Irish Traditional Music Archive

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]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 15B [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 1

AMW-18694/258750/01
Part
02-Nov-67

Part of Alen MacWeeney Collection

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.]

MacWeeney, Alen - speech in English
Stokes, Patrick - speech in English

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 15B [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 10