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Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 28 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Speech [Christmas rhymes and mummering. Paddy lists the characters of the Mummers’ play. He describes the occasion. Humorous happenings] / Paddy Judge, speech in English (duplicated from track 6, Aidan O’Hara Collection, Reel-to-Reel 887a-ITMA-REEL/CDR and track 1, Aidan O'Hara Reel-to-Reel 30, 888a-ITMA-REEL/CDR) [END OF STEREO BANDS]

Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 31 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Harris, Mose, singing in English

Running Order:
1. Dark eyed sailor, song / Mose Harris, singing in English
2. Lady Margaret, song / Mose Harris, singing in English
3. She’s like the swallow, song / Mose Harris, singing in English
4. Dark blue sea, song / Mose Harris, singing in English
5. There was a rich merchant, song / Mose Harris, singing in English
6. My boy Willie (My sailor boy), song / Mose Harris, singing in English
7. The nightingale, song / Mose Harris, singing in English
8. My name is Joe Robinson, song / Mose Harris, singing in English
9. Daughter of Daniel O'Connell, song / Mose Harris, singing in English
10. There was a rich merchant, song / Mose Harris, singing in English [END OF STEREO BANDS]

Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 32 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Harris, Mose, singing in English A1-20

Running Order:
1. Banks of sweet Dundee [‘It’s of a farmer’s daughter so beautiful I’m told …’], song / Mose Harris, singing in English
2. Dark-eyed sailor, song / Mose Harris, singing in English
3. Lady Margaret, song / Mose Harris, singing in English
4. [She’s like the swallow], song / Mose Harris, singing in English
5. [Dark blue sea], song / Mose Harris, singing in English
6. There was a rich merchant, song / Mose Harris, singing in English
7. My boy Willie (My sailor boy), song / Mose Harris, singing in English
8. [The lass of Swansea town], song / Mose Harris, singing in English
9. The nightingale, song / Mose Harris, singing in English
10. My name is Joe Robinson, song / Mose Harris, singing in English
11. Daughter of Daniel O'Connell, song / Mose Harris, singing in English
12. My boy Willie (My sailor boy), song / Mose Harris, singing in English
13. Untitled, song / Mose Harris, singing in English
14. Pretty Caroline, song / Mose Harris, singing in English
15. The rich merchant’s daughter, song / Mose Harris, singing in English
16. Untitled [‘A fair Spanish maid…’], song / Mose Harris, singing in English
17. [Will you meet me tonight by the shore], song / Mose Harris, singing in English
18. [The bonny boy], song / Mose Harris, singing in English
19. [Ye landsman and ye seamen bold], song / Mose Harris, singing in English
20. [The old leather britches], song / Mose Harris, singing in English [END OF STEREO BANDS]

Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 34 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Morry, Howard, singing in English A1, speech in English A1;
Andrews, Hal, speech in English A

Running Order:
1. Speech [song introduction] ; Prince Edward Island, song / Howard Morry, singing in English, speech in English
2. Speech ; The hills of Glenshee, song ; speech [song origins] / Howard Morry, singing in English, speech in English
3. The dark-eyed sailor, song ; speech / Howard Morry, singing in English, speech in English
4. The maid of Newfoundland, song ; speech / Howard Morry, singing in English, speech in English ; [unidentified speaker]
5. [The light in the window], song / Howard Morry, singing in English
6. Untitled, song ; speech [the importance of the sea in the old days] / Howard Morry, singing in English, speech in English
7. The flying cloud, song / Howard Morry, singing in English [continued onto Aidan O'Hara Reel-to-Reel 35, 903a-ITMA-REEL/CDR track 1] [END OF STEREO BANDS]

Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 35 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Morry, Howard, singing in English A1, 3-5, speech in English A1-3, 6;
Andrews, Hal, speech in English A6

Running Order:
1. Speech ; The flying cloud, song ; speech / Howard Morry, singing in English, speech in English ; [unidentified speaker] [continued from Aidan O'Hara Reel-to-Reel 34, 902a-ITMA-REEL/CDR track 7]
2. Speech [talk about the original Portuguese and English settlers in the area, life in the old times, house parties, dancing, playing cards, and the importance of neighbours, smuggling rum] / Howard Morry, speech in English
3. [In Duckworth street there lived a dame], song / Howard Morry, singing in English
4. [Galway town], song / Howard Morry, singing in English
5. [Old Swansea Town (‘…But still I live in hopes to see old Newfoundland once more…’)], song / Howard Morry, singing in English
6. Speech [describe an impromptu dance, talk about the old times] / [Unidentified speaker] [END OF STEREO BANDS]

Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 36 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
O'Hara, Aidan, speech in English A1-6;
Hammond, Davy, Belfast, speech in English A1-6, singing in English A3, 6

Running Order:
1. Speech [revival folk music in Northern Ireland, its distinctiveness, song themes and language, sparse melodic line] / Davy Hammond, speech in English
2. Speech [talking to Seamus Ennis about music in Northern Ireland, Scottish and English influence on song, example showing the influence of Scotland on Northern Irish song is The Maid of Ballydoo] / Davy Hammond, speech in English
3. The maid of Ballydoo, song ; speech [song origins] / Davy Hammond, singing in English, speech in English
4. Speech [collecting, the poet Jimmy Simmons, Poor Genius record company, John Doherty, Sarah Makem, Geordie Hannah, Ulster heritage, Belfast - 'the Athens of the North', Edward Bunting and collecting harpers, The Country Folk Four, Trevor Stewart] / Davy Hammond, speech in English
5. Speech [young people becoming interested in music and culture in Northern Ireland, ] / Davy Hammond, speech in English
6. The week before Easter (I once loved a lass), song / Davy Hammond, singing in English [END OF STEREO BANDS]

Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 37 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
[tracks A1-4 of this recording are a copy of a portion of Aidan O'Hara Reel-to-Reel 36 = 905-ITMA-REEL];
Hammond, Davy, Belfast, singing in English A1, 4, speech in English A1-3;
O'Hara, Aidan, speech in English A1-3;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A5

Running Order:
1. The maid of Ballydoo, song ; Speech [got the song from Joe Brannigan] / Davy Hammond, singing in English, speech in English
2. Speech [collecting, founding a record company with poet Jimmy Simmons called Poor Genius recording company for content that doesn’t have a big commercial market, including John Doherty, Sarah Makem, Geordie Hannah] / Davy Hammond, speech in English
3. Speech [young people becoming interested in music and culture, music culture of Northern Ireland] / Davy Hammond, speech in English
4. The week before Easter, song / Davy Hammond, singing in English
5. Untitled, jig / [unidentified fiddler] [END OF STEREO BANDS]

Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 38 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, speech in English A1;
Dooley, Martin, singing in English A1-10;
Dooley, John, singing in English A11

Running Order:
1. Fare thee well Maggie darling, song / Martin Dooley, singing in English
2. Benedict and Susan, song / Martin Dooley, singing in English
3. Rita, song / Martin Dooley, singing in English
4. Mountain dew, song / Martin Dooley, singing in English
5. My little rooster, song / Martin Dooley, singing in English
6. Caroline and her young sailor bold, song / Martin Dooley, singing in English
7. Thy burdens are greater than mine, song / Martin Dooley, singing in English
8. Johnson [end clipped], song / Martin Dooley, singing in English
9. The tears of Saint Anne, song / Martin Dooley, singing in English
10. Johnny, song / Martin Dooley, singing in English
11. The city of Baltimore, song / John Dooley, singing in English [END OF STEREO BANDS]

Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 39 [sound recording] / [various performers]

  • AOH-18693/1/258646
  • Item
  • 27 June 1977 [Tracks 1-5, possibly 7-9] ; 15 June 1977 [Track 6]
  • Part of Aidan O'Hara Collection

Performers:
Unidentified performer, speech in English A1;
Ryan, Patrick, speech in English A2, 6, 8, singing in English A3, 5, 9-10, singing in English in duet A4;
Ryan, Mrs, singing in English in duet A4;
Pott, Dominic Phil, speech in English A7

Running Order:
1. Speech [spoken introduction] / unidentified collector, speech in English
2. Speech [story about an Irishman on his deathbed] / Patrick Ryan, speech in English
3. My darling Jack, song / Patrick Ryan, singing in English
4. Kevin Barry, song / Patrick Ryan, singing in English ; Mrs. Ryan, singing in English
5. Why didn't you say so before, song / Patrick Ryan, singing in English
6. Speech [local dances and fights, Will Murphy, Mike Keogh, stories and jokes] / Patrick Ryan, speech in English
7. Speech [stories about Phil's father] / Dominic Philpott, speech in English
8. Speech [story about arthritis, story about Andy Keogh, loading the ships to go to Labrador, superstitions, Plate Cove] / Patrick Ryan, speech in English
9. Johnson, song / Patrick Ryan, speech in English, singing in English
10. The Boston burglar [clipped], song / Patrick Ryan, singing in English [END OF STEREO BANDS]

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