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Performers:
Murphy, Tom (old), singing in English A1, speech in English A2;
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English A2, 7;
Wall, Luke, speech in English A2;
Connors, Johnny, lilting A3-6;
Murphy, Bridget (Wall), speech in English A7;
Cassidy, Johnny, storytelling in English B1-3

Running Order:
1. Song: Farewell Lovely Mary
2. Speech: Conversation: prayer for stopping blood - old Tom; curing horse of farcie - Luke Wall; prayer for toothache - old Tom
3. Lilting: Jigging - Johnny Connors [Dunphy's Hornpipe]
4. Lilting: Jigging - Johnny Connors [The High Level, hornpipe]
5. Lilting: Jigging - Johnny Connors [The Steampacket, reel]
6. Lilting: Jigging - Johnny Connors [Harvest Home, hornpipe]
7. Speech: Bridget Murphy (nee Wall), life story [conversation, biographical: settled woman becomes a traveller] [END OF BAND ONE ?]
8. Speech: Tale: Willy Wapster
9. Speech: Tale: Seven Little Pipers
10. Speech: Tale: Dickie Milburn [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Cassidy, Johnny, storytelling in English A1;
recitation in English A2-3;
MacWeeney, Alen, interviewer A1, 3;
Unidentified performer (female), speaking in English A3;
Cassidy, Andy, singing in English A4-5;
Stokes, Patrick, singing in English A6, 8;
Stokes, Mary Ellen, singing in English A7;
Unidentified performer [Patrick Stokes?], storytelling in English, A9-10

Running Order:
1. Story, Interview: I'm in Says the Waiting Maid..., details of the stories
2. Recitation: The Old Hag's Death
3. Recitation, Interview: The Old Hag's Death, the newspapers
4. Song: The Black and Tan Gun (interrupted)
5. Song: Untitled [My Rifle, Pony, and Me]
6. Song: McDonagh the Fighting Thrush (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]
7. Song: The Captain's Daughter
8. Song: Caroline of Edinburgh Town [Air: The Rocks of Bawn]
9. Story: The Two Yanks and Their Car
10. Story: The Cats and Their Eyes (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Stokes, Patrick, storytelling in English A1, 5-10;
Unidentified performer [Patrick Stokes?], singing in English A2;
Stokes, Mary Ellen, singing in English A3;
Stokes, ?, (child), singing in English A4

Running Order:
1. Story: The Cats and Their New Eyes and the Lord's Daughter
2. Song: Ellen Heaney - tinker song about window breaking
3. Song: Murder ballad [Air: Once I Loved]
4. Song: I'm a Rambler [END OF BAND ONE]
5. Story: About Dan O'Connell,'The Turf Trickster, and the Tobacco'
6. Story: Further stories about Dan O'Connell, the Hat, the Poisoned Cup, the Hotel Party, the Tinker's Hotel, the Lord Mayor
7. Stories: Obscene Stories about Dan O'Connell
8. Stories: The Policeman, the Bridge, and the Priest, Ghost Story
9. Stories: Cramp Story, Vicar Story, Cutting Pigs Tails, Chase by Cattle
10. Story: Story about Dogs (beginning clipped) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Stokes, Patrick, lilting A15;
singing in English A11-12, 14, 16;
speech in English A1;
speech in Cant/Gammon A1;
Stokes, Mary, singing in English A13;
speech in English A1;
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English A1;
Mahon, Martin, accordion A2-10

Running Order:
1. Speech: Talk with Patrick and Mary Stokes about his youth, working at different jobs and beginning as a tinsmith, and his relationship with his half-brother and father; words and sentences in Cant or Gammon.
2. Jig: Untitled [The Killimer / Killimor Jig; also known as Father Kelly's Jig]
3. Reel: Untitled
4. Reel: Untitled [The Morning Dew]
5. Reel: Untitled [Father Kelly's Reel]
6. Jig: Untitled
7. Reel: Untitled [The Sligo Maid]
8. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Showman's Fancy ?], untitled [The High Level] [END OF BAND ONE]
9. Reel: Untitled [The Skylark]
10. Waltzes: Untitled [A Bunch of Violets Blue], untitled [The Rose of Tralee]
11. Song: Ellen Heaney
12. Song: There's a Child in the Budget
13. Song: Hanging reprieve ballad [The Streets of Derry ?]
14. Song: Paddy McInerney
15. Jig: Untitled [The Sports of Multyfarnham]
16. Song: Untitled (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Stokes, Patrick, speech in English, speech in cant/gammon, storytelling in English A1-9, B1-7

Running Order:
1. Speech: Riddles (Speed variation on track)
2. Speech: Tongue twisters, riddles (Speed variation on track)
3. Speech: Comments on Michael and Martin Mahon and their habits (Beginning clipped)
4. Stories: Untitled [The Policeman and the Dogs]
5. Story: The Insult from the Policeman (Speed variation at end of track)
6. Story: The Ass and the Gate
7. Story: The Insult from the Policeman repeated (Speed variation at end of track) [repeated]
8. Story: The Guard's Bike
9. Story: Patrick's Sleeping Trick
10. Story: Pat's Interfering Child, the Sticks and the Gunman [END OF BAND ONE]
[Band two has not been digitised but originally contained the following tracks]
11. Story: The Enchanted Swans
12. Story: Catching the Pike
13. Story: The Talking Cats
14. Story: The Motor Car and the Motor Cycle
15. Story: Johnny and Tommy (The Boxing Story = The Dead Man's Promise)
16. Speech: Description of Banshees
17. Story: The Banshee and the Shop-owner Fight [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Stokes, Patrick, singing in English A1;
speech in English A2;
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English A2;
Cassidy, Kitty (Flynn), singing in English A3

Running Order:
1. Song: The Stokes, Cawleys and McDonaghs (tinker song)
2. Speech: Story about the above song; details of fights, etc, methods; stories and account of labour exchange supervisors, etc.
3. Song: Lord Bateman's Castle, two ends, best recording [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Cassidy, Kitty (Flynn), singing in English A1-3;
Cassidy, Andy, singing in English A4;
Cassidy, Johnny, speech in English A5-7;
singing in English A6-7

Running Order:
1. Song: One Evening in My Rambles - two separate endings - last is best [Lovely Willie]
2. Song: Green Grow the Rushes
3. Song: A Pretty Young Boy Came from the North Strand - two ends
4. Song: I'm Nobody's Child
5. Speech: Recitation - The Old Hag's Death - two versions, second is best
6. Song and Story: The Cobbler's Song
7. Story and Song: Was There Ever a Man Seen More Wonders Than I - two versions - second is best [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Cassidy, Johnny, storytelling in English A1-3;
singing in English A2

Running Order:
1. Story: Hearts, Livers and Lights and All
2. Song and Story: The Cobbler's Song - beginning of song which is missing on other tape
3. Story: About Poor John or Fool John [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, speech in English A1;
Cassidy, Johnny, speech in English A1;
Stokes, Patrick, storytelling in English A2

Running Order:
1. Speech: Recollections of storytelling with his father - about disciplining children and dogs, etc - their rearing
2. Speech: The Invisible Man - and other ghosts - eng. woods and experiences - ghost tricksters and misfortunes of mockery [[Stories and anecdotes, including: a story about a parrot; drunken man swims a river; how horses swim; selling and taming a wild horse; a sea-horse that returned to the sea after being tamed; story about a mermaid who marries and has a family, and later returns to the sea (cf An Mhaighdean Mhara); the invisible man; becoming invisible by using a special ring; experiences when stranded in a wood in Roscommon; story about a fake ghost] [END OF BAND ONE]