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Connemara, Co. Galway Item Ireland: Singing in English
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Catherine Perrier-Wright and John Wright Collection. CDR 1. Field recordings of music and song, Clare and Galway, August 1966 [sound recording] / [various perf

Performers:
Sweeney, [?], Jew's harp;
O'Boyle, John, fiddle;
Flaherty, Bartley, singing in English, singing in Irish;
Flaherty, Val, singing in Irish;
Kelly, Tom, singing in English, singing in Irish;
[unidentified performer], concertina;
[unidentified performer], flute;
[unidentified performer], fiddle

Running Order:
1. No track information
2. No track information
3. No track information

Catherine Perrier-Wright and John Wright Collection. CDR 3. Field recordings of music and song, Galway and Dublin, August 1966 [sound recording] / [various per

Performers:
Kelly, Tom, singing in Irish;
Flaherty, Val, singing in English, singing in Irish;
Flaherty, Bartley, singing in English, singing in Irish;
Devaune, Patrick, Jew's harp;
'Ac Dhonncha, Seán, singing in Irish, singing in English;
Furey, Ted, fiddle;
[unidentified performer], banjo

Running Order:
1. No track information
2. No track information

Geordie McIntyre Collection. Reel-to-Reel 1 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
McIntyre, Geordie, Scotland, speech in English A1-3, 5, 7-8, 11-12, singing in English in duet A9;
Heaney, Joe, Connemara, singing in English A1, 7-8, 10, 13, speech in English A2-3, 5, 7-8, 10-13, lilting A2, singing in Irish A4, 6, singing in English in duet A9, singing in English in ensemble with pipes and whistle A13;
McNulty, Pat, pipes in singing ensemble A13;
Unidentified performer, whistle in ensemble A13

Running Order:
1. Speech/Song: The Bonnie Bunch of Roses (interrupted)
2. Speech/Lilting: story about `Paddy the one tune', fairy wraths, The Lark in the Morning
3. Speech: the story behind Bean Phaidin and the hag with the money
4. Songs: Bean Paidin, The Hag with the Money
5. Speech: poetic names for Ireland, versions of Roisin Dubh
6. Song: Roisin Dubh
7. Speech/Song/Speech: As I Roved Out
8. Speech/Song: The Bold Tenant Farmer
9. Song: Mrs McGrath
10. Speech/Song: Rocking the Cradle
11. Speech: the banshee, superstitions about frogs and dying, keening, composing keens, drinking at wakes, bean caointe, fortune tellers, difference between a hag and an old woman, tinkers, women who brewed herbs, curing one man and killing another [END OF BAND ONE]
12. Speech: reason why superstitions died out, faith healing, bone-setters, nettle soup for gaul stones, getting the gift of bone-setting out of a magical book, seals crying, fairies on the islands off the coast, the world being flooded
13. Speech/Song: The Bonny Boy
14. Song: The Jug of Punch [END OF BAND TWO]

RTÉ Reel-to-Reel 2 [sound recording] / Joe Cooley

Performers:
[some of the accordion playing attributed to Joe Cooley below is probably occasionally played by Tony MacMahon];
Cooley, Joe, Connemara, accordion solo A1-15, accordion in duet A17-24, 30, accordion in trio A25-29, 33-38;
MacMahon, Tony, accordion ?;
[Liam] Unidentified performer, singing in English A16;
Unidentified performer, fiddle in duet A17-24, fiddle in trio A25-29, 33-38;
Unidentified performer, whistle in trio A25-29, 33-38, whistle in duet A30;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A31-32

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled
2. Reels: Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped)
3. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
4. Reel: Untitled
5. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
6. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
7. Fragment/Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
8. Reel Fragment: Untitled (beginning clipped)
9. Reel: Untitled
10. Reels: Untitled, Untitled (end clipped)
11. Jig: Untitled (unfinished)
12. Jigs: Untitled, Untitled
13. Reel: Untitled
14. Reel: Untitled
15. Jig: Untitled
16. Song: Untitled
17. Reel: Untitled
18. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
19. Fragment/Reels: Untitled, Untitled
20. Jig: Untitled (unfinished)
21. Reel: Untitled (clipped) [END OF BAND ONE]
22. Fragments/Reels: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped)
23. Reel: Untitled
24. Jig: Untitled (unfinished)
25. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
26. Jig: Untitled (unfinished)
27. Reels: Untitled, Untitled (unfinished)
28. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped, unfinished)
29. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
30. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
31. Song: Untitled (beginning clipped)
32. Song: Untitled
33. Reels: Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped)
34. Jig: Untitled (beginning clipped)
35. Speech/Reel: Untitled, Untitled
36. Reels: Untitled, Untitled (unfinished)
37. Reel Fragments
38. Reels/Speech/Fragment: Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped) [END OF BAND TWO]

Tony Knowland Collection. Cassette 1 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, singing in English A1–3, 5–7;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A4;
Unidentified performer, singing in French A4

Running Order:
1. Song: The Little Old Mud Cabin
2. Song: The Black Ribbon Band
3. Song: The Rocks of Bawn
4. Speech, Song: Untitled [Introduction to the song about to be sung], Tooo-la-la
5. Song: Buckle Her Shoe
6. Song: Nelson [Home, Boys, Home]
7. Song: The Zoological Gardens

