Audio-cassettes of music and songs recorded by Jean Ritchie and George Pickow during their time in Ireland.
1/4 inch audio tape. Contains general bird atmosphere (81) including song thrush, blackbird, robin, dunnock; chaffinch, bullfinch and wren; Sea FX (3') and Sparrow imitation by Éamon.
1/4 inch audio tape. Recorded in Wexford. Contains white-fronted geese; rainfall, short, traffic distant; gun dogs, two takes; VW up and stop quietly on gravel; wading in reedy water - short; alarm clock, travelling type; grassy sounds: Oscar and Eamon cr
1/4 inch audio tape. Contains Heron, quiet adult and bill clapping; heron bill clapping; coot; Great Crested Grebe; Mallard; Bittern; Currach, good rowing FX, Tom Wallace caint; Cuckoo; Black Tern; Common tern (Bird disc scratchy). Recorded at 7.5 ips in
1/4 inch audio tape. Recorded at Boyne, mussel diggers. Contains gulls and splashes and after a while oystercatchers as men dig for mussels. Shovelling the mussels; sorting the mussels, starts with shovelling, two takes; rake and splashing into water and
1/4 inch audio tape. Recorded at Boyne, mussel diggers. Chough - call notes male and female (1'25"); Chough, call of adults (1'), feeding calls of very young (50"); Alpine Chough, recorded in Spain (51"). Recordings received from BBC; bees buzz, loop made
1/4 inch audio tape. Contains Sedge Warbler; Reed Warbler; Great Reed Warbler, not in Ireland; Reed Bunting; Davis Warbler; Marsh Warbler; Cormorant, inland lake atmosphere; Spoonbill; Purple Heron; Heron; Icterine Warbler; Blackbird; Song Thrush; Golden
1/4 inch audio tape. Recorded in Conamara. Contains starlings recorded in Conamara, very good; Horses galloping; chatter at Connamara Pony Show; flies hum/whine loop. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
1/4 inch audio tape. Stable FX recorded at Toss Taaffe stable for "Amuigh Faoin Speir", tape 1. Contains stable yard, several horses walking; trot off; distant walk and approach; galloping several horse on grass, windy; slow canter on grass. Recorded at 7
1/4 inch audio tape. Stable FX recorded at Toss Taaffe stable for "Amuigh Faoin Speir", tape 2. Contains horses (two) on roadway exercising; jumping on grass; stable yard. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.