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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:
Unidentified performer(s), accordion solo A1–2, B10, 12;
accordion in duet A5–6, 31, B11–12, 18;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English and Irish intermittently throughout;
Lyons, Paddy, Tipperary, mouth organ solo A3–4;
Ardellis Ceili Band, The, instrumental group A7–8;
Doherty, John, Donegal, fiddle solo A9–11, 12?;
Unidentified performer, concertina solo A13;
Unidentified performer(s), fiddle solo A14–15, 17, 23, 35–36, B8, 14;
fiddles in duet B9;
fiddle in duet B11–12;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle in duet A16, 30, B1?;
fiddle solo A26;
fiddle in trio A28–29, 38?;
Unidentified performer [O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig, Kerry?], fiddle in duet A16;
McHugh, Frances, Galway / Donegal, singing in English A18;
Unidentified performer, singing in Irish A19;
Unidentified performer [Droney, Jim, Clare], concertina in duet A20–21;
Unidentified performer [Droney, Chris, Clare], concertina in duet A20–21;
Unidentified performer(s), concertina solo A24, 37;
Foley, Paddy Willie, whistle solo A22;
McGann, Andy, New York, fiddle in trio A25;
Reynolds, Paddy, Longford / New York, fiddle in trio A25;
O'Sullivan, Con, Kerry, fiddle in trio A28, 38?;
Cronin, Dan, Kerry, recorder in trio A28–29, 38?;
O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig, Kerry, fiddle in trio A29;
fiddle in duet A30?, B1?;
Burke, Joe, Galway, accordion in trio A32, 34;
Collins, Kathleen, New York / Galway, fiddle in trio A32, 34;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group [Kilfenora Ceili Band, The, Clare?], B2–4, 6–7;
Tierney, Gus, Clare, fiddle in duet B5;
Unidentified performer, speech in English B15–16;
Moloney, flute solo B15, 16?;
Unidentified performer, speech in English B17;
whistle solo B17;
Unidentified performer, flute in duet B18;
Canny, Paddy, Clare, fiddle solo B19–21;
Maguire, Johnny, Cavan, speech in English intermittently throughout B23–35;
whistle solo B23, 25–30, 32–35;
Unidentified performers, speech in English intermittently throughout B23–35;
Unidentified performer, speech in English B36

Running Order:
1. Reel: O'Mahony's Fancy [Carmel Mahoney Mulhaire; composed by Martin Mulhaire]
2. Reel: Coloney Rodney
3. Speech, Polka: Untitled [Information about the performance that follows], Finnegan's Wake
4. Speech, Polka: Untitled, Untitled [Maggie in the Wood]
5. Reels: Miss Patterson [Master Crowley's], Paddy Fahy's Reel [Composed by Paddy Fahy (information supplied by music scribe)]
6. Reels: Untitled [Mary O'Neill's Fancy], Sporting Nell, Untitled (incomplete)
7. Jig: Untitled
8. Jig: Hinchy's Delight
9. Reels: The Salamanca, Rakish Paddy
10. Jig: The Frieze Breeches
11. Hornpipe: Untitled
12. Jig: The Gold Ring
13. Reel: The Fair of Ballinasloe [Ballinasloe Fair], The Chicago Reel
14. Jig: Untitled (incomplete)
15. Reel: Untitled [The Foxhunter's Reel]
16. Slip Jig: Untitled [Ride a Mile]
17. Reel: The Enchanted Lady, The Maids of Castlebar (incomplete)
18. Speech, Song: Untitled [Information that the song sung next was composed by the performer's father], Louis Darcy
19. Speech, Song: Untitled, An Carabhat
20. Jig: Untitled [The Rambles of Kitty (not the tune commonly known by this name)]
21. Jig: Untitled [Paidin O Raifeartaigh, version of]
22. Speech, Single Jig / Slide: Untitled, Untitled
23. Speech, Polka / Hornpipe: Untitled, Untitled [Described by music scribe as 'Scotch Polka'; Staten Island (hornpipe)]
24. Jig: Untitled [The Bohola Jig; Joe Cooley's Jig]
25. Reel, Speech: The Belles of Tipperary, Untitled [Information about the performers of the tune just played]
26. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Information about the next music item, including that it was recorded in June 1955], The Morning Star, Durang's [Usually played as a hornpipe (information supplied by music scribe)]
27. Speech: Untitled [Information about the next music item]
28. Single Jigs / Slides: Cucanandy [The Whistling Thief Jig; Pete Sullivan's Fancy], Mount Collins [If I Had a Wife]
29. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Information about the next music item, including that it was recorded in June 1955], The Humours of Dingle
30. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Sporting Paddy
31. Reels: The Donegal Traveller, Miss Montgomery, The Donegal Traveller
32. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Lad O'Beirne's [The Coalminer], Finbarr Dwyer's Reel [Dwyer's Reel; The Holly Bush; Matt the Thresher; composed by Finbarr Dwyer]
33. Speech: Untitled [Information about the performers in the Joe Burke Trio]
34. Jigs: Untitled [The Humours of Kesh], Races at Carrick? [Title supplied by music scribe; The Coach Road to Sligo; CRE, # 33]
35. Reel: Shaney Mulhern? [Title supplied by music scribe; Never Was Piping so Gay, composed by Ed Reavy]
36. Jig: Untitled [The Rambler]
37. Reel: Untitled
38. Single Jigs / Slides: Untitled [Merrily Kiss the Quaker], Untitled [Dingle Regatta, in the version played by Sliabh Luachra musicians] [END OF BAND ONE]
39. Jig: When the Cock Crows it is Day [Ta an Coileach ag Fogairt an Lae]
40. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Mullin's Favourite [The Green Mountain]
41. Reel: The Reel of Rio [Composed by Sean Ryan]
42. Single Jigs / Slides, Jigs: Untitled [The Clare Jig; Old Kilfenora Jig], Untitled [Dinny Mescal's], Untitled [The Kesh Jig, version of], Untitled [Gillan's Apples]
43. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Paddy Fahy's Reel [Composed by Paddy Fahy; in ray mode (information supplied by music scribe)], Never was Piping so Gay [Composed by Ed Reavy]
44. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The Gold Ring
45. Reel: The Rainy Day
46. Reel: The Spey in Spate
47. Speech, Single Jig / Jig, Polka, Set Tune / Single Jig / Slide, Polka, Single Jigs / Slides: Untitled [Brief; describing the music selection that follows as one for a quadrille], Untitled, Untitled [Related to melody 'The Bog down in the Valley'], Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, Untitled [Comin' Thro' the Rye]
48. Jig: Untitled [The Boys of Lough Gowna; composed by Paddy O'Brien]
49. Reel: The Musical Priest
50. Reel: Devanney's Goat
51. Reel: The Sailor's Cravat
52. Reel: Lord McDonald
53. Speech, Hornpipes: Untitled, Tuamgraney Castle, Ann Sheehy's / The Bunch of Ferns [The Flowing Tide]
54. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Sean Ryan's Reel [The Reel of Rio; composed by Sean Ryan], Ganley's [Coen's Memories; composed by Tommy Coen]
55. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Fahy's
56. Jig: Untitled [Composed by Sean Ryan (information supplied by music scribe); The Hidden Ireland]
57. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Andy McGann's Reel
58. Reel: The Grand Spy [The Graf Spee]
59. Jigs: Apples in Winter, The Lark in the Morning [Dougherty's; Up Sligo]
60. Speech, Hornpipe: Untitled, The Cuckoo Hornpipe (incomplete)
61. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Reynold's Reel [The Sailor's Farewell; The Belharbour Reel; stated by the music scribe to have been composed by Martin Mulhaire, but this is questionable; Reynolds' Reel]
62. Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune that follows]
63. Reel: The Mount Nugent Reel [CICD 4609 (not from this recording); Miss Langford]
64. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Information about the tune that follows], The Boys of Twenty-Five [CICD 4895 (not from this recording); Ah Surely]
65. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Information about the tune that follows], The Maid of the House [CICD 5151 (not from this recording); published in Ceol, vol III, I]
66. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Gatehouse Maid [CICD 4541 (not from this recording); stated by the music scribe to be mistitled; The Baltimore Reel; Hickey's]
67. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Golden Keyboard [Composed by Martin Mulhaire]
68. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Jack Roe [CICD 4024 (not from this recording)]
69. Speech: Untitled [Information about the musician from whom the performer got the tune that follows]
70. Reel: The Crib of Perches [CICD 3124 (not from this recording)]
71. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled [Related to The Ewe Reel?]
72. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled
73. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Morning Star (incomplete)
74. Speech: Untitled (clipped at end) [Information about placenames] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English and Irish intermittently throughout;
Keogh, Dan, Tipperary, concertina solo A1;
Scallon? Scully?, Peter, Shetland, fiddle solo A3, 6;
fiddle in duet A4–5;
Scannon? Scully?, Jimmy, Shetland, fiddle in duet A4–5;
Mac Gill-Eain, Calum, Scotland, speech in English A7;
Cronin, Hannah, Kerry, singing in English A8–9;
O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig,, Kerry, fiddle solo A10, 15–19;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle solo A11–13;
fiddle in duet A14;
O'Leary, Johnny, Kerry, accordion in duet A14;
O'Dwyer, John, fiddle solo A20;
Unidentified performer, accordion solo A21;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group A22;
O Murchu, Sean, Galway / Dublin, speech in English A22, B1;
McGuire, Seamus, Sligo, fiddle in duet B1;
Kelly, John, Clare / Dublin, fiddle in duet B2;
concertina in duet B3;
concertina solo B4;
Ryan, Joe, Clare, fiddle in duet B2–3;
Casey, Bobby, Clare / London, fiddle solo B5–10, 11–13?;
speech in English B5, 7;
Unidentified performer, lilting solo B14;
Russell, Micho, Clare, flute solo B15;
whistle solo B16;
Unidentified performer, concertina solo B17–18

Running Order:
1. Speech, Polka: Untitled [Information about the tune that follows; it was recorded in Cappawhite, Co Tipperary in December 1955], Untitled [Micho Russell used to sing a comic song to this melody]
2. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the music and speech on tracks A3–7, consisting of fiddle music from Shetland and information about it]
3. Dance Tune: Kail and Knockit Corn
4. Speech, Dance Tune: Untitled, The Merry Boys of Greenland
5. Speech, Dance Tune: Untitled, The Mason's Apron
6. Speech, Dance Tune: Untitled, Arrasdale [Stated to be similar to Cornphiopa na Mairnealach (The Sailor's Hornpipe); stated to have been composed by the performer]
7. Speech: Untitled [Information about the Shetland music just played; the performers were father (Jimmy) and son (Peter) Scully; the version of the performers' surname given here does not seem to match with that given in earlier speech links]
8. Speech, Song: Untitled [Information about the next performer and the song she sings], Two and Three Strings to my Bow (incomplete)
9. Song: The Ploughboy (incomplete)
10. Speech, Air: Untitled, The Blackbird
11. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled [Stated to be an old reel that derives from the performer's father; Anything for John Joe?; The Lisheen Reel; Did the Rum Do, Da?]
12. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The Lark in the Bog / The Geese in the Bog [The Lark's March]
13. Speech, Polka: Untitled, The Green Cottage Polka
14. Speech, Slide: Untitled, I'd Rather be Married than Left Alone
15. Speech, Air: Untitled, An Buachaillin Ban [The Dear Irish Boy]
16. Speech, Air: Untitled, O'Rahilly's Grave
17. Speech, Slides: Untitled, Untitled [Mickeen Dawley's], Untitled [If I Had a Wife]
18. Speech, Hornpipe: Untitled, The Woods of Kilkenny
19. Reel: The New-Mown Meadow [Joe Mhaire Mhicilin]
20. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Information about the last tune played and about the tune that follows], Untitled
21. Jig: Untitled
22. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Grandpa Tommy's Ceili Band; composed by Martin Mulhaire], Untitled (incomplete) [Radio announcement] [END OF BAND ONE]
23. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Radio announcement], The First Month of Summer, The Green Banks of Rossbeigh [The Green Fields of Rossbeigh]
24. Set Dances: Bonaparte's Retreat, The Ace and Deuce of Piping
25. Reels: Untitled [Reference given in documentation to this tune's appearance in print (The Smiles and Tears of Erin, in CRE, # 101); The Crooked Road to Dublin], Nellie Donovan [The Ladies Pantalettes] [This selection was recorded by Michael Coleman and J P (Pakie) Dolan, fiddles, on 78rpm commercial disc as 'The Duke of Leinster and His Wife']
26. Hornpipe: Untitled [Fisher's Hornpipe]
27. Reel: Untitled [Sporting Nell; Gorman's Reel; The Long Strand; for other performances of this tune, see tracks B6 &17]
28. Speech, Reels: Untitled, The Long Strand [Sporting Nell; Gorman's Reel; for other performances of this tune, see tracks B5 &17], The Beauty Spot
29. Speech, Hornpipes: Untitled, Scully's Hornpipe, Untitled [Murphy's Hornpipe; for another performance of this tune, see track B11a]
30. Speech, Jig: Untitled, Untitled [Bobby Casey's Jig; Scully Casey's Jig; CRE 3, # 16], Coppers and Brass [The Humours of Ennistymon]
31. Reels: Untitled [Dwyer's Reel; Finbarr Dwyer's Reel; The Holly Bush; Matt the Thresher; composed by Finbarr Dwyer], Untitled [The Dogs among the Bushes]
32. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled [Rakish Paddy; 4-part version as recorded on 78rmp disc by James Morrison, fiddle; for another performance of this version, see track B13a]
33. Hornpipes: Untitled [Murphy's Hornpipe; for another performance of this tune, see track B7b], Untitled [The Derry Hornpipe / The Londonderry Hornpipe; faded out at end]
34. Jigs: Untitled [The Rambling Pitchfork], Untitled [Jimmy O'Brien's Jig]
35. Reels: Untitled [Rakish Paddy; 4-part version as recorded on 78rmp disc by James Morrison, fiddle; for another performance of this version, see track B10], Untitled [The Wheels of the World; faded out]
36. Jig: Untitled [The Piper's Chair]
37. Jig: Untitled [Donal na Greine]
38. Reel: Untitled [Boil the Breakfast Early]
39. Reel: Untitled [Gorman's; Sporting Nell; The Long Strand; for other performances of this tune, see tracks B5 & 6]
40. Jig: Untitled (tape runs out) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle solo A1–11;
Doherty, Mickey, Donegal, fiddle solo A12;
speech in Irish A12?

