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Performers:
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout;
Maguire, John, Tonaydrumallard, Co.Fermanagh, speech in English throughout, singing in English in duet A1, 9, singing in English A2, 3, 5, 6, B4, 7, 8;
McMahon, Paddy, Belfast, speech in English throughout, singing in English in duet A1, singing in English A2, 8, lilting B5;
Maguire, Miss Biddy, speech in English A9, B1, B2, singing in English in duet A9, singing in English B1, B2

Running Order:
1. Speech/Song: On Board the Victory (fragmented)
2. Song/Speech: Johnny Harte (two different airs used)
3. Speech/Song: story of song, The Murder of William Funson
4. Speech: talk about William Funson's son Christifer, Jimmy Hawe
5. Song/Speech: Sweet Erin the Green
6. Song/Speech:The Dandy Apprentice Boy
7. Speech: talk about singing in the surrounding areas and recording for the radio program 'Ceile House'
8. Song/Speech: Life in the Army
9. Speech/Song: Johnny Going to America [END OF BAND ONE]
10. Speech/Song: The Hiring Fair
11. Speech/Song: talk about Paddy Carr (singer), songs, ghosts, hares, fragments of the song 'Willy O' (Grey Cock)
12. Speech: talk about Fulham, emigration, famine times, rye porridge, changes in farming
13. Song: The Old Oak Tree
14. Lilting/Song: Mary Neill (unfinished)
15. Speech: talk about the song 'The Blantyre Explosion' (different version)
16. Song/Speech: The Blantyre Explosion (different tune with extra verse)
17. Song/Speech: The Collier Lad [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Gunn, Tommy, speech in English throughout;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about Tommy Gunn's family, earlier generations of Gunn's, the Gunn men working as tailor's,
2. Speech: talk about music in the Gunn family, Old Tom Gunn (fiddler), Old John Gunn (fiddler), Gunn's emigrated from Norway to Scotland to Ireland, Norwegian music, old instruments similar to saxaphones, the blind harper, arranging the music for dancing
3. Speech: talk about learning music from Old Tom, Tommy Gunn's father (flute player), Tommy Gunn's family - Hugh, Jimmy, John, Mary-Elizabeth (singers and dancers) [END OF BAND ONE]
4. Speech: talk about Gunn's of the cross, musicians visiting the house, Tommy Gunn learning fiddle, the polish box fiddle (learner fiddle), silk thread strings, horse hair bow, home made rosin, Eddie Corrigan (singer, dancer, fiddler, fiddle maker)
5. Speech: talk about Johnny Cathcart (fiddler), John McCusker (fiddler), Tommy Gunn (fiddler), Johnny Gunn (fiddler), Phil Owens (fiddler), Francie Tomman (fiddler), story about Darkie (the dog) who liked airs but not reels, slide notes, grace notes, story about the reel 'The Wind That Shakes the Barley', the tunes 'Foolish Joe' and 'The Minstal Boy', Miss McBrown (lilter), Tommy McBrown (fiddler)
6. Speech: talk about school, Master McGovern, Master Clark, Master Camel, headline writing, Master Smith, different subjects
7. Speech: talk about sport, handball, Gaelic football, O'Connell's football team, hurling, skittles, pitch and toss, cot racing, cock fighting, story about 'The Poacher' [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Gunn, Tommy, speech in English throughout;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about hunting, The Co Down Harriers, pot-hunters, hunting for hare, snaring, 'hare's run'
2. Speech: talk about poaching for trout, 'the turn hole'
3. Speech: talk about poaching for salmon, gaffing salmon with a spear, netting salmon,
4. Speech: talk about fishing with Master Camel, perch and roach
5. Speech: talk about poaching for duck, John Maguire
6. Speech: talk about poaching pheasant, the 'poke'
7. Speech: talk about poaching goldfinch, homemade cages
8. Speech: talk about poaching bream, 'bird lime', catching school's of bream
9. Speech: talk about poaching in general, hare soup, being caught poaching, 'stredilies', worm bait, live bait, 'fry',
10. Speech: talk about poaching for eel, setting an eel line, uses for eel skin, cooking and eating eel [END OF BAND ONE]
11. Speech: talk about eating eel, Johnny Fair from Inis Coarkish (well known Lough Erne fisherman), washing a net, fifty-six pound pike
12. Speech: talk about pike, eating pike, fishing for pike using perch as live bait
