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Performers:
Murphy, Bridget, singing in English A1, 4, 6, 9-10, 12;
Murphy, Gene, singing in English A2, 7, 11;
Murphy, Tommy, singing in English A3, 8;
Murphy, Mick, singing in English A5;
Unidentified performer (child), singing in English A13;
Stokes, Patrick, singing in English A14;
Stokes, Mary Ellen, singing in English A15-16;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A17-18

Running Order:
1. Song: The Trees They Grow So Tall [speed variation at beginning of track] [My Bonny Boy]
2. Song: The Hills of Glenswilly
3. Song: Biddy Donoghue [Bridget Donoghue]
4. Song: Avondale
5. Song: My Name It Is MacGuire (interrupted)
6. Song: Caroline from Edinburgh Town
7. Song: The Croppy Boy
8. Song: A Mother's Love [A Mother's Love's a Blessing]
9. Song: Macroom-Cork Rebel Song [The Lonely Woods of Upton] (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]
10. Song: Macroom-Cork rebel song [The Lonely Woods of Upton]
11. Song: Early, Early in the Spring [The Croppy Boy]
12. Song: A Mother's Last Goodbye (interrupted)
13. Song: The Butcher Boy (interrupted, end clipped)
14. Song: A Child in the Budget
15. Song: The Prison Song [Shall My Soul Pass through Ireland] (unfinished)
16. Song: The Black and Tan Gun
17. Song: The Farmer's Boy
18. Song: The Hills of Knocknashee [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Murphy, Bridget, singing in English A1-2, 5, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18;
singing in Irish A12;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A3-4;
Murphy, Mick, lilting A6;
singing in English A6, 7, 8, 9, 20, 21;
Murphy, Tommy, singing in English A8;
Wall, Luke, singing in English A10, 11, 19;
Murphy, Gene, singing in English A15, 16, 18

Running Order:
1. Song: Macroom-Cork rebel song [The Lonely Woods of Upton] (last verse only)
2. Song: Quiet Cottage Home
3. Song: Noreen Ban (unfinished)
4. Song: Noreen Ban (interrupted)
5. Song: Noreen Ban
6. Song: Poll and Nancy Hogan [The Wexford Mummers' Song] (interrupted)
7. Song: The Cradle
8. Song: Bit o' Butter (interrupted)
9. Song: New Ross Town (interrupted)
10. Song: Untitled [Old Mick Murphy]
11. Song: Early, Early in the Spring
12. Song: Happy Woodpecker's Song [END OF BAND ONE]
13. Song: The Station of Knocklong (beginning clipped, unfinished)
14. Song: Green Mossy Banks of the Lee
15. Song: Skibbereen (interrupted)
16. Song: Oxford City
17. Song: Old Shep
18. Song: Lady in Her Father's Garden (interrupted) (unfinished)
19. Song: The Factory Girl
20. Song: The Cradle [longer version]
21. Song: Poll and Nancy Hogan [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Cassidy, Johnny, storytelling in English A1;
Unidentified performer (child), singing in English A2;
Cassidy, Kate, singing in English A3, 9;
Unidentified performers (group), singing in English A4;
Cassidy, Bill, singing in English A5-8;
Court, Artelia, New York, singing in English A10;
Unidentified performer [Bill Cassidy?], speech in English A11;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A12;
Murphy, ?, singing in English A13, 16;
Murphy, Jenny, singing in English A14;
Murphy, Biddy (Wall), singing in English A15, 17;
Unidentified performer [Biddly Murphy (Wall)?], speech in English A18;
Murphy, Old Mick, singing in English A19-20

