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Performers:
Cassidy, Johnny, storytelling in English A1, A3;
singing in English A3;
Cassidy, Joanna (Dickle), singing in English A2;
Keenan, Johnny (John Snr), speech in English A4, banjo? A6-9;
Unidentified performer [member of the Keenan family?], whistle A7-9

Running Order:
1. Story: The Priest's Bed
2. Song: The Clipped Mare
3. Song, Speech: The Cobbler's Song
4. Speech: A few words with Johnny Keenan
5. Speech and music: Indian bagpipes and whistle
6. Reel: Untitled [Tarbolton]
7. Jig: Untitled [Flanagan's Double]
8. Jig: Flanagan's Double
9. Air: Untitled [Sliabh na mBan] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Keenan, Paddy, Dublin, pipes A1-8;
Keenan, Johnny [John Jr], Dublin, banjo A1, A6-9;
Keenan, Johnny [John Snr], Dublin, banjo A10, tin whistle A3, lilting A3

Running Order:
1. Reel: The Mountain Lark
2. Air: The Dear Irish Boy
3. Reel: Bonnie Kate
4. Air: The Quiet Land of Erin
5. Air: Sliabh na mBan
6. March: Parnell's March
7. Set Dance: The Ace and Deuce of Piping
8. Set Dance: The Job of Journeywork
9. Reel: The Sligo Maid
10. Air: Ellen Brown or The Fair of Donnybrook [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Keenan, John Snr, Dublin, whistle A1;
Keenan, Paddy, Dublin, pipes A2-5, 10, 11, 12, 13;
Keenan, John, Dublin, banjo A4, 6-9, 11, 12, 13;
Unidentified performer [Brendan Keenan?], Dublin, whistle A6, 9;
Weldon, Liam, singing in English A8

Running Order:
1. Reel: Miss McLeod
2. Reel: Miss McLeod
3. Reel: Miss McLeod
4. Reel: Colonel Fraser [volume variation mid-track]
5. Reel: The Flogging Reel
6. Reel: Untitled [Crowley's Reel]
7. Song: I Know Where I'm Going
8. Reel: The Old Bush
9. Reel: Killabegs House [The Hare's Paw / Foot]
10. Jig: Untitled (unfinished) [The Lark in the Morning]
11. Jig: Untitled [The Lark in the Morning]
12. Jig: The Rambling Pitchfork
13. Reel: Untitled (unfinished) [The Bunch of Keys] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Keenan Family, The =;
Keenan, John Snr, Dublin, whistle A3-4;
Keenan, Paddy, Dublin, pipes A1-2;
Keenan, John Jr, Dublin, banjo A1-5;
Connors, Johnny, whistle A5-11

Running Order:
1. Jig: The Lark in the Morning
2. Jig: The Lark in the Morning
3. Air: Roisin Dubh
4. Air: Roisin Dubh
5. Reel: The Flowers of Limerick
6. Air: Molly Bawn (I'm a Constant Rover)
7. Air: The Rocks of Bawn
8. Air: The Coolin [An Chuileann]
9. Air: Danny Boy
10. Air: Boulavogue - Fr. Murphy [END OF BAND ONE]
11. ???

Performers:
Stokes, Patrick, lilting A15;
singing in English A11-12, 14, 16;
speech in English A1;
speech in Cant/Gammon A1;
Stokes, Mary, singing in English A13;
speech in English A1;
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English A1;
Mahon, Martin, accordion A2-10

Running Order:
1. Speech: Talk with Patrick and Mary Stokes about his youth, working at different jobs and beginning as a tinsmith, and his relationship with his half-brother and father; words and sentences in Cant or Gammon.
2. Jig: Untitled [The Killimer / Killimor Jig; also known as Father Kelly's Jig]
3. Reel: Untitled
4. Reel: Untitled [The Morning Dew]
5. Reel: Untitled [Father Kelly's Reel]
6. Jig: Untitled
7. Reel: Untitled [The Sligo Maid]
8. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Showman's Fancy ?], untitled [The High Level] [END OF BAND ONE]
9. Reel: Untitled [The Skylark]
10. Waltzes: Untitled [A Bunch of Violets Blue], untitled [The Rose of Tralee]
11. Song: Ellen Heaney
12. Song: There's a Child in the Budget
13. Song: Hanging reprieve ballad [The Streets of Derry ?]
14. Song: Paddy McInerney
15. Jig: Untitled [The Sports of Multyfarnham]
16. Song: Untitled (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Furey Family, instrumental group A1-2;
O Conaire, Sean, singing in Irish A3;
Unidentified performer[s], singing in English A4, 12;
O'Donoghue, Joe, singing in English A5;
Unidentified performer [Martin Donovan?], whistle A6;
Donovan, Martin, whistle A7;
Flynn, Paddy, singing in English A8;
Unidentified performer [Mary O'Donoghue?], singing in English A9;
Unidentified performer [Pat O'Donoghue?], whistle A10;
Unidentified performer [Martin Donovan?], singing in English A11

