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Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil crossroads, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 17 September 1970 [tracks 1–5] [session continued from 7009]

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 1-5

Running Order:
1. The Moorlough shore (‘Oh you hills and dales and flowery vales lies near to the Moorlough shore...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Blow the candle out (‘It’s of a young apprentice boy...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. The bonny Irish boy (‘His real name I won’t mention...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. Now there is something else, song [extra verse added to the song ‘The new Mallard bar, words by Eddie Butcher (see 6901)], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [end of recording session]
5. My Aunt Biddy (‘My aunt Biddy had a boil on her diddy...’), song [Eb used to hear small boys singing this] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [session resumed next morning and ended here] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded in the house of Eddie Butcher at Aughil crossroads, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 18 March 1975, from Eddie Butcher [tracks 1–11], from Len Graham and Joe Holmes (both from Ballymoney, Co. Antrim) [tracks 12–17]

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, speech in English Tracks 1-4, 6-9, 11, singing in English Tracks 5, 10;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 6, 11;
Graham, Len, singing in English Tracks 12, 14, 16, speech in English Tracks 13, 17;
Holmes, Joe, singing in English Tracks 12, 14-16

Running Order:
1. Go from the window, chantefable [story including song ‘The wind and the rain’] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English, singing in English
2. The lodger, story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
3. The scythe (‘This boy was hired to this farmer...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
4. The scythe (‘This boy was hired to the farmer...’), story [repeated with additional detail] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
5. Don’t come again (‘Oh, the first place that I saw my love...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
6. Queries on local matters [The Point fair ; poteen ; rabbits], speech / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Eddie Butcher, speech in English
7. The bad meat house (‘There were a boy hired to a farmer yin time...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
8. The rich man’s three sons (‘There were a very rich man yin time...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
9. The minister’s goat (‘There were a minister yin time...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
10. The cricket club and ball (‘You ranting boys of Derry toys...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
11. Query on the ‘Irish fair’ on the Back strand, speech / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Eddie Butcher, speech in English [END OF BAND ONE]
12. The nobleman’s wedding [=Another man’s wedding] (‘Once I was asked to a nobleman’s wedding...’), song / Len Graham, singing in English ; Joe Holmes, singing in English
13. Talk about the song ‘Roddy McCauley’ / Len Graham, speech in English
14. Roddy McCorley (‘You tender-hearted Christians, attention pay to me...’), song / Len Graham, singing in English
15. The Shamrock Shore (‘My friends and comrades, pray pay attention...’), song / Joe Holmes, singing in English
16. The dark-eyed gypsy (‘There were threee gipsies in the East...’), song [see 7504] Joe Holmes, singing in English ; Len Graham, singing in English
17. Talk about the song ‘The dark-eyed gypsy’ / Len Graham, speech in English [session continued on 7502] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded in the house of Eddie Butcher at Aughil crossroads, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 18 March 1975, from Eddie Butcher and from Len Graham and Joe Holmes (both from Ballymoney, Co. Antrim) [tracks 1–9]

Performers:
Holmes, Joe, singing in English Tracks 1, 5, 8, speech in English Tracks 2, 9;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 2;
Graham, Len, singing in English Tracks 3, 8, speech in English Track 4;
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 6-7

Running Order:
1. Tumbling through the hay (‘It being on the month of July in the rosy time of the year...’), song / Joe Holmes, singing in English [session continued from 7501]
2. Talk about the song ‘Tumbling through the hay’ / Joe Holmes, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
3. Willie Angler (‘ ’Twas down by yonder [harbour] near sweet Coleraine...’), song / Len Graham, singing in English
4. Talk about the preceding song / Len Graham, speech in English
5. [=The shamrock sod no more] (‘I never, never shall forget the sorrows of that day...’), song / Joe Holmes, singing in English 
6. My son in America (‘A long time ago in the county Mayo..’), song [words by Alf MacLohlainn, clipped] [END OF BAND ONE]
7. My son in America , song [completed] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
8. Matt Hyland (‘There was a lord lived in this town...’), song / Joe Holmes, singing in English ; Len Graham, singing in English
9. Mumming [talk with a complete play text with concluding song refrain ‘With your pockets full of money’], mummers’ play Joe Holmes, speech in English, singing in English [session continued at 7503] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded in the house of Eddie Butcher at Aughil crossroads, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 18 March 1975, from Eddie Butcher and from Len Graham and Joe Holmes (both from Ballymoney, Co. Antrim). [tracks 1–23]

