Item BBR-18712/1/258894 - Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 337 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, whistle solo A2, 8–9, 17, 19, 23, 33;
speech in English and Irish throughout;
pipes solo A4, 6, 15, 25, 27, 31;
singing in English A11;
singing in Irish A13;
singing in Irish and English A21, 29;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English and Irish throughout;
lilting in duet A9

Running Order:
1. Tone Signal: Untitled
2. Slide: Untitled [The Dark Girl in Blue (CRE 3, # 50); Denis Murphy's Slide; short version to begin the 1st edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape; full version at track A9]
3. Speech: Untitled [Topics include: how long does it take to make a piper? Time required: 7 years learning, 7 years practising, 7 years playing; story about 3 squabbling brothers; introduction to the tune that follows, a test piece for pipers; SE plays his father's version]
4. Set Dance: A hAon is a Do na Piobaireachta / The Ace and Deuce of Piping [One of two versions of this tune that SE played; tonic note A]
5. Speech: Untitled [About the title of the piece of music that follows, The Shaskeen Reel; bo sheasc is a cow that is not giving milk, perhaps a barren cow; the word 'seaiscin' is the affectionate diminutive of the word 'seasc', referring to such a cow that is kept as a pet]
6. Reel: The Shaskeen Reel
7. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the theme of the story that follows; story about the hiring fairs, 'Don Nippery Septo'; story about the king of Greece who wanted to give his daughter's hand in marriage to the man who could tell the longest story – the story without end; Ennis refers to the tune that follows as 'The Eternal Slide']
8. Slide, Speech: The Eternal Slide [Dingle Regatta (Sliabh Luachra version)], Untitled
9. Slide: Untitled [The Dark Girl in Blue (CRE 3, # 50); Denis Murphy's Slide; with lilting; full version; short version at track A2]
10. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the song that follows, which was learnt from Mrs Cronin of Ballyvourney and her son Michael; song is about the treaty of Limerick, Sarsfield and the flight of the Wild Geese]
11. Song: Untitled [The Charming Colleen Rua]
12. Speech: Untitled [Topics include: the dialect of Irish in Waterford; Labhras O Cadhlaigh; faction fighting; factions Carabhat & Seana-Bheist; introduction to the next item]
13. Song: Untitled [Is Buachaill o Chluain Meala Me; song used to start a faction fight]
14. Speech: Untitled [Discussion of topics related to the song just sung, including: faction fighting; dragging one's coat to start a fight; fair days and faction fights; '12 o'clock in the day and not a blow struck'; Labhras O Cadhlaigh interested in piping; An Lin faoi Bhlath / The Flax in Bloom, reel popular in Ring, Co Waterford]
15. Reel: An Lin faoi Bhlath / The Flax in Bloom [End of the first edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape]
16. Tone signal
17. Polka: Untitled [The Dark Girl Dressed in Blue; not the tune with a similar title in tracks A2 & 9; short version to begin the second edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape; a full version of the tune is at track A19(a)]
18. Speech: Untitled [Topics include: the tune at tracks A1 and 3 was learned by SE from Padraig O'Keeffe and Denis Murphy in Sliabh Luachra; polkas seldom have names]
19. Polkas: Untitled [The Dark Girl Dressed in Blue; not the tune with a similar titled in tracks A2 & 9; full version of tune played in track 17], Untitled [The Knocknaboul Polka # 2]
20. Speech: Untitled [Topics include: travels in the Sliabh Luachra area, including Gneeveguillia; introduction to the next song, about a pup that strays and later returns to its owner, Con Carthy of Claedeach; the song has alternate verses in Irish and English]
21. Song: The Pup Came Home from Claedeach
22. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to next piece of music, which SE learned from his father]
23. Air: The Trip We Took over the Mountain
24. Speech: Untitled [Flag floors in country houses; the dancer's flagstone, which had an inverted cauldron under the flag, to resonate under the dancer's feet; introduction to next piece of music]
25. Reel: The Flags of Dublin
26. Speech: Untitled [Topics: Quote from Raftery's poem 'Anois Teacht an Earraigh'; introduction to next piece of music, which SE plays in a version learned from his father]
27. Slip Jig: The Kid on the Mountain
28. Speech: Untitled [Topics: SE working at translating Irish songs into English; SE's translation of Peig Sayers's book 'Machnamh Sean-Mhna / Reflections of an Old Woman' for Oxford University Press; memorial to Peig Sayers being prepared in Dunquin; introduction to the song that follows]
29. Song with Speech: Sliabh na mBan [With each verse sung in both Irish and English; English translations by SE; with spoken interjection]
30. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to next piece of music]
31. Reel: Nil Aon Airgead Agam / I Have No Money
32. Speech: Untitled
33. Polka: Untitled [The Dark Girl Dressed in Blue; the tune played already at tracks A17 & 19; end of second edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape; faded out] [END OF BAND ONE]