Running Order:
1. Jigs: The Donnybrook Jig [Donnybrook Fair], An Rogaire Dubh / The Black Rogue, Saddle the Pony [The Priest's Leap]
2. Jig: The Munster Buttermilk [The Sports of Multyfarnham]
3. Song: Maire Mhor
4. Song: Untitled [The Bold Fenian Men]
5. Song: Untitled [The Jolly Beggarman] [END OF BAND ONE]
6. Jigs: Untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], untitled [The Battering Ram]
7. Reel: Untitled [The Stone in the Field]
8. Song: Standing at the Corner of the Street
9. Song: The Patriot Game
10. Jig: Untitled [The Connachtman's Rambles]
11. Song: Untitled
12. Song: Untitled [Bold O'Donoghue] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Furey Family, The, instrumental group A1, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14;
O Conaire, Sean, singing in English A2, 4;
Unidentified performer [Joe Walsh?], singing in English A3;
Unidentified performer [Des O'Connor?], whistle A5-6;
Furey, Ted, fiddle A9-10;
Furey, Finbar, pipes A13

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [The Flogging Reel]
2. Song: Once There Lived a Captain
3. Song: Untitled [By the Pleasant Slaney Side ?]
4. Song: Untitled [She Lived beside the Anner]
5. Jig: Untitled [The Gold Ring, Willie Clancy version]
6. Reel: Untitled [The Ravelled Hank of Yarn] [END OF BAND ONE]
7. Reels: The Woman of the House, The Earl's Chair
8. Hornpipe: Cooley's Hornpipe
9. Jig: The Cliffs of Moher
10. Air: Na Connerys
11. Reels: The Mountain Lark [The Steampacket], The Morning Star, Miss McLeod]
12. Set Dance: The Three Sea Captains
13. Set Dance: The Job of Journeywork, Johnny Doran setting
14. Reels: Scotch Mary, The Flogging Reel (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Furey Family, The, instrumental group, Dublin A1, 6-11, 14;
Furey, Finbar, Dublin, pipes solo A2-5, 12-13

Running Order:
1. Reels: Untitled [The Sligo Maid], untitled [Down the Broom]
2. Jig: Untitled [Cailleach an Airgid / The Hag with the Money]
3. Jig: Untitled [The Mouse in the Cupboard?]
4. Reel: Untitled [The Star of Munster]
5. Air: Long Time A'Growing [My Bonny Boy]
6. Reels: Untitled [The Flogging Reel], untitled [Miss McLeod]
7. Jig: Untitled (unfinished) [The Irish Washerwoman] [END OF BAND ONE]
8. Reels: The Sligo Maid, Rakish Paddy
9. Jigs: Father Kelly's Jig / The Killimor, The Battering Ram
10. Reel: The Bucks of Oranmore
11. Slip Jigs: Kitty Come Down from Limerick, The Kid on the Mountain
12. Air: Roisin Dubh
13. Set Dance: The Blackbird
14. Reel: The Woman of the House (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English A1, 4, B1-2, B3/C1;
Unidentified performer [member of Furey family?], singing in English A2-3;
guitar A2-3;
Unidentified performer [member of Furey family?], whistle A2-3;
Unidentified performer [Stokes, P?], speech in English A1, 4, B1-2, B3/C1

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [Conversation about many topics, including: people, among them Mick Murphy; animals; travelling to New Ross; child abandoned by its mother; a traveller funeral; Mrs Furey and her problems with rent collectors, etc]
2. Song: Untitled [Sally Free and Easy]
3. Song: Untitled [Pretty Saro]
4. Speech: Untitled [Conversation about many topics, including: tinsmithing; ordering tin utensils; learning tinsmithing; types of utensils made; personal background; discussion about people in Athlone, Coosan, Loughrea, etc; tin utensils superceded by plastic; dealing in feathers] [END OF BAND ONE]
5. Speech: Untitled [Continuation of track A4]
6. Speech: Untitled [Conversation continued from track B1 about many topics, including: dealing in mattresses; finding money in a feather bed; living conditions now relative to earlier; being evicted by Corporation officials; life philosophy; death of a child due to a fire in a tent; fires in tents and their consequences; other family members; living in houses versus living on the road; wedding ring made from the handle of a spoon; horses and rich horsedealers; Ballinasloe Horse Fair; wrestling matches between women and other sporting activities at Ballinasloe; the king and the queen; improving the lives of the travellers; disunity among travellers]
7. Speech: Untitled [Conversation continued from track B2 about many topics, including: ordering tin utensils; shoeing horses; buying tin; ghost story (repeated); story; child recites rhyme; trapping birds] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Cassidy, Jimmy, storytelling in English A1-3;
Cassidy, Bill, singing in English A4-5;
Cassidy, Tom, singing in English A6-8;
Cassidy, Billy, singing in English A9-10;
Cassidy, Kate, singing in English A11;
Cassidy, Nan, singing in English A12;
Furey, Mrs Nora, speech in English A13

Running Order:
1. Story: Repeat of the end of The Grey-haired Norese's Skull, folktale [The Grey-haired Norrissey's Skull]
2. Speech: Football match and imaginary commentary (Kilkenny v. Tipperary)
3. Speech: Football match and imaginary commentary (Wexford v. Kilkenny)
4. Song: Can't Stay in This World Any More, recorded on his wedding day at Saggart
5. Song: Fife and Drum [END OF BAND ONE]
6. Song: The Black and Tan Gun
7. Song: The Cowboy's Dream (unfinished)
8. Song: My Gentle Mother's Grave
9. Song: My Father's Serving Boy
10. Song: The Old Widow's Song
11. Song: Green Grow the Rushes
12. Song: W. Scandlon [William Scanlon]
13. Speech: Talk with Mrs Furey [END OF BAND TWO]