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Performers:
Russell, Micho, Clare, whistle A1–5;
Breathnach, Breandan, speech in English A1–5;
Unidentified performer, harp solo A6;
Unidentified performer, fiddle in trio A7;
Unidentified performer, singing in Irish in trio A7;
Unidentified performer, whistle in trio A7;
Unidentified performer, singing in Irish [solo] A8

Running Order:
1. Jig, Jig / Slide: Donall na Greine [CICD 760.11 (both from this recording); 756, 757, 758, 759 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 10 (from MR); Ceol III iv, p 99; Donnybrook Fair / The Joy of My Life (version of? DMI, # 79)], The Clare Jig [CICD 1162.12 (from this recording); 1162.11, 2364.11–.15 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 71 (untitled, from MR)]
2. Jig / Cudreel / Cudril / Quadrille Tune / [Slide], Jig / Slide: Off She Goes [So named by MR on the tape – misnamed? The Cumann na mBan Are Dead and Gone [CICD 1968.13 (where this recording is referenced); 1968.11–.12 (none from this recording); one of 2 tunes to which MR assigns the name The Cumann na mBan Are Dead and Gone], Mickey Callaghan's Slide [So named by MR on the tape – misnamed? Same tune as at track Ib, The Clare Jig, q.v.]
3. Speech, Polkas / Marches / Quadrille tunes, Speech: Untitled [BB recites words sung to The Boyne Water], The Battle of Aughrim (incomplete)], The Boyne Water [CICD 6508.14 (from this recording), 6508.11–.13 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 124], Untitled [Conversation about the event (at the Tailor's Hall, Dublin?) for which the content on this tape is a rehearsal]
4. Jig / Slide: The Clare Jig [As at track 1b, q.v.] (incomplete)
5. Jig / Cudreel / Cudril / Quadrille Tune / [Slide], Jig / Slide: Off She Goes, Mickey Callaghan's Slide [As at track 2, q.v.] [END OF BAND ONE]
6. Harp Tune: Untitled [Arethusa / The Princess Royal; ascribed to Carolan]
7. Song: Untitled [Eamon an Chnoic]
8. Song: Untitled (incomplete) [An Spailpin Fanach] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, accordion A1–6, 27–29, 34;
Unidentified performer, flute A1–2, 4–6;
Unidentified performer [Pakie Russell?], concertina A7–10, 30;
Unidentified performer, whistle A7–10;
Unidentified performers [The Kilfenora Ceili Band?], instrumental group A11, 15–16;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A12–13;
Russell, Micho, Clare, whistle A14, 17–21, 39–40;
flute A22–24, 35–38;
Unidentified performer, bodhran A21;
Unidentified performer, piano A24–26;
Unidentified group (accordion, concertina, flute), A31–33

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [The Dairy Maid]
2. Reels: Untitled [The Sligo Maid], Untitled [The Gatehouse Maid (CRE 2, # 233)]
3. Reel: Untitled [Recorded by the Kilfenora Ceili Band as one of the Kilrush Polkas (?)]
4. Reel: Untitled [The Humours of Ballyconnell]
5. Reel: Untitled [The Bunch of Keys]
6. Jig: Untitled (incomplete)
7. Reel: Untitled [The Traveller (DMI, # 719)]
8. Reel: Untitled [Miss Thornton's Reel (DMI, # 534)]
9. Reel: Untitled [The Heather Breeze]
10. Reel: Untitled [An Bhean Tinceara]
11. Jig: Untitled [Dubbed from a ceili band record? Incomplete; Sacko's Jig / Tripping up the Stairs]
12. Song: Untitled [Blackwater Side (barely audible in parts)]
13. Song: Untitled [Hardly audible; preceded by short section of a ceili band dubbing]
14. Jig: Banish Misfortune / The Irishman's Misfortune / The Shady Groves of Peamount [CICD 1367.11–.12 (not from this recording)]
15. Jigs: Untitled [Father Kelly's Jig], Untitled [When Sick Is it Tea You Want? Dubbed from a ceili band record?]
16. Reels: Untitled [I'm Waiting for You; dubbed from a ceili band record? needle gets stuck in a groove], Untitled [The Humours of Lissadell], Untitled [The Doon Reel] [END OF BAND ONE]
17. Reel: The Wind that Shakes the Barley [CICD 5743.11, 5757.11–.14 (none from this recording); DMI, # 737]
18. Reel: Untitled [CICD 3912 (from this recording); Kitty in the Lane (DMI, # 796)]
19. Reel: London Bridge [CICD 2888, 5480 (both from this recording); 2884.11, 2888 (none from this recording)]
20. Jig: My Darling Asleep [CICD 1822 (from this recording); 1822.11 (where title 'The Miners of Wicklow' is given - in error?), 1822.12–.13 (none from this recording); DMI, # 159]
21. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; Boil the Breakfast Early (DMI, # 789)]
22. Jig: An Rogaire Dubh [CICD 1858 (where this recording is referenced); 2620.11–.12 (none from this recording); The Black Rogue]
23. Reel: Kitty's Gone a-Milking / The Dublin Reel [CICD 5211.11 (not from this recording); not the tune generally called The Dublin Reel; DMWC, # 31]