Running Order:
1. Polkas: Untitled [The Ballybunnion], Untitled [The Knocknaboul (2)], Untitled [The Groves of Gneevegullia; The Top of Maol]
2. Slides: Untitled [Pete Sullivan's Fancy; Cucanandy; The Whistling Thief Jig], Untitled [If I Had a Wife], Untitled [Denis Murphy's Slide]
3. Hornpipes: Untitled [Fisher's Hornpipe; The Fisherman's Hornpipe], Untitled
4. Jigs: Untitled [Tom Billy's (1)], Untitled [Tom Billy's (2)]
5. Reels: Untitled [The Green Fields of Rossbeigh; The Kerry Reel], Untitled [Colonel Fraser], Untitled [The Mountain Lark; The Steampacket]
6. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled [The Bird in the Bush; usually played as a reel]
7. Airs: Untitled, Untitled [For another performance of this selection, see track A10]
8. Jigs: Untitled [The Rambler], Untitled [Heather and Sedge; The Castlebar Races], Untitled [Related to The Three Little Drummers?]
9. Reels: Untitled [The Girls of Farranfore; The Game of Love], Untitled [Callaghan's], Untitled [The Mountain Top, related to?]
10. Airs: Untitled, Untitled [For another performance of this selection, see track A7]
11. Hornpipes: Untitled [Cronin's Hornpipe], Untitled [Callaghan's]
12. Speech, Descriptive Piece: Untitled, An Chu agus an Ghiorria [The Hounds after the Hare; with spoken interjections (by the fiddle-player?)] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Dowd, Joe [O'Dowd, Joe], Sligo, fiddle solo A1–13;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle solo A14;
O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig, Kerry, fiddle solo A15–18

Running Order:
1. Reel: Miss Johnston [Miss Johnson]
2. Jigs: Coppers and Brass [The Humours of Ennistymon], Coleman's Jig [The Primrose Vale; The Lark on the Strand], Untitled [The Humours of Ennistymon; Coppers and Brass]
3. Hornpipes: The Stage [The Norfolk], Untitled [The Western] [This selection was recorded by Michael Coleman, fiddle, on commercial 78rpm disc]
4. Reels: Lord McDonald, Ballinasloe Fair, The Round Towers of Ballymote [Touch Me If You Dare] [The first two tunes in this selection were recorded together by Michael Coleman, fiddle, on commercial 78rpm disc]
5. Slip Jigs: Untitled [The Foxhunter's Jig], Untitled [Comb Your Hair and Curl It] [This selection was recorded by Michael Coleman, fiddle, on commercial 78rpm disc?]
6. Reels: Dowd's Favourite [O'Dowd's Favourite], The Star of Munster, Miss Johnson [The first two tunes in this selection were recorded together by Michael Coleman, fiddle, on commercial 78rpm disc?]
