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Performers:
Unidentified performers [Hunt, Michael and Tommy, Sligo?], speech in English throughout A1–18;
McDonagh, Laurence / Larry, Sligo, flute in duet A1–17;
McDonagh, Michael, Sligo, fiddle in duet A1–17;
fiddle solo A18;
Unidentified performer [Doran, Felix, Wicklow / Manchester], pipes solo A19–21

Running Order:
1. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Nicholson's [CICD 4000 (not from this recording)]
2. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Ballinafad Fancy [CICD 3104 (from this recording); The Dublin Reel, version of?]
3. Reel, Speech: Donoghue's Favourite [CICD 5429 (from this recording); The Maid of Laharc (CICD 5424, not from this recording); CRE 2, # 202 (untitled); Hughie Travers' Reel], Untitled
4. Reel, Speech: Miss Corbett [CICD 3499 (from this recording)], Untitled
5. Reel, Speech: Ganley's Reel [CICD 5951 (from this recording); The Curlews Maid (CICD 5950, not from this recording); Last Night's Fun, version of?], Untitled
6. Reel, Speech: Maggie on the Shore [CICD 2790 (from this recording)], Untitled
7. Jig, Speech: Touhey's Jig [CICD 2518 (from this recording); Mac's Fancy], Untitled
8. Jig: Reagan's Jig / Regan's Jig [Not in CICD; tape runs out during tune] [END OF BAND ONE]
9. Jig, Speech: Reagan's Jig / Regan's Jig [Continuation of previous tune], Untitled
10. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5691 (from this recording), where title 'Beal an Atha Fhada' is given on the card but crossed out; CICD 5690 (untitled; not from this recording)]
11. Reel, Speech: The Cat that Ate the Candle [CICD 3843 (from this recording); CICD 3844 (not from this recording); Miss Brady; Esther's Reel], Untitled
12. Reel, Speech: The Cup of Coffee [CICD 5890 (untitled, from this recording; incompletely transcribed); McDonagh's Reel (2), in CRE 2, # 207; The Cup of Tea, version of?], Untitled
13. Reel: Untitled (incomplete)
14. Jig, Speech: John McNiff's Favourite [CICD 2281 (from this recording); The Farewell (CICD 2280, not from this recording)], Untitled
15. Jig, Speech: Ganley's Jig [CICD 1335 (from this recording); CICD 1666 (not from this recording)], Untitled
16. Reel, Speech: Jack Fadden's Reel [CICD 2659 (from this recording); Sailing into Walpole's Marsh, version of?], Untitled
17. Reel, Speech: Parkmore Fancy [CICD 4725 (from this recording)], Untitled
18. Jig: Untitled [CICD 2063.31 (from this recording?); The Boys of Tandaragee; The Rollicking Boys around Tandaragee]
19. Reel: Untitled [Rakish Paddy]
20. Reel: Untitled [The London Lasses]
21. Reel: Untitled [Coen's Memories; composed by Tommy Coen; The Cottage in the Grove] [END OF BAND TWO]

This tape contains copies of recordings made by Radio Eireann / RTE Radio. The sound is often distorted due to over-modulation. This tape is probably a working tape made during the CICD project; it might be a highly selectively edited copy of an original supplied by Radio Eireann / RTE. Ciaran Mac Mathuna features throughout as the radio presenter.

