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Interview with Frank McGann in Michael Noon's pub [sound recording] / Frank McGann

Interview with Frank McGann in Michael Noon's pub [sound recording] / Frank McGann

Performers:
McGann, Frank, Roscommon/Dublin, speech in English, track 1-11, B1-7
[also present were John Wynne, Roscommon and Paul Doyle, Dublin]

Running Order:
1. Spoken Introduction
2. Speech: born 7th July 1923 in Lisalwey, moved to Kilmurray, Frank's mother and Frank Brown played at the crossroads, 'our house there was music every night in it...', men dancing sets, staying up late
3. Speech: men dancing local sets, `tapping it out...', very poor times, father reared eight on eighteen shillings and one penny, tunes for the sets, mother played fiddle and flute, family played in local schools and at weddings
4. Speech: instruments handed down, Robert Jones a great fiddler (mother's maiden name), drinking first pint in Johnny Casey's, Frank's family originally came from Wales, Frank's uncle Joe McGann a great melodeon player, brought a melodeon back fron Canada
5. Speech: flutes and fiddles played locally, mostly by men, `a man's game...', grandmother smoked a clay pipe but not in public, going to town with her and the ass and cart, smoking at a young age, two old pennies for counting the sheep, eating the meal mixed with sugar, Jimmy Weldon breaking and mixing eggs into a quart bottle of milk, not alot of music in the village, the Carlos family, townland names
6. Speech: local musicians: Willie Rafferty, Frank Brown, Jimmy Gearity, Jimmy's father was a writer and whistle player, loosening the wooden plug with a pen-knife, Paddy Carney, Kilina Ceili Band, Frank Kelly, Mike McHale, Master McHale, Bernie Dobie, Frank's family in a band
7. Speech: tunes played by musicians, never polkas or slides, mostly reels, many tunes from America, tapes arrived home, 78rpm discs, the McNulty family, the Grehan sisters, music always in the house, grandmother had a gramaphone fron Canada, Uncle Peter going to Canada in the 19th century, losing touch when you leave home, Paddy Carney
8. Speech: Frank's mother dying, `things die when the mother dies...', she taught Frank's cousin Martin, she was very interested in Michael Coleman, gramaphone records, McNulty family very popular, local songs
9. Speech: travelling musicians, Johnny Doran camping beside Gearty's house, `like fairy music...', the Raineys, Paddy Rainey lost the tip of his finger, took up the accordion, always camped across from Frank's house, canvas hoop tents, Patrick `Rainey' Madden, tinsmithing, Johnny Doran a `guest', greatest piper, Frank met him and Aggie White in Dublin doing an audition for RTE, Johnny working with Andy Conroy
10. Speech: pipers Pat and Jim Lavin, Dennis McGarry, old John Burke, tunes dancers liked, Frank's father a great dancer, Paddy Lavin a great dancer, made up their own steps, Frank danced himself
11. Speech: John Carlos, Frank's grandfather, Mary Anne McGann, Jim Dowd, John Burke, playing tricks on people [DAT continued on CDRb]
12. Speech: house dancing and playing music, `long' Johnny Moran and Mary, `short' Johnny Moran, Rathmile House, Colonel Erwell, Frank's father a postman, uncle Mick some character, Frank's first job in the bogs of Kildare during the war, first cousin Frank came back from London, took on uncle Mick drinking, `he that grasps at too much shall loose all...'
13. Speech: Tommy and Pat Rodgers, Frank's brother Pat, Frank's father, getting Pat a flute, Tommy Callaghan, The Golden Eagle pub, Martin Lavin, Paddy Carney, Jack Lavin, Paddy Ryan
14. Speech: ceili bands, no Irish music in pubs, May Collins, no women served in O'Donoghue's, Fingal Céilí Band, Killina Céilí Band, money wasn't good, Mayglass Céilí Band, never music in Harold's Cross, John O'Brien, Paddy Canney, Paddy Maloney
15. Speech: first came to Dublin in 1944, the Rathcrochan reel/The Floating Crowbar, people going astray, Frank's father went astray, Bernie Dobie, Frank visiting the Duignan's, his experience of ghosts
16. Speech: Johnny and Felix Doran, Ted Furey
17. Speech: Frank's father a great singer, Jim Carty, no singing in Irish
18. Speech: singing at funerals, funeral games, Frank's father bought him his first pint, getting up to tricks, dressing up in straw and going to weddings, wren boys on Stephen's Day, all-night dances [END OF DAT]

