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Ireland: Speech in English With digital objects
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Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 12B [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 1

Speech: Untitled [Conversation about many topics, including: people, among them Mick Murphy; animals; travelling to New Ross; child abandoned by its mother; a traveller funeral; Mrs Furey and her problems with rent collectors, etc]

MacWeeney, Alen - speech in English
Unidentified performer [Stokes, P?] - speech in English

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 12B [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 4

Speech: Untitled [Conversation about many topics, including: tinsmithing; ordering tin utensils; learning tinsmithing; types of utensils made; personal background; discussion about people in Athlone, Coosan, Loughrea, etc; tin utensils superceded by plastic; dealing in feathers] [END OF BAND ONE]

MacWeeney, Alen
Unidentified performer [Stokes, P?]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 12B [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 6

Speech: Untitled [Conversation continued from track B1 about many topics, including: dealing in mattresses; finding money in a feather bed; living conditions now relative to earlier; being evicted by Corporation officials; life philosophy; death of a child due to a fire in a tent; fires in tents and their consequences; other family members; living in houses versus living on the road; wedding ring made from the handle of a spoon; horses and rich horsedealers; Ballinasloe Horse Fair; wrestling matches between women and other sporting activities at Ballinasloe; the king and the queen; improving the lives of the travellers; disunity among travellers]

MacWeeney, Alen
Unidentified performer [Stokes, P?]

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