Series I: General, 1806-2011 consists of subject files concerning to Dr. Moloney's professional life as a performer, promoter, producer, and fieldworker. Materials include newsletters produced by various Irish-American "Celtic" Societies; scholarly journals on music and ethnicity; photocopies of early 20th century Irish-American newspapers; business and personal correspondence; an extensive collection (referred to as "Bookings") of contracts and correspondence detailing Dr. Moloney's performance engagements; files documenting behind-the-scenes studio work ("Recording Projects"); financial records and ephemera pertaining to major and independent labels, such as Green Linnet, Shanachie, Topic, and Transatlantic, with emphasis on marketing and the business models applied to Irish music starting in the 1970s. Of particular note is a complete run of the Shanachie label's newsletter and a collection of record catalogs dating back to the 1920s.
The series also contains materials concerning Dr. Moloney's involvement in numerous federally funded projects, including the Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife (1976), the Chicago Ethnic Arts Project (1977), the Green Fields of America ensemble, the 1982 Knoxville's World's Fair, the International Village Fair in Philadelphia (1987), the Philadelphia Ceili Group Festival, and the Irish Week at the Augusta Heritage Center in Elkins, West Virginia. Other projects are also documented, such as the development for the proposed multi-part series for Radio Telefis Eireann called The Green Fields of America and Emigrants and Exiles.
