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Recorded from Eddie Butcher at the house of Hugh Shields, Dublin, 1 –10 July, 1968 [tracks 1–3]

Performer:
Eddie Butcher, singing in English Tracks 1–3

Running Order:
1. The English harvest [=Irish harvest-men's triumph] (‘Come all your true-bred Irishmen that is intent to roam...’), song   [singer starts again] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Johnny my man (‘Johnny my man, do you not think of rising?...’) / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. The Shamrock Shore [‘Edward Conor’] (‘Oh come all you loyal lovers, give ear all for a while...’), song [incomplete: for complete text see 6813] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English  [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded in the house of John Gillespie, Doonalt, Glencolmkille, Co. Donegal from Charles Boyle (aged about 74) and his son Bernard (aged about 30), 2 September 1968 [tracks 1–3]
Recorded in the house of John Gillespie, Doonalt, Glencolmkille, Co. Donegal, 3 September 1968 [tracks 4–11]
Recorded in Gillespie’s public house, Main Street, Cashel, Glencolumkille, Co. Donegal, from Patrick Heekin (aged about 52), of Garraros, Glencolumkille, 10 September 1968 [tracks 12–22]
Recorded in the house of John Gillespie, Doonalt, Glencolmkille, Co. Donegal from Charles Boyle (AGED ABOUT 74) and his son Bernard (aged about 30), 2 September 1968 [tracks 1–3]

Performers:
Charles Boyle, singing in English Tracks 1–2;
Bernard Boyle, singing in Irish Track 3;
Patrick Gillespie (Paddy Phrioniais), fiddle solo Tracks 4, 9;
Christopher Byrne, singing in English Tracks 5–6, 8, 10;
Margaret Byrne, singing in English Tracks 7, 11;
Patrick Heekin, speech in Irish Track 12, singing in English Tracks 13–22

Running Order:
1. The flower of sweet Strabane (‘If I were king of Ireland and all things at my will...’), song / Charles Boyle (aged about 73), singing in English [session continued from 6824]
2. The valley of Knockanure (‘You may boast and speak about Easter week...’), song / Charles Boyle, singing in English
3. Rhyme: Bhí Humpty-Dumpty ina shuí ar an bhalla, rhyme [from school], Bernard Boyle, speech in Irish [end of session]
4. Gillespie’s favourite, jig / Patrick (Paddy Phroinsiais) Gillespie (aged about 45), fiddle
5. The bonny bunch of roses (‘By the margin of the ocean one pleasant morning in the month of June...’), song / Christopher Byrne (aged about 20), singing in English
6. Molly Bawn (‘Come all you young fowlers who handle a gun...’), song [learnt from Packy Manus Byrne, Bruckless, Co. Donegal] / Christopher Byrne, singing in English
7. Bold Robert Emmet (‘The struggle is over, the boys are defeated...’), song / Maraget Byrne, singing in English
8. The Shamrock Shore, song (‘With grief of mind [?] and me combine...’), song / Christopher Byrne, singing in English
9. Lyons’ favourite, jig / Patrick (Paddy Phroinsiais) Gillespie, fiddle
10. Galway Bay (’Tis far away I am today...’) / Christopher Byrne, singing in English
11. The Drumboe martyrs (’Twas the feast of St Patrick by the dawn of the day...’), song / Maraget Byrne, singing in English [end of session] [END OF BAND ONE]
12. D’ith damh dubh uibh amh ar neamh indiu, saying [used by an Englishman to prove that the Irish language sounds like dogs barking] ; Tá bean bheag amuigh ansin, ta sí ró-fhranncach, Gúna beag buff uirthi, bearad is plaincéid, riddle [beathóg: bee] ; Teachtaire beag ó theach go theach [sic] Agus bhíonn sé amugih san oíche, riddle [Casán: path] ; Chuaidh mé amach maidin brea ceo Agus chonnaic mé an marbh ag iompar an bheo, riddle [bád: boat] / Patrick Heekin, speech in Irish 
13. The bark and the tree [=The nobleman’s wedding] (‘In yon weeping willow there grows a nice flower...’), song / Patrick Heekin, singing in English
14. [Stock and wall] [=Captain Wedderburn’s courtship] (‘A nobleman’s fair dauaghter walked down a narrow lane...’), song / Patrick Heekin, singing in English
15. The banks of sweet Dundee (‘It being of a farmer’s daughter, most beautiful I’m told...’), song / Patrick Heekin, singing in English
16. The bonny moorhen (‘As I was going over yon mulberry bog...’) song / Patrick Heekin, singing in English
17. The grey mare (‘Roger the miller came courting of late...’) song / Patrick Heekin, singing in English
18. There lived in this town a very nice couple, song / Patrick Heekin, singing in English
19. Cock-a-doodle-doo (‘Delaney from the market brought a fowl a month ago...’), song [ending clipped] / Patrick Heekin, singing in English [session continued at 6830] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded in the house of Andrew Maguire, Drim, Glencolmkille from his wife Agnes (aged about 50) and their daughter-in-law Teresa Maguire, née Cannon (aged about 24), 4 September 1968 [tracks 1–5]
Recorded outside the house of Bernard (Barney) Maguire (aged 87) and his son Bernard (aged about 45), Largybrack, Glencolumkille, Co. Donegal, 5 September 1968 [tracks 6–9]
Recorded in the house of John Bán Byrne (aged about 52), Malinbeg, Co. Donegal, 5 September 1968 [tracks 10–11]