24. Reel: The Heights of Alma / The Rakes of Mallow [CICD 2692.11 (not from this recording)]
25. Reel: Untitled [The Heights of Alma / The Rakes of Mallow]
26. Airs: Untitled, Untitled [Believe Me if All Those Endearing Young Charms]
27. Reels: Untitled [The Green Groves of Erin], Untitled [Toss the Feathers (with tonic note D)]
28. Jig: Untitled [The Frost is All Over]
29. Jig: Untitled [The Frieze Breeches]
30. Reels: Untitled [The Star of Munster], Untitled [The Swallow's Tail]
31. Jig: Untitled [Mac's Fancy?]
32. Reels: Untitled [Sporting Nellie], Untitled [Gregg's Pipes]
33. Reels: Untitled [The Humours of Ballyconnell], Untitled [Toss the Feathers (tonic note E)], Untitled [Joe Cooley's Reel]
34. Waltz: Untitled [Gentle Mother; incomplete]
35. Jigs: Cathaoir an Phiobaire [CICD 1993–.11 (none from this recording); The Piper's Chair; CRE 1, # 9 (not from MR)], The Yellow Wattle [CICD 1133.11, 1828, 1829 (none from this recording)]
36. Reel: The Dublin Reel [CICD 3101, 3103.11, 3103.12, 3103.14, 3104.11–3104.12 (none from this recording); standard version (tonic note D)]
37. Jig: The Battering Ram [CICD 2195.12–.15 (none from this recording)]
38. Set Dance: The Retreat [CICD 6528, 6529, 6530, 6531, 6532 (none from this recording); Bonaparte's Retreat]
39. Reel: The Silver Spear [CICD 5768.11 (not from this recording); CRE, # 141]
40. Reels: Miss Monaghan [CICD 3179.12 (not from this recording); DMI, # 575], Untitled [CICD 5399 (from this recording); 5399.11 (not from this recording); version of Lord McDonald?], Come West along the Road [CICD 5502 (from this recording); 5502.11, 5505 {with tonic note D} (none from this recording); DMI, # 793] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Russell, Micho, Clare, flute A1–2, 6–8, 11–12, 20–24, 27–28, 32–38;
whistle A3–5, 9–10, 13, 25–26, 29–31;
speech in English A11;
Unidentified performer (female), Clare, speech in English A13–14,17, 19, 27, 31–34, 36–37;
Russell, Gussie, Clare, flute A14–18;
Russell, Packie, Clare, concertina A17–19, speech in English A18;
O'Connor, Davy, Clare, speech in Irish A25–26

Running Order:
1. Jig / Slide: Untitled [CICD 1559.13, 1559.15 (both from this recording); 1559.14 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 67 from this recording by MR; often played as a slide]
2. Reel: The Heather Breeze / The Heathery Breeze [CICD 2856.11 (from this recording); 2857 (where this recording is referenced); 3415.11–.14 (none from this recording)]
3. Reels: Sean sa Cheo [CICD 3976.11–.12, 5649 (all from this recording), 3976.13–.14 (none from this recording)], The Boy in the Gap [CICD 3096.11, 3096.16 (both from this recording); 3096.12–.15, 3097 (none from this recording); standard version of this tune; MR also plays an 'old' version.]
4. Reel: An Clochairin Ban [CICD 4513 (from this recording); 4514, 4514.11 (none from this recording); The Collier's Reel; also at track 27.]
5. Reel: Fochairi Beaga na Foraoire [CICD 5947.11 (from this recording); 5943 (where this recording is referenced); 4725.11, 5943.11 (none from this recording); Spike Island Lasses (here with only two parts)]
6. Reels: Down the Broom [CICD 4807.11 (from this recording); 4808.11 (not from this recording)], The Gatehouse Maid [CICD 3062, 3068.11 (both from this recording); 3051.11 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 233 (not from MR)]
7. Jig: Cathaoir an Phiobaire [CICD 1993 (where this recording is referenced); 1993.11 (not from this recording); The Piper's Chair; CRE 1, # 9 (not from MR)]
8. Reel: Knocknagow [CICD 4590, 4593.11 (both from this recording); 4593.12 (not from this recording); Scotch Mary; DMI, # 729]
9. Jig: Untitled [CICD 1497.12 (from this recording); 1496 (where this recording is referenced); 1497.13 (not from this recording); Kitty Come Over (DMI, # 55); The Cow that Ate the Blanket]
10. Reels: Over the Moor to Maggie / Over the Meadows / Down the Meadows / Kitty's Wedding / The Dublin Reel [CICD 2804.12, 2805 (from this recording); 2804.11 (not from this recording)], The Star of Munster (standard version) [CICD 4162.11, 4163, 4164 (all from this recording); 4162.12 (not from this recording); MR also plays a concertina version of this tune.]
11. Reel: Jackie Fitzpatrick's Reel / Jacky Fitzpatrick's Reel / Jack Fitz's Reel / Jackie Fitzgerald's Reel [CICD 5016 (from this recording); 4995.11–.12, 5017, 5018–5018.12 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 225 (from MR); related to Dowd's Favourite / O'Dowd's Favourite as recorded by Michael Coleman?]
