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Recorded in the house of Patrick (Patsy) Beatty (79 years), Glack, Limavady, Co. Derry, 17 July 1969 [tracks 1–9]
Recorded in the house of Eddie Butcher, Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, from Bob McCurry (69 years), of Carrowmena, Myroe and his granddaughter Yvonne Millar (10), 22 July, 1969 [tracks 10–17]
Recorded in the house of Eddie Butcher, Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 23 July 1969 [tracks 18–19]

Performers:
Beatty, Patsy, speech in English Tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, fiddle solo Tracks 2-5, 8-9;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 1, 4, 5, 6, 18-19;
Butcher, Edward, singing in English Tracks 7, 18-19;
McCurry, Bob, speech in English Track 10;
Miller, Yvonne, speech in English Tracks 11-17, singing in English Tracks 12-13

Running Order:
1. Conversation / Hugh Shields, speech in English / Patsy Beatty, speech in English [session continued from 6903]
2. Shan Gwee, jig / Patsy Beatty, fiddle
3. Talk about this tune ; Follow your old figary oh, jig [air: The young May moon] / Patsy Beatty, speech in English, fiddle
4. Talk about this tune ; Paudeen O’Rafferty [=Larry O’Gaff], speech ; jig [learnt from his father] / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Patsy Beatty, fiddle 
5. Barney Kelly, jig [learnt from his father] / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Patsy Beatty, fiddle
6. Conversation about Patsy Beatty’s father’s style of fiddling and bowing technique / Hugh Shields, speech in English / Patsy Beatty, speech in English
7. Go you back to your ain place, song [fragment, air: The girl I left behind me] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
8. Paddy, get up, jig / Patsy Beatty, fiddle
9. The bride’s fancy [=The swallow’s tail], reel / Patsy Beatty, fiddle [end of session]
10. How many persons in the Godhead?, story [‘Funny’], Bob McCurry, speech in English
11. Cowboy Joe from Mexico, rhyme / Yvonne Millar, speech in English
12. On the hillside stands a lady ; Lady, lady, touch the ground, song ; rhyme / Yvonne Millar, singing in English, speech in English
13. On the hillside stands a lady ; Lady, lady, touch the ground, song ; rhyme [repeated with actions] / Yvonne Millar, singing in English, speech in English
14. I am a guide girl dressed in blue, rhyme [spoken with actions] / Yvonne Millar, speech in English
15. Banana split, rhyme / Yvonne Millar, speech in English
16. Teddy bear, teddy bear, go upstairs, rhyme / Yvonne Millar, speech in English
17. Cinderella, dressed in yellow, rhyme / Yvonne Millar, speech in English [end of session]
18. Conversation with queries about songs recorded from Eddie Butcher / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Eddie Butcher, speech in English [END OF BAND ONE]
19. Conversation with queries about songs recorded from Eddie Butcher / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Eddie Butcher, speech in English [breaks of at ‘The Smuggler’, continued at 6902] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded in the house of Eddie Butcher at Aughil crossroads, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 18 March 1975, from Eddie Butcher and from Len Graham and Joe Holmes (both from Ballymoney, Co. Antrim) [tracks 1–9]

Performers:
Holmes, Joe, singing in English Tracks 1, 5, 8, speech in English Tracks 2, 9;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 2;
Graham, Len, singing in English Tracks 3, 8, speech in English Track 4;
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 6-7

Running Order:
1. Tumbling through the hay (‘It being on the month of July in the rosy time of the year...’), song / Joe Holmes, singing in English [session continued from 7501]
2. Talk about the song ‘Tumbling through the hay’ / Joe Holmes, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
3. Willie Angler (‘ ’Twas down by yonder [harbour] near sweet Coleraine...’), song / Len Graham, singing in English
4. Talk about the preceding song / Len Graham, speech in English
5. [=The shamrock sod no more] (‘I never, never shall forget the sorrows of that day...’), song / Joe Holmes, singing in English 
6. My son in America (‘A long time ago in the county Mayo..’), song [words by Alf MacLohlainn, clipped] [END OF BAND ONE]
7. My son in America , song [completed] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
8. Matt Hyland (‘There was a lord lived in this town...’), song / Joe Holmes, singing in English ; Len Graham, singing in English
9. Mumming [talk with a complete play text with concluding song refrain ‘With your pockets full of money’], mummers’ play Joe Holmes, speech in English, singing in English [session continued at 7503] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded in the house of Mrs Jean Carson (sister of Hugh Shields), Ballyclare Road, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim from her daughters Ruth (10), Linda (8) and Carol (5), 16 March 1975 [tracks 1–30]
Recorded in the house of Eddie Butcher at Aughil crossroads, Magilligan, Co. Derry, from Eddie and Gracie Butcher and Joe Holmes (from Ballymoney, Co. Antrim), 19 March 1975 [tracks 31–44]

