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Alen MacWeeney Collection. Reel-to-Reel 26B [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Cassidy, Kitty (Flynn), singing in English A1-3;
Cassidy, Andy, singing in English A4;
Cassidy, Johnny, speech in English A5-7;
singing in English A6-7

Running Order:
1. Song: One Evening in My Rambles - two separate endings - last is best [Lovely Willie]
2. Song: Green Grow the Rushes
3. Song: A Pretty Young Boy Came from the North Strand - two ends
4. Song: I'm Nobody's Child
5. Speech: Recitation - The Old Hag's Death - two versions, second is best
6. Song and Story: The Cobbler's Song
7. Story and Song: Was There Ever a Man Seen More Wonders Than I - two versions - second is best [END OF BAND ONE]

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 151 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Recorded from Jack Devereux of Kilmore Quay in Keating's Farmhouse, Ballinconnigar, Co. Wexford, July 1967. [tracks 1–9, 49–55]
Recorded in Ballyconniger and Blackwater area, Co Wexford [in Keating’s farmhouse, Matt Curran’s house and elsewhere], July 1967. [tracks 10–48]

Performers:
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 1-4, 6-7, 11, 29-30, 35, 39, 41, 44, 48, 50-52, 54;
Devereux, Jack, (Kilmore Quay}, speech in English Tracks 1-6, 8, 50-52, 54, singing in English Tracks 1-5, 7-9, 49, 51-53, 55, recitation in English 6;
Sheil, Dick, Blackwater, speech in English Track 6, recitation in English Track 6, singing in English Tracks 19-20, 26;
Unidentified performer [Mr Delahunty?], speech in English Track 10;
Sinnott, Art, Boulavogue, singing in English Track 11, 13, 16, speech in English Track 11;
Dempsey, Jim, Ball Alley, Blackwater, singing in English Tracks 18, 21-25;
Fitzgerald, Bridget, New Range, Blackwater, singing in English Tracks 12, 14-15, 17, 36-37, 39, 41, 43, 45-48, speech in English, Tracks 39, 41, 48;
Unidentified performers, singing in English Track 27;
Unidentified female performer, singing in English Track 28;
Golden, Jack (Ballyesker, Blackwater), singing in English Track 29, 31-34, speech in English Tracks 29-30;
Curran, Matt, Blackwater, singing in English Tracks 25, 38, 42, speech in English Track 44
Unidentified female performer, singing in English Track 40

