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Recorded from Bill Quigley in the house of Eddie Butcher, Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 19 July 1969 [track 1]
Recorded in the house of Eddie Butcher, Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 20 July 1969 [tracks 2–11]

Performers:
Quigley, Bill, singing in English A1;
McDaid, Jacqueline, singing in English Tracks 2, 4, 6, speech in English Tracks 3, 7-9, 11;
Fleming, Ann, singing in English Tracks 2, 4, 6, speech in English Tracks 3, 7-9,11;
Cunning, Sheila, singing in English Tracks 2, 4, 6, speech in English Tracks 3, 7-9, 11;
McDonnell, Clive, singing in English Tracks 2, 4, 6, speech in English Tracks 3, 7-9, 11;
Sweeney, Ruby, singing in English Tracks 2, 4, 6, speech in English Tracks 3, 7-9, 11;
McDaid, Margaret, singing in English Tracks 2, 4, 6, speech in English Tracks 3, 7-11;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 3, 5;
Butcher, Eveline, singing in English Track 4;
Butcher, Grace, speech in English Track 5

Running Order:
1. The noble lord’s wedding [= Another man’s wedding] (‘I was kindlie invited to a noble lord’s wedding...’), song / Bill Quigley, singing in English [continued from 6917] [ end of session]
2. Old Rogers is dead, song [sung to play] / Jacqueline McDaid, singing in English ;  Ann Fleming, speech in English ; Sheila Cunning, singing in English ; Olive McDonnell, singing in English ; Ruby Sweeney, singing in English ; Margaret McDaid, singing in English 
3. H.S talks to the performing children, speech / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Jacqueline McDaid (7), speech in English ; Ann Fleming (7), Sheila Cunning (8), speech in English ; Olive McDonnell (8), speech in English ; Ruby Sweeney (9), speech in English ; Margaret McDaid (10), speech in English
4. There came three gipsies riding, song [sung to play] / Evelyn Butcher (21) ; Jacqueline McDaid, singing in English ; Ann Fleming, Sheila Cunning, singing in English ; Olive McDonnell, singing in English ; Ruby Sweeney, singing in English ; Margaret McDaid, singing in English 
5. Talk about the preceding game, speech / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Grace Butcher, speech in English
6. In and out goes the dusty bluebells, song / Jacqueline McDaid, singing in English ; Ann Fleming, Sheila Cunning, singing in English ; Olive McDonnell, singing in English ; Ruby Sweeney, singing in English ; Margaret McDaid, singing in English 
7. Postman, postman, drop your letter, rhyme [spoken to skipping] / Jacqueline McDaid, speech in English ;  Ann Fleming, speech in English ; Sheila Cunning, speech in English ; Olive McDonnell, speech in English ; Ruby Sweeney, speech in English ; Margaret McDaid, speech in English 
8. Early in the morning before eight o’clock, rhyme [spoken to skipping out of doors, incomplete] / Jacqueline McDaid, speech in English ;  Ann Fleming, speech in English ; Sheila Cunning, speech in English ; Olive McDonnell, speech in English ; Ruby Sweeney, speech in English ; Margaret McDaid, speech in English 
9. Early in the morning before eight o’clock, rhyme / Jacqueline McDaid, speech in English 
10. Rhyme: All in together girls, rhyme / Margaret McDaid, speech in English
11. Rhyme: Cinderella, dressed in yellow, rhyme [spoken to skipping] / Jacqueline McDaid, speech in English ;  Ann Fleming, speech in English ; Sheila Cunning, speech in English ; Olive McDonnell, speech in English ; Ruby Sweeney, speech in English ; Margaret McDaid, speech in English [session continued on 6906] [END OF BAND ONE] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded in the house of Patrick (Patsy) Beatty (79 years), Glack, Limavady, Co. Derry, 17 July 1969 [tracks 1–9]
Recorded in the house of Eddie Butcher, Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, from Bob McCurry (69 years), of Carrowmena, Myroe and his granddaughter Yvonne Millar (10), 22 July, 1969 [tracks 10–17]
Recorded in the house of Eddie Butcher, Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 23 July 1969 [tracks 18–19]

