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Performers:
Doherty, John, Donegal, fiddle solo A1-9, 11-12, 14-24, 26, B1, 4, 17, 22-, fiddle duet B2-3, 6-7, B13-16, 19-21, speech in English A13, B18, fiddle accompaniment A27-28, fiddle in trio B18;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A10, 25, 27, B9;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A28;
Unidentified performer, (vamps with fiddle only) fiddle in duet B2-3, 6-7, 19-21, fiddle in trio B18;
Unidentified performers, singing in English B8, 10-11;
Unidentified performer, speech in English B12

Running Order:
1. Strathspey: Untitled (beginning clipped)
2. Slip Jig: Untitled (beginning clipped)
3. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
4. Waltz: Untitled (beginning clipped)
5. Waltz: Untitled
6. Hornpipe: Untitled (beginning clipped)
7. Hornpipe: Untitled (beginning clipped)
8. Hornpipe: Untitled (beginning clipped)
9. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
10. Song: Untitled (beginnign clipped)
11. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
12. Air: Untitled (beginning clipped)
13. Speech: The story to Farewell to Music
14. Piece/Hornpipe: Farewell to Music, Untitled
15. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
16. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
17. Air: Untitled (beginning clipped)
18. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
19. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
20. Slip Jig: Untitled (beginning clipped)
21. March: Untitled
22. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
23. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
24. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
25. Song: Untitled (beginning clipped)
26. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
27. Song: Untitled (beginning clipped)
28. Song: Untitled (beginning clipped) [END OF BAND ONE]
29. March: Untitled
30. Jig: Untitled (beginning clipped)
31. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
32. Highland: Untitled (beginning clipped)
33. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
34. Speech/Reel: Untitled ('you can give us a vamp John')
35. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
36. Song: Untitled (beginning clipped)
37. Song: Untitled (beginning clipped)
38. Song: Untitled (beginning clipped)
39. Song: Untitled (beginning clipped)
40. Speech: 'John Doherty won first prize...'
41. Reel: Cuffe Street Reel (beginning clipped)
42. Air: Untitled (beginning clipped)
43. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
44. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
45. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
46. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
47. Speech/Jig: Frank a Phoill's Jig (beginning clipped)
48. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
49. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
50. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
51. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
52. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
53. Reel: Untitled
54. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
55. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
56. Hornpipe: Untitled (beginning clipped)
57. Hornpipe: Untitled (beginning clipped)
58. Reel: Untitled
59. Strathspey: Untitled (clipped) [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded from Joe McCafferty at his house in Derryconor, Co. Donegal, 25 August, 1981 [tracks 1–2] and 29 August 1981 [track 3]

Performers:
McCafferty, Joe, speech in English and Irish Tracks 1, 3, speech in Irish Track 2;
Shields, Lisa, speech in English and Irish Track 1;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English and Irish Tracks 1, 3

Running Order:
1. Speech: Talk about local weather lore, birds, fishermen and harvest night, two heads on the sky, rainbow and half rainbow, storms, at Christmas, New Year, February or March, an Riabhog and borrowing days, cuckoo storm, speech / Joe McCafferty, speech in English ; Lisa Shields, speech in English, Hugh Shields, speech in English
2. Speech: Farewell in Irish to Hugh Shields and his family ('Tá Aedh Ó Siallaigh anseo, é féin agus a bhean...) [END OF BAND ONE]
3. Speech: Talk about booleying, story: Bean de na Síogaí agus an Cú, locality of booleying, cows at Tivalehid, talk about 'gearradh toite' in lieu of chimney, woods found in the bog, numbers of people booleying, local memory of booleying, Olphert landlord, Paddy Dougan informant, houses renewed each year, traces of them, time of evictions, bothóg Hiudaí, traces of it, anecdote about Concheannain an oíche agus a Fhoilleach ar Maidín (‘Sin stócach a bhí i mbioradh[?] againn agus ní raibh an áit ach go measartha...’), speech ; story / Joe McCafferty, speech in English, speech in Irish ; Lisa Shields, speech in English, Hugh Shields, speech in English [end of session. For detailed notes on this lore see documentation] [END OF BAND TWO

