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Performers:
Unidentified performer, speech in English A1;
Court, Artelia, speech in English A1;
O'Donoghue, Joe, speech in English A1, B1-2;
Dolan, Jack, speech in English B2

Running Order:
1. Speech: Song and stories and conversation [conversation, jokes, anecdotes, reminiscences] [END OF BAND ONE]
2. Speech: Song and stories and conversation [conversation, jokes, anecdotes, reminiscences] (continued from track A1)
3. Speech: Immigrant's American Army experience + Irish [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Court, Artelia, New York, speech in English A4;
singing in English A1-3;
Furey, Mrs, Dublin, speech in English A4;
Cassidy, Jimmy, singing in English A5, 7;
storytelling in English A9, 11;
Cassidy, Kate, singing in English A6;
Murphy, ?, singing in English A8;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A10;
Flynn, Miley, singing in English A12 -13

Running Order:
1. Song: Schoeps mike test - Artelia [Tit Willow]
2. Song: Uher mike test - Artelia [Tit Willow]
3. Song: Schoeps mike - Carrickfergus
4. Speech: Talk with Mrs Furey - about Killarney and selling lace, fairies, animals
5. Song: I'm Falling in Love with You [Please Help Me I'm Falling]
6. Song: One Evening in My Rambles [Lovely Willie]
7. Song: Barbara Allen
8. Song: Lake of Cool Finn [The Lakes of Coolfinn] [END OF BAND ONE]
9. Story: Gilbert the Robber
10. Song: Lord Bateman's Castle
11. Speech: John and Marsella - tale
12. Song: She Walked through the Fair [She Moved through the Fair]
13. Song: Is Loving You [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English A1, 4, B1-2, B3/C1;
Unidentified performer [member of Furey family?], singing in English A2-3;
guitar A2-3;
Unidentified performer [member of Furey family?], whistle A2-3;
Unidentified performer [Stokes, P?], speech in English A1, 4, B1-2, B3/C1

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [Conversation about many topics, including: people, among them Mick Murphy; animals; travelling to New Ross; child abandoned by its mother; a traveller funeral; Mrs Furey and her problems with rent collectors, etc]
2. Song: Untitled [Sally Free and Easy]
3. Song: Untitled [Pretty Saro]
4. Speech: Untitled [Conversation about many topics, including: tinsmithing; ordering tin utensils; learning tinsmithing; types of utensils made; personal background; discussion about people in Athlone, Coosan, Loughrea, etc; tin utensils superceded by plastic; dealing in feathers] [END OF BAND ONE]
5. Speech: Untitled [Continuation of track A4]
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]
7. Speech: Untitled [Conversation continued from track B2 about many topics, including: ordering tin utensils; shoeing horses; buying tin; ghost story (repeated); story; child recites rhyme; trapping birds] [END OF BAND TWO]

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 ?]

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]

Performers:
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English A1-2;
Stokes, Patrick, speech in English A1-2

Running Order:
1. Speech: Continuing interview (2nd) with Patrick Stokes about methods of snaring birds and hares etc; killing off breeds of animals and birds; the differences between the hares and hounds in various counties; myxomatosis; story of a trader with rabbits having the disease and the drowning of the van and rabbits; tinware materials and tales of Sean Mac Eoin and the travellers and the Rising; the IRA; scraps about other travellers and present predicament of this family. [END OF BAND ONE ?]
2. Speech: Untitled [Continuation of interview with Patrick Stokes]

Performers:
?, Paddy, singing in English A2;
Unidentified performer[s], singing in English A3-6;
?, Martin, lilting A7

Running Order:
1. Sound Effects: Blacksmith in Galway at his forge [END OF BAND ONE]
2. Song: William Scanlon
3. Song: Pat from Bowlanier
4. Song: The Bold Connacht Ranger Boy
5. Song: Grand Bungle Rye
6. Song: Don't Laugh at Me Because I'm a Fool
7. Set Dance: Untitled [The Blackbird] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Stokes, Patrick, speech in English A1-3, 5-7, B3;
storytelling in English A3, 5-6, B1-2;
singing in English A4, B5-8;
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English A1;
Stokes, Mary Ellen, singing in English B4

