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Festivals and Events

Audiovisual recordings of the Inishowen International Folk Song and Ballad Seminar (IIFSBS), events organised by the Inishowen Traditional Singers' Circle (ITSC), and other singing and music festivals and events in Ireland attended by Jimmy McBride, 1980-2004.

Hugh Shields Collection

  • HSH-18739
  • Collection
  • 1946 - 2003
Collection of audio recordings, personal papers, manuscripts, ephemera, music transcriptions and notation, news cuttings and photographs, relating to the life and work of the collector Hugh Shields. The sound recordings were made chiefly across Ulster in the period 1966–81.

Shields, Hugh, 1929-2008

Dermot McLaughlin Collection. Sound Cassette 1 [sound recording] / James Byrne

The following recordings from 00:00:05 - 01:07:43 were made in the Golden Gate Bar, Carrick, Co. Donegal during the 1983 Carrick Fleadh and feature the playing of James Byrne, fiddle ; Dermot Byrne, accordion ; Dermot McLaughlin, fiddle and Peter Carr, fiddle:
00:00:05 - 00:01:54 | [The sporting belles, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:01:55 - 00:03:47 | [Dinkey Dorrian's] [comp. Francie [Dearg] O'Byrne], reel / Various performers, instrumental music
00:03:48 - 00:06:52 | [Miss McLeod's, reel] ; [Cuffe Street, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:06:55 - 00:09:32 | [Lough Isle Castle, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:09:33 - 00:12:34 | [Francie Byrne's, reel] ; [The turnpike reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:12:40 - 00:15:20 | [The locked door, reel] ; [Bean an tí ar lár, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:15:22 - 00:18:34 | [Jimmy Lyons', highland] ; [Miss Crawford, strathspey] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:18:36 - 00:21:10 | [Grant's reel] [= Big John McNeill's, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:21:15 - 00:24:05 | [The pinch of snuff, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:24:06 - 00:26:00 | [The Irish washerwoman, jig] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:26:01 - 00:27:06 | Untitled, [reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:27:26 - 00:30:14 | [McFarley's, reel] ; [The flogging reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:30:15 - 00:32:59 | [Never was piping so gay] [comp. Ed. Reavy], reel ; [Maudabawn Chapel] [comp. Ed. Reavy], reel / Various performers, instrumental music
00:33:00 - 00:34:44 | [The Dublin reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:34:45 - 00:37:25 | [Trim the velvet, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:37:26 - 00:40:56 | [The Glen road to Carrick, reel] ; [Dinkey Dorrian's] [comp. Francie [Dearg] O'Byrne], reel / Various performers, instrumental music
00:40:57 - 00:47:05 | [The gravel walks to Granny, reel] ; [The mason's apron, reel] ; [The boys of Malin, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:47:35 - 00:51:08 | [The Laird of Drumblair, strathspey] ; [Gladstone's, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:51:10 - 00:54:37 | [The Glenlivet, strathspey] ; [The dawn reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:54:38 - 00:58:42 | [The turnpike reel] ; [Biddy of Barnes, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:58:43 - 01:00:08 | [The launching of the boat, reel] / Dermot McLaughlin, fiddle
01:00:36 - 01:03:15 | [Muineál a'bhardail = The drakes neck, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
01:03:16 - 01:06:47 | [McCahill's reel no. 1] ; [McCahill's reel no. 2] / Various performers, instrumental music
01:06:56 - 01:07:43 | [The silver spire, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music

The following recordings were dubbed from commercial releases:
01:07:48 - 01:13:23 | Rare's hill, song / Mary Black, singing in English
01:13:24 - 01:18:58 | Rare's hill, song / Mary Black, singing in English
01:19:43 - 01:23:16 | Untitled, song / [Daithi Sproule?], singing in Irish
01:23:19 - 01:26:09 | Sixteen come next Sunday, song / The bothy band, singing in English
01:26:11 - 01:29:32 | Tiocfaidh an samhradh, song / The bothy band, singing in Irish
01:29:33 - 01:34:51 | The maid of Culmore, song / The bothy band, singing in English

