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Performers:
Cassidy, Johnny, storytelling in English A1;
Unidentified performer (child), singing in English A2;
Cassidy, Kate, singing in English A3, 9;
Unidentified performers (group), singing in English A4;
Cassidy, Bill, singing in English A5-8;
Court, Artelia, New York, singing in English A10;
Unidentified performer [Bill Cassidy?], speech in English A11;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A12;
Murphy, ?, singing in English A13, 16;
Murphy, Jenny, singing in English A14;
Murphy, Biddy (Wall), singing in English A15, 17;
Unidentified performer [Biddly Murphy (Wall)?], speech in English A18;
Murphy, Old Mick, singing in English A19-20

Running Order:
1. Speech: Repeat of the latter part of 'The Grey Norese's Skull' tale by Johnny Cassidy [The Grey-haired Norrissey's Skull]
2. Song: Untitled [Old McDonald Had a Farm]
3. Song: The Wren Song
4. Song: Group singing The Wren Song
5. Song: She Left Me Because I'm Poor
6. Song: She Left Me Because I'm Poor, repeat of first two verses
7. Song: Untitled, mic test on cardioid
8. Song: Untitled
9. Song: The Twelfth of Never
10. Song: The Two Ravens
11. Speech: Joke about curing Mr Cassidy's throat and baldness [END OF BAND ONE]
12. Speech: Conversation about butchers drinking cattle's blood; talk about a local doctor
13. Song: The Croppy Boy
14. Song: My Bonny Wild Irish Boy
15. Song: Farewell Unto Your Valley [Slieve Gallion Braes]
16. Song: The Pro-German [The German Clockwinder]
17. Song: Dan O'Hara
18. Speech: The Widow's Son [song lyrics]
19. Song: The Handsome Girl
20. Song: Untitled [The Widow's Son] (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, singing in English A1;
Murphy, Bridget, singing in English A2, 4, 8, 13;
Murphy, Tom (old), singing in English A3, 14;
speech in English A15;
Jeanny Murphy? [collector's question mark], singing in English A5-7;
Wall, Luke, singing in English A8, 12;
Murphy, ?, singing in English A9-11

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled (unfinished)
2. Song: Caroline of Edinburgh Town
3. Song: William O'Brien of Tipperary
4. Song: Johnny Doyle
5. Song: My Father's Serving Boy
6. Song: The Fair-haired Lover
7. Song: The Factory Girl
8. Song: Patrick Sheehan
9. Song: The Irish Immigrant (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]
10. Song: The Irish Immigrant (continued)
11. Song: Sullivan's John
12. Song: Call Me Darling
13. Song: Young Carroll
14. Song: Ellen Brown
15. Speech: Interview with old Tom Murphy and other Murphys. [Conversation about many topics, including: where Tom Murphy learned his songs; travelling; other family members; work as a tinsmith, etc; ferretting rabbits; snaring a salmon; snaring birds and animals; life story of Tom Murphy's wife, now aged seventy years, who had twenty-six children; cures; taming difficult horses and ponies; prayer to stop bleeding] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Murphy, Tom (old), singing in English A1, speech in English A2;
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English A2, 7;
Wall, Luke, speech in English A2;
Connors, Johnny, lilting A3-6;
Murphy, Bridget (Wall), speech in English A7;
Cassidy, Johnny, storytelling in English B1-3

Running Order:
1. Song: Farewell Lovely Mary
2. Speech: Conversation: prayer for stopping blood - old Tom; curing horse of farcie - Luke Wall; prayer for toothache - old Tom
3. Lilting: Jigging - Johnny Connors [Dunphy's Hornpipe]
4. Lilting: Jigging - Johnny Connors [The High Level, hornpipe]
5. Lilting: Jigging - Johnny Connors [The Steampacket, reel]
6. Lilting: Jigging - Johnny Connors [Harvest Home, hornpipe]
7. Speech: Bridget Murphy (nee Wall), life story [conversation, biographical: settled woman becomes a traveller] [END OF BAND ONE ?]
8. Speech: Tale: Willy Wapster
9. Speech: Tale: Seven Little Pipers
10. Speech: Tale: Dickie Milburn [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Stokes, Patrick, storytelling in English A1, 5-10;
Unidentified performer [Patrick Stokes?], singing in English A2;
Stokes, Mary Ellen, singing in English A3;
Stokes, ?, (child), singing in English A4

