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Recorded from Mrs Nora Cooper at the house of Mr & Mrs Joe Cooper, Aughavilla, Warrenpoint, Co. Down, 30 June 1968 [tracks 1–9]

Performers:
Mrs. Nora Cooper, singing in English Tracks 1, 3, 5, 7–9 speech in English Tracks 2–4, 6–9
Hugh Shields, speech in English Tracks 2, 4

Running Order:
1. Squire Hall’s watery park (‘In the year eighteen hundred aye and forty-nine...’), song [learnt from John and Matt Rooney] / Mrs Nora Cooper, singing in English
2. Talk about the previous song ‘Squire Hall’s watery park’, speech / Mrs Nora Cooper, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
3. Willy Reilly, talk about it, song [air learnt from John and Matt Rooney, words learnt from Bessie Grant] ; speech / Mrs Nora Cooper, singing in English, speech in English
4. Talk of local singers, John and Matt Condy Rooney, speech / Mrs Nora Cooper, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
5. The Armagh Rover (‘I’m a rover from Armagh and the truth I will declare...’) / Mrs Nora Cooper, singing in English
6. Talk about the previous song, speech / Mrs Nora Cooper, speech in English
7. Talk about the following song ; Green gravel, speech ; song / Mrs Nora Cooper, singing in English, speech in English
8. Talk about the following song ; Cups and saucers, speech ; song / Mrs Nora Cooper, speech in English, singing in English
9. Talk about the following song ; Obadiah, speech ; song / Mrs Nora Cooper, speech in English, singing in English [session continued at 6806] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Joe Cooper (age about 65) and Mrs Nora Cooper at their house in Aughavilla, Warrenpoint, Co. Down, 30 June 1968 [tracks 1–7]

Performers:
Mrs. Nora Cooper, singing in English Tracks 1-2, 4-5
Mr. Joe Cooper (aged 65?), singing in English Tracks 3, 6-7, speech in English Track 6
Hugh Shields, speech in English Track 6

Running Order:
1. My father’s servant boy (‘You lovers all both great and small, pay attention to my theme...’), song [false start, v.1-2, text recommences and is completed] / Mrs Nora Cooper, singing in English [session continued from 6805]
2. How pleasant sweet birdies (‘How pleasant sweet birdies to wake in the dawn...’), song [fragmented] / Mrs Nora Cooper, singing in English
3. The wedding of Laghie M’Grath (‘Oh we had a terrible tear...’) / Joe Cooper, singing in English
4. The maid of the Mourne shore (‘Adieu green fields and flowery dales...’), song / Mrs Nora Cooper, singing in English
5. The bonny green tree (‘As I went a-walking one fine summer’s evening...’), song / Mrs Nora Cooper, singing in English
6. Talk about the song ; The Moygannon stream (‘I remember my young days, for younger I’ve been...’), speech ; song [words by Joe Cooper to the air of ‘The Muttonburn stream’] / Joe Cooper, speech in English, singing in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in Engish
7. My father’s big turnip (‘There’s a thorn tree that grows by the Moygannon river...’), song [words by Joe Cooper to the air of ‘Teddy O’Neal’] / Joe Cooper, singing in English [end of session] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded by Frank Harte in the house of Hugh Shields, Dublin from Eddie Butcher of Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 17 July 1966

Performers:
Eddie Butcher, singing in English Tracks 1-2, 4-17, speech in English Track 3;
Frank Harte, speech in English Track 1