Running order:
1. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Radio announcements, the second as voice-over], The Liffey Banks, The Shaskeen / Larry Redican, speech in English ; Michael Coleman, fiddle
2. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and interview; about pipers in New York; Patsy Touhey; Michael Carney – disabled due to an accident at a handball game; Carney's occupation; anecdote about Carney inventing titles for Miss McLeod's reel; anecdotes about James Morrison, fiddle] / Larry Redican, speech in English
3. Reel, Speech: The Humours of Westport, Untitled [Radio announcement] / Paddy Cronin, fiddle
4. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Radio announcements; information about the next tunes to be played], Mulvihill's (1) [Garrett Barry's Reel], Mulvihill's (2), Murphy's [Charlie Mulvihill's (1)] / unidentified performers, instrumental group
5. Speech with Singing, Polka: Untitled [Radio interview; words in English to the polka 'O the Breeches Full of Stitches / O the Britches Full of Stitches'; version in Irish of the song sung to that tune, sung by Sean O Croinin; singing of the version in English by Denis Murphy; both the English and Irish versions are transcribed on CICD 6313], O the Breeches Full of Stitches / O the Britches Full of Stitches [CICD 6313 (from this recording)] / Denis Murphy, speech in English, singing in English, fiddle ; Sean O Cronin, singing in Irish
6. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
7. Song with Lilting: Untitled / unidentified performer, singing in Irish
8. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
9. Reel: The Queen of May [Mistitled?; recorded by John McKenna, flute, on 78rpm disc as 'The Flowers of Redhill'] / John Joe Gardiner, fiddle
10. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement] / John Joe Gardiner, speech in English, fiddle
11. Reel: Scotch Willie / The Pigeon on the Gate
12. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement] / John Joe Gardiner, speech in English
13. Jig: Happy to Meet and Sorry to Part / McCann's Favourite [The Races of Castlebar; Castlebar Races; Heather and Sedge] / John Joe Gardiner, flute
14. Reel, Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled (incomplete), Untitled, Untitled (incomplete), Untitled [Discussion about the tune to be played next] / John Joe Gardiner, flute ; unidentified performer, lilting
15. Reel: Gardiner's Favourite [London Lasses] / John Joe Gardiner ; unidentified performer, fiddle
16. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement] / John Joe Gardiner ; unidentified performer
17. Reels: The Mountain Top, The Cailin Ban [The Longford Collector (related tune)] / John Joe Gardiner, flute ; unidentified performer
18. Jig: Untitled [The Walls of Liscarroll; Andy Hehir's Favourite] / unidentified performer [Elizabeth Crotty], concertina solo
19. Polka: An Gabhairin Bui / unidentified performer [Elizabeth Crotty], concertina solo
20. Reel: Untitled [Gorman's Reel; Sporting Nell (related tune)] / unidentified performer [Elizabeth Crotty], concertina solo [END OF BAND ONE]
21. Jig: Cathaoir an Phiobaire [The Piper's Chair] / unidentified performer [Micho Russell], flute solo
22. Reel: The Green Mountain / unidentified performer, fiddle
23. Speech, Polkas: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled (incomplete), Untitled (faded out) / Denis Murphy, fiddle ; Johnny O'Leary, accordian
24. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Radio announcement], The Dawn / Joe Cooley, accordian
25. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [The Concert Reel], Untitled [The Laurel Bush] / Kevin Henry, flute
26. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Radio announcement], Lucky in Love [Mistitled?; The Pretty Girls of Mayo; The Music of the Forge; Ceol na Ceartan], Glenallen [Mistitled?; Tansey's Favourite; CRE 3, # 136; recorded by Paddy Killoran, fiddle, on 78rpm disc] / Bobby Gardiner, accordian
27. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Radio announcement], Feargal Gara [Faral Gara] / Joe Cooley, speech in English
28. Reel: Untitled / Jack Marken [?], whistle
29. Reel, Speech: Martin Wynne's [Composed by Martin Wynne], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over] / Larry Redican, fiddle ; Andy McGann, fiddle
30. Polkas: Untitled, Untitled / Denis Murphy, fiddle ; Julia Murphy [Clifford], fiddle
31. Jigs: Untitled, Untitled / Denis Murphy, fiddle ; Julia Murphy [Clifford], fiddle
32. Reels: Untitled, Donal a' Phumpa [CICD 3941 (where this recording is referenced)] / Denis Murphy, fiddle ; Julia Murphy [Clifford], fiddle
33. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [The Sailor's Cravat (DMI, # 681)], The Green Fields of Rossbeigh [Mistitled?; The Reel of Bogey] / John Bowe, accordian
34. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Radio announcement; the performer who plays next was aged 16 when the next item was recorded in June 1964], Come Along with Me [DMI, # 337] / unidentified performer, accordian
35. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; the next performer comes from Castlefrench, near Ahascragh, Co Galway]
36. Jig: Paddy Fahy's Jig [Composed by Paddy Fahy] / Mairtin Byrnes, fiddle
37. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled (incomplete), Mairtin Byrnes, lilting and speech in English [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, pipes solo A1, 3, 7, 11, 13;
speech in Irish and English A2, 4, 6, 8–10, 12;
singing in Irish A5, 9;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in Irish and English A2, 4, 6, 8–10, 12, 14;
MacMahon, Tony, Clare / Dublin, accordion solo A15

Running Order:
1. Jig: Sixpenny Money / Airgead Realach [Short version to mark the start of the radio programme; for a full version, see track A3; start of the edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape]
2. Speech: Untitled [Radio discussion about the previous and next items; SE talks about a dream he had that featured his father]
3. Jig: Sixpenny Money / Airgead Realach [Full version of the tune at track A1]
4. Speech: Untitled [Radio discussion about Labhras O Cadhlaigh, Co Waterford; repeat of some of the material that SE presented in a recent (at that time) appearance by SE on the TV programme 'Rogha', in which SE spoke about O Cadhlaigh; background to the next song]
5. Song: Untitled [Part of a religious song sung by a woman while she did the Stations of the Cross, as remembered by Labhras O Cadhlaigh]
6. Speech: Untitled [More information about Labhras O Cadhlaigh, Co Waterford]
7. Air: Sliabh Geal gCua na Feile
8. Speech: Untitled [Topic: A song to the air of 'Sliabh Geal gCua na Feile' that was sung by Eilis Bean Ui Chroinin / Elizabeth Cronin, Baile Mhic Ire, Co Cork; song was about a local character, Pead Bui O Loinsigh, singer, piper and fife-player, who had a dispute with the local clergy because of his heavy drinking]
9. Song, Speech: Amhran Pheaid Bhui Ui Loinsigh ar an Ol, Untitled [Remarks about the song just sung]
10. Speech: Untitled [Topics: the fiddle-player Frank Cassidy, Teelin, Co Donegal; background to the next piece of music, which was played by Frank Cassidy]
11. Air: The Mother's Croon / Cronan na Mathar
12. Speech: Untitled [Radio discussion about the previous and next items; SE associates the next tune with step-dancer Helen McAllister]
13. Reel: The Donegal Reel
14. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement about an event in Dublin]
15. Reels: The Bank of Ireland, Cawley's Reel [The Dairy Maid] [This selection is a track from Tony MacMahon's solo Gael-linn LP, titled 'Tony MacMahon'] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, pipes solo A1–5

Running Order:
1. Airs: Untitled [Version of An Caisideach Ban?], Untitled [An Droighnean Donn]
2. Reels: Untitled [The First House in Connacht], Untitled [Miss Monaghan], Untitled [The First House in Connacht]
3. Jig: When the Cock Crows it is Day [Ta an Coileach ag Fogairt an Lae], Sixpenny Money [Airgead Realach]
4. Jig / Single Jig, Slip Jigs: Smash the Windows, The Drops of Brandy, The Tenpenny Piece
5. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Bantry Hornpipe], Untitled [The Tailor's Twist] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Unidentified performer [Duignan, Packie, Leitrim?], flute solo A1, 3, 5;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A2, 4;
Unidentified performer [McDonagh, Laurence / Larry, Sligo], flute solo A6–11, 31;
speech in English A6–11 and following;
flute in duet A12–28, 30;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Unidentified performer [McDonagh, Michael, Sligo], fiddle in duet A12–28, 30;
speech in English intermittently throughout;
McDonagh, Laurence / Larry, Sligo, flute in duet A32–38, 40–43, 45–53;
speech in English intermittently throughout;
flute solo A44;
McDonagh, Michael, Sligo, fiddle in duet A32–38, 40–43, 45–53;
speech in English intermittently throughout;
fiddle solo A39;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group A54;
Redican, Larry, New York, fiddle in trio A55, 57;
McGann, Andy, New York, fiddle in trio A55, 57;
Coen, Jack, Galway / New York, flute in trio A55, 57;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English A56, 58;
Cronin, Paddy, Kerry / Boston, fiddle in duet A56, 58

Running Order:
