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Recorded from Charles (Charlie) Somers (aged about 75), in his house at The Bog, Bellarena, Co. Derry, 18 July 1969 [tracks 1–2)

Performers:
Somers, Charles, singing in English Tracks 1-2

Running Order:
1. Molly, lovely Molly [=The cruel ship carpenter] (‘It’s Molly, lovely Molly, will you come with me?...’), song / Charlie Somers, singing in English [session continued from 6921]
2. Johnny Doyle (‘[?..] I’m a young lady most highly in love...’) , song / Charlie Somers, singing in English [session continued on 6923] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded at the house of John Butcher (brother of Eddie), Drumavally, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 17 July 1969 [tracks 1–3]
Recorded in Greta Deehan’s bar, Big drain bridge, Magilligan, Co. Derry, from Tom Anderson of Aughil, Magilligan (age about 73) and his wife (aged about 65), 23 July 1969 [tracks 4–9]

Performers:
Butcher, Mary Ellen, singing in English Tracks 1-2;
Butcher, Jimmy, singing in English Track 3;
Anderson, Tom, singing in English Tracks 4, 6-8, speech in English Track 5;
Shields, Hugh speech in English Track 5;
Anderson. Mrs. Tom, singing in English Track 9

Running Order:
1. The shores of America (‘I’m bidding farewell to the land of my youth and the homes I love so well...’), song / Mary Ellen Butcher (daughter of John Butcher, age about 20), singing in English
2. Erin’s lovely  home (‘You patron [r. patriot] sons of Paddy’s land, come listen unto me...’), song [learnt from her uncle Jimmy Butcher of Limavady] / Mary Ellen singing in English
3. The banks of Kilrea (‘One evening for my recreation as I strayed by the lovely Moss Bann...’), song / John Butcher, singing in English [session continued at 6905]
4. The shores of Castlerock (‘The time is come and I must go, I’ll bid you all adieu...’), song [air ‘Adieu to Belashanny’] / Tom Anderson (age about 73), singing in English [session continued from 6925]
5. Talk about the song ‘The shores of Castlerock’ and its author Seamus McLoughlin / Tom Anderson, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English 
6. The rambling rakes of poverty (‘Oh come all you rambling fellows, oh from town to town I steer...’), song / Tom Anderson, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
7. The shores of America (‘I am a sporting Irish boy now far across the sea...’), song / Tom Anderson, singing in English
8. Free and easy (‘Oh it’s of my rambles I’m going to sing...’), song / Tom Anderson, singing in English
9. The banks of the Bann (‘Down by yon harbour near sweet Coleraine...’), song [learnt from her grandfather, Thomas McGough] / Mrs Tom Anderson (age about 65), singing in English [end of session] [END OF BAND TWO]  

Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 3–6 March 1979 [tracks 1-10]

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 1, 3-9, speech in English Tracks 2, 10;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 2

Running Order:
1. Aghnacloy town (‘My friends and I left sweet Armoy...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Talk about the preceding song, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
3. Skewball/Stewball (‘Come all you noble gentlemen, I pray listen all...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. Farmer's daughter (‘There were a farmer’s daughter...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
5. Are you from Dixie? (‘Hello there stranger, how do you do?...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
6. Until the morning [fragment] (‘Now I would like to wed again and have a night like you...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
7. Green grows the laurel, song (‘Oh, it’s green grows the laurel and so falls the dew...’) / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
8. Eileen McManus, song (‘One day as I walked along Broadway...’) / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
9. Pat Reilly, song (‘It being on an Easter Monday, it was a play day...’) / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
10. Buy me a goat, story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English [END OF BAND TWO]

A field recording in the home of Mary and Cyril Maguire, De Burgh Terrace, Derry / featuring Cathal McConnell, flute, tin whistle ; Cyril Maguire, flute ; Sharon Creasey, flute ; Kathy Taylor, fiddle