12. Reels: Kitty Jones' Reel / Kitty Jones's Reel [CICD 4275.11, 4276 (both from this recording); 4275.12, 4277 (none from this recording)], The Maid that Left the County [CICD 4286, 4288.11, 4289 (all from this recording?); 4288.12–.14 (none from this recording); The Honeymoon (DMI, # 791); Lady O'Brien's Reel (Tunes of the Munster Pipers, # 96)]
13. Reels: The Wind that Shakes the Barley [CICD 5743.11 (from this recording); 5757.11–.14 (none from this recording)], The Lady on the Island [CICD 5853.11 (from this recording); 5853.12–.13 (not from this recording)]
14. Reel: The Five Mile Chase [Not in CICD from this recording]
15. Reel: The Hunter's Purse / An Sceach / Maire Ni Dhonaill [Not in CICD from this recording]
16. Reel: The Five Mile Chase [Not in CICD from this recording; see track 14]
17. Reels: The Heather Breeze, Sporting Nellie [Not in CICD from this recording]
18. Jigs: The Walls of Liscarroll [Title from typed contents list - misnamed? Not in CICD from this recording; The Mouse in the Cupboard], An Bainbhin Dubh [Not in CICD from this recording; recorded also from MR, qv]
19. Speech, Reels: Untitled [The name of the player from whom Pakie Russell learned these tunes (Martin Killoughrey, Liscannor)], Fermoy Lasses [Not in CICD from this recording], Connemara Stockings] [Not in CICD from this recording] [END OF BAND ONE]
20. Jig: The Battering Ram [CICD 2195.12–.13 (from this recording); 2195.14–.15 (not from this recording)]
21. Reel: Sporting Nellie [CICD 5075.15 (from this recording); 5075.11–.14, 5075.16 (none from this recording); Gorman's (CICD 5075, from Mrs Crotty); Sporting Nell]
22. Reel: The Bucks of Oranmore [CICD 5725, 5726–.12 (all from this recording?); 5482, 5726.13–.14 (none from this recording)]
23. Jigs: An Rogaire Dubh [CICD 1858, 2620.12 (from this recording); 2620.11 (none from this recording); The Black Rogue], The Irish Washerwoman / The Big Jig / Paddy McGinty's Goat [CICD 1678.11, 1679 (from this recording); 1686 (where this recording is referenced); 1678.12–.13 (none from this recording)]
24. Reel: Farewell to Connacht [CICD 3041.11 (from this recording); 3041.12 (not from this recording)]
25. Speech, Slip Jig: Untitled [Words in Irish to the tune on this track], The Rocky Road to Dublin / Slainte an Bristin Leathair [CICD 440.11–.12, 436 (all from this recording?); 435 (not from this recording)]
26. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Words in Irish to the tune on this track], The Connachtman's Rambles / Bean an Brown Dilisc / Bean ag Baint Dilisc [CICD 2136.12, 2138 (from this recording); 2133 (where this recording is referenced); 2136.11 (none from this recording)]
27. Reels: An Clochairin Ban [CICD 4513 (from this recording); 4514, 4514.11 (none from this recording); The Collier's Reel; also at track 4], An Bhean Tinceara [CICD 4030 (from this recording); 2686.11, 4028, 4029, 5750.11–.12 (none from this recording)]
28. Reel: Carty's Reel / Cassidy's Reel [CICD 4978 (from this recording); 4978.11–.12 (where this recording is referenced); 4684.11–.12, 4684.13 (none from this recording); partly composed by MR; commonly known as Micho Russell's; as Carty's Reel from MR in CRE 2, # 294]
29. Jigs: The Humours of Bantry [CICD 1194.11 (not from this recording); DMI, # 13)], Jimmy O'Brien's Jig / The Maid in the Meadows [CICD 1866, 1867 (both from this recording); 1860.11 (not from this recording)]
30. Jigs: The Frieze Breeches / La Sin' Seain / Trom La [CICD 1486, 1487, 1488, 1490, 1492.11–.13 (none from this recording); standard version of the tune; MR also plays an 'old' version.], The Chorus Jig / The Kilfenora Jig [CICD 2218.11–.12 (from this recording)]
31. Speech, Cudreels / Cudrils / Quadrille Tunes / [Jigs / Slides]: Untitled [Introduction to this set of tunes: these tunes are cudreels, which used to be played at country dances for people dancing the plain set], She Hadn't the Knack She Thought She Had [CICD 1470.11 (from this recording); 1470.12 (not from this recording)], The Cumann na mBan Are Dead and Gone [CICD 1968.11 (from this recording); 1968.12–.13 (none from this recording); one of 2 tunes that MR assigns this name to.]
