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Dermot McLaughlin Collection. Reel-to-Reel 1 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, singing in Irish A1;
Unidentified performers, fiddle ensemble A2-6, 8, 11-12, 14-18, fiddle solo A7, 9-10, 12-13, 19;
Unidentified performer, incidental speech in English A2-19;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A20;
Unidentified performer, singing in Latin A21, singing in English A22, 24, singing in duet A23;
Unidentified performer, singing in duet A23;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A25, 28;
O'Byrne, Christine, singing in English A25;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A26-27;
Kilcar Choir, The, singing in English A28

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled (clipped, interrupted)
2. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
3. Strathspey: Stirling Castle (beginning clipped)
4. Waltz: The Speaking Waltz
5. Reel: The Drake's Neck (beginning clipped)
6. Jig: Untitled (beginning clipped)
7. Jig: Paidin O'Rafferty (beginning clipped)
8. Reel: Sean sa Cheo (beginning clipped)
9. Jig: The Old Grey Goose (beginning clipped)
10. Reel: Sean sa Cheo (alternate version) (beginning clipped)
11. Jig: The Irish Washerwoman (clipped)
12. Air/March: The Coulin (beginning clipped)
13. Strathspey: Untitled
14. Reel: Untitled (clipped)
15. Reel: The Gravel Walks (beginning clipped)
16. Strathspey: Untitled (beginning clipped)
17. Strathspey: The Braes of Maas (beginning clipped)
18. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
19. Hornpipe: The Japanese Hornpipe (beginning clipped) [END OF BAND ONE]
20. Song: [The West Awake] (beginning clipped)
21. Song: [Ave Maria] (interupted)
22. Song: Untitled
23. Song: Untitled
24. Song: Untitled (interupted)
25. Speech/Song: My Lagan Love
26. Song: Untitled
27. Song: Untitled
28. Speech/Song: Silent Night (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]

Dermot McLaughlin Collection. Reel-to-Reel 3 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
McGurk, Bella, Tyrone, fiddle solo A1-4, 8, 12-13, 16, 20, fiddle duet A5-7, 9-11, 14-15, 17, 19;
Loughran, John, Tyrone, fiddle duet A5-7, 9-11, 14-15, 17, 19, fiddle solo A18, 21-22, incidental speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Barndance: Untitled
2. Polka: Untitled
3. Polka: Untitled
4. Mazurka: Untitled
5. Polkas: Untitled, Untitled
6. Barndance/Speech/Fragment: Untitled
7. Barndance: Untitled
8. Polkas: The Captain and his Spyglass, Untitled
9. Polkas: Farewell to Whiskey, Untitled
10. Polka: Untitled
11. Polka: The Kerry Cow
12. Polkas: Untitled, Untitled
13. Polka: Untitled
14. Polka: I've got a Bonnet Trimmed with Blue
15. Polka: Untitled
16. Barndance: Untitled
17. Reel: Over the Bridge to Bessie (beginning clipped)
18. Reel: Untitled
19. Reel: The Blackhaired Lass
20. Reel: Jenny Picking Cockles
21. Reel: Untitled
22. Reel: Burns' Reel [END OF BAND ONE]

Dermot McLaughlin Collection. Reel-to-Reel 11 [sound recording] / Vincent Campbell

