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Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 01B [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Murphy, Bridget, singing in English A1, 4, 6, 9-10, 12;
Murphy, Gene, singing in English A2, 7, 11;
Murphy, Tommy, singing in English A3, 8;
Murphy, Mick, singing in English A5;
Unidentified performer (child), singing in English A13;
Stokes, Patrick, singing in English A14;
Stokes, Mary Ellen, singing in English A15-16;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A17-18

Running Order:
1. Song: The Trees They Grow So Tall [speed variation at beginning of track] [My Bonny Boy]
2. Song: The Hills of Glenswilly
3. Song: Biddy Donoghue [Bridget Donoghue]
4. Song: Avondale
5. Song: My Name It Is MacGuire (interrupted)
6. Song: Caroline from Edinburgh Town
7. Song: The Croppy Boy
8. Song: A Mother's Love [A Mother's Love's a Blessing]
9. Song: Macroom-Cork Rebel Song [The Lonely Woods of Upton] (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]
10. Song: Macroom-Cork rebel song [The Lonely Woods of Upton]
11. Song: Early, Early in the Spring [The Croppy Boy]
12. Song: A Mother's Last Goodbye (interrupted)
13. Song: The Butcher Boy (interrupted, end clipped)
14. Song: A Child in the Budget
15. Song: The Prison Song [Shall My Soul Pass through Ireland] (unfinished)
16. Song: The Black and Tan Gun
17. Song: The Farmer's Boy
18. Song: The Hills of Knocknashee [END OF BAND TWO]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 02B [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Murphy, Bridget, singing in English A1-2, 5, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18;
singing in Irish A12;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A3-4;
Murphy, Mick, lilting A6;
singing in English A6, 7, 8, 9, 20, 21;
Murphy, Tommy, singing in English A8;
Wall, Luke, singing in English A10, 11, 19;
Murphy, Gene, singing in English A15, 16, 18

Running Order:
1. Song: Macroom-Cork rebel song [The Lonely Woods of Upton] (last verse only)
2. Song: Quiet Cottage Home
3. Song: Noreen Ban (unfinished)
4. Song: Noreen Ban (interrupted)
5. Song: Noreen Ban
6. Song: Poll and Nancy Hogan [The Wexford Mummers' Song] (interrupted)
7. Song: The Cradle
8. Song: Bit o' Butter (interrupted)
9. Song: New Ross Town (interrupted)
10. Song: Untitled [Old Mick Murphy]
11. Song: Early, Early in the Spring
12. Song: Happy Woodpecker's Song [END OF BAND ONE]
13. Song: The Station of Knocklong (beginning clipped, unfinished)
14. Song: Green Mossy Banks of the Lee
15. Song: Skibbereen (interrupted)
16. Song: Oxford City
17. Song: Old Shep
18. Song: Lady in Her Father's Garden (interrupted) (unfinished)
19. Song: The Factory Girl
20. Song: The Cradle [longer version]
21. Song: Poll and Nancy Hogan [END OF BAND TWO]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 03B [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Flynn, Miley, singing in English A1, 8, 10[?], 12, 17;
Flynn, Kathleen, singing in English A2-3 =;
[Cassidy, Kathleen];
Flynn, Kitty, singing in English A4, 7, 11;
Cassidy, Jimmy, singing in English A5-6, 9;
Cassidy, Andy, singing in English A13, 14;
Cassidy, Bill, singing in English A15, 16

Running Order:
1. Song: Forty Shades of Green
2. Song: Green Grow the Rushes [version 1]
3. Song: Green Grow the Rushes [version 2]
4. Song: Lovely Willie (interrupted)
5. Song: My Gentle Mother's Grave = [Gentle Mother ?]
6. Song: Hold My Hand Precious Lord
7. Song: Fraulein (beginning clipped) (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]
8. Song: The Road That Flows through Ratheen [Raheen ?]
9. Song: My Father's Serving Boy
10. Song: Father Murphy [Boolavogue] (beginning clipped) (interrupted)
11. Song: Lord Bateman's Castle (interrupted) (unfinished)
12. Song: Danny Boy
13. Song: My Rifle, Pony, and Me
14. Song: My Good Man ? (unfinished) (end clipped)
15. Song: The Jolly Ploughboy
16. Song: Moll and Nancy Hogan [The Wexford Mummers' Song] (interrupted)
17. Song: My Mother's Sweet Voice (unfinished) (end clipped) [END OF BAND TWO]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 04B [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Cassidy, Johnny, storytelling in English A1;
Unidentified performers (male), singing in English A2-4, 8-10;
Unidentified performer [female fortune teller], singing in English A6;
speech in English A5;
Unidentified performers (female), singing in English A7, 11

Running Order:
1. Story: Jack the Giant Killer
2. Song: The Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe
3. Song: Galway Bay (satirical)
4. Song: The Boys of the County Armagh (satirical)[END OF BAND ONE]
5. Speech: Artelia's hand being read by a tinker woman
6. Song: A Home down in Texas
7. Song: Goodbye Romance (unfinished)
8. Song: The Old County Down (interrupted)
9. Song: Untitled [I Won't Get Drunk Again ?]
10. Song: Untitled [The Labouring Man's Daughter ?]
11. Song: Skibbereen (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 05B [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Furey, Finbar, Dublin, pipes A1-5;
Furey, Edward, Dublin, guitar A1-5;
Donaghue, Pat, speech in English B1;
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English B1