32. Speech, Set Dance: Untitled [Patrick Killoughrey, dancer; confusion about parts of the tune that follows], The Retreat [CICD 6531, 6532 (all from this recording); 6528, 6529, 6530 (none from this recording); Bonaparte's Retreat]
33. Speech, Air: Untitled [Introduction to this tune: it was learned from Patrick ?, Liscannor, Co Clare], An Drucht Geal Ceo / The Foggy Dew [Not in CICD]
34. Reels: The Green Fields of America / Molly Branagan (Molly Brannigan?) [CICD 4749 (from this recording); 4754.11 (not from this recording); DMI, # 523], Rakish Paddy [CICD 3109 (where this recording is referenced); 3108, 3110, 6015.11 (not from this recording); DMI, # 749; CRE, # 145]
35. Reel: The Blackhaired Lass / The Blackhaired Girl / Cailin na Gruaige Duibhe [CICD 4239 (where this recording is referenced); 4230.12–.13 (none from this recording)]
36. Reel: The Flogging Reel [Not in CICD from this recording]
37. Jig: Ti-teen Girleen / Tidy Girlyeen [CICD 1325, 1326.13 (none from this recording); Behind the Bush in the Garden (DMI, # 398)] (cut short)
38. Reel: The Boy in the Gap [CICD 3097 (from this recording); 3096.11–.16 (none from this recording); standard version of this tune; MR also plays an 'old' version] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Clancy, Willie, Clare, pipes in duet A1–2[?], 7[?], 9[?], 11[?];
pipes solo A3, 12, 14, 20, 22, 24;
speech in English A7, 10, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23;
whistle solo A16, 18;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Dublin, speech in English A1–3, 5–8, 10–11;
Talty, Tom ('Tom Charlie'), Clare, speech in English A3, 6, 8;
concertina solo A6;
Burke, Joe, Clare, speech in English A5, 10;
Barry, Michael, Clare, speech in English A5;
Rowsome, Leo, Dublin, pipes solo A5;
McGough, Michael, Clare, speech in English A6;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A8;
O Ciobhain, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English A13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23;
O'Donnell, Michael, speech in English B1, 6, 8, 10;
Tubridy, Michael, Clare / Dublin, speech in English B1, 3, 5, 6;
flute solo B2, 11;
whistle solo B4, 9;
concertina solo B5, 7

Running Order:
1. Jig, Speech: Garrett Barry's Favourite, Untitled [Voiceover; introduction to the radio programme; date of Garrett Barry's death; the jig 'Garrett Barry's Favourite']
2. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Garrett Barry's place in the life of west Clare], Colonel Fraser
3. Speech: Untitled [Account and reminiscences of Garrett Barry; Barry's birth; blind from infancy; Tom Talty (interviewee) went with an ass and cart to pick up Barry to play at his parent's home in Tooreen, near Miltown Malbay; Barry 's favourite public house in Miltown Malbay was Patsy Burke's; the names of tunes played by Barry; information about a fling called 'Ennis']
4. Single Jig / Jig / [Fling?]: Untitled [DMWC, # 70 (untitled); Clancy's Jig (commercial sound recording 'The Pipering of Willie Clancy', vol 1; noticed wrongly as a slip jig); this might be the fling referred to by the speaker in the previous track]
5. Speech, Piece, Speech: Untitled [Further reminiscences of Garrett Barry; Barry coming to stay at Patsy Burke's public house in Miltown Malbay; Barry's physical appearance; Barry plays for benefits – music events to aid an unfortunate person in the locality; story about Garrett Barry meeting and playing with a piper named Stephenson, identified as Dick Stephenson, with whom 'The Fox Chase' was associated], The Fox Chase, Untitled [Story about Barry learning 'The Fox Chase' after hearing it only twice]
6. Speech, Jig: [Further reminiscences of Garrett Barry; Barry's fondness for whiskey], Untitled (incomplete)
7. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Introduction to story; story about Garrett Barry wanting to turn water into wine on the feast of the Epiphany; Barry playing slow tunes like 'The Gold Ring' and 'A Chailleach do Mhairis Me'], Untitled [The Gold Ring]
8. Speech: Untitled [Garrett Barry and the legend of the changeling; Barry regarded as a fine singer both in English and in Irish; Barry's republicanism; quotes words of republican song sung by Barry]
9. Reel: Untitled [The Steampacket]
10. Speech: Untitled [Garrett Barry had a keen ear; story about him recognising that a pot was cracked from the sound it made; Barry's death; speaker collects Barry's pipes after his death; speaker's mother sells pipes]
11. Reel: Untitled [Jenny's Welcome to Charlie] [End of the Radio Eireann documentary, 'The Blind Piper from Inagh']
12. Air, Reel: Bean Dubh an Ghleanna, The Copperplate Reel
13. Speech: Untitled [Willie Clancy's background as a piper; music tradition in Clancy's family; Clancy's first set of pipes, obtained from Felix Doran]
14. Slip Jig: Will You Come down to Limerick? [Kitty Come down to Limerick / The Munster Gimlet]
15. Speech: Untitled [The attractiveness of the previous tune for Clancy; Clancy's lack of formal musical training; Clancy describes the uilleann pipes and the activities needed to play them; Clancy describes his pipes, which were made by Taylor in the USA; Clancy begins learning the whistle at the age of five]
16. Jig: The Legacy
17. Speech: Untitled [Clancy's advice to those learning the tin whistle: 'Take it easy and break the lumps']
18. Air: An Binnsin Luachra
19. Speech: Untitled [Defining the art of piping; different styles of piping; Clancy's own styles, which varies from staccato to legato as the mood takes him; Clancy feels that he cannot do justice to slow airs because of his lack of knowledge of Irish; musicians who had most influence on Clancy – his father; Johnny and Felix Doran; Leo Rowsome; Tommy Reck; Peadar Broe; and Seamus Ennis; difficulties of maintaining the pipes and of finding suitable reeds]
20. Hornpipe: Untitled [Chief O'Neill's Favourite]
21. Speech: Untitled [Potential for further development for the uilleann pipes; Irish spoken in Clancy's area; playing of airs on the pipes; Clancy's regret at not being able to speak Irish]
22. Air: Casadh an tSugain
23. Speech: Untitled [Poverty as an influence on music; what music means to Clancy; the current situation – is tradition weakening?]
