Item TMM-18590/1/280435 - Tony MacMahon Collection. Sound cassette 37 [sound recording] / [various performers]

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TMM-18590/1/280435

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Tony MacMahon Collection. Sound cassette 37 [sound recording] / [various performers]

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  • 10 July 1980 (Creation)

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1 sound tape cassette (1 hr, 34 min., 58 sec.) : analogue

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Recorded by Doug Hillyard in Arcata, California, 10 July 1980

Side A:
00:00:00 - 00:02:45 | Tony recounts the fame of Joe Cooley in Ireland and US, especially in San Francisco, speech / Tony MacMahon, speech in English
00:02:35 - 00:06:11 | The morning dew, reel ; Cooley's, reel / Tony MacMahon, accordion
00:07:19 - 00:10:51 | The bucks of Oranmore, reel ; Toss the feathers, reel / Tony MacMahon, accordion, speech in English
00:10:53 - 00:13:26 | Joe Heaney recounts growing up in Connemara and importance of passing on the musical and singing tradition, speech / Joe Heaney, speech in English
00:13:27 - 00:17:06 | As I roved out on a May morning, song / Joe Heaney, singing in English
00:17:07 - 00:19:34 | Recalling Cromwell's invasion of Ireland and anecdote about the 'The rocks of bawn', speech / Joe Heaney, speech in English
00:19:35 - 00:22:42 | The rocks of bawn, song / Joe Heaney, singing in English
00:23:22 - 00:26:35 | Intro to song, speech ; [Eggs and marrowbones], song / Joe Heaney, singing in English
00:26:36 - 00:35:16 | Story telling in Carna, Connemara, riddle story, story about Protestant converting so he could court a Catholic woman with clover under pillow to win the love of Mary, and eating meat on a Friday, speech / Joe Heaney, speech in English
00:35:16 - 00:38:07 | Intro to song, speech ; An chúilfhionn, song / Joe Heaney, singing in Irish, speech in English
00:38:08 - 00:43:18 | Intro to Seven drunken nights, speech ; Seven drunken nights, song / Joe Heaney, singing in English
00:43:19 - 00:47:06 | Dear Irish boy [Buachaillín bán], slow air / Tony MacMahon, accordion, speech in English [abrupt ending to tape]

Side B:
00:00:06 - 00:02:17 | Ships are sailing, reel / Tony MacMahon, accordion
00:02:35 - 00:04:17 | Intro to Banish misfortune, reference to the Famine and emigration to US, speech / Tony MacMahon, speech in English
00:04:18 - 00:09:34 | Banish misfortune, jig ; Piper on the hob, jig ; Geese in the bog, jig / Tony MacMahon, accordion
00:09:35 - 00:12:43 | Intro to 'The wounded huzzar', collected from Séamus Ennis, speech / Tony MacMahon, speech in English
00:12:44 - 00:18:69 | The wounded huzzar, slow air / Tony MacMahon, accordion
00:19:00 - 00:23:50 | Intro by Joe about love song, speech ; I wish I had someone to love me, song / Joe Heaney, singing in English
00:23:51 - 00:27:14 | The American wake, port béil, speech ; My love is in America, reel ; off to California, hornpipe / Joe Heaney, speech in English, lilting, singing in English
00:27:48 - 00:31:02 | Intro, speech ; A stór mo chroí, song / Joe Heaney, singing in English, speech in English
00:32:18 - 00:36:22 | Captain Wedderburn's courtship [And you lie next the wall], song / Joe Heaney, singing in English
00:36:26 - 00:42:04 | Story of couple going to the parish priest for advice for 'wild son', speech / Joe Heaney, speech in English
00:42:20 - 00:47:18 | Intro to Cúnla ; Cúnla, song / Joe Heaney, singing in English, singing in Irish

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