Performers:
Agnes Maguire (aged about 50 years), singing in Irish Tracks 1–2, speech in Irish Track 5;
Hugh Shields, speech in English Track 3;
Andrew Maguire, speech in English Track 3;
Teresa Maguire, singing in English Track 4;
Bernard Maguire, speech in Irish Tracks 6–8, singing in Irish Track 9;
John Byrne, singing in English Tracks 10–11

Running Order:
1. Tá gleann beag ro-aoibhinn i n-Éirinn, song [the air of ‘Erin’s green shore’] / Agnes Maguire (aged about 50), singing in Irish
2. Camas Binne (Bhí Camas Binne ag seinm ceoil díobh...’), song [about a shipwreck] / Agnes Maguire singing in Irish
3. Talk about the song (‘Camas Binne’), speech / Andrew Maguire, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
4. Columkille’s station (‘Between two mountains deep and grand lies Columkille’s old station...’), song [air of ‘The girl I left behind me’] / Teresa Maguire (aged about 24), singing in English
5. Spoken text of the song ‘Camas Binne’, recitation /Agnes Maguire, speech in Irish [end of session]
6. Spoken text of the song ‘[Eirigh] suas a fhear an tighe’, recitation / Bernard (Barney) Maguire (aged 87), speech in Irish
7. Spoken text of the song ‘Camas Binne’, recitation / Bernard (Barney) Maguire, speech in Irish
8. Spoken verse of the song ‘[Éirigh] suas is cuir ort do chuid éadaí’, recitation / Bernard (Barney) Maguire, speech in Irish
9. (Éirigh) suas is cuir ort do chuid éadaí, song / Bernard (Barney) Maguire, singing in Irish [end of session]
10. The rocks of Bawn (‘Come all you loyal heroes wherever that you be...’), song / John Bán Byrne, singing in English
11. Little Sir Hugh, song [old ballad, sung to the air of ‘Edward’ as sung by Paddy Tunney] / John Bán Byrne, singing in English [session continued on 6827] [END OF BAND ONE

Recorded in the house of John Bán Byrne (aged about 52), Malinbeg, Co. Donegal, 5 September 1968 [tracks 1–6]
Recorded in the house of Bernard Maguire senior (Barney), aged 87), Largybrack, Glencolmkille, Co. Donegal, 6 September 1968 [tracks 7–8]

Performers:
John Bán Byrne, singing in English Tracks 1–3, fiddle solo Tracks 4–6;
Barney Maguire, singing in Irish Tracks 7–8

