Folk songs, Irish

Date: 1890-1941

From: Cowan family: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11946-147

Description: Comprises a small publication 'Irish Ballads and Songs' selected by Martin MacDermott, [1890?], and loose papers that were laid in to this incomplete volume, including correspondence, clippings, research papers, and postcards. The material in this folder was enclosed in a bag labelled by James Cowan's family as 'James Cowan Favourite Poetry'. The loose papers include holograph notes and clippings about Irish legends and poetry. Includes a draft article '"Meinself und Gott": When the Kaiser was in Flower' by James Cowan, dated 1941, which includes comical verses and ditties relating to the late Kaiser Wilhelm II. The correspondence includes a letter to James Cowan from his brother Henry Cowan, dated 16 September 1917, on "Y. M. C. A. with the Australian Imperial Force" letterhead, written from Pennings Camp, Tidworth, Salisbury Plains. This includes a small photographic print, possibly of Henry, in military uniform that was laid in the letter. Other correspondence includes a letter from Christian Keig, dated 18 November 1917, from the Isle of Man, which refers to Henry Cowan's visit to see them; three other letters from family members from Ellerslie (Annie and Willie), dated between 1927 and 1930; and a letter from Johannes Andersen in his role as the Librarian at the Alexander Turnbull Library, dated 26 August 1931. Cowan had marked this letter in pencil and used the back of it to write some song lyrics for "A Toast to Dear Old Erin" and "Tim [?] the Fluter's Ball". Also includes papers relating to the death of Agnes Margaret Cowan in 1930, and a mourning card from Mrs W. A. Cowan and family of Stanley Point, dated 14 November 1913. Also six postcards, three of which are original photographic prints relating to the Cowan family. One of the postcards is from James Cowan's brother Henry, dated 22 December 1909, writing from Stanley Point, and features a wooden villa, which Henry describes as his house. The other postcards feature images of a bearded man sitting in a chair, with a baby on his lap; a view of Stanley Point; the Katesbridge Presbyterian Church; "Our Late Premier, Rt. Hon. R. J. Seddon, P. C."; and "Killarney. Turnpike Rocks Gap of Dunloe". Two photographic prints. One of a family group portrait with an unidentified elderly woman with two other women and two girls; and one of the elderly woman seated alone, with trees in the background circa 1920s. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) Total.. 5 b&w original photographic print(s) Includes prints and postcards.. 3 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) Postcards.. Physical Description: One folder which includes a publication, two black & white photographic prints, three photographic postcards, three printed postcards, clippings, holograph notes, and a typescript draft article. Transfers: Negative separated from photographic prints in this folder, due to storage requirements. It corresponds to the print of an unidentified elderly woman seated outside, with trees in background, ca 1920s. This is now at 1/4-125524-F.. Processing information: The material in this folder was enclosed in a bag labelled by James Cowan's family as 'James Cowan Favourite Poetry'. The bag also contained the references 'D2' and 1 Cat (the '1' was circled). Which may refer to the Divan Drawer location where they were stored, and the numbering of the catalogue list that Margaret Cowan created for the collection.

Date: 1820 - 1796 - 1880

From: [Collection of ephemera, handbills, fliers, collected by Kenneth Athol Webster. 1800-1920]