Recorded from Joe McCafferty at his house in Derryconor, Co. Donegal, Friday 10 September 1982 [tracks 1–7] and 11 September 1982 [tracks 8–10]

Performers:
McCafferty, Joe, speech in Irish Tracks 1-2, 4-5, 8, 10, speech in Irish and English Tracks 3, 7, singing in Irish Tracks 6, 9;
Shields, Hugh, speech in Irish Track 2, speech in Irish and English Tracks 3, 7

Running Order:
1. Conall ’Ac Fhionnlaoich as an bhealtaine uachtarach agus céad marbh le haon bhuille (‘Bhí fear ann aon am amháin, Conall ’Ac Fhionnlaoich a bHí air...’), story / Joe McCafferty, speech in Irish ; Hugh Shields, speech in Irish
2. Talk about the story ‘Conall ’Ac Fhionnlaoich...’ and two lost stories ‘Clár glas na hÉireanna’ and ‘An tarbh breac’), speech / Joe McCafferty, speech in Irish
3. Talk about an unrecorded comment of Joe’s Aunt Kitty on diction of a radio speaker, speech / Joe McCafferty, speech in Irish, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in Irish, speech in English
4. Story of the following song ‘A Shéamais nach mé a rachainn ’n trá leat’ (clipped)
5. Story of the following song ‘A Shéamais nach mé a rachainn ’n trá leat’ (completed)
6. A Shéamais nach mé a rachainn ’n trá leat, song / Joe McCafferty, singing in Irish [END OF BAND ONE]
7. Talk about the preceding song ‘A Shéamais nach mé a rachainn ’n trá leat’, speech / Joe McCafferty, speech in Irish, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in Irish, speech in English [end of session]
8. Jack na mbascaed (‘Thig oíche Samhna Úir and chéad uair[?] agus thig oíche Fhéile na Marbh an oíche ina diaidh...’), story / Joe McCafferty, speech in Irish
9. Pósadh go h-óg mé (‘Pósadh go h-óg mé mar gheall leis na puntaí...’), song / Joe McCafferty, singing in Irish
10. The words of the song ‘Pósadh go h-óg mé [with extra verse], speech / Joe McCafferty, speech in Irish [end of session][END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded at Clogherhead, Co. Louth from Ann Clarke (age 9) of Drogheda. 10 August 1968 [tracks 1–6]
Recorded at the house of John Gillespie, Doonalt, Glencolmkille, Co. Donegal. 3 September 1968 [tracks 7–12]

Performers:
Ann Clarke (aged 9), speech in English Tracks 1–6;
Kitty Shields, speech in English Track 3;
Christopher Byrne (aged about 20), singing in English Tracks 7, 9;
Margaret Byrne (aged about 21), singing in English Track 8;
Patrick Gillespie (Paddy Phrionsiais), fiddle solo Tracks 10–12, speech in English Tracks 10–12