Running Order:
1. Barbara Ellen (‘It being about the Christmas time when green leaves they were falling...’), song [old ballad] / John Bán Byrne, singing in English
2. The dark-eyed gipsy(‘There were three gipsies in the East...’), song [old ballad] / John Bán Byrne, singing in English
3. Willy O (‘[Willie, Willie,] where are the blushes...’), song [fragment] / John Bán Byrne, singing in English
4. Untitled [= Old man Dillon], jig / John Bán Byrne, fiddle
5. The 'Old foggy dew', march / John Bán Byrne, fiddle
6. Highland: Untitled, highland / John Bán Byrne, fiddle [end of session]
7. Tá mo ghrádh-sa pósta (‘O tá mo ghrádh-sa ‘póstaí’ Is níl stór agam le fáil...’), song / Barney Maguire (aged 87), singing in Irish [session continued from 6822]
8. An cailín Sian (‘ ’Sa filleadh aniar domh sa [?] chailín tSian...’), song / Barney Maguire, singing in Irish [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from John Duggan (aged about 48) at the house of John Gillespie, Doonalt, Glencolmkille, Co. Donegal , 8 September 1968 [tracks 1–2]

Performers:
John Duggan, singing in English Tracks 1–2

Running Order:
1. Molly Bawn (‘Oh come all you late fowlers, of hunting there [?] shun...’), song / John Duggan (aged about 48), singing in English [session continued from 6828] [END OF BAND ONE]
2. Barbry Ellen (‘It being about the Christmas time...’), song [old ballad] / John Duggan, singing in English [end of session] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded in the house of Charles (75 years) and Dennis (77 years) Cunningham, Straleel, Carrick, Co. Donegal, 14 September 1968 [tracks 1–2]
Recorded at the house of John Gillespie, Doonalt, Glencolumkille, Co. Donegal from Alphonsus Ward of Teelin (headmaster of Carrick National School, aged about 55) and his daughter Máire, 16 September 1968 [tracks 3–5]
Recorded in the house of Mrs Mary Haughey (74 years), the Cruaghlans, Teelin, Co. Donegal, 18 September 1968 [tracks 6–7]
Recorded in the house of Mrs. Susan Cunningham (‘Susie Phaidí Óig’), aged 78), Aghery, Teelin, Co. Donegal, 18 September 1968 [tracks 8–13]

Performers:
Charles Cunningham, singing in English Track 1, singing in Irish Track 2;
Alphonsus Ward, singing in Irish Tracks 3–4;
Marie Ward, singing in Irish Track 5;
Mary Haughey, singing in Irish Tracks 6–7;
Susan Cunningham, singing in English Tracks 8–13