24. Reel: Rakish Paddy
25. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the performer; Michael Tubridy's background in traditional music]
26. Reels: Ships Are Sailing, The Green Groves of Erin, The Mountain Top
27. Speech: Untitled [clipped at start; mid-section missing]
28. Jigs: The Geese in the Bog, Sweet Biddy Daly [Mistitled? The Boys of the Town], The Killaloe Boat
29. Speech, Air: Untitled, An Droighnean Donn
30. Speech: Untitled (clipped at end)
31. Hornpipes: The Stack of Barley, The Stack of Wheat
32. Speech: Untitled (clipped at end)
33. Reels: Untitled [The Reel of Mullinavat], Untitled [Tommy Whelan's Reel], Untitled [Touch me if you Dare]
34. Speech: Untitled (clipped at end)
35. Jigs: Untitled [Garrett Barry's Jig], Untitled [Castlebar Races], Untitled [Delaney's Drummers] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English A1–4, 9–11, 13, 17, 19, 21, B3, 15;
speech in Irish A25;
Clancy, Willie, Clare, pipes solo A1–4, B3–4, 8–10, 15–17, B3–4, 8–10, 15–19;
speech in English B15;
Rowsome, Leo, Dublin, pipes solo A5–8, 22–24, B5–7;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English A9;
Doran, Felix, Wicklow / Manchester, speech in English A9–10, 17, 19;
pipes solo A9–11, 18, 20–21;
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, speech in Irish and English A12–13, 15;
pipes solo A12, 14–16;
Moloney, Paddy, Dublin, pipes solo A26–27, B1;
Touhey, Patsy, Galway / New York, pipes solo B2;
O Murchu, Sean, Galway / Dublin, speech in English B5, 7;
O'Loughlin, Peter, Clare, pipes solo B11–14;
Mac Donnchadha, Sean / 'ac Dhonncha, Sean / Johnny Joe Pheaitsin / McDonagh, Johnny, Galway, singing in Irish B20;
O hEanai, Seosamh / Einiu, Joe / Heaney, Joe, Galway, singing in Irish B21

Running Order:
1. Speech, Air: Untitled, The Rocks of Bawn [Stated to be a version of the melody of the song generally known by this title]
2. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Information about the date of recording], The Old Bush
3. Speech, Reels: Untitled, The West Wind, Sean Reid's Fancy [Sean Reid's Favourite; Gilbert Clancy's]
4. Speech, Slip Jig: Untitled, An dTiocfaidh Tu sios go Luimneach / Kitty Come down to Limerick / The Munster Gimlet
5. Air: An Chuileann [The Coolin]
6. Reels: The Bag of Potatoes, Untitled [Dillon's Fancy], Untitled [The Moving Cloud], The Maid behind the Bar [Kiss the Maid behind the Barrel]
7. Airs: An Raibh Tu ag an gCarraig, The Castle of Dromore [For a different performance of this piece by the same performer, see track B6]
8. Reels: The Sligo Maid, The First House in Connacht
9. Speech, Speech, Reel: Untitled [Information that the performance that follows was recorded at a Fleadh Ceoil in Mullingar, Co Westmeath in 1963; further detail in documentation], Untitled, The Maid in the Cherry Tree
10. Speech, Reel: Untitled [How Felix Doran began playing the pipes; his family background in piping], Untitled [The Pigeon on the Gate]
11. Speech, Jig: Untitled, Untitled [The Newport Lass; The Newport Lasses; The Trip to Athlone], Garrett Barry's Jig
12. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Story about the scolaire bocht, the poor scholar], An Scolaire Bocht / The Scholar [The Poor Scholar]
13. Speech: Untitled [Topics: about Seamus Ennis's pipes; story about a headstrong woman]
14. Reel: The Woman of the House [The Mistress of the House]
15. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The Gold Ring
16. Air: Untitled (clipped at start) [Tiarna Mhaigh Eo / Lord Mayo; in a version deriving from Frank Cassidy, fiddle, Donegal]
17. Speech: Untitled [Topics: Felix Doran's new set of pipes, made by Leo Rowsome; how Irish traditional music is faring in Manchester]
18. Reel: The Mayo Lasses [Mistitled? George White's Favourite]
19. Speech: Untitled [Topics include: Felix Doran had just acquired a new set of pipes at the time of this recording; his first experience of learning the pipes, in 1932; his family background in piping; his father was a good player; his grandfather Cash; other piping members of his family; he travelled a lot in counties Galway and Clare, and played especially with musicians Paddy Fahy, Paddy Kelly, Willie Clancy and Joe Leary; how the chanter of his pipes got broken in a traffic accident in Laytown, Co Meath; buying his first set of pipes, a practice set, in 1932 in Capel St in Dublin]
20. Reel: The Mountain Lark [The Steampacket]
21. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Toss the Feathers
22. Descriptive Piece: The Fox Chase
