Irish Traditional Music Archive

Speech: Continuing interview (2nd) with Patrick Stokes about methods of snaring birds and hares etc; killing off breeds of animals and birds; the differences between the hares and hounds in various counties; myxomatosis; story of a trader with rabbits having the disease and the drowning of the van and rabbits; tinware materials and tales of Sean Mac Eoin and the travellers and the Rising; the IRA; scraps about other travellers and present predicament of this family. [END OF BAND ONE ?]

MacWeeney, Alen - speech in English
Stokes, Patrick - speech in English

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 14B [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 2

AMW-18694/258748/02
Part
25-Oct-67

Part of Alen MacWeeney Collection

Speech: Untitled [Continuation of interview with Patrick Stokes]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 15B [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 1

AMW-18694/258750/01
Part
02-Nov-67

Part of Alen MacWeeney Collection

Speech: Interview with Pat Stokes about his life story - growing up; learning his trade; travelling; working; his shyness on account of poverty; smoking clay pipes. [As supplied information, plus: being sent to Letterfrack; regret that he never got any education; spending money foolishly; demoralisation and shame due to impoverishment; his mother drinking pints of Guinness and smoking a pipe; smoking briars and tea during the war; rationing; father an ex-soldier from World War 1.]

MacWeeney, Alen - speech in English
Stokes, Patrick - speech in English

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 15B [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 10