Running Order:
1. The Irish jaunting car (‘I am an Irish jarvey, old Ireland is my home...’), / Charles Cunningham (75), singing in English [session continued from 6832]
2. Bríd bhán (‘Is ní thaitneann liom do shliabh...’), song / Charles Cunningham, singing in Irish [end of session]
3. Bean dubh an ghleanna [=Moll dubh an ghleanna] (‘Tá bó agam ar an tsliabh agus bím-se seal ’na diaidh...’), song / Alphonsus Ward (age about 55), singing in Irish
4. Bean an fhir ruaidh (‘A bhruinneall gan smál ’bhfuil na dealraitheacha deasa [i] do ghruaidh...’) , song / Alphonsus Ward, singing in Irish
5. Connlach glas an fhomhair (‘Ar chonnlach glais an fhómhair, a stóirín, a dhearc mé thú...’), Máire Ward (age about 19), singing in Irish [end of session]
6. Is trua gan mé thiar (‘Is trua gan mé thiar ag Eóinín Ó Ragadáin...’), song / Mrs Mary Haughey (74 years, mother of  Seán Haughey, collector for the Irish Folklore Commission), singing in Irish
7. Tá an brosnáil [?] ag cur thairsti agus í lán go’n bruach, song [fragment] , song / Mrs Mary Haughey, singing in Irish [end of session]
8. The eviction of Father McGroarty (‘You true sons of this country, both one and all rejoice...’),  song / Mrs Susan Cunningham (‘Susie Phaidí Óig’, aged 78), singing in English
9. The banks of the Foyle (‘I know a wee spot, it’s a spot of great fame...’) [=Londonderry on the banks of  the Foyle], song / Mrs Susan Cunningham (‘Susie Phaidí Óig’), singing in English
10. The weary gallows (‘My love is one of the finest young men...’), song [learnt from her mother] / Mrs Susan Cunningham (‘Susie Phaidí Óig’), singing in English
11. There was a girl in this place most beautiful to see, song [learnt from her mother] / Mrs Susan Cunningham (‘Susie Phaidí Óig’), singing in English
12. The Titanic, song [clipped, only half a line / Mrs Susan Cunningham (‘Susie Phaidí Óig’), singing in English (END OF BAND ONE)
13. The Titanic (‘It was on the tenth of April in the year nineteen hundred and twelve...’), song [complete, same air as track A12] / Mrs Susan Cunningham (‘Susie Phaidí Óig’), singing in English [end of session] (END OF BAND TWO)

Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 16 July 1969 [tracks 1–3]
Recorded at the house of Michael O’ Hara, Tartnakelly, Glack, Limavady, Co. Derry, 17 July 1969 [tracks 4–6]
Recorded in the house of Eddie Butcher at Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, from Robert Butcher junior [age about 48, son of Eddie’s brother Robert, deceased] 21 July 1969 [tracks 7–8]
Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 23 July 1969 [track 9]

Performers:
Eddie Butcher, singing in English Tracks 1, 3, speech in English Tracks 2, 9;
Hugh Shields, speech in English Tracks 2, 5, 9;
Lizzie O' Hara, singing English Tracks 4, 6, speech in English Track 5;
Robert Butcher (junior), singing in English Tracks 7–8

Running Order:
1. The Boston burglar (‘I was born and bred in Boston, a city you all know well...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [session continued from 6901]
2. Conversation about ‘The Boston burglar’, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
3. The wild colonial Boy (‘It’s of a wild colonial boy, Dan Dolan was his name...’), song [learnt from Bill Quigley] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [end of session]
4. The bonny wee lass of the glen (‘It being on a bright summer’s morning, alone as I carelessly strayed...’), song [learnt from her elder sister] / Mrs Lizzie O’Hara (age about 56, from Carnymuff) singing in English
5. Conversation about ‘The bonny wee lass of the glen’, speech / Mrs Lizzie O’Hara, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
6. The bright silvery light of the moon (‘As I strayed by a cot, it being at the close of day...’), song / Mrs Lizzie O’Hara, singing in English [continued at 6903] [END OF BAND ONE]
7. Old Falcarragh town (‘Last week I had a pleasant trip, I treasured every mile...’), song [ words attributed to Paddy O’Grady of Balliness, & learnt by Robert from Falcarragh girls visiting, air ‘Lovely Leitrim’] / Robert Butcher junior singing in English
8. Lovely old Fintown (‘My countrymen, I take my pen to write a verse or two...’), song / Robert Butcher junior singing in English [session continued on 6925]
9. Queries on songs, speech / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Eddie Butcher, speech in English [session continued from 6919] [end of session] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded at the house of Michael O’ Hara, Tartnakelly, Glack, Limavady, Co. Derry, 17 July 1969 from his wife Lizzie and daughter Ursula [tracks 1–8]
Recorded in the house of Patrick (Patsy) Beatty (75), Glack, Limavady, Co. Derry, 17 July 1969 [tracks A9–11, 25–27]
Recorded in the house of Eddie Butcher, Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 17 July 1969 [tracks 12–24]