23. Reels: Untitled [Johnny When You Die], The Woman of the House
24. Reel: The Star of Munster, The Copperplate
25. Speech: Untitled [Stage announcement]
26. Hornpipe: Untitled [Pretty Maggie Morrissey]
27. Air: A Spailpin a Run [END OF BAND ONE]
28. Reel: Trim the Velvet
29. Reel: The Mountain Lark [The Steampacket], The Morning Star, Miss McLeod's Reel [Dubbing from a 78 rpm commercial disc]
30. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Star of Munster
31. Jigs: The Frieze Breeches [Version of; I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her], Old Tipperary
32. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Radio announcement], The Scholar, The Primrose Lass
33. Air, Jig: The Castle of Dromore [For a different performance of this piece by the same performer, see track A7], Untitled [Malowney's Wife]
34. Speech, Set Dance: Untitled [Radio announcement], Bonaparte's Retreat
35. Reels: The Copperplate, Rakish Paddy
36. Hornpipe: The Plains of Boyle
37. Jig: Garrett Barry's Jig
38. Set Dance: The Blackbird
39. Jigs: The Butcher's March, Down the Back Lane
40. Hornpipes: The Leitrim Fancy, Untitled [Byrne's]
41. Speech, Air, Reel: Untitled, Sliabh na mBan, Gilbert Clancy [Sean Reid's Favourite]
42. Speech, Jig: Untitled, Down the Back Lane
43. Jig: Paidin O Raifeartaigh
44. Air: The Trip We Took over the Mountains
45. Reel: The Connacht Heifer
46. Reels: The Old Bush, The Ravelled Hank of Yarn [Dub from a 78 rpm Gael-Linn commercial disc]
47. Song: Ta na Paipeir Da Saighneail
48. Song: Ta na Paipeir Da Saighneail [Mistitled?] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig, Kerry, fiddle solo A1–5;
Cronin, Paddy, Kerry, fiddle solo A6–18;
O'Loughlin, Peadar, Clare, flute solo A19–20;
Unidentified performer [O'Loughlin, Peadar, Clare? White, Aggie, Galway (suggested by BB)?], fiddle solo A21

Running Order:
1. Air: O'Rahilly's Grave [Available on RTE CD 174, track 10]
2. Jigs: Coppers and Brass / The Humours of Ennistymon [CICD 1521–1522 (from this recording?); Larry Grogan is a related tune], I Will if I Can / Up and Away [CICD 696 (from this recording?); DMI, # 207] [Available on RTE CD 174, track 11]
3. Hornpipes: John Quinn's Favourites # 1 / The Home Brew [The Wicklow Hornpipe (DMI, # 828); The Road to Boyle (CRE 3, # 227)], John Quinn's Favourites # 2 / The Sands [Stated in notes to RTE CD 174 to be a variant of Miss McLeod's Reel; An Tri is a Rian] [Available on RTE CD 174, track 11]
4. Single Jigs / Slides: The Kilcummin / Dingle Regatta / Tarrant's Slide [In notes to RTE CD 174, it is pointed out that this tune is related to the popular version of The Dingle Regatta; CICD 1075.12 (not from this recording; provides title 'Tarrant's Slide')], If I Had a Wife [(JOLSL, # 90, which also gives the title Mick Mahony's (1); CRE 3, # 41; Johnny Leary's], The Worn Torn Petticoat / Quarry Cross / The Leprechaun [CICD 1415 (untitled; from this recording?); Pucan; for another performance of this tune, see track A18] [Available on RTE CD 174, track 15]
5. Reels: Rolling in the Ryegrass [CICD 5678 (from this recording?)], The Heather Breeze, Rolling in the Ryegrass [Repeat of first tune in this selection], The Heather Breeze [Repeat of second tune in this selection]
6. Jigs: The Munster Jig [CICD 735 (not from this recording)], Tell Her I Am [For another performance of this tune, see track A12]
7. Reels: Duggan's Fancy [CICD 4744 (from this recording?); recorded on 78 rpm commercial disc by Michael Coleman, fiddle, as O'Rourke's (the first tune in a selection); The Wild Irishman (title used by Coleman for the second tune in the selection; often used for this tune and possibly Coleman's intended title for this tune)], The Galtee [The Galtee Ranger / The Galtee Rangers], Bean a' Ti ar Lar [The Woman of the House]
8. Single Jigs / Slides, Jig: Tom Billy's Fancy [Johnny Mick Dinny's (JOLSL, # 95)], Cailleach an Airgid (mi-cheart) [CICD 1775 (from this recording?); The Cat in the Corner (JOLSL, # 348)], The Humours of Kilkenny / Cailleach an Airgid [CICD 4744 (from this recording?); The Hag with the Money]
9. Single Jigs / Slides: The Dark Girl in Blue [Denis Murphy's Slide], Across the Road [Paddy Cronin's (JOLSL, # 75)]
10. Reel: The Doon Reel [The Chorus Reel], Pepper and Salt [Tansey's Favourite; CRE 3, # 136]
11. Hornpipes: Cronin's Hornpipe [JOLSL, # 171], The Brittania Hornpipe [CICD 6077 (not from this recording)], The Fisherman [Fisher's Hornpipe]
12. Jig: Down the Meadows [Related to Malowney's Wife (DMI, # 11)], Tell Her I Am [For another performance of this tune, see track A6]