Running Order:
1. Mammy, Daddy, Uncle John, rhyme / Ann Clarke (9), speech in English
2. Eena, meena, macka, rocka, rhyme / Ann Clarke, speech in English
3. Have you a good memory, catch [involving counting] / Ann Clarke (9), speech in English ; Kitty Shields (9), speech in English
4. Oh I’m a little Dutch girl, song / Ann Clarke, singing in English
5. Chewing-gum a penny a packet, song [for playing ball] / Ann Clarke, singing in English
6. Jelly on the plate, rhyme [chanted] / Ann Clarke, speech in English [end of session]
7. Mulroy Bay (‘When the golden sun is setting far beyond the ocean blue...’), song [words, according to the singer, by Master Friel of Fanad] / Christopher Byrne (about 20), singing in English
8. She lived beside the Anner (‘She lived beside the Anner at the foot of Slievenaman...’), song / Margaret Byrne (about 21), singing in English
9. Moorlough Mary (‘The first time I saw young Moorlough Mary...’), song / Christopher Byrne, singing in English
10. Story about the tune ; The gravel walks to Grainnie, story ; reel / Patrick (Paddy Phroinsiais) Gillespie, speech in English, fiddle
11. Talk about the reel ; My love she’s in America [=The Pure Drop], speech ; reel / Patrick (Paddy Phroinsiais) Gillespie, speech in English, fiddle
12. Talk about the jig ; Gillespie’s favourite, speech, jig [incomplete, full version at 6825], reel / Patrick (Paddy Phroinsiais) Gillespie, speech in English, fiddle [recording session continued at 6125] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded at the house of Charles Boyle (aged about 73), Meenaneary, Carrick, Co. Donegal, 29 August 1968 [tracks 1–2]
Recorded in the house of Bernard Maguire senior (‘Barney’, aged 87) and Bernard Maguire junior (‘Bernard’, aged about 45), Largybrack, Glencolmkille, Co. Donegal, 6 September 1968 [tracks 3–14]

Performers:
Charles Boyle, speech in Irish Tracks 1–2;
Bernard Maguire, singing in Irish Tracks 3, 5, 12, singing in English, 8-9, 11, 14;
Barney Maguire, singing in Irish Tracks 4, 6, 13, singing in English 7, 10

Running Order:
1. Cearrbhach na Rosa. story [=The card-player of the Rosses], / Charles Boyle (aged about 73), speech in Irish
2. Monologue, Charles Boyle, speech in Irish [end of session][
3. O cuirfidh mé tús ar an phósadh, song / Bernard [junior] Maguire (about 45 years), singing in Irish [session continued from 6822 band ii] END OF BAND ONE]
4. O ’s nach aoibhinn ins an tsaol an té a bhíonn-sa ag ól, song / Barney [Bernard senior] Maguire (87), singing in Irish 
5. Trathóna amháin is mé ag siúl an róid (‘Trathóna amháin is mé ag siúl an róid, O casadh domh planda a bhí lán den spórt...’), song / Bernard Maguire, singing in Irish
6. Tá an t-earrach go dian ag creachadh an tsaoil, song / Barney Maguire, singing in Irish
7. [=The hills of Donegal]  (Oh Donegal [that’s] the pride of all, I often think of thee’), song / Bernard Maguire, singing in English
8. The girl I left behind (‘My parents reared me tenderly, they had no boy but me...’), song / Bernard Maguire, singing in English
9. Willy-O (‘Oh Mary sleeping, her true love creeping...’), song / Bernard Maguire, singing in English
10. Where the whins and heather grow (‘Oh I am a lonely exile and it’s over this wide world I must roam...’), song [singer’s title ‘Emigrant’s song’]  / Barney Maguire, singing in English
11. [Going to Mass last Sunday] (‘Oh courting was a pleasant game between my love and I...’), song / Bernard Maguire, singing in English
12. O dá bhfeicfeá an dubh dhílis ar maidin, song / Barney Maguire, singing in Irish
13. Ag teacht an earraí (’S ag teacht an earraí glacfaidh mé talamh agus beidh áras agam féin...’), song / Barney Maguire, singing in Irish
14. Green grows the laurel (‘I once had a true love but now I have none...’), song [sung to the air of ‘The Iniskilling dragoon’, clipped, lacks last verse] / Bernard Maguire, singing in English [end of session] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded in the house of Miss Mary Byrne, Malinbeg, Co. Donegal from Margaret Byrne (aged about 21), 30 August 1968 [track 1]
Recorded in the house of John Gillespie, Doonalt, Glencolmkille, Co. Donegal from Lucy Hegarty (aged about 58), native of Teelin, teaching in Lisburn, Co. Antrim, 30 August 1968 [tracks 2–5]
Recorded at the house of John Byrne, Meenacross, Glencolumkille, Co. Donegal from John Byrne (aged about 70), his son James (aged about 28), Patrick Gillespie (Paddy Phroinsaias], aged about 45) and Joseph (‘Jojo’) Boyle, (aged about 25), 1 September 1968 [tracks 6–15]

