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Robin Morton Collection. Reel-to-Reel 35 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Maguire, John, speech in English throughout, singing in English A2, 4, B2, 4;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about the following song, Eddie Sweeney
2. Song: Lough Ooney
3. Speech: talk about living to Scotland, working digging tunnels,
4. Song/Speech: The Handsome Collier Lad
5. Speech: talk about working in the coalmines in Scotland [END OF BAND ONE]
6. Speech: talk about working in the coalmines in Scotland, returning to Ireland, Paddy McMahon
7. Song: The Maid of Colehill
8. Speech: talk about a night in Blantyre singing the following song
9. Song: The Blantyre Explosion
10. Speech: talk about the previous song, working in Ireland building roads, a serious accident while working in England, local cures for illness, the Jaundy Well [END OF BAND TWO]

Robin Morton Collection. Reel-to-Reel 36 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, singing in English A1-3;
Unidentified performer [Nelly Mullarky], singing in English A4;
Maguire, John, Tonaydrumallard, Co Fermanagh, singing in English A5

Running Order:
1. Song: The Granemore Hare
2. Song: Roll Me From the Wall
3. Song: Untitled
4. Song: Erin the Green
5. Song: The Wee Croppy Tailor [END OF BAND ONE]

Robin Morton Collection. Reel-to-Reel 37 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Morton, Robin, speech in English A3, 6-7;
Maguire, Biddy, singing in English A1;
Mullarky, Peter, singing in English in Duet A2, 8-9, speech in English A3, 7, singing in English A4;
Mullarky, Nelly, singing in English in duet A2, 8-9, speech in English A5, 7, singing in English A6,

Running Order:
1. Song: The Hiring Fair
2. Song: The Maid of Magheracloon (unfinished)
3. Speech: talk about singing
4. Song: Lovely Johnny
5. Speech: talk about singing
6. Song: Untitled [The Lilly of the West]
7. Speech: talk about singing in duet
8. Song: The Shady Woods of Trugh
9. Song: The Maid of Magheracloon [END OF BAND ONE]

Robin Morton Collection. Reel-to-Reel 38 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout;
Maguire, John, Tonaydrumallard, Co Fermanagh, speech in English throughout, singing in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech/Song: Behind Yon Blue Mountain
2. Speech: talk about going to house dances, tunes used for dancing
3. Song: My Charming Mary
4. Speech: talk about house dances, the singer Joe Higgins
5. Song/Speech: Joe Higgins, talk about the singer Michael Nann
6. Song: Bold Jack Donohue
7. Speech talk about ghost stories, local football matches [END OF BAND ONE]
8. Speech: talk about a fight at a football match, football, cycling, hunting, a song about hunting
9. Song: Hunting Song (fragment)
10. Speech: talk about the troubles in Ireland, army curfews
11. Speech: talk about cock fighting
12. Song: The Follom Brown-Red Cock
13. Speech: talk about cock fighting
14. Speech: talk about customs at wakes, how people behaved at wakes [END OF BAND TWO]

Robin Morton Collection. Reel-to-Reel 39 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Morton, Robin, singing in English A1, speech in English throughout;
Maguire, John, Tonaydrumallard, Co Fermanagh, singing in English A2, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled [fragment]
2. Song: The Blantyre Explosion
3. Speech: talk about John Maguire's family,
4. Speech: talk about school
5. Recitation: Untitled
6. Speech: talk about school, tricks and games played at school
7. Speech: talk about a practical joke played on the local doctor
8. Speech/Song: talk about songs learned at school
9. Speech: talk about relatives, family, the spirits of dead people, Mary Ellen (sister) [END OF BAND ONE]
10. Speech: talk about family, brothers Edward, Brian and Patrick, sisters Maggie and Biddy
11. Speech: talk about the family home, food and meals
12. Speech: talk about working on the farm, cutting hay and corn
13. Speech/Song: talk about buying ballad sheets, Thousands Are Sailing To America
14. Speech/Song: Molly Bawn Lowry
15. Speech/Song: talk about John Maguire's mother singing, Behind Yon Blue Mountain [END OF BAND TWO]

Robin Morton Collection. Reel-to-Reel 40 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout;
Maguire, John, Tonaydrumallard, Co Fermanagh, specch in English throughout, singing in English A2, 4-5

Running Order:
1. Speech: stories about parents preventing their children from marrying
2. Speech/Song: mention of Jack Quigley, The Lady Heiress and the Farmer's Son
3. Speech: talk about John Maguire's wedding
4. Song: Colombia the Free
5. Speech/Song: Lovely Jane from Enniskea
6. Speech: talk about the hiring fairs,
7. Speech: talk about how the markets have changed
8. Speech: talk about buying ballad sheets at the markets [END OF BAND ONE]
9. Speech: talk about street musicans in Scotland
10. Speech: talk about buying ballad sheets, the ballad of Fee And Flannagan and a different version written by William Quigley
11. Song: Fee And Flannagan
12. Speech/Song: Young Mary from Kilmore
13. Speech: talk about 'Willie the Wisp'
14. Speech: talk about the healer Finbar Nolan, seventh son of a seventh son
15. Speech: talk about making poitin, priests confiscating poitin stills [END OF BAND TWO]

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