Performers:
Carson, Ruth, singing in English Tracks 1-2, 3-9, 11-21, 24, 28, 30, speech in English Track 26, recorder solo Track 29
Carson, Linda, speech in English Tracks 25, 27, singing in English Tracks 10, 30
Carson, Carol, speech in English Track 21, singing in English Tracks 22-23, 28
Holmes, Joe, singing in English Tracks 31, 34
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 32-33, 37, 39, 41, 43, speech in English Tracks 35, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 35, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44
Butcher, Gracie, speech in English Track 38

Running order:
1. Teddy bear teddy bear, song [sung to skipping] / Ruth Carson, singing in English [see Notes]
2. I like coffee, rhyme [spoken to skipping] / Ruth Carson, speech in English
3. On a hillside stands a lady, song [sung to skipping] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
4. On a hillside stands a lady, song [fresh start, sung to skipping] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
5. Granny in the kitchen, rhyme [spoken to skipping] / Ruth Carson, speech in English ; Linda Carson, speech in English
6. Cinderella, rhyme [spoken to skipping] / Ruth Carson, speech in English
7. A, B, C, D, rhyme [spoken to skipping] / Ruth Carson, speech in English
8. I had a little bubble car, rhyme [spoken to skipping] / Ruth Carson, speech in English
9. Bluebells, cockleshells, song [sung to skipping with Linda] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
10. One, two, three, rhyme / Linda Carson, speech in English
11. Vote, vote, vote, song [sung while swinging] / Ruth Carson, singing in English ; Linda Carson, singing in English
12. Over the garden wall, song [sung while playing two-ball] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
13. Over the garden wall, song [take two] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
14. Over the garden wall, song [take three] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
15. One, two, three a plainsy, song [sung while playing two-ball] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
16. One, two, three a plainsy, song [take two] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
17. One, two, three a plainsy. song [take three] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
18. One, two. three alero, song [fragment, sung while playing two-ball] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
19. Teddy bear, teddy bear, song [sung while skipping with Carol] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
20. Plainsy Mamma Brown, song [sung while playing two-ball] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
21. Plainsy Mamma Brown, song [take two] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
22. Teddy bear teddy bear, song [sung to skipping] / Carol Carson, singing in English
23. Jelly on the plate, rhyme [fragment, spoken to skipping] / Carol Carson, speech in English
24. I like coffee, song [sung to skipping with Carol / Ruth Carson, singing in English
25. Recitation: Spring song, poem [by William Blake] / Linda Carson, speech in English
26. Recitation: Jabberwocky, poem [by Lewis Carroll] / Ruth Carson, speech in English
27. Recitation: Bulldozers, poem [by Patricia Hubble] / Linda Carson, speech in English
28. This old man, he played one, song / Carol Carson, singing in English
29. Believe me if all those endearing young charms, song air / Ruth Carson, recorder
30. Wee Willie lost his marley, song [see Notes] / Ruth Carson, singing in English ; Linda Carson, singing in English [end of session]
31. The dark-eyed gipsy(‘There were three gipsies lived in the East...’), song / Joe Holmes, singing in English
32. The piss pot (‘Oh, there were an old farmer and he had a nice wife...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
33. The piss pot, song [fresh start] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
34. Lovely Armoy [‘Draw near, my kind friends and relations...’), song [cf. 6925 and 7009] / Joe Holmes, singing in English [end of session]
35. Talk about local matters [see Documentation] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English [END OF BAND ONE]
36. Talk about local matters [continued from track 35, see Documentation] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
37. A sprig of ivy (‘Far away a sprig of ivy...’), song [sung from a cutting out of Ireland’s own] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
38. Talk about local matters [see Documentation] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Gracie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
39. Down with Geordie Lee (‘Sitting on a benty ditch it doesn’t suit me well...’), song [words by Hugh Campbell] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
40. Talk about the song ‘Down with Geordie Lee’ and its author Hugh Campbell / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
41. The castle maid (‘I’m a decent farm labourer and I earn whate’er I can...’), song [words by Hugh Cambell] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
42. Talk about the song ‘The castle maid’ and about the author of ‘The shores of sweet Benone’ / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
43. The maid of Faughanvale (‘Oh, as I roved out one morning for to view the pleasant strand...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
44. Talk about the song ‘The maid of Faughanvale’ / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English [end of session] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 19 July 1969 [tracks 1–5]
Recorded in the house of Eddie Butcher, Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, from Robert Butcher junior (age about 48), son of Eddie’s elder brother Robert (deceased) and his brother John Butcher junior (age about 45), 21 July 1969 [tracks 6–8]

