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Performers:
Clancy, Willie, Clare, pipes solo A1–9

Running Order:
1. Jigs: Down the Back Lane, Sergeant Early's Jig / An Maidrin Treitheach
2. Air: The Trip over the Mountain [The Trip We Took over the Mountain]
3. Reels: The Steampacket, Rakish Paddy
4. Hornpipe: Faithful Friend [Learned from Leo Rowsome], The Plains of Boyle (faded out)
5. Reels: The Connaught Heifers [The Connacht Heifers / The Connacht Heifer; learned from John Potts], Corney's Coming [Corney is Coming]
6. Jig: The Frieze Breeches
7. Air: M'Uilleagan Dubh O / The Bold Traynor O [The Bold Trainer O / The Green Linnet] (with drop in sound level in mid-tune)
8. Reels: Bean a' Tinceara [An Bhean Tinceara], Kearney's Reel [Recorded on a commercial 78rpm disc for Gael-linn by this performer as 'Ril Mhichil Ui Cheithearnaigh', i.e. 'Michael Carney's Reel'; that recording reissued on the CD publication 'Seoltai Seidte'; The Ravelled Hank of Yarn; recorded by Carney as 'The Peeler's Jacket' (mistitled?)]
9. Slip Jig: Tiocfaidh Tu sios go Luimneach [Kitty Come down to Limerick / Will You Come down to Limerick / The Munster Gimlet] (faded up at the start)

Performers:
Clancy, Willie, Clare, pipes in duet A1–5 [?];
pipes solo A6–7;
whistle solo A8–10

Running Order:
1. Hornpipe / Single Jig: Untitled [Garrai na Saileog / Mrs Galvin's; not reissued on PWC 2; DMWC, # 85 (where it is listed as a single jig but written in 4/4 time); usually regarded as a hornpipe by musicians]
2. Slip Jig: Untitled [An Phis Fhliuch; reissued as PWC 2, track 18; The Choice Wife / O'Farrell's Welcome to Limerick]
3. Jig: Untitled [Garrett Barry's Jig; reissued as PWC 2, track 21]
4. Set Dance: Untitled [The Hunt; The Mount Phoebus Hunt; The Mount Famous Hunt]
5. Reel: Untitled [Colonel Fraser]
6. Jig: Untitled [The Frieze Breeches / I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her; reissued as PWC 2, track 6; DMWC, # 11]
7. Single Jig / Fling: Untitled [Kitty Got a Clinking Coming from the Fair; played by Willie Clancy on track 13 of the CD 'The Pipering of Willie Clancy – Volume 1' (Claddagh Records / RTE; CC32CD); noticed there as a single jig; this is a different performance here; DMWC, # 146, as 'Fling No. 1']
8. Reels: Untitled [McKenna's Reels, two reels consisting of: (a) Colonel Rodger's Favourite; (b) The Happy Days of Yore / The Happy Days of Youth. This selection was reissued as PWC 2, track 3, but this is a different performance here; the selection was recorded in the USA on a commercial 78rpm disc by John McKenna (flute) and Michael Gaffney (banjo) as 'Colonel Roger's Favorite' and 'The Happy Days of Youth']
9. Reel: Untitled [The Concert Reel (DMWC, # 9)]
10. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Galway Hornpipe; not in DMWC], Untitled [McDermott's Hornpipe; CRE 2, # 299] [The performer repeats the selection on the track, i.e. tune order is 1–2–1–2; not reissued on PWC 2] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Russell, Micho, Clare, tin whistle A2–5, 7–37, B1–29, 31;
flute B32–33;
speech in English, throughout;
singing in English A1, B12;
speech in Irish B30;
Breathnach, Breandán, Dublin, tin whistle A6, B31 and throughout;
speech in English, throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech, Song: Untitled [Name of, and words to, the hornpipe An Spealadoir / The Cuckoo's Nest; continued from previous tape (UCD 2)?], The Cuckoo's Nest
2. Hornpipe: The Plains of Boyle [CICD 6217.11 (source not given); partly transcribed only; CRE 2, # 315 (not from MR)]
3. Reel: Miss Thornton's Reel [CICD 3099.11 (from this recording)]
4. Jig: My Darling Asleep [CICD 1822.11 (from this recording; title 'The Wicklow Miners' / 'The Miners of Wicklow' given - in error?); 1822, 1822.12–.13 (not from this recording)]
5. Jig: The Rakes of Clonmel [CICD 1814.11 (from this recording); 1814.12, 1814 (not from this recording); DMI, # 149]
6. Jig, Speech: Miners of Wicklow [Not in CICD from this recording], Untitled [BB recites words sung to The Miners of Wicklow]
