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Andrew Mac Intyre music and song manuscript

  • AMI-276290
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  • 25 February 1920-25 May 1944
Copy of a handwritten music and song manuscript compiled by Andrew Mac Intyre in Co. Donegal in the 1920s and 1940s from local musicians including a "Mr Kelly in Killybegs, Stationmaster, Lifford", a "B. Quinn, Castlefin" and a "Dilla Mac Intyre" who was Andrew's daughter. Also included is a handwritten letter from Eamon Mac Intyre with biographical information about his paternal grandfather Andrew Mac Intyre.

Mac Intyre, Andrew, 1877-1959

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 05B [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Furey, Finbar, Dublin, pipes A1-5;
Furey, Edward, Dublin, guitar A1-5;
Donaghue, Pat, speech in English B1;
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English B1

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled [The Verdant Braes of Skreen]
2. Jig / Slide: Untitled [Dingle Regatta]
3. Air: Roisin Dubh
4. Jig: Untitled [The Lark in the Morning]
5. Song: Pretty Saro (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]
6. Interview with Pat Donaghue about the countryside and catching birds, about Joe and police, etc [END OF BAND TWO]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 07A [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, singing in English A1-2, 4-6,;
Court, Artelia, singing in English A3;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A7;
Syke, lilting A10;
lilting with drum A11-12;
singing in English A8-9;
yodelling A9;
Unidentified performer, lilting with drum A9-10

Running Order:
1. Song: Hills of Mayo [The Hills of Sweet Mayo]
2. Song: The Black Velvet Band
3. Song: Untitled
4. Song: Untitled [Erin's Lovely Lee]
5. Song: Long Time A'Growing [My Bonny Boy]
6. Song: Untitled [Green Grows the Laurel]
7. Song: Untitled [Goodbye, Johnny Dear]
8. Song: By the Lee [Mary on the Banks of the Lee]
9. Song: My Blue Eyes [I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes]
10. Jig: Jigging [The Irish Washerwoman]
11. Set Dance: Jigging with Drum [The Blackbird]
12. Song Air: Jigging with Drum [The Rising of the Moon]
13. Song: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 09A [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, singing in English A1, 4, 9-11, 17-19;
O'Donoghue, Mary, singing in English A2-3;
O'Donoghue, Joe, singing in English A3;
D. [O'Donoghue?], Pat, whistle A5-8[?];
Donovan, Martin, whistle A15-16, 22;
lilting A14;
whistling A12;
singing in English A13, 22-23;
Weldon, Nellie, Dublin, singing in English A20;
Weldon, Liam, Dublin, singing in English A21

Running Order:
1. Song: Her Hair Hung Down in Ringlets
2. Song: The Patriot Game
3. Song: Untitled [The Travellers' Campaign, composed by Joe O'Donoghue]
4. Song: The Shoemaker
5. Song Air: Untitled [Buttons and Bows]
6. Jig: Untitled [The Connachtman's Rambles]
7. Reel: Untitled (unfinished) [The First House in Connacht]
8. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Leitrim Fancy]
9. Song: Untitled [In My Own Peculiar Way] [END OF BAND ONE]
10. Song: Untitled [The Old Triangle]
11. Song: Untitled [James Connolly]
12. Reel: Delvin Lasses [Fermoy Lasses]
13. Song: Luck in the House, whistling and jigging [Around the House There Is No Luck]
14. Reel, Jig: Untitled (unfinished) [Down the Broom], untitled [Gallagher's Frolics]
15. Jigs: Untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], untitled [The Battering Ram]
16. Hornpipes, Reel, Song Air: Untitled [The Stack of Wheat], untitled [Harvest Home], untitled [Jenny Picking Cockles], untitled [Buttons and Bows]
17. Song: Untitled [From the Candy Store on the Corner]
18. Song: Untitled [Are You Lonesome Tonight]
19. Song: Untitled [Every Step of the Way]
20. Song: I Wished I Lived in Carrickfergus [Carrickfergus]
21. Song: The Blue Tarred Road [The Blue Tar Road]
22. Air, Song, Air: Untitled [The Banks of the Lee], untitled [The Banks of the Lee], The Boys of the West [The Men of the West]
23. Reel: Untitled (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 10A [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, [Jack?], whistle A1-5;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A6-17;
O'Donoghue, Joe, singing in English A18-19

Running Order:
1. Barndance / Reel, Reel, Jig: Untitled, untitled [Tom Ward's Downfall], untitled [The Walls of Liscarroll]
2. Reel: Untitled [The Jolly Tinker]
3. Reels: The Duke of Leinster, untitled [The Duke of Leinster's Wife], untitled [London Lasses], untitled [The Sligo Maid]
4. Jigs: Untitled [The Battering Ram], untitled [The Maid on the Green], untitled [The Priest's Leap]
5. Jig: Untitled [Scatter the Mud]
6. Song: Untitled [Every Step of the Way]
7. Song: Untitled [The Nightingale]
8. Song: Untitled [Will You Go Lassie Go]
9. Song: Untitled
10. Song: Untitled [I'll Tell My Ma]
11. Song: Untitled (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]
12. Song: Untitled [From the Candy Store on the Corner]
13. Song: Untitled [The Old Woman from Wexford]
14. Song: Untitled [Liverpool Lou]
15. Song: Untitled [Are You Lonesome Tonight]
16. Song: Untitled [He'll Have To Go]
17. Song: Untitled [Theme song from the film Around the World in Eighty Days]
18. Song: Untitled [The Jolly Beggarman]
19. Song: Untitled [Down By the Green Bushes] [END OF BAND TWO]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 10B [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Cassidy, Jimmy, storytelling in English A1-3;
Cassidy, Bill, singing in English A4-5;
Cassidy, Tom, singing in English A6-8;
Cassidy, Billy, singing in English A9-10;
Cassidy, Kate, singing in English A11;
Cassidy, Nan, singing in English A12;
Furey, Mrs Nora, speech in English A13

