OT 11096 Track 1
from "1972." by Henry Glassie,
In F-635 Irish Music and Culture
By David McDonald
No streaming derivative is available.
Notebook file 2, pp. 627-628, 781-783.
July 30 - August 6, 1972, Swanlinbar, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
Peter Flanagan
Unidentified tune, Pete Flanagan, flute.
Informal conversation with brief performance on flute by Pete Flanagan.
Unidentified tune, Pete Flanagan, flute.
Drum and piper band passing by the door of the bar.
Unidentified tune, Pete Flanagan, flute. Sounds of dancing in the background.
"The Ninety-Eight March", Pete Flanagan, flute.
"Off to Dublin", Pete Flanagan, flute. Sounds of dancing in the background.
Unidentified tune, Pete Flanagan, flute.
"Patrick Sheehan", sung by Peter Flanagan.
Unidentified tune, Pete Flanagan, flute.
"The Green Volunteers", sung by Martin Crudden.
Unidentified tune, Pete Flanagan, flute.
Unidentified tune, Pete Flanagan, flute.
Unidentified tune, Pete Flanagan, flute.
"Heathery Breeze", Pete Flanagan, flute.
"Irish Washerwoman", Pete Flanagan, flute.
Unidentified tune, Pete Flanagan, flute.
"Down Erin’s Lovely Lee", sung by unidentified performer.
(Peter and Joe Flanagan at Flanagan’s. Field Notes, file 2, pp. 781-783.) Brief discussion about how to work the tape machine with flute playing in the background. Followed by two minutes of silence.
Narrative about a man who goes deaf after encountering a fairy at a forth; location of some forths and their relation to the Danish invasions.
Narrative about a man who is poked by fairies for trying to sow his cabbages in a forth.
Narrative about fairies forming whirlwinds and how you can divide the wind with the sign of the cross.
Narrative about how the fairies were cast out along with Satan during the war of heaven; use of the powers of temptation to steal children; beginning of conversation on witchcraft.
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