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Robin Morton Collection Item Ireland: Vocal Music
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Robin Morton Collection. Reel-to-Reel 122 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, speech and singing in English throughout;
Unidentified performer, recitation in English A3

Running Order:
1. Speech/Song: Untitled (inaudible)
2. Song/Speech: Untitled
3. Recitation/Speech: Untitled
4. Speech/Song: Untitled
5. Speech/Song: Untitled
6. Speech/Song: Untitled (inaudible)
7. Song/Speech: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
8. Speech/Song: Untitled
9. Speech/Song: Untitled
10. Song: Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]

Robin Morton Collection. Reel-to-Reel 39 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Morton, Robin, singing in English A1, speech in English throughout;
Maguire, John, Tonaydrumallard, Co Fermanagh, singing in English A2, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled [fragment]
2. Song: The Blantyre Explosion
3. Speech: talk about John Maguire's family,
4. Speech: talk about school
5. Recitation: Untitled
6. Speech: talk about school, tricks and games played at school
7. Speech: talk about a practical joke played on the local doctor
8. Speech/Song: talk about songs learned at school
9. Speech: talk about relatives, family, the spirits of dead people, Mary Ellen (sister) [END OF BAND ONE]
10. Speech: talk about family, brothers Edward, Brian and Patrick, sisters Maggie and Biddy
11. Speech: talk about the family home, food and meals
12. Speech: talk about working on the farm, cutting hay and corn
13. Speech/Song: talk about buying ballad sheets, Thousands Are Sailing To America
14. Speech/Song: Molly Bawn Lowry
15. Speech/Song: talk about John Maguire's mother singing, Behind Yon Blue Mountain [END OF BAND TWO]

Robin Morton Collection. Reel-to-Reel 44 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Maguire, John, speech in English throughout, singing in English throughout;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about the tradition of people singing together
2. Song/Speech: The Maid of Magheracloon, talk about people singing together
3. Speech: talk about school days, the following song
4. Song: Tom Kelly's Cow
5. Speech: talk about learning songs, what makes a song interesting,
6. Speech: talk about an accident with Pat Maguire and a horse
7. Song: Willie's Ghost (fragment)
8. Recitation/Speech: The Pennyworth O' Lies, talk about lies and short recitations, Paddy Caddan
9. Speech: talk about farming, fair days, middle market, hiring fairs [END OF BAND ONE]
10. Speech: talk about hiring fairs
11. Song: The Hiring Fair
12. Speech: talk about making poitin, gaugers
13. Speech: talk about coal mining, farming, meitheall
14. Song: John Barleygrain
15. Song: John Barleygrain
16. Song: John Barleygrain (fragment of older version)
17. Speech: talk about farming [END OF BAND TWO]

Robin Morton Collection. Reel-to-Reel 55 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Mullarky, Nelly, singing in English A1;
Mullarky, Peter, singing in English A2-3, speech in English;
Unidentified Performers:
singing in English A4-7, recitation in English A6

Running Order:
1. Song: The Lily of the West (fragmented)
2. Song: Diamonds of Derry
3. Song/Speech: Lord Rossmore's Demesne [END OF BAND ONE]
4. Song: [Wild Slieve Gallion ?]
5. Song: [St Patrick's Day ?]
6. Song/Recitation: [The Cant Song ?]
7. Song: [St Patrick's Day ?] [END OF BAND TWO]

Robin Morton Collection. Reel-to-Reel 65 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, speech in English throughout, recitation in English A3-4, singing in English A5-6

Running Order:
1. Speech: speech about Irish freedom, O Donovan Rossa [END OF BAND ONE]
2. Speech: talk about editing reel-to-reel tapes
3. Recitation: Untitled
4. Recitation: Untitled
5. Song: The Sash ?
6. Song: Untitled (fragment) [END OF BAND TWO]