7. Jig: Sixpenny Money [CICD 1573.11 (from this recording?)]
8. Jig: The Guinea Gold Ring [CICD 1012–.12 (from this recording?); 3 parts played; The Gold Ring (CRE, # 47, where 4 parts are given)]
9. Jig: The Castlebar Races [CICD 795.12 (from this recording); 1672 (not from this recording); Morrison's Fancy (WSGM, # 197)]
10. Jig: The Cliffs of Moher [CICD 784.11 (from this recording?); 784.12–.15, 2113.11 (none from this recording); MR plays this tune in 2 versions, one with G as the tonic note (as here), one with A]
11. Jig: Delia McQuane and her Charlemoi / Delia McQuane and her Charlemy / Come Back, Paddy Reilly (P. French) [CICD 2091.11 (from this recording?); 2089 (not from this recording; where BB suggests that Percy French used this tune for his song Come Back, Paddy Reilly); Sweet Biddy Daly (DMI, # 278)]
12. Reel: Matt the Thresher [CICD 5359.11 (from this recording); 5359 (not from this recording)]
13. Reel: Untitled [CICD 4033.11 (from this recording); 2923, 2924–.11 (none from this recording)]
14. Jig: Willie Coleman's [CICD 1406.12 (from this recording); 1401 (not from this recording; on which title is given as Willie Cronin's – in error?); composed by Martin Wynne?]
15. Reel: The Maid that Left the County [CICD 4288.12, 4288.14 (both from this recording); 4286, 4288.11, 4288.13, 4289 (none from this recording); The Honeymoon (DMI, # 791); Lady O'Brien's Reel (Tunes of the Munster Pipers, # 96)]
16. Polka: The White Cockade [CICD 6475.11 (from this recording); CRE 2, # 115 (from MR)]
17. Reel: Come West along the Road [CICD 5502.11 (from this recording); 5502, 5505 (not from this recording); DMI, # 793]
18. Reel: Miss Monaghan [CICD 3179.12 (from this recording)]
19. Reel: The Dairy Maid / Kiss the Bride in Bed [CICD 5358.11 (from this recording); CRE 3, # 191]
20. Reel: The Humours of Tulla [CICD 3857.12 (from this recording); standard setting of the tune; CRE 3, # 135; for MR's 'old' setting, see the next track]
21. Reel: The Humours of Tulla [CICD 3726.11 (from this recording); old setting, as played by the flute-player Austin Linnane, from Ballycotton; for MR's 'standard' setting, see the previous track]
22. Reel: The Heather Breeze / The Heathery Breeze [CICD 3415.14 (from this recording); 3415.12 (where this recording is referenced); 2856.11, 2857, 3415.11, 3415.13 (none from this recording); DMI, # 779]
23. Reel: Sporting Nellie [CICD 5075.11–.12 (both from this recording); 5075.13–.16 (none from this recording); Gorman's (CICD 5075, from Mrs Crotty); Sporting Nell; CRE 3, # 194]
24. Reel: Kitty's Gone a-Milking / The Dublin Reel [CICD 5211.11 (where this recording is referenced? from this recording?); not the tune generally called The Dublin Reel; DMWC, # 31]
25. Reel, Speech: The Dublin Reel (a) [not in CICD in this version; tonic note C; local version from concertina players], The Dublin Reel (b) [CICD 3103.11, 3103.12, 3103.14 (all from this recording?); 3101, 3104.11–.12 (none from this recording); standard version (tonic note D)], Untitled [78 rpm recording by William J. Mullaly]
26. Reels: The Green Groves of Erin [CICD 2913.11 (from this recording?)], The Ivy Leaf [CICD 3622.11 (from this recording); also at track 28]
27. Reel: The Pigeon on the Gate [5239.11–.12 (both from this recording? With tonic note A); 5261.11–.12 (none from this recording; with tonic note E)]
28. Reel: The Ivy Leaf [CICD 3622.11 (from this recording); also at track 26(b)]
29. Reel: The Swallow's Tail / Howley's Swallow [CICD 5060.11 (from this recording); the version played by Corney Howley; for MR's 'standard' version, see the next track]
30. Reel: The Swallow's Tail [CICD 5060.12 (from this recording); 5062–.11 (none from this recording); for a local version played by MR, see the previous track]
31. Reel: The Silver Spear [CICD 5768.11 (from this recording); CRE, # 141]
32. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5399.11 (from this recording); 5399 (not from this recording); version of Lord McDonald?]
