Unidad documental simple RMO-18789/259334 - Robin Morton Collection. Reel-to-Reel 14 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Gunn, Tommy, speech in English throughout;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about school, leaving school early to work, delivering telegrams, Mrs Thompson (post mistress), farming, going to work in England
2. Speech: talk about Tommy Gunn's parents, music in the family
3. Speech: talk about leaving home, working in 'The White Heart Hotel' in Akton, Harry Potter (brother in law), Jimmy James (Mayor of Akton and owner of 'The White Heart Hotel'),
4. Speech: talk about the return journey to England, 'The Princess Victoria' in Shepherds Bush
5. Speech: talk about playing music in 'The Garyowen' in Hammersmith, Muldoone (owner of The Garyowen), 'The Pride of Erin' in Tottenham Court Road, musicians from Meath and Kerry,
6. Speech: sorting out the dates when Tommy Gunn worked in the different jobs (1920's & 1930's)
7. Speech: talk about music in London, buying a fiddle, dance halls in London, Cooley (piper from Kerry)
8. Speech: talk about fights in the dance halls, Jack Doyle the boxer, Tommy Carr, John Joe Sheehy (owner of dance hall in West Ealing), fight on St Patricks night 1937
9. Speech: talk about music in London, names of tunes played at that time
10. Speech: talk about signing up for the army [END OF BAND ONE]
11. Speech: talk about the army, training, a concert being organised by the soldiers, going on leave,
12. Speech: talk about getting embarcation leave, landing in Bombay 1939, the north west Frontier
13. Speech: talk about turf, good description of tools and the process of cutting turf, washing feet in bog water, spreading/turning turf, 'Hairy Ned', 'foam turf', 'black turf'
14. Speech: talk about turf banks, conacre, finding items in the bog, oak stumps, ancient tools, pikes
15. Speech: talk about 'Bessy Bell', pike men, Pike Men's March (Halting March)
16. Speech: talk about the 'Willo the Wisp', banshee
17. Speech: the story of the spade that fell through the bog, Robbie Doonan, John Doonan, Jim Sweeney, Hugh Sweeney [END OF BAND TWO]