Recorded at the house of John Butcher (brother of Eddie), Drumavally, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 17 July 1969 [tracks 1–3]
Recorded in Greta Deehan’s bar, Big drain bridge, Magilligan, Co. Derry, from Tom Anderson of Aughil, Magilligan (age about 73) and his wife (aged about 65), 23 July 1969 [tracks 4–9]

Performers:
Butcher, Mary Ellen, singing in English Tracks 1-2;
Butcher, Jimmy, singing in English Track 3;
Anderson, Tom, singing in English Tracks 4, 6-8, speech in English Track 5;
Shields, Hugh speech in English Track 5;
Anderson. Mrs. Tom, singing in English Track 9

Running Order:
1. The shores of America (‘I’m bidding farewell to the land of my youth and the homes I love so well...’), song / Mary Ellen Butcher (daughter of John Butcher, age about 20), singing in English
2. Erin’s lovely  home (‘You patron [r. patriot] sons of Paddy’s land, come listen unto me...’), song [learnt from her uncle Jimmy Butcher of Limavady] / Mary Ellen singing in English
3. The banks of Kilrea (‘One evening for my recreation as I strayed by the lovely Moss Bann...’), song / John Butcher, singing in English [session continued at 6905]
4. The shores of Castlerock (‘The time is come and I must go, I’ll bid you all adieu...’), song [air ‘Adieu to Belashanny’] / Tom Anderson (age about 73), singing in English [session continued from 6925]
5. Talk about the song ‘The shores of Castlerock’ and its author Seamus McLoughlin / Tom Anderson, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English 
6. The rambling rakes of poverty (‘Oh come all you rambling fellows, oh from town to town I steer...’), song / Tom Anderson, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
7. The shores of America (‘I am a sporting Irish boy now far across the sea...’), song / Tom Anderson, singing in English
8. Free and easy (‘Oh it’s of my rambles I’m going to sing...’), song / Tom Anderson, singing in English
9. The banks of the Bann (‘Down by yon harbour near sweet Coleraine...’), song [learnt from her grandfather, Thomas McGough] / Mrs Tom Anderson (age about 65), singing in English [end of session] [END OF BAND TWO]  

Recorded from Eddie Butcher (of Magilligan, Co. Derry) while staying in the house of Hugh Shields, Dublin, 1–10 July 1968 [tracks 1–8]

Performer:
Eddie Butcher, singing in English Tracks 1–8

Running Order:
1. The Mason word (‘You men and maids, I pray attend and listen to me a while...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Kitty of Ballinamore (‘When I was young I was fond of fun like many’s a roving lad...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. Farewell to Kilnood (‘And on the twelfth day of July...’), song [fragment of an Orange ballad], Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. On the twelfth day of July (‘It being on the twelfth day of July in the year of ’89...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
5. The battle of Garvagh (‘Captain Dooey says, My boys...’), song [single verse] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
6. The Boyne water song (‘Up come the Pope with a shamrock in his coat...’), song [single verse] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
7. Dandy McCloskey (‘You ancient sons of Cumberland and offsprings of old Erin...’), song [to the air of ‘Boyne Water’], Eddie Butcher, singing in English
8. My Jamie Lee (‘On a hill in bonny Scotland stood a soldier...’), song [music hall, clipped at end of tape] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Joe Cooper (age about 65) and Mrs Nora Cooper at their house in Aughavilla, Warrenpoint, Co. Down, 30 June 1968 [tracks 1–7]

Performers:
Mrs. Nora Cooper, singing in English Tracks 1-2, 4-5
Mr. Joe Cooper (aged 65?), singing in English Tracks 3, 6-7, speech in English Track 6
Hugh Shields, speech in English Track 6

Running Order:
1. My father’s servant boy (‘You lovers all both great and small, pay attention to my theme...’), song [false start, v.1-2, text recommences and is completed] / Mrs Nora Cooper, singing in English [session continued from 6805]
2. How pleasant sweet birdies (‘How pleasant sweet birdies to wake in the dawn...’), song [fragmented] / Mrs Nora Cooper, singing in English
3. The wedding of Laghie M’Grath (‘Oh we had a terrible tear...’) / Joe Cooper, singing in English
4. The maid of the Mourne shore (‘Adieu green fields and flowery dales...’), song / Mrs Nora Cooper, singing in English
5. The bonny green tree (‘As I went a-walking one fine summer’s evening...’), song / Mrs Nora Cooper, singing in English
6. Talk about the song ; The Moygannon stream (‘I remember my young days, for younger I’ve been...’), speech ; song [words by Joe Cooper to the air of ‘The Muttonburn stream’] / Joe Cooper, speech in English, singing in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in Engish
7. My father’s big turnip (‘There’s a thorn tree that grows by the Moygannon river...’), song [words by Joe Cooper to the air of ‘Teddy O’Neal’] / Joe Cooper, singing in English [end of session] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Mrs Nora Cooper at the house of Mr & Mrs Joe Cooper, Aughavilla, Warrenpoint, Co. Down, 30 June 1968 [tracks 1–9]

