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[Recorded from Eddie Butcher (of Magilligan, Co. Derry) for Hugh Shields in the Avondale Studio, Dublin] Copy of studio recording

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English [tracks 1-5]

Running Order:
1. The 'Trader' ('Oh, come all you gallent seamen bold, now listen here a while to me...'), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Inniskilling dragoon [= Enniskillen dragoon] [clipped at start], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. The mountain stream where the moorcock crows ('With my dog and gun through the blooming heather...') , song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. The Fan [= The Bold lieutenant] ('In sweet Argyll there lived a lady ..'), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
5. Another man's wedding [= Nobleman's wedding] ('I was invited to another man's wedding...'), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English

Recorded at the house of John Butcher (brother of Eddie), Drumavally, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 17 July 1969 [tracks 1–3]

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

Running Order:
1. Tossing the hay (‘It being on a summer’s morning abroad as I did go...’), song / John Butcher, singing in English [session continued from 6904]
2. The cocks are crowing (‘The cocks is crowing, daylight’s appearing...’), song ; speech / John Butcher, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
3. It is now for New England (‘It is now for New England fain would I go...’), song [clipped: for complete see 6906] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [session continued at 6906] [END OF BAND ONE]

[Recorded from Eddie Butcher (of Magilligan, Co. Derry) for Hugh Shields in the Avondale Studio, Dublin, July 1966] Copy of studio recording

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

Running Order:
1. Down by the canal (‘As I went a-walking one evening in June...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. When a man’s in love (When a man’s in love he feels no cold...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. Tossing the hay (‘It being on a pleasant evening abroad as I did go...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. Pat Reilly (‘Oh, as I went a-walking one morning in May, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
5. The ship carpenter’s wife, (‘Oh, come all you gay fellows, you flourishing folk...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
6. When a man’s in love (‘When a man’s in love he feels no cold...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
7. The bold lieutenant [= The fan] (‘In sweet Argyle there lived a lady...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
8. The mountain streams where the moorcock crows (‘With my dog and gun through yon blooming heather...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English A1-4

Running Order:
1. The cocks are crowing, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Another man's wedding, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. Robin Tamson's smithy, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. Adam in Paradise, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English A1-11, 14-19;
speech in English A12-13

Running Order:
1. Tossing the hay, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Pat Reilly, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. The ships’s carpenter’s wife, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. When a man’s in love, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
5. Far from Killyclare, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
6. I once was a daysman, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
7. Another man’s wedding, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
8. Robin Tamson’s smithy, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
9. Youghal Harbour, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
10. Tossing the hay, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
11. Green grows the laurel, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
12. [untitled], story [about the minister, the place of worship, his parishioners and their darkness] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
13. The scythe, story ('There were a farmer one time and he had a man hired...' ) / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
14. The road to Dundee, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
15. James McKee, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
16. Nancy Whiskey [last verse repeated], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
17. Green grow the laurel, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
18. The bold lieutenant, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
19. The mountain streams where the moorcocks crow, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English A1-2

Running Order:
1. The tractor, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Down the moor, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English

Recorded from John Duggan (aged about 48) at the house of John Gillespie, Doonalt, Glencolmkille, Co. Donegal , 8 September 1968 [tracks 1–2]

Performers:
John Duggan, singing in English Tracks 1–2

Running Order:
1. Molly Bawn (‘Oh come all you late fowlers, of hunting there [?] shun...’), song / John Duggan (aged about 48), singing in English [session continued from 6828] [END OF BAND ONE]
2. Barbry Ellen (‘It being about the Christmas time...’), song [old ballad] / John Duggan, singing in English [end of session] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded from Miss Madge MacRory (aged about 65) at her house in Glencolmkille, Co. Donegal, 10 September 1968 [tracks 1–5]
Recorded from Alphonsus Ward (headmaster of Carrick National School, aged about 55) at his house in Teelin, Co. Donegal, 10 September 1968 [track 6]
Recorded from Patrick Heekin (aged about 52), of Garraros, Glencolumkille, in Gillespie’s public house, Main Street, Cashel, Glencolumkille, Co. Donegal, 10 September 1968 [track 7]

Performers:
Miss Madge MacRory, singing in English Tracks 1–2, singing in Irish and English Track 3, speech in Irish and English Track 4, singing in Irish Track 5;
Alphonsus Ward, singing in Irish Track 6;
Patrick Heekin, singing in English Track 7

Running Order:
1. Glenswilly (‘Attention pay, my countrymen, till I relate the news...’), song / Miss Madge MacRory (aged about 65), singing in English
2. [The Carrick courtship] (‘As I roved out one morning fair, it being on the first of July...’), song [words by local man from Lurahork] / Madge MacRory, singing in English
3. My match is a-making (‘My match is a-making since there last night...’), song [macaronic] / Madge MacRory, singing in English and Irish
4. Spoken text of the macaronic song ‘My match is a-making’, recitation / Madge MacRory, speech in English and Irish
5. An sean-duine dóite (‘Tharraing [?] mé mo shean-duine isteach ins an chófra...’), song [one-verse fragment] / Madge MacRory, singing in Irish [end of session]
6. An buinneán buí (‘O ’s a bhuinneáin bhuí, ’sé mo léan do luí...’), Alphonsus Ward, singing in Irish [end of session] [END OF BAND ONE]
7. Down by the riverside (‘As I roved out one evening fair down by yon riverside...’), song / Patrick Heekin, singing in English [end of session] [END OF BAND TWO]