SIde A
00:00 - 04:05 | Reels, interview / Sharon Creasey, flute
05:02 - 06:35 | Dr. Gilbert, reel / Sharon Creasey, flute
08:19 - 09:40 | Paddy Fahey's, reel / Sharon Creasey, flute
10:10 - 12:08 | Paddy Fahey's, reel [comp. Paddy Fahey] ; The Donegal traveller, reel / Sharon Creasey, flute
12:15 - 12:55 | The dance of the honey bee, hornpipe / Sharon Creasey, flute
13:09 - 14:05 | Hornpipe / Sharon Creasey, flute

14:05 - 15:54 | Jigs / Cyril Maguire, flute
15:55 - 20:00 | Demonstration, conversation re. various versions / Unidentified, flute
20:01 - 24:43 | Reels / Cyril Maguire, flute
24:44 - 30:47 | Reels, Kitty Seán's barndance / McConnell's barndance ; Cyril Maguire, flute ; Cathal McConnell, flute
30:48 - 48:01 | Polkas, demonstration, barndance, slides / Kathy Taylor, fiddle ; unidentified, flute

Side B
00:00 - 02:12 | Slides / Kathy Taylor, fiddle
02:15 - 04:10 | Slides / Kathy Taylor, fiddle ; Cathal McConnell, flute
04:11 - 06:55 | Slides / Kathy Taylor, fiddle ; Cathal McConnell, flute
07:00 - 09:01 | Slide / Kathy Taylor, fiddle
09:13 - 11:52 | Slide / Kathy Taylor, fiddle ; various peformers
12:18 - 13:35 | Polkas / Kathy Taylor, fiddle
13:48 - 16:04 | Polkas / Kathy Taylor, fiddle ; Cathal McConnell, flute ; Cyril Maguire, tin whistle
16:48 - 19:41 | Polkas / Kathy Taylor, fiddle ; Cathal McConnell, flute ; Cyril Maguire, tin whistle
19:55 - 21:45 | Polkas / Sharon Creasey, flute ; Kathy Taylor, fiddle ; Cathal McConnell, flute
21:50 - 22:40 | Polka / Cathal McConnell, flute
22:40 - 25:00 | Polka / Cathal McConnell, flute ; Sharon Creasey, flute ; Cyril Maguire, tin whistle

26:11 - 29:22 | An páistín fionn, slow air ; An páistín fionn, hornpipe / Sharon Creasey, flute
30:20 - 31:55 | Slow air / Sharon Creasey, flute
32:33 - 33:46 | Statia Donnelly's, jig / Sharon Creasey, flute
34:39 - 36:39 | Rocking the cradle, slow air ; jig / Sharon Creasey, flute ; Cathal McConnell, flute
36:48 - 38:28 | Instrumental music / Sharon Creasey, flute ; Cathal McConnell, flute
End of session in Maguire's house

38:30 - 42:50 | Instrumental music / Unidentified, accordion

42:51 - 47:44 | Instrumental music [comp. Turlough O'Carolan], reels / Cyril Maguire, flute ; Cathal McConnell, flute

Recorded from Eddie Butcher at Frank Harte’s house in Dublin, July 1966. [tracks 1–6]
Recorded from Eddie Butcher on a journey between Dublin and Magilligan, July 1966. [tracks 7–8]
[Copies of] s recordings made by members of the Butcher family at O'Hagan’s pub in Coleraine, Co. Derry, July 1966. [tracks 9–17]
Recorded at Jimmie Butcher’s house in Limavady, Co. Derry, from members of the Butcher family, July 1966. [tracks 18–28]
Recorded from Eddie Butcher [at his house] in Magilligan, Co. Derry, July 1966. [tracks 29–57]
Recorded from Eddie Butcher [at his house] in Magilligan, Co. Derry, March 1966. [tracks 58–70]
Domestic recordings of commercial discs. [tracks 71–83