1. Jig: Untitled [The Wandering Minstrel, version of?]
2. Reel: Untitled [Jenny's Welcome to Charlie]
3. Jig: Untitled [The Connachtman's Rambles]
4. Jig: Untitled [Paidin O Raifeartaigh; version of]
5. Jig: Untitled [The Frost is All Over]
6. Reel, Speech: Maggie on the Shore [CICD 2790 (not from this recording)], Untitled
7. Reel, Speech: Untitled [CICD 5691 (where title 'Beal an Atha Fhada' is given on the card but crossed out); CICD 5690; CICD cards are not from this recording)], Untitled
8. Reel, Speech: Handsome Sally, Untitled
9. Reel, Speech: The Cat that Ate the Candle [CICD 3843 (not from this recording); CICD 3844 (not from this recording); Miss Brady; Esther's Reel], Untitled
10. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Ganley's Reel; CICD 5951 (not from this recording); The Curlews Maid (CICD 5950, not from this recording); Last Night's Fun, version of?], Untitled
11. Air, Speech: Untitled, Untitled
12. Jig: Untitled [Reagan's Jig / Regan's Jig]
13. Reel, Speech: Miss Ramsey's Reel [Recorded on 78rpm disc by Michael Coleman with Packie Dolan], Untitled
14. Reel, Speech: Miss Corbett [CICD 3499 (not from this recording)], Untitled
15. Jig: Untitled [The Boys of Tandaragee; The Rollicking Boys around Tandaragee; for a different version of this tune (but played by the same fiddle-player as here?), see CICD 2063.31]
16. Jig, Speech: Untitled [Ganley's Jig (CICD 1335, not from this recording); CICD 1666 (not from this recording)], Untitled
17. Jig, Speech: Untitled (incomplete) [Apples in Winter], Untitled
18. Reel, Speech: The Cup of Coffee [CICD 5890 (untitled; not from this recording; incompletely transcribed); McDonagh's Reel (2), in CRE 2, # 207; The Cup of Tea, version of?], Untitled
19. Reel, Speech: The Pigeon on the Gate [CICD 5230 (not from this recording; noted on card to be a 2nd version; standard version from the same musicians is at CICD 5234); CRE 2, # 250 (ii) (from the performer who plays it here)], Untitled
20. Jig, Speech: Touhey's Jig [CICD 2518 (not from this recording); Mac's Fancy], Untitled
21. Jig, Speech: Cailleach an Airgid [Not the tune generally associated with that title; Sparan Airgid na Cailli (CRE 1, # 34); The Old Woman's Purse of Money], Untitled
22. Jig: Untitled [The Killavill Jig]
23. Reel: Untitled [The Flowing Bowl]
24. Reel, Speech: Donoghue's Favourite [CICD 5429 (not from this recording); The Maid of Laharc (CICD 5424, not from this recording); CRE 2, # 202 (untitled); Hughie Travers' Reel], Untitled
25. Reel, Speech: Ballinafad Fancy [CICD 3104 (not from this recording); The Dublin Reel, version of], Untitled
26. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Dublin Reel; standard version as recorded by Michael Coleman], Untitled
27. Reel, Speech: Parkmore Fancy [CICD 4725 (not from this recording)], Untitled
28. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5740 (not from this recording)]
29. Tone Signal: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
30. Tone Signal, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Ganley's Favourite [CICD 2659 (not from this recording; gives title Jack Fadden's Reel); Sailing into Walpole's Marsh, version of?], Untitled
31. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5226 (not from this recording); The Reel of Bogie]
32. Reel, Speech: Untitled [CICD 3657 (from this recording); said on card to be 'Reddigan's' version (ref to Larry Redican?); The Reel of Bogie], Untitled