Performers:
Graham, Len, singing in English Tracks 1, 9, 13, 14, 17, 19, 22, speech in English Tracks 1, 6, 8, 12, 15, 18, 21, lilting Track 23 ;
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 2-3, 10, 16, 20, speech in English Track 10;
Holmes, Joe, singing in English Tracks 5, 7, 9, 11, 14, 17, speech in English Tracks 4, 6, 15, lilting Track 23 ;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 6, 15, 18

Running Order:
1. Talk about the following song ; The flower of Gortade (‘Descend ? ye chaste muses, ye bards and ye sages...’), speech ; song [Sam Henry no. 178, attributed by Sean O’Boyle to a ‘Mayoghill poet called Kane’] / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Len Graham, speech in English, singing in English [session continued from 7502]
2. The Point fair (‘On the twenty-first of April, nineteen sixty-nine...’), song [words by Eddie Butcher] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. Green grows the laurel (‘Green grows the laurel and so does the rue...’), song [cf. 6912 and studio recording] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. Talk by Joe Holmes about his life and about the song ‘The strands of Magilligan’, speech / Joe Holmes, speech in English
5. The strands of Magilligan (‘I’m a stranger to this country, from America I came...’), song [cf. 6910, 6920, 6926, 6130] / Joe Holmes, singing in English
6. Talk about the song ‘The strands of Magilligan’ / Joe Holmes, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Len Graham, speech in English
7. The strands of Magilligan, song [a further verse] Joe Holmes, singing in English
8. Talk about the song ‘Ri tan tin a na’ / Len Graham, speech in English
9. Ri tan tin a na (‘I am a rambling Irishman, in Ulster I was bornen...’), song / Len Graham, singing in English ; Joe Holmes, singing in English
10. The Paisley canal (‘Pray look on this victim of Cupid...’), chantefable [story incorporating the song ‘The Paisley canal’] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English, speech in English
11. That little thatched cabin (‘Right well I remember that little thatched cabin...’), song / Joe Holmes, singing in English
12. Talk about the song ‘My boy Willie’ / Len Graham, speech in English
13. My boy Willie [=Willy-O] (‘My Willie sails on board a tender...’), song [cf. 6821, 6827, 6828, 6832] / Len Graham, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
14. The pretty little cock (‘It happened for to be on a cold winter’s evening...’), song [Child no 248] / Joe Holmes, singing in English ; Len Graham, singing in English [session continued from 7502]
15. Talk about the song ‘The pretty little cock’ / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Joe Holmes, speech in English ; Len Graham, speech in English
16. Laurel Hill (‘When the war it oppressed every nation with horror...’), song [cf. 6112] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
17. The rambling boys of pleasure (‘Ye rambling boys of pleasure, give ear unto these lines I write...’), song [learnt from R. Cinnamond’s recording?] / Len Graham, singing in English ; Joe Holmes, singing in English
18. Talk about the song ‘green fields of America’ / ; Len Graham, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
19. The green fields of America (‘Farewell to old Ireland, the land of my fathers...’), song / Len Graham, singing in English
20. Burns and his Highland Mary (‘In green Caledonia there ne’er were two lovers...’), song [cf. 6811, 6832, 6125] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
21. Talk about the song ‘The rights of man’ / Len Graham, speech in English
22. The rights of man (‘I’ll speak in candour of a night in slumber...’), song / Len Graham, singing in English
23. The five-mile chase ; The boys of Ballycastle, reels [lilted] / Len Graham, lilt ; Joe Holmes, lilt [end of session] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded in the house of Mrs Jean Carson (sister of Hugh Shields), Ballyclare Road, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim from her daughters Ruth (10), Linda (8) and Carol (5), 16 March 1975 [tracks 1–30]
Recorded in the house of Eddie Butcher at Aughil crossroads, Magilligan, Co. Derry, from Eddie and Gracie Butcher and Joe Holmes (from Ballymoney, Co. Antrim), 19 March 1975 [tracks 31–44]