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, Aughil, Magilligan, co. Derry [1900-1980], singing in English Tracks 1-8, 18, 28-29, 30-39, 45-46, 49-52, 54, 56, 58-59, 64-65, 66-70, speech in English Tracks 19, 34, 36, 59, 63-64, 66, recitation in English 60;
Butcher, Robert, singing in English Tracks 9-12;
Butcher, John Junior, Downhill, Dunboe, singing in English Tracks 14, 16-17;
Unidentified performer, singing in English Track 13;
O'Hagan, Lizzie, singing in English Track 15;
Butcher, Jimmie, Limavady, co. Derry, singing in English Tracks 20-27;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 34, 42, Tracks 59-61, 63-64, 66;
B[utcher], Mrs [Maria, wife of John B. senior], singing in English Tracks 44, 54
Butcher, John senior, Magilligan, co. Derry, singing in English , Tracks 40-43, 47-48, 54-55, 57, speech in English Track 42, lilting Track 53;
Tunney, Paddy, singing in English Tracks 71-78, speech in English Track 76;
McMahon, Dolly, singing in English Tracks 80-81, singing in Irish Tracks 80-81;
Ennis, Seamus, pipes solo Track 79 , singing in English Track 79, singing in Irish Track 79, whistle solo Track 79;
Unidentified Ulster performers, singing in English Track 82, fifes and drums in group instrumental Track 82;
Unidentified performers, singing in English Track 83, singing in Irish Track 83, singing in Scots Gaelic Track 83

