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Donegal Part Ireland: Singing in English Audio With digital objects
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Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 95 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 1

Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 95 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 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
Aidan O'Hara Collection. Cassette 21 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 2

Aidan O'Hara Collection. Cassette 21 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 2

Speech [Stories and jokes; information from A O'H: 'General chat and joking. George tells some monkey jokes, e.g. 'Time flies said the monkey when he flung the clock out the window.' And, 'The train went over the monkey's tail. It won't be long now, he said.'] / George ‘Grainne’ McLaughlin, speech in English ; Unidentified speaker
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