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 145 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Recorded from Frank Browne (aged 73, of Rath, Bellanagar, Co. Roscommon) in Barbara O’Flynn’s flat in Dublin, 4 June 1983 [tracks 1–7]

Performers:
Browne, Frank, singing in English Tracks 1, 4, 6, speech in English Tracks 2-3, 5, 7;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 2-3, 5, 7;
O'Flynn, Barbara, speech in English Tracks 2-3, 7

Running Order:
1. Mantle so green (‘As I went out walking one morning in June...’), song / Frank Browne, singing in English [session continued from 8306]
2. Talk about the song ‘Mantle so green’ / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Frank Browne, speech in English ; Barbara Flynn, speech in English
3. Talk about the song ‘Jack come, pulled the string’ green’ / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Frank Browne, speech in English ; Barbara Flynn, speech in English
4. Jack come, pulled the string (‘Jack come, pulled the string She got up and let him in...’), song / Frank Browne, singing in English
5. Talk about the following song ‘A mother came when stars were paling’ / Frank Browne, speech in English
6. A mother came when stars were paling [=The fairy boy, words by Samuel Lover]
7. Talk about cases of changelings and fairies / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Frank Browne, speech in English ; Barbara Flynn, speech in English [end of session] [END OF BAND ONE]

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 143 [sound recording] / [Frank Browne]

Recorded from Frank Browne (aged 73, of Rath, Bellanagar, Co. Roscommon) in Barbara O’Flynn’s flat in Dublin, 4 June 1983

Performers:
Browne, Frank, singing in English Track 1, speech in English Track 2, singing in English and lilting Track 3

Running Order:
1. Willy Reilly and his colleen bawn (‘Oh, rise up, Willy Reilly, and come along with me...’), song [learnt from a book about Willy Reilly] [session continued from 8304] * See Notes about track missing at this point
2. Talk about the tune ‘The frost is all over’ / Frank Browne, speech in English
3. The frost is all over (‘When the praties is dug and the frost is all over...’), song ; jig / Frank Browne, singing in English, lilt [session continued on 8306] [END OF BAND ONE]

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 142 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Recorded from Frank Browne (aged 73, of Rath, Bellanagar, Co. Roscommon) in Barbara O’Flynn’s flat in Dublin, 4 June 1983 [tracks 1–2]

Performers:
Browne, Frank, singing in English Track 1, speech in English Track 2;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 2;
O'Flynn, Barbara, speech in English Track 2

Running Order:
1. Half-door (‘As I was strolling down the road...’), song / Frank Browne, singing in English [session continued from 8303]
2. Talk about the song ‘Willy Reilly and his colleen bawn’ / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Frank Browne, speech in English ; Barbara O’Flynn, speech in English [session continued on 8305]

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 141 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Recorded from Bill Quigley at his house in Bellarena, Co. Derry, 6 May 1983 [tracks 1–6]
Recorded from Frank Browne (aged 73, of Rath, Bellanagar, Co. Roscommon in Barbara O’Flynn’s flat in Dublin), 4 June 1983 [tracks 7–12]

Performers:
Quigley, Bill, singing in English Tracks 1-2, 4, 6, speech in English 3, 5;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 3, 5;
Browne, Frank, tin whistle solo Tracks 7-9, speech in English Tracks 10, 11, singing in English Track 11;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 10, 12;
O'Flynn, Barbara, speech in English Tracks 10, 12

Running Order:
1. Dawning of the day (‘As I went out one morning being in the month of May...’), song / Bill Quigley, singing in English
2. Dawning of the day, song [fresh start], song / Bill Quigley, singing in English
3. Talk about the song ‘Dawning of the day’ / Bill Quigley, speech in English
4. Star of Moville (‘You folks of this nation that hears my narration...’), song [fragment] / Bill Quigley, singing in English
5. Talk about the song ‘Star of Moville’ / Bill Quigley, speech in English
6. Londonderry on the banks of the Foyle (‘There’s a spot in old Ireland, it’s a spot of great fame...’), song / Bill Quigley, singing in English [end of session] [END OF BAND ONE]
7. Men of the west, waltz / Frank Browne, whistle
8. Peggy Malone, waltz / Frank Browne, whistle
9. Londonderry air / Frank Browne, whistle
10. Talk about the tune ‘Londonderry air’ / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Frank Browne, speech in English ; Barbara O’Flynn, speech in English
11. Peggy Malone (‘Oh, I went to the fair on a fine summer’s morning...’), song / Frank Browne, singing in English
12. Talk about the song ‘Peggy Malone’ /Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Barbara O’Flynn, speech in English [session continued on 8304] [END OF BAND TWO]

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