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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, 14, 18–19, 23, 25, 35, 39, 37;
speech in Irish and English A2, 4, 6, 10, 12–15, 17, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32–34, 38;
singing in Irish A5, 13, 21, 31, 33;
whistle solo A29;
singing in Scots Gaelic A31;
singing in English A34, 36;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in Irish and English A2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12–13, 15, 17, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32–34, 36, 38;
singing in English A34, 36;
Mulqueen, Ann, Limerick, singing in English A9;
Nic an Bhaird, Maire, Donegal, singing in Irish A16;
Mac Donnchadha, Sean / 'ac Dhonncha, Sean / Johnny Joe Pheaitsin / McDonagh, Johnny, Galway, singing in English A27

Running Order:
1. Reel: Kelly's Reel [Tim Moloney; said in track A2 to be a version of 'The Longford Collector; short version to mark the start of the radio programme; for a full version, see track A3; start of first edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape, broadcast on 1 November 1972]
2. Speech: Untitled [Radio discussion about the previous and next items]
3. Reel: Kelly's Reel / The Longford Collector [Tim Moloney; full version of the tune at track A1]
4. Speech: Untitled [Radio discussion about the next item; topics include Oilean Dairire / Valentia Island, and the background to the song 'Amhran na Leabhar / Cuan Bheil Inse']
5. Song: Amhran na Leabhar / Cuan Bheil Inse
6. Speech: Untitled [Radio discussion about the next item]
7. Air: Amhran na Leabhar / Cuan Bheil Inse
8. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement about the next item, including mention of Denis Ryan, a member of the group 'Ryan's Fancy' in Canada]
9. Song: Dear Old Newport Town
10. Speech: Untitled [Radio discussion about the next item; topics include: Seamus Ennis's home in Jamestown, in Finglas; background to the reel 'Music at the Gate']
11. Reel: Music at the Gate / Phil the Fluter's Ball
12. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement about the previous and next items; topics include: the words of the song 'Phil the Fluter's Ball'; SE's first journey as a child to the Carna area in Connemara in 1927, when he took the train to Galway and from there the train to Maam Cross; SE collected 212 songs from Colm O Caoidheain; the song Nora Ni Choncubhair Bhain; C O C the only person who had the full version of the melody of the song]
13. Song, Speech: Nora Ni Choncubhair Bhain, Untitled [Radio announcement of the next item]
14. Speech, Air: Untitled [SE remark about the tuning of his drones (dosanna)], Nora Ni Choncubhair Bhain
15. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement about the previous and next items]
16. Song: D'Eirigh Me Maidin De Ceadaoin
17. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement about the previous and next items]
18. Jigs: Sliabh Russell, Sixpenny Money [Final piece of music in this radio programme; end of first edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape]
19. Reel: Untitled [The Swallow's Tail; short version to mark the start of the radio programme; start of second edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape, broadcast on 15 November 1972]
20. Speech: Untitled [Radio discussion about the theme of the programme: birds]
21. Song: An Londubh agus an Cheirseach
22. Speech: Untitled [Radio discussion, including quotation from the words of the songs 'An Sgeilpin Droighneach' and 'Coinnleach Glas an Fhomhair']
23. Air: Amhran na n-Ean [An Londubh agus an Cheirseach]
24. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and discussion about the previous and next items, including the background to the reel 'The Morning Thrush', composed by SE's father in 1913]
25. Reel: The Morning Thrush
26. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and discussion about the previous and next items]
27. Song: An Bonnan Bui
28. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and discussion about the previous and next items]
29. Hornpipe: Claisceadal na n-Ean [Recorded by Michael Coleman as 'The Stage Hornpipe'; published under Coleman's title in Seamus Ennis's uilleann pipes tutor 'The Master's Touch']
30. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and discussion about the previous and next items; topics include: the background to the next song, which SE learned from Annie Johnston, from the island of Barra, in Scotland]
31. Song: Amhran na hEala / The Swan Song
32. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and discussion about the previous and next items]