Performers:
Carson, Ruth, singing in English Tracks 1-2, 3-9, 11-21, 24, 28, 30, speech in English Track 26, recorder solo Track 29
Carson, Linda, speech in English Tracks 25, 27, singing in English Tracks 10, 30
Carson, Carol, speech in English Track 21, singing in English Tracks 22-23, 28
Holmes, Joe, singing in English Tracks 31, 34
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 32-33, 37, 39, 41, 43, speech in English Tracks 35, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 35, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44
Butcher, Gracie, speech in English Track 38

Running order:
1. Teddy bear teddy bear, song [sung to skipping] / Ruth Carson, singing in English [see Notes]
2. I like coffee, rhyme [spoken to skipping] / Ruth Carson, speech in English
3. On a hillside stands a lady, song [sung to skipping] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
4. On a hillside stands a lady, song [fresh start, sung to skipping] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
5. Granny in the kitchen, rhyme [spoken to skipping] / Ruth Carson, speech in English ; Linda Carson, speech in English
6. Cinderella, rhyme [spoken to skipping] / Ruth Carson, speech in English
7. A, B, C, D, rhyme [spoken to skipping] / Ruth Carson, speech in English
8. I had a little bubble car, rhyme [spoken to skipping] / Ruth Carson, speech in English
9. Bluebells, cockleshells, song [sung to skipping with Linda] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
10. One, two, three, rhyme / Linda Carson, speech in English
11. Vote, vote, vote, song [sung while swinging] / Ruth Carson, singing in English ; Linda Carson, singing in English
12. Over the garden wall, song [sung while playing two-ball] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
13. Over the garden wall, song [take two] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
14. Over the garden wall, song [take three] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
15. One, two, three a plainsy, song [sung while playing two-ball] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
16. One, two, three a plainsy, song [take two] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
17. One, two, three a plainsy. song [take three] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
18. One, two. three alero, song [fragment, sung while playing two-ball] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
19. Teddy bear, teddy bear, song [sung while skipping with Carol] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
20. Plainsy Mamma Brown, song [sung while playing two-ball] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
21. Plainsy Mamma Brown, song [take two] / Ruth Carson, singing in English
22. Teddy bear teddy bear, song [sung to skipping] / Carol Carson, singing in English
23. Jelly on the plate, rhyme [fragment, spoken to skipping] / Carol Carson, speech in English
24. I like coffee, song [sung to skipping with Carol / Ruth Carson, singing in English
25. Recitation: Spring song, poem [by William Blake] / Linda Carson, speech in English
26. Recitation: Jabberwocky, poem [by Lewis Carroll] / Ruth Carson, speech in English
27. Recitation: Bulldozers, poem [by Patricia Hubble] / Linda Carson, speech in English
28. This old man, he played one, song / Carol Carson, singing in English
29. Believe me if all those endearing young charms, song air / Ruth Carson, recorder
30. Wee Willie lost his marley, song [see Notes] / Ruth Carson, singing in English ; Linda Carson, singing in English [end of session]
31. The dark-eyed gipsy(‘There were three gipsies lived in the East...’), song / Joe Holmes, singing in English
32. The piss pot (‘Oh, there were an old farmer and he had a nice wife...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
33. The piss pot, song [fresh start] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
34. Lovely Armoy [‘Draw near, my kind friends and relations...’), song [cf. 6925 and 7009] / Joe Holmes, singing in English [end of session]
35. Talk about local matters [see Documentation] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English [END OF BAND ONE]
36. Talk about local matters [continued from track 35, see Documentation] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
37. A sprig of ivy (‘Far away a sprig of ivy...’), song [sung from a cutting out of Ireland’s own] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
38. Talk about local matters [see Documentation] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Gracie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
39. Down with Geordie Lee (‘Sitting on a benty ditch it doesn’t suit me well...’), song [words by Hugh Campbell] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
40. Talk about the song ‘Down with Geordie Lee’ and its author Hugh Campbell / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
41. The castle maid (‘I’m a decent farm labourer and I earn whate’er I can...’), song [words by Hugh Cambell] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
42. Talk about the song ‘The castle maid’ and about the author of ‘The shores of sweet Benone’ / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
43. The maid of Faughanvale (‘Oh, as I roved out one morning for to view the pleasant strand...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
44. Talk about the song ‘The maid of Faughanvale’ / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English [end of session] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded in Brolly’s bar, Myroe, Co. Derry from John Fleming (aged about 40), lorry driver from Bellarena, Co Derry, 19 March 1975 [tracks A1–2]
Recorded at the farm of Michael O’Hara, Glack, near Limavady, Co. Derry from Jackie Devenny (aged about 35, from Coleraine) and Michael and Lizzie O’Hara, 19 March 1975 [tracks 3–8]
Recorded in the house of Eddie Butcher at Aughil crossroads, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 20 March 1975 [tracks 9–11]
Recorded in New Mallard bar, Clooney. Magilligan, Co. Derry, 20 March 1975 [tracks 12–26]