Performers:
Beatty, Patsy, speech in English Tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, fiddle solo Tracks 2-5, 8-9;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 1, 4, 5, 6, 18-19;
Butcher, Edward, singing in English Tracks 7, 18-19;
McCurry, Bob, speech in English Track 10;
Miller, Yvonne, speech in English Tracks 11-17, singing in English Tracks 12-13

Running Order:
1. Conversation / Hugh Shields, speech in English / Patsy Beatty, speech in English [session continued from 6903]
2. Shan Gwee, jig / Patsy Beatty, fiddle
3. Talk about this tune ; Follow your old figary oh, jig [air: The young May moon] / Patsy Beatty, speech in English, fiddle
4. Talk about this tune ; Paudeen O’Rafferty [=Larry O’Gaff], speech ; jig [learnt from his father] / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Patsy Beatty, fiddle 
5. Barney Kelly, jig [learnt from his father] / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Patsy Beatty, fiddle
6. Conversation about Patsy Beatty’s father’s style of fiddling and bowing technique / Hugh Shields, speech in English / Patsy Beatty, speech in English
7. Go you back to your ain place, song [fragment, air: The girl I left behind me] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
8. Paddy, get up, jig / Patsy Beatty, fiddle
9. The bride’s fancy [=The swallow’s tail], reel / Patsy Beatty, fiddle [end of session]
10. How many persons in the Godhead?, story [‘Funny’], Bob McCurry, speech in English
11. Cowboy Joe from Mexico, rhyme / Yvonne Millar, speech in English
12. On the hillside stands a lady ; Lady, lady, touch the ground, song ; rhyme / Yvonne Millar, singing in English, speech in English
13. On the hillside stands a lady ; Lady, lady, touch the ground, song ; rhyme [repeated with actions] / Yvonne Millar, singing in English, speech in English
14. I am a guide girl dressed in blue, rhyme [spoken with actions] / Yvonne Millar, speech in English
15. Banana split, rhyme / Yvonne Millar, speech in English
16. Teddy bear, teddy bear, go upstairs, rhyme / Yvonne Millar, speech in English
17. Cinderella, dressed in yellow, rhyme / Yvonne Millar, speech in English [end of session]
18. Conversation with queries about songs recorded from Eddie Butcher / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Eddie Butcher, speech in English [END OF BAND ONE]
19. Conversation with queries about songs recorded from Eddie Butcher / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Eddie Butcher, speech in English [breaks of at ‘The Smuggler’, continued at 6902] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded in the house of James Osborne (age about 50), native of Ballymoney district, farmer at Bellaney, Dunboe, Coleraine, Co. Derry, 21 July 1969 [track 1], out of doors [tracks 2–5], in a big barn [track 6], indoors [tracks 7–10]

Performers:
Osborne, Mary, singing in English Tracks 1-2, 7;
Osborne, Helen, speech in English A3-6, singing in English Tracks 9-10;
Dillon, James, speech in English Tracks 4-6;
?, Orla, speech in English Tracks 4-6;
Osborne, Ena, speech in English Tracks 4-6;
Dillon, Maeve, speech in English Tracks 4-6;
Osborne, Rosemary, speech in English Tracks 4-6;
Osborne, Seamus, speech in English Tracks 4-6;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 4;
Osborne, Margeret, speech in English Track 6, singing in English Tracks 8, 10