13. Speech: talk about the pike that escaped from the onion bag, Vincie and Brendan Martin, pike being a dirty fish
14. Speech: talk of stories about pike, the pike that ate the dog
15. Speech: talk of stories about hares, the hare that suckled milk from a cow, Mullneney, Johnny Colm, the hare the fooled the dogs, boxing hares, dogs mating with hares, cats mating with rabbits
16. Speech: talk about hunting foxes, Jimmmy Donaghey, traping & snaring foxes, one pound bounty for foxes, Liam Hare, the fox hunting for pigeon
17. Speech: talk about old local poachers in the area, John and Catherine Maguire, Joe Holmes, snaring rats with 'creel rods', 'cutting the bears mouth in a stick' [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Gunn, Tommy, speech in English throughout;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about school, leaving school early to work, delivering telegrams, Mrs Thompson (post mistress), farming, going to work in England
2. Speech: talk about Tommy Gunn's parents, music in the family
3. Speech: talk about leaving home, working in 'The White Heart Hotel' in Akton, Harry Potter (brother in law), Jimmy James (Mayor of Akton and owner of 'The White Heart Hotel'),
4. Speech: talk about the return journey to England, 'The Princess Victoria' in Shepherds Bush
5. Speech: talk about playing music in 'The Garyowen' in Hammersmith, Muldoone (owner of The Garyowen), 'The Pride of Erin' in Tottenham Court Road, musicians from Meath and Kerry,
6. Speech: sorting out the dates when Tommy Gunn worked in the different jobs (1920's & 1930's)
7. Speech: talk about music in London, buying a fiddle, dance halls in London, Cooley (piper from Kerry)
8. Speech: talk about fights in the dance halls, Jack Doyle the boxer, Tommy Carr, John Joe Sheehy (owner of dance hall in West Ealing), fight on St Patricks night 1937
9. Speech: talk about music in London, names of tunes played at that time
10. Speech: talk about signing up for the army [END OF BAND ONE]
11. Speech: talk about the army, training, a concert being organised by the soldiers, going on leave,
12. Speech: talk about getting embarcation leave, landing in Bombay 1939, the north west Frontier
13. Speech: talk about turf, good description of tools and the process of cutting turf, washing feet in bog water, spreading/turning turf, 'Hairy Ned', 'foam turf', 'black turf'
14. Speech: talk about turf banks, conacre, finding items in the bog, oak stumps, ancient tools, pikes
15. Speech: talk about 'Bessy Bell', pike men, Pike Men's March (Halting March)
16. Speech: talk about the 'Willo the Wisp', banshee
17. Speech: the story of the spade that fell through the bog, Robbie Doonan, John Doonan, Jim Sweeney, Hugh Sweeney [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Gunn, Tommy, speech in English throughout;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about Christmas, early service, dinner, poitin, music, dancing on Boxing night, presents and Santa Claus, hunt on Boxing day
2. Speech: story about 'The Flood', Robbie Doonan, Derravan river, rucks of hay
3. Speech: story about 'The Heifer'
4. Speech: talk about bringing in the hay, rucks of hay, ruck shifter, stack of hay, haggart, food and drink after the work, music and dance, story about a house dance
5. Speech: talk about cutting the last sheaf of corn
6. Speech: talk about ways to ensure a good crop for the coming year (surperstitions)
7. Speech: talk about Easter, Easter eggs
8. Speech: talk about St.Patrick's Day, marching bands, shamrock
9. Speech: talk about Halloween, practical jokes
10. Speech: talk about drowning the shamrock on St Patricks Day, taking the pledge not to drink
11. Speech: talk about Easter Sunday, the sun dancing on the bog hole, cutting your hair on Good Friday and Holy Thursday, spreading holy water on crops for good luck
12. Speech: talk about Easter, no fishing on Easter Sunday, women wearing Easter bonnets, no drinking during lent, no meat on Wedensday or Friday during lent, stations of the cross on Good Friday
13. Speech: talk about people buying new suits for special occasions, not working over Easter
14. Speecg: talk about St Bridgets Day, May Day [END OF BAND ONE]
15. Speech: talk about superstitions regarding being born on Easter Sunday
16. Speech: talk about football matches ,the fight at the Fermanagh county final (O'Connell's vs Lisnaskee), Johnny McCruden
