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Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil, MagilliGan, Co. Derry, 16 July 1969 [tracks 1–5]

Performers:
Edward Butcher, singing in English Tracks 1–4, speech in English Track 5;
Hugh Shields, speech in English Track 5

Running Order:
1. My son in America(‘A long time ago in the county Mayo the story it first began...’), song [learnt from the singing, to a different air, by its author Alf McLaughlin of Dublin] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. The New Mallard Bar (‘There’s a spot in Magilligan ’way down near the tide...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. The lowlands low(‘Oh, young Emily sat lamenting when young Edmund first did roam...’), song [words by Eddie Butcher to the air of ‘The Mountains of Mourne’] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. The wedding of Sandy McNab(‘I’m on my road hame from a wedding...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
5. Conversation about the song ‘My son in America’, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English [session continued at 6902] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded at the house of John Butcher (brother of Eddie), Drumavally, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 17 July 1969 [tracks 1–3]
Recorded in Greta Deehan’s bar, Big drain bridge, Magilligan, Co. Derry, from Tom Anderson of Aughil, Magilligan (age about 73) and his wife (aged about 65), 23 July 1969 [tracks 4–9]

Performers:
Butcher, Mary Ellen, singing in English Tracks 1-2;
Butcher, Jimmy, singing in English Track 3;
Anderson, Tom, singing in English Tracks 4, 6-8, speech in English Track 5;
Shields, Hugh speech in English Track 5;
Anderson. Mrs. Tom, singing in English Track 9

Running Order:
1. The shores of America (‘I’m bidding farewell to the land of my youth and the homes I love so well...’), song / Mary Ellen Butcher (daughter of John Butcher, age about 20), singing in English
2. Erin’s lovely  home (‘You patron [r. patriot] sons of Paddy’s land, come listen unto me...’), song [learnt from her uncle Jimmy Butcher of Limavady] / Mary Ellen singing in English
3. The banks of Kilrea (‘One evening for my recreation as I strayed by the lovely Moss Bann...’), song / John Butcher, singing in English [session continued at 6905]
4. The shores of Castlerock (‘The time is come and I must go, I’ll bid you all adieu...’), song [air ‘Adieu to Belashanny’] / Tom Anderson (age about 73), singing in English [session continued from 6925]
5. Talk about the song ‘The shores of Castlerock’ and its author Seamus McLoughlin / Tom Anderson, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English 
6. The rambling rakes of poverty (‘Oh come all you rambling fellows, oh from town to town I steer...’), song / Tom Anderson, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
7. The shores of America (‘I am a sporting Irish boy now far across the sea...’), song / Tom Anderson, singing in English
8. Free and easy (‘Oh it’s of my rambles I’m going to sing...’), song / Tom Anderson, singing in English
9. The banks of the Bann (‘Down by yon harbour near sweet Coleraine...’), song [learnt from her grandfather, Thomas McGough] / Mrs Tom Anderson (age about 65), singing in English [end of session] [END OF BAND TWO]  

Recorded from William (Bill) Quigley (age about 65) and his wife Tilly (age about 60), at their house in Bellarena, Limavady, Co. Derry, 18 July 1969 [tracks 1–3]
Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 18 July 1969 [track 4]
Creation Date:
18 July 1969

Performers:
Quigley, Mrs. Tilly, singing in English Tracks 1-2;
Quigley, Bill, singing in English Track 3;
Butcher, Edward, singing in EnglishTrack 4

Running Order:
1. The dark-eyed gypsy [=The gypsy laddie] (‘Oh, there were three gypsies, they lived in the East...’), song [take one] / Mrs Tilly Quigley [née Carr, elder sister of Mrs Grace Butcher, age about 60], singing in English [session continued from 6808]
2. The dark-eyed gypsy, song [take two: better rendition] / Mrs Tilly Quigley, singing in English
3. India’s burning sands [‘Oh [in] blithe and bonny fair Scotland where bluebells there do grow...’), song / Bill Quigley, singing in English [end of session]
4. The winning of the graveyard (‘You Catholics of Magilligan, like brothers every one...’), song [clipped, incomplete] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [session continued from 6911]

Recorded from John Fleming (age about 40) in Brolly’s bar, Myroe, Co. Derry, 19 July 1969 [tracks 1–3]
Recorded at the house of Robert (Bob) McCurry (age 69), Carrowmens, Myroe, Co. Derry, 19 July 1969 [track 4]

Performers:
Fleming, John, singing in English Tracks 1-3, speech in English Track 4;
McCurry, Robt. (Bob), speech in English Track 4;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 4;
Butcher, Eddie, speech in English Track 4