7. Reels: Farewell to Ireland [Farewell to Erin; CRE 1, # 139], The Cherry Tree [Farewell to Erin (DMI, # 701)], Reidy Johnson [Hand Me Down the Tackle]
8. Reel: The Lads of Leith [The Lads of Laois], Dungloe Reel [The Humours of Castlefin], The Green Banks of Rossbeigh [The Green Fields of Rossbeigh; The Kerry Reel]
9. Jig: Jackson's Jigs [1] [The Humours of Kesh], Jackson's Jigs [2] [Doherty's Fancy; The Pet of the Pipers]
10. Air: The Lakes of Sligo / Loch [?] [The Lass o' Gowrie]
11. Reel: The Boys of the Lough, Faral Gara
12. Set Dances: The King of the Fairies, The Blackbird
13. Reels: Faral Gara, Untitled [The Silver Spire], The Shaskeen
14. Polkas: The Green Cottage Polkas [1], The Green Cottage Polkas [2]
15. Air: The Old Man Rocking the Cradle [An Seanduine; includes part of the slip jig 'The Foxhunter's Jig']
16. Slides: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
17. Reels: Quinn's [CRE 2, # 171], Callaghan's, Bean a' Ti ar Lar [The Woman of the House]
18. Hornpipe: Johnny Cope [END OF TAPE]

Performers:
Unidentified performer [McConnell, Cathal, Fermanagh?], speech in English A1;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A2a;
Byrne, Anne, Dublin, singing in English with instrumental accompaniment A2b;
Bennett, John, speech in English A2c?, 2f?, 2i?, 2k?, 2m?;
Unidentified performers, singing in English with instrumental accompaniment A2d–e, 2h, 2l, 3–6;
McGuigan, Pat, harmonica in trio A2g;
McConnell, Cathal, Fermanagh, whistle in trio A2g;
Healy, James N, Cork, speech in English A2i, 2m;
singing in English with instrumental accompaniment A2j;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A7;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group A8;
Unidentified performer [Furey, Finbar, Dublin / Waterford?], pipes in duet A9;
Unidentified performer, whistle in duet A10–12;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle in duet B1, 3;
fiddle solo B2, 4–9;
speech in English A7;
Unidentified performer [O'Keeffe, Art / O'Keefe, Art, Kerry], whistle in duet B1, 3,;
Russell, Micho, Clare, whistle solo B10–18;
speech in English B10–16;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English intermittently throughout tracks B;
Doherty, John, Donegal, fiddle solo B19–30;
speech in English intermittently throughout tracks B19–30;
Unidentified performer [Kelly, John, Clare / Dublin?], speech in English and Irish B24;
Unidentified performers, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [Information about the contents of track A2]
2. a) Speech, b) Song, c) Speech, d) Song, e) Song, f) Speech, g) Instrumental Piece, h) Song, i) Speech, j) Song, k) Speech, l) Song, m) Speech: a) Untitled [Radio announcement], b) Can You Dance the Polka?, c) Untitled [Radio announcement], d) Farewell to Tarwathie, e) Untitled [Brief; one verse only], f) Untitled [Information about the song just song and the tune to be played next; gives the title of the tune], g) ? the Forty Second [Tune has the same melody as that of the song sung before it here], h) Untitled, i) Untitled [Interview; topic: sea songs and shanties], j) The Bug-A-Boo, k) Untitled, l) Untitled [All for Me Grog], m) Untitled [Radio announcement & interview] [This track is a poor-quality off-air dubbing of a (radio or TV) programme titled 'The Sea Folk', broadcast on BBC Northern Ireland]
3. Song: Untitled [Track A5 contains another copy of the recording on this track]
4. Song: Untitled [The Sisters of Mercy, composed by Leonard Cohen]
5. Song: Untitled [Preceded by short recording of piano-playing; track A3 contains another copy of the recording on this track]
6. Song: Untitled
7. Song: Untitled [William Hollander]
8. Reel: Untitled
9. Air: Untitled
10. Reel: Untitled [The Stony Step]
11. Reel: Untitled [The Belles of Tipperary]
12. Reel: Untitled (incomplete) [The Skylark] [END OF BAND ONE]
13. Reel: Untitled [Donall a' Phumpa; CRE 5, # 147; Molly on the Shore]
14. Reel: Untitled [Donal a' Clumper's Reel; CRE 2, # 295 (where it is untitled)]
15. Reels: Untitled [The Morning Star], Untitled [Rolling in the Ryegrass]
16. Reel: Untitled [Callaghan's Reel / O'Callaghan's Reel; CRE 2, # 131]
17. Reel: Untitled [Quinn's Reel; CRE 2, # 171]
18. Reels: Untitled [The Mountain Road; composed by Michael Gorman], Untitled [The Doon Reel (JOLSL, ed. Moylan, # 94); Pat Ward's Jig (a version of this tune played as a single jig by Seamus Ennis)]
19. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Glountane Reel (CICD 3453)], Untitled
20. Jig: Untitled [Cailin a' Ti Mhoir / Cailin an Ti Mhoir (CRE 2, # 40); The Housekeeper; The House Maid; The Girl from the Big House]
21. Reel: Untitled [Callaghan's; The Doon Reel; Nellie Donovan; CRE 2, # 270]
22. Reel, Speech: The Boy in the Gap, Untitled
23. Reel, Speech: The Fair-Haired Boy, Untitled
