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Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 149 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 76

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 149 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 76

  • HSH-18739/1/259117/76
  • Part
  • June 1966 ; July 1966 ; August 1966 ; May 1967 ; July 1967

    • Part of Hugh Shields Collection

Shamrock rose and thistle, off-air recording of radio programme on Ulster singing, written and presented by Hugh Shields, songs sung by Eddie Butcher (RTÉ, July 1967) [Songs featured are: The Faughan side, The weary gallows, The banks of the Bann, My bonny Irish boy, She moved through the fair (one verse sung by Margaret Barry), Down by the canal (one verse sung by Hugh Shields), Our wedding day (complete), Free and easy to jog along (complete), The crockery ware, My love wears the tarry trousers, Barbara Allen]
Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 149 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 77

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 149 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 77

  • HSH-18739/1/259117/77
  • Part
  • June 1966 ; July 1966 ; August 1966 ; May 1967 ; July 1967

    • Part of Hugh Shields Collection

The folk music virtuoso, radio programme [off-air recording from BBC 3rd programme, by A.L. Lloyd August 1966: field recordings from Venezuela (native harps etc), Uganda (drums), South Transylvanian gypsies (7/8 time, fiddle, lute), Bulgaria (reaping song), Asturian cattle drovers, Ireland (Seán McDonagh singing ‘Úna Bhán), Tanu Tuve (Altai region, ‘two voiced’ by single singer in imitation of flute accompaniment) / various musicians ; various singers, singing in various languages (including Irish)]
Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 149 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 78

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 149 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 78

  • HSH-18739/1/259117/78
  • Part
  • June 1966 ; July 1966 ; August 1966 ; May 1967 ; July 1967

    • Part of Hugh Shields Collection

Music from Atacama desert (Chile) & Festival at Lake Titicaca (borders of Chile and Bolivia), radio programme [off-air recording from BBC 3rd programme, introduced by Jean-Coristian Spahni, May 1967] [end of band four] / [Jean-Coristian Spahni], speaking in English ; various instrumentalists ; unidentified singers, singing in Spanish [end of band three]
John Congrave Collection. Cassette 1. Séamus Ennis at Carysfort [sound recording] / Séamus Ennis....

John Congrave Collection. Cassette 1. Séamus Ennis at Carysfort [sound recording] / Séamus Ennis. Track 1

Speech, Song and Lilting: Untitled [Part One of the first of two lectures in Irish given by Seamus Ennis to trainee schoolteachers; subject: children's songs, adult nonsense and extemporised verses, stories and lullabies; with singing and story-telling by Ennis in Irish, English and Scots Gaelic; topics: purpose of the lecture – to interest the audience in this kind of material in order for them to impart it to their pupils; music a conducting medium for such material; verses composed to disparage neighbours; song 'I went to the fair of Kilkenny'; song 'Fuisce o rowlaway rowlaway'; lilting and nonsense words to dance tunes common in Scotland; example from Colm O Caoidhean, who was illiterate – 'Na Ceannabhain Bhana'; dandling song 'Digis o deamhais'; example from Feenish Island, 'Si do Mhaimeo I' (melody: Cailleach an Airgid / The Hag with the Money); example from Maoinis 'Ton an Aircin – Ton = diminutive for Tony; 'An Ceallaichin Fionn', from Connemara; example from Scotland, 'Amhran na hEala / The Swan's Song' – the swan sings only when dying – the song, with verses in Scots Gaelic and English – SE teaches the song to the audience; Caoine na Maighdine / Ri na hAoine; verses concerning a Connemara boatman who sailed to Co Clare to sell turf, got drunk, and was mocked by local people; a song that is the origin of the previous; a dispute in verse between a Connemara business man, Tomas O Bia, and his boatman, who got drunk and spent the money he received for turf; 'Moll Roe', with words in Irish and English; example from Scotland of nonsense words to a dance tune; another of the same; a lament (in the local dialect of Irish) from the Claddagh in Galway city, sung by a woman whose husband has died; story and song about a travelling man who visits a house (incomplete)]

Ennis, Seamus - lilting
Ennis, Seamus - speech in Irish
Ennis, Seamus, singing in Irish, English and Scots Gaelic

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