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled [The Verdant Braes of Skreen]
2. Jig / Slide: Untitled [Dingle Regatta]
3. Air: Roisin Dubh
4. Jig: Untitled [The Lark in the Morning]
5. Song: Pretty Saro (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]
6. Interview with Pat Donaghue about the countryside and catching birds, about Joe and police, etc [END OF BAND TWO]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 06B [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer (boy), singing in English A1-2;
Unidentified performer [Cassidy, Mary, Mrs?], singing in English A3-4;
speech in English A11;
Flynn, Miley, singing in English A5-6;
Flynn, Kate (Cassidy), singing in English A7;
Cassidy, Johnny, singing in English A8;
storytelling in English A9;
Doran, Maggie, storytelling in English A10-11

Running Order:
1. Song: My Name Is Johnny Connors
2. Song: Pat O'Brien (fragment)
3. Song: Half Crown Song [The Old Widow Song]
4. Song: Half Crown Song [The Old Widow Song]
5. Song: Untitled [A Stoirin Ban When Are You Coming Home?] (end clipped)
6. Song: Untitled [The Sally Gardens] (interrupted) (unfinished)
7. Song: The North Strand [Pretty Polly] (interrupted) (unfinished)
8. Song: The North Strand [Pretty Polly] [END OF BAND ONE]
9. Story: Blacksmith's Story
10. Story: Drunken Story
11. Speech: Interview (by Artelia) with Mrs Cassidy
12. Speech: Interview (by Artelia) with Mrs Cassidy continued (interrupted) (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 07A [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, singing in English A1-2, 4-6,;
Court, Artelia, singing in English A3;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A7;
Syke, lilting A10;
lilting with drum A11-12;
singing in English A8-9;
yodelling A9;
Unidentified performer, lilting with drum A9-10

Running Order:
1. Song: Hills of Mayo [The Hills of Sweet Mayo]
2. Song: The Black Velvet Band
3. Song: Untitled
4. Song: Untitled [Erin's Lovely Lee]
5. Song: Long Time A'Growing [My Bonny Boy]
6. Song: Untitled [Green Grows the Laurel]
7. Song: Untitled [Goodbye, Johnny Dear]
8. Song: By the Lee [Mary on the Banks of the Lee]
9. Song: My Blue Eyes [I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes]
10. Jig: Jigging [The Irish Washerwoman]
11. Set Dance: Jigging with Drum [The Blackbird]
12. Song Air: Jigging with Drum [The Rising of the Moon]
13. Song: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 07B [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Cassidy, Jimmy, storytelling in English A1;
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English A2;
Flynn, Kate (Cassidy), singing in English A3-5;
Unidentified performer [Jimmy Cassidy?], singing in English A6;
Stokes, Mary Ellen, singing in English A7-8

Running Order:
1. Story: The Grey-haired Norese's Skull [The Grey-haired Norrissey's Skull] [END OF BAND ONE]
2. Speech: Untitled [Identification of performer on next track]
3. Song: Lovely Willie
4. Song: Green Grow the Rushes
5. Song: Untitled (unfinished)
6. Song: The Waters of Coolfinn [The Lakes of Coolfinn ?]
7. Song: Early Early in the Spring
8. Song: The Farmer's Boy [END OF BAND TWO]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 08B [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, singing in English A1-7, 10, 12;
Murphy, Mick, singing in English A8-9, 11, 13-14

Running Order:
1. Song: I Wished I Was in Banahoe
2. Song: Untitled [My Only Son Was Shot in Dublin]
3. Song: The Boston Burglar
4. Song: Every Road that You Go
5. Song: Down by the Strand
6. Song: Higgins and Carr
7. Song: The Braes of Strablane
8. Song: The Month of May (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]
9. Song: As I Roved out One Morning
10. Song: The Butcher Boy
11. Song: My Mary Dear
12. Song: Long Time a-Growing [My Bonny Boy]
13. Song: Ballinglen
14. Song: Song about Dolly Murphy composed and sung by Mick Murphy [END OF BAND TWO]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 09A [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, singing in English A1, 4, 9-11, 17-19;
O'Donoghue, Mary, singing in English A2-3;
O'Donoghue, Joe, singing in English A3;
D. [O'Donoghue?], Pat, whistle A5-8[?];
Donovan, Martin, whistle A15-16, 22;
lilting A14;
whistling A12;
singing in English A13, 22-23;
Weldon, Nellie, Dublin, singing in English A20;
Weldon, Liam, Dublin, singing in English A21

Running Order:
1. Song: Her Hair Hung Down in Ringlets
2. Song: The Patriot Game
3. Song: Untitled [The Travellers' Campaign, composed by Joe O'Donoghue]
4. Song: The Shoemaker
5. Song Air: Untitled [Buttons and Bows]
6. Jig: Untitled [The Connachtman's Rambles]
7. Reel: Untitled (unfinished) [The First House in Connacht]
8. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Leitrim Fancy]
9. Song: Untitled [In My Own Peculiar Way] [END OF BAND ONE]
10. Song: Untitled [The Old Triangle]
11. Song: Untitled [James Connolly]
12. Reel: Delvin Lasses [Fermoy Lasses]
13. Song: Luck in the House, whistling and jigging [Around the House There Is No Luck]
14. Reel, Jig: Untitled (unfinished) [Down the Broom], untitled [Gallagher's Frolics]
15. Jigs: Untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], untitled [The Battering Ram]
16. Hornpipes, Reel, Song Air: Untitled [The Stack of Wheat], untitled [Harvest Home], untitled [Jenny Picking Cockles], untitled [Buttons and Bows]
17. Song: Untitled [From the Candy Store on the Corner]
18. Song: Untitled [Are You Lonesome Tonight]
19. Song: Untitled [Every Step of the Way]
20. Song: I Wished I Lived in Carrickfergus [Carrickfergus]
21. Song: The Blue Tarred Road [The Blue Tar Road]
22. Air, Song, Air: Untitled [The Banks of the Lee], untitled [The Banks of the Lee], The Boys of the West [The Men of the West]
23. Reel: Untitled (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]

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