Running Order:
1. It’s just about ten years ago, song [recording level reduced half-way] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English, Frank Harte, speech in English
2. I long for to get married, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. The fancy man (‘There was a man one time...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
4. Oh come all you rakish fine young men (‘Oh come all you rakish fine young men that courts a blooming maid...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
5. In Connaught I was reared [= The Sheffield apprentice] (‘In Connaught I was reared not of a mean degree...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
6. Pat Reilly [=Johnny Goligher] (‘As I went a-walking...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
7. The crockery ware (‘Oh this young man all in the dark...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
8. The farmer’s daughter (‘Oh there were a farmer’s daughter, she longèd for a baby...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [end of band one]...
9. Youghal harbour (‘Ah, Youghal harbour on a summer’s morning...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
10. When a man’s in love (‘When a man’s in love he feels no cold...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
11. Oh, the Germans are coming to Ireland, they say, song [1914 song to the air of ‘Green bushes’] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
12. The old Orange flute (‘In the county Tyrone near the town of Dungannon...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
13. Erin’s lovely home (‘My father sold the second cow...’), song [verse 3 only]/ Eddie Butcher, singing in English
14. Baltimore (‘Oh come all you loyal lovers give ear all for a while...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
15. The Faughan side (‘A stream like crystal it runs down...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
16. When the storm swept the countryside, song [local recent song to the air ‘Macnamara’s band’] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
17. When the storm swept the countryside, song [take two] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [session continued on 6602] [end of band two]...

Recorded by Frank Harte in the house of Hugh Shields, Dublin from Eddie Butcher of Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 17 July 1966

Performers:
Eddie Butcher, singing in English Tracks 1-8

Running Order:
1. Our wedding day (‘Oh I once had a sweetheart and I loved her well...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [session continued from 6601]
2. Green grows the laurel (‘Once I had a sweetheart but now I have none...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. The Arranmore disaster (‘Good people dear, pray] lend an ear, I’ll tell yous one and all...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. Erin’s green shore (‘Oh, one evening of late as I strayed by the banks of a clear silvery stream...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
5. Oh the marriage (‘It’s oh, that I ever was married...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [end of band one]
6. It’s of a row I’ll tell you now, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
7. The Longfield Bank (‘On a dull October morning...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English 
8. The Longfield Bank song [a further verse] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [end of session] [end of band two] 

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

Recording of Joe Ryan, Eoin O'Neill and Gerdie Commane, 1980s

Side A
00:22:08 - 00:25:37 | The Chicago reel ; Scotch Mary, reel ; Templehouse, reel / Joe Ryan, fiddle ; Eoin O'Neill, bouzouki
00:31:25 - 00:33:36 | Piper's chair, jig ; The maids in the meadow, jig / Joe Ryan, fiddle ; Eoin O'Neill, bouzouki
00:33:38 - 00:36:07 | Stone in the field, reel ; Laurel tree, reel / Joe Ryan, fiddle ; Eoin O'Neill, bouzouki ; Unidentified, concertina

An evening at East Avenue, Minneapolis, Mn.

Side A
00:08:09 - 00:14:41 | The foxhunter's reel / James Kelly, fiddle ; Daithí Sproule, guitar
00:16:10 - 00:20:28 | The ashplant, reel ; The merry harriers, reel ; The Limerick lasses, reel / Tony MacMahon, accordion ; James Kelly, fiddle ; Daithí Sproule, guitar

Recordings made in Slattery's Tradition Club, Capel Street, Dublin, 1974

Runing order:
00:02:24 - 00:05:40 | Old grey goose, jig / Seán Keane, fiddle
00:05:44 - 00:08:44 | The new mown meadow, reel ; Colonel Frazier, reel / Seán Keane, fiddle
00:30:11 - 00:33:18 | Na Connery's, slow air / Peter Browne, uilleann pipes
00:35:45 - 00:43:33 | An gabha ceartan, song ; Liam Ó Raghallaigh, song / Darach Ó Catháin, singing in Irish
00:46:10 - 00:49:15 | Morning dew, reel ; Woman of the house, reel ; Bird in the bush, reel / Seán Keane, fiddle

Recordings made in the Majestic Hotel, [Tramore, Co. Waterford], 1970s
Darach Ó Catháin, singing in Irish
Seán Keane, fiddle
Máire Áine Ní Dhonnchadha, singing in Irish

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