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Recorded from Eddie Butcher at the house of Hugh Shields, Dublin, 1–10 July 1968 [tracks 1–5]

Performer:
Eddie Butcher, singing in English Tracks 1–5

Running Order:
1. I’ll climb up a high, high tree (‘As I roved out on a May morning for to hear true lovers talk...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Seventeen on Sunday (‘As I roved out one fine summer’s night when the moon was shining clearly...’), song  [complete text, orally derived] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. Burns and his Highland Mary (‘Oh in green Caledonia there ne’er were two lovers...’), song  / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. The Bureau (‘Oh come all you gay people, I pray pay attention...’) , song [words by  Eddie Butcher, to the air of ‘Teddy O’Neal’] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
5. The burning of Downhill (‘We then proceeded up the hill for to view the landscape o’er...’), song [fragment of a local song, to the air of ‘Flower of sweet Strabane’] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE

Recorded from Eddie Butcher at the house of Hugh Shields, Dublin, 1 –10 July, 1968 [tracks 1–3]

Performer:
Eddie Butcher, singing in English Tracks 1–3

Running Order:
1. The English harvest [=Irish harvest-men's triumph] (‘Come all your true-bred Irishmen that is intent to roam...’), song   [singer starts again] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Johnny my man (‘Johnny my man, do you not think of rising?...’) / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. The Shamrock Shore [‘Edward Conor’] (‘Oh come all you loyal lovers, give ear all for a while...’), song [incomplete: for complete text see 6813] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English  [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 16 July 1969 [tracks 1–3]
Recorded at the house of Michael O’ Hara, Tartnakelly, Glack, Limavady, Co. Derry, 17 July 1969 [tracks 4–6]
Recorded in the house of Eddie Butcher at Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, from Robert Butcher junior [age about 48, son of Eddie’s brother Robert, deceased] 21 July 1969 [tracks 7–8]
Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 23 July 1969 [track 9]

Performers:
Eddie Butcher, singing in English Tracks 1, 3, speech in English Tracks 2, 9;
Hugh Shields, speech in English Tracks 2, 5, 9;
Lizzie O' Hara, singing English Tracks 4, 6, speech in English Track 5;
Robert Butcher (junior), singing in English Tracks 7–8

Running Order:
1. The Boston burglar (‘I was born and bred in Boston, a city you all know well...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [session continued from 6901]
2. Conversation about ‘The Boston burglar’, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
3. The wild colonial Boy (‘It’s of a wild colonial boy, Dan Dolan was his name...’), song [learnt from Bill Quigley] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [end of session]
4. The bonny wee lass of the glen (‘It being on a bright summer’s morning, alone as I carelessly strayed...’), song [learnt from her elder sister] / Mrs Lizzie O’Hara (age about 56, from Carnymuff) singing in English
5. Conversation about ‘The bonny wee lass of the glen’, speech / Mrs Lizzie O’Hara, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
6. The bright silvery light of the moon (‘As I strayed by a cot, it being at the close of day...’), song / Mrs Lizzie O’Hara, singing in English [continued at 6903] [END OF BAND ONE]
7. Old Falcarragh town (‘Last week I had a pleasant trip, I treasured every mile...’), song [ words attributed to Paddy O’Grady of Balliness, & learnt by Robert from Falcarragh girls visiting, air ‘Lovely Leitrim’] / Robert Butcher junior singing in English
8. Lovely old Fintown (‘My countrymen, I take my pen to write a verse or two...’), song / Robert Butcher junior singing in English [session continued on 6925]
9. Queries on songs, speech / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Eddie Butcher, speech in English [session continued from 6919] [end of session] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded at the house of Michael O’ Hara, Tartnakelly, Glack, Limavady, Co. Derry, 17 July 1969 from his wife Lizzie and daughter Ursula [tracks 1–8]
Recorded in the house of Patrick (Patsy) Beatty (75), Glack, Limavady, Co. Derry, 17 July 1969 [tracks A9–11, 25–27]
Recorded in the house of Eddie Butcher, Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 17 July 1969 [tracks 12–24]

Performers:
Ursula O' Hara, singing in English Tracks 1, 4–5, 8, speech in English Tracks 3, 6–7, 15, 18, 20–24;
Lizzie O' Hara, singing English Tracks 2, 14;
Patrick (Patsy) Beatty, fiddle solo Tracks 9–11, 25–26, speech in English Track 27;
Micheal O' Hara, singing in English Track 12, speech in English Tracks 13, 19;
Hugh Shields, speech in English Tracks 15, 19, 27;
Edward Butcher, speech in English Tracks 16–17

