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Larry Redican Collection. Reel-to-Reel 20 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Ciarán Mac Mathúna tape of young musicians

00:00:00 - 00:01:08 | Greetings to Larry Redican, May and family from Ciarán introducing young musicians coming on the scene in early 1960s, speech / Ciarán Mac Mathúna, speech in English
00:01:08 - 00:03:40 | Ciarán introduces Brendan McGlinchey, Johnny Pickering, Kevin McElhatton, speech ; Crowley's no. 1, reel ; Crowley's no. 2, reel / Ciarán Mac Mathúna, speech in English ; Brendan McGlinchey, fiddle ; Johnny Pickering, fiddle ; Kevin McElhatton, piano
00:03:42 - 00:6:26 | Lucy Campbell, reel ; The mountain road, reel / Brendan McGlinchey, fiddle ; John Connack, fiddle ; Kevin McElhatton, piano
00:06:27 - 00:8:59 | Ciarán introduces another young musician, Seán Keane ; Mullingar lea, reel ; Star of Munster, reel / Ciarán Mac Mathúna, speech in English ; Seán Keane, fiddle ; Bridie Lafferty, piano
00:09:00 - 00:11:42 | Ciarán introduces another young musician, 18 year old Seán Keane, speech ; College groves, reel ; Cherry tree, reel / Ciarán Mac Mathúna, speech in English ; Seán Keane, fiddle ; Bridie Lafferty, piano
00:11:43 - 00:15:49 | Ciarán introduces Castle Céilí Band, speech ; Bill Harte's, jig ; Jimmy Wards, jig ; Jude's bush, jig / Ciarán Mac Mathúna, speech in English ; Castle Céilí Band, instrumental group
00:15:50 - 00:19:15 | Ciarán introduces Castle Céilí Band, speech ; Crowley’s, reel ; Lord McDonald’s, reel ; Caledonian, reel / Ciarán Mac Mathúna, speech in English ; Castle Céilí Band, instrumental group
00:19:16 - 00:22:25 | Ciarán introduces Castle Céilí Band, speech / Ciarán Mac Mathúna, speech in English ; Miss McDonald's, reel ; Gorman's, reel ; Ballinasloe Fair, reel / Castle Céilí Band, instrumental group
00:22:25 - 00:25:15 | Ciarán introduces Castle Céilí Band, speech ; Humours of Ballyconnell, reel ; Sailor on the rock, reel ; Lucky in love, reel / Ciarán Mac Mathúna, speech in English ; Castle Céilí Band, instrumental group.
00:25:16 - 00:28:17 | Ciarán introduces Paddy O’Brien, speech ; Father Kelly's, reels / Ciarán Mac Mathúna, speech in English ; Paddy O’Brien, accordion ; Stella Seevers, piano
00:28:18 - 00:33:46 | Ciarán introduces Paddy O’Brien and others from the Lough Gowna Céilí Band including Paddy Maloney, speech ; The laurel bush, reel ; Jenny’s wedding, reel / Ciarán Mac Mathúna, speech in English ; Lough Gowna Céilí Band, instrumental group
00:33:47 - 00:36:33 | Ciarán tells Larry Redican about the ballad boom in Dublin and introduces a new group called the Dubliners with Ronnie Drew singing, speech ; The Ragman's Ball, song / Ciarán Mac Mathúna, speech in English ; Ronnie Drew, singing in English
00:36:34 - 00:39:45 | Ciarán introduces Barney McKenna as a member of the new group called the Dubliners, speech ; Sporting Nell, reel ; The Boyne Hunt, reel / Ciarán Mac Mathúna, speech in English ; Barney McKenna, banjo
00:39:46 - 00:43:07 | Ciarán introduces a new group called the Dubliners with Luke Kelly, singing, speech ; The wild rover, song / Ciarán Mac Mathúna, speech in English ; Luke Kelly and Dubliners, singing in English
00:43:11 - 00:45:33 | Ciarán introduces Felix Doran from Manchester from a great musical family, speech : The mountain lark [The steampacket], reel / Ciarán Mac Mathúna, speech in English ; Felix Doran, uilleann pipes
00:45:34 - 00:47:22 | Ciarán introduces Felix Doran from Manchester from a great musical family, speech ; Toss the feathers, reel / Ciarán Mac Mathúna, speech in English ; Felix Doran, uilleann pipes

