Recorded in the house of Eddie Butcher at Aughil crossroads, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 18 March 1975, from Eddie Butcher and from Len Graham and Joe Holmes (both from Ballymoney, Co. Antrim). [tracks 1–23]

Performers:
Graham, Len, singing in English Tracks 1, 9, 13, 14, 17, 19, 22, speech in English Tracks 1, 6, 8, 12, 15, 18, 21, lilting Track 23 ;
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 2-3, 10, 16, 20, speech in English Track 10;
Holmes, Joe, singing in English Tracks 5, 7, 9, 11, 14, 17, speech in English Tracks 4, 6, 15, lilting Track 23 ;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 6, 15, 18

Running Order:
1. Talk about the following song ; The flower of Gortade (‘Descend ? ye chaste muses, ye bards and ye sages...’), speech ; song [Sam Henry no. 178, attributed by Sean O’Boyle to a ‘Mayoghill poet called Kane’] / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Len Graham, speech in English, singing in English [session continued from 7502]
2. The Point fair (‘On the twenty-first of April, nineteen sixty-nine...’), song [words by Eddie Butcher] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. Green grows the laurel (‘Green grows the laurel and so does the rue...’), song [cf. 6912 and studio recording] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. Talk by Joe Holmes about his life and about the song ‘The strands of Magilligan’, speech / Joe Holmes, speech in English
5. The strands of Magilligan (‘I’m a stranger to this country, from America I came...’), song [cf. 6910, 6920, 6926, 6130] / Joe Holmes, singing in English
6. Talk about the song ‘The strands of Magilligan’ / Joe Holmes, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Len Graham, speech in English
7. The strands of Magilligan, song [a further verse] Joe Holmes, singing in English
8. Talk about the song ‘Ri tan tin a na’ / Len Graham, speech in English
9. Ri tan tin a na (‘I am a rambling Irishman, in Ulster I was bornen...’), song / Len Graham, singing in English ; Joe Holmes, singing in English
10. The Paisley canal (‘Pray look on this victim of Cupid...’), chantefable [story incorporating the song ‘The Paisley canal’] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English, speech in English
11. That little thatched cabin (‘Right well I remember that little thatched cabin...’), song / Joe Holmes, singing in English
12. Talk about the song ‘My boy Willie’ / Len Graham, speech in English
13. My boy Willie [=Willy-O] (‘My Willie sails on board a tender...’), song [cf. 6821, 6827, 6828, 6832] / Len Graham, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
14. The pretty little cock (‘It happened for to be on a cold winter’s evening...’), song [Child no 248] / Joe Holmes, singing in English ; Len Graham, singing in English [session continued from 7502]
15. Talk about the song ‘The pretty little cock’ / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Joe Holmes, speech in English ; Len Graham, speech in English
16. Laurel Hill (‘When the war it oppressed every nation with horror...’), song [cf. 6112] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
17. The rambling boys of pleasure (‘Ye rambling boys of pleasure, give ear unto these lines I write...’), song [learnt from R. Cinnamond’s recording?] / Len Graham, singing in English ; Joe Holmes, singing in English
18. Talk about the song ‘green fields of America’ / ; Len Graham, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
19. The green fields of America (‘Farewell to old Ireland, the land of my fathers...’), song / Len Graham, singing in English
20. Burns and his Highland Mary (‘In green Caledonia there ne’er were two lovers...’), song [cf. 6811, 6832, 6125] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
21. Talk about the song ‘The rights of man’ / Len Graham, speech in English
22. The rights of man (‘I’ll speak in candour of a night in slumber...’), song / Len Graham, singing in English
23. The five-mile chase ; The boys of Ballycastle, reels [lilted] / Len Graham, lilt ; Joe Holmes, lilt [end of session] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded in the house of Eddie Butcher at Aughil crossroads, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 18 March 1975, from Eddie Butcher and from Len Graham and Joe Holmes (both from Ballymoney, Co. Antrim) [tracks 1–9]

Performers:
Holmes, Joe, singing in English Tracks 1, 5, 8, speech in English Tracks 2, 9;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 2;
Graham, Len, singing in English Tracks 3, 8, speech in English Track 4;
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 6-7