Running Order:
1. The Boston burglar (‘I was born and raised in Boston, a place you all know well...’), song / Ursula O’Hara (10), singing in English [session continued from 6902]
2. The star of Donegal (‘I met with many a pretty lass in lands far over the sea...’), song / Mrs Lizzie O’Hara, singing in English
3. Poor little sandy girl sitting on a stool, rhyme / Ursula O’Hara, speech in English
4. In and out goes the dusty bluebells, song / Ursula O’Hara, singing in English
5. Skip, skip, skip to Maloo, song / Ursula O’Hara, singing in English
6. Ring a ring a rosie, rhyme / Ursula O’Hara, speech in English
7. Round and round the garden, rhyme / Ursula O’Hara, speech in English
8. The sweet nightingale (‘Pretty maid, come along...’), song [learnt in classroom] / Ursula O’Hara, singing in English [end of session]
9. Untitled [=Mrs McLeod’s], reel / Patrick (Patsy) Beatty (75), fiddle solo
10. Untitled [=The harvest home], hornpipe / Patrick (Patsy) Beatty), fiddle solo
11. Untitled [=Scully Casey’s?], hornpipe / Patrick (Patsy) Beatty, fiddle solo
12. Brian O’ Lynn (‘Brian O’ Lynn and his wife and his mother...’), song / Michael O’Hara, singing in English
13. Brian O’ Lynn, recitation [verses one and two] / Michael O’Hara, speech in English
14. Here’s a health to the company, song / Mrs Lizzie O’Hara, singing in English
15. If a fellow met a fellow, tongue-twister / Ursula O’Hara (10), speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
16. Old madam Buntyfoot, tongue-twister / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
17. Three wee roo-ra curly munted [?] pigs, tongue-twister / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
18. A creel of peats, tongue-twister / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
19. Says he to me, is that you?, tongue-twister [spoken twice, fast and slow] / Ursula O’Hara, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
20. Keep the kettle boiling, rhyme / Ursula O’Hara, speech in English
21. Someone’s under the bed, rhyme [take one] / Ursula O’Hara, speech in English
22. Someone’s under the bed, rhyme [take two / Ursula O’Hara, speech in English
23. I like coffee, rhyme [take one] / Ursula O’Hara, speech in English
24. I like coffee, rhyme [take two / Ursula O’Hara, speech in English)
25. The heathery breeze reel / Patrick (Patsy) Beatty (75), fiddle
26. Mrs. McLeod reel / Patrick (Patsy) Beatty, fiddle
27. Talk about fiddle-playing and his father, speech [clipped, but continued at 6919] / Patrick (Patsy) Beatty, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 18 July 1969 [track 1]
Recorded from Mrs Tilly Quigley in the house of William (Bill) and Tillie Quigley, Bellarena, Limavady, Co. Derry, 18 July 1969 [tracks 2–3]

Performers:
Butcher, Edward, singing in English Track 1;
Quigley, Tilly, singing in English Track 2, speech in English Track 3;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 3

Running Order:
1. [The maid of ] Sligo town (‘As I roved out one evening in the spring-time of the year,  To take a walk by Rodden’s groves my course I chanced to steer...’) song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [session] continued from 6907]
2. The bonny green tree (‘As I went out walking one fine summer’s evening,  A fine summer’s evening it happened to be...’) / Mrs Tilly Quigley, singing in English [new session]
3. Talk about the song ‘The bonny green tree’ and about the ‘Dark-eyed gypsy’, speech / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Tilly Quigley, speech in English [session continued on 6909] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Charles (Charlie) Somers (age about 75) in his house at The Bog, Bellarena, Co. Derry, 18 July 1969 [tracks 1–2]
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 3–7]

Performers:
Somers, Chas, singing in English Track 1, speech in English Track 2;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 2;
Butcher, Robert, singing in English Tracks 3-4, 6;
Butcher, John, singing in English Tracks 5, 7;
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Track 6

Running Order:
1. Barbro Allen (‘Early, early in the spring  When flowers they were blooming...’), song [old ballad] / Charlie Somers, singing in English
2. Talk about the song ‘Barbro Allen’ [learnt from his mother], speech / Charlie Somers, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English [end of session]
3. The hills above Drumquin (‘God bless the hills of Donegal,  I’ve heard their praises sung...’), song / Robert Butcher junior, singing in English
4. The strands of Magilligan [=The American stranger] (‘On the top of the cliff where the castle does stand...’), song [1 verse only, learnt from his father] / Robert Butcher, singing in English
5. The strands of Magilligan (‘I’m a stranger to this country, from America I came...’), song [2 verses] John Butcher junior, singing in English  [END OF BAND ONE]
6. The green fields of America (‘Oh farewell to old Erin, the land of my fathers...’), song [sung with help from Eddie Butcher] / Robert Butcher junior, singing in English
7. When the breathalyser came to Ireland (‘Have you thought what the future of drinking may be...’), song [recent, in pop-folk style] / Robert Butcher junior, singing in English [session continued at 6911] [END OF BAND TWO]

