The Cathal McConnell Collection comprises 700+ cassette tape recordings and dates from the 1960s up to the early 2010s. The non-commercial audio material was recorded both in Ireland and abroad in a range of settings including field recordings in houses, informal sessions, concerts, outtake studio recordings, music classes and workshops. Also featured are both domestic recordings of radio programmes including 'The Long Note', 'Airneáin' and 'The Irish Phonograph' among others, along with cassette recordings of various commercial LP, cassette tape and CD releases.
Collection comprises reel-to-reel tape recordings made by Robin Morton chiefly across Ulster in the 1960s and 1970s. The recordings feature traditional music performances (songs, tunes and dances) by a wide variety of musicians and singers.
Selections from Nellie Walsh's published column in 'Ireland's Own', 'Songs of your county'. She appears to have constructed three scrapbooks of her work, and clipped out the majority of her columns either for inclusion in these scrapbooks or to keep as a collection. These are mostly clipped straight from the magazine, but some are photocopied. The columns are undated, but Walsh ran her column from the 1960s to 1990s.
Nellie Walsh's handwritten index of songs included in 'Songs of your county', organised by county. There are four inserts taped into the book to add more songs to the index. There are numbers included next to each song or groups of songs that may refer to the issue or order in which she included them. Others have 'x's next to their names, perhaps indicating that she did not end up using that song in a column. Considering the completeness of this index, we can assume she kept it from the beginning to end of her column.
Handwritten, typescript, and newspaper clippings of song lyric sheets from Co. Clare. Many transcribed by Nellie Walsh herself, but others clearly sent to her. Some attached to letters addressed to Walsh.
Handwritten, typescript, and newspaper clippings of song lyric sheets from Co. Derry. Many transcribed by Nellie Walsh herself, but others clearly sent to her. Some attached to letters addressed to Walsh.
Handwritten, typescript, photocopied printed, and newspaper clippings of (both clipped and photocopied clips) songs from Co. Sligo. These are all lyric sheets, except for one CD single artwork for 'Betty Reilly & the Escorts.' Mostly transcribed by Nellie Walsh herself, but others sent to her or clipped from newspapers. Some attached to letters addressed to Walsh.
Song sheets, and the occasional tonic sol-fa, of songs sent to Nellie Walsh that she did not assign to a county and no county is immediately attributable. Many are about Ireland in general, or contain multiple counties which include Derry, Kildare, Antrim, Dublin. Two are religious poems/stories unrelated to Ireland, both sent by Captain P. Darcy, called "Shalom! Shalom!" and "Footprints in the Sand". Includes correspondence to Walsh refering to songs or poems to be included in her column, but unattached to the poems to which they refer.
00:00:16 - 00:03:46 | Green groves of Erin, reel ; Bag of spuds, reel ; Swallow's tail, reel / Larry Redican, fiddle ; Joe Burke, accordion ; Jack Coen, flute ; Felix Dolan, piano
