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Sound Recordings, Ireland

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A538r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recordings, Ireland

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A538r

Creator(s): Taylor, Barry Roy

Site Location(s): Subject - Miltown Malbay, County Clare, Ireland( 52.8553, -9.39833 )

Date(s): July 1975

Size and medium: 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool; Duration: 121' 13".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414589

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Irish dance music and song recordings, featuring fiddle and uillean pipe playing. Compilation of the collector's field recordings, made in Miltown Malbay (County Clare). The fiddle and pipe playing are public performances, with audience applause following each tune. [Tr. 1]


Unaccompanied singing, possibly recorded at the same occasion as the instrumental recordings on Track One. Tom Lenihan sings 'Paddy's Panacea', 'St. James' Hospital'], [first line: 'Why don't you love the...']; Martin Reidysings 'Road to Dungarvin' , [first line: 'Farewell our gallant...'], 'Father Tom O'Neill'; Martin Longsings 'That Cold Man by Night', 'Old Grey Mare', 'We Won't Give Up the Old Land'; Mick Flynn sings 'Sean South', 'Lambs on the Green Hill' and [unidentified]; Straighty Flanagan sings 'Highwayman Michael Powers' [incomplete - tape ends]. [Trs. 2-14]


The instrumentalists and vocalists on this tape are Tommy Peoples, Paddy Keenan, Martin Falsey, Dan Dowd, Brian Gallagher, Andy Conroy, Pat Mitchell, Tom Lenihan, Martin Reidy, Straighty Flanagan, Martin Long and Mick Flynn.


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9.5cm/sec.

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