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Studio Recording of Niall Keegan, Mel Mercier and Jim Mac Farland [sound recording] / Niall Keega...

Studio Recording of Niall Keegan, Mel Mercier and Jim Mac Farland [sound recording] / Niall Keegan ; Mel Mercier ; Jim Mac Farland

Performers:
Keegan, Niall, flute, track 2-7, B1-7
Mercier, Mel, bodhran solo, track 1; bodhran & bones in duet
McFarland, Jim, singing in English B1-7

Running Order:
1. Percussion piece: Bodhran solo
2. Jigs: Karen Tweed's Band Jigs (x3)
3. Reels: Johnny McCarthy's Reels (x3)
4. Reels: Fermanagh Tunes (x3)
5. Reels: Richard Dwyer's, Karen Tweed's, Untitled
6. Reels: Paddy O'Brien's, Flagstone of Memories
7. Reels: Dunmore Lasses, My Love Is in America, Lucy Campbell's [CONTINUED ON 54b-ITMA-DAT/CDR]
8. Song: Through Benedie Glen [Air = Flower of Gortade]
9. Song: The Rose of Glenfinn (unfinished)
10. Song: The Blackbird (interrupted)
11. Song: Attend Ye Sons
12. Song: As I Roved Out One Morning
13. Song: `Twas Early, Early
14. Song: Through Benedie Glen [DAT ENDS]

Studio Recording of Jim MacFarland [sound recording] / Jim MacFarland

Studio Recording of Jim MacFarland [sound recording] / Jim MacFarland

Performers:
MacFarland, Jim, singing in English

Running Order:
1. Song: The Beaver Brig
2. Song: Jackets So Blue
3. Song: In the Year 1800
4. Song: Benadie Glen
5. Song: The Mountain Streams
6. Song: Early in the Spring [last verse repeated]
7. Song: Lovely Annie
8. Song: Bessie the Beauty
9. Song: Lough Erne's Shore [CONTINUED ON 65b-ITMA-DAT/CDR]
10. Song: Old Ardboe (interruped)
11. Song: The Blackbird
12. Song: Gathering Mushrooms
13. Song: Mountains of Pomeroy
14. Song: The Star of Moville
15. Song: The Wee Lass on the Brae
16. Song: Going to Mass Last Sunday (interrupted)
17. Song: The Rose of Glenfinn
18. Song: The High Walls of Derry
19. Song: My Charming Blue-Eyed Mary [DAT ENDS]

Studio Recording of Jim MacFarland and Grace Toland [sound recording] / Jim MacFarland ; Grace To...

Studio Recording of Jim MacFarland and Grace Toland [sound recording] / Jim MacFarland ; Grace Toland

Performers:
Toland, Grace, singing in English, track 12-15 (0.54.46 - 0.57.36)
McFarland, Jim, Derry, singing in English, track 1-11 (0.00.00 - 0.50.28)

Running Order:
1. Song: The Reaping of the Rushes Green (first verse)
2. Song: The Reaping of the Rushes Green (interrupted)
3. Song: The Maid of the Faughan Vale (started twice)
4. Song: Sweet Erin the Green
5. Song: Sweet Erin the Green
6. Song: For the Want of a Man
7. Song: Green Caledonia (Burns Highland Mary)
8. Song: The Rambling Irishman
9. Songs: The Flying Cloud, In Praise of John Magee (first verse only)
10. Song: In Praise of John Magee
11. Song: The Blackbird (interrupted)
12. Song: I Wonder What's Keeping My True Love Tonight? (first verse only - sound check)
13. Song: I Wonder What's Keeping My True Love Tonight?
14. Song: The Factory Girl [DAT ENDS]

Studio Recording of Dermot McLaughlin, Liam O'Flynn and Grace Toland [sound recording] / Dermot M...

Studio Recording of Dermot McLaughlin, Liam O'Flynn and Grace Toland [sound recording] / Dermot McLaughlin ; Liam O'Flynn ; Grace Toland

Performers:
McLaughlin, Dermot, Derry/Dublin, fiddle, track 1-11
O'Flynn, Liam, Kildare, pipes, track 12-17; speech in English, track 18
Toland, Grace, singing in English B1-5