Reference: Eph-B-WEBSTER-Ballads-254/273

Description: Some sheets contain two ballads. Includes: 254. There are worse-looking fellows than me. Erin-Go-braugh. The thumping glass of gin (2 separate clippings) 255. The sailor's farewell, a new song sung this season at Sadlers-Wells 256. Sweet evening bells. The coal hole (2 separate clippings) 257. The Torbay Expedition 258. Teddy Regan. The unhappy litle man (2 separate clippings) 259. The shop assistant; it's a laugh. Composed and issued by J Smith (age 65), 3 Ropley Street, Bethnal Green. Hackney Press, 407 Hackney Road, E 2. 260. Poor and honest sodger 261. In the days I went a drinking ale 262. The ladies' bustles 263. The chapter of Kings; a new song 264. A new song call'd the Papist Ass 265. A new song in praise of tae [the] Catholic Chruch [Church] of Kantur 266. A new song call'd the Rake of Rathkeal 267. Love your own land 268. Christmas carol [God rest you merry Gentlemen]. [On verso] Prologue (spoken by ... Salusbery in the character of Hegio). Epilogue (spoken by ... Eyre in the character of the Fidicina) 269. The Republican's picture, dedicated to atheist's [sic], levellers, and Jacobins 270. A new song written on the 2d of February 1796, on the introduction into Nottingham of Sir John Borlase Warren, by Typographicus 271. Grand conversation on Sebastopol arose! The fall of the heights (2 separate clippings) Quantity: 20 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, sizes varying up to 255 x 190 mm. Provenance: From the collection of Kenneth Athol Webster.

Date: 1953-1986

By: Fitchett, Pauline Elwy, 1933-; Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695; Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista, 1710-1736; Ellis, Vivian John Herman, 1903-1996; Lara, Agustin, 1900-1970; Tiomkin, Dimitri, 1894-1979; Modugno, Domenico, 1928-; Scharfenberger, Werner, 1925-2001; Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880; Salkeld, Brian Hope, 1926-1995; Downes, Peter, 1928-2022; Hahn, Reynaldo, 1875-1947; Dvorak, Antonin, 1841-1904; Marshall, Charles, 1857-1927; Reger, Max, 1873-1916; Head, Michael Dewar, 1900-1976; Freyer, August, 1803-1883; Lloyd Webber, Andrew, 1948-; Rutter, John, 1945-; Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828; Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827; Wolf, Hugo Filipp Jakob, 1860-1903; Durante, Francesco, 1684-1755; Caccini, Giulio, 1545?-1618; Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949; de Falla, Manuel, 1876-1946; Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897; Finzi, Gerald Raphael, 1901-1956; Sell, David Frank, 1930-2016; Wilf Jones Concert Orchestra; Moritz Monas Ensemble; Cheesman, Oswald Astley, 1913-1985; Averi, Peter Warwick, 1934-; Northern Singers; Knight, Linda, active 1986; Aurora Trio; Rae-Gerrard, Colleen Margaret, 1938-; Brain, June, active 1982; NZBC Symphony Orchestra; Priestman, Brian, 1927-; Lindsay, Alex Sylvester, 1919-1974; Solon, Ewen, 1917-1985; Till, Maurice, 1926-2011; McDonald, Judith Helen, 1937?-; Nielsen, Margaret Alison, 1933-2023; Mattos, Edward, active 1969; Orpheus Choir of Wellington; Wellington Regional Orchestra; Godfrey, Peter David Hensman, 1922-2017; Hannan, May, active 1976; Tipping, Simon, 1946-