Running Order:
1. Story: The Cats and Their New Eyes and the Lord's Daughter
2. Song: Ellen Heaney - tinker song about window breaking
3. Song: Murder ballad [Air: Once I Loved]
4. Song: I'm a Rambler [END OF BAND ONE]
5. Story: About Dan O'Connell,'The Turf Trickster, and the Tobacco'
6. Story: Further stories about Dan O'Connell, the Hat, the Poisoned Cup, the Hotel Party, the Tinker's Hotel, the Lord Mayor
7. Stories: Obscene Stories about Dan O'Connell
8. Stories: The Policeman, the Bridge, and the Priest, Ghost Story
9. Stories: Cramp Story, Vicar Story, Cutting Pigs Tails, Chase by Cattle
10. Story: Story about Dogs (beginning clipped) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, lilting A1;
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English A2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 13, 15, 17, 20, 22, 24;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A3, 5, 9, 14, 18, 25;
Donovan, Martin, singing in English A7, 19;
whistle A11-12;
Flynn, Paddy, singing in English A16;
O'Donoghue, Joe, singing in English A21;
O'Donoghue, Mary, singing in English A21;
Unidentified performer, singing in English and yodelling A23

Running Order:
1. Set Dance: Jigging - drum [The Blackbird]
2. Speech: Untitled [Introductory link]
3. Song: The Patriot Game
4. Speech: Untitled [Introductory link]
5. Song: Ann O'Brien
6. Speech: Untitled [Introductory link]
7. Song: Billy Boy
8. Speech: Untitled [Introductory link]
9. Song: Liverpool Lou
10. Speech: Untitled [Introductory link]
11. Jigs: Untitled (incomplete) [The Battering Ram], untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], untitled [Lanigan's Ball]
12. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Leitrim Fancy], untitled [The Boys of Blue Hill]
13. Speech: Untitled [Introductory link] [END OF BAND ONE]
14. Song: Untitled [From the Candy Store on the Corner]
15. Speech: Untitled [Introductory link]
16. Song: Standing at the Corner
17. Speech: Untitled [Introductory link]
18. Song: William Scanlon
19. Song: There Is No Luck Around the House
20. Speech: Untitled [Introductory link]
21. Song: Untitled [The Jolly Beggarman]
22. Speech: Untitled [Introductory link]
23. Song: Untitled [I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes]
24. Speech: Untitled [Introductory link]
25. Song: Untitled [The Bold Fenian Men] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performer [Martin Donovan?], singing in English A1;
Donovan, Martin, singing in English A3, 5, 16;
whistle A2-4, 16;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A6-9, 21-24;
?, (nephew of Joe O'Donoghue), singing in English A10;
?, Pat, singing in English A11-13;
Flynn, Paddy, singing in English A14;
O'Donoghue, Joe, singing in English A18;
speech in English A15, 17;
O'Donoghue, Mary, singing in English A18;
?, Mick, singing in English A19-20

Running Order:
1. Song: Billy Boy
2. Jigs: Untitled [The Old Grey Goose], untitled [Old Man Dillon], untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], untitled [Lanigan's Ball]
3. Air, Song: Wings of a Swallow [Little Town in the Old County Down], ditto
4. Reels: The Sligo Maid, untitled [The Sally Gardens]
5. Song: Untitled
6. Song: The Wild Side of Life
7. Song: The Wild Side of Life
8. Song: A Mother's Love [A Mother's Love Is a Blessing]
9. Song: Untitled
10. Song: Bold O'Donoghue
11. Song: Paddy Purcell and Wm Scanlon [William Scanlon]
12. Song: Untitled (unfinished)
13. Song: The Green Hills of Kerry
14. Song: Grand Bungle Rye [END OF SIDE ONE]
15. Speech: Proverb
16. Air, Song, Jigs: What Will We Do When We're Sailing - By the Banks of the Lee, ditto, untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], The Battering Ram
17. Speech: [Address to radio listeners]
18. Song: Campaign Song, 3rd recording [The Travellers' Campaign, composed by Joe O'Donoghue]
19. Song: Pat from Bowlanier
20. Song: Bold Connaught Ranger Boy
21. Song: Sent to Charlestown [The Boston Burglar]
22. Song: Untitled [Lovely Derry on the Banks of the Foyle]
23. Song: Master [Master McGrath]
24. Song: Untitled [Kelly the Boy from Killane] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, singing in English A1, 4, 9-11, 17-19;
O'Donoghue, Mary, singing in English A2-3;
O'Donoghue, Joe, singing in English A3;
D. [O'Donoghue?], Pat, whistle A5-8[?];
Donovan, Martin, whistle A15-16, 22;
lilting A14;
whistling A12;
singing in English A13, 22-23;
Weldon, Nellie, Dublin, singing in English A20;
Weldon, Liam, Dublin, singing in English A21

