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Performers:
Instrumental group A1;
O'Sullivan, Patrick, speech in English A2-9, B22-29;
Various Irish/American performers introduced throughout, speaking in English over the music performances;
Paddy Killoran Club, New York, instrumental group A3-4;
O'Beirne, Lad, Sligo/New York, fiddle in quartet A5-6;
Quinn, Louis, Armagh/New York, fiddle in quartet A5-6, B21-22, speech in English A12-14, 16-17, 19, B1, 3-15;
O'Malley, Luke, instrumental quartet A7-9, accordion in group B25;
Flynn, Joey, instrumental quartet A7-9;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A10;
Hare, Robbie, Monaghan, fiddle in trio A10-11;
Toal, John, Monaghan, fiddle in trio A10-11, fiddle in duet A19-20;
Shannon, Aloysious, Monaghan, accordion in trio A10-11, accordion solo A12, 17-18, accordion duet A19-20;
McAloon, John (Sean), Fermanagh, pipes solo A13-16;
O'Heine, Padraig, speech in Irish B1, speech in English B1;
Strange, Noel, banjo solo B2-4;
Conroy, Michael, speech in English B5, harmonica solo B5-7;
Ryan, Sean, fiddle solo B8-11, 14-15;
Jordan, William, Fiddle solo B12-13;
Unidentified performer, speech in English B16-20;
Brown, Billy, accordion in duet B16-17;
Gardiner, John Joe, fiddle B18-20;
Kennedy, Rory, accordion B18-20;
Redican, Larry, fiddle in quartet B21-22;
O'Donnell, Eugene, Derry, dancing B21-22;
Unidentified performers, jazz band B24;
Unidentified performers, instrumantal group B26;
Inishowen Ceili Band, instrumantal group B25;
Healy, Kevin, Chicago, war pipes in group B27-29;
Reavy, Ed, Cavan/Philidelphia, speech in English B28-29

Running Order:
1. Jigs: Untitled (beginning clipped)
2. Speech: Introduction to Martin Feeney and other New York/Irish musicians
3. Speech/Reels: Untitled, Untitled
4. Speech/Reel: Untitled
5. Speech/Reel: Untitled
6. Speech/Hornpipe: Untitled
7. Speech/Jig: Untitled
8. Reel/Speech: Untitled
9. Reel/Speech: Untitled
10. Speech/Reel: Untitled
11. Hornpipe: Untitled (beginning clipped)
12. Speech/Hornpipe: Untitled
13. Speech/Jigs: Untitled, Untitled
14. Speech/Reels: Untitled, Untitled
15. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled
16. Speech/Air: Sliabh na mBan
17. Speech/Reel: Untitled
18. Jig: Untitled
19. Speech/Reel: Miss Montgomery
20. Jig: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
21. Speech: Introduction to recording
22. Hornpipe Medley: Untitled
23. Speech/Reel: Untitled
24. Speech/Jigs: Untitled, Untitled
25. Speech/Reels: The Dawn Reel, The Maids of Castlebar
26. Speech/Jigs: The Knights of Saint Patrick, Molly's Advice
27. Speech/Hornpipe: The Sweeps Hornpipe (end clipped)
28. Speech/Jig: Untitled
29. Speech/Reels: The Bunch of Keys, Tom Steel
30. Speech/Hornpipe: Cooley's Hornpipe
31. Speech/Reel: Cooley's Reel
32. Speech/Jig: The Cliffs of Moher
33. Speech/Reel: Reavy Reel
34. Speech/Reels: Paddy Canny's Reel, Untitled
35. Speech/Reel: The Wheels of the World
36. Speech/Reel/Speech: Untitled (beginning clipped)
37. Reel/Speech: Untitled (comp. Martin Mulhere)
38. Speech/Reels: The Mountain Top, The Longford Collector (beginning clipped)
39. Speech/Reels: Music in the Glen, Untitled
40. Speech/Reel: The Maid Behind the Bar (end clipped)
41. Speech/Hornpipe/Speech: Untitled
42. Speech/Jig/Speech: Untitled
43. Speech: general
44. Speech/Piece: Jazz Band (end clipped)
45. Reel Medley/Speech: Untitled (end clipped)
46. Reel/Speech: Untitled (clipped)
47. Reel Medley/Speech: Untitled (beginning clipped)
48. Jig Medley/Speech: Untitled (beginning clipped)
49. Speech/Highland: Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil crossroads, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 17 September 1970 [tracks 1–5] [session continued from 7009]

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 1-5

Running Order:
1. The Moorlough shore (‘Oh you hills and dales and flowery vales lies near to the Moorlough shore...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Blow the candle out (‘It’s of a young apprentice boy...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. The bonny Irish boy (‘His real name I won’t mention...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. Now there is something else, song [extra verse added to the song ‘The new Mallard bar, words by Eddie Butcher (see 6901)], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [end of recording session]
5. My Aunt Biddy (‘My aunt Biddy had a boil on her diddy...’), song [Eb used to hear small boys singing this] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [session resumed next morning and ended here] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil crossroads, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 17 September 1970 [tracks 1–4]

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 1, 3-4, speech in English Track 2;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 2

Running Order:
1. Bonny Portmore (‘Bonny Portmore, you shine where you stand...’), song [17 verses, air: Green bushes] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Talk about the song ‘Bonny Portmore’ / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
3. Lovely Armoy (‘Draw near, my kind friends and relations...’), song [known since childhood, but text may be partly learnt from Joe Holmes, Ballymoney, Co. Antrim, air: cf. Banks of Kilrea]
4. The maid of Culmore (‘From fair Londonderry unto fair London town...’), song [amalgam of two songs ? Air: cf. Sailing to America] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [session continued on 6910] [END OF BAND ONE]

[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

Recorded at the house of John Butcher (brother of Eddie), Drumavally, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 17 July 1969 [tracks 1–3]

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

Running Order:
1. Tossing the hay (‘It being on a summer’s morning abroad as I did go...’), song / John Butcher, singing in English [session continued from 6904]
2. The cocks are crowing (‘The cocks is crowing, daylight’s appearing...’), song ; speech / John Butcher, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
3. It is now for New England (‘It is now for New England fain would I go...’), song [clipped: for complete see 6906] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [session continued at 6906] [END OF BAND ONE]

[Recorded from Eddie Butcher (of Magilligan, Co. Derry) for Hugh Shields in the Avondale Studio, Dublin, July 1966] Copy of studio recording

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 1-8

Running Order:
1. Down by the canal (‘As I went a-walking one evening in June...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. When a man’s in love (When a man’s in love he feels no cold...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. Tossing the hay (‘It being on a pleasant evening abroad as I did go...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. Pat Reilly (‘Oh, as I went a-walking one morning in May, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
5. The ship carpenter’s wife, (‘Oh, come all you gay fellows, you flourishing folk...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
6. When a man’s in love (‘When a man’s in love he feels no cold...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
7. The bold lieutenant [= The fan] (‘In sweet Argyle there lived a lady...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
8. The mountain streams where the moorcock crows (‘With my dog and gun through yon blooming heather...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English