33. Reel: Rafferty's Reel [CICD 3317.11 (from this recording); 3316.11–.12 (not from this recording); according to BB, a version of The Rising Sun; The Old Blackthorn (version)]
34. Jig: Banish Misfortune / The Irishman's Misfortune / The Shady Groves of Peamount [CICD 1367.11–.12 (both from this recording)]
35. Jig / Quadrille Tune / Slide: Untitled [CICD 708.11 (from this recording); Rural Felicity; a four-part version was recorded by De Danann as 'Kathleen Hehir's']
36. Polka: Untitled [CICD 6506.11, 6507.12 (none from this recording)]
37. Jig: Down the Back Lane / Kitty Come Down the Meadows [CICD 1097.11 (from this recording); Bimid ag Ol] [END OF BAND ONE]
38. Jig / March: Brian Boru's March [CICD 1326.14–.15 (none from this recording)]
39. Reel: Sailing into Walpole's Marsh [Not in CICD from this recording]
40. Reel: Rolling in the Ryegrass / The Shannon Breeze [Not in CICD from this recording]
41. Reel: The Peeler's Jacket [Not in CICD from this recording]
42. Reel: The Morning Star [CICD 4489.11 (not from this recording)]
43. Reel: The Teetotaller / Old Mary Ann [Not in CICD from this recording]
44. Reel: Upstairs in a Tent [CICD 4444.12, 4445, 4446 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 190 (from MR)]
45. Jig: Come into the Town, My Lady Oh [CICD 987.11–.12 (not from this recording)]
46. Jig: Off She Goes [Not in CICD from this recording]
47. Reels: Boil the Breakfast Early [Not in CICD from this recording; DMI, # 789], Boil the Kittle Early [CICD 5498.11 (not from this recording); BB adds note: Mixture of 'Repeal of the Union' and 'Boy in the Gap'; Boil the Kettle Early]
48. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Description of the handkerchief dance / rag dance / cloth dance; danced by couples; danced to The Peeler and the Goat], The Peeler and the Goat [Not in CICD from this recording]
49. Speech, Fling, Song: Untitled [Dancing customs; the chair dance], The Keel Row [CICD 6533 (not from this recording)], The Keel Row
50. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Man in Ennistymon asks for the tune 'Bean an Ti ar Lar'], The Woman of the House / The Mistress of the House [Not in CICD from this recording; learned by MR from group from San Francisco; piping version; for the 'standard' version, see the next track]
51. Reel: The Woman of the House [Not in CICD from this recording; 'standard' version; for the piping version, see the previous track]
52. Reel: The Shaskeen [Not in CICD from this recording]
53. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; Jackie Coleman's Reel]
54. Reel: The Dunagore Reel / The Concertina Reel [CICD 5610–.12, 5769 (none from this recording); MR's mother played it on the concertina; CRE 2, # 210 and 275 (both from MR); The Concertina Reel (DMWC, # 72)]
55. Jig: The Donnybrook Jig [Not in CICD from this recording; Donnybrook Fair (DMI, # 79)]
56. Reel: The Sally Gardens [Not in CICD from this recording]
57. Reel: The Mason's Apron [Not in CICD from this recording; played the 'old' way, as played by local concertina players]
58. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; version of The Humours of Westport]
59. Reel: The Flogging Reel [Not in CICD from this recording]
60. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; The Old 'Wheels of the World' (DMWC, # 56)]
61. Reel: The Hunter's Purse / An Sceach / Maire Ni Luachra's Reel / Maire Ni Dhonaill [Not in CICD from this recording]
62. Jig: The Humours of Ennistymon / Coppers and Brass [Not in CICD from this recording]
63. Reel: The Moving Bog / Miss Wallace / The Upper Room [Not in CICD from this recording]
64. Jig: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; The Kinnegad Slashers (DMI, # 148)]
65. Speech with Music Demonstration: Untitled [BB questions MR about his technique and ornamentation; to demonstrate, MR plays the reels Jenny Picking Cockles and The Concertina Reel, and the jig Donall na Greine]
66. Reel: Bonny Kate [Not in CICD from this recording]
67. Speech, Untitled [Words in Irish to the jig Paidin O Raifeartaigh and to other tunes, including Slainte an Bristin Leathair and The Blackthorn Stick; information about MR's mother, Annie Moloney, a concertina player; words she had to The Blackthorn Stick]
68. Jig, Air: The Blackthorn Stick [CICD 1176.11 (not from this recording); The Maid at the Well (DMI, # 24)], The Blackthorn Stick / Buachaill on Eirne
69. Reel: The Fermoy Lasses [CICD 3945.11 (not from this recording); DMI, # 573]
70. Reel: Toss the Feathers (the old way) [CICD 3630.11 (not from this recording); incomplete] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Russell, Micho, Clare, whistle solo A1–12, 14–17;
speech in English A13 and throughout;
Breathnach, Breandan, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Jig: The Geese in the Bog [CICD 1604, 1605 (both from this recording?); 724.11 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 53 (from this recording); The Lark's March]
2. Music Demonstration: Untitled [MR demonstrates ornamentation for BB; tune used is that played on track 1]