Performers:
Fleming, John, singing in English Tracks 1-2;
Devenny, Jackie, singing in English Track 3, speech in English Track 4;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English, Tracks 4, 7, 10, 18, 23;
O'Hara, Lizzie, singing in English Tracks 5-6, speech in English Track 7;
O'Hara, Michael, singing in English Track 8;
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 8-9, 11, 16, 20, 26, speech in English Tracks 10, 13, 15;
Anderson, Tom, singing in English Tracks 12, 17, 19, 21-22, 24-25, speech in English Track 18, 23;
Anderson, Nelly, speech in English Tracks 14, 18, singing in English Track 21

Running Order:
1. Dobbin’s flowery vale (‘As I roved out one evening for to view this pleasant scene...’), song / John Fleming, singing in English
2. Deep Sheephaven Bay (‘It’s far behind the Rosses hills the sun goes down to rest...’), song / John Fleming, singing in English
3. Ireland’s lovely green (‘One night as I lay slumbering on my silent bed alone...’), song [learnt from Sarah Ann O’Neill] / Jackie Devenny (of Coleraine, aged about 35), singing in English
4. Talk about the song ‘Ireland’s lovely green’ / Jackie Devenney, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
5. The bonny wee lass of the glen (‘It being on a bright summer’s morning...’), song / Mrs Lizzie O’Hara, singing in English
6. The old cross of Ardboe (‘Fare thee well, my native green-clad hills, fare thee well, my shamrock glens...’), song / Mrs Lizzie O’Hara, singing in English
7. Talk about the song ‘The old cross of Ardboe’ [indicating gramophone record as her source] / Mrs Lizzie O’Hara, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
8. Cofer John (‘Cofer John’s a civil man...’), song / Mrs Lizzie O’Hara, singing in English / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
9. Come all you fair maids wherever you be, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
10. Talk about the song ‘Come all you fair maids wherever you be’ / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
11. Come all you fair maids wherever you be, song [with an extra verse] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
12. The home that I left behind (‘Farewell to dear old Ireland, it’s a place you all know well...’), Tom Anderson (aged about 73), singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
13. We gied the Pope a quare touch the day (‘Ay, well this oul fellow went in to this oul woman..’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
14. Orange lilies, (‘There were a woman going up the Commons to St Malachy’s...’), story / Mrs Nelly Anderson, speech in English
15. The Pope borrowing a bicycle (‘I had a quare dream last night...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
16. It’s only a step from Killarney to Heaven (‘It was at a camp-fire concert...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
17. The wheel of fortune (‘When I was young I was well beloved...’), song / Tom Anderson, singing in English
18. Talk about the song ‘The wheel of fortune’, about Sarah Sweeney from whom it was obtained, and about the sand-hills at Magilligan point, speech / Tom Anderson, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
19. The Myroe ploughing match (‘Oh, you brave boys of Newtown and likewise Myroe...’), song [incomplete] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
20. The Myroe ploughing match, song [completed with help from Tom Anderson in last verse] Eddie Butcher, singing in English / Tom Anderson, singing in English
21. Mary Acklin (‘Oh, come all you young maidens, draw near me, and the truth to you now I’ll unfold...’), song / Tom Anderson, singing in English / Mrs Nelly Anderson, singing in English;
22. Spencer Hill (‘Last night as I lay dreaming I fell into a dream...’), song / Tom Anderson, singing in English song
23. Talk about the song ‘Spencer Hill’ / Tom Anderson, speech in English ; Mrs Nelly Anderson, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
24. The wheel of fortune (‘When I was young I was well beloved...’), song [first 4 lines] / Tom Anderson, singing in English
25. When a man’s in love (‘When a man’s in love he feels no cold, like I not long ago...’), song / Tom Anderson, singing in English
26. The two sweethearts (‘A group of young soldiers one night at a spree...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [session continued on 7506] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded in New Mallard bar, Clooney. Magilligan, Co. Derry, 20 March 1975 [tracks 1–21]
Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil crossroads, Magilligan, Co. Derry, evening of 20 March 1975 [tracks 22–29]
Recorded in the house of Mrs Jean Carson (sister of Hugh Shields), Ballyclare Road, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim from her daughters Ruth (10) and Linda (8), 21 March 1975 [tracks 30–36]
Recorded in the house of Hugh Shields, Dublin from his children Kitty (16), Michael (14), Denis (11) and Philip (9), 22 March 1975 [tracks 37–42]

Performers:
Anderson, Tom, singing in English Tracks 1-3, 8, 11-14, 17, 19, 21, speech in English Tracks 7, 10;
Anderson, Nelly, singing in English Tracks 4, 6, speech in English Tracks 7, 10;
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 5, 15, 23, 25-27, 29, speech in English Tracks 22, 24, 28;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 7, 10, 24, 28, 37, singing in French Track 41;
Mulgrew, John, singing in English Tracks 9, 17, 20
Somers, Charlie, singing in English Tracks 16, 18;
Butcher, Christopher, singing in English Track 5;
Carson, Linda, singing in English Tracks 30-36;
Carson, Ruth, singing in English Tracks 35-36;
Shields, Kitty, speech in English Track 37, singing in English Track 42, singing in French Track 41;
Shields, Michael, singing in English Tracks 38-39, 42, singing in French Track 41;
Shields, Denis, singing in English Tracks 40, 42, singing in French Track 41;
Shields, Philip, singing in French Track 41, singing in English Track 42