Running Order:
1. Tumbling through the hay (‘It being on the month of July in the rosy time of the year...’), song / Joe Holmes, singing in English [session continued from 7501]
2. Talk about the song ‘Tumbling through the hay’ / Joe Holmes, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
3. Willie Angler (‘ ’Twas down by yonder [harbour] near sweet Coleraine...’), song / Len Graham, singing in English
4. Talk about the preceding song / Len Graham, speech in English
5. [=The shamrock sod no more] (‘I never, never shall forget the sorrows of that day...’), song / Joe Holmes, singing in English 
6. My son in America (‘A long time ago in the county Mayo..’), song [words by Alf MacLohlainn, clipped] [END OF BAND ONE]
7. My son in America , song [completed] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
8. Matt Hyland (‘There was a lord lived in this town...’), song / Joe Holmes, singing in English ; Len Graham, singing in English
9. Mumming [talk with a complete play text with concluding song refrain ‘With your pockets full of money’], mummers’ play Joe Holmes, speech in English, singing in English [session continued at 7503] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded in the house of Eddie Butcher at Aughil crossroads, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 18 March 1975, from Eddie Butcher [tracks 1–11], from Len Graham and Joe Holmes (both from Ballymoney, Co. Antrim) [tracks 12–17]

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, speech in English Tracks 1-4, 6-9, 11, singing in English Tracks 5, 10;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 6, 11;
Graham, Len, singing in English Tracks 12, 14, 16, speech in English Tracks 13, 17;
Holmes, Joe, singing in English Tracks 12, 14-16

Running Order:
1. Go from the window, chantefable [story including song ‘The wind and the rain’] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English, singing in English
2. The lodger, story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
3. The scythe (‘This boy was hired to this farmer...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
4. The scythe (‘This boy was hired to the farmer...’), story [repeated with additional detail] / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
5. Don’t come again (‘Oh, the first place that I saw my love...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
6. Queries on local matters [The Point fair ; poteen ; rabbits], speech / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Eddie Butcher, speech in English
7. The bad meat house (‘There were a boy hired to a farmer yin time...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
8. The rich man’s three sons (‘There were a very rich man yin time...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
9. The minister’s goat (‘There were a minister yin time...’), story / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
10. The cricket club and ball (‘You ranting boys of Derry toys...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
11. Query on the ‘Irish fair’ on the Back strand, speech / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Eddie Butcher, speech in English [END OF BAND ONE]
12. The nobleman’s wedding [=Another man’s wedding] (‘Once I was asked to a nobleman’s wedding...’), song / Len Graham, singing in English ; Joe Holmes, singing in English
13. Talk about the song ‘Roddy McCauley’ / Len Graham, speech in English
14. Roddy McCorley (‘You tender-hearted Christians, attention pay to me...’), song / Len Graham, singing in English
15. The Shamrock Shore (‘My friends and comrades, pray pay attention...’), song / Joe Holmes, singing in English
16. The dark-eyed gypsy (‘There were threee gipsies in the East...’), song [see 7504] Joe Holmes, singing in English ; Len Graham, singing in English
17. Talk about the song ‘The dark-eyed gypsy’ / Len Graham, speech in English [session continued on 7502] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil crossroads, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 17 September 1970 [tracks 1–5] [session continued from 7009]

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 1-5

Running Order:
1. The Moorlough shore (‘Oh you hills and dales and flowery vales lies near to the Moorlough shore...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Blow the candle out (‘It’s of a young apprentice boy...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
3. The bonny Irish boy (‘His real name I won’t mention...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. Now there is something else, song [extra verse added to the song ‘The new Mallard bar, words by Eddie Butcher (see 6901)], song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [end of recording session]
5. My Aunt Biddy (‘My aunt Biddy had a boil on her diddy...’), song [Eb used to hear small boys singing this] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [session resumed next morning and ended here] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil crossroads, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 17 September 1970 [tracks 1–4]

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Tracks 1, 3-4, speech in English Track 2;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 2

Running Order:
1. Bonny Portmore (‘Bonny Portmore, you shine where you stand...’), song [17 verses, air: Green bushes] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. Talk about the song ‘Bonny Portmore’ / Eddie Butcher, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
3. Lovely Armoy (‘Draw near, my kind friends and relations...’), song [known since childhood, but text may be partly learnt from Joe Holmes, Ballymoney, Co. Antrim, air: cf. Banks of Kilrea]
4. The maid of Culmore (‘From fair Londonderry unto fair London town...’), song [amalgam of two songs ? Air: cf. Sailing to America] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [session continued on 6910] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 22 July 1969 [track 1]
Recorded from Tom Anderson (aged about 73) and his daughter Annie [Sweeney] in Greta Deehan’s bar, Big Drain bridge, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 23 July 1969 [tracks 2–6]

Performers:
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Track 1;
Anderson, Tom, singing in English Track 2, Track 6, speech in English Track 3;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Track 3, Track 5;
Anderson, Annie, singing in English Track 4, speech in English Track 5

