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Performers:
O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig, Kerry, fiddle solo A2–9?;
fiddle in duet A10?;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle in duet A10?

Running Order:
1. Tone signal
2. Slides: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
3. Reels: Quinn's [CRE 2, # 171], Callaghan's [The Doon Reel], Bean a' Ti ar Lar [The Woman of the House]
4. Hornpipe: Johnny Cope
5. Hornpipes: Campbell's Hornpipe [The Smoky Chimney; with extra parts, including one from 'Kitty O'Neill'?], English Hornpipe
6. Single Jigs / Slides: Sheehan's Jig, Untitled, Untitled
7. Reel: Untitled [Kiss the Maid behind the Barrel; The Maid behind the Bar; with more parts than in the standard version]
8. Reel: Untitled [First part is that of Colonel Fraser; second differs]
9. Air: Untitled [The Wounded Hussar]
10. Slides: Untitled, Untitled [Chase Me Charlie], Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Digitised and catalogue updated by Jackie Small, February 2008. Report year 2008The title of the DAT(s) was altered from the old title (DCS) to the new title (ITMA-REEL/DAT) using different numbers in order to establish consistency in the titling of DAT copies of reel-to-reel tapes, Niall Hackett, 2010DAT transferred digitally to hard drive and saved as 24 bit BWF using the DATs original sample rate. Files are stored on ITMA server. The WAV titles follow the convention of their relevant DAT copies.Imported from Reeldubs July 2013ARDI: Tracks A19–B9: see documentation for 4145-LP in CSRECS databaseTracks A19–B9 have the same contents as the commercial recording \'The Humours of Lisheen\', released by Topic Records in their LP series \'Music from Sliabh Luachra\'. That recording was later re-released on cassette by Ossian

Running Order:
1. Reels: Untitled [Dublin Porter], Untitled [The Old 'Wheels of the World'] [Several breaks in the recording]
2. Jig: Untitled [The Geese in the Bog; The Lark's March] [Several breaks in the recording]
3. Reels: Untitled [The Mountain Road], Untitled
4. Polkas: Untitled [The Knocknaboul Polka], Untitled [The Ballydesmond Polka]
5. Reels: Untitled [Boil the Breakfast Early], Untitled [Bunker Hill]
6. Air: Untitled [An Buachaill Caol Dubh / The Dark Slender Boy]
7. Reels: Untitled [The Crooked Road to Dublin], Untitled
8. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled
9. Jigs: Untitled [Port Sheain tSeosaimh; Old Joe's Jig], Untitled [The Leitrim Jig]
10. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled
11. Reel: Untitled [The Chicago Reel]
12. Set Dance: Untitled [Bonaparte's Retreat]
13. Jigs: Untitled [Connie the Soldier], Untitled [Port Chuilinn Ui Chaoimh / The Cullen Jig; The Humours of Glin (related tune)]
14. Song Air / Set Dance[?]: Untitled [The Palatine's Daughter / The Garden of Daisies]
15. Hornpipe: Untitled [Flee as a Bird (as recorded on commercial 78rpm disc by James Morrison, fiddle)]
16. Jig: Untitled [Cherish the Ladies]
17. Hornpipe: Untitled [Father Dollard's Hornpipe]
18. Reels: Untitled [The Old Bush], Untitled [Within a Mile of Dublin]
19. Jigs: Untitled [The Humours of Lisheen; The Thrush in the Straw], Untitled [Art O'Keefe's / Art O'Keeffe's] [HL / MSL, side A, track 1]
20. Reels: Untitled [Tap the Barrel], Untitled [Jenny Tie the Bonnet / Jenny Tie Your Bonnet / Tie the Bonnet] [HL / MSL, side A, track 2]
21. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Frisco Hornpipe] [HL / MSL, side A, track 3]
22. Jig / Slide: Untitled [Biddy Crowley's Ball; Mo Ghrasa ar Maidin / My Love in the Morning] [HL / MSL, side A, track 4]
23. Air, Slide: Untitled [The Bold Trainor O / The Bold Trainer O; The Green Linnet], Untitled [Denis Murphy's Slide; Padraig O'Keeffe's Slide] [HL / MSL, side A, track 5]
24. Polkas: Untitled [The Blue Riband], Untitled [Up and Away] [HL / MSL, side A, track 6]
25. Jig: Untitled [Cailin an Ti Mhoir; The Housekeeper] [HL / MSL, side A, track 7]
26. Polka: Untitled [Tom Sullivan's Polka] [HL / MSL, side A, track 8]
27. Hornpipes: Untitled [Freddy Kimmel's Hornpipe], Untitled [The Home Brew; The Wicklow Hornpipe] [HL / MSL, side A, track 9]
28. Polka: Untitled [Padraig O'Keefe's / Padraig O'Keeffe's] [HL / MSL, side B, track 1]
29. Hornpipe: Untitled [Poll Ha'penny / Poll Ha'penny] [HL / MSL, side B, track 2]
30. Jigs: Untitled [John Mahinney's No 2], Untitled [The Ducks and the Oats; The Tenpenny Bit (related tune?)] [HL / MSL, side B, track 3]
31. Polka: Untitled [I Looked East and I Looked West] [Continued on tracks B] [HL / MSL, side B, track 4]
32. Slides: Untitled, Untitled [The Worn Torn Petticoat] [Continued from tracks A] [HL / MSL, side B, track 5]
33. Air: Untitled [Taimse im' Chodhladh / Taimse im Chodladh] [HL / MSL, side B, track 6]
34. Slide: Untitled [Going to the Well for Water; The Kaiser] [HL / MSL, side B, track 7]
35. Polkas: Untitled [Julia Clifford's; Tarrant's], Untitled [Bill the Waiver's / Bill the Weaver's; Din Tarrant's] [HL / MSL, side B, track 8]
36. Jig / Slide / March: Untitled [Maguire's Kick] [HL / MSL, side B, track 9]
37. Hornpipe: Untitled [Johnny Cope] [HL / MSL, side B, track 10]
38. Speech, Polka: Untitled [Introduction to a polka set; identifies the musicians about to play], Untitled [John Clifford's] [HL / MSL, side B, track 11a]
39. Speech, Jig / Slide: Untitled, Behind the Bush in the Garden [Billy O'Rourke Is the Boy] [HL / MSL, side B, track 11b]
40. 9: Slide: Untitled [Going for Water (title given on commercial release); Going to the Well for Water; Scattery Island] [HL / MSL, side B, track 11c] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
McKenna, Francie, Monaghan, speech in English throughout band 1;
fiddle solo A2–8;
20–35?;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Murphy, James, Fermanagh, speech in English A9–14;
fiddle solo A10–14;
Scott, Philip, Fermanagh, speech in English A15–19;
fiddle solo A16–19;
Unidentified performers, speech in English throughout band 1;
Fitzgerald, Jim, Kerry, fiddle solo A36–43;
speech in English intermittently throughout A36–43

