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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

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

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

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

Alen MacWeeney Collection

  • AMW-18694
  • Collection
  • 1965 - 1971
This collection focuses primarily on music and song from the Irish Traveller community recorded around County Dublin between 1965 and 1971. Materials in this collection include reel-to-reel tapes, 1 commercial LP, and notes about recordings in two jotter notebooks and loose-leaf paper.

MacWeeney, Alen

Seán Ó Riada Concert, University College Dublin

Copy of a letter from Séamus Gallagher, Students Representative Council (S.C.R), College of Technology, Bolton St, Dublin 1 to Len Clifford, Gael Linn, Grafton St, Dublin 2; draft & original correspondence from Len Clifford (Leon Ó Clúmháin) to musicians and singers including Seán Mac Donncha (Mac Donncha, Seán, 1919-1996), Willie Clancy (Clancy, Willie, 1918-1973), Tony Mac Mahon and Seán Ó Ceallaigh; list of 60 dancers, singers, harpists, box players and pianists; poster of cancelled concert ‘An Evening with Sean Ó Riada, Easter Friday 16th April.’ Letter from Séamus Gallagher to Len Clifford cancelling ‘proposed O Riada concert which we had hoped to sponsor.’ The reason he gives for this cancellation is that ’it appears our organisation is grossly inefficient.’ Further correspondence between Clifford and musicians and singers informing them of the cancellation and notifying them of a new concert ‘at the same fee’ on the 5 March 1971 in UCD. Further letters detailing travel and rehearsal arrangements for the rescheduled concert.

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]

Len Clifford

Originally in a file marked ‘Seán Ó Riada’ (Ó Riada, Seán, 1931-1971) these documents seem to have once belonged to Len Clifford, Seapoint Avenue, Blackrock, Dublin, a solicitor who worked in the administrative section of Gael Linn Records, Grafton Street, Dublin 2. Clifford set up a talent agency in the early 1970s, his primary client was Seán Ó Riada.
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