13. Reels: The Dairy Maid, The Morning Star
14. Reels: The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Untitled [In BB's short-list titled 'Broom (wrongly); Wellington's Reel (CRE 3, # 110); closely related to Sheehan's Reel (DMI)]
15. Air: The Lament for O'Donnell
16. Set Dance: The Jockey to the Fair
17. Hornpipes: Byrne's Hornpipe, Untitled
18. Single Jigs, Slides: The Quarry Cross [The Dingle Regatta, in the version played by Sliabh Luachra musicians], Untitled [Barrack Hill (DMI, # 410)], Pucan [CICD 1415 (untitled; not from this track on this recording); The Worn Torn Petticoat; Quarry Cross; The Leprechaun; for another performance of this tune, see track A4]
19. Reels: The Boyne Hunt, The Flogging Reel
20. Jigs: The Maid of the Rushes [The Queen of the Rushes], Nora Crionna [Stated to be (Patsy) Touhey's version; DMWC, # 152]
21. Reel: My Love is in America [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Casey, Bobby, Clare, fiddle solo A1–3;
Clancy, Willie, Clare, pipes solo A4–6;
pipes in instrumental group A7?;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group A7;
Russell, Micho, Clare, flute in duet A8?;
flute solo A10;
whistle solo A11;
whistle in duet A14;
Unidentified performer, lilting in duet A8;
lilting solo A9;
Unidentified performer, concertina solo A12–13, 15;
concertina in duet A14;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A16–17;
Unidentified performer, singing in Irish with lilting A18;
speech in English A18;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A18;
Unidentified performer, flute solo A19

Running Order:
1. Hornpipes: Untitled [Murphy's Hornpipe], Untitled [The Derry Hornpipe / The Londonderry Hornpipe]
2. Jigs: Untitled [The Rambling Pitchfork], Untitled [The Mist in the Meadow; Jimmy O'Brien's Jig]
3. Reels: Untitled [Rakish Paddy; 4-part version recorded on 78rpm disc by James Morrison, fiddle], Untitled [The Wheels of the World] [This selection was recorded by James Morrison]
4. Reels: Untitled [The Copperplate], Untitled [Rakish Paddy]
5. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Plains of Boyle]
6. Jig: Untitled [Garrett Barry's Jig]
7. Reel: Untitled [The Heather Breeze], Untitled [Miss McLeod's Reel]
8. Jig: Untitled [The Piper's Chair]
9. Jig: Untitled [The Piper's Chair]
10. Jig: Donall na Greine [CICD 756, 757, 758, 759, 760.11 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 10 (from MR); Ceol III iv, p 99; Donnybrook Fair / The Joy of My Life (version of? DMI, # 79)]
11. Reel: Untitled [Boil the Breakfast Early]
12. Reel: Untitled [Gorman's Reel]
13. Jig: Untitled [Version of Kitty's Rambles / The Rambles of Kitty]
14. Reel: Untitled [The Heather Breeze]
15. Reel: Untitled [The Peeler's Jacket]
16. Reel: Untitled [The Bag of Potatoes; The Bag of Spuds (version of)]
17. Jig: Untitled
18. Song, Speech: Untitled [A mixture of singing and lilting], Untitled
19. Reels: Untitled [The Maids of Mount Cisco], Untitled [The Hunter's Purse] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Russell, Micho, Clare, tin whistle A1–11, 13–26;
speech in English A12 and throughout;
Breathnach, Breandán, tin whistle, occasionally;
speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Reel: Farewell to Connacht [CICD 3041.12 (from this recording); 3041.11 (not from this recording)]
2. Reel: Carty's Reel / Cassidy's Reel [CICD 4684.11–.12 (from this recording); 4684.13, 4978–.12 (none from this recording); partly composed by MR; commonly known as Micho Russell's; as Carty's Reel from MR in CRE 2, # 294]
3. Jig: The Humours of Bantry [CICD 1194.11 (from this recording; DMI, # 13)]
4. Jig: Jimmy O'Brien's Jig [CICD 1860.11 (from this recording) / The Maid in the Meadows [CICD 1866–7 (not from this recording)]
5. Jig: The Frieze Breeches / La Sin' Seain / Trom La [CICD 1492.11–.13 (all from this recording); 1486, 1487, 1488, 1490 (none from this recording); standard version of the tune; for MR's 'old' version see the next track.]
6. Jig: Frieze Breeches (the old way) [CICD 954.11 (from this recording); as MR heard it played on concertina and jew's harp; for MR's 'standard' version of the tune, see the previous track.]
7. Jig: The Chorus Jig / The Kilfenora Jig [CICD 2218.11–.12 (from this recording)]
8. Jig: Is Fearr Paidir na Port [CICD 1713.11 (from this recording); MR explains that this tune is played after The Chorus Jig / The Kilfenora Jig (see previous track) and is sometimes regarded as part of it.]
