Recorded in New Mallard bar, Clooney. Magilligan, Co. Derry, 20 March 1975 [tracks 1–21]
Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil crossroads, Magilligan, Co. Derry, evening of 20 March 1975 [tracks 22–29]
Recorded in the house of Mrs Jean Carson (sister of Hugh Shields), Ballyclare Road, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim from her daughters Ruth (10) and Linda (8), 21 March 1975 [tracks 30–36]
Recorded in the house of Hugh Shields, Dublin from his children Kitty (16), Michael (14), Denis (11) and Philip (9), 22 March 1975 [tracks 37–42]

Performers:
Anderson, Tom, singing in English Tracks 1-3, 8, 11-14, 17, 19, 21, speech in English Tracks 7, 10;
Anderson, Nelly, singing in English Tracks 4, 6, speech in English Tracks 7, 10;
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 5, 15, 23, 25-27, 29, speech in English Tracks 22, 24, 28;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 7, 10, 24, 28, 37, singing in French Track 41;
Mulgrew, John, singing in English Tracks 9, 17, 20
Somers, Charlie, singing in English Tracks 16, 18;
Butcher, Christopher, singing in English Track 5;
Carson, Linda, singing in English Tracks 30-36;
Carson, Ruth, singing in English Tracks 35-36;
Shields, Kitty, speech in English Track 37, singing in English Track 42, singing in French Track 41;
Shields, Michael, singing in English Tracks 38-39, 42, singing in French Track 41;
Shields, Denis, singing in English Tracks 40, 42, singing in French Track 41;
Shields, Philip, singing in French Track 41, singing in English Track 42