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Track 1, speech in English Tracks 2-5;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 2;
Butcher, John, singing in English Track 6;
Butcher, Robert, singing in English Tracks 7-8

Running Order:
1. Father Tom O’Neill (There were a widow lived in this town and she reared three darling sons...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Talk about the song ‘Father Tom O’Neill, speech / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Eddie Butcher, speech in English
3. Mouse, man and a woman, story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
4. ‘Oh what a darkness!’, story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
5. The minister and the big family, story [clipped: should end ‘...if you brought her up about dinner-time you’d get her hame at night’] , story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English [end of session] [END OF BAND ONE]
6. The Arranmore disaster (‘Good people dear, pray lend an ear, I’ll tell you one and all...’), song [learnt from a ballot] / John Butcher junior, singing in English [session continued from 6910]
7. Mulroy Bay (‘When the golden sun was setting far behind the ocean blue...’), song / Robert Butcher junior, singing in English
8. Greencastle shore (‘From Derry quay we sailed away, it being in the month of May...’), song / Robert Butcher junior, singing in English [session continued on 6902] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded in the house of Eddie Butcher, Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 19 July 1969 [tracks 1–4]
Recorded in the house of Michael (Mick) O’Hara (age about 60), Tartnakelly, Glack, Limavady, Co. Derry, from Mick O'Hara and his wife Lizzie, 20 July 1969 [tracks 5–7]

Performers:
Quigley, Bill, singing in English Track 1;
Butcher, John, singing in English Tracks 2-3;
Quigley, Tilly, singing in English Track 4;
O' Hara, Michael, singing in English Tracks 5, 7;
O' Hara, Lizzie, singing in English Tracks 6-7

Running Order:
1. A lady walked in her father’s garden [= Seven years since I had a sweetheart], song [resumed from 6914] / Bill Quigley, singing in English [session continued from  6914]
2. The jigging at the wake (‘Oh, as we were coming home by the glimmering of the moon...’), song [fragment of one verse] / John Butcher (of  Drumavalley), singing in English
3. The shores of America (‘I am a sporting Irish boy now far across the foam...’), song / John Butcher, singing in English
4. Song: I’ve been a servant girl now (‘I’ve been a servant girl now this fourteen years and ten...’), song / Tilly Quigley, singing in English [session continued on 6916]
5. In steps the Connaughtman and in steps me, song [fragment of one verse]  / Tilly Quigley, singing in English
6. In steps the Connaughtman and in steps me, song [different fragment of one verse] / Tilly Quigley, singing in English
7. Killyburn Brae (‘There was an oul’ man on the Killyburn Brae, song [learned from record of Richard Hayward] / Tilly Quigley, singing in English [session continued on 6903] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded in the house of James Osborne (age about 50), native of Ballymoney district, farmer at Bellaney, Dunboe, Coleraine, Co. Derry, 21 July 1969 [track 1], out of doors [tracks 2–5], in a big barn [track 6], indoors [tracks 7–10]

Performers:
Osborne, Mary, singing in English Tracks 1-2, 7;
Osborne, Helen, speech in English A3-6, singing in English Tracks 9-10;
Dillon, James, speech in English Tracks 4-6;
?, Orla, speech in English Tracks 4-6;
Osborne, Ena, speech in English Tracks 4-6;
Dillon, Maeve, speech in English Tracks 4-6;
Osborne, Rosemary, speech in English Tracks 4-6;
Osborne, Seamus, speech in English Tracks 4-6;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 4;
Osborne, Margeret, speech in English Track 6, singing in English Tracks 8, 10

