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Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 45B [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Cassidy, Johnny, singing in English A3;
storytelling in English A1-2;
speech in English A4;
Cassidy, Johanna, speech in English A4;
Unidentified boy, speech in English A4;
Cassidy, Josie, speech in English A4;
Flynn, Miley, speaking in English A4

Running Order:
1. Story: The Soldier Seeking Lenity
2. Story: The Story of the Dean Swift
3. Song: Untitled
4. Speech: Messages to Willie Cassidy from Johnny and Family [END OF BAND ONE]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 30B [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Stokes, Patrick, storytelling in English A1;
Cassidy, Johnny, storytelling in English A2

Running Order:
1. Stories: Ghost impersonations and trickster's ill luck - the visiting ghost and football games with ghosts - the horrible face - the dead girl - working for the priest - the priest's relative threatening murder - Patrick and the dolphin - story of a film about the pet dolphin Flippert
2. Story: Gilbert the Robber [END OF BAND ONE]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 29B [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, speech in English A1;
Cassidy, Johnny, speech in English A1;
Stokes, Patrick, storytelling in English A2

Running Order:
1. Speech: Recollections of storytelling with his father - about disciplining children and dogs, etc - their rearing
2. Speech: The Invisible Man - and other ghosts - eng. woods and experiences - ghost tricksters and misfortunes of mockery [[Stories and anecdotes, including: a story about a parrot; drunken man swims a river; how horses swim; selling and taming a wild horse; a sea-horse that returned to the sea after being tamed; story about a mermaid who marries and has a family, and later returns to the sea (cf An Mhaighdean Mhara); the invisible man; becoming invisible by using a special ring; experiences when stranded in a wood in Roscommon; story about a fake ghost] [END OF BAND ONE]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 24B [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Stokes, Patrick, speech in English, speech in cant/gammon, storytelling in English A1-9, B1-7

Running Order:
1. Speech: Riddles (Speed variation on track)
2. Speech: Tongue twisters, riddles (Speed variation on track)
3. Speech: Comments on Michael and Martin Mahon and their habits (Beginning clipped)
4. Stories: Untitled [The Policeman and the Dogs]
5. Story: The Insult from the Policeman (Speed variation at end of track)
6. Story: The Ass and the Gate
7. Story: The Insult from the Policeman repeated (Speed variation at end of track) [repeated]
8. Story: The Guard's Bike
9. Story: Patrick's Sleeping Trick
10. Story: Pat's Interfering Child, the Sticks and the Gunman [END OF BAND ONE]
[Band two has not been digitised but originally contained the following tracks]
11. Story: The Enchanted Swans
12. Story: Catching the Pike
13. Story: The Talking Cats
14. Story: The Motor Car and the Motor Cycle
15. Story: Johnny and Tommy (The Boxing Story = The Dead Man's Promise)
16. Speech: Description of Banshees
17. Story: The Banshee and the Shop-owner Fight [END OF BAND TWO]

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