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Performers:
Unidentified performers, singing in English throughout band one, speech in English throughout band one;
[Judge, Bride ?], singing in English in duet A3, singing in English B1-5, speech in English B1-5;
[Judge, Patsy ?], singing in English in duet A3, speech in English B6-7, singing in English B7

Running Order:
1. The beach of Strathblane, song / Mike McGrath, singing in English
2. The fair Fanny Moore, song / Patsy Judge, singing in English
3. The Brule boys, song / Patsy Judge, singing in English ; Bride Judge, singing in English
4. Peter Emberly, song ; Speech / Stan McGrath, singing in English
5. Peter Emberley, song [continued] / Stan McGrath, singing in English ; [Unidentified performer], singing in English
6. Lovely Leitrim, song / Stan McGrath, singing in English
7. The forest was covered in bushes, song / Patsy Judge, singing in English
8. There once was a sailor, song / Bride Judge, singing in English
9. The dance on Peter Street, song / Carrie Brennan, singing in English
10. The wild colonial boy, song ; Speech [learning songs] / Mike McGrath, singing in English, speech in English [END OF BAND ONE]
11. Cape Shore song, song ; Speech [talk about the song] / Bride Judge, singing in English
12. The Boston burglar, song ; Speech [talk about the song] / Bride Judge, singing in English
13. The wild St. Mary’s man, song / Bride Judge, singing in English
14. The broken-hearted milkman [Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green], song ; Speech [learned it from a lady in Gooseberry, used to know 32 songs] / Bride Judge, singing in English
15. The lady in the east, song / Bride Judge, singing in English
16. Speech [talk about local events, music and dancing in houses, types of dances and the tunes used, the mummers] / Patsy Judge, speech
17. Connickmore, song ; Speech ; Under the salt house, song ; The girl I left behind me, song ; Speech [words to the dance songs, sensitivities around singing Tatter Jack Walsh] ; Tatter Jack Walsh ; Speech [story about changing the words to Tatter Jack Walsh] ; Irishman’s shanty, song ; Speech ; Mother wouldn’t beat him, song ; Speech ; There was an old woman, song ; Speech ; Mary bought a pig ; Speech [trying to remember other songs for dancing] / Patsy Judge, singing in English, speech in English
18. Mary Neal, song / Patsy Judge, singing in English [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Brennan, Mrs Caroline, speech in English throughout, singing in English A1-2, 4-5, 7, 9-13, B1, B2-11, 14, recitation in English B13

Running Order:
1. Speech [recites words of the ‘Dinny Blake’] ; I’m Dinny Blake from the County Clare, song [fragment] ; Speech [Her mother used to sing it, she said, and saw it in a book. Kenny asks her for her favourite song. She says it’s ‘My Own Dear Galway Bay’] / Caroline Brennan, singing in English, speech in English
2. My own dear Galway, song / Caroline Brennan, singing in English ; composed by Francis Fahy
3. Speech [talk about occasions where people met to sing and dance] / Caroline Brennan, speech in English
4. Fain Waterloo, song ; Speech [songs about Waterloo] / Caroline Brennan, singing in English
5. Mary and Willie, song / Caroline Brennan, singing in English
6. Speech [talk about ways to finish a song, talking versus singing the last line ; talks about her husband’s sea songs] / Caroline Brennan, speech in English
7. The schooner Annie, song / Caroline Brennan, singing in English ; Peter Leonard, composer
8. Speech [talk about the story of ‘The schooner Annie’ and the emotion of the song, another song about Fr. O'Driscoll, recites lyrics for a song about Tobias Murphy] / Caroline Brennan, speech in English
9. The dewy dells of Yarrow, song / Caroline Brennan, singing in English
10. Jack was a sailor on board of a whaler, song ; Speech [children’s songs] / Caroline Brennan, singing in English, speech in English
11. Comrades, song ; Speech [AOH’s notes: It was taught in school to the boys by the master, she said, Jack was a Sailor was also taught in school, she said. When I asked her if she needed a drink, a drop of the cratur, maybe, she laughed and added, “I sang at a concert in St. John’s, one time, and the man said, Mrs Brennan wants a drink of water, or something, or something with a kick in it.” Laughs] / Caroline Brennan, singing in English, speech in English
12. Henry and Maryann, song ; Speech [recites the last verse, learned it from Mike Brennan, her husband’s brother] / Caroline Brennan, singing in English
13. The scolding wife, song / Caroline Brennan, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
14. The fox and the hare [The man with six wives] ; Speech [AOH notes: A comical song Carrie got it from old Esther Tobin, wife of Joe Power, parents of Anthony Power’s. She talks about the old Irishmen, the first in Ship Cove that sang songs and played music. When she was born and teaching; talks about her father and grandmother who sang this next song] / Caroline Brennan, singing in English, speech in English
15. Speech [AOH notes: Kenny asks her how old she is. She says she was 86 about a month ago (July 1978). She was born in July 1892). Follows with talk about her education. Her father couldn’t sing or dance. His mother was Irish & she was a good singer and dancer. Her favourite song was Patrick Sheehan] / Caroline Brennan, speech in English
16. Patrick Sheehan, song ; Speech [talks about the number of songs she knows] / Caroline Brennan, singing in English
17. The shadow of the pines, song ; Speech [AOH notes: Tells where she got it—John Hennessy’s mother. Talks on ‘times’ on the Cape Shore and when they’d happen. A ‘time’ is an occasion for music, song and dance. Carrie said John Hennessy’s mother had that song—she was a King from the Southeast (Bight?) – and she got it from her] / Caroline Brennan, singing in English, speech in English
18. Doran’s ass, song ; Speech [gob music for dancing] ; Connickmore, song ; Speech [used for doubles] Follow me up to Carlow, song / Caroline Brennan, singing in English, speech in English
19. Rock a bye baby, song ; Speech [lullabies, lumbering songs] / Caroline Brennan, singing in English, speech in English
20. The badger drive, song [talk about a song competition in the lumberyards. AOH notes: She said that when her brother, Bernard Nash, came back from the lumbering woods in Deer Lake one year, he said, “Carrie, there was twenty dollars put out this year for the man who could compose the best song. And he told me about the fellow who won it’] / Caroline Brennan, singing in English, speech in English
21. In York’s fair city, song ; Speech [songs about unwanted pregnancies] / Caroline Brennan, singing in English, speech in English]
22. The happy Christmas time, song ; Speech [songs to be sung in church for Christmas and Easter] / Caroline Brennan, singing in English, speech in English
23. The true lovers’ conversation, song ; Speech [long songs] / Caroline Brennan, singing in English
24. The silvy tide, song [fragmented] / Caroline Brennan, singing in English
25. Speech [describes the conclusion of the Silvey Tide; AOH notes: She said the old Tobin men used to make up comic songs. The Barasway crowd didn’t get along with the people on the Cape Shore. They were called the Poisoners of Barasway] ; Rhyme on Barrasway boys, recitation / Caroline Brennan, speech in English
26. Two glasses, recitation [fragment] / Caroline Brennan, speech in English
27. As I walked out one night, song / Caroline Brennan [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Judge, Patsy, speech in English A1-6, singing in English A1-4, lilting A1-2;
Judge, Bride, speech in English A1-2