Running Order:
1. Molly, lovely Molly (‘Oh Molly, lovely Molly, will you come with me?...’), song [fragment of 2+ verses] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
2. The green fields of America (‘Farewell to old Ireland, the land of my childhood...’), song [learnt from his father] /Tom Anderson, singing in English
3. Talk about the song ‘The green fields of America’ / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Tom Anderson, speech in English
4. The braes of Strablane (‘Near the town of brave Athrillicks one evening in June...’), song [learnt from her grandfather] / Annie [Sweeney], singing in English
5. Talk about the song ‘The braes of Strathblane’ / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Annie [Sweeney], speech in English
6. The strands of Magilligan [=The American stranger] (‘I’m a stranger to this country, from America I came, song /Tom Anderson, singing in English [session continued on 6925]  [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Robert Butcher [junior], aged about 48, in the house of Eddie Butcher in Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 21 July 1969 [tracks 1–3]
Recorded from Tom Anderson in Greta Deehan’s bar, Big Drain bridge, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 23 July 1969 [track 4]
Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house at Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 24 July 1969 [tracks 5–7]

Performers:
Butcher, Robert, singing in English Tracks 1-3;
Anderson, Tom, singing in English Track 4;
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Track 5-7

Running Order:
1. Carrowclare [=Killyclare] (‘On a fine and summer’s evening as my walks I did pursue...’), song [words by the blind fiddler Jimmy McCurry] / Robert Butcher junior, singing in English [session continued from 6902]
2. John Reilly (‘As I roved out one evening down by the riverside  I heard a lovely maiden complain till the tears fell from her eyes...’), song [learnt from his father Robert]  / Robert Butcher junior, singing in English [end of session]
3. [Unidentified] / Robert Butcher junior, singing in English
4. Turn you round, oh you wheel of fortune (‘When I was young I was well beloved...’), song [learnt from Mrs Sarah Sweeney of the Point Road, Magilligan, who died c. 1960 aged c. 108] / Tom Anderson, singing in English [session continued from 6926 and continued on 6904]
5. Lovely Armoy (‘I am taking my leave off this evening...’) song [first verse only, air: The banks of Kilrea] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
6. Greencastle shore (‘For three long days or better our big ship there she lay...’), song [one verse only, to same air as next song] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
7. The Portrush fishermen (‘On February the twenty-fourth in the year of eighty-six...’), song [two verses only, clipped during third, to same air as preceding song] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [end of session]  [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded in Eddie Butcher's house, Magilligan, Co. Derry [in July 1969] [tracks 1-6]

Performers:
Somers, Hugh, singing in English Track 1;
Somers, Charles, singing in English Track 2;
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Track 3;
McCurry, Bob, speech in English Tracks 4-6

Running Order:
1. The bonny moorhen (‘[My bonny moorhen] she is feathered anew [?]...’), song [fragment] / Hugh Somers, singing in English [end of session]
2. The jug of punch (‘It being on the twenty-fourth of June...’), song / Charlie Somers, singing in English
3. The Myroe ploughing match (‘Oh you brave boys of Newtown and likewise Myroe...’), song [words perhaps by Jimmy McCurry, blind fiddler and great-uncle of Bob McCurry] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. ‘No daughter, whisky’, story / Bob McCurry (aged 69), speech in English
5. The minister, the cat and John, story / Bob McCurry, speech in English
6. John and the priest’s lily pond, story / Bob McCurry, speech in English [end of session][END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Charles (Charlie) Somers (aged about 75) in his house at The Bog, Bellarena, Co. Derry, 18 July 1969 [tracks 1–2]

Performers:
Somers, Charles , singing in English Tracks 1-2

Running Order:
1. The good ship Cambria (‘You Irishmen both one and all, wherever you may be...’], song / Charlie Somers, singing in English
2. A noble lord’s wedding [=Another man’s wedding=A nobleman’s wedding] (‘I being kindly invited till a noble lord’s wedding...’), song / Charlie Somers, singing in English [end of session] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Charles (Charlie) Somers (aged about 75), in his house at The Bog, Bellarena, Co. Derry, 18 July 1969 [tracks 1–2)

Performers:
Somers, Charles, singing in English Tracks 1-2

Running Order:
1. Molly, lovely Molly [=The cruel ship carpenter] (‘It’s Molly, lovely Molly, will you come with me?...’), song / Charlie Somers, singing in English [session continued from 6921]
2. Johnny Doyle (‘[?..] I’m a young lady most highly in love...’) , song / Charlie Somers, singing in English [session continued on 6923] [END OF BAND ONE]