00:00:14 - 00:01:56 | The black mare of Fanad, [reel] = [The nine points of roguery, reel] / Vincent Campbell, fiddle
00:01:59 - 00:04:37 | How strong the fiddle tradition was in Vincent's youth, speech ; Vincent names local players, speech / Vincent Campbell, speech in English
00:04:38 - 00:06:48 | Australian waters, [jig] ; Untitled, jig / Vincent Campbell, fiddle
00:06:54 - 00:07:52 | The cock's tail reel [version of The Dublin reel] [Mickey Doherty version] / Vincent Campbell, fiddle
00:07:52 - 00:11:35 | Mickey Doherty one of the top fiddle players, speech ; Mickey was underrated as a player, speech ; Vincent lists the local dances, speech / Vincent Campbell, speech in English
00:11:36 - 00:12:39 | The lancer's, jig / Vincent Campbell, fiddle
00:12:40 - 00:14:01 | More local fiddle players, speech ; The marine dance, speech / Vincent Campbell, speech in English
00:14:02 - 00:14:54 | The marine, jig / Vincent Campbell, fiddle
00:14:57 - 00:15:41 | Unititled, highland [version of Síos an baile mór, song] = [In the town of Ballybay, song] / Vincent Campbell, fiddle
00:16:26 - 00:17:31 | Unititled, highland [version of Síos an baile mór, song] = [In the town of Ballybay, song] / Vincent Campbell, fiddle
00:17:38 - 00:18:32 | The dairy maid, [reel] / Vincent Campbell, fiddle
00:18:37 - 00:19:12 | A group of six mazurkas in the locality, speech / Vincent Campbell, speech in English
00:19:13 - 00:20:19 | [The Glenties mazurka] = [Vincent Campbell's, mazurka] / Vincent Campbell, fiddle
00:20:22 - 00:21:23 | [Sonny Brogan's, mazurka] = [Vincent Campbell's, mazurka] = [The Irish mazurka] / Vincent Campbell, fiddle
00:21:28 - 00:23:10 | How the music and dance was handed down, speech ; Comparison with the contemporary tradition, speech / Vincent Campbell, speech in English
00:23:12 - 00:24:21 | Untitled, waltz = [walking dance] / Vincent Campbell, fiddle
00:24:22 - 00:24:59 | The 'German', a type of barndance, speech / Vincent Campbell, speech in English
00:25:01 - 00:26:15 | Untitled, barndance [version of The minstrel's fancy, hornpipe] / Vincent Campbell, fiddle
00:26:19 - 00:26:57 | The 'polka', a popular dance tune in the locality, speech / Vincent Campell, speech in English
00:26:58 - 00:28:33 | [Mac Eoin Sheáin agus níon John Choit = Owen John's son and John Kate's daughter], polka / Vincent Campbell, fiddle
00:28:35 - 00:29:40 | Maggie Pickie, set dance / Vincent Campbell, fiddle
00:29:41 - 00:31:36 | The Maggie Pickie tune and dance, speech ; Conall Mac a'Luain who danced the Maggie Pickie, speech ; Dan Breslin who taught Conall to dance, speech / Vincent Campbell, speech in English

Dermot McLaughlin Collection. Reel-to-Reel 12 [sound recording] / Vincent Campbell

00:00:40 - 00:02:25 | The reel 'The silver spire', speech ; Learning most of it from John [James] Connaghan and the last few bars from John Doherty, speech / Vincent Campbell, speech in English
00:02:28 - 00:03:41 | The sliver spire, reel / Vincent Campbell, fiddle
00:03:47 - 00:06:50 | Concerns about Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, speech ; Erosion of regional styles and traditions, speech ; Background to the tune 'Muileann na maidí', speech / Vincent Campbell, speech in English
00:06:51 - 00:08:18 | Muileann na maidí = [Crushing of the twigs], reel / Vincent Campbell, fiddle
00:08:25 - 00:08:44 | Introduction for Vincent Campbell on the RTÉ television prorgramme 'Bring down the lamp' broadcast in 1982, speech / Tony MacMahon, speech in English
00:08:45 - 00:11:34 | [The long german], barndance ; Castles in the air, [hornpipe] / Vincent Campbell, fiddle

00:16:28 - 00:19:18 | Untitled, air / [Peter Wyper?], melodeon ; unidentified, piano
00:19:24 - 00:22:12 | Untitled, air / [Peter Wyper?], melodeon ; unidentified, piano
00:22:19 - 00:25:07 | [The Laird of Drumblair, strathspey] ; [Miss McLeod's, reel] / [Peter Wyper?], melodeon ; unidentified, piano
00:25:12 - 00:27:34 | [Stirling Castle, strathspey] ; [Jessie Smith, strathspey] / [Peter Wyper?], melodeon ; unidentified, piano
00:27:40 - 00:30:38 | [The dancing dustman, jig] / [Peter Wyper?], melodeon ; unidentified, piano
00:30:43 - 00:32:15 | Untitled, hornpipe / [Peter Wyper?], melodeon ; unidentified, piano

Dermot McLaughlin Collection. Reel-to-Reel 13 [sound recording] / Nicky McAuliffe ; Anne McAuliffe