Performers:
Ursula O' Hara, singing in English Tracks 1, 4–5, 8, speech in English Tracks 3, 6–7, 15, 18, 20–24;
Lizzie O' Hara, singing English Tracks 2, 14;
Patrick (Patsy) Beatty, fiddle solo Tracks 9–11, 25–26, speech in English Track 27;
Micheal O' Hara, singing in English Track 12, speech in English Tracks 13, 19;
Hugh Shields, speech in English Tracks 15, 19, 27;
Edward Butcher, speech in English Tracks 16–17

Running Order:
1. The Boston burglar (‘I was born and raised in Boston, a place you all know well...’), song / Ursula O’Hara (10), singing in English [session continued from 6902]
2. The star of Donegal (‘I met with many a pretty lass in lands far over the sea...’), song / Mrs Lizzie O’Hara, singing in English
3. Poor little sandy girl sitting on a stool, rhyme / Ursula O’Hara, speech in English
4. In and out goes the dusty bluebells, song / Ursula O’Hara, singing in English
5. Skip, skip, skip to Maloo, song / Ursula O’Hara, singing in English
6. Ring a ring a rosie, rhyme / Ursula O’Hara, speech in English
7. Round and round the garden, rhyme / Ursula O’Hara, speech in English
8. The sweet nightingale (‘Pretty maid, come along...’), song [learnt in classroom] / Ursula O’Hara, singing in English [end of session]
9. Untitled [=Mrs McLeod’s], reel / Patrick (Patsy) Beatty (75), fiddle solo
10. Untitled [=The harvest home], hornpipe / Patrick (Patsy) Beatty), fiddle solo
11. Untitled [=Scully Casey’s?], hornpipe / Patrick (Patsy) Beatty, fiddle solo
12. Brian O’ Lynn (‘Brian O’ Lynn and his wife and his mother...’), song / Michael O’Hara, singing in English
13. Brian O’ Lynn, recitation [verses one and two] / Michael O’Hara, speech in English
14. Here’s a health to the company, song / Mrs Lizzie O’Hara, singing in English
15. If a fellow met a fellow, tongue-twister / Ursula O’Hara (10), speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
16. Old madam Buntyfoot, tongue-twister / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
17. Three wee roo-ra curly munted [?] pigs, tongue-twister / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
18. A creel of peats, tongue-twister / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
19. Says he to me, is that you?, tongue-twister [spoken twice, fast and slow] / Ursula O’Hara, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
20. Keep the kettle boiling, rhyme / Ursula O’Hara, speech in English
21. Someone’s under the bed, rhyme [take one] / Ursula O’Hara, speech in English
22. Someone’s under the bed, rhyme [take two / Ursula O’Hara, speech in English
23. I like coffee, rhyme [take one] / Ursula O’Hara, speech in English
24. I like coffee, rhyme [take two / Ursula O’Hara, speech in English)
25. The heathery breeze reel / Patrick (Patsy) Beatty (75), fiddle
26. Mrs. McLeod reel / Patrick (Patsy) Beatty, fiddle
27. Talk about fiddle-playing and his father, speech [clipped, but continued at 6919] / Patrick (Patsy) Beatty, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 18 July 1969 [track 1]
Recorded from Mrs Tilly Quigley in the house of William (Bill) and Tillie Quigley, Bellarena, Limavady, Co. Derry, 18 July 1969 [tracks 2–3]

Performers:
Butcher, Edward, singing in English Track 1;
Quigley, Tilly, singing in English Track 2, speech in English Track 3;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 3

Running Order:
1. [The maid of ] Sligo town (‘As I roved out one evening in the spring-time of the year,  To take a walk by Rodden’s groves my course I chanced to steer...’) song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [session] continued from 6907]
2. The bonny green tree (‘As I went out walking one fine summer’s evening,  A fine summer’s evening it happened to be...’) / Mrs Tilly Quigley, singing in English [new session]
3. Talk about the song ‘The bonny green tree’ and about the ‘Dark-eyed gypsy’, speech / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Tilly Quigley, speech in English [session continued on 6909] [END OF BAND ONE]