Running Order:
1. Speech: Repeat of the latter part of 'The Grey Norese's Skull' tale by Johnny Cassidy [The Grey-haired Norrissey's Skull]
2. Song: Untitled [Old McDonald Had a Farm]
3. Song: The Wren Song
4. Song: Group singing The Wren Song
5. Song: She Left Me Because I'm Poor
6. Song: She Left Me Because I'm Poor, repeat of first two verses
7. Song: Untitled, mic test on cardioid
8. Song: Untitled
9. Song: The Twelfth of Never
10. Song: The Two Ravens
11. Speech: Joke about curing Mr Cassidy's throat and baldness [END OF BAND ONE]
12. Speech: Conversation about butchers drinking cattle's blood; talk about a local doctor
13. Song: The Croppy Boy
14. Song: My Bonny Wild Irish Boy
15. Song: Farewell Unto Your Valley [Slieve Gallion Braes]
16. Song: The Pro-German [The German Clockwinder]
17. Song: Dan O'Hara
18. Speech: The Widow's Son [song lyrics]
19. Song: The Handsome Girl
20. Song: Untitled [The Widow's Son] (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Murphy, Tom, singing in English A1-2, 4-7, 14-15, 18;
Murphy, Ned, storytelling in English A3;
Murphy, Mick, singing in English A8-9, 19;
Connors, Johnny, lilting A10-11, singing in English A12, mouthorgan A13;
Unidentified performer, mouthorgan / harmonica [Tom Murphy?] A16-17

Running Order:
1. Song: Ballad of The Widow's Son by Tom Murphy (age 80)
2. Song: The Croppy Boy
3. Speech: Stories of ghosts and fairies etc; the paralyzed man; the lashing stone; Dwyer's chair and other reminiscences
4. Song: The Suit of Corduroy
5. Song: The Suit of Corduroy
6. Song: The Cradle Song
7. Song: The Robber's Song
8. Song: Paul and Nancy Hogan (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]
9. Song: Paul and Nancy Hogan
10. Lilting: Jigging - Johnny Connors
11. Lilting: Jigging - Johnny Connors
12. Song: Barbara Allen
13. Jig: Boys of the Blue Hill [The Priest's Leap]
14. Song: The British Man o' War
15. Song: A Sailor's Song
16. Air: Untitled
17. Air: Untitled
18. Song: To Let the Wild World
19. Song: Ballad about Tom Murphy - written by Mick Murphy [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, singing in English A1;
Murphy, Bridget, singing in English A2, 4, 8, 13;
Murphy, Tom (old), singing in English A3, 14;
speech in English A15;
Jeanny Murphy? [collector's question mark], singing in English A5-7;
Wall, Luke, singing in English A8, 12;
Murphy, ?, singing in English A9-11

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled (unfinished)
2. Song: Caroline of Edinburgh Town
3. Song: William O'Brien of Tipperary
4. Song: Johnny Doyle
5. Song: My Father's Serving Boy
6. Song: The Fair-haired Lover
7. Song: The Factory Girl
8. Song: Patrick Sheehan
9. Song: The Irish Immigrant (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]
10. Song: The Irish Immigrant (continued)
11. Song: Sullivan's John
12. Song: Call Me Darling
13. Song: Young Carroll
14. Song: Ellen Brown
15. Speech: Interview with old Tom Murphy and other Murphys. [Conversation about many topics, including: where Tom Murphy learned his songs; travelling; other family members; work as a tinsmith, etc; ferretting rabbits; snaring a salmon; snaring birds and animals; life story of Tom Murphy's wife, now aged seventy years, who had twenty-six children; cures; taming difficult horses and ponies; prayer to stop bleeding] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Murphy, Tom (old), singing in English A1, speech in English A2;
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English A2, 7;
Wall, Luke, speech in English A2;
Connors, Johnny, lilting A3-6;
Murphy, Bridget (Wall), speech in English A7;
Cassidy, Johnny, storytelling in English B1-3

Running Order:
1. Song: Farewell Lovely Mary
2. Speech: Conversation: prayer for stopping blood - old Tom; curing horse of farcie - Luke Wall; prayer for toothache - old Tom
3. Lilting: Jigging - Johnny Connors [Dunphy's Hornpipe]
4. Lilting: Jigging - Johnny Connors [The High Level, hornpipe]
5. Lilting: Jigging - Johnny Connors [The Steampacket, reel]
6. Lilting: Jigging - Johnny Connors [Harvest Home, hornpipe]
7. Speech: Bridget Murphy (nee Wall), life story [conversation, biographical: settled woman becomes a traveller] [END OF BAND ONE ?]
8. Speech: Tale: Willy Wapster
9. Speech: Tale: Seven Little Pipers
10. Speech: Tale: Dickie Milburn [END OF BAND TWO]