Performers:
Margaret Byrne, singing in English Track 1;
Lucy Hegarty, singing in Irish Tracks 2–5;
Patrick Gillespie (Paddy Phroinsiais), fiddle in duet Tracks 6, 11, 15 singing in English Track 9;
James Byrne, fiddle in duet Tracks 6, 11, 15, fiddle solo Tracks 7, 10;
Joseph Boyle ('Jojo'), singing in Irish Track 8;
John Byrne, fiddle solo, Track 12–14

Running Order:
1. Erin’s lovely lee (‘On March the sixth in sixty-nine we sailed from Queenstown quay...’), song / Margaret Byrne, singing in English [session continued from 6122] [end of session]
2. Pil, pill, a rúin o, song [repeated on high pitch, verses reordered] / Lucy Hegarty, singing in Irish 
3. An draighneán donn (‘Síleann céad fear gur leo féin mé nuair a ólaim leann...’), song / Lucy Hegarty, singing in Irish
4. An buinneán buí (‘A bhuinneán buí ’sé mo léan do luí...’), song / Lucy Hegarty, singing in Irish
5. Éirigh is cuir ort do chuid éadaí, song [fragmented] / Lucy Hegarty, singing in Irish [end of session]
6. Meenacross reel [= The pinch of snuff], reel / Patrick (Paddy Phroinsiais) Gillespie, fiddle; James Byrne, fiddle
7. Miss McLeod’s reel / James Byrne, fiddle
8. Sean Dun na nGall (‘O grá gheal mo chroi thú, Tír Chonaill a stór...’, song / Joseph (‘Jojo’) Boyle, singing in Irish
9. Bodenstown churchyard, song (‘In Bodenstown churchyard there lies a green grave...’), song / Patrick (Paddy Phroinsiais) Gillespie, singing in English
10. Croaghacullion reel / James Byrne, fiddle
11. Michael Coleman’s reel / Patrick (Paddy Phroinsiais) Gillespie, fiddle ; James Byrne, fiddle
12. Ri Mhin na Saileach, highland / John Byrne, fiddle solo
13. Untitled [Paddy named it ‘John and Biddy’s jig’], jig [clipped at start] / John Byrne, fiddle
14. Untitled [Paddy named it ‘Lordy’s jig’ after nickname of Jojo’s grandfather, Hugh Boyle], jig / John Byrne, fiddle
15. Untitled / Patrick (Paddy Phroinsiais) Gillespie, fiddle ; James Byrne, fiddle

Recorded in the house of Joe McCafferty, Derryconor, Co. Donegal, 30 July 1977 [copied from 7701 cassette] [tracks A5–6)
Recorded in the house of Joe McCafferty, Derryconor, Co. Donegal, 18 August 1977 [tracks A1–4, 6–9)
Recorded at the house of Joe Phil Beag Rogers, Ballard, Arranmore Island, Co. Donegal, 19 August 1977 [tracks 10–17]

Performers:
McCafferty, Joe, speech in Irish Tracks 1, 3, 7-8, speech in English Tracks 2, 4, singing in English Tracks 5-6;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 2, 4, 11-12, 15-16;
Shields, Lisa, speech in English Track 4;
McCafferty, Cait, speech in Irish Track 9;
Rogers, Joe Phil Beag, singing in English Tracks 10, 13-14, 17, speech in English Tracks 11-12, 15-16

