1/4 inch audio tape. Recording of Fingal Harriers continued. Contains Kennel atmosphere general, hounds and voices; horses going into horse-box and doors; Conversation, short, Paddy and Micky; taking hounds out of box and mixing dogs and bitches in kennels; "Bitches only" shouts; close horse-box doors and chat; Hunt; shouts/dogs/horses/horn approach (mixture of tapes). Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
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1/4 inch audio tape. Recording of Fingals continued. Contains loading hounds and horses into horse box; horse first, doors and chat, then hounds and shouts; start tractor and reverse with shouts and manoeuvre; leaves blowing along road in wind and horse-box doors; horse up and past and stop on road, trot; atmosphere before hunt at Fieldstown Crossroads (female chatter and horses); dog back and horses and chatter at crossroads; doors open and horse box; general horsey sounds, master arriving; opening box then taking out huntsman's horse then hounds; general atmosphere before hunt sets across field, female chat and huntsman's shouts; hooves up and past, canter and trot; hunt approach, horn windy. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
1/4 inch audio tape. Recording of Fingal Hunt continued. Contains horn, shouts, hound medium distance; horses at first ditch, very good, splashing in stream and hooves on stones; shouts and horn and hooves and hounds through pond and mud; horses on road, jumping into field; horses walk and trot past on road horses jump from road into ditch; hooves distant; shouts and cattle (hunt going through cattle) and sheep, distant, windy towards end; shouts and hooves in field, then onto road; trot on road; shouts and horn and hooves, good, up and past; hooves up and past close, voices distant. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
1/4 inch audio tape. Contains song thrush, very good; thrush and mistle thrush in background; song thrush, very good, and VW up and past, ok; riverside atmosphere, with mistle thrush, ok; song thrush very good except for car up and past; (2 Mar 1970), point to point races in Oldtown, atmosphere voices "Racecard 2/-" and trucks, beer-crates; weigh-in tent, interior atmosphere, chatter; atmosphere crowd before first race, Tannoy, "Sweepstake" very good, horses leaving parade ring; first race starting, horses up and past; horses approach fence and jump, close, very good; single stragglers approach and jump; horses approach and jump, very good; van driving through field, windy. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
1/4 inch audio tape. Recorded at point to point races, Oldtown, continued. Contains horses coming down to start before race, chatter and snorts; beware foul language, starter's voice and horses away; horses up and past, fast and jump in distance; horses through gap with shouts of crowd; bookies stalls atmosphere with vendor's voices; vendors voices, race cards and fruit and tannoy; bookies, very good; general atmosphere, chatter before 3rd race; quiet; horses approach and turn corner, third race; oohs, aahs, rider falls; shouts, "Loose Horse", Paddy Shanahan, horses approach past , oohs, aahs, ride falls, Paddy shouts!; excited chatter, shouts "loose horse"; cheers at end of race. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
1/4 inch audio tape. Recorded at point to point races, Oldtown, continued. Contains atmosphere at parade ring, kids voices; parade ring, horses walk past mic; jockeys saddling up, excited chatter; girls conversation, good; bookies; 4th race, clearing course, then horse up and jump and past, oohs and aahs; kids chattering (about 5 years old); horses up and past and jump and chatter; laugh as horse fails to jump; cheers as he succeeds, then more laughs; finish of fourth race, clearing course and cheers; jet helicopter arrives (Sen. Ted Kennedy); Jet helicopter close, rotor turn off; crowd chatter, excited, cheer, more chatter; policemen holding back crowd, people tapping bonnet of car. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
1/4 inch audio tape. Recorded at point to point races, Oldtown, continued. Contains chatter before fifth race and hooves approach and past; tannoy and chatter (Micheal O'Hehir's commentary), two cars start in car park and rev; Kennedy, excited chatter from crowd, cheer (distorted), chatter continued; Gardai clearing area, helicopter starts, revs and takes off, excited chatter, cars in background; hunting horn, close and distant, windy; hunting horn fox afoot in cover; hunting horn breaking cover (gone away); hunting horn calling hounds off; hunting horn going home. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
1/4 inch audio tape. Recorded at Glenealy State Forest. Contains horse dragging chains up hill; horses walking in undergrowth; chain sounds; horse away dragging log, very good; attaching another log and dragging them off onto road; manoeuvring pole (dropping and lifting etc.); horse up and past on road dragging chain, very good; footsteps in underground (examining tree truck etc.) and logs being dragged past; starting chain saw and butting tree and sawing tree and tree falls; trimming branches with chainsaw; chatter muffled and footsteps in brambles, start saw, butt tree saw distant, tree falls, very good, clean; transplanting trees, shovelling to straighten line; chatter and clay sounds etc; continue transplanting shovelling etc, spades. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
1/4 inch audio tape. Contains heron hide atmosphere (wild and windy); greylag geese distant (Blessington), wood in foreground; greylegs distant; greylags distant with wood atmosphere; (1 April 1970) whitefronts Wexford, windy but ok; whitefronts Wexford, windy but ok; drainage machine, laying pipes; sync slobs 1-1, 2-1 and wild track, last three with Oscar and Éanna. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
1/4 inch audio tape. Recorded at Dublin Zoo. Contains duck atmosphere with odd goose and splashes; coot and others, quiet, good, splashes; drake mallard and goose in background (Barnacle); duck atmosphere, widgeon good, splashes; Boeing jet 737 overhead; mallard drake and kids distant; fountain in sea-lions pond; sparrow (one) close; shelduck and others including Flamingoes; kids atmosphere; sparrows; geese general, mostly bar-headed; general geese including red-breasted goose; mallard drakes and goose. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.