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Performers:
Beirne, Josephine, singing in English A1;
Sweetham, George, with Paddy Killoran's Orchestra, singing in English A2-3, singing in duet A4;
Harte, Catherine, singing in duet A4;
Feeney, Jack, singing in English A5-8;
McFarlane, Sandy, singing in English A9-12;
?, Eddie, flute in trio A13-14;
McKenna, John, flute in trio A13-14;
Morrison, Tom, flute in trio A15-18;
Reynolds, John, tambourine [bodhran] in trio A15-18;
McElligott, William, singing in English A19-20;
Smith, Cyril, with Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees, singing in English A21-22

Running Order:
1. Absent, song / Josephine Beirne, singing in English
2. My dear old Galway Bay, song / George Sweetham, singing in English ; Paddy Killoran’s Orchestra, band
3. The ballad of Peter Crowley, song / George Sweetham, singing in English ; Paddy Killoran’s Orchestra, band
4. Molly Bawn and Brian Og, song / George Sweetham, singing in English ; Catherine Harte, singing in English ; Paddy Killoran’s Orchestra, band
5. The green bushes, song / Jack Feeney, singing in English
6. On the banks of my own lovely Lee, song / Jack Feeney, singing in English
7. The shawl of Galway grey, song / Jack Feeney, singing in English
8. When it's moonlight in Mayo [When Irish eyes are smiling], song / Jack Feeney, singing in English
9. The road to the isles, song / Sandy McFarlane, singing in English
10. I'll go in the morning, song / Sandy McFarlane, singing in English
11. McNab's a jolly sailor, song / Sandy McFarlane, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
12. In the morning, song / Sandy McFarlane, singing in English
13. Tripping to the well, The kiss behind the door, polkas / John McKenna, flute ; Eddie [Meehan], flute ; [Frank Fallon, piano]
14. The sandlark, Lawson's favourite, hornpipes / John McKenna, flute ; Eddie [Meehan], flute ; [Frank Fallon, piano]
15. The Roscommon reel / Tom Morrison, flute ; John Reynolds, tambourine [bodhrán]
16. The London clog, hornpipe / Tom Morrison, flute ; John Reynolds, tambourine [bodhrán]
17. The sweet flowers of Milltown, hornpipe / Tom Morrison, flute ; John Reynolds, tambourine [bodhrán]
18. The Dunmore lassies, The mountain reel, The Castlebar traveller, reels / Tom Morrison, flute ; John Reynolds, tambourine [bodhrán]
19. Saint Patrick was a gentleman, song / William McElligott, singing in English
20. Soldiers of '22, song / William McElligott, singing in English
21. The old sow, song / Cyril Smith, singing in English ; Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees, band
22. With her head tucked underneath her arm, song / Cyril Smith, singing in English ; Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees, band [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
The McNulty Family, singing in English with group instrumental A1-2;
John McGettigan and his Irish Minstrels, singing in English with group instrumental A21-22

Running Order:
1. When it's teatime in the meadow, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
2. Irish soldier boy, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
3. O'Bryson has no place to go, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
4. Kelly the boy from Killane, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
5. Barney Brannigan, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
6. Erin's green shore, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
7. O'son remember my love today, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
8. If you ever go over to Ireland, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
9. The reel and mountain dew, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
10. My beauty of Limerick, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
11. Moriarty the happy cop, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
12. The old house far away, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
13. When Rafferty brought the rhumba to the town of Aughnacloy, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
14. The Galway rogue, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
15. Susie O'Malley, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
16. Far away in Australia [The girl I left behind], song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
17. Mother Malone, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
18. Haste to the wedding, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
19. The little house under the hill, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
20. They sailed away from Dublin Bay, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
21. Martha the flower of sweet Strabane, song / John McGettigan and his Irish Minstrels, singing in English
22. Untitled (skipping), hornpipes / John McGettigan and his Irish Minstrels [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Myles O'Malley and his Orchestra, group instrumental A1-4,;
O'Malley, Myles, solo whistle A5-8;
The McNulty Family, singing in English with group instrumental A9-20

Running Order:
1. Shannon bells, The joy of life, jigs / Myles O’Malley and his Orchestra, band
2. The Kildare fancy, The boys of Bluehill, hornpipes / Myles O’Malley and his Orchestra, band
3. Off she goes, Fire on the mountain, jigs / Myles O’Malley and his Orchestra, band
4. The morning star, The ships are sailing, reels / Myles O’Malley and his Orchestra, band
5. The quarrelsome piper, Harvest home, hornpipes / Myles O’Malley, tin whistle
6. The four hand reel, The ivy leaf, reels / Myles O’Malley, tin whistle
7. Sweeney's, hornpipe / Myles O’Malley, tin whistle
8. The swallows tail, The heathery breeze, reels / Myles O’Malley, tin whistle
9. We'd take you back to Ireland, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
10. The maid of sweet brown Knowe, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
11. The thirty two counties Ireland, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
12. A mothers lament, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
13. The rose of Aranmore, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
14. The Limerick races, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
15. In Kerry long ago, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
16. Grandfather Brian, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
17. The old potato cake, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
18. Ye all be Irish tonight, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
19. The half door, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
20. The stone outside Dan Murphy's door, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Byrne, Conal, speech in Irish and English A1-3