Running Order:
1. Speech, Untitled
2. Reels, Speech: Untitled [Jenny's Chickens (related tune)], Untitled [The Wild Irishman], Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
3. Reels: Untitled, Untitled [The Monaghan Twig (related tune)]
4. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Tune-names are given, but it is not clear what tunes they apply to], Untitled [Drowsy Maggie (related tune?)]
5. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled
6. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
7. Reel, Speech: The Emyvale Reel [For other performances of this tune, see tracks A11 & 32a], Untitled
8. Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled
9. Speech: Untitled
10. Reel, Speech: All White, Untitled
11. Reel: The Emyvale Reel [For other performances of this tune, see tracks A7 & 32a]
12. Speech: Untitled [Instructions to the performer]
13. Reel, Speech: The Glass of Beer, Untitled
14. Speech, Jig, Speech: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
15. Speech: Untitled
16. Jig: The Trip to the Cottage [The Connachtman's Rambles (related tune)]
17. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Drowsy Maggie, Untitled [Accompanied by lilting]
18. Reel, Speech: Miss Johnson, Untitled [The tune just played is stated to be like Miss McLeod's Reel]
19. Reel / Hornpipe, Speech: Dwyer's [O'Dwyer's Hornpipe in DMI], Untitled
20. Jig, Speech, Jig, Speech: Untitled [The Setting Sun], Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
21. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Steeplechase], Untitled
22. Reel: Untitled [The Galway Rambler (related tune)]
23. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled [The title 'Tear the Calico' is given, but it is not clear which tune it applies to], McGrath's, Jenny Tie Your Bottom Strings, Untitled
24. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled
25. Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled
26. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Old 'Wheels of the World'], Untitled
27. Reel: Untitled [The Chattering Magpie]
28. Speech: Untitled
29. Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled
30. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Miss Farr's Reel [The Ivy Leaf], Untitled
31. Reel: Untitled [The Swallow's Tail (related tune)]
32. Reels, Speech: Untitled [The Emyvale Reel; for other performances of this tune, see tracks A7 & 11], The Dublin Reel [Local setting of], Untitled
33. Reel: Untitled [Within a Mile of Dublin]
34. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Fermoy Lasses (related tune?)], Untitled
35. Reel: McKenna's [Miss Thornton] (clipped at end) [END OF BAND ONE]
36. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Out in the Rain [CICD 4091.13 (from this recording); The Cabin Hunter (related tune)]
37. Speech, Reel: Untitled, William O'Brien [CICD 5814.11 (from this recording)]
38. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled [About the tune to be played next], Sheehan's / Sheehas ? [CICD 5462.11 (from this recording; gives title 'Sheehas ?')], Untitled [About the tune to be played next; it was learned from a local player, Jack Costello, an ex-RIC man]
39. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Mount Collins Reel [CICD 4406.11 (from this recording); The Mountcollins Reel]
40. Speech, Jig, Speech: Untitled, The Black Stripper [CICD 1176.12 (from this recording; gives the title as 'The Black Slipper', a mistranscription); The Maid at the Well], Untitled
41. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The Merry Man into His Grave / Down the Merry Man into His Grave [CICD 1276.11 (from this recording); Down Goes the Merry Man into His Grave; Connie the Soldier]
42. Jig: Untitled [CICD 1814.13 (from this recording); The Rakes of Clonmel]
43. Reels, Speech: Untitled [CICD 3901.11 (from this recording); Drowsy Maggie (related tune); Toss the Feathers (related tune)], Untitled [CICD 4985.11 (from this recording); The Templeglantine Reel], Untitled [Where the performer comes from: Dromtrasna / Drom Treasna, Abbeyfeale, in west Limerick] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Cronin, Patrick / Cronin, Paddy, Kerry, fiddle solo throughout