Dermot McLaughlin Collection. Sound Cassette 1 [sound recording] / James Byrne

The following recordings from 00:00:05 - 01:07:43 were made in the Golden Gate Bar, Carrick, Co. Donegal during the 1983 Carrick Fleadh and feature the playing of James Byrne, fiddle ; Dermot Byrne, accordion ; Dermot McLaughlin, fiddle and Peter Carr, fiddle:
00:00:05 - 00:01:54 | [The sporting belles, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:01:55 - 00:03:47 | [Dinkey Dorrian's] [comp. Francie [Dearg] O'Byrne], reel / Various performers, instrumental music
00:03:48 - 00:06:52 | [Miss McLeod's, reel] ; [Cuffe Street, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:06:55 - 00:09:32 | [Lough Isle Castle, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:09:33 - 00:12:34 | [Francie Byrne's, reel] ; [The turnpike reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:12:40 - 00:15:20 | [The locked door, reel] ; [Bean an tí ar lár, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:15:22 - 00:18:34 | [Jimmy Lyons', highland] ; [Miss Crawford, strathspey] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:18:36 - 00:21:10 | [Grant's reel] [= Big John McNeill's, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:21:15 - 00:24:05 | [The pinch of snuff, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:24:06 - 00:26:00 | [The Irish washerwoman, jig] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:26:01 - 00:27:06 | Untitled, [reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:27:26 - 00:30:14 | [McFarley's, reel] ; [The flogging reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:30:15 - 00:32:59 | [Never was piping so gay] [comp. Ed. Reavy], reel ; [Maudabawn Chapel] [comp. Ed. Reavy], reel / Various performers, instrumental music
00:33:00 - 00:34:44 | [The Dublin reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:34:45 - 00:37:25 | [Trim the velvet, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:37:26 - 00:40:56 | [The Glen road to Carrick, reel] ; [Dinkey Dorrian's] [comp. Francie [Dearg] O'Byrne], reel / Various performers, instrumental music
00:40:57 - 00:47:05 | [The gravel walks to Granny, reel] ; [The mason's apron, reel] ; [The boys of Malin, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:47:35 - 00:51:08 | [The Laird of Drumblair, strathspey] ; [Gladstone's, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:51:10 - 00:54:37 | [The Glenlivet, strathspey] ; [The dawn reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:54:38 - 00:58:42 | [The turnpike reel] ; [Biddy of Barnes, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:58:43 - 01:00:08 | [The launching of the boat, reel] / Dermot McLaughlin, fiddle
01:00:36 - 01:03:15 | [Muineál a'bhardail = The drakes neck, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
01:03:16 - 01:06:47 | [McCahill's reel no. 1] ; [McCahill's reel no. 2] / Various performers, instrumental music
01:06:56 - 01:07:43 | [The silver spire, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music

The following recordings were dubbed from commercial releases:
01:07:48 - 01:13:23 | Rare's hill, song / Mary Black, singing in English
01:13:24 - 01:18:58 | Rare's hill, song / Mary Black, singing in English
01:19:43 - 01:23:16 | Untitled, song / [Daithi Sproule?], singing in Irish
01:23:19 - 01:26:09 | Sixteen come next Sunday, song / The bothy band, singing in English
01:26:11 - 01:29:32 | Tiocfaidh an samhradh, song / The bothy band, singing in Irish
01:29:33 - 01:34:51 | The maid of Culmore, song / The bothy band, singing in English

Audio Material

Series comprises reel-to-reel tape recordings made by Shields chiefly across Ulster during the period 1966–1981

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 117 [sound recording] / [various performers]

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]

Mick O'Connor Collection

  • MOC-258273
  • Collection
  • 1968 - 1977
Collection comprises reel-to-reel tapes featuring off-air dubs of RTÉ radio programmes, dubs of commerical material, edited dubs of material recorded by John Brennan in the US, and other domestic and field recordings of traditional Irish musicians.

O'Connor, Mick

Dermot McLaughlin Collection. Reel-to-Reel 15 [sound recording] / [various performers]

The following recordings from 00:00:15 - 00:23:00 were dubbed from a recording of John Doherty made by Len Graham in 1967:
00:00:15 - 00:02:34 | The harvest morning, air / John Doherty, fiddle
00:03:26 - 00:04:59 | The Lord Gordon, reel [two-part version] / John Doherty, fiddle
00:05:43 - 00:06:53 | The Saint John's Point reel [two-part version of The gravel walks to Granny] / John Doherty, fiddle
00:07:13 - 00:08:58 | The foxhunt, [descriptive piece] / John Doherty, fiddle
00:09:27 - 00:12:36 | The miller o'hirn, [strathspey] ; Stirling Castle, [strathspey] ; The spey in spate, [comp. James Scott Skinner], reel / John Doherty, fiddle
00:12:55 - 00:14:37 | Bonnie Kate, reel / John Doherty, fiddle
00:15:02 - 00:16:59 | Rocking the cradle, song / John Doherty, singing in English
00:17:43 - 00:19:52 | The speaking waltz [version of Mrs Kenny's, waltz] / John Doherty, fiddle
00:20:08 - 00:21:35 | The white cockade, [polka] / John Doherty, fiddle
00:21:58 - 00:23:00 | The golden slipper, slip jig [hop jig] / John Doherty, fiddle

