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A field recording in the home of Mary and Cyril Maguire, De Burgh Terrace, Derry / featuring Cathal McConnell, flute, tin whistle ; Cyril Maguire, flute ; Sharon Creasey, flute ; Kathy Taylor, fiddle

SIde A
00:00 - 04:05 | Reels, interview / Sharon Creasey, flute
05:02 - 06:35 | Dr. Gilbert, reel / Sharon Creasey, flute
08:19 - 09:40 | Paddy Fahey's, reel / Sharon Creasey, flute
10:10 - 12:08 | Paddy Fahey's, reel [comp. Paddy Fahey] ; The Donegal traveller, reel / Sharon Creasey, flute
12:15 - 12:55 | The dance of the honey bee, hornpipe / Sharon Creasey, flute
13:09 - 14:05 | Hornpipe / Sharon Creasey, flute

14:05 - 15:54 | Jigs / Cyril Maguire, flute
15:55 - 20:00 | Demonstration, conversation re. various versions / Unidentified, flute
20:01 - 24:43 | Reels / Cyril Maguire, flute
24:44 - 30:47 | Reels, Kitty Seán's barndance / McConnell's barndance ; Cyril Maguire, flute ; Cathal McConnell, flute
30:48 - 48:01 | Polkas, demonstration, barndance, slides / Kathy Taylor, fiddle ; unidentified, flute

Side B
00:00 - 02:12 | Slides / Kathy Taylor, fiddle
02:15 - 04:10 | Slides / Kathy Taylor, fiddle ; Cathal McConnell, flute
04:11 - 06:55 | Slides / Kathy Taylor, fiddle ; Cathal McConnell, flute
07:00 - 09:01 | Slide / Kathy Taylor, fiddle
09:13 - 11:52 | Slide / Kathy Taylor, fiddle ; various peformers
12:18 - 13:35 | Polkas / Kathy Taylor, fiddle
13:48 - 16:04 | Polkas / Kathy Taylor, fiddle ; Cathal McConnell, flute ; Cyril Maguire, tin whistle
16:48 - 19:41 | Polkas / Kathy Taylor, fiddle ; Cathal McConnell, flute ; Cyril Maguire, tin whistle
19:55 - 21:45 | Polkas / Sharon Creasey, flute ; Kathy Taylor, fiddle ; Cathal McConnell, flute
21:50 - 22:40 | Polka / Cathal McConnell, flute
22:40 - 25:00 | Polka / Cathal McConnell, flute ; Sharon Creasey, flute ; Cyril Maguire, tin whistle

26:11 - 29:22 | An páistín fionn, slow air ; An páistín fionn, hornpipe / Sharon Creasey, flute
30:20 - 31:55 | Slow air / Sharon Creasey, flute
32:33 - 33:46 | Statia Donnelly's, jig / Sharon Creasey, flute
34:39 - 36:39 | Rocking the cradle, slow air ; jig / Sharon Creasey, flute ; Cathal McConnell, flute
36:48 - 38:28 | Instrumental music / Sharon Creasey, flute ; Cathal McConnell, flute
End of session in Maguire's house

38:30 - 42:50 | Instrumental music / Unidentified, accordion

42:51 - 47:44 | Instrumental music [comp. Turlough O'Carolan], reels / Cyril Maguire, flute ; Cathal McConnell, flute

Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 3–6 March 1979 [tracks 1-10]

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 1, 3-9, speech in English Tracks 2, 10;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 2

Running Order:
1. Aghnacloy town (‘My friends and I left sweet Armoy...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Talk about the preceding song, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
3. Skewball/Stewball (‘Come all you noble gentlemen, I pray listen all...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. Farmer's daughter (‘There were a farmer’s daughter...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
5. Are you from Dixie? (‘Hello there stranger, how do you do?...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
6. Until the morning [fragment] (‘Now I would like to wed again and have a night like you...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
7. Green grows the laurel, song (‘Oh, it’s green grows the laurel and so falls the dew...’) / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
8. Eileen McManus, song (‘One day as I walked along Broadway...’) / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
9. Pat Reilly, song (‘It being on an Easter Monday, it was a play day...’) / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
10. Buy me a goat, story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded from Eddie Butcher at the house of his brother John Butcher, Drumavally, Magilligan, 17 July 1969 [track 1]
Recorded from Magilligan children in the house of Eddie Butcher , Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 19 July 1969 [tracks 2–18]

Performers:
Butcher, Edward, singing in English Track1;
McDaid, Jacqueline, singing in English Tracks 4, 10-15, 17;
Fleming, Ann, speech in English Tracks 2-3, singing in English Tracks 8, 10, 12-15, 17;
Cunning, Sheila, singing in English Tracks 6, 10, 12-15, 17;
McDonnell, Olive, speech in English Track s 2-3, 9, singing in English Tracks 10, 12-15, 17;
Sweeney, Ruby, speech in English Track 5, singing in English Tracks 10-15, 17;
McDaid, Margaret, speech in English Tracks 7, 16, singing in English Tracks 7, 10-15, 17;
Gill, Rosemary, singing in English Track 18;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 2, 16