33. Song, Speech with Singing: Untitled [Learned from Elizabeth Cronin; the song is a conversation between two cuckoos], Untitled [Information about a version of the song in Welsh, with singing]
34. Speech with Singing: Untitled [Radio announcement and discussion about the next item, including sung verse of the song 'The Magpie's Nest', which was sung by Sarah Makem]
35. Hornpipe: Nead na Cuaiche / The Cuckoo's Nest
36. Speech with Singing: Untitled [Radio announcement and discussion about the previous and next items, including sung versions of the next tune to be played]
37. Jig: Ta an Coileach ag Fogairt an Lae / When the Cock Crows It Is Day
38. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and discussion about the previous and next items; topic: story that is the background to the next tune]
39. Jig: Mairseal na Fuiseoige / The Lark's March / The Lark in the Morning / The Geese in the Bog [Final piece of music in this radio programme; end of second edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape] [END OF BAND ONE]

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:
Murphy, Mollie / Murphy, Mrs, Cork, fiddle A1–20;
speech in English throughout tracks A1–20;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, speech in English throughout tracks A1–20;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English throughout tracks A1–20;
Moran, Thomas, whistle A21–24;
Unidentified performer [Bill Andrews ?], pipes A25–26;
Clancy, Willie, Clare, pipes A27;
whistle A27–29;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle A30;
Ni Dhonnchadha, Maire Aine, Galway, singing in Irish A31–32;
Mac Donnchadha, Sean / 'ac Dhonncha, Sean / Johnny Joe Pheaitsin / McDonagh, Johnny, Galway, singing in Irish A31;
Unidentified performers, A33;
Killoran, Paddy, USA, fiddle A34;
Unidentified music group, unidentified location B1;
Wathen, Ronnie, speech in English B1, 9, 11;
Unidentified performers, singing in an unidentified language B2–3, 5–6, 9–15;
Unidentified music group, singing in an unidentified language with percussion B4, 7–8;
Unidentified performers, speech in an unidentified language B6, 9–10, 11;
Mitchell, Pat, Dublin, pipes B16–18

Running Order:
1. Jig: The Guy and His Comrade [CICD 1036–1037 (from this recording); Morrison's Jig; track includes discussion about the tune, as do many tracks featuring the performer here]
2. Reel: The Queen of Hearts [Incomplete; first part of the tune only]
3. Jig: The Humours of Ennistymon [CICD 1514.11–1514.12 (from this recording); Coppers and Brass]
4. Jig: Untitled [CICD 2182.11 (from this recording)]
5. Jig: Stick It and Hold Her [CICD 2536.11 (from this recording)]
6. Jig, Speech: Church Hill / Kitty the Rags / I Am in Love with You [The titles 'Kitty the Rags' and 'I Am in Love with You' were supplied by Denis Murphy; Cnocan an Teampaill; this recording is probably the source for CRE 2, # 54, but CICD card is missing; Kitty the Rag, I'm in Love with You], Untitled
7. Jig: Untitled [CICD 667.12 (from this recording)]
8. Jig: Untitled [CICD 2505.11 (from this recording); Fasten the Leg in Her]
9. Jig: The Ballinamuck Jig / Jimmy O'Brien's Jig / The Maid in the Meadow [Indication in the discussion that the player might be referring to a written source]
10. Jig: The Humours of Dingle [CICD 774.11 (from this recording)]
11. Jig: Untitled [CICD 2127.12 (from this recording); Happy to Meet and Sorry to Part]
12. Jig: Untitled [CICD 864 (from this recording); The Boys of the Town]
13. Jig: The Ducks in the Oats [CICD 2483.11 (from this recording)]
14. Jig: Untitled [CICD 1165 (from this recording); Connie the Soldier]
15. Jig: The Humours of Ballinacurtha / The Humours of Ballinacintha [CICD 1626.11 (from this recording; provides both titles given here); playing of the tune is followed by discussion of the spelling of the name Ballinacurtha; however, the title 'The Humours of Ballinacurtha' might not apply to the tune played here but to 'The Maid on the Green' – see BB index PRI, card 847 + ff]
16. Reel: Untitled
17. Reel: The Top Room / The Tap Room
18. Reel, Jig: The Moving Bog (brief; incomplete), The Walls of Liscarroll / The Feather Bed Jig
19. Jig: Untitled [The Ship in Full Sail]
20. Slip Jig: The Cock in the Heath [CICD 49 (from this recording)]
21. Reel: Untitled [The Sally Gardens]
22. Hornpipe: Untitled [Chief O'Neill's Favourite]
23. Hornpipe: Untitled [Off to California]
24. Polka: Sweeney's Polka
25. Reels: Untitled [Jenny's Wedding], Untitled [Jenny Tie the Bonnet] [Dubbing from commercial 78rpm disc?]
26. Reel: Untitled [Kiss the Maid behind the Barrel; dubbing from commercial 78rpm disc?]
27. Hornpipe, Reel: Untitled (brief; incomplete) [The Sweeps], Untitled [The Shaskeen Reel] [Dubbings from commercial LPs?]