Running Order:
1. Shall I never see you more, gentle mother (‘It was down by a clear crystal fountain...’), song / Tom Anderson (age about 73, Aughil), singing in English [session continued from 7505]
2. The green fields of America (‘Farewell to old Ireland, the land of my childhood...’), song / Tom Anderson, singing in English
3. Going to church last Sunday, song / Tom Anderson, singing in English
4. The banks of the Bann (‘Down by yon harbour near sweet Coleraine...’), song / Mrs Nelly Anderson, singing in English
5. My Flora and I (‘Oh, as I went out walking one evening in June...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
6. The distressed maid (‘I am a maid that’s cast in live and I dare not to complain...’), song [cf. Ulster folklife, vol. X] / Mrs Nelly Anderson, singing in English
7. Talk about barnacle (geese) /
Mrs Nelly Anderson, speech in English ; Tom Anderson, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
8. The strands of Magilligan (‘I’m a stranger to this country, from America I came...’), song [cf. 6926] / Tom Anderson, singing in English
9. Above Sheephaven Bay (‘On a bonny summer’s evening as I sailed from Erin’s shore...’), song / John Mulgrew, singing in English
10. Talk about the song ‘Above Sheephaven Bay’ and the singer, speech / John Mulgrew, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
11. Copper John (‘Copper John give me the wink...’), song ; speech / Tom Anderson, singing in English / Mrs Nelly Anderson, speech in English
12. Johnny my man (‘Johnny my man are there nae word of rising...’), song / Tom Anderson, singing in English
13. The rose of Arranmore (‘My thoughts today they were far away...’) / Tom Anderson, singing in English
14. Rathfriland on the hill (‘Oh, many’s the mile I travelled and many’s a sight I seen...’), song [nearly complete] / Tom Anderson, singing in English
15. The maid of Faughanvale (‘One summer’s morn as I roved out for to view the pleasant strand...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
16. The noble lord’s wedding [=Another man’s wedding] (‘I was kindly invited till a noble lord’s wedding...’) , song [clipped] / Charlie Somers (age about 75, the Bog Bellarena), singing in English [END OF BAND ONE] [session continued on track B]
17. ‘Young Dunsmore [=Bonny Woodhall], song (‘Down by yon green bushes by sunny Suir [?] stream...’), song / John Mulgrew, singing in English ; Tom Anderson, singing in English [joining in last verse] [session continued from track A]
18. India’s burning sands (‘In blithe and bonny fair Scotland where the bluebells does grow...’), song [cf. 6909] / Charlie Somers (age about 75, the Bog Bellarena), singing in English
19. Mary Acklin (‘Oh, come all you young maidens, draw near me and the truth unto you I’ll unfold...’), song / Tom Anderson (age about 73, Aughil), singing in English
20. Skibbereen (‘It’s father dear, I ofttimes hear you speak of Erin’s isle...’), song / John Mulgrew, singing in English
21. The green fields of America (‘Oh, our good ship she’s lying below Londonderry...’), song [1-verse fragment] Christopher Butcher, singing in English [with others] [end of session]
22. Story: The oul grey mare, story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
23. Teddy Regan courted Winie, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
24. Talk about the song ‘Teddy Regan courted Winie’, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
25. The flower of Corby mill (‘Oh, come all you tender-hearted chaps, I pray you lend an ear...’), song [cf. 6130] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
26. The brisk young butcher, song [cf. 6125] (‘It’s of a brisk young butcher as I heard the people say...’) / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
27. Mary of Dunglow (‘Fare you well, sweet Donegal, the Rosses and Gweedore...’), song [cf. 6941] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
28. Talk about the song’ Mary of Dunglow’, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Willie McCloskey [next-door neighbour of Eddie], speech in English
29. Glenshee (‘As I went a-walking the heather was blowing...’), song [cf. 6815], Eddie Butcher, singing in English [end of session]
30. Archibald bald bald, song / Linda Carson, singing in English
31. Archibald bald bald, song [take two] / Linda Carson, singing in English
32. Archibald bald bald, song [sung to clapping on a wall] / Linda Carson, singing in English
33. A sailor went to sea sea sea, song [with clapping] / Linda Carson, singing in English
34. A sailor went to sea sea sea, song [without clapping] / Linda Carson, singing in English
35. Under the ban bushes over the sea, song [with clapping] / Linda Carson, singing in English ; Ruth Carson, singing in English
36. Under the ban bushes over the sea, song [without clapping] / Linda Carson, singing in English ; Ruth Carson, singing in English [end of session]
37. Kitty Shields (16 years) explains a ball game with macabre penalties, speech ; Denis the menace, song / Kitty Shields, speech in English ; Michael Shields, singing in English [in ‘choirboy’ ecclesiastical style] ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
38. Denis the menace, song / Michael Shields, singing in English [in ‘street’ style]
39. Denis the menace song [take two] / Michael Shields, singing in English [in ‘street’ style]
40. Denis the menace, song / Denis Shields, singing in English
41. Or est Baiars, song [medieval French rondeau by Adam de la Halle] / Shields family [Hugh, Kitty, Michael, Denis and Philip], singing in Old French
42. Woman at the church-yard gate [=The skin and bone lady] / Kitty Shields, singing in English [with siblings joining refrain] [end of session] END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded in the house of Hugh Shields, Dublin, from Jackie Devenny (aged about 35, from Coleraine), Eddie Butcher and Gracie Butcher from Magilligan, Co. Derry, 8 September 1975 [tracks 1–14] and 10 September 1975 [tracks 15– 40]

Performers:
Devenney Jackie, speech in English Tracks 1, 3, 13, 38, singing in English Tracks 2, 12;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 1, 3-4, 7, 13, 25, 30, 35, 38-39;
Butcher, Eddie, speech in English Tracks 4, 7, 10, 21-28, 30-31, 35-39, singing in English Tracks 4-6, 8-11, 14-20, 22, 26, 29, 32-34;
Butcher, Gracie, singing in English Tracks 15, 32, speech in English Tracks 31, 38;
Shields, Lisa, speech in English Track 38