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 41 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Recorded at the house of John Butcher (brother of Eddie), Drumavally, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 17 July 1969 [tracks 1–3]
Recorded in Greta Deehan’s bar, Big drain bridge, Magilligan, Co. Derry, from Tom Anderson of Aughil, Magilligan (age about 73) and his wife (aged about 65), 23 July 1969 [tracks 4–9]

Performers:
Butcher, Mary Ellen, singing in English Tracks 1-2;
Butcher, Jimmy, singing in English Track 3;
Anderson, Tom, singing in English Tracks 4, 6-8, speech in English Track 5;
Shields, Hugh speech in English Track 5;
Anderson. Mrs. Tom, singing in English Track 9

Running Order:
1. The shores of America (‘I’m bidding farewell to the land of my youth and the homes I love so well...’), song / Mary Ellen Butcher (daughter of John Butcher, age about 20), singing in English
2. Erin’s lovely  home (‘You patron [r. patriot] sons of Paddy’s land, come listen unto me...’), song [learnt from her uncle Jimmy Butcher of Limavady] / Mary Ellen singing in English
3. The banks of Kilrea (‘One evening for my recreation as I strayed by the lovely Moss Bann...’), song / John Butcher, singing in English [session continued at 6905]
4. The shores of Castlerock (‘The time is come and I must go, I’ll bid you all adieu...’), song [air ‘Adieu to Belashanny’] / Tom Anderson (age about 73), singing in English [session continued from 6925]
5. Talk about the song ‘The shores of Castlerock’ and its author Seamus McLoughlin / Tom Anderson, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English 
6. The rambling rakes of poverty (‘Oh come all you rambling fellows, oh from town to town I steer...’), song / Tom Anderson, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
7. The shores of America (‘I am a sporting Irish boy now far across the sea...’), song / Tom Anderson, singing in English
8. Free and easy (‘Oh it’s of my rambles I’m going to sing...’), song / Tom Anderson, singing in English
9. The banks of the Bann (‘Down by yon harbour near sweet Coleraine...’), song [learnt from her grandfather, Thomas McGough] / Mrs Tom Anderson (age about 65), singing in English [end of session] [END OF BAND TWO]  

Cathal McConnell Collection. Sound Cassette 19 [sound recording] / [various performers]

A field recording made by Cathal McConnell in the home of Micho Russell, Doonagore, Doolin, Co. Clare of flute, tin whistle and singing / featuring Cathal McConnell, tin whistle, singing in English ; Micho Russell, flute ; Eamonn Curran, tin whistle

Side A
00:00 - 04:17 | Unidentified, fling / Micho Russell, flute
04:18 - 06:20 | Kitty Jones' reel / Micho Russell, flute, speech in English ; Cathal McConnell, tin whistle, speech in English
06:21 - 07:44 | Jig / Micho Russell, flute
07:45 - 10:11 | Andy Kerrin's, set dance / Eamonn Curran, tin whistle
10:12 - 12:23 | Speed the plough, reel / Eamonn Curran, tin whistle
13:12 - 14:37 | Reel / Cathal McConnell, tin whistle
14:38 - 15:14 | Reel / Micho Russell, flute
17:28 - 19:30 | Reel / Micho Russell, flute
19:31 - 21:40 | Unidentified, jig [learned from John Ward] / Cathal McConnell, tin whistle
22:55 - 25:42 | Reels / Cathal McConnell, tin whistle
25:44 - 27:35 | The concertina reel / Micho Russell, flute
27:36 - 29:20 | Micho Russell's slide / Micho Russell, flute
29:44 - 33:37 | Bonnie Killaloe, song / Cathal McConnell, singing in English