00:00:11 - 00:02:58 | [Bímís ag ól's ag pógadh na mban, jig ; An buachaillín dreoite, jig] / Nicky McAuliffe, fiddle
00:02:58 - 00:04:31 | [The ebb-tide, hornpipe] / Anne McAuliffe, concertina
00:04:31 - 00:06:52 | [An tseanbhean bhocht, hornpipe] / Anne McAuliffe, concertina
00:06:52 - 00:09:55 | [An gasúr mór, hornpipe] / Nicky McAuliffe, flute ; Anne McAuliffe, concertina
00:09:55 - 00:13:34 | [O'Sullivan's, polka ; Pádraig O'Keeffe's, polka] / Nicky McAuliffe, flute ; Anne McAuliffe, concertina;
00:13:34 - 00:15:28 | [The Cuban, polka] / Nicky McAuliffe, fiddle ; Anne McAuliffe, flute
00:15:28 - 00:18:44 | [Peach blossoms, barndance] / Nicky McAuliffe, fiddle ; Anne McAuliffe, flute
00:18:44 - 00:20:45 | [Kiss the maid behind the barrel, reel] / Nicky McAuliffe, fiddle ; Anne McAuliffe, flute
00:20:45 - 00:23:59 | [Unidentified, air] / unidentified performer, flute
00:23:59 - 00:24:29 | [Tom Moylan's frolic, reel (tune fragment)] / Nicky McAuliffe, fiddle ; Anne McAuliffe, concertina
00:24:29 - 00:27:28 | [Con Carthy's, slide ; Leave well alone, slide ; Padraig O'Keeffe's, slide] / Nicky McAuliffe, fiddle ; Anne McAuliffe, concertina
00:27:28 - 00:29:39 | [The beauty spot, reel ; The Cameronian, reel] / Nicky McAuliffe, fiddle ; Anne McAuliffe, concertina
00:29:39 - 00:31:35 | [The wind that shakes the barley, reel ; Spike Island lasses, reel] / Nicky McAuliffe, fiddle ; Anne McAuliffe, concertina
00:31:35 - 00:33:32 | [Unidentified, reel ; Snow on the hills, reel] / Nicky McAuliffe, fiddle ; Anne McAuliffe, concertina
00:33:32 - 00:35:48 | [The concertina, reel ; The bird's nest, reel] / Nicky McAuliffe, fiddle ; Anne McAuliffe, concertina
00:35:48 - 00:38:40 | [Strop the razor, jig ; I buried my wife and danced on her grave, jig] / Nicky McAuliffe, fiddle
00:38:40 - 00:41:43 | [Hickey's, reel ; The old wheels of the world, reel] / Nicky McAuliffe, fiddle
00:41:43 - 00:43:12 | [O'Shea's the man, reel] / Nicky McAuliffe, fiddle
00:43:12 - 00:45:10 | [Unidentified, reel] / Nicky McAuliffe, fiddle ; Anne McAuliffe, concertina
00:45:10 - 00:46:48| [The fourpenny bit, reel] / Nicky McAuliffe, fiddle ; Anne McAuliffe, concertina
00:46:48 - 00:48:34 | [The smoky chimney, hornpipe] / Nicky McAuliffe, fiddle ; Anne McAuliffe, concertina
00:48:34 - 00:48:40 | [Blank audio]

Dermot McLaughlin Collection. Reel-to-Reel 14 [sound recording] / [various performers]

The following recordings from 00:00:13 - 00:07:37 and 00:09:06 - 00:09:44 were dubbed from an edition of the radio programme 'The green groves of Erin at home with' / presented by Philip King:
00:00:13 - 00:07:37 | The importance of music in the community, speech ; Lilting, speech ; The influence of Scotland on the music, speech ; The Doherty family, speech ; Different types of highland, speech ; The story of 'Taibhse Chonaill' (Conall's ghost), speech / Con Cassidy, speech in English, speech in Irish ; Caoimhín Mac Aoidh, speech in English ; Philip King, speech in English, speech in Irish
00:07:41 - 00:09:05 | [Dusty windowsills, jig] / Unidentified, fiddle
00:09:06 - 00:09:44 | The closing announcement of radio broadcast, speech / Philip King, speech in English

The following material from 00:09:47 - 00:12:08 was recorded at a concert in the Highlands Hotel during the 1984 Glenties Fiddle Weekend:
00:09:47 - 00:11:05 | Untitled, air / Francie [Dearg] O'Byrne, fiddle
00:11:08 - 00:12:08 | The chorus reel = [The Glen road to Carrick, reel] / Francie [Dearg] O'Byrne, fiddle

