Irish Traditional Music Archive

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

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 01B [sound recording] / [various performers]

AMW-18694/258730
Item
16-Sep-67

Part of Alen MacWeeney Collection

Performers:
Murphy, Bridget, singing in English A1, 4, 6, 9-10, 12;
Murphy, Gene, singing in English A2, 7, 11;
Murphy, Tommy, singing in English A3, 8;
Murphy, Mick, singing in English A5;
Unidentified performer (child), singing in English A13;
Stokes, Patrick, singing in English A14;
Stokes, Mary Ellen, singing in English A15-16;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A17-18

Running Order:
1. Song: The Trees They Grow So Tall [speed variation at beginning of track] [My Bonny Boy]
2. Song: The Hills of Glenswilly
3. Song: Biddy Donoghue [Bridget Donoghue]
4. Song: Avondale
5. Song: My Name It Is MacGuire (interrupted)
6. Song: Caroline from Edinburgh Town
7. Song: The Croppy Boy
8. Song: A Mother's Love [A Mother's Love's a Blessing]
9. Song: Macroom-Cork Rebel Song [The Lonely Woods of Upton] (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]
10. Song: Macroom-Cork rebel song [The Lonely Woods of Upton]
11. Song: Early, Early in the Spring [The Croppy Boy]
12. Song: A Mother's Last Goodbye (interrupted)
13. Song: The Butcher Boy (interrupted, end clipped)
14. Song: A Child in the Budget
15. Song: The Prison Song [Shall My Soul Pass through Ireland] (unfinished)
16. Song: The Black and Tan Gun
17. Song: The Farmer's Boy
18. Song: The Hills of Knocknashee [END OF BAND TWO]