Running Order:
1. Talk about the song ‘Lord Randal’ / Jackie Devenney, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
2. Lord Randal (‘Oh, where have you been, Lord Randal my son...’) / Jackie Devenney, singing in English
3. Talk about the song ‘Lord Randal’ / Jackie Devenney, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
4. Introduction to the song ‘Down the moor’, speech ; Down the moor (‘One morn in May when fields were gay...’), song / Eddie Butcher, speech in English, singing in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
5. Pat Molloy and the cockney (Pat Molloy, an Irish boy, came from the county Clare...’), song [fragment] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
6. Thady Regan courted Winie, song [cf. 7506] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
7. Talk about the air of the song ‘Going to Mass last Sunday’ as a pipe band tune, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
8. Johnny from home he never had been, song [one verse] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
9. Banks of the Bann (‘When first to this country a stranger I came...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
10. Go from the window, chantefable [story with song] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English, singing in English
11. Distressed maid (‘I am a maid that’s cast in love and here I do remain...’), song [see Ulster folklife X] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
12. Johnny, lovely Johnny (‘Johnny, lovely Johnny, do you remember the day...’), song / Jackie Devenney, singing in English
13. Talk about the song ‘Johnny, lovely Johnny’ / Jackie Devenney, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
14. Soldier and a sailor (‘Soldier and a sailor went a-walking one day...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
15. Don’t come again (‘Oh, the first place I saw my love it was at a ball...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English, Gracie Butcher, singing in English
16. Virgin only nineteen years old (‘As I went a-walking down by the Strand...’), song [fragment] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
17. Virgin only nineteen years old, song [fragment] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
18. Ploughboy (‘Oh, girls, do wed a ploughboy all if that you be wise...’), song [fragment] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
19. Ploughboy, song [fragment, take two] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
20. Mary Acklin (‘Oh you tender young lovers, draw near to those lines I am going to unfold...’), song [cf. 7505, 7506, 6112] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
21. Story: Dry day for thatching (‘This man was coming along the road...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
22. Go from the window, chantefable [story with song] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English, singing in English
23. Story: It could be worse`(‘This was a man and nae matter what anyone said till him...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
24. Story: Going to meet my father (‘...He was out and met this man coming along...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
25. Introduction to the following chantefable ; Hugh Shields, speech in English ; / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
26. Saturday night is Halloween night (‘This man lost his wife...’), chantefable [story with song] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English, singing in English
27. Story: If we had eggs (‘The’ were a boy yin time axed a soldier...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
28. Story: The oul mare (‘This oul fellow...he took the horse to the fair...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
29. Come to the hedgerows (‘Oh, come to the hedgerows with gay flowers of bright...’), song [learnt by both singers at school] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English, Gracie Butcher, singing in English
30. Talk about the song ‘Come to the hedgerows’ / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Gracie Butcher, speech in English
31. Riddle: Your twenty geese (‘The’ were a man...’), riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
32. Go and leave me if you wish it (The’ were once I loved with fond affection...’), song [EB’s ‘favourite’] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English, Gracie Butcher, singing in English
33. Ploughboy (‘Girls, do wed a ploughboy all if that you be wise...’) / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
34. Ploughboy, song [fresh start] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
35. Lark in the cornfield, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
36. Story: The scythe (‘Another oul farmer and he had this man...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
37. Story: The bag of coal (‘The’ were two oul brothers yin time...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
38. Dance you up, my bonny brown bear, speech ; song [about performing bear] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English, singing in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Jackie Devenney, speech in English ; Lisa Shields, speech in English ; Gracie Butcher, speech in English
39. Lint pulling, speech [about flax pulling near Castlerock / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English [session continued on 7508] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded in the house of Hugh Shields, Dublin, from Eddie and Gracie Butcher from Magilligan, Co. Derry and from Jackie Devenny (aged about 35, from Coleraine), 8 September 1975 [tracks 1–11, 15]
Recorded from Eddie Butcher in The Tradition Club, Slattery’s pub, Capel St., Dublin 8 September 1975 [tracks 12–14]

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, speech in English Tracks 1-2, 4, 9-10, singing in English Tracks 3, 5, 8, 11-15;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 1-2, 4, 7;
Butcher, Gracie, speech in English Track 2;
Devenney Jackie, singing in English Track 6, speech in English Track 7