Running Order:
1. Speech [talk about speaking and learning Irish in Inishowen, poets from Inishowen, strange words in Irish used only in Inishowen] / Aidan O’Hara, speech in Irish ; Conal Byrne, speech in Irish
2. Speech [talk about the history and geography of Inishowen] / Aidan O’Hara, speech in English ; Conal Byrne, speech in English
3. Speech [talk about the Scottish connection with Inishowen] / Aidan O’Hara, speech in English ; Conal Byrne, speech in English [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Campbell, Gerald, accordion solo A1, singing in English A2-3

Running Order:
1. Untitled, reel / Gerald Campbell, accordion ; [unidentified dancers]
2. Going to mass last Sunday [The girl that slighted me], song / Gerald Campbell, singing in English
3. God bless ye merry gentlemen, song / [unidentified singers] [END OF STEREO BANDS]

Performers:
English, John Joe, singing in English A1-6

Running Order:
1. Irish Paddy, song / John Joe English, singing in English
2. The green linnet, song / John Joe English, singing in English
3. My mother was a lady, song / John Joe English, singing in English
4. Seven years I loved a sailor, song / John Joe English, singing in English
5. Barbara Allan, song / John Joe English, singing in English
6. The leaving of Liverpool, song / John Joe English, singing in English
7. My heart beats for Maggie, song / John Joe English, singing in English [END OF STEREO BANDS]

Performers:
Clingan, James 'Jimmy', Donegal, singing in English A2-8, speech in English A1, 5-7;
O'Hara, Aidan, Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Unidentified performer [possibly McGonigle, Donegal], accordion solo A9

Running Order:
1. Speech [Talk about tunes used for dancing with examples; old songs heard from James' father with examples; Jimmy talks about the old dances: Haste to the Wedding, the Lancers, Quadrilles, Walls of Limerick, Siege of Limerick, Shoe the Donkey, Lannigan's Ball, Siege of Ennis, Maggie Pickens, etc.; gives the airs to them; songs he recalls his father singing: Mountain Streams where the Moorcock Crows, The Silvery Tide, Betsy Baker (sings a verse and says it has maybe ten verses, quite comical; see http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/supptrad.html)] ; Lannigan’s ball, air ; Maggie Pickens, air ; Betsy Baker, song / Aidan O’Hara, speech in English ; Jimmy Clingan, speech in English, lilting, singing in English
2. The rambling Irishman, song / Jimmy Clingan, singing in English
3. Speech [getting the song from his father] ; The rambling Irishman, song / Jimmy Clingan, singing in English
4. The rambling Irishman
5. Speech [song introduction] ; The hat McGuinness wore, song ; Speech [Information provided by AOH: the song just sung was written by local man, Neil Kearney from Carndonagh. McGuinness was from nearby Ballyloskey. Neil also wrote 'My Lovely Irish Rose' and 'The Green Fields of Annagh': The Hat McGuinness Wore, Untitled] / Jimmy Clingan, speech in English, singing in English ; Neil Kearney, composer [END OF BAND ONE]
6. Speech [song introduction] ; Clonmany For Me, song ; Speech [Information provided by AOH: Jimmy sings a tongue-in-cheeky song, 'Clonmany for Me', written by Pat Lynch, Carndonagh. Jimmy said that Pat also wrote 'The Lighthouse Down at Bunagee' - and the funny part of it all was that there's no lighthouse at Bunagee - 'The Banks of the Shannon'. Pat was a comedian, Jimmy said. He did recitations like 'An Angel Grew Tired of Heaven'. Pat and Neil Kearney were contemporaries of Harry Lauder and the pair met him one time. Harry wanted them to travel with him on his world tour, he thought they were so good] / Jimmy Clingan, speech in English, singing in English; Aidan O’Hara, speech in English
7. The mountain streams where the moorcocks crow, song ; Speech [Information provided by AOH: The performer says that he heard his mother singing it, a very old song as old as you'd get anywhere. http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=46396 ; also http://www.informatik.unihamburg.de/~zierke/peter.bellamy/songs/themountainstreamswherethemoorcockscrow.html / Jimmy Clingan, singing in English, speech in English
8. Speech [The performer introduces the next song, saying it's a dream a girl had about her lover] ; My love he is a miner lad, singing in English; Speech [Information provided by A O'H: the lad in question is named John Sleddin in the song (see the same song, ITMA Reference Number: 185-ITMA-MP3, recorded by Jimmy McBride)] / Jimmy Clingan, singing in English, speech in English ; Aidan O’Hara, speech in English
9. Londonderry hornpipe [Information provided by AOH: this may be a McGonigle man I recorded near Malin Town when Conal Beirne brought me to visit him] / [McGonigle], accordion [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Clingan, James 'Jimmy', Donegal, singing in English A1, 3, 5;
speech in English throughout A1–5;
fiddle solo A4–5;
O'Hara, Aidan, Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Clancy, John, Cavan, speech in English A6;
Clancy, Angela, Cavan, speech in English A6

