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Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel. Philips Tape 1 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Flynn, Paddy, singing in English A1;
speech in English A4-5, 15;
Keilly, Catherine (aged 10), singing in English A2-3;
Delaney, Nelly, singing in English A6;
Delaney, Tom, singing in English A7;
Gavin, Paddy, singing in English A8;
Gavin, Francie, singing in English A9;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A10, 16-17, 23-24, 26-30;
Donovan, Martin, whistle A11-12;
O'Donoghue, Joe, speech in English A13;
Keilly, Nancy, singing in English A14;
Unidentified performer[s], whistle, A18-19, 21, 25, 33;
Unidentified performer, lilting, A20;
Unidentified performer, mouth organ, A22;
Unidentified performer [Catherine Keilly?], singing in English A31-32

Running Order:
1. Song: The Gallant Wexford Boys
2. Song: Untitled
3. Song: Untitled [Molly Malone]
4. Speech: Untitled [Poem: The Harp that Once]
5. Speech: Untitled poems and sayings
6. Song: Untitled
7. Song: The Banks of the Foyle
8. Song: I Must Go [He'll Have to Go]
9. Song: The Cliffs of Dooneen
10. Song: Untitled [Little Town in the Old County Down]
11. Air: Roddy McCorley
12. Jig: Untitled [Gallagher's Frolics]
13. Speech: [Identification of performers and performance items]
14. Song: Untitled [Down by the Sally Gardens, version]
15. Song: Grand Bungle Rye
16. Song: Untitled [The Wild Side of Life]
17. Song: Don't Laugh at Me Because I'm a Fool
18. Reel, Hornpipes, Reel: Untitled [Down the Broom], untitled [Harvest Home], untitled [The Boys of Blue Hill], untitled [Jenny Picking Cockles]
19. Reel: Jenny Picking Cockles
20. Reels: Jenny Picking Cockles, untitled [Tarbolton]
21. Reel: Untitled [Tarbolton]
22. Air: Untitled [Wooden Heart]
23. Song: Untitled [I'll Tell My Ma]
24. Song: Untitled
25. Air: Untitled [He'll Have to Go]
26. Song: Untitled [A Bunch of Violets Blue]
27. Song: Untitled [Just for Old Times Sake]
28. Song: The Beggarman
29. Song: Untitled [The Hills of Knocknashee]
30. Song: Untitled [The Cliffs of Dooneen]
31. Song: Untitled [Billy Boy]
32. Song: Untitled [Molly Malone]
33. Air, Reels: Untitled, untitled [The Star of Munster], untitled [The Sally Gardens] [END OF BAND TWO]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel. Philips Tape 2 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, singing in English A1, 4, 14;
O'Donoghue, Joe, singing in English A3, 5;
rhythm accompaniment B1-5;
speech in English A2, A6, throughout;
O'Donoghue, Mary, singing in English A3, 5;
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English A7;
Court, Artelia, singing in English B11;
speech in English A7;
Unidentified performer [Martin Donovan?], whistle B1-5, 7-10, 12;
Connors, Toodler, singing in English B6;
Unidentified performer [Martin Donovan?], singing in English B12;
Unidentified performers, singing in English B13-14, 18;
?, Tom, singing in English B15;
Flynn, Paddy, singing in English B16;
Unidentified performers, speaking in English B17

Running Order:
1. Song: The Blackboard of My Heart
2. Speech: Joe O'Donoghue speaking [Introduction to the song on Track A3]
3. Song: Campaign song - bad recording [The Travellers' Campaign, composed by Joe O'Donoghue]
4. Song: Untitled [The Harbour of Love?]
5. Song: Campaign song - second recording - too slow [The Travellers' Campaign, composed by Joe O'Donoghue]
6. Speech: Untitled [Conversation about many topics]
7. Sound Effects and Speech [END OF BAND ONE]
8. Jig / Slide, song air, slip jig: Untitled [The Peeler and the Goat], untitled [The Pride of Petrovore], untitled [The Rocky Road to Dublin]
9. Reel, Hornpipe: Untitled [The Sally Gardens], untitled [Harvest Home]
10. Reel, Hornpipe, Reel: Untitled [Jenny Picking Cockles], untitled [The Boys of Blue Hill], untitled [Down the Broom]
11. Reel: The Sligo Maid
12. Jigs: Untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], The Battering Ram
13. Song: Mother, the Queen of My Heart
14. Jigs: Untitled [The Old Grey Goose], untitled [Haste to the Wedding], untitled [Lanigan's Ball]
15. Reels: Untitled [Rakish Paddy], untitled [The Primrose Lass]
16. Jigs: Untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], untitled [The Battering Ram]
17. Song Air: Untitled [Buttons and Bows]
18. Song: Untitled
19. Air, Song: Untitled [Cod Liver Oil], untitled [Cod Liver Oil]
20. Song: Untitled [The Answer to Everything]
21. Song: Don't Laugh at Me Because I'm a Fool
22. Song: Untitled
23. Song: Father Murphy
24. Speech: Untitled [Conversation]
25. Song: Untitled [The Rocks of Bawn] END OF BAND TWO

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 03B [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Flynn, Miley, singing in English A1, 8, 10[?], 12, 17;
Flynn, Kathleen, singing in English A2-3 =;
[Cassidy, Kathleen];
Flynn, Kitty, singing in English A4, 7, 11;
Cassidy, Jimmy, singing in English A5-6, 9;
Cassidy, Andy, singing in English A13, 14;
Cassidy, Bill, singing in English A15, 16