17. Speech: story about a married couple
18. Speech: talk about the reasons for getting married
19. Speech: talk about match-makers
20. Speech: talk about the dowry, matches were not compulsory, bad matches
21. Speech: talk about match makers, men marrying late in life
22. Speech: talk about farms being handed down from father to son
23. Speech: talk about middle aged men marrying late in life
24. Speech: talk about priests monitoring the dances, monitoring dancing couples
25. Speech: talk about parents disapproving of courting couples, story about a courting couple
26. Speech: talk about men leaving their wives, the song 'Praise of John Magee', Edddie Corrigan [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Gunn, Tommy, speech in English throughout;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about country weddings, mummers (straw-men), music, dance, island weddings, description of a typical wedding, tricks played on the married couple, the dowry
2. Speech: talk about a farmer offering dowries for his three daughters, wedding parties,
3. Speech: talk about a wife's role/duties in the house
4. Speech: talk about the straw-boys
5. Speech: talk about wedding customs, different times to get married, getting pregnant outside of marriage,
6. Speech: talk about special wedding tunes, 'Haste to the Wedding'
7. Speech: talk about the birth of a child, putting silver in the child's hand
8. Speech: talk about death, the wake, clay pipes, carrying the coffin, story about Andy Murphy at a wake
9. Speech: talk about neighbours helping widows with farm work, people dying from the pneumonia, remedies for ailments
10. Speech: talk about people marrying a second time
11. Speech: talk about suicide, customs during a wake
12. Speech: talk about neighbours helping during the funeral
13. Speech: talk about Tom Gunn's earlier years in London, war, the army, going to India [END OF BAND ONE]
14. Speech: talk about going to India, troop-ship, three months at sea, landing in India, 'the north-west frontier', tribesmen disguised as goats, dum dum bullet,
15. Speech: talk about why the army were at the north-west frontier
16. Speech: talk about the first army camp for training (Lady Budburn College) near Calcutta
17. Speech: talk about the Razmac camp at the north-west frontier, jungle warfare training, two weeks leave in Darjeeling, Tiger Hill,
18. Speech: talk about the begining of war, Japanese invasions, fighting at Ramrie Island, Rangoon in 1943, Pagoo, The Arawadi River, northern Burma, the silent century, battles in Burma,
19. Speech: talk about going home on leave in 1943, getting married in London, Vincie Martin, Harry Potter
20. Speech: talk about returning to Calcutta
21. Speech: talk about fighting the Japanese in Siam, the Gurkas, Lord Mount Baton, Sir Oliver Lees, the 14th Army, the Forgotten Army
22. Speech: talk about Wingate, the end of the war and going home

Performers:
Gunn, Tommy, speech in English;
Morton, Robin, speech in English

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about coming back after the war, men who were killed at war, Joe Russell, landing in England, 'de-mobed', going home to Ireland, Tommy Martin, Matt Dugar,
2. Speech: talk about leaving England to go home, Gerry and Molly Tully, work with the Post Office Engineers in 1949, decription of crash-landing planes in Burma
3. Speech: talk about music, Cluanard, McPeake Family, James MacMahon (flute), Corrigan (banjo), Jimmy McPeake (accordion), Francie McPeake (pipes), Tommy ? (whistle & bass fiddle), Jim McKendrick (fiddle), ? Galway, ? Lavery (drums), The Bay Hotel, Corey Fleadh competitions, Johnny Doherty, John Rea (dulcimer & fiddle), Brian O'Donnell, Comhaltas branch 1954, Fergus Tagert (fiddle), Willie Jones (fiddle), Cormac Lunny (accordion), Jimmy Grimes (banjo), Billie Brown (accordion), Frank Sweeney, Liam Donnelly (fiddle), Sean Maguire (fiddle), 'Ann McCoys dancers', Jim Seary, Paddy Gunn, Pat McManus, ? McConnell, John Joe Maguire, John Mac
4. Speech: talk about pipe pipe makers, Chris Maguire, Frank McFadden, Rowesome, Sean McAluan,
5. Speech: talk about Frank Sweeney (Newry), Billie Brown, John Rea, Mickey MacAlhatten
6. Speech: talk about poitin, Johnny Concart, good long description of the process of making poitin [END OF BAND ONE]
