Item RMO-18789/259335 - Robin Morton Collection. Reel-to-Reel 15 [sound recording] / [various performers]

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

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about Christmas, early service, dinner, poitin, music, dancing on Boxing night, presents and Santa Claus, hunt on Boxing day
2. Speech: story about 'The Flood', Robbie Doonan, Derravan river, rucks of hay
3. Speech: story about 'The Heifer'
4. Speech: talk about bringing in the hay, rucks of hay, ruck shifter, stack of hay, haggart, food and drink after the work, music and dance, story about a house dance
5. Speech: talk about cutting the last sheaf of corn
6. Speech: talk about ways to ensure a good crop for the coming year (surperstitions)
7. Speech: talk about Easter, Easter eggs
8. Speech: talk about St.Patrick's Day, marching bands, shamrock
9. Speech: talk about Halloween, practical jokes
10. Speech: talk about drowning the shamrock on St Patricks Day, taking the pledge not to drink
11. Speech: talk about Easter Sunday, the sun dancing on the bog hole, cutting your hair on Good Friday and Holy Thursday, spreading holy water on crops for good luck
12. Speech: talk about Easter, no fishing on Easter Sunday, women wearing Easter bonnets, no drinking during lent, no meat on Wedensday or Friday during lent, stations of the cross on Good Friday
13. Speech: talk about people buying new suits for special occasions, not working over Easter
14. Speecg: talk about St Bridgets Day, May Day [END OF BAND ONE]
15. Speech: talk about superstitions regarding being born on Easter Sunday
16. Speech: talk about football matches ,the fight at the Fermanagh county final (O'Connell's vs Lisnaskee), Johnny McCruden
17. Speech: story about a married couple
18. Speech: talk about the reasons for getting married
19. Speech: talk about match-makers
20. Speech: talk about the dowry, matches were not compulsory, bad matches
21. Speech: talk about match makers, men marrying late in life
22. Speech: talk about farms being handed down from father to son
23. Speech: talk about middle aged men marrying late in life
24. Speech: talk about priests monitoring the dances, monitoring dancing couples
25. Speech: talk about parents disapproving of courting couples, story about a courting couple
26. Speech: talk about men leaving their wives, the song 'Praise of John Magee', Edddie Corrigan [END OF BAND TWO]