Running Order:
1. Song: Her Hair Hung Down in Ringlets
2. Song: The Patriot Game
3. Song: Untitled [The Travellers' Campaign, composed by Joe O'Donoghue]
4. Song: The Shoemaker
5. Song Air: Untitled [Buttons and Bows]
6. Jig: Untitled [The Connachtman's Rambles]
7. Reel: Untitled (unfinished) [The First House in Connacht]
8. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Leitrim Fancy]
9. Song: Untitled [In My Own Peculiar Way] [END OF BAND ONE]
10. Song: Untitled [The Old Triangle]
11. Song: Untitled [James Connolly]
12. Reel: Delvin Lasses [Fermoy Lasses]
13. Song: Luck in the House, whistling and jigging [Around the House There Is No Luck]
14. Reel, Jig: Untitled (unfinished) [Down the Broom], untitled [Gallagher's Frolics]
15. Jigs: Untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], untitled [The Battering Ram]
16. Hornpipes, Reel, Song Air: Untitled [The Stack of Wheat], untitled [Harvest Home], untitled [Jenny Picking Cockles], untitled [Buttons and Bows]
17. Song: Untitled [From the Candy Store on the Corner]
18. Song: Untitled [Are You Lonesome Tonight]
19. Song: Untitled [Every Step of the Way]
20. Song: I Wished I Lived in Carrickfergus [Carrickfergus]
21. Song: The Blue Tarred Road [The Blue Tar Road]
22. Air, Song, Air: Untitled [The Banks of the Lee], untitled [The Banks of the Lee], The Boys of the West [The Men of the West]
23. Reel: Untitled (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performer (child), singing in English A1, 8-9, 14;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A2-3, 11-12, 15, 17 ,19;
Flynn, ?, singing in English A4-6;
Murphy, Mick, singing in English A7, 13, 16;
Wall, ?, singing in English A10;
Cassidy, Kate, singing in English A18

Running Order:
1. Song: Big Fine Agricultural Girl [The Agricultural Irish Girl]
2. Song: Long Farewell from Ireland [Home that I Left Behind]
3. Song: Untitled (unfinished)
4. Song: Lonesome Cattle Call, yodel
5. Song: Bit of cowboy song
6. Song: Cowboy song - No Place to Lie Down
7. Song: Rich Farmer's Daughter - Willy - Banks of Dundee [The Banks of Sweet Dundee]
8. Song: Untitled [I'll Tell My Ma]
9. Song: Paddy McGinty's Goat
10. Song: Early Early in the Spring
11. Song: Anybody's Baby
12. Song: Dear Old Mother [The Letter Edged in Black] [END OF BAND ONE]
13. Song: Horse song
14. Song: About country girl [The Agricultural Irish Girl]
15. Song: Indistinguishable song
16. Song: The Rushes Green
17. Song: Untitled (unfinished)
18. Song: Green Grow the Rushes
19. Song: Indistinguishable (unfinished) [Morrissey and the Russian Sailor] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, speech in English A1;
Furey, Nora, Dublin, speech in English A1;
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English A1;
Stokes, Patrick, singing in English B1;
speech in English B2-3, B4/C1

Running Order:
1. Speech: Interview with Mrs Nora Furey [conversation with Mrs Furey about many topics, including: dogs; bees; incidents with farmers; incident with man who harrassed traveller women; her parents play music and sing; going to wakes; playing games; tongue-twisters; settled man who joins the travellers; speaking Romany; man courts travelling woman who drinks; qualities of travelling people; court cases and Gardai; families with the same names; Kitty the Hare; an inhospitable woman; friendship with priest; how she cared for her children; music performers] [END OF BAND ONE ?]
2. Song: MacCaffery Murder, song by P. Stokes
3. Speech: Interview with Patrick Stokes; Christ and the Tinker; tinker customs [conversation about many topics, including: a wedding; being insulted by farmers; tale: Christ and the Tinker; the difference between a tinker and a shoemaker; Lord Crofton; etc]
4. Speech: Interview with Pat Stokes about money, priests, etc; lending and borrowing and taking the pledge; about tinman's trade and his family growing up, travelling, misc. incidents entering N. Ireland [conversation about many topics, including: radios; traveller weddings; mixed marriages; taking the pledge; learning the tinsmith's trade and acquiring the tools; difficulties of travelling in Northern Ireland; the tinker trade in Roscommon; begging]
5. Continuation of track B3 [END OF BAND TWO ?]

Performers:
Stokes, Patrick, speech in English A1-3, 5-7, B3;
storytelling in English A3, 5-6, B1-2;
singing in English A4, B5-8;
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English A1;
Stokes, Mary Ellen, singing in English B4

Running Order:
1. 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.]
2. Speech: Untitled [Conversation about music and storytelling in the families of Patrick and Mary Ellen Stokes; the Irish language]
3. Speech: Story about fund-raising priests.
4. Speech: Story about bacon - Paddy the Irishman, etc
5. Song: Erin's Lovely Lee
6. Speech: Story about the shaving ghost
7. Speech: Story, untitled, unfinished [END OF BAND ONE]
8. Speech: Tale about haunted house and the tramp
9. Speech: Goose and turkey tale
10. Speech: Remembrances of Johnny Cassidy and his habits
11. Song: Mother the Queen of My Heart
12. Song: Long Way from Bangor to Donaghadee
13. Song: Untitled [The Galway Shawl]
14. Song: McDonagh the Fighting Thrush
15. Song: She Moved Through the Fair [END OF BAND TWO]