Running Order:
1. Reels: Paddy from Ahara, The Scolding Wife
2. Reels: Trim the Velvet, Repeal the Union
3. Reel: The Piper from Keady
4. Reel: Drowsy Maggie
5. Jig: The Lancer's Jig
6. Slip jig: The Ferry Jig
7. Reel: The College Groves
8. Reel: The Tap Room
9. Reel: Untitled
10. Reel: The Cup of Tea
11. Reel: The Finn Town Reel
12. Reel: I'm Waiting for You
13. Hornpipes: Queen of the Fairies, Dollard's Hornpipe
14. Jigs: The Little Fair Canavan, Whelan's Old Sow
15. Air: An Bonnan Bui
16. Hornpipe: Ace and Deuce of Piping
17. Reel: The West Wind
18. Speech: Questions to artist about pipes [CONTINUED ON 50b-ITMA-DAT/CDR]
19. Song: The Bonny Labouring Boy
20. Song: The Pride of Moville
21. Song: Maggie's Song
22. Song: The Shamrock Shore
23. Song: The True and Single Sailor [DAT ENDS]

Singing Recital [videorecording] / Ian Lee ; [various performers]

Singing Recital [videorecording] / Ian Lee ; [various performers]

Performers:
O Rochain, Muiris, Clare, speech in Irish, speech in English, track 1
Lee, Ian, Dublin, speech in Irish, speech in English, compere, track 2
MacNeill, Flora, Scotland, singing in Scots Gaelic, track 3, 9, 18
Mullen, Brian, Derry, singing in Irish, track 4
Fyne, Elizabeth, USA, singing in Irish, track 5, 14
Smith, Mary, Scotland, singing in Scots Gaelic, track 6, 17
Ní Shúilleabháin, Eilís, Cork, singing in Irish, track 7
Ui Cheallaigh, Aine, Waterford, singing in Irish, track 8
Ni Dhomhnaill, Mairead, singing in Irish, track 10
Ni Cheallaighear, Maire, singing in Irish, track 11
Garvey, Sean, Kerry, singing in English, track 13
Ni Oistin, Mairead, Chicago, singing in Irish, track 15
Mattie Joe, singing in Irish, track 16

Running Order:
1. Introduction: (16.28.53 - 16.32.42)
2. Introduction: (16.32.42 - 16.42.26)
3. Song: (16.42.46 - 16.47.02)
4. Song: (16.50.48 - 16.54.38)
5. Song: (16.57.50 - 17.00.20)
6. Song: (17.01.50 - 17.03.58)
7. Song: (17.06.48 - 17.12.14)
8. Song: (17.14.04 - 17.17.42)
9. Song: (17.18.44 - 17.22.20)
10. Song: (17.23.48 - 17.28.00)
11. Song: (17.29.16 - 17.31.58)
12. Song: (17.32.36 - 17.34.14)
13. Song: (17.35.30 - 17.37.58)
14. Song: (17.39.06 - 17.40.54)
15. Song: (17.43.04 - 17.47.04)
16. Song: (17.48.22 - 17.51.30)
17. Song: (17.53.50 - 17.56.00)
18. Song: (17.56.46 - 17.59.20)
19. Ends: 18.01.25

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 90 [sound recording] / [Eddie Butcher]

Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil crossroads, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 17 September 1970 [tracks 1–5] [session continued from 7009]

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 1-5

Running Order:
1. The Moorlough shore (‘Oh you hills and dales and flowery vales lies near to the Moorlough shore...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Blow the candle out (‘It’s of a young apprentice boy...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. The bonny Irish boy (‘His real name I won’t mention...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. Now there is something else, song [extra verse added to the song ‘The new Mallard bar, words by Eddie Butcher (see 6901)], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [end of recording session]
5. My Aunt Biddy (‘My aunt Biddy had a boil on her diddy...’), song [Eb used to hear small boys singing this] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [session resumed next morning and ended here] [END OF BAND ONE]

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 89 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil crossroads, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 17 September 1970 [tracks 1–4]

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 1, 3-4, speech in English Track 2;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 2

Running Order:
1. Bonny Portmore (‘Bonny Portmore, you shine where you stand...’), song [17 verses, air: Green bushes] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Talk about the song ‘Bonny Portmore’ / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
3. Lovely Armoy (‘Draw near, my kind friends and relations...’), song [known since childhood, but text may be partly learnt from Joe Holmes, Ballymoney, Co. Antrim, air: cf. Banks of Kilrea]
4. The maid of Culmore (‘From fair Londonderry unto fair London town...’), song [amalgam of two songs ? Air: cf. Sailing to America] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [session continued on 6910] [END OF BAND ONE]

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 154 [sound recording] / Eddie Butcher

[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

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 153 [sound recording] / John Butcher ; Eddie Butcher ; Hugh Shields

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]

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