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Alen MacWeeney Collection Ireland: Singing in English
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Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 17A [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Furey Family, The, instrumental group A1, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14;
O Conaire, Sean, singing in English A2, 4;
Unidentified performer [Joe Walsh?], singing in English A3;
Unidentified performer [Des O'Connor?], whistle A5-6;
Furey, Ted, fiddle A9-10;
Furey, Finbar, pipes A13

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [The Flogging Reel]
2. Song: Once There Lived a Captain
3. Song: Untitled [By the Pleasant Slaney Side ?]
4. Song: Untitled [She Lived beside the Anner]
5. Jig: Untitled [The Gold Ring, Willie Clancy version]
6. Reel: Untitled [The Ravelled Hank of Yarn] [END OF BAND ONE]
7. Reels: The Woman of the House, The Earl's Chair
8. Hornpipe: Cooley's Hornpipe
9. Jig: The Cliffs of Moher
10. Air: Na Connerys
11. Reels: The Mountain Lark [The Steampacket], The Morning Star, Miss McLeod]
12. Set Dance: The Three Sea Captains
13. Set Dance: The Job of Journeywork, Johnny Doran setting
14. Reels: Scotch Mary, The Flogging Reel (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 17B [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English A1, 6, B2;
Stokes, Patrick, speech in English A1-2;
singing in English A3;
Cassidy, Johnny, storytelling in English A4-6;
Cassidy (Flynn), Kate, speech in English B1-2;
Court, Artelia, New York, speech in English B2;
Unidentified performer (child) [Dan?], singing in English B3-4

Running Order:
1. Speech: Talk with Pat Stokes about nuns and priests owning property etc and orphans
2. Speech: Story about the cow's head as the devil
3. Song: Cod Liver Oil
4. Story: The Seven Little Pipers - tale by Johnny Cassidy (52 years) (recording defect)
5. Story: The Grey-haired Norrissey's Skull - clears defect when he meets Grey-haired Norrissey's daughter
6. Speech: The Grey-haired Norrissey's Skull [explanation] [END OF BAND ONE]
7. Speech: Stories about All Souls Day and Night - Kate Cassidy (Flynn), practices etc.
8. Speech: True incidents with the Cassidy family with ghosts and spirits and fairies; the tokens which the dead use; stories about hand touches, steps of the dead, of horses and dogs and shoes and mean woman curing priests, etc
9. Song: All Off to Dublin / The Jolly Ploughboy
10. Song: Agricultural Girl [The Agricultural Irish Girl] [END OF BAND TWO]

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