Performers:
Mrs. Nora Cooper, singing in English Tracks 1, 3, 5, 7–9 speech in English Tracks 2–4, 6–9
Hugh Shields, speech in English Tracks 2, 4

Running Order:
1. Squire Hall’s watery park (‘In the year eighteen hundred aye and forty-nine...’), song [learnt from John and Matt Rooney] / Mrs Nora Cooper, singing in English
2. Talk about the previous song ‘Squire Hall’s watery park’, speech / Mrs Nora Cooper, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
3. Willy Reilly, talk about it, song [air learnt from John and Matt Rooney, words learnt from Bessie Grant] ; speech / Mrs Nora Cooper, singing in English, speech in English
4. Talk of local singers, John and Matt Condy Rooney, speech / Mrs Nora Cooper, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
5. The Armagh Rover (‘I’m a rover from Armagh and the truth I will declare...’) / Mrs Nora Cooper, singing in English
6. Talk about the previous song, speech / Mrs Nora Cooper, speech in English
7. Talk about the following song ; Green gravel, speech ; song / Mrs Nora Cooper, singing in English, speech in English
8. Talk about the following song ; Cups and saucers, speech ; song / Mrs Nora Cooper, speech in English, singing in English
9. Talk about the following song ; Obadiah, speech ; song / Mrs Nora Cooper, speech in English, singing in English [session continued at 6806] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded in the house of Arthur Coulter, Carnaughliss, Loanends, Muckamore, Co. Antrim 25–26 June, 1968 from Arthur Coulter (age about 70), his son and his daughter Mrs Mary Heaney (of Killead, Co. Antrim), 25–26 June, 1968 [tracks 1–11]
Recorded from Mrs Eileen Keaney (age 76) in her house in Belfast, 28 June, 1968 [tracks 12–16]

Performers:
Arthur Coulter, singing in English Tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, speech in English Track 2
Mary Heaney, singing in English, Tracks 2, 6–7
? Coulter (Arthur Coulter's Son), flute solo, Tracks 8–11
Eileen Keaney, singing in English 12–16

Running Order:
1. Donegore hill (‘As I journeyed to Antrim last Hallowday fair...’), song / Arthur Coulter, singing in English [session continued from 6802]
2. Story of the following song ; The Crumlin line (‘Oh come all ye ranting rambling boys, come listen unto me...’), story ; song [words by Arthur Coulter] / Arthur Coulter, speech in English ; Mrs Mary Heaney, singing in English
3. The Banks of the Boyne in the morning (‘Listen to me while I relate...’), song / Arthur Coulter, singing in
4. It was up in London fair (’Twas up in London fair sure there’s a maid and she lives there...’), song [incomplete version] / Arthur Coulter, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
5. It was up in London fair [complete version], song / Arthur Coulter, singing in English
6. The Castlebar boy (‘I’m a boy from old Ireland, that beautiful place...’), song / Mrs Mary Heaney, singing in English
7. Some say the Divil’s dead, song / Mrs Mary Heaney, singing in English
8. Oh my Scotland, march / Arthur Coulter’s son, fife
9. The rowan tree, march / Arthur Coulter’s son, fife
10. The Orange lily, march / Arthur Coulter’s son, fife
11. Nelly Gray, march / Arthur Coulter’s son, fife [end of recording session]
12. The hat my father wore (‘I’m Paddy Miles an Irishman just come across the sea...’), song / Mrs Eileen Keaney, singing in English
13. Rocking the cradle (‘Oh it’s rocking the cradle...’) , song [with lilt] / Mrs Eileen Keaney, singing in English, lilt
14. You’re a wee bonny wean, song / Mrs Eileen Keaney, singing in English
15. Rocking the cradle, song [with lilt, second rendition] / Mrs Eileen Keaney, singing in English, lilt
16. You’re a wee bonny wean, song [second rendition, last word missing] / Mrs Eileen Keaney, singing in English [session continued at 6804] [END of BAND TWO]

Recorded from Mrs Eileen Keaney (age 76) in her house in Belfast, 28 June 1968 [tracks 1–12]
Recorded at Carnmoney, Co. Antrim (mostly outdoors), [26 June, 1968] [tracks 13–18]