Running Order:
1. The shores of Americay, song / Jimmy Clingan, singing in English
2. Speech [Talk about learning songs off records, people selling ballad sheets; Jimmy talks about his love of Gilbert and Sullivan songs which he learned from a recording of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company; he saw ballad song sellers at markets and fairs in Carndonagh the last thirty years ago; tinkers, men and women sold the songs which they had printed up, songs by Thomas Moore and the like. Sheets would be three pence or four pence each; how they know what air to sing the song to; He showed me a song called 'The Bonnie Wee Lass o' the Glen', written out for him 30 or 40 years earlier by a man from Balleighan, Malin, his name, John White Paddy, a Doherty or a McLaughlin man. Jimmy said the man had a lovely voice and he liked the song; talks about the 'timbre' in a good singer's voice. "I haven't that," he said.' (description provided by AOH)] / Jimmy Clingan, speech in English ; Aidan O’Hara, speech in English]
3. Speech [Information from A O'H: 'Starts off talking about an RIC man who wrote a song about a woman he liked in Clonmany and he quotes lines from it. Sings a verse and says, "That's a good song and nobody in Inishowen hardly knows it either." He got it from hearing it sung by others. On line the song is called Dark Iniseoghain: http://celtic-lyrics.com/lyrics/566.html and http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/deante/dark_iniseoghain-lyrics-1155631.html , also http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=13326, etc.; I asked him for The Star of Inishowen but he didn't know the air of it. He said he worked as a carpenter all his life and was in the Irish Army during the Emergency. He was 71 when I recorded this] ; Dark Iniseoghain, song / Jimmy Clingan, speech in English, singing in English
4. An Chúilfhionn [An Chuileann / The Coolin], air ; Speech [Information from A O'H: 'I asked him about a song called 'Came whistling o'er the hill' (same air as 'Sullivan's John'). Jimmy said it was well known locally'] / Jimmy Clingan, fiddle
5. Came whistling o'er the hill, air ; Speech [Information from A O'H: 'Talks about a song he heard only once sung by a man from Glengad. It took his fancy because it was so pleasing and he was sorry he didn't get it off him. Sings a few lines of it']; [untitled], song / Jimmy Clingan, fiddle, speech in English
6. Speech: [Information from A O'H: 'This recording was made after interview with Jimmy Clingan in 19AOH begins by reciting a few lines from verses written about the Derragarra Inn, Butler's Bridge. With him are the owners, John and Angela Clancy to whom he talks about their establishment: a recorded interview for Aidan's programme, 'Fáilte Isteach' on RTÉ Radio 1] / Aidan O’Hara, speech in English ; John Clancy, speech in English ; Angela Clancy, speech in English

Performers:
English, John Joe, singing in English A1, 3-4, 6-7, speech in English A2-7;
O'Hara, Aidan, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Peter Emberley, song / John Joe English, singing in English
2. Speech [born in 1896, John Joe's family, music in his family, his younger brother Michael Joseph's death at age 13 from appendicitis, his mother's reaction to Michael's death, seeing a vision of him after his death, being sick himself, regaining his strength, land the family owned] / John Joe English, speech in English
3. Speech [crossing the Gut by ferry, fishing as a young boy of eleven with his uncle] ; The old leather britches, song / John Joe English, speech in English, singing in English
4. Speech [finishing school aged eleven, Brian O'Lynn, learning about Ireland] ; Father O'Flynn, song / John Joe English, speech in English, singing in English ; Aidan O’Hara, speech in English, singing in English
5. Speech [fishing and carpentry, his father was a carpenter and fisherman, building a motorboat] / John Joe English, speech in English [END OF BAND ONE]
6. Speech [the local school master Mr. Sullivan and his son Dinny Sullivan who composed sons, song fragments, Lucy Foley, being 'shipped' (hired out as farm labour), others who were 'shipped' from St John's, women’s and men’ s jobs] / John Joe English, speech in English
7. Speech [penicillin arriving, humorous story, milking, his mother being ill, hemp nets for fishing, his mother dying, leaving Branch for Montreal, practising songs with Mrs MacDonald] ; [untitled], song [fragment] / John Joe English, speech in English, singing in English [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
English, John, Joe, speech in English A1, 2-4, 7-8, singing in English A1-8;
O'Hara, Aidan, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Irish Paddy, song / John Joe English, singing in English
2. The green linnet, song / John Joe English, singing in English
3. If Jack were only here [My mother was a lady], song ; Speech [singers] / John Joe English, singing in English
4. Seven years I loved a sailor [interrupted], song / John Joe English, singing in English
5. Barbara Allen, song [end clipped] / John Joe English, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
6. Barbara Allen, song [continued] / John Joe English, singing in English
7. The leaving of old Ireland [Leaving of Liverpool], song / John Joe English, singing in English
8. Still my heart beats for Maggie, song ; Speech [learning songs, songs that he’s forgotten] / John Joe English [END OF BAND TWO]