, singing in English in ensemble A18;
Foy, Jimmy, recitation in English A4;
Metcalf, Albert, singing in English A6;
Dunlop, Jimmy, singing in English A8;
Wright, Jimmy, singing in English A10, 20;
Wright, Bob, singing in English A12;
Lowe, Mrs, singing in English A14;
Hamil, Willie, singing in English A16;
Marshall, Billy, singing in English in ensemble A18;
Unidentified performers, singing in English with guitar A21, 22;
Unidentified perfofmer, singing in English A23;
Unidentified perfofmers, singing in English in ensemble A24;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout B;
Smith, Eddie, Belturbit, speech in English B1, recitation B1, fiddle solo B2;
Keane, Sarah, Co Galway, singing in English in duet B3, singing in English in duet with accordion, B7, singing in Irish, B8, 9 (possible error on original track list for performer of B9);
Keane, Rita, Co Galway, singing in English in duet B3, singing in English in duet with accordion B7;
Unidentified performer, accordion with singing in duet B7;
Unidentified performers, singing in ? in duet, B4;
Glynn, Joe, Ballinasloe, Co Galway, singing in English B5, 11, speech in English B11;
Unidentified performer, singing in English, B6

Running Order:
1. Piece: Untitled
2. Speech: background noise
3. Song: The Maple Leaf Forever
4. Recitation: Drumlister
5. Speech: background noise
6. Song: Mother Dear I Must Go
7. Speech: background noise
8. Song: The Hymn that I Sang as a Boy
9. Speech: background noise
10. Song: The Back of the HIll
11. Speech: background noise
12. Song: The Derryad Flute Band
13. Speech: background noise
14. Song: By the Old Mill Stream
15. Speech: background noise
16. Song: Faded Coat of Blue
17. Speech: background noise
18. Song: The Shadow of the Pines
19. Speech: background noise
20. Song: The Orange Maid of Sligo
21. Song: Untitled
22. Song: Untitled
23. Song: Untitled
24. Song: Untitled (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]
25. Speech/Recitation: Jackson and Jane
26. Jigs: Toman's Jigs
27. Song: Lord Donegal (last verse interupted by clapping)
28. Song/Speech: Holah
29. Song: Mary on the Banks
30. Song: The Cot in the Corner
31. Song: The Blackbird of Avondale
32. Song/Speech: Gra Mo Croi
33. Song: Ana Chuain
34. Speech/Song: background noise
35. Song/Speech: Mary from Glenrue [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Gunn, Tommy, speech in English throughout, singing in English B2, lilting B4;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about curing ring-worm and jaundice
2. Speech: talk about fortune tellers
3. Speech: talk about fair days
4. Speech: talk about the women selling turkeys at the fair before Christmas
5. Speech: talk about tramp fiddlers at the fairs
6. Speech: talk about items on sale at the fairs - clothes, ballad sheets
7. Speech: talk about the hiring fairs
8. Speech: talk about the when the tractor was first introduced to farming, musicians and dancers at the fairs
9. Speech: stories that where told by Robbie Doonan
10. Speech: story told by Robbie Doonan
11. Speech: talk about working and living conditions in London
12. Speech: talk about the mummers dance at Christmas, candles in the window at Christmas [END OF BAND ONE]
13. Speech: talk about Robbie Doonan, story about Jim Sweeney
14. Speech/Song: talk about Hugh Sweeney's songs, Untitled
15. Speech: talk about The Molly Maguires, The Ancient Order of Hiberians
16. Speech/March: talk about The Drumlough Fife and Drum Band, description of the band, tunes played, The Loughenvar
17. Speech: talk about orange bands, The Kinley Kelly Band, Johnny Rutlidge,
18. Speech: story about Robbie Doonan, Jimmy Waterson, John James Keave
19. Speech: stories about Tommy Gunn, getting trapped in a vault in a graveyard
20. Speech: story about a man who couldn't find his way home after working in one particular field on his farm
21. Speech: talk about putting the seven year curse on a landlord for evicting tenants
22. Speech: talk about evictions, cursed landlords with bad luck
23. Speech: talk about cursing people with rats (billeting of rats)
24. Speech: talk about cures for ring-worm [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout;
Unidentified performers, speech in English A1-8;
Todd, Tom, Tartaraghan, Co Armagh, speech in English A1-8, singing in English A2-8;
Maguire, John, Tonaydrumallard, Co Fermanagh, speech in English A9, 11, 13, throughout B, singing in English A10, 12, B2, 4, 5, 7, 9-13, Lilting B4;
McMahon, Paddy, Belfast, speech in English A9-13, throughout B, singing in English B12;
Maguire, Biddy, speech in English A9-13, throughout B