Running Order:
1. Talk about Eddie Butcher’s father singing the ‘Silk merchants daughter’ / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Eddie Butcher, speech in English [session continued from 7407]
2. Talk about Kate Curry and the long songs / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Gracie Butcher, speech in English ; Eddie Butcher, speech in English
3. Walling of the men (‘Oh, come all you jolly working men whereever that you be...’), song [words by Eddie Butcher] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. Talk about the song ‘Walling of the men’ / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Gracie Butcher, speech in English
5. The very first night (‘The very first night that we were married...’), song [one-verse fragment] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
6. The mountainy farmer (‘I am a mountainy farmer, I’m fated to work and toil...’), song / Jackie Devenney, singing in English
7. Talk about the song ‘The mountainy farmer’ / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Jackie Devenney, speech in English
8. Rock my wee baby to sleep (‘I married a wife, she was just forty-five...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
9. I hae forgot the password (‘This old boy driv a hackney car...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
10. The Lord Mayor (‘This boy was walking through [the] London...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
11. When a man’s in love (‘When a man’s in love he feels no cold like I not long ago...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
12. Sarah Jane (‘One day for my amusement, it being Sunday afternoon...’), song [words by Jimmy McCurry] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
13. Down the moor (‘One morn in May when fields wee gay...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
14. Opening of two songs not recorded [It’s only a step from Killarney to Heaven (‘It was at a campfire concert...’) and The two sweethearts] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
15. Virgin only nineteen years old (‘As I went a-walking down by the Strand...’). song [fragment of two and a half verses], / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [end of session] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 3–6 March 1979 [tracks 1-10]

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 1, 3-9, speech in English Tracks 2, 10;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 2

Running Order:
1. Aghnacloy town (‘My friends and I left sweet Armoy...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Talk about the preceding song, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
3. Skewball/Stewball (‘Come all you noble gentlemen, I pray listen all...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. Farmer's daughter (‘There were a farmer’s daughter...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
5. Are you from Dixie? (‘Hello there stranger, how do you do?...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
6. Until the morning [fragment] (‘Now I would like to wed again and have a night like you...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
7. Green grows the laurel, song (‘Oh, it’s green grows the laurel and so falls the dew...’) / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
8. Eileen McManus, song (‘One day as I walked along Broadway...’) / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
9. Pat Reilly, song (‘It being on an Easter Monday, it was a play day...’) / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
10. Buy me a goat, story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded at the house of Eddie Butcher, Magilligan, Co. Derry 4 March, 1979 [tracks 1–28]
Recorded at the house of Eddie Butcher, Magilligan, Co. Derry 6 March, 1979 [tracks 29–33]

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 1-2, 4, 29, 31, speech in English Tracks 3, 5, 6-14, 16-28, 30, 31-33;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 3, 5, 6, 30, 31-33;
Shields, Lisa, speech in English Tracks 3, 6;
Butcher, Grace, speech in English Tracks 3, 6, 15, 32

Running Order:
1. Drogheda festival (‘On the first day of October, on the Friday being the day...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. It being in the middle of April (‘It being in the middle of April, it being the eighteenth day...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. Weather lore, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Gracie Butcher, speech in English ; Lisa Shields, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
4. Magilligan parochial house (‘You poets of this country, come listen unto me...’) [composed by Paddy Lafferty], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
5. Talk about the preceding song, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
6. Weather lore, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Gracie Butcher, speech in English ; Lisa Shields, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
7. There was a man of Adam's race, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
8. Queen Mary sent to Queen Ann, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
9. If Dick's father was Tom's son, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
10. If there was a man standing in Coleraine Diamond, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
11. How is the clock in the Diamond of Coleraine like the River Bann?, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
12. What goes from Coleraine to Limavady and never moves?, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
13. Ower the water and ower the water, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
14. What makes the hen cross the road?, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
15. What is black and white and read all over?, riddle / Gracie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Lisa Shields, speech in English
16. As white as milk and milk it's not, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
17. What goes round the house and round the house?, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
18. Three feet upon ground, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
19. What was done before begun, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
20. Oul Sam Simie and young Sam Simie, tongue twister / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
21. Three kegs oftTreacle, tongue twister / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
22. Mrs Hunt had a cuddy punt, tongue twister / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
23. Mrs Hunt had a cuddy punt (said faster), tongue twister / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
24. Mrs Hunt split her pump, tongue twister / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
25. As I went over Corney Hill, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
26. As I was going to St Ives, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
27. How many feet has forty sheep, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
28. If there were twenty sick sheep, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
29. Erin's Lovely Home (‘You rambling boys of Paddy’s land, come listen unto me...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
30. Talk about '’David's flowery vale’, speech / ‘Eddie Butcher, speech in English, singing in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
31. Song/David's flowery Vale, talk about the song with sung verses, speech and song / Eddie Butcher, speech in English, singing in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English'
32. Talk about a saying 'A lady in her bed', speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English' ; Gracie Butcher, speech in English
33. Talk about dancing among presbyterians of Magillian, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded from Eddie Butcher at his house in Magilligan, Co. Derry 4 March, 1979 [tracks 1–11]