Running Order:
1. Story: Leann den fhraoch (‘Nuair a thainig na hÉireannaig— na Lochlannaí isteach go hÉirinn...’), story / Joe McCafferty, speech in Irish
2. Queries on the songs ‘Gleanntán an coillidh uaignigh’, ‘Rusty mare’, ‘Séamus Mac Murchaidh’, ‘Seacht ndólas na Maighdine Muire’, speech / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Joe McCafferty, speech in English
3. Liam an tSoip [see English version ‘Willy the Wisp’ on HS 7702] (‘Bhí fear ann fadó shin: gabaha a bhí ann...’), story / Joe McCafferty, speech in Irish
4. Talk about the story 'Liam an tSoip' and Joe McCafferty's family history,speech / Joe McCafferty, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Lisa Shields, speech in English
5. The Grey Fanad Mare (‘Yous Donegal heroes wherever you be...’) / Joe McCafferty singing in English, song [copied from HS 7701 cassette] / Joe McCafferty singing in English
6. The Grey Fanad Mare (take two), song / Joe McCafferty singing in English
7. Speech: Farewell (‘Beannacht leat [to Lisa] agus coisreacadh De agus na Maighdine Muire...’), speech / Joe McCafferty, speech in Irish
8. Farewell (‘Beannacht...’) (fresh start), speech / Joe McCafferty, speech in Irish
9. Farewell (‘Mo seacht mbennacht agus beannacht De oraibh uile...’), speech / Cáit McCafferty, speech in Irish [end of session] [END OF BAND ONE]
10. Caroline of Edinburgh Town (‘Come all you lads and lasses and listen to my rhyme...’), song / Joe Phil Beag Rogers, singing in English
11. Talk about the song 'Caroline of Edinburgh Town', speech / Joe Phil Beag Rogers, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
12. Introduction to the song 'The Rocks of Islandcrone', speech / Joe Phil Beag ; Rogers, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
13. The Rocks of Islandcrone (‘Come all you lads and lasses wherever you may be...’), song / Joe Phil Beag Rogers, singing in English
14. The Rocks of Islandcrone (fresh start), song / Joe Phil Beag Rogers, singing in English
15. Speech: Text of a verse from the song 'The Rocks of Islandcrone' spoken, speech / Joe Phil Beag ; Rogers, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
16. Introduction to the song 'Come All You sporting fellows', speech / Joe Phil Beag ; Rogers, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
17. Song: Come All You sporting fellows (Come all you sporting fellows along with me did run...’), song / Joe Phil Beag Rogers, singing in English [end of session] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded in Andrew Early's lounge bar, Leabgarrow, Arranmore, Co. Donegal, 26 August 1977 [tracks1–19]
Recorded in Andrew Early's sitting room, Leabgarrow, Arranmore, Co. Donegal, 26 August 1977 evening [tracks 20–26]
Recorded in the house of Charlie Rua Coll, age 93, Ballintra, Arranmore, 31 July 1977 [session copied from cassette 7701, spoiled by hum] [tracks 27–35]

Performers:
?, Condy, accordion solo Tracks 1-4;
Boner, Packy, accordion solo Tracks 5-8, 10, 12, 14-16, speech in English Tracks 9, 11, A16, lilting Track 17;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 9, 11, 16, 20, 26, 30, 33, 35;
Molloy, Mick, speech in English Tracks 10, 13, 19, singing in English Tracks 13, 18;
Early, Andrew, speech in English Tracks 20, 22, 26, 28, singing in Irish Tracks 21, singing in English Tracks 23-25;
Coll, Charlie Ruaidh, singing in English Tracks 27, 29, 34, speech in English Tracks 28, 30, 33 35;
Mary née McColl, singing in Irish, singing in English Track 31, speech in English Tracks 32-33

