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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:
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:
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]

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 A1, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14;
O Conaire, Sean, singing in English A2, 4;
Unidentified performer [Joe Walsh?], singing in English A3;
Unidentified performer [Des O'Connor?], whistle A5-6;
Furey, Ted, fiddle A9-10;
Furey, Finbar, pipes A13

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [The Flogging Reel]
2. Song: Once There Lived a Captain
3. Song: Untitled [By the Pleasant Slaney Side ?]
4. Song: Untitled [She Lived beside the Anner]
5. Jig: Untitled [The Gold Ring, Willie Clancy version]
6. Reel: Untitled [The Ravelled Hank of Yarn] [END OF BAND ONE]
7. Reels: The Woman of the House, The Earl's Chair
8. Hornpipe: Cooley's Hornpipe
9. Jig: The Cliffs of Moher
10. Air: Na Connerys
11. Reels: The Mountain Lark [The Steampacket], The Morning Star, Miss McLeod]
12. Set Dance: The Three Sea Captains
13. Set Dance: The Job of Journeywork, Johnny Doran setting
14. Reels: Scotch Mary, The Flogging Reel (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English A1, 6, B2;
Stokes, Patrick, speech in English A1-2;
singing in English A3;
Cassidy, Johnny, storytelling in English A4-6;
Cassidy (Flynn), Kate, speech in English B1-2;
Court, Artelia, New York, speech in English B2;
Unidentified performer (child) [Dan?], singing in English B3-4

Running Order:
1. Speech: Talk with Pat Stokes about nuns and priests owning property etc and orphans
2. Speech: Story about the cow's head as the devil
3. Song: Cod Liver Oil
4. Story: The Seven Little Pipers - tale by Johnny Cassidy (52 years) (recording defect)
5. Story: The Grey-haired Norrissey's Skull - clears defect when he meets Grey-haired Norrissey's daughter
6. Speech: The Grey-haired Norrissey's Skull [explanation] [END OF BAND ONE]
7. Speech: Stories about All Souls Day and Night - Kate Cassidy (Flynn), practices etc.
8. Speech: True incidents with the Cassidy family with ghosts and spirits and fairies; the tokens which the dead use; stories about hand touches, steps of the dead, of horses and dogs and shoes and mean woman curing priests, etc
9. Song: All Off to Dublin / The Jolly Ploughboy
10. Song: Agricultural Girl [The Agricultural Irish Girl] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Furey Family, instrumental group A1-2;
O Conaire, Sean, singing in Irish A3;
Unidentified performer[s], singing in English A4, 12;
O'Donoghue, Joe, singing in English A5;
Unidentified performer [Martin Donovan?], whistle A6;
Donovan, Martin, whistle A7;
Flynn, Paddy, singing in English A8;
Unidentified performer [Mary O'Donoghue?], singing in English A9;
Unidentified performer [Pat O'Donoghue?], whistle A10;
Unidentified performer [Martin Donovan?], singing in English A11

Running Order:
1. Jigs: The Donnybrook Jig [Donnybrook Fair], An Rogaire Dubh / The Black Rogue, Saddle the Pony [The Priest's Leap]
2. Jig: The Munster Buttermilk [The Sports of Multyfarnham]
3. Song: Maire Mhor
4. Song: Untitled [The Bold Fenian Men]
5. Song: Untitled [The Jolly Beggarman] [END OF BAND ONE]
6. Jigs: Untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], untitled [The Battering Ram]
7. Reel: Untitled [The Stone in the Field]
8. Song: Standing at the Corner of the Street
9. Song: The Patriot Game
10. Jig: Untitled [The Connachtman's Rambles]
11. Song: Untitled
12. Song: Untitled [Bold O'Donoghue] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, singing in English A1-2, 3;
Kiely [Keilly?], Mary, singing in English A8;
Syke, singing in English A4;
lilting ('jigging') A5;
lilting ('jigging') with drum A6-7

Running Order:
1. Song: Hills of Sweet Mayo - Loughrea
2. Song: Bad Luck to the Black Velvet Band - Loughrea [The Black Velvet Band]
3. Song: Long Time A-Growing - Loughrea [My Bonny Boy]
4. Song: Thinking of My Blue Eyes - Loughrea [I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes]
5. Jig: Jigging - Loughrea [The Irish Washerwoman]
6. Set Dance: Jigging and Drum - Loughrea [The Blackbird]
7. Song Air: Jigging and Drum - Loughrea [The Rising of the Moon]
8. Song: Ann O'Brien (Mary Kiely) - Loughrea [END OF BAND ONE]