• ITMA field recording of Aidan O'Hara interview [videorecording] / [various performers]

An interview with Aidan O'Hara about the collecting work he did in the Cape Shore region of Newfoundland during the 1970s. He discusses:

• motivations for moving to St John's, Newfoundland, Canada
• his first visit to the Cape Shore and the influence of Galway-born historical geographer John Mannion
• his interest in the people, oral culture, and Irish connections of the Cape Shore
• recording equipment and tape shortages with implications for the quality of recordings
• Caroline Brennan (c. 00:26:00)
• Albert Roche and learning songs from the radio (c. 00:29:00)
• Frankie Nash and learning songs from Newfoundlanders who went away (c. 00:30:00)
• Ellen Emma Power and Irish language traditions (c. 00:34:00)
• Dermot and Rita Roche (c. 00:34:30)
• Communities of the Cape Shore (c. 00:45:00)
• James Connors (c. 00:52:00)
• Collectors of Newfoundland song (c. 00:59:00)
• Collecting with folklorist Kenneth Goldstein with the support of a Canada Council grant (c. 01:01:00)
• The outcomes of his collecting in Newfoundland (c. 01:07:00)