Running Order:
1. The strands of Magilligan [=The American stranger] (‘I’m a stranger to this country, from America I came...’), song [take one] / Mrs Mary Osborne (née Somers, age about 45, of Avish, Downhill, Co. Derry), singing in English
2. The strands of Magilligan [=The American stranger] (‘I’m a stranger to this country, from America I came...’), song [take two] / Mrs Mary Osborne, singing in English
3. Charlie Chaplin went to France, rhyme [spoken to skipping] / Helen Osborne (10), speech in English
4. Conversation between Hugh Shields and the performing children / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Helen Osborne (11), speech in English ; James Dillon (7), speech in English ; Orla[?] (5, from Crossmolina), speech in English ; Ena Osborne (8), speech in English ; Maeve Dillon (10), speech in English ; Rosemary Osborne (10), speech in English ; Seamus Osborne (7) speech in English 
5. I had a little motor car, rhyme [spoken to skipping] / Helen Osborne (11), speech in English ; James Dillon (7), speech in English ; Orla[?] (5, from Crossmolina), speech in English ; Ena Osborne (8), speech in English ; Maeve Dillon (10), speech in English ; Rosemary Osborne (10), speech in English ; Seamus Osborne (7) speech in English
6. Bang, bang the dishes, children’s play[with extemporized dialogue] / Margaret Osborne (age about 13, acting the ‘Mother’), speech in English ; Helen Osborne (11), speech in English ; James Dillon (7), speech in English ; Orla[?] (age 5, from Crossmolina), speech in English ; Ena Osborne (8), speech in English ; Maeve Dillon (10), speech in English ; Rosemary Osborne (10), speech in English ; Seamus Osborne (7) speech in English
7. The maid of Lurgan town (‘ As I went a-walking one evening  When the bluebells were all drooping down...’), song / Mrs Mary Osborne, singing in English
8. Here I’m sitting sewing, game song / Margaret Osborne, singing in English
9. On the mountain stands a lady, game song / Helen Osborne, singing in English
10. On the mountain stands a lady, game song / Margaret Osborne, singing in English ; Helen Osborne, singing in English [session continued on 6921] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded in the house of James Osborne (age about 50), native of Ballymoney district, farmer at Bellaney, Dunboe, Coleraine, Co. Derry, 21 July 1969 [track 1]
Recorded from Charles (Charlie) Somers (aged about 75), in his house at The Bog, Bellarena, Co. Derry, 18 July 1969 [tracks 2–4]
Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house in Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 23 July 1969 [track 5]

Performers:
Osborne, Mary, singing in English Track 1;
Somers, Charlie, singing in English Tracks 2-4;
Butcher, Edward, singing in English Track 5

Running Order:
1. The road by the river that flows through Ratheane (‘I have walked along Broadway, I have been down the Strand...’), song [from gramophone record] / Mrs Mary Osborne, singing in English [session continued from 6920]
2. It’s of a young gentleman [=The seducer outwitted] (‘It’s of a young gentleman in this country did dwell...’), song [false start] / Charlie Somers, singing in English
3.  It’s of a young gentleman [=The seducer outwitted] (‘It’s of a young gentleman in this country did dwell...’), song [second false start] / Charlie Somers, singing in English
4. [It’s of a] young gentleman [=The seducer outwitted] (‘It’s of a young gentleman in this country did dwell...’), song [complete version, clipped at start] / Charlie Somers, singing in English [session continued on 6922]
5. The widow woman’s daughter (‘Oh there were a widow woman in the West moorlands...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [end of session]  [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Charles (Charlie) Somers (aged about 75), in his house at The Bog, Bellarena, Co. Derry, 18 July 1969 [tracks 1–2)

Performers:
Somers, Charles, singing in English Tracks 1-2

Running Order:
1. Molly, lovely Molly [=The cruel ship carpenter] (‘It’s Molly, lovely Molly, will you come with me?...’), song / Charlie Somers, singing in English [session continued from 6921]
2. Johnny Doyle (‘[?..] I’m a young lady most highly in love...’) , song / Charlie Somers, singing in English [session continued on 6923] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Charles (Charlie) Somers (aged about 75) in his house at The Bog, Bellarena, Co. Derry, 18 July 1969 [tracks 1–2]

Performers:
Somers, Charles , singing in English Tracks 1-2

Running Order:
1. The good ship Cambria (‘You Irishmen both one and all, wherever you may be...’], song / Charlie Somers, singing in English
2. A noble lord’s wedding [=Another man’s wedding=A nobleman’s wedding] (‘I being kindly invited till a noble lord’s wedding...’), song / Charlie Somers, singing in English [end of session] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded in Eddie Butcher's house, Magilligan, Co. Derry [in July 1969] [tracks 1-6]

Performers:
Somers, Hugh, singing in English Track 1;
Somers, Charles, singing in English Track 2;
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Track 3;
McCurry, Bob, speech in English Tracks 4-6