Running Order:
1. Song: Forty Shades of Green
2. Song: Green Grow the Rushes [version 1]
3. Song: Green Grow the Rushes [version 2]
4. Song: Lovely Willie (interrupted)
5. Song: My Gentle Mother's Grave = [Gentle Mother ?]
6. Song: Hold My Hand Precious Lord
7. Song: Fraulein (beginning clipped) (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]
8. Song: The Road That Flows through Ratheen [Raheen ?]
9. Song: My Father's Serving Boy
10. Song: Father Murphy [Boolavogue] (beginning clipped) (interrupted)
11. Song: Lord Bateman's Castle (interrupted) (unfinished)
12. Song: Danny Boy
13. Song: My Rifle, Pony, and Me
14. Song: My Good Man ? (unfinished) (end clipped)
15. Song: The Jolly Ploughboy
16. Song: Moll and Nancy Hogan [The Wexford Mummers' Song] (interrupted)
17. Song: My Mother's Sweet Voice (unfinished) (end clipped) [END OF BAND TWO]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 04B [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Cassidy, Johnny, storytelling in English A1;
Unidentified performers (male), singing in English A2-4, 8-10;
Unidentified performer [female fortune teller], singing in English A6;
speech in English A5;
Unidentified performers (female), singing in English A7, 11

Running Order:
1. Story: Jack the Giant Killer
2. Song: The Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe
3. Song: Galway Bay (satirical)
4. Song: The Boys of the County Armagh (satirical)[END OF BAND ONE]
5. Speech: Artelia's hand being read by a tinker woman
6. Song: A Home down in Texas
7. Song: Goodbye Romance (unfinished)
8. Song: The Old County Down (interrupted)
9. Song: Untitled [I Won't Get Drunk Again ?]
10. Song: Untitled [The Labouring Man's Daughter ?]
11. Song: Skibbereen (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 05B [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Furey, Finbar, Dublin, pipes A1-5;
Furey, Edward, Dublin, guitar A1-5;
Donaghue, Pat, speech in English B1;
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English B1

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled [The Verdant Braes of Skreen]
2. Jig / Slide: Untitled [Dingle Regatta]
3. Air: Roisin Dubh
4. Jig: Untitled [The Lark in the Morning]
5. Song: Pretty Saro (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]
6. Interview with Pat Donaghue about the countryside and catching birds, about Joe and police, etc [END OF BAND TWO]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 07A [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, singing in English A1-2, 4-6,;
Court, Artelia, singing in English A3;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A7;
Syke, lilting A10;
lilting with drum A11-12;
singing in English A8-9;
yodelling A9;
Unidentified performer, lilting with drum A9-10

Running Order:
1. Song: Hills of Mayo [The Hills of Sweet Mayo]
2. Song: The Black Velvet Band
3. Song: Untitled
4. Song: Untitled [Erin's Lovely Lee]
5. Song: Long Time A'Growing [My Bonny Boy]
6. Song: Untitled [Green Grows the Laurel]
7. Song: Untitled [Goodbye, Johnny Dear]
8. Song: By the Lee [Mary on the Banks of the Lee]
9. Song: My Blue Eyes [I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes]
10. Jig: Jigging [The Irish Washerwoman]
11. Set Dance: Jigging with Drum [The Blackbird]
12. Song Air: Jigging with Drum [The Rising of the Moon]
13. Song: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 08B [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, singing in English A1-7, 10, 12;
Murphy, Mick, singing in English A8-9, 11, 13-14

Running Order:
1. Song: I Wished I Was in Banahoe
2. Song: Untitled [My Only Son Was Shot in Dublin]
3. Song: The Boston Burglar
4. Song: Every Road that You Go
5. Song: Down by the Strand
6. Song: Higgins and Carr
7. Song: The Braes of Strablane
8. Song: The Month of May (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]
9. Song: As I Roved out One Morning
10. Song: The Butcher Boy
11. Song: My Mary Dear
12. Song: Long Time a-Growing [My Bonny Boy]
13. Song: Ballinglen
14. Song: Song about Dolly Murphy composed and sung by Mick Murphy [END OF BAND TWO]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 11A [sound recording] / [various performers]

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]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 15 [sound recording] / [various performers]

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]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 32B [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Keenan, John Snr, Dublin, whistle A1;
Keenan, Paddy, Dublin, pipes A2-5, 10, 11, 12, 13;
Keenan, John, Dublin, banjo A4, 6-9, 11, 12, 13;
Unidentified performer [Brendan Keenan?], Dublin, whistle A6, 9;
Weldon, Liam, singing in English A8

Running Order:
1. Reel: Miss McLeod
2. Reel: Miss McLeod
3. Reel: Miss McLeod
4. Reel: Colonel Fraser [volume variation mid-track]
5. Reel: The Flogging Reel
6. Reel: Untitled [Crowley's Reel]
7. Song: I Know Where I'm Going
8. Reel: The Old Bush
9. Reel: Killabegs House [The Hare's Paw / Foot]
10. Jig: Untitled (unfinished) [The Lark in the Morning]
11. Jig: Untitled [The Lark in the Morning]
12. Jig: The Rambling Pitchfork
13. Reel: Untitled (unfinished) [The Bunch of Keys] [END OF BAND ONE]

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