Running Order:
1. My barque leaves the harbour tomorrow, song / Eddie Butcher, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Ballycartin ball (‘Assist me lads of merriment attend both one and all...’) , song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. Skewball (‘Come all you noble gentlemen...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. I'll climb up a high high tree [fragment], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
5. True lovers' discussion (‘Oh one pleasant evening when pinks and daisies...’) [= True lovers' discourse], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
6. Lovely Derry on the banks of the Foyle (‘There's a spot on this earth it's a spot of great fame...’),song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
7. Jack the jolly ploughboy was ploughing up his land, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
8. There was a widow woman (‘There was a widow-woman in the west moorlands...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
9. When a man's in love [copied in Coleraine, beginning defective], song / Robert Butcher, singing in English
10. Maid of seventeen (‘Down by a shady harbour there resides a pleasant maid...’) [copied posthumously in Coleraine], song / Robert Butcher, singing in English
11. Nothing (‘When rhyming and verses came first into fashion...’) [copied posthumously in Coleraine], song / Robert Butcher, singing in English
12. Granny's Heiland hame (‘[In the Heilands of Scotland] there stands a wee hoose...’) [copied posthumously in Coleraine], song / Robert Butcher, singing in English
13. Blue velvet band (‘Come listen till I tell you a story...’) / unidentified performer, singing in English
14. Maggie (‘I wander a day [?] to the hills, Maggie...’), song / John Butcher, junior, singing in English
15. Bonny Irish boy (‘Once I was courted by a bonny Irish boy...’), song Lizzie O’Hagan, singing in English
16. Town of Coleraine, song (‘There's a sweet little spot in the county of Derry...’), song / John Butcher, junior, singing in English
17. Fare you well lough Derg, song / John Butcher, junior, singing in English
18. Pat McGuire (‘Oh come all you true bred Irish men of country and town...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
19. The lodger (‘An ould fella was married to a woman...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
20. Erin's lovely home (‘You patriot sons of Paddy's land come listen unto me...’), song / Jimmy Butcher, singing in English
21. James McKee (‘James McKee they do call me the same I'll ne'er deny...’) [incomplete], song / Jimmy Butcher, singing in English
22. James McKee (‘James McKee they do call me the same I'll ne'er deny...’), song / Jimmy Butcher, singing in English
23. Beautiful Bundoran (‘In the heart of old Tirchonaill...’), song / Jimmy Butcher, singing in English
24. Banks of Kilrea ‘One evening for my recreation as I strayed by the lovely Moss Ban...’), song / Jimmy Butcher, singing in English
25. Eileen McManus (‘One day as I strolled along Broadway...’), song / Jimmy Butcher, singing in English
26. Ann O'Brien (‘You young and old I now make bold, I pray you lend an ear...’), song / Jimmy Butcher, singing in English
27. Far far away in an African desert, song / Jimmy Butcher, singing in English
28. The Royal Charter (‘From fair Australia with a pleasant gale...’) , song / Eddie Butcher singing in English
29. Lowlands low (‘Emily sat lamenting when young Edmond first did roam...’) (fragment], song / Eddie Butcher singing in English [end of band one]
30. Lowlands low (‘Young Emily sat lamenting when young Edmond first did roam...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
31. The night of the wedding (‘Och but that was the terrible tear...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
32. I wish my love was a red red rose growing in yon garden fair [fragment], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
33. [Murlough shore=Murloch Mary], (‘Oh you hills and dales and flowery vales lies nigh to the Murlough shore...’) [fragment], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
34. Oh Cofer John gave me a wink, talk about this song, song and speech, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English, speech in Enlish ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
35. Casey Jones (‘Come all you gay people...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
36. Town of Garvagh (‘Captain D.... says my boys...’) [one verse], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
37. Patrick Sheehan (‘My name is Patrick Sheehil [sic]...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
38. Shores of Benone (‘Oh kind friends I'm just come here tonight to sing to all of you...’),
39. Strands of Magilligan (I'm a stranger in this country from America I came...’) [two-line fragment], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
40. Star of Donegal (‘One evening fair to take the air alone I chanced to stray...’) [incomplete], song / John Butcher, senior, singing in English
41. By the side of a clear crystal fountain (interrupted), song / John Butcher, senior, singing in English song / John Butcher, senior, singing in English
42. Oh, it's just about ten years ago as far as I can tell, talk about the preceding song; song and speech / John Butcher, senior, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
43. Tossing the hay (‘It being on a summer's morning...’), song / John Butcher, senior, singing in English
44. Moville along the Foyle (‘There's a dear old spot I often...’), song / Mrs Maria Butcher (wife of John Butcher senior), singing in English
45. Sailor boy (‘One dark and stormy wintry night as the snow lay on the ground...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
46. Father's serving boy (‘I live between Dungannon and the town of Aghnacloy...’), song / Eddie Butcher singing in English ; John Butcher, senior, singing in English
47. Maid of Culmore (‘From sweet Londonderry to fair London town...), song / John Butcher, senior, singing in English