24. Reel, Speech: Patsy Campbell's Reel, Untitled
25. Reel, Speech: Upstairs in a Tent [CRE 2, 190], Untitled
26. Reel, Speech: Tadhg a Run / A Thaidhg, a Run [CRE 2, 150 (i)], Untitled
27. Reel, Speech: The Rose in the Garden [Divide the Cally Fair; Kennaw's Reel (WSGM, # 326, related tune)], Untitled
28. Jig / Slide, Speech: Untitled [The Clare Jig; CRE 2, 71], Untitled [Tune just played was used for the fifth figure of a set]
29. Jig: Untitled [The Frieze Breeches]
30. Jig: Untitled [Tatter Jack Walsh]
31. Reel: Untitled [The Dispute at the Crossroads; a version of Doctor Gilbert]
32. Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled
33. Reel, Speech: Miss Ramsey, Untitled
34. Reel, Speech: Untitled [McFarley's; a version of 'The Maids of Castlebar'], Untitled
35. Reel: The Moving Bogs of Allen [The Moving Bogs (CRE 2, # 174)]
36. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Caher Rua, Untitled
37. Slip Jig: Untitled [Hardiman the Fiddler, version of]
38. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The Old Hag at the Churn [Related to Garrett Barrett's Jig]
39. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The King of the Pipers [CRE 2, # 45]
40. Jig, Speech: Untitled [The King of the Pipers; not the same tune as in the previous track], Untitled
41. Jig: Untitled [The Rambling Pitchfork, version of]
42. Reel: Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, pipes solo A2, 4, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46–47, 49, 51, 53;
speech in English throughout;
singing in Irish A6;
singing in Irish and English A8;
singing in Scots Gaelic A10;
singing in English A12, 14, 16, 18;
whistle solo A20, 28, 30;
whistle in duet A32;
pipes in instrumental group A34;
pipes in duet A36, 38;
Folan, Stephen / O Cualain, Stiofain, Galway, dancing A20;
Mac Donnchadha, Sean / 'ac Dhonncha, Sean / Johnny Joe Pheaitsin / McDonagh, Johnny, Galway, singing in English A22;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle solo A24, 26;
speech in English A25;
fiddle in duet A32, 36, 38;
Clifford family, the, Kerry / Limerick / London, instrumental group A34

Running Order:
1. Tone signal
2. Air: Untitled [Uirchill an Chreagain / The Churchyard of Creggan]
3. Speech: Untitled ['I know that music...' Topics: SE's father, regarded as the best piper in Ireland; a tune played for SE in his cradle, The Munster Buttermilk]
4. Jig: The Munster Buttermilk
5. Speech: Untitled ['Our house was always a house of music...' Topics: SE's family background; mother sang, father played the pipes, flute, fiddle, tin whistle; pipers visited the house; Pat Ward, piper, who played a double chanter; he was killed by a bus in Drogheda; his daughter was also a good piper; other pipers, including Jim Brogan, Sharkey, Liam Andrew; father played the Highland pipes for visitors; SE played Highland pipes; another visitor, Billy Clarke, from Co Monaghan, took part in the recording 'The Pipes of Three Nations'; Colm O Lochlainn visited the Ennis household every Thursday evening; O Lochlainn learned pipes from SE's father, and in exchange taught the Irish language to SE's father; O Lochlainn took SE with him on holidays in Connemara; SE learned his first song, An Droighnean Donn, in Rosmuc, in Connemara]
6. Song: An Droighnean Donn
7. Speech: Untitled ['Now, I can never thank Colm O Lochlainn enough...' Topics: SE's gratitude to Colm O Lochlainn; SE roamed Ireland on a bicycle to collect music for the Irish Folklore Commission; introduction to the next song]
8. Song: Untitled [Siuil A Ruin]
9. Speech: Untitled ['I found that Connemara...' Topics: riches of Connemara as a repository of folk traditions; SE enjoyed working in Connemara and hated returning to Dublin city; SE visited the Hebrides for the Irish Folklore Commission and spent 6 months there; the song 'O Son of the Earl of the White Banners']
10. Song, Speech: O Son of the Earl of the White Banners [Mhic Iarla Nam Bratach Bana], Untitled
11. Speech: Untitled ['Since then, though, I've been to Scotland several times...' Topics: SE visited the north-east of Scotland, Aberdeenshire and Banffshire; introduction to the next song]
12. Song, Speech: The Barnyards of Delgaty, Untitled
13. Speech: Untitled ['That's one my favourites...' Topic: SE visited Winslow, in Buckinghamshire, where he collected songs from Amos Beckett]
14. Song: Untitled [I Am a Wild and Wicked Youth]
15. Speech: Untitled ['Well, I suppose all of you heard of The Croppy Boy...' Topic: the source of the next song]
16. Song: Untitled [The Herring Song / The Song of the Herring; repeated line in chorus: 'Sing aberum fane, sing abero ling']
17. Speech: Untitled ['Now, I want to let you hear something from Wales...' Topics: SE's visit to Wales; introduction to the next song, which SE heard in Fishguard]