Running Order:
1. Story: Repeat of the end of The Grey-haired Norese's Skull, folktale [The Grey-haired Norrissey's Skull]
2. Speech: Football match and imaginary commentary (Kilkenny v. Tipperary)
3. Speech: Football match and imaginary commentary (Wexford v. Kilkenny)
4. Song: Can't Stay in This World Any More, recorded on his wedding day at Saggart
5. Song: Fife and Drum [END OF BAND ONE]
6. Song: The Black and Tan Gun
7. Song: The Cowboy's Dream (unfinished)
8. Song: My Gentle Mother's Grave
9. Song: My Father's Serving Boy
10. Song: The Old Widow's Song
11. Song: Green Grow the Rushes
12. Song: W. Scandlon [William Scanlon]
13. Speech: Talk with Mrs Furey [END OF BAND TWO]

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

Performers:
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English A1, 4, B1-2, B3/C1;
Unidentified performer [member of Furey family?], singing in English A2-3;
guitar A2-3;
Unidentified performer [member of Furey family?], whistle A2-3;
Unidentified performer [Stokes, P?], speech in English A1, 4, B1-2, B3/C1

Running Order:
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]
2. Song: Untitled [Sally Free and Easy]
3. Song: Untitled [Pretty Saro]
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]
5. Speech: Untitled [Continuation of track A4]
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]
7. Speech: Untitled [Conversation continued from track B2 about many topics, including: ordering tin utensils; shoeing horses; buying tin; ghost story (repeated); story; child recites rhyme; trapping birds] [END OF BAND TWO]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 16 or 16B [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Furey Family, The, instrumental group, Dublin A1, 6-11, 14;
Furey, Finbar, Dublin, pipes solo A2-5, 12-13

Running Order:
1. Reels: Untitled [The Sligo Maid], untitled [Down the Broom]
2. Jig: Untitled [Cailleach an Airgid / The Hag with the Money]
3. Jig: Untitled [The Mouse in the Cupboard?]
4. Reel: Untitled [The Star of Munster]
5. Air: Long Time A'Growing [My Bonny Boy]
6. Reels: Untitled [The Flogging Reel], untitled [Miss McLeod]
7. Jig: Untitled (unfinished) [The Irish Washerwoman] [END OF BAND ONE]
8. Reels: The Sligo Maid, Rakish Paddy
9. Jigs: Father Kelly's Jig / The Killimor, The Battering Ram
10. Reel: The Bucks of Oranmore
11. Slip Jigs: Kitty Come Down from Limerick, The Kid on the Mountain
12. Air: Roisin Dubh
13. Set Dance: The Blackbird
14. Reel: The Woman of the House (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 17A [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Furey Family, The, instrumental group A1, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14;
O Conaire, Sean, singing in English A2, 4;
Unidentified performer [Joe Walsh?], singing in English A3;
Unidentified performer [Des O'Connor?], whistle A5-6;
Furey, Ted, fiddle A9-10;
Furey, Finbar, pipes A13

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [The Flogging Reel]
2. Song: Once There Lived a Captain
3. Song: Untitled [By the Pleasant Slaney Side ?]
4. Song: Untitled [She Lived beside the Anner]
5. Jig: Untitled [The Gold Ring, Willie Clancy version]
6. Reel: Untitled [The Ravelled Hank of Yarn] [END OF BAND ONE]
7. Reels: The Woman of the House, The Earl's Chair
8. Hornpipe: Cooley's Hornpipe
9. Jig: The Cliffs of Moher
10. Air: Na Connerys
11. Reels: The Mountain Lark [The Steampacket], The Morning Star, Miss McLeod]
12. Set Dance: The Three Sea Captains
13. Set Dance: The Job of Journeywork, Johnny Doran setting
14. Reels: Scotch Mary, The Flogging Reel (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 18 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Furey Family, instrumental group A1-2;
O Conaire, Sean, singing in Irish A3;
Unidentified performer[s], singing in English A4, 12;
O'Donoghue, Joe, singing in English A5;
Unidentified performer [Martin Donovan?], whistle A6;
Donovan, Martin, whistle A7;
Flynn, Paddy, singing in English A8;
Unidentified performer [Mary O'Donoghue?], singing in English A9;
Unidentified performer [Pat O'Donoghue?], whistle A10;
Unidentified performer [Martin Donovan?], singing in English A11

Running Order:
1. Jigs: The Donnybrook Jig [Donnybrook Fair], An Rogaire Dubh / The Black Rogue, Saddle the Pony [The Priest's Leap]
2. Jig: The Munster Buttermilk [The Sports of Multyfarnham]
3. Song: Maire Mhor
4. Song: Untitled [The Bold Fenian Men]
5. Song: Untitled [The Jolly Beggarman] [END OF BAND ONE]
6. Jigs: Untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], untitled [The Battering Ram]
7. Reel: Untitled [The Stone in the Field]
8. Song: Standing at the Corner of the Street
9. Song: The Patriot Game
10. Jig: Untitled [The Connachtman's Rambles]
11. Song: Untitled
12. Song: Untitled [Bold O'Donoghue] [END OF BAND TWO]

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