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about 'Rhymers'
2. Song/Speech: Dobbins Flowery Vale
3. Song/Speech: The Spinning Wheel
4. Song/Speech: The Private Soldier
5. Song/Speech: The Funeral (three takes)
6. Song/Speech: I'm Leaving Tipperary
7. Song/Speech: The Banks of the Nile
8. Song: The Shanty Where They Work the Gas
9. Speech: short few words before song
10. Song: Lough Ooney
11. Speech: talk about the song 'Lough Ooney'
12. Song: The Bonnie Wee Lassie that Never Said No
13. Speech: talk about family, singing and local songs [END OF BAND ONE]
14. Speech: requist for songs about cock fighting
15. Song: The Fallom Brown-Red Cock
16. Speech: talk about cock fighting, different types of birds
17. Song/Lilting/Speech: The Auld Woman from Carlow
18. Song: The Hiring Fair
19. Speech: talk about the song 'Brown Haired Girl' and singing in general
20. Song: My Charming Mary
21. Speech: talk about the song 'James Magee'
22. Song: James Magee
23. Song: Dick Mooney's Daughter
24. Song/Speech: The Glasgow Barber
25. Song/Speech: The Maid of the Colehill
26. Song/Speech: The Banks of Clady
27. Speech: talk of the song 'Fee and Flanagan', ballad sheets, old local songs, travelling singers and musicans, 'McCaffery' the fiddler [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout A, singing in English A10-13;
Maguire, John, Tonaydrumallard, Co Fermanagh, speech in English throughout A, singing in English A2, 4, 6 ,8;
McMahon, Paddy, Belfast, speech in English throughout A

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about mining in Scotland, conditions, describing the work in the 1920's in the 'Priory' and other pits, miners strike, Blantyre disaster
2. Song: The Blantyre Disaster
3. Speech: talk about different versions of the song 'The Blantyre Disaster'
4. Song: The Factory Girl
5. Speech: talk about Irish people emigrating to work in Scotland, mention of the song 'The Shanty Where They Make the Gas'
6. Song: Fee and Flanagan
7. Speech: talk about singing techniques, buying ballad sheets in Clones, learning songs from ballad sheets
8. Song: Thousands Are Sailing to America
9. Speech: talk about ballad sheets
10. Song: Young Edwin (three takes, unfinished)
11. Song: The Blantyre Disaster
12. Song: St Patrick (four takes, unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout;
Maguire, John, Tonaydrumallard, Co.Fermanagh, speech in English throughout, singing in English in duet A1, 2, B14, singing in English A3, 6, 9, B1, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, recitation in English B11;
McMahon, Paddy, Belfast, speech in English throughout recording, singing in English in duet A1, 2, B14, singing in English, B5;
Maguire, Brian, Tonaydrumallard, Rosslea, Co Fermanagh, speech in English throughout, singing in English in duet A2, singing in English A4, 7, 11 (possible error on original track list for performer of A11), 12, B2;
Maguire, Biddy, speech in English A3, B7, 13

Running Order:
1. Speech/Song: Pat Donnelly
2. Song/Speech: I Thought I was in Ireland
3. Song/Speech: Edward Boyle
4. Song: Behind Yon Blue Mountain
5. Speech: talk about the song 'Matt Hyland', different local singers
6. Song/Speech: The Old Heather Britches
7. Song: True Born Irish Girl
8. Speech: talk about Paddy McCluskey (local singer)
9. Song: The Blantyre Explosion
10. Speech: brief talk about working in Scotland,
11. Song/Speech: The Brown Haired Girl
12. Song/Speech: Little Tatched Cabin [END OF BAND ONE]
13. Speech/Song/Speech: Bold Jack Donohue
14. Song: The Hiring Fair
15. Speech: talk about the hiring fairs, wages of one pound per month, smuggling of livestock
16. Song/Speech: Texas Isle (Banks of Nile)
17. Song/Speech: The Shamrock Boys from Kill
18. Song: Willy O (fragment)
19. Speech: talk about ghost songs
20. Speech/Song: Bloomin Caroline From Edinburgh Town
21. Speech: talk about the previous song 'Bloomin Caroline From Edinburgh Town', singing in Edinburgh
22. Song/Speech: The Gay Ploughboy
23. Speech/Recitation: [Cooper & Donnelly ?] (fragment), talk about boxing songs
24. Song: Molly Bawn Lowry
25. Speech: talk about Paddy McMahon's singing
26. Song: On Board the Victory (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]