3. Jig: The Geese in the Bog [CICD 1809.14 (from this recording); 1809.12–.13 (not from this recording); minor key, tonic note B; for MR's version of this tune with tonic note A, see CICD 1809 and 1809.11); not the same tune as that at track 1; this track was originally recorded at half the speed of most other tracks on this tape – perhaps as a demonstration of ornamentation]
4. Jig: Delia McQuane and her Charlemoi / Delia McQuane and her Charlemy / Come Back, Paddy Reilly (P. French) [CICD 2089 (from this recording; where BB suggests that Percy French used this tune for his song Come Back, Paddy Reilly); 2091.11 (not from this recording); Sweet Biddy Daly (DMI, # 278); the original reel-to-reel version of this track has a change of speed in mid-tune – the version here contains a preliminary edit that eliminates the speed change. The original versions of this track played at each of the speeds involved are given at tracks 16 and 17]
5. Jig: Delia McQuane and her Charlemoi / Delia McQuane and her Charlemy / Come Back, Paddy Reilly (P. French) [Repeat of tune on previous track; recorded at standard speed for this tape]
6. Reel: Matt the Thresher [CICD 5359 (from this recording); 5359.11 (not from this recording); The Holly Bush; repeated at track 12]
7. Reel: Untitled [CICD 2923 (from this recording); 2924–.11, 4033.11 (none from this recording)]
8. Jig: Willie Cronin's Jig / Willie Coleman's [CICD 1401 (from this recording; on which title is given as Willie Cronin's – error by MR?); 1406.12 (not from this recording); composed by Martin Wynne?]
9. Jig: The Rakes of Clonmel [CICD 1814 (from this recording); 1814.11–.12 (not from this recording)]
10. Polka / March: The Battle of Aughrim [CICD 6448–.12 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 118 (from MR)]
11. Music Demonstration: Untitled [MR demonstrates ornamentation for BB; tune used is the first part of the following reel: The Maid that Left the County [CICD 4286, 4288.11–.14, 4289 (none from this recording); The Honeymoon (DMI, # 791); Lady O'Brien's Reel (Tunes of the Munster Pipers, # 96)]
12. Reel: Matt the Thresher [CICD 5359 (from this recording); 5359.11 (not from this recording); The Holly Bush; repeat of tune at track 6]
13. Speech: Untitled [The figures that constitute the Plain and Caledonian Sets; the Christmas figure in the Plain Set, for which a jig is played; The Boyne Water played for the last figure of the Plain Set; polka (for example, The White Cockade) played for the last figure of the Plain Set]
14. Polka, Speech: The White Cockade [CICD 6475.11 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 115 (from MR)], Untitled [Polka danced in MR's local area only as part of a set, never as a couple dance; words sung to The White Cockade]
15. Jig / Slide: The Clare Jig [CICD 1162.12 (where this recording is referenced); 1162.11, 2364.11–.15 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 71 (untitled, from MR)]
16. Jig: Delia McQuane and her Charlemoi / Delia McQuane and her Charlemy / Come Back, Paddy Reilly (P. French) [The original reel-to-reel version of this track begins at 1 7/8ips and changes to 3 3/4ips in mid-track. This track reproduces the original tape version played at 1 7/8ips. For a reproduction at 3 3/4ips, see track For an edited version of the track that eliminates the speed change, see track For tune information, see track 4]
17. Jig: Delia McQuane and her Charlemoi / Delia McQuane and her Charlemy / Come Back, Paddy Reilly (P. French) [The original reel-to-reel version of this track begins at 1 7/8ips and changes to 3 3/4ips in mid-track. This track reproduces the original tape version played at 3 3/4ips. For a reproduction in its correct speed of the section at 1 7/8ips, see track For an edited version of the track that eliminates the speed change, see track For tune information, see track 4]

Performers:
Russell, Micho, Clare, tin whistle A1–27;
singing in English A6;
whistling A21(?);
speech in English, throughout;
[unidentified performer, Joe], lilting A1–11;
speech in English A1–11;
Breathnach, Breandán, speech in English, throughout;
Munnelly, Tom, speech in English, throughout;
[unidentified performers], speech in English A1–11

Running Order:
1. Jig: Donall na Greine [CICD 756–9, 760.11 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 10; Ceol III iv, p 99; Donnybrook Fair / The Joy of my Life (version of? DMI, # 79)]
2. Reels: Sporting Nellie [CICD 5075.11 (where this recording is referenced); 5075.12–.16 (none from this recording); Gorman's (CICD 5075, from Mrs Crotty); Sporting Nell], An Bhean Tinceara [CICD 5750.11–.12 (from this recording); 2686.11, 4028–30 (none from this recording)]
3. Jig: The Four Posts of the Bed [CICD 1349.12–.13 (none from this recording), 1349.14–.15 (where this recording is referenced)]
4. Air: An Drucht Geal Ceo / The Foggy Dew [Not in CICD]
5. Jig: Come into the Town, My Lady-O [CICD 987.11–.12 (from this recording)]
6. Song, Reel: Untitled (short; unfinished), Sean sa Cheo [CICD 3976.11–.12, 5649 (none from this recording), 3976.13–.14 (where this recording is referenced)]
7. Reel: The Boy in the Gap (old version) [CICD 2920.11 (where this recording is referenced); 2920, 2921–.11 (none from this recording); distinct from the standard version of this tune, which MR also plays.]