9. Cudreels / Cudrils / Quadrille Tunes / [Jigs / Slides]: She Hadn't the Knack She Thought She Had [CICD 1470.12 (from this recording); 1470.11 (not from this recording)], The Cumann na mBan Are Dead and Gone [CICD 1968.13 (from this recording); 1968.11–.12 (none from this recording); one of 2 tunes that MR assigns this name to.]
10. Speech, Set Dance: Untitled [Patrick Killoughrey, dancer; confusion about parts of the tune that follows], The Retreat [CICD 6528, 6529, 6530 (all from this recording? Part of the tune replayed separately {card 6530?}); 6531, 6532 (none from this recording); Bonaparte's Retreat]
11. Set Dance: Rodney's Glory [CICD 6527 (from this recording)]
12. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the music on track 13, mainly topics related to dancing, including: the travelling dancing master and fiddle player Hennessy (trained local people to dance the jig, reel and hornpipe; first taught the rising step in the jig, then the side-step for the reel; was active in the 1920s and '30s; taught MR's father; {MR himself saw H.}; taught pupils individually and charged sixpence per step, then thought very expensive; used to stay and teach in Michael Flanagan's house; would stay for one to two months at a time; when the lessons were over, sets would be danced in Flanagan's house); the dancing master Stack (from Ballycotton, Co Kerry); the dancer Paddy Moloney (danced in knickerbockers; danced Sagart na mBuataisi {The Priest in his Boots} as a solo dance); dancers in the Aran Islands (made up their own steps; when dancing a set would make the figures very long); Mairtin O Griofa, Carraroe, Co Galway, solo dancer (would make up his own steps); 'single' dancing (i.e. solo dancing by one man); a girl from Belgium performed what she called 'nature dancing' at the festival in Lisdoonvarna to the tune selection in track 13 (BB enquires if she was still dressed); Father Pat Ahearn (Siamsa Tire) arranged this tune set for the Fleadh Nua; MR offers to demonstrate a double batter with heel and toe in reel or quick hornpipe time.]
13. Air / Slow March, Slip Jig, Reel, Air: The South Wind [not in CICD], The Foxhunter's Jig / Nead na Lachan sa mButa [CICD 272.11 (from this recording); MR's name in Irish from Donal Standun (banjo, Spiddal, Co Galway); BB says that Willie Clancy's tune The Humours of Derrykissane is a version of this], The Foxhunter's Reel [CICD 2898.11 (from this recording; transcribed only in part); BB says that Patrick Kelly (fiddle) was the first person he heard playing this, and that Sean Keane (fiddle, The Chieftains) had popularised it], The South Wind [as played earlier in this track]
14. Reel: The Green Fields of America / Molly Branagan (Molly Brannigan?) [CICD 4754.11 (from this recording); 4749 (not from this recording); DMI, # 523]
15. Reel: Rakish Paddy [CICD 6015.11 (from this recording); 3108, 3109, 3110 (not from this recording); DMI, # 749; CRE, # 145]
16. Reel: The Blackhaired Lass / The Blackhaired Girl / Cailin na Gruaige Duibhe [CICD 4230.12 (from this recording), 4230.13, 4239 (not from this recording)]
17. Reel: Untitled [CICD 4363.11 (from this recording); 4363.12, 3098 (not from this recording); played by Johnny Byrt, a travelling carpenter from Liscannor; CRE 2, # 175 (from MR)]
18. Reel: Patsy Campbell's Reel [CICD 3778.11 (where this recording is referenced); 3779 (not from this recording)]
19. Reel: Drowsy Maggie (mother's version) [CICD 3896.11 (from this recording); from MR's mother, who played the concertina; for another version, which MR learned in Donegal, see the next track.]
20. Reel: Drowsy Maggie (Donegal version) [CICD 3896.12–.13 (from this recording); version learned by MR from the Byrnes of Kilcar (fiddle players) while on a visit to Donegal.]
21. Jig: The Geese in the Bog [CICD 724.11 (from this recording); 1604, 1605 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 53 (from MR); The Lark's March]
22. Jig: The Geese in the Bog [CICD 1809.11 (from this recording); 1809 (not from this recording); not the same tune as on previous track; minor key, tonic note A; for a version of this tune with tonic note B, see the next track]
23. Jig: The Geese in the Bog [CICD 1809.12 (from this recording); 1809.13–.14 (not from this recording); not the same tune as that at track 21; minor key, tonic note B; for a version of this tune with tonic note A, see the previous track]
24. Reel, Speech: Upstairs in a Tent [CICD 4444.12 (where this recording is referenced); 4445, 4446 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 190 (from MR)], Untitled [about Jimmy Mulqueeny (fiddle), who supplied the name for this tune. From BB's comments re 'Jimmy Mucai' it looks as if he had CICD card 4446 card in front of him when talking to MR here.]
25. Jigs / Single Jigs / Slides: Mickey Callaghan's Slide [CICD 2325.11 (from this recording), 2323.11 (not from this recording)], The Clare Jig [CICD 2364.13–.14 (from this recording); 1162.11–.12, 2364.11–.12, 2364.15 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 71 (untitled, from MR)]
26. Speech: Untitled [Speech to introduce the reel The Boy in the Gap (the old way), but tape runs out before tune gets under way.] [END OF BAND ONE]