Running Order:
1. Speech: Interview with Pat Stokes about his life story - growing up; learning his trade; travelling; working; his shyness on account of poverty; smoking clay pipes. [As supplied information, plus: being sent to Letterfrack; regret that he never got any education; spending money foolishly; demoralisation and shame due to impoverishment; his mother drinking pints of Guinness and smoking a pipe; smoking briars and tea during the war; rationing; father an ex-soldier from World War 1.]
2. Speech: Untitled [Conversation about music and storytelling in the families of Patrick and Mary Ellen Stokes; the Irish language]
3. Speech: Story about fund-raising priests.
4. Speech: Story about bacon - Paddy the Irishman, etc
5. Song: Erin's Lovely Lee
6. Speech: Story about the shaving ghost
7. Speech: Story, untitled, unfinished [END OF BAND ONE]
8. Speech: Tale about haunted house and the tramp
9. Speech: Goose and turkey tale
10. Speech: Remembrances of Johnny Cassidy and his habits
11. Song: Mother the Queen of My Heart
12. Song: Long Way from Bangor to Donaghadee
13. Song: Untitled [The Galway Shawl]
14. Song: McDonagh the Fighting Thrush
15. Song: She Moved Through the Fair [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Cassidy, Johnny, storytelling in English A1;
Unidentified performer (child), singing in English A2;
Cassidy, Kate, singing in English A3, 9;
Unidentified performers (group), singing in English A4;
Cassidy, Bill, singing in English A5-8;
Court, Artelia, New York, singing in English A10;
Unidentified performer [Bill Cassidy?], speech in English A11;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A12;
Murphy, ?, singing in English A13, 16;
Murphy, Jenny, singing in English A14;
Murphy, Biddy (Wall), singing in English A15, 17;
Unidentified performer [Biddly Murphy (Wall)?], speech in English A18;
Murphy, Old Mick, singing in English A19-20

Running Order:
1. Speech: Repeat of the latter part of 'The Grey Norese's Skull' tale by Johnny Cassidy [The Grey-haired Norrissey's Skull]
2. Song: Untitled [Old McDonald Had a Farm]
3. Song: The Wren Song
4. Song: Group singing The Wren Song
5. Song: She Left Me Because I'm Poor
6. Song: She Left Me Because I'm Poor, repeat of first two verses
7. Song: Untitled, mic test on cardioid
8. Song: Untitled
9. Song: The Twelfth of Never
10. Song: The Two Ravens
11. Speech: Joke about curing Mr Cassidy's throat and baldness [END OF BAND ONE]
12. Speech: Conversation about butchers drinking cattle's blood; talk about a local doctor
13. Song: The Croppy Boy
14. Song: My Bonny Wild Irish Boy
15. Song: Farewell Unto Your Valley [Slieve Gallion Braes]
16. Song: The Pro-German [The German Clockwinder]
17. Song: Dan O'Hara
18. Speech: The Widow's Son [song lyrics]
19. Song: The Handsome Girl
20. Song: Untitled [The Widow's Son] (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Furey Family, The, instrumental group, Dublin A1, 6-11, 14;
Furey, Finbar, Dublin, pipes solo A2-5, 12-13

Running Order:
1. Reels: Untitled [The Sligo Maid], untitled [Down the Broom]
2. Jig: Untitled [Cailleach an Airgid / The Hag with the Money]
3. Jig: Untitled [The Mouse in the Cupboard?]
4. Reel: Untitled [The Star of Munster]
5. Air: Long Time A'Growing [My Bonny Boy]
6. Reels: Untitled [The Flogging Reel], untitled [Miss McLeod]
7. Jig: Untitled (unfinished) [The Irish Washerwoman] [END OF BAND ONE]
8. Reels: The Sligo Maid, Rakish Paddy
9. Jigs: Father Kelly's Jig / The Killimor, The Battering Ram
10. Reel: The Bucks of Oranmore
11. Slip Jigs: Kitty Come Down from Limerick, The Kid on the Mountain
12. Air: Roisin Dubh
13. Set Dance: The Blackbird
14. Reel: The Woman of the House (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]