Running Order:
1. Shall I never see you more, gentle mother (‘It was down by a clear crystal fountain...’), song / Tom Anderson (age about 73, Aughil), singing in English [session continued from 7505]
2. The green fields of America (‘Farewell to old Ireland, the land of my childhood...’), song / Tom Anderson, singing in English
3. Going to church last Sunday, song / Tom Anderson, singing in English
4. The banks of the Bann (‘Down by yon harbour near sweet Coleraine...’), song / Mrs Nelly Anderson, singing in English
5. My Flora and I (‘Oh, as I went out walking one evening in June...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
6. The distressed maid (‘I am a maid that’s cast in live and I dare not to complain...’), song [cf. Ulster folklife, vol. X] / Mrs Nelly Anderson, singing in English
7. Talk about barnacle (geese) /
Mrs Nelly Anderson, speech in English ; Tom Anderson, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
8. The strands of Magilligan (‘I’m a stranger to this country, from America I came...’), song [cf. 6926] / Tom Anderson, singing in English
9. Above Sheephaven Bay (‘On a bonny summer’s evening as I sailed from Erin’s shore...’), song / John Mulgrew, singing in English
10. Talk about the song ‘Above Sheephaven Bay’ and the singer, speech / John Mulgrew, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
11. Copper John (‘Copper John give me the wink...’), song ; speech / Tom Anderson, singing in English / Mrs Nelly Anderson, speech in English
12. Johnny my man (‘Johnny my man are there nae word of rising...’), song / Tom Anderson, singing in English
13. The rose of Arranmore (‘My thoughts today they were far away...’) / Tom Anderson, singing in English
14. Rathfriland on the hill (‘Oh, many’s the mile I travelled and many’s a sight I seen...’), song [nearly complete] / Tom Anderson, singing in English
15. The maid of Faughanvale (‘One summer’s morn as I roved out for to view the pleasant strand...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
16. The noble lord’s wedding [=Another man’s wedding] (‘I was kindly invited till a noble lord’s wedding...’) , song [clipped] / Charlie Somers (age about 75, the Bog Bellarena), singing in English [END OF BAND ONE] [session continued on track B]
17. ‘Young Dunsmore [=Bonny Woodhall], song (‘Down by yon green bushes by sunny Suir [?] stream...’), song / John Mulgrew, singing in English ; Tom Anderson, singing in English [joining in last verse] [session continued from track A]
18. India’s burning sands (‘In blithe and bonny fair Scotland where the bluebells does grow...’), song [cf. 6909] / Charlie Somers (age about 75, the Bog Bellarena), singing in English
19. Mary Acklin (‘Oh, come all you young maidens, draw near me and the truth unto you I’ll unfold...’), song / Tom Anderson (age about 73, Aughil), singing in English
20. Skibbereen (‘It’s father dear, I ofttimes hear you speak of Erin’s isle...’), song / John Mulgrew, singing in English