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 1, 3-9, speech in English Tracks 2, 10;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 2

Running Order:
1. ‘Trader’ (‘Come all you gallant seamen bold and listen here a while to me...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Talk about the preceding song, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
3. Bonnie Doon (one verse), song (‘Ye banks and braes o bonnie Doon...’) [by Robert Burns], (one verse), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. I am a youth (‘I am a youth that’s inclined for rambling...’) [fragment] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
5. Old Moore was dying, story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
6. Weather lore, speech / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in EnglishB; Lisa Shields, speech in English
7. The cuckoo and the little tittle, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
8. What makes the bull look over the hill?, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
9. What man in parliament wears the biggest hat?, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
10. Black I am and much admired, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
11. Three fourths of a cross and a circle complete, riddle / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Lisa Shields, speech in English [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Jimmy Butcher (youngest brother of Eddie, born 1913) at his house in Grange Park, Limavady, Co. Derry, 5 May 1983 [tracks 1–12]

Performers:
Butcher, Jimmy, singing in English Tracks 1-2, 4, 7, 9, 11, speech in English Tracks 3, 5-6, 8, 10, 12;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 3, 5-6, 8, 10, 12

Running Order:
1. The town I loved so well (‘In my memory I can always see the town that I have loved so well...’), song / Jimmy Butcher, singing in English
2. Shamrock shore [=Edward O’Connor] (‘You lovers of this countery, attend for a short while...’), song / Jimmy Butcher, singing in English
3. Talk about the song ‘Shamrock shore’ / Jimmy Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
4. Slieve Gallen braes (‘As I went a-walking one morning in May...’), song / Jimmy Butcher, singing in English
5. Talk about the song ‘Slieve Gallen braes’ / Jimmy Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
6. Talk about the song ‘Alexander’ and a singer who sang it / Jimmy Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English [END OF BAND ONE]
7. Alexander (‘Oh, don’t you know the reason, love...’), song / Jimmy Butcher, singing in English
8. Talk about the song ‘Alexander’ / Jimmy Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
9. Strands of Magilligan (‘I’m a stranger to this country, from America I came...), song [learnt from Mary Somers (Mrs Osborne), see 6920] / Jimmy Butcher, singing in English
10. Talk about the song ‘Strands of Magilligan’ / Jimmy Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
11. Poor Susan walked along the beach (‘Poor Susan walked along the beach that skirted Sligo shore...’), song
12. Talk about the song ‘Poor Susan walked along the beach’ [learnt from his brother Willy] / Jimmy Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English [end of session] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded from Bill Quigley at his house in Bellarena, Co. Derry, 6 May 1983 [tracks 1–6]
Recorded from Frank Browne (aged 73, of Rath, Bellanagar, Co. Roscommon in Barbara O’Flynn’s flat in Dublin), 4 June 1983 [tracks 7–12]