48. Parish of Dunboe (‘I am a bold undaunted youth, I mean to let you know...’), song / John Butcher, senior, singing in English ; Eddie Butcher, singing in English
49. Down by the canal (‘As I went a walking one evening in June...), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
50. We're the true-born sons of Levi [fragment], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
51. Whose oul heid is that oul heid where my oul heid should be, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
52. Sailing to America (‘[Come all you] good people wherever you be...’), song / Eddie Butcher singing in English ; John Butcher, senior, singing in English
53. Untitled tune, lilt / John Butcher, senior, lilting
54. Green fields of America ‘Oh farewell to old Ireland, the home of my father ...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English ; John Butcher, senior, singing in English ; Mrs John Butcher, singing in English
55. Free and easy to jog along (‘Oh it's of my rambles I'm going to sing ...’), song / John Butcher, senior, singing in English
56. Todd's sweet rural shade (‘Oh one evening fair to take the air as I carelessly did stray ...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
57. Robin Thompson's smithy (‘Oh my mother mended my oul breeks ...’), song / John Butcher, senior, singing in English
58. Johnny and Molly (‘Oh says Johnny to Molly ...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
59. The green veil (‘Come all you gay fellows that wants to be mellow ...’) , talk about it, song ; speech / Eddie Butcher, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
60. First verse of ‘The green veil’ spoken, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
61. Nancy's whiskey (‘These five long quarters I have been weaving ...’), talk about it , song ; speech / Eddie Butcher, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
62. Bonny bunch of roses (‘By the margin of the ocean one morning in the month of June [fragment], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
63. Talk about the Butcher family and about Margaret Clyde's house, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
64. Flower of Corby mill (‘Oh come all you tenderhearted chaps I hope you'll lend an ear ...’) and talk about it, song ; speech / Eddie Butcher, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English ; [Gracie Butcher], speech in English
65. Walling of the men (‘Oh come all you jolly working men, ...’) , [unfinished], song [words by Eddie Butcher] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English, [end of band two]
66. Walling of the men (‘Oh, come all you jolly working men...’), talk about this song and about another ‘The smuggler’ also with words by Eddie, song [ words by Eddie Butcher] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
67. The ‘Trader’ (‘We bid them all a long farewell for we will never see them more...’) [1-verse fragment], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
68. Parish of Dunboe (‘I am a bold undaunted youth I mean for to let you know...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
69. Bonny Irish boy ‘Once I was courted by a bonny Irish boy...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
70. Johnny and Molly ‘Oh, says Johnny to Molly...’) [fragment of first verse], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
71. Craigie Hill (‘It being in Spring and the small birds were singing...’) [dub from Topic LP ‘The Irish edge’], song, / Paddy Tunney, singing in English
72. Lark in the morning (‘The lark in the morning she rises off her nest...’) [dub from Topic LP ‘The Irish edge’], song, / Paddy Tunney, singing in English
73. Johnny, lovely Johnny (‘Oh, Johnny, lovely Johnny, do you mind the day [Johnny, lovely Johnny] [dub from Topic LP ‘The Irish edge’], song, / Paddy Tunney, singing in English
74. The cow that drank the poteen (‘There's a man in Ardaghy...’) [dub from Topic LP ‘The Irish edge’], song, / Paddy Tunney, singing in English;
75. Blackwater side (‘Oh, as I roved out one bright summer's morn...’) [dub from Topic LP ‘The Irish edge’], song, / Paddy Tunney, singing in English, song, / Paddy Tunney, singing in English
76. Talk about the following song, Out of the window (My young love said to me, my mother won't mind...’) [dub from Topic LP ‘The Irish edge’], song and speech, / Paddy Tunney, singing in English,speech in English
77. The month of January (‘It was in the month of January...’) [dub from Topic LP ‘The Irish edge’], song, / Paddy Tunney, singing in English
78. The wearing of the britches (‘Come all you men where'er you be...’) [dub from Topic LP ‘The Irish edge’], song, / Paddy Tunney, singing in English
79. [off-disc dub]: 'Bonny bunch of roses', LP by Seamus Ennis (Tradition TLP 1013)
80. [off-disc dub from]: 'Dolly' LP by Dolly McMahon (Claddagh CC3) [end of band three]
81. [off-disc dub ]: 'Dolly' LP by Dolly McMahon (Claddagh CC3) continued [off-disc dub]
82. Orangemen of Ulster (Folkways FW3033, 1961) [off-disc dub]
83. [off-disc dub]: (Folksongs of Britain vol. 6: 'Sailors and serving maids' (Topic 12t194) [end of band four]

[Recorded from Eddie Butcher (of Magilligan, Co. Derry) for Hugh Shields in the Avondale Studio, Dublin] Copy of studio recording

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English [tracks 1-5]

Running Order:
1. The 'Trader' ('Oh, come all you gallent seamen bold, now listen here a while to me...'), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Inniskilling dragoon [= Enniskillen dragoon] [clipped at start], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. The mountain stream where the moorcock crows ('With my dog and gun through the blooming heather...') , song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. The Fan [= The Bold lieutenant] ('In sweet Argyll there lived a lady ..'), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
5. Another man's wedding [= Nobleman's wedding] ('I was invited to another man's wedding...'), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English