Tony Knowland Collection. Reel-to-Reel 1 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Rainey, Stephen 'Spare Parts', fiddle solo A1[?], 4, 6–9, 11;
fiddle duet A3, 13–14, 18–20;
Rainey, Paddy 'Big', fiddle solo A2[?], 5, 10, 12, 15;
fiddle duet A3, 13–14, 18–20;
Conneelly, Martin, fiddle solo A16–17;
singing in English B15;
O'Malley, Tommy, accordion in group A21–24, 29, B10–11;
accordion solo A25;
singing in English B4–5, 8–9;
speech in English B6;
?, Henry, singing in English A26, B13;
? [indistinct], Anny?, singing in English A27;
?, Christie[? female], singing in Irish A28;
Unidentified performer, whistle solo A30–32;
O'Malley, Patrick, singing in English A33, B1–2, 7;
Keane, Donal, singing in English B3;
?, Anne, singing in English B12;
Kane, Phil / Keane, Phil, accordion solo B14;
Unidentified performers, singing in English B16;
?, Pam, singing in English B17;
?, John, singing in English B17;
Hayward, Richard, singing in English B18–20;
speech in English B19–21;
singing in Irish B21

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [The Hunter's Purse]
2. Reels: Untitled [The Collier's Reel], Untitled [The Sally Gardens]
3. Reel: Untitled [The Woman of the House]
4. Jig, Reel: Untitled [The Lark in the Morning], Untitled (brief; incomplete) [The New-mown Meadow]
5. Reels: Untitled [Over the Moor to Maggie], Untitled [The Star of Munster]
6. Reels: Untitled [The Bucks of Oranmore], Untitled [The Sally Gardens]
7. Jigs: Untitled [Delaney's Drummers], Untitled [Saddle the Pony / The Priest's Leap (DMI, # 59)]
8. Reel: Untitled [George White's Favourite] (interrupted)
9. Reel: Untitled [The Fermoy Lasses] (beginning clipped)
10. Song Air: Valley of Knocknamore (beginning clipped) [The Valley of Knockanure]
11. Reel: Untitled [The Pigeon on the Gate]
12. Waltz / Song Air: Lowlands of Lough Glyn [The Woodlands of Lough Lynn]
13. Reel, Hornpipe: Untitled [Drowsy Maggie], Untitled [The Boys of Blue Hill]
14. Reel: Untitled [The Sally Gardens]
15. Reel: Untitled [The Collier's Reel] (end clipped)
16. Reel: Untitled [The Copperplate]
17. Reel, Dance Tune: Untitled [The New-mown Meadow], Untitled (brief; incomplete)
18. Reel, Dance Tune: Untitled [The Swallow's Tail], Untitled (brief; incomplete)
19. Reels: Untitled [Miss Monaghan], Untitled [The Sally Gardens]
20. Reel, Song Air: Untitled [The Jolly Tinker], Untitled [Che Sera Sera]
21. Fling / Barn Dance: Untitled [Love Will You Marry Me]
22. Jig: Untitled [The Queen of the Rushes; played for set-dancers]
23. Reel: Untitled [Drowsy Maggie; played for set-dancers]
24. Reel: Untitled [Miss McLeod] (beginning clipped)
25. Reel: Untitled [The Sally Gardens]
26. Song: The Gypsy Rover (beginning clipped)
27. Song: Enniskillen Dragoons
28. Song: Untitled [Tailliuir an Mhagaigh]
29. Air and Song: Untitled [The Flower of Sweet Strabane]
30. Reel: Untitled [The Sally Gardens]
31. Reel: Untitled [The Swallow's Tail]
32. Reel: Untitled [The Sally Gardens]
33. Song: John O'Brien (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]
34. Song: John O'Brien
35. Song: My Bonny Boy is Young but He's Growing
36. Song: The River that Flows through Cashleen [The River that Flows through Raheen ?]
37. Song: Sweet Wesport Town (interrupted)
38. Song: The Skating Tragedy
39. Speech: Untitled [Background to previous song]
40. Song: Cod Liver Oil
41. Song: The Farmer's Daughter (unfinished)
42. Speech, Song: Untitled, Untitled [Rocking the Cradle] (interrupted)
43. Polka: Untitled
44. Fling / Barn Dance: Untitled
45. Song: The Star of the County Down
46. Song: Trod on the Tail of my Coat [Mush Mush Mush Tooral-eye-addy]
47. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Londonderry Hornpipe / The Derry Hornpipe]
48. Song: As I Came Home [Seven Drunken Nights]
49. Song: Erie Canal – John Sebastian
50. Song: Tooo-la-la [Mistitled? The title given refers to a song in French; When Do We Get Married, John]
51. Song: Untitled [The Bard of Armagh; off-air radio dubbing, as are also tracks 19–21]
52. Speech, Song: Untitled [Introduction to the next item], Little Bridget Flynn [Composed by Percy French]
53. Speech, Song: Untitled [Introduction to the next item], Down in Glaslough [Composed by Richard Hayward]
54. Speech, Song: Untitled [Introduction to the next item], Aileen Aroon [Eibhlin a Run / Eileen Aroon] [END OF BAND TWO]