The following recordings from 00:12:10 - 00:43:50 were dubbed from a tape recorded by Rab Cherry in a bedroom at the Highlands Hotel, Glenties, Co. Donegal during the 1984 Glenties Fiddle Weekend:
00:12:10 - 00:13:51 | The Marquis of Huntley, reel ; The hurricane [comp. James Scott Skinner], reel / Francie [Dearg] O'Byrne, fiddle
00:13:53 - 00:15:05 | 79th farewell to Gibraltar, march / Francie [Dearg] O'Byrne, fiddle
00:15:11 - 00:15:35 | Untitled, highland / Francie [Dearg] O'Byrne, fiddle
00:15:43 - 00:16:28 | The iron man [comp. James Scott Skinner], strathspey / Francie [Dearg] O'Byrne, fiddle
00:16:31 - 00:18:41 | McSweeney's lament, [waltz] / Francie [Dearg] O'Byrne, fiddle
00:18:45 - 00:21:18 | The speaking waltz / Francie [Dearg] O'Byrne, fiddle
00:21:23 - 00:23:05 | The chorus reel = [The Glen road to Carrick, reel] / Francie [Dearg] O'Byrne, fiddle
00:23:09 - 00:24:05 | The woman of the house [?] [The black mare of Fanad, reel] = [The nine points of roguery, reel] / Francie [Dearg] O'Byrne, fiddle
00:24:37 - 00:26:09 | The woman of the house [?] [The black mare of Fanad, reel] = [The nine points of roguery, reel] / Francie [Dearg] O'Byrne, fiddle
00:26:21 - 00:27:57 | King of the pipers, [jig] / Francie [Dearg] O'Byrne, fiddle
00:27:58 - 00:29:04 | King George IV, [strathspey] / Francie [Dearg] O'Byrne, fiddle
00:29:07 - 00:30:23 | Nailor's hornpipe / Francie [Dearg] O'Byrne, fiddle
00:30:24 - 00:31:10 | The blue angel, hornpipe / Francie [Dearg] O'Byrne, fiddle
00:31:19 - 00:32:54 | Spillane's fiddle, [hornpipe] / Francie [Dearg] O'Byrne, fiddle
00:33:00 - 00:34:45 | Dark lonely valley (The Dean Brig o'Edinburgh), [comp. James Scott Skinner], air ; Untitled, hornpipe [strathspey] / Francie [Dearg] O'Byrne, fiddle
00:34:49 - 00:36:27 | Christy Marvin's reel = [T. Morrison's reel] = [The Dublin reel] / Francie [Dearg] O'Byrne, fiddle
00:36:28 - 00:37:27 | Miss Patterson's slipper, [reel] [Francie [Dearg] O'Byrne version] / Francie [Dearg] O'Byrne, fiddle
00:37:29 - 00:38:11 | The Donegal castle, hornpipe / Francie [Dearg] O'Byrne, fiddle
00:38:12 - 00:39:04 | The glory reel / Francie [Dearg] O'Byrne, fiddle ; Unidentified, fiddle
00:39:09 - 00:42:31 | Tripping up the stairs, [reel] ; Limerick house, [reel] = [The drummer reel] / Francie [Dearg] O'Byrne, fiddle ; Unidentified, fiddle
00:42:32 - 00:43:50 | Murdoch MacKenzie's reel / Francie [Dearg] O'Byrne, fiddle

The following recordings from 00:44:02 - 00:46:47 have no accompanying details:
00:44:02 - 00:45:09 | Untitled, jig / Unidentified, flute
00:45:14 - 00:46:47 | [President Garfield, hornpipe] / Various unidentified performers, instrumental music

Dermot McLaughlin Collection. Reel-to-Reel 15 [sound recording] / [various performers]

The following recordings from 00:00:15 - 00:23:00 were dubbed from a recording of John Doherty made by Len Graham in 1967:
00:00:15 - 00:02:34 | The harvest morning, air / John Doherty, fiddle
00:03:26 - 00:04:59 | The Lord Gordon, reel [two-part version] / John Doherty, fiddle
00:05:43 - 00:06:53 | The Saint John's Point reel [two-part version of The gravel walks to Granny] / John Doherty, fiddle
00:07:13 - 00:08:58 | The foxhunt, [descriptive piece] / John Doherty, fiddle
00:09:27 - 00:12:36 | The miller o'hirn, [strathspey] ; Stirling Castle, [strathspey] ; The spey in spate, [comp. James Scott Skinner], reel / John Doherty, fiddle
00:12:55 - 00:14:37 | Bonnie Kate, reel / John Doherty, fiddle
00:15:02 - 00:16:59 | Rocking the cradle, song / John Doherty, singing in English
00:17:43 - 00:19:52 | The speaking waltz [version of Mrs Kenny's, waltz] / John Doherty, fiddle
00:20:08 - 00:21:35 | The white cockade, [polka] / John Doherty, fiddle
00:21:58 - 00:23:00 | The golden slipper, slip jig [hop jig] / John Doherty, fiddle

