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This series contains recordings on audio reels of songs performed by Dick Cameron and radio programmes hosted by him.

Audio reel containing a home recording of Dick Cameron performing the songs ‘High Germany’, ‘John Riley’, ‘The Old Man’s Song’, ‘Leezy Lindsay’ and ‘Autumn Has Come’. The last song ends abruptly and is followed by a recording of part of a radio programme [presumably Ballads of a Saturday], in which Angela Byrne sings the songs ‘Sloop John B’, ‘The Bold Fenian Men’, ‘The Further Rim’ and ‘Anathea’. The recording cuts off abruptly as the last song is ending. Duration 00:25:20.

Audio reel containing a home recording of Dick Cameron signing songs and accompanying himself on the acoustic guitar. The songs included on the reel are ‘Corpus Christi Carol’ (with poor sound quality), ‘The Seven Virgins’, ‘Said Judas to Mary’, ‘The Lord of the Dance’ and ‘Corpus Christi Carol’ (with better sound quality). Duration 00:18:32.

Audio reel containing a home recording of a man, identified on the cover of the reel as 'Tom', singing four songs beginning with the lines ‘Thank you my dear paperboy for the paper I will read tonight’; ‘You bolt right up out of bed find your hands clasped tightly round your head’; ‘Empty bar rooms of conversation, wouldn’t people still remain’; and ‘Rain on the roof, here today, gone tomorrow’. These are followed by an instrumental piece on the guitar and four songs beginning with the lines ‘Left a lot behind me in the bleakness of the trees’; ‘Hands red with the cold, that’s a sure sign that I’m getting old’; ‘Thus ran my child in the sun of gold across the sand’; ‘The candy shop on the corner’s closed’. These are followed by an instrumental piece on the guitar and a further four songs beginning with the lines ‘A touching smile, sparkling, beautiful’; ‘Windows covered up with frost’; ‘You’re Francis Russell B.A. you’re freshly out of West Point’; and ‘I’m a poor man, I never had much in the way of things’. Duration 00:48:32.

Cassette tape containing a recording of a two-part radio programme, The Wandering Ballad, produced by Ciarán Mac Mathúna and hosted by Dick Cameron. On Side A, Cameron sings and plays the songs ‘A Soldier Came from Georgia Way’, ‘Pretty Saro’, ‘Sam Hall’, ‘Barbara Allen’, ‘Lolly Too Dum’ and ‘The Lake of Champlain’. Duration 00:31:50. On Side B, Cameron sings and plays the songs ‘The Rambling Irishman’, ‘Green Grows the Laurel’, ‘The Catalpa’, ‘With My Swag All on My Shoulder’, ‘The Banks of Newfoundland’, ‘The Falling of the Pine’ and ‘The Old Man He Came Home One Night’. Duration 00:32:44.

This collection contains recordings of songs performed by Dick Cameron and radio programmes hosted by him.

Audio reel containing a recording of two programmes in the Radio Telefís Éireann series Ballads of a Saturday produced by Roisin Lorrigan. Both programmes are hosted by Dick Cameron and feature the folk band Sweeney’s Men (Andy Irvine, Johnny Moynihan and Joe Dolan). In the first programme, they perform the songs ‘Travelling down the Castlereagh’, ‘Erin go Bragh’, ‘Come All Ye Fisher Lassies’, ‘The Ballad of James Connolly’ and ‘The Exile’s Jig’. In the second programme, they perform the songs ‘The Derby Ram’, ‘Rattling Roaring Willie’, ‘Talkin’ Dust Bowl Blues’, ‘Crooked Jack’ and ‘Old Maid in the Garrett’. Duration 00:34:11.

Reel containing a recording of a programme in the Radio Telefís Éireann series Cabaret Gael Linn, in which Martin Fay, Seán Potts and Muiris Kennedy perform the songs ‘Peigín Leitir Móir’ and ‘Vanish Misfortune’; Dick Cameron and Elizabeth Colclough perform ‘Sweet Nightingale’, Dick Cameron performs ‘Hiram Hubbard’; Fay, Potts and Kennedy perform ‘Twenty Men from Dublin Town’ and ‘Anach Cuain’, Cameron and Colclough perform ‘Liza Jane’, Elizabeth Colclough performs ‘Mary Hamilton (The Four Marys)’, Fay, Potts and Kennedy perform ‘An Poc ar Buile’ and ‘Mo Mhúirnín Bán’; Cameron performs ‘New York Girls (Can’t You Dance the Polka)’, Cameron and Colclough perform ‘Kisses Sweeter than Wine’; and Fay, Potts and Kennedy perform ‘Buachaill on Éirne’, ‘Siobhán Ní Dhuibhir’ and an instrumental piece, which concludes the programme. After a small break in the recording, there follow three programmes in the Radio Telefís Éireann series Ballads of a Saturday, hosted by Dick Cameron. The first two programmes feature Tom Paxton, who in the first programme performs the songs ‘The Last Thing on My Mind’, ‘Georgie on the Freeway’ and ‘Victoria Dines Alone’. The programme concludes with Dick Cameron singing ‘Bottle of Wine’. The recording suffers from wow and flutter. In the second programme, Paxton performs the songs ‘The Marvelous Toy’, ‘I Can’t Help but Wonder Where I’m Bound’, ‘Sully’s Pail’ and ‘Ramblin’ Boy’. The quality of the recording is poor. The third programme, broadcast on 26 August 1967, features Sharon Collen, who performs the songs ‘The Lass from the Low Country’, ‘Darcy Farrow’ and ‘Jamie (Dewy Dells of Yarrow)’. The progamme ends abruptly. It is followed by Dick Cameron singing the song ‘The Bonny Cuckoo’ twice. The recording suffers from wow and flutter. The reel concludes with a recording of a radio programme for children, in which Dick Cameron performs the songs ‘The Barnyard Song’, ‘Going to the Zoo’, ‘Uncle Reuben’, ‘The Monkey and the Elephant’ and ‘Jig Along Home’. Duration 01:49:53.

Audio reel containing a recording of a programme in the Radio Telefís Éireann series Ballads of a Saturday produced by Colin Morrison and hosted by Dick Cameron and Elizabeth Colclough, who perform the songs ‘Pretty Little Miss (I’ll Be Sixteen on Suday)’, ‘Kisses Sweeter than Wine’, ‘Blackbirds and Thrushes’, ‘Git Along, Little Dogies (Whoopie Ti Yi Yo)’ and ‘Poor Paddy on the Railway’. The programme concludes at 00:15:21 and is followed by 50 minutes of an impromptu recording of Dick Cameron chatting and playing with a child called Robin [his son?]. At 01:06:25, there follows a recording made on 13 May 1967, in which Jonathan Hanahan gives a talk on narcissism and the marriage crisis. Duration 02:01:50.

Audio reel containing a recording of part a radio programme [in the Radio Telefís Éireann series Ballads of a Saturday] hosted by Dick Cameron, in which Tom Crean, Niall Fennell, Sean Corcoran and Dave Smith of the a cappella group The Press Gang perform the songs ‘Spencer the Rover’, ‘Abroad for Pleasure’, ‘Leave Her Johnny’ and ‘The Pace-Egging Song’. This last song ends abruptly at 00:12:45 and is followed by an impromptu recording of a small child [Cameron's son?] singing to the accompaniment of a guitar. Duration 00:25:36.