33. Reel: The Sporting Shilling [CICD 2917 (from this recording); Tie the Bonnet]
34. Reel: The Steamboat [CICD 3629 (from this recording); The Ivy Leaf, version of?]
35. Reel, Speech: Untitled [CICD 5493 (from this recording); CICD 5492 (not from this recording); Sporting Nell], Untitled
36. Reel: Untitled [CICD 3081 (from this recording)]
37. Reel: Untitled [CICD 3526 (from this recording); The Sailor on the Rock]
38. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, The Boy in the Gap [CICD 3094 (from this recording)], Untitled
39. Reel, Speech: The King of the Pipers [CICD 2779 (from this recording); related to The Mason's Apron?], Untitled
40. Slip Jig, Speech: Judy Brannigan [CICD 460 (from this recording)], Untitled
41. Single Jig, Speech: Untitled [CICD 1419 (from this recording)], Untitled [Information about the tune just played]
42. Slip Jig, Speech: The Dusty Miller [CICD 317 (from this recording)], Untitled
43. Jig, Speech: The Farewell [CICD 2280 (from this recording); John McNiff's Favourite (CICD 2281, not from this recording)], Untitled
44. Single Jig, Speech: Gort na gCeannai / Trip It Downstairs [CICD 1964, from this recording; gives title 'Gort na gCeanni' (sic); speech gives title 'Trip It Downstairs' (not clear if this applies to the tune just played or to the one that follows)], Untitled
45. Reel: Untitled [CICD 4767 (from this recording); The Limestone Rock, version of]
46. Reel: Untitled [CICD 4100 (from this recording); The Red-Haired Lass]
47. Reel, Speech: Nicholson's Favourite [CICD 4000 (from this recording)], Untitled
48. Reel, Speech: The Maid of Lahone / The Maid of Rathowen [CICD 3954–3955 (from this recording)], Untitled
49. Reel, Speech: The Teetotaller / Muldoon's / Muldoon the Solid Man, Untitled
50. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Farewell to Erin], Untitled
51. Reel: Untitled [CICD 4440 (from this recording); CICD 4441 (not from this recording); The New Policeman (CRE, # 99)]
52. Reel, Speech: The Tailor's Thimble [CICD 4106 (from this recording)], Untitled
53. Reel: Untitled [The Kerryman's Daughter; Halligan's Fancy; The Fisherman's Lilt]
54. Reel: Untitled [Walsh's Reel / Ril an Bhreathnaigh (CRE, # 70)]
55. Jig: Untitled [The Nova Scotia; The Pride of Slieve Aughty]
56. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [Rattigan's / Redican's / Tyler's], Untitled (incomplete)
57. Jig: Untitled [The Nova Scotia; The Pride of Slieve Aughty; partial repeat of track A55; on original tape at half the speed of the rest of the tape's contents, perhaps for transcription or learning purposes]
58. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [Rattigan's / Redican's / Tyler's], Untitled (incomplete)] [This track is a partial repeat of track A56; on original tape at half the speed of the rest of the tape's contents, perhaps for transcription or learning purposes] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, lecture in English [= speech in English] A1–23;
singing in Irish A2, 4–6, 14;
singing in English A8;
pipes solo A10–13, 16–18, 20, 23;
O Rochain, Muiris, Miltown Malbay, speech in Irish and English A23;
Unidentified performers, pipes solo A24;
Gallahar, Brian, Dublin, speech in English A24

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled (clipped at beginning and end) [Topic: background to the song 'Roisin Dubh']
2. Song: Roisin Dubh (short; clipped at beginning)
3. Speech: Untitled [Topic: singing styles; singing styles simpler in north of Ireland; Seamus Delargy said that that was also true of folk tales; singing styles and tales most intricate in south; style in Connemara is archaic; example melody: Cailin Deas Cruite na mBo / The Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow; Cait Ni Mhuimhneachain; explanation of song content]
4. Song: Untitled [Introduced in previous track; associated with Cait Ni Mhuimhneachain]
5. Speech, Song: Untitled [Introduction to the next song; composed by Maire Bui Ni Laoghaire, poet from near Ballingeary], Untitled
6. Speech, Song: Untitled [Topic: Labhras O Cadhla; introduction to the next song, about a woman whose husband is away from home as a soldier], Untitled