Performers:
Eileen Keaney, singing in English Tracks 1-4, 6-7, 11-12, speech in Irish Track 5, lilting Tracks 8-10
James Laughlin, drumming Track 13
Stewart Moore, drumming Track 13
Unidentified performer, fife solo Track 15
Sam Given, whistle solo Track 14, fife solo with drum Track 16
Unidentified performer, drumming Track 17
David Laughlin, drumming, Track 18

Running Order:
1. You’re a wee bonny wean, song [see two previous renditions on 6803], song / Mrs Eileen Keaney, singing in English [session continued from 6803]
2. Hally-go-lee-go-lee, song / Mrs Eileen Keaney, singing in English
3. Going to Mass last Sunday (‘Fare you well old Ireland, shall I ever see you more?...’), song / Mrs Eileen Keaney, singing in English
4. I have a little dolly, song [as learnt at school] / Mrs Eileen Keaney, singing in English
5. ‘Lura beag’[twice] ; ‘Goidé mar atá tú’ ; ‘Comhairle Cholm Cille’ [learned from her grandfather, native of Glenelly, Co. Tyrone], sayings, / Mrs Eileen Keaney, speech in Irish
6. The bonny Irish boy (‘His name I like to mention, in Ireland he was born...’), song [learnt from her cousin Fanny Toner, Mt. Pleasure, Co. Donegal] / Mrs Eileen Keaney, singing in English
7. When I was young, I had no sense, song / Mrs Eileen Keaney, singing in English
8. Miss McLeod’s [= ‘Swallow’s tail’?], reel [learned from her father’s fiddle playing] / Mrs Eileen Keaney, lilt
9.  Muldoon the solid man, reel [learned from her father’s fiddle playing] / Mrs Eileen Keaney, lilt
10. The green fields of America, reel [learned from her father’s fiddle playing] / Mrs Eileen Keaney, lilt
11. The rowan tree, song [words by Eileen Keaney to air of ‘Down by yon green bushes’], song / Mrs Eileen Keaney, singing in English [end of session] [END OF BAND ONE]
12. Down by yon green bushes [= Bonny Woodhall] (‘Down by yon green bushes by Calder’s clear burn...’), song [from MS text, learnt from her cousin Paddy Toner, Mt. Pleasure, Co. Donegal] / Mrs Eileen Keaney, singing in English
13. Unidentified drumming / Stewart Moore, drumming
14. The battle of Garvagh, march / Sam Given, whistle
15. Unidentified march / unidentified performer, fife solo
16. The battle of Garvagh, march / Sam Given, fife ;  William Jackson, drumming
17. Unidentified drumming / unidentified performer, drumming
18. Unidentified drumming David Laughlin, drumming [end of session] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded in the house of Arthur Coulter, Carnaughliss, Loanends, Muckamore, Co. Antrim 25–26 June, 1968 from Arthur Coulter (age about 70), his daughter Mrs Mary Heaney (of Killead, Co. Antrim) and Fred Hull (of Largy, Crumlin, formerly of Aghalee Co. Antrim. [tracks 1-8]

Performers:
Mrs Mary Heaney, singing in English Track 1
Arthur Coulter, singing in English Tracks 2–7, speech in English Tracks 3, 5
Fred Hull, singing in English Track 8

Running Order:
1. Kitty of Baltimore (‘When I was young and full of fun, a dashing, roving blade...’), song / Mrs Mary Heaney, singing in English
2. Donegore hill [fragment, the rest accidenatlly erased ; The maid From Ballygowan [starts 00:24] (‘Come all you gallant muses, I pray you now attend...’) ; discussion about The maid from Ballygowan ; songs [wrongly tracked] ; speech / Arthur Coulter singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
3. Killeavys pride (‘Young Mary she was beautiful and called Killeaveys pride...’), song (air: cf. James McKee] / Arthur Coulter singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
4. Seven years since i had a sweetheart (‘There were two lovers and they were parting...’), song / Arthur Coulter singing in English
5. Down by the riverside (‘As I rode out one evening down by yon riverside...’), song / Arthur Coulter singing in English
6. Farewell to Kilnood* (Farewell unto you, sweet Kilnood...’), song / Arthur Coulter singing in English
7. Spanking Maggie (‘Come all you noble sporting men and listen to my song...’),song [fragment, verses 1–4 only] / Arthur Coulter singing in English
8. Aghalee heroes* (‘Oh you Protestant heroes of Ireland...’), song  / Fred Hull, singing in English [ session continued on 6802] [END OF BAND TWO] 

Recorded in the house of Arthur Coulter, Carnaughliss, Loanends, Muckamore, Co. Antrim 25–26 June, 1968 from Arthur Coulter (age about 70) and his daughter Mrs Mary Heaney (of Killead, Co. Antrim), 25–26 June, 1968 [tracks 1–10]

