Item RMO-18789/259327 - Robin Morton Collection. Reel-to-Reel 7 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Gunn, Tommy, speech in English throughout, singing in English B2, lilting B4;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about curing ring-worm and jaundice
2. Speech: talk about fortune tellers
3. Speech: talk about fair days
4. Speech: talk about the women selling turkeys at the fair before Christmas
5. Speech: talk about tramp fiddlers at the fairs
6. Speech: talk about items on sale at the fairs - clothes, ballad sheets
7. Speech: talk about the hiring fairs
8. Speech: talk about the when the tractor was first introduced to farming, musicians and dancers at the fairs
9. Speech: stories that where told by Robbie Doonan
10. Speech: story told by Robbie Doonan
11. Speech: talk about working and living conditions in London
12. Speech: talk about the mummers dance at Christmas, candles in the window at Christmas [END OF BAND ONE]
13. Speech: talk about Robbie Doonan, story about Jim Sweeney
14. Speech/Song: talk about Hugh Sweeney's songs, Untitled
15. Speech: talk about The Molly Maguires, The Ancient Order of Hiberians
16. Speech/March: talk about The Drumlough Fife and Drum Band, description of the band, tunes played, The Loughenvar
17. Speech: talk about orange bands, The Kinley Kelly Band, Johnny Rutlidge,
18. Speech: story about Robbie Doonan, Jimmy Waterson, John James Keave
19. Speech: stories about Tommy Gunn, getting trapped in a vault in a graveyard
20. Speech: story about a man who couldn't find his way home after working in one particular field on his farm
21. Speech: talk about putting the seven year curse on a landlord for evicting tenants
22. Speech: talk about evictions, cursed landlords with bad luck
23. Speech: talk about cursing people with rats (billeting of rats)
24. Speech: talk about cures for ring-worm [END OF BAND TWO]