7. Speech: Untitled [Folk music as modal music; scales and modes; sings modes in tonic solfa form; anecdote about Aeolian and Hyperdorian modes]
8. Song: Untitled [Kitty from Ballinamore]
9. Speech: Untitled (incomplete) [Topic: instrumental music; Irish did not use harmony; primitively flavoured singing of Connemara; woodwind instruments carried by the Celts on their travels; these instruments derive from the shepherd's reed with which he called his flock; that reed was later developed to a bagpipe; which came first, string or reed instruments?; quotes Dryden's 'Ode to Saint Cecilia's Day'] [END OF BAND ONE]
10. Speech: Untitled [Partial repeat and continuation of topic from track 9; playing too fast; intricacies are lost if speed is too fast; illustration of playing too fast using the reel 'The Sligo Maid']
11. Reel: The Sligo Maid [Played at what the performer regards as the correct speed]
12. Speech: Untitled [Topics: learners should be aware of pulse and syncopation; emphasis; each tune should have its own nuances and expressions of feeling; bad emphasis illustrated using the jig 'The Munster Buttermilk']
13. Jig: The Munster Buttermilk [Played with correct emphasis]
14. Speech: Untitled [Instrumental music having its origins in vocal music; backgroung to the dandling song Na Ceannabhain Bhana; that song sung and then the melody played as dance tune]
15. Speech: Untitled [Earliest dance music was in triple time; varieties of triple time; common time and varieties of it]
16. Jig: Saddle the Pony [Example of triple time]
17. Speech, Slip Jig: Untitled [Slip jigs are in 9/8 time], The Rocky Road to Dublin
18. Speech, Single Jig: Untitled [Single jigs are in 12/8 time, which is related to common time], Untitled [Pat Ward's Jig]
19. Speech: Untitled [Development of instruments from primitive forms; the parts of the uilleann pipes; drones harmonise with any note on the chanter; regulators and harmony; harmony in fiddle playing is an imitation of the regulators; harmony highly developed in Donegal fiddle playing; limitations of the warpipes / Highland pipes; 4/4 time, the time signature for reels; origin of Miss McLeod's Reel]
20. Reel: Miss McLeod's Reel
21. Speech: Untitled (incomplete) [4/4 or 2/4 used as time signatures for hornpipes; the Lancashire clog dance; the hornpipe The Standing Abbey and its associations for Ennis; remarks on the revival of Irish traditional music] [END OF BAND THREE]
22. Speech: Untitled [Partial repeat and continuation of topic on previous track]
23. Hornpipe, Speech: The Standing Abbey, Untitled [Concluding remarks by lecture chairman]
24. Recording of piping class at WCSS [Teacher: Brian Gallahar] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Finnerty, Johnny, Galway, speech in English A1;
singing in English A2;
Unidentified performers, speech in English A1;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Ryan, John, Tipperary / Dublin, concertina solo A3, 5, 7, 9–10;
speech in English throughout A4–10;
concertina in duet A11;
Ryan, Eddie, Dublin, banjo in duet A11

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled
2. Song: Untitled [Young men of Tipperary and of Ireland far and near (etc); song about the McCormick brothers, who were hanged in Nenagh during the land troubles]
3. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [CICD 3438.11 (from a BB working copy of this recording); CRE 5, # 136] [For BB's working copy of the John Ryan material presented here on tracks A3–10, see 1359-ITMA-REEL]
4. Speech: Untitled [Radio interview]
5. Polka, Speech, Polkas: Untitled [CICD 6323 (from a BB working copy of this recording); CRE 5, # 85], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over], Untitled [CICD 6512 (from a BB working copy of this recording); CRE 5, # 104], Untitled [CICD 6360 (from a BB working copy of this recording); John Ryan's]
6. Speech: Untitled [About the tune just played & other tunes; with lilting]
7. Speech, Polkas: Untitled [After a brief introductory performance of the tune that follows], Untitled [CICD 6446 (from a BB working copy of this recording); CRE 5, # 96], Untitled [CICD 6457 (from a BB working copy of this recording); CRE 5, # 98]
8. Speech: Untitled