Running Order:
1. Air: The Lament for O'Donnell [Caoine Ui Dhomhnaill]
2. Set Dance: The Jockey to the Fair [Log contains comment: 'Beginning Faulty. Check disc']
3. Hornpipes: Delahunty's Hornpipe [Byrne's Hornpipe], Byrne's Hornpipe [Names given in incorrect order in log?]
4. Single Jigs / Slides: The Quarry Cross [The Dingle Regatta, in the version played by Sliabh Luachra musicians], Re Bui Frolics [Barrack Hill (DMI, # 410)], The Pocan [The Pucan; The Worn Torn Petticoat; Quarry Cross; The Leprechaun; log contains comment: 'Bad thump on tape at start'] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
O'Keeffe, Patrick / O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig, Kerry, fiddle in duet A1–5;
fiddle solo A6–13;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle in duet A1–5;
Cronin, Patrick / Cronin, Paddy, Kerry, fiddle solo B1–8

Running Order:
1. Polkas: The Green Cottage Polkas (1), The Green Cottage Polkas (2), The Green Cottage Polkas (3)
2. Polkas: Untitled [As I Went out upon the Ice; for another performance of this tune, see track A3], Untitled [Campdown Races], Untitled, Untitled
3. Polkas: The Ballymacelligot Polkas (1) [As I Went out upon the Ice; for another performance of this tune, see track A2], The Ballymacelligot Polkas (2) [Related to the melody of the song 'Annie Laurie'], The Ballymacelligot Polkas (3)
4. Slides: Tom Billy's Medley (1), Tom Billy's Medley (2), Tom Billy's Medley (3) [Dingle Regatta, Sliabh Luachra version]
5. Slides: The Mountcollins Slides (1) [If I Had a Wife], The Mountcollins Slides (2) [Chase Me Charlie]
6. Jig: Gallagher's Jig [Log gives information: '(NB Frieze Britches and Rolling Wave?)' and '(Seven parts)'; version of The Frieze Breeches]
7. Reels: Carrigcastle Reel [The Lass of Carracastle; George White's Favourite], Kennedy's Reel [Related to The Hare's Foot / The Hare's Paw], The Road to Newbridge [The Teetotaller]
8. Air: O'Donnell's Lament [Log gives information: 'Note on disc label – words now lost'; The Lament for O'Donnell / Caoine Ui Dhomhnaill]
9. Air: Lament for Aogan O Rathaile
10. Jigs: The Humours of Ennistymon [Coppers and Brass], I Will If I Can
11. Hornpipes: John Quinn's Favourites (1) [The Home Brew], John Quinn's Favourites (2) [An Tri is a Raon / An Tri is a Rian; The Sands]
12. Single Jigs / Slides: Untitled [The Kilcummin Slide], Untitled [If I Had a Wife, Johnny Leary's / Johnny O'Leary's], Untitled [The Worn Torn Petticoat; The Leprechaun; Quarry Cross]
13. Reels: Rolling on the Ryegrass [Rolling in the Ryegrass], The Heather Breeze, Rolling on the Ryegrass [Rolling in the Ryegrass], The Heather Breeze [CONTINUED ON TRACKS B]
14. Jigs: The Munster Jig, Tell Her I Am [CONTINUED FROM TRACKS A]
15. Reels: Duggan's Fancy / O'Rourke's, The Galtee Mountains [The Galtee Ranger / The Galtee Rangers], The Woman of the House
16. Jigs: Tom Billy's Fancy, The Humours of Kilkenny, Cailleach an Airgid
17. Single Jigs / Slides: The Dark Girl in Blue, Across the Road
18. Reels: The Doon Reel [The Chorus Reel], Pepper and Salt [Tansey's Favourite]
19. Hornpipes: Cronin's Hornpipe, The Green Banner, The Fisherman [Fisher's Hornpipe]
20. Jigs: Down the Meadows [Related to Malowney's Wife (DMI, # 11)], A Tailor I Am [Tell Her I Am] [On the same acetate disc as track B8]
21. Reels: The Dairy Maid, The Morning Star [On the same acetate disc as track B7]
22. Reels: The Wind that Shakes the Barley, The Broom [Wellington's Reel (CRE 3, # 110); closely related to Sheehan's Reel (DMI, # 490); recorded on 78rpm disc by James Morrison, fiddle] (clipped at end) [END OF BANDS ONE AND TWO]