Ireland: Speech in English

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 12B [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 2

AMW-18694/258745/02
Part
02-Nov-67

Song: Untitled [Sally Free and Easy]

Unidentified performer [member of Furey family?] - guitar
Unidentified performer [member of Furey family?] - singing in English
Unidentified performer [member of Furey family?] - whistle

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 12B [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 3

AMW-18694/258745/03
Part
02-Nov-67

Part of Alen MacWeeney Collection

Song: Untitled [Pretty Saro]

Unidentified performer [member of Furey family?] - guitar
Unidentified performer [member of Furey family?] - singing in English
Unidentified performer [member of Furey family?] - whistle

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 12B [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 4

AMW-18694/258745/04
Part
02-Nov-67

Part of Alen MacWeeney Collection

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types of utensils made; personal background; discussion about people in Athlone, Coosan, Loughrea, etc; tin utensils superceded by plastic; dealing in feathers] [END OF BAND ONE]

MacWeeney, Alen
Unidentified performer [Stokes, P?]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 12B [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 5

AMW-18694/258745/05
Part
02-Nov-67

Part of Alen MacWeeney Collection

Speech: Untitled [Continuation of track A4]

MacWeeney, Alen
Unidentified performer [Stokes, P?]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 12B [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 6

AMW-18694/258745/06
Part
02-Nov-67

Part of Alen MacWeeney Collection

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]

MacWeeney, Alen
Unidentified performer [Stokes, P?]

Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 12B [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 7

AMW-18694/258745/07
Part
02-Nov-67

Part of Alen MacWeeney Collection

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 24B [sound recording] / [various performers]

AMW-18694/258764
Item
Nov-67

Part of Alen MacWeeney Collection

Performers:
Stokes, Patrick, speech in English, speech in cant/gammon, storytelling in English A1-9, B1-7

Running Order:
1. Speech: Riddles (Speed variation on track)
2. Speech: Tongue twisters, riddles (Speed variation on track)
3. Speech: Comments on Michael and Martin Mahon and their habits (Beginning clipped)
4. Stories: Untitled [The Policeman and the Dogs]
5. Story: The Insult from the Policeman (Speed variation at end of track)
6. Story: The Ass and the Gate
7. Story: The Insult from the Policeman repeated (Speed variation at end of track) [repeated]
8. Story: The Guard's Bike
9. Story: Patrick's Sleeping Trick
10. Story: Pat's Interfering Child, the Sticks and the Gunman [END OF BAND ONE]
[Band two has not been digitised but originally contained the following tracks]
11. Story: The Enchanted Swans
12. Story: Catching the Pike
13. Story: The Talking Cats
14. Story: The Motor Car and the Motor Cycle
15. Story: Johnny and Tommy (The Boxing Story = The Dead Man's Promise)
16. Speech: Description of Banshees
17. Story: The Banshee and the Shop-owner Fight [END OF BAND TWO]