Unrestricted: collection is open for research.
Geordie McIntyre (1937-), from Govanhill Glasgow, is a singer, songwriter, author, music collector, concert and folk club organiser, and record producer.
Joe Heaney (AKA Joe Éinniú; Irish: Seosamh Ó hÉanaí) (1919 - 1984) was an Irish traditional (sean nós) singer from County Galway, Ireland. He spent most of his adult life abroad, living in England, Scotland and New York City, in the course of which he recorded hundreds of songs. A magnificent singer in both Gaelic and English, Heaney sings in sean-nos, the highly ornamented style of traditional Irish song.
Compact disc given to UW Ethnomusicology Archives by the Irish Traditional Music Archive with the permission of Geordie McIntyre, June 2010.
Label on CDR copy: 856-ITMA-REEL / Geordie McIntyre Reel-to-Reel 1 / 856a-ITMA-Reel/CDR donor copy.
Performers (from CDR label): McIntyre, Geordie, Scotland, speech in English A1-3, 5, 7-8, 11-12, singing in English in duet A9; Heaney, Joe, Connemara, singing in English A1, 7-8, 10, 13, speech in English A2-3, 5, 7-8, 10-13, lilting A2, singing in Irish A4, 6, singing in English in duet A9, singing in English in ensemble with pipes and whistle A13-14; McNulty, Pat, pipes in singing ensemble A13-14; Unidentified performer, whistle in ensemble A13-14.
Contents (from CDR label): 1) Speech/Song: The Bonnie Bunch of Roses (interrupted); 2) Speech/Lilting: story about 'Paddy the one tune,' fairy wraths, The Lark in the Morning; 3) Speech: the story behind Bean Phaidin and the hag with the money; 4) Songs: Bean P[h]aidin, The Hag with the Money; 5) Speech: poetic names for Ireland, versions of Roisin Dubh; 6) Song: Roisin Dubh; 7) Speech/Song/Speech: As I Roved Out; 8) Speech/Song: The Bold Tenant Farmer; 9) Song: Mrs. McGrath; 10) Speech/Song: Rocking the Cradle; 11) Speech: the banshee, superstitions about frogs and dying, keening, composing Keens, drinking at wakes, bean caointe, fortune tellers, difference between a hag and an old woman, tinkers, women who brewed herbs, curing one man and killing another; 12) Speech: reason why superstitions died out, faith healing, bone-setters, nettle soup for gaul stones, getting the gift of bone-setting out of a magical book, seals crying, fairies on the islands off the coast, the world being flooded; 13: Speech/Song: The Bonny Boy; 14) The Jug of Punch.
Transmission Data: Digital file (.aif) created 7/29/10 - 2010-6.1_WD.aif (44.1 kHz, 16-bit) and compact disc (WD) produced.
Related collection: 97-16.1 appears to contain most of the same material; it is a somewhat lower-quality copy; see collection entry for 1997016 for a logsheet containing detailed contents description.
Documentation: English translation of several pages from Liam Mac Con Iomaire's book about Joe Heaney (2007)