21. The green fields of America (‘Oh, our good ship she’s lying below Londonderry...’), song [1-verse fragment] Christopher Butcher, singing in English [with others] [end of session]
22. Story: The oul grey mare, story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
23. Teddy Regan courted Winie, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
24. Talk about the song ‘Teddy Regan courted Winie’, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
25. The flower of Corby mill (‘Oh, come all you tender-hearted chaps, I pray you lend an ear...’), song [cf. 6130] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
26. The brisk young butcher, song [cf. 6125] (‘It’s of a brisk young butcher as I heard the people say...’) / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
27. Mary of Dunglow (‘Fare you well, sweet Donegal, the Rosses and Gweedore...’), song [cf. 6941] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
28. Talk about the song’ Mary of Dunglow’, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Willie McCloskey [next-door neighbour of Eddie], speech in English
29. Glenshee (‘As I went a-walking the heather was blowing...’), song [cf. 6815], Eddie Butcher, singing in English [end of session]
30. Archibald bald bald, song / Linda Carson, singing in English
31. Archibald bald bald, song [take two] / Linda Carson, singing in English
32. Archibald bald bald, song [sung to clapping on a wall] / Linda Carson, singing in English
33. A sailor went to sea sea sea, song [with clapping] / Linda Carson, singing in English
34. A sailor went to sea sea sea, song [without clapping] / Linda Carson, singing in English
35. Under the ban bushes over the sea, song [with clapping] / Linda Carson, singing in English ; Ruth Carson, singing in English
36. Under the ban bushes over the sea, song [without clapping] / Linda Carson, singing in English ; Ruth Carson, singing in English [end of session]
37. Kitty Shields (16 years) explains a ball game with macabre penalties, speech ; Denis the menace, song / Kitty Shields, speech in English ; Michael Shields, singing in English [in ‘choirboy’ ecclesiastical style] ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
38. Denis the menace, song / Michael Shields, singing in English [in ‘street’ style]
39. Denis the menace song [take two] / Michael Shields, singing in English [in ‘street’ style]
40. Denis the menace, song / Denis Shields, singing in English
41. Or est Baiars, song [medieval French rondeau by Adam de la Halle] / Shields family [Hugh, Kitty, Michael, Denis and Philip], singing in Old French
42. Woman at the church-yard gate [=The skin and bone lady] / Kitty Shields, singing in English [with siblings joining refrain] [end of session] END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded in the house of Hugh Shields, Dublin, from Jackie Devenny (aged about 35, from Coleraine), Eddie Butcher and Gracie Butcher from Magilligan, Co. Derry, 8 September 1975 [tracks 1–14] and 10 September 1975 [tracks 15– 40]