Reference: MSCD-0013

Description: A set of three compact discs covering Fitchett's life as a soprano: (1) Variety, (2) classical and (3) Dies Natalis by Gerald Finzi Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music Label: Marmalade Audio Other Titles - Hark the echoing air / by Purcell ; [performed by Pauline Price, soprano, with the Hutt Valley Memorial College Evening String Orchestra, conducted by David Sell] ; (1953) Other Titles - Danny boy / [performed by] Pauline Price] ; (1956) Other Titles - [Stabat Mater] Cuius animam gementum / by Pergolesi ; [performed by Pauline Price, Alice Graham, contralto, with the English Singers, accompanied by Maxwell Fernie, organ] ; (1960) Other Titles - This is my lovely day / by Vivian Ellis ; performed by Pauline Price, soprano, with Wilf Jones and his Concert Orchestra ; 1960 Other Titles - You belong to my heart / by Agustin Lara ; performed by Pauline Price with Wilf Jones and his Concert Orchestra ; (1960) Other Titles - Amor amor my love ; Latin American bolero / performed by Pauline Price, with Wilf Jones and his Concert Orchestra ; (1960) Other Titles - Theme / by Dimitri Tiomkin ; performed by Pauline Price, soprano, with Wilf Jones and his Concert Orchestra ; (1960) Other Titles - Volare / by Domenico Modugno ; [performed by] Pauline Price with the Moritz Monas Ensemble ; (1961) Other Titles - Seeman / by Scharfenberger ; [performed by Pauline Price with the Mortiz Monas Ensemble ; (1961) Other Titles - [La Vie Parisienne] Excerpts from Act 1 / performed by Pauline Price, soprano, with ? orchestra, conducted by Oswald Cheesman ; produced by Brian Salkeld ; (1961) Other Titles - I should so like to be a boy / performed by Puline Price, soprano, recorded by Peter Downes ; (1963) Other Titles - If my songs were only winged / by Reynaldo Hahn ; [performed by Pauline Price] ; 1963 Other Titles - O song unto the Lord / by Dvorak ; [performed by Pauline Fitchett, soprano, with oranist Peter Averi] ; 1965 Other Titles - She moved through the fair / performed by Pauline Fitchett, soprano ; (1969) Other Titles - I hear you calling me / by Charles Marshall ; performed by Pauline Fitchett, soprano ; (1969) Other Titles - Songs my mother taught me / by Dvorak ; performed by Pauline Fitchett, soprano ; (1969) Other Titles - Virgin's slumber song / by Max Reger ; performed by Pauline Fitchett, soprano, with organist Peter Averi ; (1974) Other Titles - Little road to Bethlehem / by Freyer ; performed by Pauline Fitchett, soprano, with organist Peter Averi ; (1974) Other Titles - [Requiem] Pie Jesu / by Andrew Lloyd Webber ; performed by Pauline Fitchett, soprano, with Linda Knight and the Northern Singers ; (1986) Other Titles - Blessing / by Rutter ; performed by Pauline Fitchett, soprano, and the Northern Singers ; (1986) Other Titles - Nacht Violen / by Schubert ; performed by Pauline Fitchett, soprano, accompanied by Maurice Till ; (1977) Other Titles - Heimweh / by Schubert ; performed by Pauline Fitchett, soprano, accompanied by Maurice Till ; (1977) Other Titles - The Shepherd on the rock / by Schubert ; performed by the Aurora Trio comprising Pauline Fitchett, soprano, Colleen Rae Gerrard, piano, and June Brain, clarinet ; (1982) Other Titles - [Egmont] Klarchen's songs 1 and 2 / by Beethoven ; performed by Pauline Fitchett, soprano, with the NZBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Brian Priestman, leader Alex Lindsay and narrator Ewen Solon ; (1972) Other Titles - Die Ihr Schwebet / by Wolf ; performed by Pauline Fitchett, soprano, accompanied by Maurice Till Other Titles - In dem Schatten / by Wolf ; performed by Pauline Fitchett, soprano, accompanied by Judith McDonald Other Titles - Vergin, tutto amour / by Durante ; performed by Pauline Price, soprano, accompanied by Judith McDonald ; (1959) Other Titles - Amarilli / by Caccini ; performed by Pauline Price, soprano, accompanied by Judith McDonald ; (1959) Other Titles - Allerseelen / by Richard Strauss ; performed by Pauline Fitchett, soprano, accompanied by Margaret Nielsen ; (1975) Other Titles - Nacht / by Richard Strauss ; performed by Pauline Fitchett, soprano, accompanied by Margaret Nielsen ; (1975) Other Titles - Einerlei / by Richard Strauss ; performed by Pauline Fitchett, soprano, accompanied by Margaret Nielsen ; (1975) Other Titles - Asturiana / by De Falla ; performed by Pauline Fitchett, soprano, accompanied by Edward Mattos ; (1970) Other Titles - Cancione / by De Falla ; performed by Pauline Fitchett, soprano, accompanied by Edward Mattos ; (1970) Other Titles - [Requiem] Ye who now sorrow / by Brahms ; performed by Pauline Fitchett, soprano, with the Orpheus Choir and Wellington Regional Orchestra, conducted by Peter Godfrey ; (1976) Other Titles - Dies Natalis / by Gerald Finzi ; performed by the Wellington Regional Orchestra conducted by Simon Tipping, leader May Hannan ; (1977) Quantity: 3 compact disc(s) (Three CDs in 1 box). Provenance: Pauline Fitchett gave this copy to Peter Downes who donated it to the Library

