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Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 12B [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 6

Speech: Untitled [Conversation continued from track B1 about many topics, including: dealing in mattresses; finding money in a feather bed; living conditions now relative to earlier; being evicted by Corporation officials; life philosophy; death of a child due to a fire in a tent; fires in tents and their consequences; other family members; living in houses versus living on the road; wedding ring made from the handle of a spoon; horses and rich horsedealers; Ballinasloe Horse Fair; wrestling matches between women and other sporting activities at Ballinasloe; the king and the queen; improving the lives of the travellers; disunity among travellers]

MacWeeney, Alen
Unidentified performer [Stokes, P?]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 13B [sound recording] / [various performers]

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 ?]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 13B [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 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 ?]

Furey, Nora, Dublin - speech in English
MacWeeney, Alen - speech in English
Unidentified performers - speech in English

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 13B [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 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]

Stokes, Patrick - speech in English

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 14A [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
O'Donoghue, Mary, singing in English A1?, 18;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A2-9, 13, 17, 26;
Weldon, Liam, Dublin, singing in English A10-12, 14, 19-24;
Court, Artelia, singing in English A14, 16;
Unidentified performer, whistle A15;
Unidentified performers [group], singing in English A25

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled
2. Song: Untitled [The Lakes of Coolfin]
3. Song: Untitled
4. Song: Untitled [The Boston Burglar]
5. Song: Untitled [The Boston Burglar]
6. Song: Untitled [I'll Tell My Ma]
7. Song: Untitled [Glenswilly]
8. Song: Untitled [The Zoological Gardens]
9. Song: Untitled
10. Song: Untitled [The Ragman's Ball]
11. Song: Untitled [The Twangman]
12. Song: Untitled [The Finding of Moses]
13. Song: Untitled
14. Song: Untitled
15. Air: Untitled [Sliabh na mBan]
16. Song: Untitled [The House of the Rising Sun]
17. Song: Untitled
18. Song: She Moved through the Fair (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]
19. Song: Untitled [The Devil and the Farmer's Wife]
20. Song: Untitled [Christmas song]
21. Song: Untitled [Wren song]
22. Song: Untitled
23. Song: Untitled [Weela Weela Wallia]
24. Songs and Speech: Stories and children's songs
25. Song: Untitled [We Shall Overcome]
26. Song: Untitled [Still I Love Him] [END OF BAND TWO]

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