Performers:
Quigley, Bill, singing in English Tracks 1-2, 4, 6, speech in English 3, 5;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 3, 5;
Browne, Frank, tin whistle solo Tracks 7-9, speech in English Tracks 10, 11, singing in English Track 11;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 10, 12;
O'Flynn, Barbara, speech in English Tracks 10, 12

Running Order:
1. Dawning of the day (‘As I went out one morning being in the month of May...’), song / Bill Quigley, singing in English
2. Dawning of the day, song [fresh start], song / Bill Quigley, singing in English
3. Talk about the song ‘Dawning of the day’ / Bill Quigley, speech in English
4. Star of Moville (‘You folks of this nation that hears my narration...’), song [fragment] / Bill Quigley, singing in English
5. Talk about the song ‘Star of Moville’ / Bill Quigley, speech in English
6. Londonderry on the banks of the Foyle (‘There’s a spot in old Ireland, it’s a spot of great fame...’), song / Bill Quigley, singing in English [end of session] [END OF BAND ONE]
7. Men of the west, waltz / Frank Browne, whistle
8. Peggy Malone, waltz / Frank Browne, whistle
9. Londonderry air / Frank Browne, whistle
10. Talk about the tune ‘Londonderry air’ / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Frank Browne, speech in English ; Barbara O’Flynn, speech in English
11. Peggy Malone (‘Oh, I went to the fair on a fine summer’s morning...’), song / Frank Browne, singing in English
12. Talk about the song ‘Peggy Malone’ /Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Barbara O’Flynn, speech in English [session continued on 8304] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded by Frank Harte in the house of Hugh Shields, Dublin from Eddie Butcher of Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 17 July 1966

Performers:
Eddie Butcher, singing in English Tracks 1-8

Running Order:
1. Our wedding day (‘Oh I once had a sweetheart and I loved her well...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [session continued from 6601]
2. Green grows the laurel (‘Once I had a sweetheart but now I have none...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. The Arranmore disaster (‘Good people dear, pray] lend an ear, I’ll tell yous one and all...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. Erin’s green shore (‘Oh, one evening of late as I strayed by the banks of a clear silvery stream...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
5. Oh the marriage (‘It’s oh, that I ever was married...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [end of band one]
6. It’s of a row I’ll tell you now, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
7. The Longfield Bank (‘On a dull October morning...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English 
8. The Longfield Bank song [a further verse] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [end of session] [end of band two] 

Recorded by Frank Harte in the house of Hugh Shields, Dublin from Eddie Butcher of Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 17 July 1966

Performers:
Eddie Butcher, singing in English Tracks 1-2, 4-17, speech in English Track 3;
Frank Harte, speech in English Track 1

Running Order:
1. It’s just about ten years ago, song [recording level reduced half-way] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English, Frank Harte, speech in English
2. I long for to get married, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. The fancy man (‘There was a man one time...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
4. Oh come all you rakish fine young men (‘Oh come all you rakish fine young men that courts a blooming maid...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
5. In Connaught I was reared [= The Sheffield apprentice] (‘In Connaught I was reared not of a mean degree...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
6. Pat Reilly [=Johnny Goligher] (‘As I went a-walking...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
7. The crockery ware (‘Oh this young man all in the dark...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
8. The farmer’s daughter (‘Oh there were a farmer’s daughter, she longèd for a baby...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [end of band one]...
9. Youghal harbour (‘Ah, Youghal harbour on a summer’s morning...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
10. When a man’s in love (‘When a man’s in love he feels no cold...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
11. Oh, the Germans are coming to Ireland, they say, song [1914 song to the air of ‘Green bushes’] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
12. The old Orange flute (‘In the county Tyrone near the town of Dungannon...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
13. Erin’s lovely home (‘My father sold the second cow...’), song [verse 3 only]/ Eddie Butcher, singing in English
14. Baltimore (‘Oh come all you loyal lovers give ear all for a while...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
15. The Faughan side (‘A stream like crystal it runs down...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
16. When the storm swept the countryside, song [local recent song to the air ‘Macnamara’s band’] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
17. When the storm swept the countryside, song [take two] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [session continued on 6602] [end of band two]...