The following material from 00:24:48 - 00:47:37 was recorded in The Golden Gate Bar, Carrick, Co. Donegal in 1974 and features the playing of John Doherty, fiddle ; Cathal McConnell, flute ; Unidentified, guitar:
00:24:48 - 00:25:57 | O'Donnell's return, march / Various performers, instrumental music
00:26:11 - 00:27:16 | Collier's, reel / Various performers, instrumental music
00:27:29 - 00:28:45 | [Stirling Castle, strathspey] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:28:46 - 00:30:23 | The golden slipper, [hop jig] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:31:12 - 00:32:03 | Muineál a'bhardail = [The drake's neck, reel] / John Doherty, fiddle
00:32:09 - 00:33:14 | The granny in the corner [?] [The Westport chorus] [The green pigeon], reel / John Doherty, fiddle ; Unidentified, guitar
00:33:19 - 00:34:10 | John's brother Simon the source for the last tune, speech / John Doherty, speech in English ; Cathal McConnell, speech in English
00:34:30 - 00:36:06 | Muileann na maidí = [Crushing of the twigs, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:36:36 - 00:37:43 | [Tommy Gunn's, reel] / Cathal McConnell, flute ; Unidentified, guitar
00:37:51 - 00:39:36 | The pigeon on the gate, reel / Various performers, instrumental music
00:40:13 - 00:42:51 | Cradle song [Our highland queen] [comp. James Scott Skinner], waltz [originally composed as a strathspey] ; [The miller o'dervil] [comp. James Scott Skinner], strathspey ; Untitled, reel / John Doherty, fiddle
00:43:02 - 00:44:07 | The wise maid, [reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:44:57 - 00:45:43 | Máire na Sop, [reel] = [Scotch Mary, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:45:46 - 00:46:51 | The morning star, [reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:47:06 - 00:47:37 | Lord MacDonald, reel / Various performers, instrumental music

Dermot McLaughlin Collection. Reel-to-Reel 16 [sound recording] / Séamus Quinn

Recording made in Carlton Hotel, Belleek, Co. Fermanagh

00:00:00 - 00:00:10 | [Blank audio]
00:00:10 - 00:02:35 | Kitty Jones, reel ; Kitty Jones (Mick Hoy version), reel / Séamus Quinn, fiddle
00:02:35 - 00:04:03 | The bluebird, polka / Séamus Quinn, fiddle
00:04:03 - 00:06:34 | Jimmy Duffy's, highland ; Jimmy Duffy's, highland ; Miss Ramsey's, reel / Séamus Quinn, fiddle
00:06:34 - 00:07:58 | Casey's pig, highland / Séamus Quinn, fiddle
00:07:58 - 00:10:07 | The cocktail, reel ; Neil Gow's, reel / Séamus Quinn, fiddle
00:10:07 - 00:12:06 | [Jig about the donkey, reel] ; Swing swang, reel / Séamus Quinn, fiddle
00:12:06 - 00:13:21 | The decca, polka / Séamus Quinn, fiddle
00:13:21 - 00:14:25 | The three scones of boxty, reel / Séamus Quinn, fiddle
00:14:25 - 00:16:37 | Eddie Duffy's, reel ; untitled, jig / Séamus Quinn, fiddle
00:16:37 - 00:17:58 | The granny in the woods, [polka] / Séamus Quinn, fiddle
00:17:58 - 00:20:19 | Mick Hoy's, jig ; Bonny wee Charlie, jig / Séamus Quinn, fiddle
00:20:19 - 00:21:49 | Unidentified (comp. Jim Hoy), jig / Séamus Quinn, fiddle
00:21:49 - 00:23:22 | Unidentified (comp. Teeny Mc Taggart), hornpipe / Séamus Quinn, fiddle
00:23:22 - 00:24:34 | [Blank audio]
00:24:34 - 00:27:20 | Unidentified (source: Jimmy Duffy), barndance ; Unidentified (source: Jimmy Duffy), barndance / Séamus Quinn, fiddle
00:27:20 - 00:48:50 | [Blank audio]

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