Performers:
Arthur Coulter, singing in English Tracks 1–3, speech in English Tracks 2, 3, 5, singing in duet in English Track 8
Mary Heaney, singing in English Tracks 4, 6, 7, 9-10 singing in duet in English Track 8

Running Order:
1. The Tardree Quarry workman ((‘I’m a Tardree quarry workman and has thirteen bob a week...’), song / Arthur Coulter, singing in English
2. Talk about the preceding song ; The Tardree Quarry Workman [verse 3 sung], speech ; song / Arthur Coulter, speech in English, singing in English
3. Barbara Allen [= Barbro Allen] (’Twas early, early in the spring When the flowers they were blooming...’) ; talk about the preceding, song, speech / Arthur Coulter, singing in English, speech in English
4. Glenarm Bay (‘It being in September when the weather it was warm...’), song / Mrs Mary Heaney, singing in English
5. Oh Archie dear (‘Oh Archie dear, we know right well...’), poem [composed by Arthur Coulter] / Arthur Coulter, speech in English [END OF BAND ONE]
6. Mind your eye, laddie (‘As I went a-walking down Liverpool street...’), song / Mrs Mary Heaney, singing in English
7. Down by the riverside (‘As I roved out one evening down by the riverside...’), song [learned from John Crawford] / Mrs Mary Heaney, singing in English
8. Down by the riverside, song / Arthur Coulter, singing duet in English ; Mrs Mary Heaney, singing duet in English
9. The bonny Irish boy (‘Oh fiirst when I was courted by a bonny Irish boy...’), song / Mrs Mary Heaney, singing in English
10. The girl from Donegal (‘Young girls, draw near until you hear the news that makes me sad...’) / Mrs Mary Heaney, singing in English [session continued on 6803] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded from Eddie Butcher at the house of Hugh Shields, Dublin, 1–10 July 1968 [tracks 1–2]

Performer:
Eddie Butcher, singing in English Tracks 1–2

Running Order:
1. The banks of Newfoundland (‘Oh sure they may bless their happy lot that lie serene on shore...’), song / Eddie Butcher singing in English
2. David’s flowery vale [=Young McCance] [=Drummond’s land] (‘It was down by David’s flowery vale...’), song / Eddie Butcher singing in English  [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded at Clogherhead, Co. Louth from Ann Clarke (age 9) of Drogheda. 10 August 1968 [tracks 1–6]
Recorded at the house of John Gillespie, Doonalt, Glencolmkille, Co. Donegal. 3 September 1968 [tracks 7–12]

Performers:
Ann Clarke (aged 9), speech in English Tracks 1–6;
Kitty Shields, speech in English Track 3;
Christopher Byrne (aged about 20), singing in English Tracks 7, 9;
Margaret Byrne (aged about 21), singing in English Track 8;
Patrick Gillespie (Paddy Phrionsiais), fiddle solo Tracks 10–12, speech in English Tracks 10–12

Running Order:
1. Mammy, Daddy, Uncle John, rhyme / Ann Clarke (9), speech in English
2. Eena, meena, macka, rocka, rhyme / Ann Clarke, speech in English
3. Have you a good memory, catch [involving counting] / Ann Clarke (9), speech in English ; Kitty Shields (9), speech in English
4. Oh I’m a little Dutch girl, song / Ann Clarke, singing in English
5. Chewing-gum a penny a packet, song [for playing ball] / Ann Clarke, singing in English
6. Jelly on the plate, rhyme [chanted] / Ann Clarke, speech in English [end of session]
7. Mulroy Bay (‘When the golden sun is setting far beyond the ocean blue...’), song [words, according to the singer, by Master Friel of Fanad] / Christopher Byrne (about 20), singing in English
8. She lived beside the Anner (‘She lived beside the Anner at the foot of Slievenaman...’), song / Margaret Byrne (about 21), singing in English
9. Moorlough Mary (‘The first time I saw young Moorlough Mary...’), song / Christopher Byrne, singing in English
10. Story about the tune ; The gravel walks to Grainnie, story ; reel / Patrick (Paddy Phroinsiais) Gillespie, speech in English, fiddle
11. Talk about the reel ; My love she’s in America [=The Pure Drop], speech ; reel / Patrick (Paddy Phroinsiais) Gillespie, speech in English, fiddle
12. Talk about the jig ; Gillespie’s favourite, speech, jig [incomplete, full version at 6825], reel / Patrick (Paddy Phroinsiais) Gillespie, speech in English, fiddle [recording session continued at 6125] [END OF BAND ONE]