9. Speech, Quadrille Tune / Set Tune: Untitled [Radio interview], Untitled [CICD 2268.11 (from a BB working copy of this recording); The Soldier's Cloak]
10. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Radio interview, including lyrics sung to the tune just played: I'll hang my harp on a willow tree and I'm off to the wars again], Untitled [CICD 4546.11 (from a BB working copy of this recording); CICD 4546 (probably transcribed from a different copy of this recording); CRE 5, # 162]
11. Speech, Hornpipes: Untitled [Radio announcement], The Kingston [The Standing Abbey], Dunphy's [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Redican, Larry, New York, speech in English A1;
fiddle in duet A1;
McGann, Andy, New York, fiddle in duet A1;
Field, Paddy, Tipperary, concertina solo A2–6;
speech in English A3;
Keane, James, Dublin / New York, accordion in duet A7–11;
speech in English A9–11;
McKiernan, Jim, Leitrim, speech in English A12;
fiddle solo A12, 16;
fiddle in duet A15;
McHugh, Bernie, Leitrim, speech in English A13;
mouth organ solo A13;
Rahill, Jim, Leitrim, fiddle solo A14;
speech in English A15?;
fiddle in duet A15;
Partially identified performer [Fitzgerald, P, Leitrim?], fiddle in instrumental group A17;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group A17;
Strange, N, speech in English A18;
banjo mandolin solo A18;
Reilly, Frank, speech in English A19;
fiddle solo A19;
Reilly, Michael, accordion in duet A20;
Unidentified performer(s), fiddle in duet A20, B9;
Mulkere, Jack, Clare, fiddle in duet A21;
Preston, Michael, Clare, flute in duet A21;
Canny, Paddy, Clare, fiddle solo A22–24;
Shannon Star Ceili Band, The, instrumental group A25;
McCarthy, Gerry, Kerry / Manchester / New York, fiddle in duet A26;
fiddle solo B10–12;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle in duet A27–28, B20;
fiddle solo A31, B13–18, 21;
speech in English throughout B13–20;
Cooley, Seamus, Galway, flute solo A29–30, 32;
speech in English A30;
McMahon, Bobbie / Robbie, Clare, lilting solo A33;
O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig, Kerry, fiddle solo B1–8;
Ray, J, accordion solo B9;
Unidentified performer, mouth organ in duet B20

Running Order:
1. Speech, Reels: Untitled, The Providence [CICD 4023 (from this recording)], The Belles of Tipperary [CICD 3599 (from this recording)] [This track was recorded on 30 April 1962]
2. Polka: Untitled [CICD 6341 (from this recording?)]
3. Speech, Polka: Untitled, Untitled [CICD 6441 (from this recording)]
4. Polka: The Humours of Whiskey [CICD 6473 (from this recording); My Love Is but a Lassie]
5. Jig: Rory O'Moore
6. Reel: The Dublin Reel
7. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Untitled [Thady Casey's Fancy], Untitled [Lady Gordon], Untitled [Mary MacMahon]
8. Reel: The Limestone Rock, Untitled [The Humours of Loughrea]
9. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Spike Island Lasses, The Sailor on the Rock
10. Speech, Jigs: Untitled, Untitled [Father Tom's Wager], The Frieze Breeches [Do You Want Any More?; same melody as The Collier's Reel]
11. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Untitled [The Roscommon Reel], The College Grove [Sudden dip in sound level during this tune]
12. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Hobble the Botches, Peeping through the Keyhole / Faral O'Gara
13. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Plough and the Stars
14. Reel: The Reconciliation Reel [CICD 3506 (from this recording); 3433 (from ms possibly transcribed from this recording)]
15. Speech, Reels: Untitled, The Cloone Reel [The Humours of Toonagh], The Aughavas Reel [CICD 5530 (for which this recording is a partial source); CRE 5, # 145]
16. Speech, Reels: Drowsy Maggie, The Ranting Widow [The Tap Room]
17. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Untitled [The Morning Mist; composed by Paddy Kelly's?], Untitled [I'm Waiting for You] [Performers on this track are listed by BB as 'Fitz et al']
18. Speech, Reels: Eleanor Kane's Reel [The Providence], The Leinster Ladies [Anderson's Reel]
19. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Gregg's Pipes [The Leitrim version of The Bucks of Oranmore; performer is identified by BB as a blacksmith]