The following material from 00:24:48 - 00:47:37 was recorded in The Golden Gate Bar, Carrick, Co. Donegal in 1974 and features the playing of John Doherty, fiddle ; Cathal McConnell, flute ; Unidentified, guitar:
00:24:48 - 00:25:57 | O'Donnell's return, march / Various performers, instrumental music
00:26:11 - 00:27:16 | Collier's, reel / Various performers, instrumental music
00:27:29 - 00:28:45 | [Stirling Castle, strathspey] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:28:46 - 00:30:23 | The golden slipper, [hop jig] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:31:12 - 00:32:03 | Muineál a'bhardail = [The drake's neck, reel] / John Doherty, fiddle
00:32:09 - 00:33:14 | The granny in the corner [?] [The Westport chorus] [The green pigeon], reel / John Doherty, fiddle ; Unidentified, guitar
00:33:19 - 00:34:10 | John's brother Simon the source for the last tune, speech / John Doherty, speech in English ; Cathal McConnell, speech in English
00:34:30 - 00:36:06 | Muileann na maidí = [Crushing of the twigs, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:36:36 - 00:37:43 | [Tommy Gunn's, reel] / Cathal McConnell, flute ; Unidentified, guitar
00:37:51 - 00:39:36 | The pigeon on the gate, reel / Various performers, instrumental music
00:40:13 - 00:42:51 | Cradle song [Our highland queen] [comp. James Scott Skinner], waltz [originally composed as a strathspey] ; [The miller o'dervil] [comp. James Scott Skinner], strathspey ; Untitled, reel / John Doherty, fiddle
00:43:02 - 00:44:07 | The wise maid, [reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:44:57 - 00:45:43 | Máire na Sop, [reel] = [Scotch Mary, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:45:46 - 00:46:51 | The morning star, [reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:47:06 - 00:47:37 | Lord MacDonald, reel / Various performers, instrumental music

Dermot McLaughlin Collection. Reel-to-Reel 15 [sound recording] / [various performers]

The following recordings from 00:00:15 - 00:23:00 were dubbed from a recording of John Doherty made by Len Graham in 1967:
00:00:15 - 00:02:34 | The harvest morning, air / John Doherty, fiddle
00:03:26 - 00:04:59 | The Lord Gordon, reel [two-part version] / John Doherty, fiddle
00:05:43 - 00:06:53 | The Saint John's Point reel [two-part version of The gravel walks to Granny] / John Doherty, fiddle
00:07:13 - 00:08:58 | The foxhunt, [descriptive piece] / John Doherty, fiddle
00:09:27 - 00:12:36 | The miller o'hirn, [strathspey] ; Stirling Castle, [strathspey] ; The spey in spate, [comp. James Scott Skinner], reel / John Doherty, fiddle
00:12:55 - 00:14:37 | Bonnie Kate, reel / John Doherty, fiddle
00:15:02 - 00:16:59 | Rocking the cradle, song / John Doherty, singing in English
00:17:43 - 00:19:52 | The speaking waltz [version of Mrs Kenny's, waltz] / John Doherty, fiddle
00:20:08 - 00:21:35 | The white cockade, [polka] / John Doherty, fiddle
00:21:58 - 00:23:00 | The golden slipper, slip jig [hop jig] / John Doherty, fiddle

The following material from 00:24:48 - 00:47:37 was recorded in The Golden Gate Bar, Carrick, Co. Donegal in 1974 and features the playing of John Doherty, fiddle ; Cathal McConnell, flute ; Unidentified, guitar:
00:24:48 - 00:25:57 | O'Donnell's return, march / Various performers, instrumental music
00:26:11 - 00:27:16 | Collier's, reel / Various performers, instrumental music
00:27:29 - 00:28:45 | [Stirling Castle, strathspey] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:28:46 - 00:30:23 | The golden slipper, [hop jig] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:31:12 - 00:32:03 | Muineál a'bhardail = [The drake's neck, reel] / John Doherty, fiddle
00:32:09 - 00:33:14 | The granny in the corner [?] [The Westport chorus] [The green pigeon], reel / John Doherty, fiddle ; Unidentified, guitar
00:33:19 - 00:34:10 | John's brother Simon the source for the last tune, speech / John Doherty, speech in English ; Cathal McConnell, speech in English
00:34:30 - 00:36:06 | Muileann na maidí = [Crushing of the twigs, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:36:36 - 00:37:43 | [Tommy Gunn's, reel] / Cathal McConnell, flute ; Unidentified, guitar
00:37:51 - 00:39:36 | The pigeon on the gate, reel / Various performers, instrumental music
00:40:13 - 00:42:51 | Cradle song [Our highland queen] [comp. James Scott Skinner], waltz [originally composed as a strathspey] ; [The miller o'dervil] [comp. James Scott Skinner], strathspey ; Untitled, reel / John Doherty, fiddle
00:43:02 - 00:44:07 | The wise maid, [reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:44:57 - 00:45:43 | Máire na Sop, [reel] = [Scotch Mary, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:45:46 - 00:46:51 | The morning star, [reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:47:06 - 00:47:37 | Lord MacDonald, reel / Various performers, instrumental music

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