re:World Library of Folk and Primitive Music vol.1:Ireland
Here's a programme still on BBC iplayer
The First LP in Ireland - 08/05/2012 - @bbcradio4
"Colum Sands presents the story of how, in 1947, the Irish Folklore Commission and the BBC established a scheme to seek out and record folk music and stories throughout Ireland."
Some clips of Seamus Ennis, Brian George & Alan Lomax and quite a lot from Robin Roberts who travelled with them at the time. She was 22 in 1947.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01h666r