Running Order:
1. The cock of the North, slide / Condy, accordion solo [continuation of 7706]
2. Popular air, / Condy, accordion solo
3. Father Murphy, air / Condy, accordion solo
4. Undentified reel, / Condy, accordion solo
5. An chrubach i dToraigh / Packy Boner, accordion solo
6. The Shamrock Shore / Packy Boner, accordion solo ; Condy, singing in English
7. Unidentified marches / Packy Boner, accordion solo
8. Glendoon Highland, / Packy Boner, accordion solo
9. Talk about the tune ‘Glendoon Highland’, speech / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Packy Boner, speech in English
10. Miss [Mrs.] Drummonds of Perth, jig / Packy Boner, accordion solo
11. Talk about the jig ‘Miss/Mrs. Drummonds of Perth’ / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Packy Boner, speech in English ; Mick Molloy, speech in English
12. Westering home, waltz / Packy Boner, accordion
13. We started with George Wimpy (‘Sure we’re back in old Ireland in the County Mayo...’), recitation [fragment] and song / Mick Molloy, speech in English, singing in English
14. Father Murphy, air / Packy Boner, accordion solo
15. The Londonderry hornpipe / Packy Boner, accordion solo
16. All the ways to go, jig and talk about it, speech / Packy Boner, accordion solo, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
17. All the ways to go, jig / Packy Boner, lilt
18. Football song / Mick Molloy, singing in English
19. 1967 The European Cup (‘Eleven men they hammered until Gemmell found the crack...’), recitation / Mick Molloy, speech in English [end of session]
20. Introduction to the song ‘Tá crioth ar mo chroí’, speech / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Andrew Early, speech in English
21. Tá crioth ar mo chroí (‘.........nach gneasoinn go deo [?]...’), song / Andrew Early, singing in Irish
22. The lonely Jersey bull (‘I was born in far-off Canada where prairies do abound...’) , recitation song [learnt by AE in America from the composer, Pete Sweeney, from whom he also learned Irish] / Andrew Early, singing in Irish, speech in English
23. The Lowlands of Holland (‘The first night I got married, on a marriage bed I lay...’), song (clipped) [learnt from the well-known ‘Róise na namhrán’, Mrs Green, Scraigathoke, Arranmore] / Andrew Early, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
24. The lowlands of Holland (‘The first night I got married and lay on a marriage bed...’) (complete) / Andrew Early, singing in English
25. The lonely Jersey bull, song / Andrew Early, singing in English
26. Talk about the song ‘The lonely Jersey bull’, speech / Andrew Early, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English [end of session]
27. The loyal lover (‘Come all you loyal lovers, wherever you may be...’), song [copied from 7701 cassette] / Charlie Rua McColl, singing in English
28. Talk about the song ‘The loyal lover’, speech [copied from 7701 cassette]] / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Charlie Rua McColl, speech in English [copied from 7701 cassette]
29. Caroline of Edinburgh town (‘Come all you loyal lovers and come listen to my rhyme...’), song [copied from 7701 cassette] / Charlie Rua McColl, singing in English
30. Talk about the song ‘Caroline of Edinburgh town, speech [copied from 7701 cassette] / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Charlie Rua McColl, speech in English ; Mary née McColl [?], speech in English
31. The words of the bilingual song ‘Trathnóna álainn samhraidh’ (‘Trathnóna álainn samhraidh ‘s an grian ag gabháil a luí...’), song [session copied from 7701 cassette / Mary née McColl [Charlie’s daughter], singing in Irish, singing in English
32. Trathnóna álainn samhraidh [fragment], and talk, song ; speech / Mary née McColl, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
33. Talk about the song ‘Trathnóna álainn samhraidh’ and local matters, speech [copied from 7701 cassette]/ Mary née McColl, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Charlie Rua McColl, speech in English
34. Erin’s green shore (‘ [One evening] of late as I strayed on the banks of a clear silvery stream...’), song [copied from 7701 cassette] / Charlie Rua McColl, singing in English
35. Talk about the song ‘Erin’s green shore’, speech [copied from 7701 cassette] / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Charlie Rua McColl, speech in English [end of the session copied from 7701 cassette. Original tape has recording here of middle C on the Orion cassette machine used for HS 7701 from which this session was copied] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded from Joe McCafferty in his house at Derryconor, Cloghaneely, Co. Donegal, 25 August 197l. [tracks 1-10]
(Recording mostly spoiled by hum)
See Note below by Lisa Shields 22 Feb 2024