Running Order:
1. It is now for New England, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [session continued from 6905]
2. Two little dicky birds, rhyme [recited out of doors with children skipping] / Olive McDonnell (8), speech in English ; Ann Fleming (7), speech in English
3. Two little dicky birds, rhyme [recited out of doors] / Olive McDonnell (8), speech in English ; Ann Fleming (7), speech in English
4. Fifty years ago (‘Put on your hat, my darling Pat..’), song [stage Irish, fragment] / Jacqueline McDaid (7), singing in English
5. Kneeling on the carpet so so sweet, rhyme [for game] / Ruby Sweeney (9), speech in English
6. Little sister, dance with me, song [from class] / Sheila Cunning (8), singing in English
7. On a mountain stands a lady, song [for game]; recitation / Margaret McDaid (10), singing in English, speech in English
8. Round and round goes the gilly gilly ship, rhyme / Olive McDonnell (8), speech in English
9. A little thing goes wandering about, song [for game, fragment] /Ann Fleming (7), singing in English
10. A little thing goes wandering about, song / all the children, singing in English
11. On a mountain stands a lady, song [sung to play] / all the children, singing in English
12. A little thing goes wandering about, song / Margaret McDaid (10), singing in English ;  Ruby Sweeney (9), singing in English ; Jacqueline McDaid (7), singing in English
13. Round and round goes the gilly gilly ship, song / all the children, singing in English
14. Sweep the house to the maid comes in, song / all the children, singing in English
15. Ten guineas to know her name, song / all the children, singing in English
16. The preceding game [tracks 13–15 combined], explained, speech / Margaret McDaid (10), speech in English
17. The above three rhymes repeated to play the game, song [sung to play] // all the children, singing in English
18. Ba ba black sheep, song / Rosemary McGill, singing in English [end of session] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded fom Bill Quigley in the house of Eddie Butcher, Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 19 July 1969 [tracks 1–3]

Performers:
Quigley, Bill, singing in English Tracks 1-3

Running Order:
1. The green volunteer (‘Assemble ye boys, for the time’s drawing nigh...’), song / Bill Quigley, singing in English [session continued from 6915)
2. The bonny moorhen (‘Oh my bonny moorhen she has feathers anew...’), song [fragment of 1 verse] / Bill Quigley, singing in English
3. [=Toast from an Irish colleen] (‘I went to a party consisting of four...’), song / Bill Quigley, singing in English [session continued on 6917] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded in the house of Eddie Butcher, Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 19 July 1969 [tracks 1–3]

Performers:
Butcher, John, singing in English Tracks 1-2;
Butcher, Maria, singing in English Track 2;
Quigley, Bill, singing in English Tracks 2-3;
Quigley Tilly, singing in English Track 2

Running Order:
1. Come all you rakish fine young men (‘Oh, come all you rakish fine young men that courts a blooming maid...’), song / John Butcher (Drumavally), singing in English [session continued from 6916]
2. The Moorlough shore (‘You hills and dales and flowery vales lies near to the Moorlough shore...’), song / Bill Quigley, singing in English ; Tilly Quigley, singing in English ; Maria Butcher, singing in English ; John Butcher, singing in English
3. Craiganee (‘Come all you sercet musers [r. sacred Muses?] that frequent our native isle...’) [session continued on 6918]  [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Charles (Charlie) Somers (aged about 75) in his house at The Bog, Bellarena, Co. Derry, 18 July 1969 [tracks 1–2]

Performers:
Somers, Charles , singing in English Tracks 1-2

Running Order:
1. The good ship Cambria (‘You Irishmen both one and all, wherever you may be...’], song / Charlie Somers, singing in English
2. A noble lord’s wedding [=Another man’s wedding=A nobleman’s wedding] (‘I being kindly invited till a noble lord’s wedding...’), song / Charlie Somers, singing in English [end of session] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Charles (Charlie) Somers (age about 75) in his house at The Bog, Bellarena, Co. Derry, 18 July 1969 [tracks 1–2]
Recorded in the house of Eddie Butcher, Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, from Robert Butcher junior (age about 48), son of Eddie’s elder brother Robert (deceased) and his brother John Butcher junior (age about 45), 21 July 1969 [tracks 3–7]

Performers:
Somers, Chas, singing in English Track 1, speech in English Track 2;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 2;
Butcher, Robert, singing in English Tracks 3-4, 6;
Butcher, John, singing in English Tracks 5, 7;
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Track 6

Running Order:
1. Barbro Allen (‘Early, early in the spring  When flowers they were blooming...’), song [old ballad] / Charlie Somers, singing in English
2. Talk about the song ‘Barbro Allen’ [learnt from his mother], speech / Charlie Somers, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English [end of session]
3. The hills above Drumquin (‘God bless the hills of Donegal,  I’ve heard their praises sung...’), song / Robert Butcher junior, singing in English
4. The strands of Magilligan [=The American stranger] (‘On the top of the cliff where the castle does stand...’), song [1 verse only, learnt from his father] / Robert Butcher, singing in English
5. The strands of Magilligan (‘I’m a stranger to this country, from America I came...’), song [2 verses] John Butcher junior, singing in English  [END OF BAND ONE]
6. The green fields of America (‘Oh farewell to old Erin, the land of my fathers...’), song [sung with help from Eddie Butcher] / Robert Butcher junior, singing in English
7. When the breathalyser came to Ireland (‘Have you thought what the future of drinking may be...’), song [recent, in pop-folk style] / Robert Butcher junior, singing in English [session continued at 6911] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded from Charles (Charlie) Somers (aged about 75), in his house at The Bog, Bellarena, Co. Derry, 18 July 1969 [tracks 1–2)

Performers:
Somers, Charles, singing in English Tracks 1-2

Running Order:
1. Molly, lovely Molly [=The cruel ship carpenter] (‘It’s Molly, lovely Molly, will you come with me?...’), song / Charlie Somers, singing in English [session continued from 6921]
2. Johnny Doyle (‘[?..] I’m a young lady most highly in love...’) , song / Charlie Somers, singing in English [session continued on 6923] [END OF BAND ONE]