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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 07B [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Cassidy, Jimmy, storytelling in English A1;
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English A2;
Flynn, Kate (Cassidy), singing in English A3-5;
Unidentified performer [Jimmy Cassidy?], singing in English A6;
Stokes, Mary Ellen, singing in English A7-8

Running Order:
1. Story: The Grey-haired Norese's Skull [The Grey-haired Norrissey's Skull] [END OF BAND ONE]
2. Speech: Untitled [Identification of performer on next track]
3. Song: Lovely Willie
4. Song: Green Grow the Rushes
5. Song: Untitled (unfinished)
6. Song: The Waters of Coolfinn [The Lakes of Coolfinn ?]
7. Song: Early Early in the Spring
8. Song: The Farmer's Boy [END OF BAND TWO]

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 09A [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, singing in English A1, 4, 9-11, 17-19;
O'Donoghue, Mary, singing in English A2-3;
O'Donoghue, Joe, singing in English A3;
D. [O'Donoghue?], Pat, whistle A5-8[?];
Donovan, Martin, whistle A15-16, 22;
lilting A14;
whistling A12;
singing in English A13, 22-23;
Weldon, Nellie, Dublin, singing in English A20;
Weldon, Liam, Dublin, singing in English A21

Running Order:
1. Song: Her Hair Hung Down in Ringlets
2. Song: The Patriot Game
3. Song: Untitled [The Travellers' Campaign, composed by Joe O'Donoghue]
4. Song: The Shoemaker
5. Song Air: Untitled [Buttons and Bows]
6. Jig: Untitled [The Connachtman's Rambles]
7. Reel: Untitled (unfinished) [The First House in Connacht]
8. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Leitrim Fancy]
9. Song: Untitled [In My Own Peculiar Way] [END OF BAND ONE]
10. Song: Untitled [The Old Triangle]
11. Song: Untitled [James Connolly]
12. Reel: Delvin Lasses [Fermoy Lasses]
13. Song: Luck in the House, whistling and jigging [Around the House There Is No Luck]
14. Reel, Jig: Untitled (unfinished) [Down the Broom], untitled [Gallagher's Frolics]
15. Jigs: Untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], untitled [The Battering Ram]
16. Hornpipes, Reel, Song Air: Untitled [The Stack of Wheat], untitled [Harvest Home], untitled [Jenny Picking Cockles], untitled [Buttons and Bows]
17. Song: Untitled [From the Candy Store on the Corner]
18. Song: Untitled [Are You Lonesome Tonight]
19. Song: Untitled [Every Step of the Way]
20. Song: I Wished I Lived in Carrickfergus [Carrickfergus]
21. Song: The Blue Tarred Road [The Blue Tar Road]
22. Air, Song, Air: Untitled [The Banks of the Lee], untitled [The Banks of the Lee], The Boys of the West [The Men of the West]
23. Reel: Untitled (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 09B [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer (child), singing in English A1, 8-9, 14;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A2-3, 11-12, 15, 17 ,19;
Flynn, ?, singing in English A4-6;
Murphy, Mick, singing in English A7, 13, 16;
Wall, ?, singing in English A10;
Cassidy, Kate, singing in English A18

Running Order:
1. Song: Big Fine Agricultural Girl [The Agricultural Irish Girl]
2. Song: Long Farewell from Ireland [Home that I Left Behind]
3. Song: Untitled (unfinished)
4. Song: Lonesome Cattle Call, yodel
5. Song: Bit of cowboy song
6. Song: Cowboy song - No Place to Lie Down
7. Song: Rich Farmer's Daughter - Willy - Banks of Dundee [The Banks of Sweet Dundee]
8. Song: Untitled [I'll Tell My Ma]
9. Song: Paddy McGinty's Goat
10. Song: Early Early in the Spring
11. Song: Anybody's Baby
12. Song: Dear Old Mother [The Letter Edged in Black] [END OF BAND ONE]
13. Song: Horse song
14. Song: About country girl [The Agricultural Irish Girl]
15. Song: Indistinguishable song
16. Song: The Rushes Green
17. Song: Untitled (unfinished)
18. Song: Green Grow the Rushes
19. Song: Indistinguishable (unfinished) [Morrissey and the Russian Sailor] [END OF BAND TWO]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 10A [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, [Jack?], whistle A1-5;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A6-17;
O'Donoghue, Joe, singing in English A18-19

Running Order:
1. Barndance / Reel, Reel, Jig: Untitled, untitled [Tom Ward's Downfall], untitled [The Walls of Liscarroll]
2. Reel: Untitled [The Jolly Tinker]
3. Reels: The Duke of Leinster, untitled [The Duke of Leinster's Wife], untitled [London Lasses], untitled [The Sligo Maid]
4. Jigs: Untitled [The Battering Ram], untitled [The Maid on the Green], untitled [The Priest's Leap]
5. Jig: Untitled [Scatter the Mud]
6. Song: Untitled [Every Step of the Way]
7. Song: Untitled [The Nightingale]
8. Song: Untitled [Will You Go Lassie Go]
9. Song: Untitled
10. Song: Untitled [I'll Tell My Ma]
11. Song: Untitled (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]
12. Song: Untitled [From the Candy Store on the Corner]
13. Song: Untitled [The Old Woman from Wexford]
14. Song: Untitled [Liverpool Lou]
15. Song: Untitled [Are You Lonesome Tonight]
16. Song: Untitled [He'll Have To Go]
17. Song: Untitled [Theme song from the film Around the World in Eighty Days]
18. Song: Untitled [The Jolly Beggarman]
19. Song: Untitled [Down By the Green Bushes] [END OF BAND TWO]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 10B [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Cassidy, Jimmy, storytelling in English A1-3;
Cassidy, Bill, singing in English A4-5;
Cassidy, Tom, singing in English A6-8;
Cassidy, Billy, singing in English A9-10;
Cassidy, Kate, singing in English A11;
Cassidy, Nan, singing in English A12;
Furey, Mrs Nora, speech in English A13

Running Order:
1. Story: Repeat of the end of The Grey-haired Norese's Skull, folktale [The Grey-haired Norrissey's Skull]
2. Speech: Football match and imaginary commentary (Kilkenny v. Tipperary)
3. Speech: Football match and imaginary commentary (Wexford v. Kilkenny)
4. Song: Can't Stay in This World Any More, recorded on his wedding day at Saggart
5. Song: Fife and Drum [END OF BAND ONE]
6. Song: The Black and Tan Gun
7. Song: The Cowboy's Dream (unfinished)
8. Song: My Gentle Mother's Grave
9. Song: My Father's Serving Boy
10. Song: The Old Widow's Song
11. Song: Green Grow the Rushes
12. Song: W. Scandlon [William Scanlon]
13. Speech: Talk with Mrs Furey [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 11B [sound recording] / [various performers]

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]

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 ?]

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