This is the melodic tune index that Breandán Breathnach used during his professional life as a civil servant with responsibility for music. Clár na bPort Gaelach (CPG) is written on 6545 index cards, each 3 x 5 inches in size.
CAJUN CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY CANNING, Danny (Limavady) CARLIN, Frank (Portstewart, married to niece of Eddie Butcher) CARROLL, Jim & Pat CARSON, Ciarán (ACNI: also Brian Mullen, Anne Tannahill) CARTON, John Henry CESBRON, Georges CHAPMAN, C.B. (Ben) CHITHAM, Edward CLERY, Noelle (Inst of Irish Studies) COLLET’S HOLDINGS (Russian stuff) COME-ALL-YOU (Legacy Bbooks) CONSTANTINE, Mary-Anne COOKE, Peter (SSS) CORK UNIVERSITY PRESS (Eileen O’Carroll) COOPER, Nora (Aughavilla, Warrenpoint, singer) CORRÈZE SINGERS: Letter from HS 9-4-70 sent to singers on Topic LP about sharing of remuneration. See also Pathier, Rouland’#;ll’;’ COULTER, Arthur (Carnaughliss, Muckamore, Antrim, singer) CORRÈZE SINGERS: see BUCHE, MOUZAT, PATHIER, ROULAND COX, Gordon CRAWFORD, W.H. (Bill) PRO NI CREIGHTON, Helen CROSSLEY-HOLLAND, Peter CROWE, Peter (ESEM) CROWE, W. Haughton (Billy)
Original typed and photocopied letters, faxes and contracts from various solicitors and copyright agencies to Derek Bell. All material relates to The Chieftains. Includes two letters which relate to the registering of musical works with the Performing Right Society (PRS), London, England and the Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO), Dublin. Includes letter from Greg Meagher, PRS, London, England to Derek Bell about registering Derek Bell and Paddy Moloney’s arrangement of ‘The Coolin and Sean Coolin’ with PRS (25 July 1988); also includes letter from Andy Godfrey, Chrysalis Music, Bramley Road, London, England writing on behalf of IMRO to Derek Bell, Bangor and Seán Potts, Dublin ‘regarding some confusion over the song ‘Lonesome’. Two entries exist in the IMRO database for the song ‘one shows Seán Potts as sole arranger and the other shows Seán Potts and Derek Bell as joint arrangers’. Godfrey wants to know ‘which of the two is correct’. (15 July ?)
Small bound paper books containing song lyrics and occasional tonic sol-fa. Mostly handwritten by Nellie Walsh, but some books include inserts of newspaper clippings or typescript. Three are collections of typescript poems on coloured paper. These books are small memo books, day planners, notebooks, and contact books, mostly bound by cardstock, but a handful have thicker cardboard or plastic bindings. They are filled up with songs seemingly unattributed to certain counties or date ranges, but we can assume these fall between 1940s and 1990s.
Sheet music in staff notation, mostly handwritten onto music manuscript paper, but also contains printed or photocopied printed material. Several songs have lyric sheets or tonic sol-fa attached. These are undated but considering the format may have been used for her choral performances.
Bound music manuscript books with handwritten sheet music collected by Nellie Walsh. Written in staff notation with lyrics, each song titled and titles collected in an index on the paper front cover of the book. Several have lyric sheets or staff notation inserted, so not all are well bound together.
Letters from Alan Bell, Norway to Derek Bell relating to the history of the Bell Family. Includes copies of articles, biographies and family trees which Alan Bell has acquired during his research into the family; copy of a marriage certificate for Henry O’Neill and Elizabeth Black; copy of a photograph of Elizabeth (nee Black) O’Neill; and four photographs of [Sydney Bell], Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot, uncle of Derek Bell. Sydney Bell died in a plane crash at the age of 27 on 16 June 1927.
BALLAD CONFERENCE, BELFAST BARNES, Michelle BBC NI Re broadcast As I was goin’ along the road (1957) BBC (David Hammond, Billy Boucher: see also FOSTER) BÉCAM, Didier BECK, Horace BECKETT, Frances (Fran) BELL, Jonathan: see also ANTIQUARIES BLACKING, John BLAND, David & Chris (Leader records) BLANKENHORN, Virginia BOUCHER, E.W. (Bill), BBC NI (see also FOSTER) BOURKE, Angela: see PARTRIDGE BOYDELL, Brian BOYES, Georgina BOYLE, Finbar BREATHNACH, Breandán BREATNACH, Deasún BREDNICH, R.W.: see DEUTSCHES VOLKSLIEDARCHIV BRONSON, Bertrand H. BROWN, Roly BROWNE, Frank (singer) BRUFORD, Alan: see also ANTIQUARIES BUCHE, Raymond (Corrèze singer) BUCKLEY, Anne (see also IRISH TIMES) BYRNE, Tara (Arts Council) BYRNE, William G