Side B
Blank

Tom Davis Collection. Reel-to-Reel 18 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Recordings made at the Slattery's Tradition Club, Capel St, Dublin, [1970s]

1:04:32 - 1:08:00 | The blackbird, slow air / Seán Keane, fiddle
1:08:00 - 1:10:10 | The fairy hornipipe / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
1:10:12 - 1:11:24 | The wise maid, reel / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
2:17:40 - 2:21:03 | Rambles of Kitty, jig ; The butcher's march, jig / Liam O'Flynn, uilleann pipes
2:21:03 - 2:22:30 | Johnny Cope, hornpipe / Liam O'Flynn, uilleann pipes

Seán Ó Riada BBC Contract

Original typed letter/contract from Ben Travers, Copyright Department, British Broadcasting Corporation, Broadcasting House, London, to Len Clifford, Seapoint, Blackrock, Co. Dublin. Commissioning Seán Ó Riada ‘to write the incidental music for our Television Drama Play “The Playboy of the Western World.”’ A fee of ‘£8.00 per minute’ is suggested but has been amended to £8.50 and initialled. The fee is to ‘cover composition, scoring and the right to record the music as desired for world television and world showing of non-paying audiences.’ The contract is signed by both Ben Travers & Len Clifford.

Seán Egan Collection. Cassette 1 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Ward, Jimmy, Clare, singing in English A1, 16;
whistling solo A5, 25;
whistle solo A20;
Unidentified performers (including, according to supplied information with the cassette, Willie Clancy, Clare), singing in English A2, 6–11;
Unidentified performers, speech in English A3–4, 12, 15;
Egan, John, Sligo / Dublin, flute in instrumental group A3 [?], 12–14 [?], 17 [?];
Unidentified performers playing flute, whistle, and banjo (including, according to supplied information with the cassette, Willie Clancy, Martin Talty and Jimmy Ward, Clare) in instrumental groups A3, 12–14, 17–19;
Unidentified performers, whistle solo A24;
whistle in duet 26

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled [I Couldn't]
2. Song: Untitled [The Death of Brugha]
3. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Untitled [Maud Miller], Untitled [The Reel of Mullinavat]
4. Speech: Untitled [Funny story]
5. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
6. Song: Untitled ['A young man lived in Dublin...']
7. Song: Untitled [General Monroe]
8. Song: Untitled [The Boys from the County Armagh]
9. Song: Untitled [James Connolly]
10. Song: Untitled [Lovely Old Miltown]
11. Song: Untitled [The Boys of Barr na Sraide]
12. Speech, Reels: Untitled, The Jolly Tinker, The Pretty Girls of Mayo
13. Speech, Jigs: Untitled, Old Man Dillon, The Rose in the Heather
14. Reels: Untitled [Eileen Curran], Untitled [The Sandmount / Mick Hand's]
15. Recitation: Untitled [The Man from God Knows Where]
16. Speech, Song: Untitled, Untitled (incomplete; tape runs out) [END OF BAND ONE]
17. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Boy in the Gap
18. Speech, Reels: Untitled, The Liffey Banks, The Shaskeen Reel
19. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Concert Reel [With irregular number of beats in the first part]
20. Reel: Untitled
21. Reel: Untitled [The Mountain Top], Untitled
22. Jig: Untitled [The Pipe on the Hob]
23. Reel: Peter O'Loughlin's Reel [Announced on the tape by this name; Murphy's Reel (CRE 2, # 203)]
24. Air: Untitled [Cuaichin Ghleann Neifin]
25. Air: Untitled
26. Jig: Untitled [Gillan's Apples] [END OF BAND TWO]

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