Running Order:
1. The bonny moorhen (‘[My bonny moorhen] she is feathered anew [?]...’), song [fragment] / Hugh Somers, singing in English [end of session]
2. The jug of punch (‘It being on the twenty-fourth of June...’), song / Charlie Somers, singing in English
3. The Myroe ploughing match (‘Oh you brave boys of Newtown and likewise Myroe...’), song [words perhaps by Jimmy McCurry, blind fiddler and great-uncle of Bob McCurry] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. ‘No daughter, whisky’, story / Bob McCurry (aged 69), speech in English
5. The minister, the cat and John, story / Bob McCurry, speech in English
6. John and the priest’s lily pond, story / Bob McCurry, speech in English [end of session][END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Robert Butcher [junior], aged about 48, in the house of Eddie Butcher in Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 21 July 1969 [tracks 1–3]
Recorded from Tom Anderson in Greta Deehan’s bar, Big Drain bridge, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 23 July 1969 [track 4]
Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 24 July 1969 [tracks 5–7]

Performers:
Butcher, Robert, singing in English Tracks 1-3;
Anderson, Tom, singing in English Track 4;
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Track 5-7

Running Order:
1. Carrowclare [=Killyclare] (‘On a fine and summer’s evening as my walks I did pursue...’), song [words by the blind fiddler Jimmy McCurry] / Robert Butcher junior, singing in English [session continued from 6902]
2. John Reilly (‘As I roved out one evening down by the riverside  I heard a lovely maiden complain till the tears fell from her eyes...’), song [learnt from his father Robert]  / Robert Butcher junior, singing in English [end of session]
3. [Unidentified] / Robert Butcher junior, singing in English
4. Turn you round, oh you wheel of fortune (‘When I was young I was well beloved...’), song [learnt from Mrs Sarah Sweeney of the Point Road, Magilligan, who died c. 1960 aged c. 108] / Tom Anderson, singing in English [session continued from 6926 and continued on 6904]
5. Lovely Armoy (‘I am taking my leave off this evening...’) song [first verse only, air: The banks of Kilrea] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
6. Greencastle shore (‘For three long days or better our big ship there she lay...’), song [one verse only, to same air as next song] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
7. The Portrush fishermen (‘On February the twenty-fourth in the year of eighty-six...’), song [two verses only, clipped during third, to same air as preceding song] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [end of session]  [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 22 July 1969 [track 1]
Recorded from Tom Anderson (aged about 73) and his daughter Annie [Sweeney] in Greta Deehan’s bar, Big Drain bridge, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 23 July 1969 [tracks 2–6]

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Track 1;
Anderson, Tom, singing in English Track 2, Track 6, speech in English Track 3;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 3, Track 5;
Anderson, Annie, singing in English Track 4, speech in English Track 5

Running Order:
1. Molly, lovely Molly (‘Oh Molly, lovely Molly, will you come with me?...’), song [fragment of 2+ verses] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. The green fields of America (‘Farewell to old Ireland, the land of my childhood...’), song [learnt from his father] /Tom Anderson, singing in English
3. Talk about the song ‘The green fields of America’ / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Tom Anderson, speech in English
4. The braes of Strablane (‘Near the town of brave Athrillicks one evening in June...’), song [learnt from her grandfather] / Annie [Sweeney], singing in English
5. Talk about the song ‘The braes of Strathblane’ / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Annie [Sweeney], speech in English
6. The strands of Magilligan [=The American stranger] (‘I’m a stranger to this country, from America I came, song /Tom Anderson, singing in English [session continued on 6925]  [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil crossroads, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 17 September 1970 [tracks 1–4]

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 1, 3-4, speech in English Track 2;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 2

Running Order:
1. Bonny Portmore (‘Bonny Portmore, you shine where you stand...’), song [17 verses, air: Green bushes] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Talk about the song ‘Bonny Portmore’ / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
3. Lovely Armoy (‘Draw near, my kind friends and relations...’), song [known since childhood, but text may be partly learnt from Joe Holmes, Ballymoney, Co. Antrim, air: cf. Banks of Kilrea]
4. The maid of Culmore (‘From fair Londonderry unto fair London town...’), song [amalgam of two songs ? Air: cf. Sailing to America] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [session continued on 6910] [END OF BAND ONE]