Running Order:
1. Moville along the Foyle (‘Oh there was a pleasant spot I knew when I was just a boy...’), song [air: Old lang syne] / John Fleming, singing in English [session continued from 6912]
2. Canada-i-o ( ‘It’s of a merchant’s daughter, she had been in her prime of years...’), song  / John Fleming, singing in English
3. Greencastle shore (‘From Derry quay we sailed away all on the eighth of May...’), song  / John Fleming, singing in English [end of session]
4. Account by Bob McCurry of his great-uncle Jimmy McCurry, the blind fiddler, speech [unfinished but continued on 6914] / Bob McCurry, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English ; John Fleming, speech in English [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded in the house of Robert (Bob) McCurry (age 69), Carrowmens, Myroe, Co. Derry, 19 July 1969 [tracks 1–3]
Recorded from Bill Quigley in the house of Eddie Butcher, Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 19 July 1969 [track 4]

Performers:
Fleming, John, speech in English Track 1;
McCurry, Robt. (Bob), speech in English Track 1;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 1;
Butcher, Eddie, speech in English Track 1;
Millar, Yvonne, speech in English Tracks 2-3;
Quigley, Bill, singing in English Track 4

Running Order:
1. Account by Bob McCurry of his great-uncle Jimmy McCurry, the blind fiddler, speech / Bob McCurry, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English ; John Fleming, speech in English [conversation continued from session on 6913]
2. Two little sandy girls, song [for game] / Yvonne Millar (age 10, of Antrim town, granddaughter of Bob McCurry), singing in English
3. Jane lost a button, rhyme / Yvonne Millar, speech in English [end of session]
4. A lady walked in her father’s garden [= Seven years since I had a sweetheart], song [clipped] / Bill Quigley, singing in English [song resumed and session continued at 6915]  [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 22 July 1969 [track 1]
Recorded from Tom Anderson (aged about 73) and his daughter Annie [Sweeney] in Greta Deehan’s bar, Big Drain bridge, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 23 July 1969 [tracks 2–6]

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Track 1;
Anderson, Tom, singing in English Track 2, Track 6, speech in English Track 3;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 3, Track 5;
Anderson, Annie, singing in English Track 4, speech in English Track 5

Running Order:
1. Molly, lovely Molly (‘Oh Molly, lovely Molly, will you come with me?...’), song [fragment of 2+ verses] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. The green fields of America (‘Farewell to old Ireland, the land of my childhood...’), song [learnt from his father] /Tom Anderson, singing in English
3. Talk about the song ‘The green fields of America’ / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Tom Anderson, speech in English
4. The braes of Strablane (‘Near the town of brave Athrillicks one evening in June...’), song [learnt from her grandfather] / Annie [Sweeney], singing in English
5. Talk about the song ‘The braes of Strathblane’ / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Annie [Sweeney], speech in English
6. The strands of Magilligan [=The American stranger] (‘I’m a stranger to this country, from America I came, song /Tom Anderson, singing in English [session continued on 6925]  [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil crossroads, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 17 September 1970 [tracks 1–4]

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 1, 3-4, speech in English Track 2;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 2

Running Order:
1. Bonny Portmore (‘Bonny Portmore, you shine where you stand...’), song [17 verses, air: Green bushes] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Talk about the song ‘Bonny Portmore’ / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
3. Lovely Armoy (‘Draw near, my kind friends and relations...’), song [known since childhood, but text may be partly learnt from Joe Holmes, Ballymoney, Co. Antrim, air: cf. Banks of Kilrea]
4. The maid of Culmore (‘From fair Londonderry unto fair London town...’), song [amalgam of two songs ? Air: cf. Sailing to America] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [session continued on 6910] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded in the house of Hugh Shields, Dublin, from Jackie Devenny (aged about 35, from Coleraine), Eddie Butcher and Gracie Butcher from Magilligan, Co. Derry, 8 September 1975 [tracks 1–14] and 10 September 1975 [tracks 15– 40]

Performers:
Devenney Jackie, speech in English Tracks 1, 3, 13, 38, singing in English Tracks 2, 12;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 1, 3-4, 7, 13, 25, 30, 35, 38-39;
Butcher, Eddie, speech in English Tracks 4, 7, 10, 21-28, 30-31, 35-39, singing in English Tracks 4-6, 8-11, 14-20, 22, 26, 29, 32-34;
Butcher, Gracie, singing in English Tracks 15, 32, speech in English Tracks 31, 38;
Shields, Lisa, speech in English Track 38