Date: [1970-1980]

From: Annabell, Angela, 1929-2000 : Papers

Reference: 2000-199-1/13

Description: Music, words and chapter on the song, `William Sheehan', which has a New Zealand connection Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Ms, typescripts

Date: 1905 - 1920

By: Holroyd, Reuben, 1883-1958

Reference: Eph-B-POSTCARD-Vol-11

Description: Includes a general mixture of postcards. Also contains the following sets of postcards illustrating songs: "Love's old sweet song", "Darby and Joan", "She wore a wreath of roses", "Daddy", "Kathleen Mavourneen", "My Irish Molly O", "The vacant chair", "Bluebell", "Rainbow", "I'll take you home again Kathleen", "The promise of life", "Mona", "Please Mr Conductor, don't put me off the train", "Eileen Alannah", "The volunteer organist", "Abide with me", "Mary of Argyle", "Just like the ivy", "If I could plant a tiny seed of love", "When the fields are white with daisies", "Home, sweet home!", "The Irish emigrant", "Don't go down the mine, Dad", "Little grey home in the West", "A little bit of Heaven", "Jesu, lover of my soul", "Thora", "God be with you", "The rosary". Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Photoalbum with brown cover (clover pattern) and green pages, 60 numbered pages, 284 x 232 mm. Provenance: Donated by the Reuben Holroyd estate in 1968.

Date: [ca 1970-1976?]

From: Radio New Zealand. National Radio [Arrangements by New Zealand composers of non-NZ works]

By: Sheppard, Russell L, active 1984; Wilson, E O, active 1980-2006; Thomas, Bill, active 1970

