Medley of fiddle airs (III)

Date recorded: February 5, 1951
Contributor(s): Performer: O'Boyle, Neill; Recordist: Lomax, Alan

Subject(s):

Genre: air, fiddle tune

Culture: Gaelic, Ireland, Irish

Instruments: fiddle

Setting: Central Hotel

Location: Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland

Physical form: Reel to Reel

Tape number: T3298

Track Number: 4

Archive ID: T3298R04

Note: Medley: The Girls of Cady / Rad na mBarach [sic – possible misrendering of Gaelic "Boer reel" or Scots Gaelic "rathad" (road)?] / An Droighnean Donn (The Brown Thorn)

Transcript:
Belongs to: Letterkenny 2/51

About the session: Alan Lomax: "Early, done for Kitty, Dunloe, Letterkenny over glen, recording Neil O'Boyle & Kitty Gallagher in Central Hotel bedroom, Letterkenny, bitter hard afternoon, done in blizzard, glenties, death, meeting M. Doherty and Haughey, with Mickey Doherty."

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