18. Song: Untitled ['My name is Billy Williams...']
19. Speech: Untitled ['Now, all these songs remind me forcibly...' Topic: music nights in Connemara]
20. Reel with Dancing: The Copperplate Reel
21. Speech: Untitled ['I've seen some old people dancing...' Topic: information about the previous item and the next item]
22. Song, Speech: Morrissey and the Russian Sailor, Untitled ['And on this merry note...' Closing remarks at end of radio programme]
23. Speech: Untitled ['When I was in Cork the other day...' Topic: a meeting with Denis Murphy and Padraig O'Keeffe]
24. Reel: The Flowing Bowl [The Piper's Despair]
25. Speech: Untitled ['The best of Padraig's pupils...']
26. Reel: Turkey in the Straw
27. Speech: Untitled ['Thank you, Denis...' Topic: the tune 'The Mountain Road'; visiting Julia Clifford in Newcastle West; her 13-year-old son Billy plays the tin whistle for SE]
28. Reel: Kitty Gone A-Milking [Mistitled?; The Old Bush]
29. Speech: Untitled ['That's the tune he was playing...' Topic: SE teaches 'The Mountain Road' to Denis Murphy]
30. Reel: The Mountain Road
31. Speech: Untitled ['I put on the drones at the end of it...']
32. Reel: The Mountain Road
33. Speech: Untitled ['Thank you, Denis. I could see young Billy Clifford's eyes...' Topics: the Clifford family learn to play the reel 'The Mountain Road']
34. Reel: The Mountain Road
35. Speech: Untitled ['It was a long road home...' Topics: going home after a long session of music with the Clifford family; setting a clutch of eggs under a turkey; introduction to the next piece of music]
36. Jig: The Humours of Lisheen
37. Speech: Untitled ['All I can say is...']
38. Reel: The Woman of the House [End of a programme?]
39. Miscellaneous: Untitled [End-of-tape noises, including the sound of the original tape rewinding] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle solo throughout

Running Order:
1. Tone signal
2. Polkas: Untitled [The Ballybunnion], Untitled [The Knocknaboul (2)], Untitled [The Groves of Gneevegullia; The Top of Maol]
3. Single Jigs / Slides: Untitled [Pete Sullivan's Fancy; The Whistling Thief Jig; the melody of the song 'Cucanandy' is related to this tune], Untitled [If I Had a Wife], Untitled [Denis Murphy's Slide]
4. Hornpipes: Fisherman's [Fisher's Hornpipe (version of)], Byron's
5. Jigs: Padraig O'Keeffe's [Tom Billy's (1)], Tom Billy's [Tom Billy's (2)]
6. Reels: The Green Banks of Rossbeigh [The Green Fields of Rossbeigh; The Kerry Reel], Colonel Fraser, The Steampacket [The Mountain Lark]
7. Hornpipes: Corney Drew's, Two Birds in a Tree [The Bird in the Bush; usually played as a reel]
8. Airs: The Red-Haired Man's Wife, O'Rahilly's Grave [For another performance of this selection, see track A11]
9. Jigs: The House in the Glen [The Rambler], The Thrush on the Strand [Heather and Sedge; The Castlebar Races], Untitled [Related to The Three Little Drummers?]
10. Reels: Mount Collins [The Girls of Farranfore; The Game of Love], The Doon Reel [Callaghan's], Patsy McCarthy's [The Mountain Top, related to?]