Performers:
Devenney Jackie, speech in English Tracks 1, 3, 13, 38, singing in English Tracks 2, 12;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 1, 3-4, 7, 13, 25, 30, 35, 38-39;
Butcher, Eddie, speech in English Tracks 4, 7, 10, 21-28, 30-31, 35-39, singing in English Tracks 4-6, 8-11, 14-20, 22, 26, 29, 32-34;
Butcher, Gracie, singing in English Tracks 15, 32, speech in English Tracks 31, 38;
Shields, Lisa, speech in English Track 38

Running Order:
1. Talk about the song ‘Lord Randal’ / Jackie Devenney, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
2. Lord Randal (‘Oh, where have you been, Lord Randal my son...’) / Jackie Devenney, singing in English
3. Talk about the song ‘Lord Randal’ / Jackie Devenney, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
4. Introduction to the song ‘Down the moor’, speech ; Down the moor (‘One morn in May when fields were gay...’), song / Eddie Butcher, speech in English, singing in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
5. Pat Molloy and the cockney (Pat Molloy, an Irish boy, came from the county Clare...’), song [fragment] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
6. Thady Regan courted Winie, song [cf. 7506] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
7. Talk about the air of the song ‘Going to Mass last Sunday’ as a pipe band tune, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
8. Johnny from home he never had been, song [one verse] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
9. Banks of the Bann (‘When first to this country a stranger I came...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
10. Go from the window, chantefable [story with song] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English, singing in English
11. Distressed maid (‘I am a maid that’s cast in love and here I do remain...’), song [see Ulster folklife X] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
12. Johnny, lovely Johnny (‘Johnny, lovely Johnny, do you remember the day...’), song / Jackie Devenney, singing in English
13. Talk about the song ‘Johnny, lovely Johnny’ / Jackie Devenney, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
14. Soldier and a sailor (‘Soldier and a sailor went a-walking one day...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
15. Don’t come again (‘Oh, the first place I saw my love it was at a ball...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English, Gracie Butcher, singing in English
16. Virgin only nineteen years old (‘As I went a-walking down by the Strand...’), song [fragment] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
17. Virgin only nineteen years old, song [fragment] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
18. Ploughboy (‘Oh, girls, do wed a ploughboy all if that you be wise...’), song [fragment] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
19. Ploughboy, song [fragment, take two] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
20. Mary Acklin (‘Oh you tender young lovers, draw near to those lines I am going to unfold...’), song [cf. 7505, 7506, 6112] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
21. Story: Dry day for thatching (‘This man was coming along the road...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
22. Go from the window, chantefable [story with song] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English, singing in English
23. Story: It could be worse`(‘This was a man and nae matter what anyone said till him...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
24. Story: Going to meet my father (‘...He was out and met this man coming along...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
25. Introduction to the following chantefable ; Hugh Shields, speech in English ; / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
26. Saturday night is Halloween night (‘This man lost his wife...’), chantefable [story with song] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English, singing in English
27. Story: If we had eggs (‘The’ were a boy yin time axed a soldier...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
28. Story: The oul mare (‘This oul fellow...he took the horse to the fair...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
29. Come to the hedgerows (‘Oh, come to the hedgerows with gay flowers of bright...’), song [learnt by both singers at school] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English, Gracie Butcher, singing in English
30. Talk about the song ‘Come to the hedgerows’ / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Gracie Butcher, speech in English
31. Riddle: Your twenty geese (‘The’ were a man...’), riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
32. Go and leave me if you wish it (The’ were once I loved with fond affection...’), song [EB’s ‘favourite’] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English, Gracie Butcher, singing in English
33. Ploughboy (‘Girls, do wed a ploughboy all if that you be wise...’) / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
34. Ploughboy, song [fresh start] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
35. Lark in the cornfield, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
36. Story: The scythe (‘Another oul farmer and he had this man...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
37. Story: The bag of coal (‘The’ were two oul brothers yin time...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
38. Dance you up, my bonny brown bear, speech ; song [about performing bear] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English, singing in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Jackie Devenney, speech in English ; Lisa Shields, speech in English ; Gracie Butcher, speech in English
39. Lint pulling, speech [about flax pulling near Castlerock / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English [session continued on 7508] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded in the house of Hugh Shields, Dublin, from Eddie and Gracie Butcher from Magilligan, Co. Derry and from Jackie Devenny (aged about 35, from Coleraine), 8 September 1975 [tracks 1–11, 15]
Recorded from Eddie Butcher in The Tradition Club, Slattery’s pub, Capel St., Dublin 8 September 1975 [tracks 12–14]