20. Speech, Jigs: Untitled, The House in the Glen [CICD 1352, 1353 & 1354 (none from this recording; 1352 provides title)], Untitled (incomplete)
21. Speech, Polka: Untitled [Information about this track; recording was made in Crusheen, Co Clare in 1955], The Mountain Pathway
22. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Information about the next 3 tracks; they were recorded in Crusheen, Co Clare, January 1955], Sporting Nell, Ballinasloe Fair
23. Jigs: The Luckpenny, The Cherry Tree [The Humours of Ennistymon; Coppers and Brass]
24. Hornpipe: The Cuckoo Hornpipe
25. Jig: Father Hanley's Jig [CICD 2499 (partly from this recording); The Rambler]
26. Jigs: The Housekeeper [For another version, see track B4], Cailleach an Airgid [The Hag with the Money]
27. Reels: Untitled [CICD 3036 (from this recording); Tom Billy's; The New Post Office (CRE 5, # 146); The Gleanntan Reel], The Cameronian [CICD 5372 (from this recording)] [This track was recorded on 11 June 1957]
28. Jigs: The Unfortunate Rake [Apples in Winter], Untitled [CICD 749 (from this recording); The Munster Jig]
29. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Earl's Chair
30. Speech, Jigs: Untitled, The Cockadoon Man, Sean Ryan's [The Killimor; composed by Sean Ryan]
31. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Shaskeen Reel
32. Hornpipes: Untitled [CICD 6057 (from this recording); Joe Cooley's Hornpipe; composed by Paddy O'Brien], The Friendly Visit [CICD 6126 (from this recording)
33. Reel: The Mason's Apron [END OF BAND ONE]
34. Hornpipe: Fisher's Hornpipe [CICD 6092–6093 (from this recording); 6092 gives date of recording as 3 November 1960; for another version, see track B14]
35. Air: Cath Cheim an Fhia
36. Reels: Untitled [The Game of Love; The Girls of Farranfore], The Bucks of Oranmore
37. Jigs: Untitled [The Housekeeper; for another version, see track A26], The Rambling Pitchfork
38. Slides: Untitled [Merrily Kiss the Quaker], Mickeen Dawley's [CICD 2169 (not from this recording)], Untitled [The Dark Girl in Blue; Denis Murphy's Slide], Mickeen Dawley's [Repeat of the second tune in this selection]
39. Reel: The New-Mown Meadows [CICD 2725–2726 (not from this recording?); Joe Mhaire Mhicilin], The Flowing Bowl [CICD 5748 (not from this recording); The Piper's Despair, version of]
40. Jig: Tell Her I Am
41. Air: Untitled [The Wounded Hussar]
42. Reels: The Road to Poulaphouca / Mulhaire's no. 4 [CICD 3334 (partly from this recording); Grandpa Tommy's Ceili Band; composed by Martin Mulhaire; CRE 5, # 129], The Copperplate
43. Polkas: Untitled [Egan's; Peg Ryan's], Untitled [Peggy Ryan's Fancy; The Murroe], Untitled [CICD 6353 (from this recording); Denis Doody's], Untitled [CICD 6286 & 6287 (both from this recording); The Knocknaboul Polka] [Order of the tunes in this selection is 1,2,1,2,3,4]
44. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Lad among the Spriggers / The Steeplechase [CICD 5045 (from ms; transcribed possibly from this recording; gives reference to secondary source where Denis Murphy is the performer) and 5313 (not from this recording)]
45. March / Jig: O'Sullivan's March / Painneach na nUbh
46. Speech, Jigs: Untitled, The Munster Buttermilk / The Sports of Multyfarnham, The Munster Jig
47. Speech, Hornpipe: Untitled, The Fisherman's Hornpipe [CICD 6091 (not from this recording); Fisher's Hornpipe; for another version, see track B1]
48. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Sheila's Fancy [CICD 4460 (not from this recording); The Monsignor's Blessing (related tune)]
49. Speech, Hornpipe: Untitled, Walsh's Hornpipe [CICD 6119 (from this recording; recording date given as August 1966) and 6120 (where this recording is given as a secondary source)]
50. Air: Untitled [Sweet Kingwilliamstown]
51. Air: Staker Wallace [Caoine Ui Dhomhnaill / The Lament for O'Donnell]
52. Slides, Speech: The Rathawaun [CICD 1743 (not from this recording], The Hare in the Corn [CICD 1450 (not from this recording], Untitled
53. Speech, Polkas: Untitled, Untitled [The Knocknaboul Polka # 2], Untitled [The Knocknaboul Polka # 1]
54. Slide: Untitled [Danny Ab's; played for dancing] [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:
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]