Running Order:
1. Talk about the following carol ; [Jerusalem, first carol for 12th day] (‘Jerusalem our happy home...’), speech ; song [titles of these carols supplied by Lisa Shields from Father Ranson’s article on the Kilmore carols] / Jack Devereux, speech in English, singing in English
2. Talk about the following carol ; [Song for twelfth day] (‘Now to conclude our Christmas mirth...’), speech ; song] / Jack Devereux, speech in English, singing in English
3. Talk about the Kilmore carols ; Bannow’s lonely shore (‘To Bannow’s lovely banks farewell...’) ; talk about the preceding, speech ; song ; speech] / Jack Devereux, speech in English, singing in English
4. Patrick O’Donnell (‘My name is Pat O’Donnell, I belong to Donegal...’) ; talk about the preceding and following songs, song : speech] / Jack Devereux, speech in English, singing in English
5. I traced her little footprints in the snow, song] / Jack Devereux, singing in English
6. Conversation on the ‘mumming’ traditions of Blackwater and Kilmore in Wexford with examples, speech Dick Sheil, speech in English ; Jack Devereux, speech in English
7. My Mary of the curling hair, song] / Jack Devereux, singing in English
8. Who comes tapping to my window (‘Mary took the bloodstained dagger...’) talk about the preceding, song [one verse] ; speech] / Jack Devereux, speech in English, singing in English
9. Ballyshannon lane (‘In ninety-six as the moon did fix her beams...’) / Jack Devereux, singing in English
10. Untitled [Welshman tricks Paddy into buying a ‘race-horse’s egg’], story [end of band one] / Unknown performer [Mr Delahunty?], speech in English
11. Boolavogue (‘At Boolavogue as the sun was setting ; talk about the preceding song / Art Sinott (Boulavogue), singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
12. The river Sow (‘I’m an Irish exile out on a foreign shore...’), song [learned from her father] / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald (New Range, Blackwater), singing in English
13. I’m lonely in a foreign land, song [good air] Art Sinott, singing in English
14. She was a rich merchant’s daughter all in her prime of years (Canada-i-o), song / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
15. Borris’s groves (‘Through Borris’s groves along I strolled...’), song / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English
16. The old bog road (‘My feet are here on Broadway...’), song / Art Sinott, singing in English
17. [The land where the green shamrock grows] (‘One night as I lay on my pillow...’), song / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English
18. Dearest love don’t you remember the day we first did meet, song / Jim Dempsey Ball Alley, Blackwater, singing in English
19. O land of love and beauty, to you our hearts are wed, song / [Dick Sheil, Blackwater], singing in English
20. The little shirt my mother made for me (‘I’ll never forget the night that I was born...’), song / [Dick Sheil], singing in English
21. Tootle um tootle um too (‘I’m a band in a terrible way...’), song / Jim Dempsey, singing in English
22. Love it’s pleasing (‘When I was young I was well beloved...’), song / Jim Dempsey, singing in English
23. The queen of Conamara (‘My boat she safely floats...’), song / Jim Dempsey, singing in English
24. Fare thee well false girl, I love you, song / Jim Dempsey, singing in English
25. Norah Malone (‘For when you’ll be teasing when we should be pleasing...’), song / Jim Dempsey, singing in English
26. Erin’s lovely home ('When I was young and in my prime...'), song / [Dick Sheil], singing in English
27. [The boys from the County Armagh] (‘There’s one fair county in Ireland...’)song / unknown performers, singing in English
28. The Boston burglar (‘I was born and reared in Boston...’), song / unknown female performer, singing in English
29. Talk about singing, The drowning of Thomas Murphy (‘Oh you feeling-hearted Christians...’), speech ; song / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Jack Golden (Ballyesker, Blackwater), speech in English, singing in English
30. Talk about the local mumming tradition, especially the role of the doctor, speech / Jack Golden, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
31. The Rathaspeck boys (‘Oh, you muses nine assist me...’), song [local, about drownings] / Jack Golden, singing in English
32. The nobleman’s wedding/ Another man’s wedding (‘Why should you lie on another man’s pillow?...’), song [one verse only] / Jack Golden, singing in English
33. Mary’s dream [= Mary weep no more for me (‘The moon had climbed the highest hill...’), song [ghost of drowned sailor visits his true love] / Jack Golden, singing in English
34. The faithful sailor boy (‘One dark and stormy night as the snow lay on the ground...’), song / Jack Golden, singing in English [end of band two]
35. Good old Wexford town [= Sweet Kingwilliamstown] (‘My bonny barque bounds light and free across the surging foam...’) ; talk about the preceding, song ; speech / Matt Curran (Blackwater), singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
36. Song: I’ve seen the mud cabin he’d dance his wilds jigs in (Teddy O’Neill), song / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald (New Range, Blackwater), singing in English
37. Song: Dan O’Hara ’Tis poor I am today for God gave and took away...’) / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English
38. Song: [Ireland I love you, acushla mo chroí] (‘Far away O’er the sea there’s a little green island...’), song / Matt Curran, singing in English,
39. Molly Lowry [= Molly Bawn] (‘A story a story I’ll tell you no lie...’) ; talk about the preceding, song ; speech / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
40. Song:...’ [The shooting of President Kennedy] (‘In the town of Dallas, Texas, November ‘63...’) / unidentified female performer, singing in English
41. Who comes tapping to my window ; talk about the preceding, song ; speech / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
42. Song: The old widow of Oulart Young maidens draw near, I crave your attention...’), song / Matt Curran, singing in English
43. Song: Noreen Bawn There’s a glen in old Tyrconnell...’), song / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English
44. The Poulshone fishermen (‘On the 23rd of April in the year of sixty-three...’), talk about the preceding, song ; speech / Matt Curran, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
45. Song: Green bushes (‘As I went a-walking one evening in May...’), song song / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English
46. Song: [Eileen McMahon] (‘One night as I lay on my pillow a vision appeared in my view...’), song / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English
47. Song: The river Sow (‘I am a Irish exile out on a foreign shore...’), song / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English
48. Song: Borris’s groves (‘Through Borris’s groves alone I strolled...’), song / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
49. Song: [On Christ’s nativity: 1st carol for Christmas morning] The darkest midnight in December...’), song / Jack Devereux, singing in English
50. Talk about the ‘Kilmore carols’ and the Kilmore choir / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Jack Devereux, speech in English
51. Talk about the following song ; [2nd carol for Christmas day] (‘Christmas day is come, let us prepare for mirth...’), speech / Jack Devereux, speech in English, singing in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
52. [3rd carol for Christmas day] (‘Ye sons of men with me rejoice...’) ; Talk about the preceding song and the Kilmore carol tradition, song ; speech / Jack Devereux, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
53. [Song for St. Stephen’s day] (‘This is St. Stephen’s day...’), song, / Jack Devereux, singing in English
54. Talk about the local dialect / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Jack Devereux, speech in English
55. [Song for the Holy Innocents] (‘Hail ye flowers of martyrs, hail blossoms of heavenly spring...’), song / Jack Devereux, singing in English [end of session] [end of band three]

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