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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]

Performers:
Ní Ríordáin, Eibhlís, speech in English, singing in Irish, harp
[various performers], singing in Irish

Running Order:
Song and harp workshop conducted by Éibhlís Ní Ríordáin, speech in English / Éibhlís Ní Ríordáin

Seoithín seo hó, song in Irish / Éibhlís Ní Ríordáin, singing in Irish ; [various performers], singing in Irish

Seoithín seo hó, song in Irish / Éibhlís Ní Ríordáin, harp, singing in Irish

Performers:
Ní Choisdealbha, Neansaí, speech in Irish
Ó Rócháin, Séamus, uilleann pipes
MacGillivray, Iain, bagpipes, fiddle
Gallan, Rory, fiddle
Ní Mhiolláin, Treasa, singing in Irish
Matthews, Ceri Rhys, flute
Davies, Elsa, fiddle
Jones, Ceri Owen, harp
Murphy, Julie, singing in Welsh, auto harp
McAuliffe, Nicky, fiddle
McAuliffe, Anne, flute
Stiùbhart, Maighread, singing in Scottish Gaelic
Keane, James, accordion
Lysaght, Mark, guitar
MacDonald, Murdo 'Wasp, singing in Scottish Gaelic, accordion
Kelly, Laoise, harp
Ó Duinnchinn, Tiarnán, uilleann pipes
MacInnes, Helen, singing in Scottish Gaelic
McCarthy, Thomas, singing in English
McEvoy, John, fiddle
McEvoy, Catherine, flute
McEvoy, Jacinta, guitar
O'Connor, Aoife, concertina
Corcoran, Mary, piano
O'Beirne, Majella, flute
Davis, Rosie, dancer

Running Order:
Introduction, speech in Irish / Neansaí Ní Choisdealbha

[The bold trainer o], air ; Bímis ag ól, jig / Séamus Ó Rócháin, uilleann pipes

March to the MacDonald's, air ; [Munlochy Bridge], strathspey ; [The nine pint coggie], reel ; Roddy McDonald's fancy, reel / Iain MacGillivray, bagpipes, fiddle ; Rory Gallan, fiddle

Dónal Óg, song / Treasa Ní Mhiolláin, singing in Irish

Unidentified, Welsh air ; Unidentified, Welsh jig set / Ceri Rhys Matthews, flute ; Elsa Davies, fiddle ; Ceri Jones, harp ; Julie Murphy, singing in Welsh, harp

Paddy Fahy's, jig ; Ómós go Paddy Fahy [comp. Nicky McAuliffe], reel ; Ómós go Paddy Carty [comp. Paddy Fahy], reel / Nicky McAuliffe, fiddle ; Anne McAuliffe, flute

Unidentified, song ; Unidentified, song / Maighread Stiùbhart, singing in Scottish Gaelic

Slieve Russell, jig ; Old Tipperary, jig ; The hungry rocks, jig ; Unidentified, air ; [Return from Fingal, march] ; Martin Mulhaire, reel ; Carmel O'Mahoney's, reel ; Maid in the cherry tree, reel ; Kilfenora, reel / James Keane, accordion ; Mark Lysaght, guitar

Unidentified, song ; Unidentified, reel set / Murdo 'Wasp' MacDonald, singing in Scottish Gaelic, accordion

Paddy Hiudaí Byrne's, slip jig ; Con Cassidy's, slip jig ; Danny O'Donnell's, jig ; Glasgow highlanders, German ; Town of Ballybay, German ; [Pearl O'Shaughnessy's, barndance] / Laoise Kelly, harp ; Tiarnán Ó Duinnchinn, uilleann pipes

Unidentified, song / Helen MacInnes, singing in Scottish Gaelic

I must away, song / Thomas McCarthy, singing in English

Rakes of Kildare, jig ; Pipe on the hob, jig ; Unidentified, reel set / John McEvoy, fiddle ; Catherine McEvoy, flute ; Jacinta McEvoy, guitar

Maud Miller, reel ; The tunrpike gate, reel ; The small hills of Offaly, reel / Aoife O'Connor, concertina ; Mary Corcoran, piano ; Majella O'Beirne, flute [= The Dublin Lassies] ; Rosie Davis, danicng

The piper's wife, waltz ; Chalk Sunday, jig ; The devils of Dublin, jig ; The gay gardens, Scottish dance / Aoife O'Connor, concertina ; Mary Corcoran, piano ; Majella O'Beirne, flute [= The Dublin Lassies] ; Rosie Davis, dancer

Scotland the brave, barndance ; Jimmy Duffy's barndance. No.1 ; Jimmy Duffy's Barndance. No.2 / Aoife O'Connor, concertina ; Mary Corcoran, piano ; Majella O'Beirne, flute [= The Dublin Lassies]

Johnny Cope, hornpipe ; Anderson's, reel ; Lord McDonald's, reel / Aoife O'Connor, concertina ; Mary Corcoran, piano ; Majella O'Beirne, flute [= The Dublin Lassies] ; [various performers], dancers

Performers:
Mullen, Brian, speech in English
Tunney, John, singing in English
Ó Gealbháin, Ciarán, speech in Irish
Ghriallais, Sarah, singing in Irish, singing in English
Flynn, Jane, singing in English, singing in Irish
Stiùbhart, Maighread, singing in Scottish Gaelic
Corcoran, Seán, singing in English
Ó Confhaola, Micheál, singing in English, singing in Irish
Cahir, Sinéad, singing in Irish
Ó Riada, Cathal, singing in English, singing in Irish
McCarthy, Thomas, singing in English
Mac Craith, Cárthach, singing in Irish
Ní Dhomhnaill, Maighread, singing in Irish, singing in English

Running Order:
Introduction, speech in English / Brian Mullen

The cool winding Ayr, song in English ; The immigrant, song in English / John Tunney, singing in English

Introduction to Sarah Ghriallais, speech in Irish / Ciarán Ó Gealbháin

Unidentified, song in Irish ; Skibbereen, song in English ; The shores of Lough Bran, song in English / Sarah Ghriallais, singing in Irish, singing in English

Love is pleasing, song in English ; The Bantry girls' lament, song in Irish / Jane Flynn, singing in English, singing in Irish

Untitled, song in Scottish Gaelic ; Untitled, song in Scottish Gaelic / Maighread Stiùbhart, singing in Scottish Gaelic

The bonny bunch of roses, song in English ; Long Lankin, song in English / Seán Corcoran, singing in English

The banks of the Lee, song in English ; Róisín Dubh, song in Irish / Micheál Ó Confhaola, singing in English, singing in Irish

True lover John, song in English ; The ploughboy, song in English / Sinéad Cahir, singing in Irish

The Kilnamartyra exile, song in English ; Untitled, song in Irish / Cathal Ó Riada, singing in English, singing in Irish

The doting old man, song in English ; Donal Kenny, song in English / Thomas McCarthy, singing in English

Sliabh geal gCua, song in Irish ; A spailpín a rúin, song in Irish / Carthach Mac Craith, singing in Irish

An clár bog deal, song in Irish ; The nobleman's wedding, song in English / Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill, singing in Irish, singing in English