Running Order:
1. Speech [cheek/gob music for lilting ; types of dances] ; There was an old woman, reel ; Tatter Jack Walsh, double jig ; All the way to Connickmore, single ; Haste to the wedding, double jig ; The girl I left behind me, single ; Untitled, lilting / Patsy Judge, speech in English, singing in English, lilting ; Bride Judge, speech in English (duplicate version. Full conversation available track 1, Aidan O'Hara Collection, Reel-to-reel 895a-ITMA-REEL/CDR)
2. Speech [parts of dances: (1) first part, required a single, (2) the advance, danced to a single, (3) form the line, danced to a double, (4) chain, danced to a single, (5) close in, (6) round the house, always danced to Pop goes the weasel ; Pop Goes the Weasel, song ; speech [reels were really difficult and only a few people able to do the cheek music for a reel] ; Green grow the rushes-o, reel / Patsy Judge, speech in English, singing in English, lilting ; Bride Judge, speech in English, singing in English
3. The fair Fanny Moore, song / Patsy Judge, singing in English
4. Three long hours before day (The false knight), song / Patsy Judge, singing in English
5. Speech [Patsy talks about where the songs came from—Argentia was great for songs. Argentia was a centre for bootlegging. Patsy mentions that everyone would have to sing at a session. He said he never had any trouble learning a song. He said that when he was a child, he always wanted to be with the old people listening to them and that’s how he learned the songs] / Patsy Judge, speech in English
6. Speech [Christmas rhymes and mummering. Patsy lists the characters of the Mummers’ play. He describes the occasion. Humorous happenings] / Patsy Judge, speech in English (continued on track 1, Aidan O'Hara Reel-to-Reel 30, 888a-ITMA-REEL/CDR) [END OF STEREO BANDS]

Performers:
Campbell, Ger, accordion solo A1;
Best, Anita, speech in English A2, singing in English A2, lilting A2, singing in English in duet A3

Running Order:
1. Untitled, single / Ger Campbell, accordion ; [unidentified dancers]
2. Billy Piddle, reel ; Over the hill to see grandma / Anita Best, lilting, speech in English (duplicate recording track 3, Aidan O’Hara Collection, Reel-to-Reel 25, 889a-ITMA-REEL/CDR)
3. I’m a hearty Newfoundlander (Me old ragadoo), song / Anita Best, singing in English ; Elsie Best, singing in English (duplicate recording track 4, Aidan O’Hara Collection, Reel-to-Reel 25, 889a-ITMA-REEL/CDR) [END OF STEREO BANDS]