Reference: 97-233-2/1

Description: List of arrangements held in the Dunedin studio; scores and parts of arrangements by New Zealanders of non-NZ compositions. This group comprises mostly Scottish and Irish songs and music plus several sing-alongs and medleys as well as other light music. Other Titles - Alicante / arranged by Bill Thomas Other Titles - Alone again naturally Other Titles - Auld lang syne Other Titles - Babes in arms (1976) Other Titles - The Bluebells of Broadway Other Titles - Bonny Mary of Argyle Other Titles - The Breeze and I / arranged by Ernie Wilson Other Titles - Bruntsfield Darby and Joan Other Titles - Ca' the Ewes to the Knowles / arranged by R Sheppard Other Titles - Caller Herrin Other Titles - Calling you to Bonnie Scotland / arranged by R L Sheppard (1971) Other Titles - Carols / (1971) Other Titles - Cauldriffe wooer & piper of Dundee (1970) Other Titles - Come to the Celeidh Other Titles - Consider yourself (1971) Other Titles - Cuban bellringer / arranged by Bill Thomas Other Titles - Does Santa Claus sleep with his whiskers (1971) Other Titles - The Duke of Athol's reel Other Titles - Dunn's done / arranged by R L Sheppard Other Titles - Eightsome reel Other Titles - Five pennies (1971) Other Titles - Falling in love with love (1971) Other Titles - Gay Gordon band medley Other Titles - Get me to the church on time / arranged by Bill Thomas Other Titles - A Guid New Year (1976) Other Titles - Hannagan's hooley / arranged by R Sheppard Other Titles - Happy wanderer (1976) Other Titles - The Heather on the hill Other Titles - Hey ca' thry ca'thru / arranged by R L Sheppard Other Titles - Hieland jazz (1971) Other Titles - Hogmenay after 12 medley (1970) Other Titles - Hogmanay sing along Other Titles - I love you and don't you forget it / arranged by R L Sheppard Other Titles - Irish home sweet home Other Titles - Irish washerwoman / arranged by R L Sheppard Other Titles - Jacobite waltz selection Other Titles - Jeepers creepers Other Titles - Kerry dance / arranged by Ernie Wilson Other Titles - The Laird o' drum Other Titles - The Landlord of the Abie foil hotel (1971) Other Titles - The Lass o' Glen Shiel Other Titles - Lead on light / arranged by Bill Thomas Other Titles - Legend of Scotland Other Titles - Let's have a ceiledh Other Titles - Let him go let him tarry Other Titles - Lilly McNally MacNair / arranged by R Sheppard Other Titles - Little town in the old county Down / arranged by R Sheppard Other Titles - Loch Lomond Other Titles - Long road back home Other Titles - Lord Randell reel Other Titles - Loverly bunch of coconuts / arranged by R L Sheppard (1971) Other Titles - MacNamarra's band (1971) Other Titles - Maids when you're young (1976) Other Titles - Mally's meek Other Titles - Marie's wedding Other Titles - Mas que nada Other Titles - Medley - Music hall sing along Other Titles - Mrs Craddock's boarding house Other Titles - My dear Hieland laddie (1971) Other Titles - Old lang syne Other Titles - Para Handy schottische Other Titles - Phil the fluter's ball Other Titles - Oh it's a fine thing to sing Other Titles - Reel selection Other Titles - Reels and jigs Other Titles - Rothsay o (1971) Other Titles - Sailing up the Clyde Other Titles - Same as his father did before him Other Titles - Scotland the brave Other Titles - A Scottish soldier Other Titles - Seaside schottishe Other Titles - Shearer glen Other Titles - Skyline of Skye (1971) Other Titles - Suku suku (1973) Other Titles - Sunrise sunset / arranged by Bill Thomas Other Titles - Sway / arranged by Bill Thomas (1972) Other Titles - Waiting at the church Other Titles - Wee dock and Dorris Other Titles - Wee hoose among the heather Other Titles - We're no awa' Other Titles - The Wild mountain thyme (1971) Other Titles - Window of Paris Other Titles - Xmas sing along Other Titles - You are the sunshine of my life / arranged by Bill Thomas Other Titles - Sing along Arrangement: Alphabetical by title; list on top of bundle Quantity: 1 box(es). Physical Description: Holographs (some photocopies) Provenance: Radio New Zealand National Radio Light Music Unit Donor/Lender/Vendor - (A97-149) Donated by Radio New Zealand

Date: [ca 1970-1976?]

From: Radio New Zealand. National Radio [Arrangements by New Zealand composers of non-NZ works]

By: Sheppard, Russell L, active 1984; Wilson, E O, active 1980-2006; Thomas, Bill, active 1970; Harris, K, active 1976

