The songs included in the collection are:

Banna’s banks, song
The barque in the harbour, song
The bells of Shandon, song
The Blackwater side, song
The bleach of Strathblane, song
The bonny bunch of roses, song
The bonny hills of Scotland, song
The brave volunteer, song
Brennan on the moor, song
Broken hearted milkman, song
Bungle rye, song
Cock a doodle do, song
Colonna’s lone shore, song
Cottage by the sea, song
The days of the week, song
Dear old Newfoundland, song
Dells of Yarrow, song
Donald Monroe, song
Down by the riverside, song
The drunken captain, song
Emigrant from Newfoundland, song
Fain Waterloo, song
The fair Fanny Moore, song
A fireman’s story of the brave volunteer, recitation
The forest was covered in bushes, song
Gambling man, song
Georgie’s banks, song
The girls from Newfoundland, song
The girl who slighted me, song
Golden Bay, song
The whale in Golden Bay, song
The hills of Glenswilly, song
India’s burning shore, song
In Yorkshire city, song
The Irish colleen, song
Jack was a sailor, song
Johnny Reilly, song
Just before the battle, Mother [comp. George Frederick Root], song
The lady in the East, song
Lobster salad, recitation
Lovely Banna Strand, song
My lovely Irish rose, song
Mackenzie’s dream, song
Morrisey and the Russian bear, song
The mountains of Mourne, song
A selection of gob music
There was an old woman, jig
Tatter Jack Walsh, jig
All the way to Connickmore, single
The girl I left behind me, single
Girs in the salthouse, single
Mother wouldn’t beat him, single
Irishman’s shanty, single
Pop goes the weasel, jig
Green grow the rushes-o, reel
My boy Willie, song
The northeast gale, song
Only a face in the firelight, song
Paddy in New York, song
Patrick Reilly, song
Pinto [comp. Hank Snow], song
Plains of Easter Snow, song
Quigley and Picco [comp. Johnny Quigley], song
The schooner Anne [comp. Peter Leonard], song
The schooner Mary Ann, song
Scolding wife, song
The shores of Grand Lake, song
Siúl a ghrá, song
This is east, song
Thomas Trim, song
True lovers’ conversation, song

Song descriptions and a link to a downloadable PDF of the words of each song

Biographical information about the performers who appear in the collection and of the collectors who created the recordings.

Our thanks to TY student Niamh Ní Mhasún for her help in preparing this document.

On his return to Ireland Aidan meticulously transcribed the words of the songs from his recordings and typed them out.

Information sources and further information on the songs and stories of Newfoundland and the Irish community there.

An article written by Aidan O’Hara and Kenneth Goldstein that was published by the Folklore Studies Association of Canada in The Livyere 3, June 1983.