Running Order:
1. The strands of Magilligan [=The American stranger] (‘I’m a stranger to this country, from America I came...’), song [take one] / Mrs Mary Osborne (née Somers, age about 45, of Avish, Downhill, Co. Derry), singing in English
2. The strands of Magilligan [=The American stranger] (‘I’m a stranger to this country, from America I came...’), song [take two] / Mrs Mary Osborne, singing in English
3. Charlie Chaplin went to France, rhyme [spoken to skipping] / Helen Osborne (10), speech in English
4. Conversation between Hugh Shields and the performing children / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Helen Osborne (11), speech in English ; James Dillon (7), speech in English ; Orla[?] (5, from Crossmolina), speech in English ; Ena Osborne (8), speech in English ; Maeve Dillon (10), speech in English ; Rosemary Osborne (10), speech in English ; Seamus Osborne (7) speech in English 
5. I had a little motor car, rhyme [spoken to skipping] / Helen Osborne (11), speech in English ; James Dillon (7), speech in English ; Orla[?] (5, from Crossmolina), speech in English ; Ena Osborne (8), speech in English ; Maeve Dillon (10), speech in English ; Rosemary Osborne (10), speech in English ; Seamus Osborne (7) speech in English
6. Bang, bang the dishes, children’s play[with extemporized dialogue] / Margaret Osborne (age about 13, acting the ‘Mother’), speech in English ; Helen Osborne (11), speech in English ; James Dillon (7), speech in English ; Orla[?] (age 5, from Crossmolina), speech in English ; Ena Osborne (8), speech in English ; Maeve Dillon (10), speech in English ; Rosemary Osborne (10), speech in English ; Seamus Osborne (7) speech in English
7. The maid of Lurgan town (‘ As I went a-walking one evening  When the bluebells were all drooping down...’), song / Mrs Mary Osborne, singing in English
8. Here I’m sitting sewing, game song / Margaret Osborne, singing in English
9. On the mountain stands a lady, game song / Helen Osborne, singing in English
10. On the mountain stands a lady, game song / Margaret Osborne, singing in English ; Helen Osborne, singing in English [session continued on 6921] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Charles (Charlie) Somers (aged about 75) in his house at The Bog, Bellarena, Co. Derry, 18 July 1969 [tracks 1–2]

Performers:
Somers, Charles , singing in English Tracks 1-2

Running Order:
1. The good ship Cambria (‘You Irishmen both one and all, wherever you may be...’], song / Charlie Somers, singing in English
2. A noble lord’s wedding [=Another man’s wedding=A nobleman’s wedding] (‘I being kindly invited till a noble lord’s wedding...’), song / Charlie Somers, singing in English [end of session] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded in Eddie Butcher's house, Magilligan, Co. Derry [in July 1969] [tracks 1-6]

Performers:
Somers, Hugh, singing in English Track 1;
Somers, Charles, singing in English Track 2;
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Track 3;
McCurry, Bob, speech in English Tracks 4-6

Running Order:
1. The bonny moorhen (‘[My bonny moorhen] she is feathered anew [?]...’), song [fragment] / Hugh Somers, singing in English [end of session]
2. The jug of punch (‘It being on the twenty-fourth of June...’), song / Charlie Somers, singing in English
3. The Myroe ploughing match (‘Oh you brave boys of Newtown and likewise Myroe...’), song [words perhaps by Jimmy McCurry, blind fiddler and great-uncle of Bob McCurry] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. ‘No daughter, whisky’, story / Bob McCurry (aged 69), speech in English
5. The minister, the cat and John, story / Bob McCurry, speech in English
6. John and the priest’s lily pond, story / Bob McCurry, speech in English [end of session][END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Robert Butcher [junior], aged about 48, in the house of Eddie Butcher in Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 21 July 1969 [tracks 1–3]
Recorded from Tom Anderson in Greta Deehan’s bar, Big Drain bridge, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 23 July 1969 [track 4]
Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 24 July 1969 [tracks 5–7]

Performers:
Butcher, Robert, singing in English Tracks 1-3;
Anderson, Tom, singing in English Track 4;
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Track 5-7

Running Order:
1. Carrowclare [=Killyclare] (‘On a fine and summer’s evening as my walks I did pursue...’), song [words by the blind fiddler Jimmy McCurry] / Robert Butcher junior, singing in English [session continued from 6902]
2. John Reilly (‘As I roved out one evening down by the riverside  I heard a lovely maiden complain till the tears fell from her eyes...’), song [learnt from his father Robert]  / Robert Butcher junior, singing in English [end of session]
3. [Unidentified] / Robert Butcher junior, singing in English
4. Turn you round, oh you wheel of fortune (‘When I was young I was well beloved...’), song [learnt from Mrs Sarah Sweeney of the Point Road, Magilligan, who died c. 1960 aged c. 108] / Tom Anderson, singing in English [session continued from 6926 and continued on 6904]
5. Lovely Armoy (‘I am taking my leave off this evening...’) song [first verse only, air: The banks of Kilrea] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
6. Greencastle shore (‘For three long days or better our big ship there she lay...’), song [one verse only, to same air as next song] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
7. The Portrush fishermen (‘On February the twenty-fourth in the year of eighty-six...’), song [two verses only, clipped during third, to same air as preceding song] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [end of session]  [END OF BAND ONE]