Reference: 97-233-2/2

Description: List of arrangements held in the Dunedin studio; scores and parts of arrangements by New Zealanders of non-NZ compositions. This group comprises mostly Scottish and Irish songs and music plus several sing-alongs and medleys as well as other light music. Other Titles - Afton water (1971) Other Titles - All my loving / arranged by K Harris Other Titles - Any little fish (1970) Other Titles - Autumn leaves / arranged by Bill Thomas Other Titles - Ballads for Gay Gordons (1971) Other Titles - Baubles, bangles and beads / arranged by Calder Prescott Other Titles - The Candy man / arranged by Bill Thomas (1974) Other Titles - Cast your face to the wind / arranged by Bill Thomas Other Titles - Charleston medley / arranged by E O Wilson Other Titles - Cheek to cheek / arranged by Russell Shepherd Other Titles - Duet medley Other Titles - Happy heart / arranged by Bill Thomas Other Titles - If I were a rich man / arranged by R L Sheppard Other Titles - Jumpin' at the woodside / arranged by Calder Prescott Other Titles - Just in time / arranged by Calder Prescott Other Titles - Loch Maree Other Titles - The Lonely goat herd / arranged by R L Sheppard Other Titles - Little donkey Other Titles - Long ago and far away / arranged by Calder Prescott Other Titles - Love is the darndest thing / arranged by Calder Prescott Other Titles - Love somebody / arranged by Calder Prescott Other Titles - Misty islands Other Titles - My airs hoose (1976) Other Titles - My blue heaven / arranged by Calder Prescott Other Titles - My one and only Highland fling Other Titles - O I do like to be beside the seaside (1971) Other Titles - On a slow boat to China / arranged by Calder Prescott Other Titles - Over and over (1973) Other Titles - Parakeet / arranged by Bill Thomas Other Titles - Penthouse serenade / arranged by Calder Prescott Other Titles - Perdido / arranged by Calder Prescott Other Titles - Say, you're mine again / arranged by Calder Prescott Other Titles - Scottish Bossonova Other Titles - September song / arranged by Calder Prescott Other Titles - Shearer Glen Other Titles - Short stop / arranged by Calder Prescott Other Titles - Sing along no 9 Other Titles - Sing along medley Other Titles - Sleigh ride / arranged by Bill Thomas Other Titles - Smile / arranged by Calder Prescott Other Titles - Softly as in the morning sunrise Other Titles - Sometimes I'm happy / arranged by Calder Prescott Other Titles - Star eyes / arranged by Calder Prescott Other Titles - A Summer place / arranged by R L Sheppard (1974) Other Titles - Taboo / arranged by Ernie Wilson Other Titles - Take me back Other Titles - These are my mountains / arranged by R L Sheppard (1970) Other Titles - Tobormoray (1971) Other Titles - Turn ye to me Other Titles - Walkin' to the kirk Other Titles - When McKay tossed the caber Other Titles - Where are you going my bonny wee lass (1976) Other Titles - Whisky galore Arrangement: Alphabetical by title; list on top of bundle Quantity: 1 box(es). Physical Description: Holographs (some photocopies) Provenance: Radio New Zealand National Radio Light Music Unit Donor/Lender/Vendor - (A97-149) Donated by Radio New Zealand

Date: 1900 - 1903

From: Cabot, Charles Henry, 1890-1978: [Collection of ephemera, posters and programmes. 1900-1976]

By: Fleet Printing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-CABOT-Music-1900-01

Description: Flier advertising song recitals or recordings by Frank May, with a photographic portrait of the performer. Below is a repertorie of the "latest story songs": Beautiful garden of roses, The day that's gone can never come again, Daddy, Anchored, The King's Own, I wonder how the old folk's [sic] are at home, The sweetest story ever told, Just plain folk, If they ask you what your name is, Nora McNamara, Erin's Isle, Molly Malone, Queen of the earth, A toast to Erin, My love to old Ireland, Norah Machree, &c., &c. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on pale green paper, 277 x 145 mm. Provenance: Cabot Collection, donated 1970s.

Date: [1990s?]

From: McLeod, Jennifer Helen, 1941-2022: Collection

By: Smith, Mary, 1942-; Chieftains (Musical group)

Reference: MSC-011852

Description: Gaelic and Irish songs performed by Mary Smith and also the Chieftains. Mary Smith's songs are not listed. Enclosures - Jacket note by J McLeod regarding Mary Smith `I mentioned this music to someone somewhere in my onterviews or letters - fabulous!' Other Titles - O'Mahoney's frolics / Chieftains Other Titles - Here's a health to the company / Chieftains Other Titles - Planyty Brown / Chieftains Other Titles - The William Davis's / Chieftains Other Titles - Boffy Flow and Spike / Chieftains Other Titles - Main theme of `Millennium Celtic suite' and reel / Chieftains Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).