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Father Killian Curran Collection

  • FKC-18730
  • Collection
Collection of reel-to-reel tape recordings. Includes singing performances by Father Killian Curran, Father Sydney McEwan and Rita Lynch, and fiddle performances by Séamus Ó Mathúna and Jim O'Mahoney.

Curran, Fr Killian

Geordie McIntyre Collection. Reel-to-Reel 1 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
McIntyre, Geordie, Scotland, speech in English A1-3, 5, 7-8, 11-12, singing in English in duet A9;
Heaney, Joe, Connemara, singing in English A1, 7-8, 10, 13, speech in English A2-3, 5, 7-8, 10-13, lilting A2, singing in Irish A4, 6, singing in English in duet A9, singing in English in ensemble with pipes and whistle A13;
McNulty, Pat, pipes in singing ensemble A13;
Unidentified performer, whistle in ensemble A13

Running Order:
1. Speech/Song: The Bonnie Bunch of Roses (interrupted)
2. Speech/Lilting: story about `Paddy the one tune', fairy wraths, The Lark in the Morning
3. Speech: the story behind Bean Phaidin and the hag with the money
4. Songs: Bean Paidin, The Hag with the Money
5. Speech: poetic names for Ireland, versions of Roisin Dubh
6. Song: Roisin Dubh
7. Speech/Song/Speech: As I Roved Out
8. Speech/Song: The Bold Tenant Farmer
9. Song: Mrs McGrath
10. Speech/Song: Rocking the Cradle
11. Speech: the banshee, superstitions about frogs and dying, keening, composing keens, drinking at wakes, bean caointe, fortune tellers, difference between a hag and an old woman, tinkers, women who brewed herbs, curing one man and killing another [END OF BAND ONE]
12. Speech: reason why superstitions died out, faith healing, bone-setters, nettle soup for gaul stones, getting the gift of bone-setting out of a magical book, seals crying, fairies on the islands off the coast, the world being flooded
13. Speech/Song: The Bonny Boy
14. Song: The Jug of Punch [END OF BAND TWO]

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