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]
Recorded from Charles (Charlie) Somers (aged about 75), in his house at The Bog, Bellarena, Co. Derry, 18 July 1969 [tracks 2–4]
Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house in Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 23 July 1969 [track 5]

Performers:
Osborne, Mary, singing in English Track 1;
Somers, Charlie, singing in English Tracks 2-4;
Butcher, Edward, singing in English Track 5

Running Order:
1. The road by the river that flows through Ratheane (‘I have walked along Broadway, I have been down the Strand...’), song [from gramophone record] / Mrs Mary Osborne, singing in English [session continued from 6920]
2. It’s of a young gentleman [=The seducer outwitted] (‘It’s of a young gentleman in this country did dwell...’), song [false start] / Charlie Somers, singing in English
3.  It’s of a young gentleman [=The seducer outwitted] (‘It’s of a young gentleman in this country did dwell...’), song [second false start] / Charlie Somers, singing in English
4. [It’s of a] young gentleman [=The seducer outwitted] (‘It’s of a young gentleman in this country did dwell...’), song [complete version, clipped at start] / Charlie Somers, singing in English [session continued on 6922]
5. The widow woman’s daughter (‘Oh there were a widow woman in the West moorlands...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [end of session]  [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. Molly, lovely Molly [=The cruel ship carpenter] (‘It’s Molly, lovely Molly, will you come with me?...’), song / Charlie Somers, singing in English [session continued from 6921]
2. Johnny Doyle (‘[?..] I’m a young lady most highly in love...’) , song / Charlie Somers, singing in English [session continued on 6923] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded at the house of Eddie Butcher, Magilligan, Co. Derry 4 March, 1979 [tracks 1–28]
Recorded at the house of Eddie Butcher, Magilligan, Co. Derry 6 March, 1979 [tracks 29–33]

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 1-2, 4, 29, 31, speech in English Tracks 3, 5, 6-14, 16-28, 30, 31-33;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 3, 5, 6, 30, 31-33;
Shields, Lisa, speech in English Tracks 3, 6;
Butcher, Grace, speech in English Tracks 3, 6, 15, 32

Running Order:
1. Drogheda festival (‘On the first day of October, on the Friday being the day...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. It being in the middle of April (‘It being in the middle of April, it being the eighteenth day...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. Weather lore, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Gracie Butcher, speech in English ; Lisa Shields, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
4. Magilligan parochial house (‘You poets of this country, come listen unto me...’) [composed by Paddy Lafferty], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
5. Talk about the preceding song, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
6. Weather lore, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Gracie Butcher, speech in English ; Lisa Shields, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
7. There was a man of Adam's race, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
8. Queen Mary sent to Queen Ann, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
9. If Dick's father was Tom's son, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
10. If there was a man standing in Coleraine Diamond, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
11. How is the clock in the Diamond of Coleraine like the River Bann?, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
12. What goes from Coleraine to Limavady and never moves?, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
13. Ower the water and ower the water, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
14. What makes the hen cross the road?, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
15. What is black and white and read all over?, riddle / Gracie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Lisa Shields, speech in English
16. As white as milk and milk it's not, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
17. What goes round the house and round the house?, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
18. Three feet upon ground, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
19. What was done before begun, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
20. Oul Sam Simie and young Sam Simie, tongue twister / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
21. Three kegs oftTreacle, tongue twister / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
22. Mrs Hunt had a cuddy punt, tongue twister / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
23. Mrs Hunt had a cuddy punt (said faster), tongue twister / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
24. Mrs Hunt split her pump, tongue twister / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
25. As I went over Corney Hill, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
26. As I was going to St Ives, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
27. How many feet has forty sheep, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
28. If there were twenty sick sheep, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
29. Erin's Lovely Home (‘You rambling boys of Paddy’s land, come listen unto me...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
30. Talk about '’David's flowery vale’, speech / ‘Eddie Butcher, speech in English, singing in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
31. Song/David's flowery Vale, talk about the song with sung verses, speech and song / Eddie Butcher, speech in English, singing in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English'
32. Talk about a saying 'A lady in her bed', speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English' ; Gracie Butcher, speech in English
33. Talk about dancing among presbyterians of Magillian, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English [END OF BAND TWO]