11. Airs: The Red-Haired Man's Wife, O'Rahilly's Grave [For another performance of this selection, see track A8] [Information in log: 'improvement on first attempt']
12. Hornpipes: Cronin's, Callaghan's [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Cronin, Paddy, Kerry, fiddle solo throughout

Running Order:
1. Tone signal
2. Jigs: Untitled [The Munster Jig; CICD 735], Untitled [Tell Her I Am; for another performance of this tune, see track A8]
3. Reels: Untitled [Duggan's Fancy; CICD 4744; 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)], Untitled [The Galtee / The Galtee Ranger / The Galtee Rangers], Untitled [The Woman of the House, Bean a' Ti ar Lar]
4. Single Jigs / Slides, Jig: Untitled [Tom Billy's Fancy; Johnny Mick Dinny's (JOLSL, # 95)], Untitled [CICD 1775; The Cat in the Corner (JOLSL, # 348)], Untitled [The Humours of Kilkenny; Cailleach an Airgid; CICD 4744; The Hag with the Money]
5. Single Jigs / Slides: Untitled [The Dark Girl in Blue; Denis Murphy's Slide], Untitled [Across the Road; Paddy Cronin's (JOLSL, # 75)]
6. Reels: Untitled [The Doon Reel; The Chorus Reel], Untitled [Pepper and Salt; Tansey's Favourite; CRE 3, # 136]
7. Hornpipes: Untitled [Cronin's Hornpipe (JOLSL, # 171)], Untitled [The Brittania Hornpipe; CICD 6077], Untitled [The Fisherman's Hornpipe; Fisher's Hornpipe]
8. Jigs: Untitled [Down the Meadows; related to Malowney's Wife (DMI, # 11)], Untitled [Tell Her I Am; for another performance of this tune, see track A2]
9. Reels: Untitled [The Dairy Maid], Untitled [The Morning Star]
10. Reels: Untitled [The Wind that Shakes the Barley], Untitled [Wellington's Reel (CRE 3, # 110); closely related to Sheehan's Reel (DMI)]
11. Air: Untitled [The Lament for O'Donnell / Caoine Ui Dhomhnaill]
12. Set Dance: Untitled [The Jockey to the Fair]
13. Hornpipes: Untitled [Byrne's Hornpipe], Untitled
14. Single Jigs, Slides: Untitled [The Quarry Cross; The Dingle Regatta, in the version played by Sliabh Luachra musicians], Untitled [Barrack Hill (DMI, # 410)], Untitled [Pucan; CICD 1415; The Worn Torn Petticoat; Quarry Cross; The Leprechaun] (clipped at end) [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Coleman, Owen, Sligo, speech in English A2;
Unidentified performer [Ennis, Seamus, Dublin], speech in English A2–3;
O'Dowd, Joe, Sligo, speech in English A3;
fiddle solo A4–16;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle solo A17;
O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig, Kerry, fiddle solo A18

Running Order:
1. Tone signals
2. Speech: Untitled [Interview with Owen Coleman, brother of the fiddle-player Michael Coleman; anecdotes about Michael Coleman's interest in dancing and music as a child; his father was a flute-player; Michael Coleman was a good dancer; was small in stature; how Michael Coleman learned to play – was taught by Kipeen Scanlon (who used to spend periods of up to 6 weeks in the Coleman household), P J McDermott of Buninadden, John O'Dowd, Phil O'Beirne, and Jack Mc Hugh; Michael Coleman went to the USA about 1911 at the age of about 21]
3. Speech: Untitled [Interview with the fiddle-player Joe O'Dowd; his background as a fiddle-player; he began to play at 10 years of age, taught by his brother Jack; the community in which he was brought up was rich in music; his uncle John O'Dowd (who taught Michael Coleman) was regarded as a fine player; the bands that Joe O'Dowd played with in London; the tune that follows was a favourite of Jim Coleman, brother of Michael Coleman]
4. Reel: Miss Johnson's Reel
5. Jigs: Coppers and Brass [The Humours of Ennistymon], Coleman's Jig [The Primrose Vale; The Lark on the Strand], Coppers and Brass [The Humours of Ennistymon]
6. Hornpipes: The Stage Hornpipe [The Norfolk], Untitled [The Western] [This selection was recorded by Michael Coleman, fiddle, on commercial 78rpm disc]
7. Reels: Lord McDonald, Ballinasloe Fair, The Round Towers of Ballymote [Touch Me If You Dare] [The first two tunes in this selection were recorded together by Michael Coleman, fiddle, on commercial 78rpm disc]
8. Slip Jigs: Untitled [The Foxhunter's Jig], Untitled [Comb Your Hair and Curl It] [This selection was recorded by Michael Coleman, fiddle, on commercial 78rpm disc?]
9. Reels: Dowd's Favourite / O'Dowd's Favourite, The Star of Munster, Miss Johnson [The first two tunes in this selection were recorded together by Michael Coleman, fiddle, on commercial 78rpm disc?]
10. Reels: Farewell to Ireland [Farewell to Erin; CRE 1, # 139], The Cherry Tree [Farewell to Erin (DMI, # 701)], Reidy Johnson [Hand Me Down the Tackle]
11. Reel: The Lads of Leith [The Lads of Laois], Dungloe Reel [The Humours of Castlefin], The Green Banks of Rossbeigh [The Green Fields of Rossbeigh; The Kerry Reel]
12. Jigs: Jackson's Jigs [1] [The Humours of Kesh], Jackson's Jigs [2] [Doherty's Fancy; The Pet of the Pipers]
13. Air: The Lakes of Sligo / Loch [? E--h] [The Lass o' Gowrie]
14. Reels: The Boys of the Lough, Faral Gara
15. Set Dances: The King of the Fairies, The Blackbird
16. Reels: Faral Gara, Untitled [The Silver Spire], The Shaskeen
17. Polkas: The Green Cottage Polkas [1], The Green Cottage Polkas [2]
18. Air: The Old Man Rocking the Cradle [An Seanduine; includes part of the slip jig 'The Foxhunter's Jig'] [END OF BAND ONE]