7. Speech: description of process of making poitin, uses for poitin,
8. Speech: talk about bad poitin, problems with the police
9. Speech: talk about hiding the poitin, hiding the poitin still, being caught making poitin, six months in prison
10. Speech: talk about the priests attitude to poitin, police raids
11. Speech: description of the use of the 'seperator', making poitin in a kettle, tools for making poitin
12. Speech: talk about cock fighting, smuggling poitin over the border
13. Speech: talk about the island people on Lough Erne
14. Speech: talk about disasters on Lough Erne, Willie and James Rooney, Iniscorkish, Benny McBrine, Dr McQuade
15. Speech: talk about the living in 95 Botanic Avenue, Belfast
16. Speech: talk about old musicians, Eddie Corrigan, Johnny Cathcart, Hugh Gunn, John McCusker, Old Johnny Gunn, Phil Hoynes, Francie Tommans, Eddie Catcart, homemade fiddle made by Eddie Corrigan, homemade silk strings, mule-hair bow, larch tree roisin, the tune 'Poor Old Joe', Ellen McBrine, Tommy McBrine [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Gunn, Tommy, speech in English throughout, fiddle solo A1-14;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Reel: McDermots
2. Speech/Reel: The Boys of Ballisadare, The Hare's Paw, mention of Paddy Kenny
3. Speech/Waltz: talk about technique - bow triplets, 'Daisy Bell' played as example
4. Speech/Reel: talk about technique - long bow, 'Poor Old Joe' and 'Tommy Coen's Reel' played as examples
5. Speech/Reel: talk about technique - bowing, 'Tommy Coen's Reel' played as example
6. Speech/Reel: Miss McCloud's Reel
7. Speech/Jig: The Lochenvar [?]
8. Speech/Reel: Lock Reavys Castle
9. Speech/Reel: The Noon Lasses
10. Speech/Jig: The Tranice Jig (Tranish Island?)
11. Speech/Reel: The Chorus Reel
12. Speech/Jig: The Tranice Single Jig (Tranish Island?)
13. Speech/Reel: The Rakes of Abbey
14. Speech/Reel: Untitled (incomplete) (composed by performer) [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Gunn, Tommy, speech in English throughout, fiddle solo A1-5, A7-9, A14-20, lilting A9, 13;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech/Reel: The First of May
2. Speech/Reel: talk about Andy Carne, Stormy Saturday
3. Speech/Reel: The Curla Reel [?]
4. Speech/Reel: mention of Johny Concart, The Yorkshire Lassies
5. Reel: Dillion's Reel
6. Speech: talk about differences between old and new tunes,
7. Speech/Reel: The Kilfenora Reel
8. Speech/Reel: talk about different techniques used for playing the older tunes - triplet at the end of a phrase, Lady Ann Montgomery
9. Speech/Lilt/Reel: talk about techniques used - the clean cut, George Whites
10. Speech: talk about techniques used - changing key
11. Speech: talk about techniques used - repeating tunes, hornpipes and set dances played for dancers
12. Speech: talk about the difference between playing for dancers and listeners,
13. Speech/Lilt: talk about putting tunes in sets, Untitled
14. Speech/Reel: The Humours of Ballyconnell
15. Reel: The Rakes of Abbey
16. Speech/Reel: The Humours of Macken
17. Speech/Jig: Untitled
18. Speech/Jig: The Three Hand Slip Jig [?]
19. Speech/Polka: Untitled
20. Speech/Waltz: Valetta Waltz [?] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Gunn, Tommy, speech throughout, fiddle solo A1-5, 7-16, singing in English A6, lilting A17;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Reel/Speech: The Boys of Ballisadare, The Hare's Paw
2. Reel: The Dublin Reel, The Tulla Reel
3. Reel: The Floggin Reel, The Kilfenora Reel, The Liffey Banks
4. Jigs/Speech: Untitled
5. Speech/Air: talk about the song 'Lovely Jane' sung by Mrs Gunn, Lovely Jane
6. Song/Speech: Lovely Jane (incomplete)
7. Reel: Lucy Cambell
8. Hornpipe: The Cork Hornpipe
9. Reel/Speeech: McCoys Measure (composed by performer)
10. Speech/Reel: talk about the names of tunes composed by the performer, The Miller of Drone (composed by performer)
11. Speech/Reel: The Swallow's Tail
12. Speech/Reel: Murphy's Reel, Untitled
13. Speech/Reel: The Black Haired Lass
14. Speech/Jig: The Galway Jig
15. Speech/Hornpipe: The Derrylinn Hornpipe (composed by performer)
16. Speech/Jig: The Cloghen Jig [?] (composed by performer)
17. Speech/Lilt: talk about composing tunes, Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]