Running Order:
1. Talk about the song ‘Lord Randal’ / Jackie Devenney, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
2. Lord Randal (‘Oh, where have you been, Lord Randal my son...’) / Jackie Devenney, singing in English
3. Talk about the song ‘Lord Randal’ / Jackie Devenney, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
4. Introduction to the song ‘Down the moor’, speech ; Down the moor (‘One morn in May when fields were gay...’), song / Eddie Butcher, speech in English, singing in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
5. Pat Molloy and the cockney (Pat Molloy, an Irish boy, came from the county Clare...’), song [fragment] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
6. Thady Regan courted Winie, song [cf. 7506] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
7. Talk about the air of the song ‘Going to Mass last Sunday’ as a pipe band tune, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
8. Johnny from home he never had been, song [one verse] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
9. Banks of the Bann (‘When first to this country a stranger I came...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
10. Go from the window, chantefable [story with song] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English, singing in English
11. Distressed maid (‘I am a maid that’s cast in love and here I do remain...’), song [see Ulster folklife X] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
12. Johnny, lovely Johnny (‘Johnny, lovely Johnny, do you remember the day...’), song / Jackie Devenney, singing in English
13. Talk about the song ‘Johnny, lovely Johnny’ / Jackie Devenney, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
14. Soldier and a sailor (‘Soldier and a sailor went a-walking one day...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
15. Don’t come again (‘Oh, the first place I saw my love it was at a ball...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English, Gracie Butcher, singing in English
16. Virgin only nineteen years old (‘As I went a-walking down by the Strand...’), song [fragment] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
17. Virgin only nineteen years old, song [fragment] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
18. Ploughboy (‘Oh, girls, do wed a ploughboy all if that you be wise...’), song [fragment] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
19. Ploughboy, song [fragment, take two] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
20. Mary Acklin (‘Oh you tender young lovers, draw near to those lines I am going to unfold...’), song [cf. 7505, 7506, 6112] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
21. Story: Dry day for thatching (‘This man was coming along the road...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
22. Go from the window, chantefable [story with song] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English, singing in English
23. Story: It could be worse`(‘This was a man and nae matter what anyone said till him...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
24. Story: Going to meet my father (‘...He was out and met this man coming along...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
25. Introduction to the following chantefable ; Hugh Shields, speech in English ; / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
26. Saturday night is Halloween night (‘This man lost his wife...’), chantefable [story with song] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English, singing in English
27. Story: If we had eggs (‘The’ were a boy yin time axed a soldier...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
28. Story: The oul mare (‘This oul fellow...he took the horse to the fair...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
29. Come to the hedgerows (‘Oh, come to the hedgerows with gay flowers of bright...’), song [learnt by both singers at school] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English, Gracie Butcher, singing in English
30. Talk about the song ‘Come to the hedgerows’ / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Gracie Butcher, speech in English
31. Riddle: Your twenty geese (‘The’ were a man...’), riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
32. Go and leave me if you wish it (The’ were once I loved with fond affection...’), song [EB’s ‘favourite’] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English, Gracie Butcher, singing in English
33. Ploughboy (‘Girls, do wed a ploughboy all if that you be wise...’) / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
34. Ploughboy, song [fresh start] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
35. Lark in the cornfield, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
36. Story: The scythe (‘Another oul farmer and he had this man...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
37. Story: The bag of coal (‘The’ were two oul brothers yin time...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
38. Dance you up, my bonny brown bear, speech ; song [about performing bear] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English, singing in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Jackie Devenney, speech in English ; Lisa Shields, speech in English ; Gracie Butcher, speech in English
39. Lint pulling, speech [about flax pulling near Castlerock / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English [session continued on 7508] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 3–6 March 1979 [tracks 1-10]

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 1, 3-9, speech in English Tracks 2, 10;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 2

Running Order:
1. Aghnacloy town (‘My friends and I left sweet Armoy...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Talk about the preceding song, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
3. Skewball/Stewball (‘Come all you noble gentlemen, I pray listen all...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. Farmer's daughter (‘There were a farmer’s daughter...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
5. Are you from Dixie? (‘Hello there stranger, how do you do?...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
6. Until the morning [fragment] (‘Now I would like to wed again and have a night like you...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
7. Green grows the laurel, song (‘Oh, it’s green grows the laurel and so falls the dew...’) / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
8. Eileen McManus, song (‘One day as I walked along Broadway...’) / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
9. Pat Reilly, song (‘It being on an Easter Monday, it was a play day...’) / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
10. Buy me a goat, story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English [END OF BAND TWO]