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, speech in English Tracks 1-2, 4, 9-10, singing in English Tracks 3, 5, 8, 11-15;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 1-2, 4, 7;
Butcher, Gracie, speech in English Track 2;
Devenney Jackie, singing in English Track 6, speech in English Track 7

Running Order:
1. Talk about Eddie Butcher’s father singing the ‘Silk merchants daughter’ / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Eddie Butcher, speech in English [session continued from 7407]
2. Talk about Kate Curry and the long songs / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Gracie Butcher, speech in English ; Eddie Butcher, speech in English
3. Walling of the men (‘Oh, come all you jolly working men whereever that you be...’), song [words by Eddie Butcher] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. Talk about the song ‘Walling of the men’ / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Gracie Butcher, speech in English
5. The very first night (‘The very first night that we were married...’), song [one-verse fragment] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
6. The mountainy farmer (‘I am a mountainy farmer, I’m fated to work and toil...’), song / Jackie Devenney, singing in English
7. Talk about the song ‘The mountainy farmer’ / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Jackie Devenney, speech in English
8. Rock my wee baby to sleep (‘I married a wife, she was just forty-five...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
9. I hae forgot the password (‘This old boy driv a hackney car...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
10. The Lord Mayor (‘This boy was walking through [the] London...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
11. When a man’s in love (‘When a man’s in love he feels no cold like I not long ago...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
12. Sarah Jane (‘One day for my amusement, it being Sunday afternoon...’), song [words by Jimmy McCurry] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
13. Down the moor (‘One morn in May when fields wee gay...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
14. Opening of two songs not recorded [It’s only a step from Killarney to Heaven (‘It was at a campfire concert...’) and The two sweethearts] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
15. Virgin only nineteen years old (‘As I went a-walking down by the Strand...’). song [fragment of two and a half verses], / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [end of session] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 3–6 March 1979 [tracks 1-10]

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 1, 3-9, speech in English Tracks 2, 10;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 2

Running Order:
1. Aghnacloy town (‘My friends and I left sweet Armoy...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Talk about the preceding song, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
3. Skewball/Stewball (‘Come all you noble gentlemen, I pray listen all...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. Farmer's daughter (‘There were a farmer’s daughter...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
5. Are you from Dixie? (‘Hello there stranger, how do you do?...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
6. Until the morning [fragment] (‘Now I would like to wed again and have a night like you...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
7. Green grows the laurel, song (‘Oh, it’s green grows the laurel and so falls the dew...’) / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
8. Eileen McManus, song (‘One day as I walked along Broadway...’) / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
9. Pat Reilly, song (‘It being on an Easter Monday, it was a play day...’) / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
10. Buy me a goat, story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English [END OF BAND TWO]