8. Reel: Boil the Kittle Early [CICD 5498.11 from this recording; Breandan Breathnach adds note: Mixture of 'Repeal of the Union' and 'Boy in the Gap'; Boil the Kettle Early]
9. Reels: The Green Groves of Erin [CICD 2913.11 (where this recording is referenced)], The Ivy Leaf [3622.11 (where this recording is referenced)]
10. Speech, Polka: The White Cockade [words sung to the tune], The White Cockade [CICD 6475.11 (where this recording is referenced); CRE 2, # 115]
11. Polka: Untitled [CICD 6506.11 (where this recording is referenced), 6507.12 (not from this recording); repeated at track 18]
12. Jig, Speech: Sagart na mBuataisi / The Priest in his Boots [CICD 1251.11 (where this recording is referenced); 1252 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 17], Untitled [Information about the tune Sagart na mBuataisi / The Priest in his Boots]
13. Jig / Single Jig / Slide: Untitled [CICD 2323.11 (Not from this recording), 2325.11 (where this recording is referenced)]
14. Jig: The Geese in the Bog [CICD 1809.12 (where this recording is referenced); 1809–.11, 1809–.13 (none from this recording)]
15. Reel: Carty's Reel / Cassidy's Reel [CICD 4684.11–.12 (where this recording is referenced); 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]
16. Reel: Rafferty's Reel [CICD 3316.11–.12 (from this recording); 3317.11 (not from this recording; where Breandan Breathnach says it is a version of The Rising Sun); The Old Blackthorn (version)]
17. Polka: The Bog Down in the Valley [CICD 6283.11 (where this recording is referenced); 6285 (not from this recording); The British Grenadiers (title supplied by Breandan Breathnach)]
18. Polka: Untitled [CICD 6506.11 (where this recording is referenced); 6507.12 (not from this recording); repeated at track 11]
19. Reel: The Banshee / An Bhean Si [CICD 4864.11 (where this recording is referenced); 4864.12–.13, 5384.11 (none from this recording); tune is featured on the Flanagan Brothers 78 rpm disc titled 'The Flanagans Chase the Banshee']
20. Reel: The Sporting Days of Easter [CICD 3988.13 (where this recording is referenced, though reference is crossed out); 3988.11–.12, 3988.14, 3989 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 281] [END OF BAND ONE ?]
21. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5703.11 (where this recording is referenced); 5703.12 (not from this recording)]
22. Air / March, Speech: Untitled [Not in CICD], Untitled [about John White, flute player]
23. Jig / March: Brian Boru's March [CICD 1326.14–.15 (from this recording)]
24. Fling and Reel, Speech: The Keel Row [CICD 6533 (from this recording); played in fling time and then faster], Untitled [background to the tune; accompanying dance; words to the tune by MR and Breandan Breathnach]
25. Speech and Song, Dance Tune: The Verse of Vienna [background to tune, and sung version], do. [CICD 6544 (from this recording?); Father Halpin's Top Coat; Varsovienne]
26. Barn Dance / Fling, Speech: The Barn Dance / Moneymusk [CICD 6540 (from this recording?); 6538–39 (none from this recording)], Untitled [MR's reminiscences of people dancing the barn dance]
27. Jig / Dance Tune: The Handkerchief Dance [CICD 1196.12 (where this recording is referenced); 1196.11, 1197 (none from this recording); An Bothar o thuaidh go dti Arainn (from CICD 1197); CRE 2, # 65 from MR] [END OF BAND TWO]