Performers:
McCafferty, Joe, singing in Irish Tracks 1, 3, 5-7, speech in English Tracks 2, 9, speech in Irish and English Track 4, speech in Irish Track 8;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 2, 9

Running Order:
1. Cailin deas cluiteach na mbo ('Thug mise rúid fá na Gleanntaí Agus tharlaí damh cailín deas óg...’) [Text just composed by Joe], song / Joe McCafferty, speech in English / Joe McCafferty, singing in Irish
2. Talk about the following song, speech / Joe McCafferty, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
3. An Crúibín i dToraigh (’S an lá sin a chuaidh Crúibín go Toraigh...’), song [fragment] / Joe McCafferty, singing in Irish
4. Talk about the preceding song, speech / Joe McCafferty, speech in Irish and English
5. Seacht ndólás na Maighdine Muire (‘Na seacht subhailce [sic].a fuair an Mhaidin Bheannaithe...’), song / Joe McCafferty, speech in English
6. Bhi mise lá ag gabhail go Neóinín (‘Bhi mise lá ag gabhail go Neóinín is tharlaí damh triúr cailín óg...’), song / Joe cCafferty, singing in Irish
7. Seacht ndólás na Maighdine Muire (‘Na seacht subhailce [sic].a fuair an Mhaidin Bheannaithe...’), song / Joe McCafferty, singing in Irish
8. Spoken verses of ‘Seacht ndólás na Maighdine Muire’, speech / Joe McCafferty, speech in English
9. Talk about the preceding song, about the rosary and about ‘Dán na marbh’, speech / Joe McCafferty, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded at the house of Miss Mary Byrne (‘Máire Johnny Johndy’, 74 years), Bunglass Road, Teelin, Co. Donegal, 18 September 1968

Performers:
Mary Byrne, singing in Irish Tracks 1–4, 11, singing in English Tracks 8, 10, lilting Track 9;
Mrs Mary Cassidy, singing in English Tracks 5, 7, singing in Irish Tracks 6–7

Running Order:
1. An sean-duine dóite (‘Dá bhfuighfeadh an sean-duine an úsáid ba chóir dó...’), song / Miss Mary Byrne (‘Máire Johnny Johndy’,  74 years), singing in Irish
2. Bríd bhán (‘Ní thaaitneann liom-sa an sliabh...’), song [fragment] /  Mary Byrne (‘Máire Johnny Johndy’), singing in Irish
3. Bríd bhán, song [fragment] /  Mary Byrne (‘Máire Johnny Johndy’), singing in Irish 
4. Bríd bhán, song [complete] /  Mary Byrne (‘Máire Johnny Johndy’), singing in Irish
5. She left the fair shores (‘She left the fair shores of her own native Ireland...’), song / Mrs Mary Cassidy (née Haughey, age about 54), singing in English
6. Is trua gan mé thiar ag Eóinín Ó Ragadáin, song [fragments—for complete version by her mother see  6833 track A6] / Mrs Mary Cassidy, singing in Irish
7. Rock a bye baby on the tree top ; seo ba, seo ba, seo ba , mo leanbh [fragment], lullabies [to  air  of ‘Rocking the cradle’] /  Mary Cassidy, singing in English, singing in Irish
8. The banks of Claudy (‘As I roved out one evening it being in the month of June...’), song  /  Mary Byrne (‘Máire Johnny Johndy’), singing in English
9. Sidhe piper’s tune, reel  /  Mary Byrne (‘Máire Johnny Johndy’), lilt
10. Lough Swilly shore (‘Farewell, friends, I’m going to leave you...’) /  Mary Cassidy, singing in English
11. A chaora bheag dhílis, song [from school] /  Mary Cassidy, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]