28. Jig: Untitled [The Maid on the Green; dubbing from commercial LP]
29. Reel: Untitled [The Mountain Road; dubbing from commercial LP]
30. Song, Song: Untitled ['S Ambo Eara], Untitled (brief; incomplete) [A Stor Mo Chroi] [Dubbing from commercial LP]
31. Song: Untitled [Is Deas an Buachaillin / Is Deas an Sagairtin; dubbing from commercial LP]
32. Song: Untitled [Una Bhan; dubbing from commercial LP]
33. Jigs: Untitled [The Banks of Lough Gowna; played for a short time at half speed], The Banks of Newfoundland [Dubbing from commercial recording]
34. Reel: The First Month of Spring [Dubbing from commercial recording]
35. Jigs: The Noonday Feast / John McMahon's Fancy [Dubbing from commercial recording]
36. Jigs: Untitled (brief; incomplete), The Sunny Banks [The Humours of Kesh (clipped at end)] [Dubbing from commercial recording] [END OF BAND ONE]
37. Piece with spoken commentary: Untitled [Music performance recorded at a ritual ceremony, with spoken commentary]
38. Song: Untitled
39. Song: Untitled
40. Song: Untitled
41. Song: Untitled
42. Song, Song, Speech: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
43. Songs: Untitled
44. Song: Untitled
45. Speech, Song: Untitled, Untitled
46. Song: Untitled
47. Speech, Song: Untitled, Untitled
48. Song: Untitled
49. Song: Untitled [Speed problem at end of track]
50. Song: Untitled
51. Song: Untitled
52. Reel: Untitled [The Merry Blacksmith]
53. Reels, Jig: Untitled [The Old Bush], Untitled [The Ravelled Hank of Yarn], Untitled (brief; incomplete) [Tumble the Tinker]
54. Jig: Untitled [Tumble the Tinker] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Mitchell, Pat, Dublin, speech in English A1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17;
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, pipes solo A2;
Touhey, Patsy, Galway / New York, pipes solo A4;
Carney, Michael, Mayo / New York, pipes solo A6;
Gallagher, Michael, New York, pipes in duet A8;
Clancy, Willie, Clare, pipes solo A10, 12, 14, 16;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A18;
Lawson, Brian, speech in English A19, B1;
Unidentified performers, speech in English B1;
Unidentified performer, pipes solo B2–3

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [Lecture segment]
2. Jig: Untitled [Paidin O Raifeartaigh; lecture illustration from sound recording]
3. Speech: Untitled [Lecture segment; Willie Clancy being influenced by recordings made in the USA of pipers living there, including Patsy Touhey]
4. Jigs: Untitled [The Maid on the Green], Untitled (incomplete) [Jackson's Jig]
5. Speech: Untitled [Lecture segment; the influence of Patsy Touhey and Michael Carney on Willie Clancy]
6. Reel: Untitled [The Jolly Tinker]
7. Speech: Untitled [Lecture segment]
8. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Plains of Boyle]
9. Speech: Untitled [Lecture segment]
10. Reels: The Copperplate, Rakish Paddy
11. Speech: Untitled [Lecture segment]
12. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Plains of Boyle]
13. Speech: Untitled [Lecture segment]
14. Reels: The Old Bush, Michael Carney's Reel / The Ravelled Hank of Yarn [Dubbed from a commercial 78rpm disc released by Gael-linn]
15. Speech: Untitled [Lecture segment]
16. Piece: Untitled [Nora Crionna]
17. Speech: Untitled [Lecture segment; conclusion of lecture, followed by applause]
18. Speech: Untitled [Lecture segment; topics: structure of uilleann pipes; examining 19th century chanters; lost skills; good design in old sets]
19. Speech: Untitled [Lecture segment; topics: the ear is the ultimate instrument to judge the quality of sound; sound waves; three aspects of notes: pitch, volume, and quality; the nature of pitch; the influence of the density of the air; details of the characteristics of sound waves; wave formations; etc] [Speed changes in this track were regularised by means of software facilities] [Continued on tracks B] [END OF BAND ONE]
20. Speech: Untitled [Continuation of lecture; lecture segment; topics include: technical aspects of the uilleann pipe chanter; the quality of sound of the note produced; overtones and harmonics; influence of the material from which the chanter is made; relative densities of woods used for chanters; qualities of reeds; general discussion on topics mentioned; importance of how air enters the chanter; factors affecting the regulators; controlling the air pressure for the regulators; the skills of old pipemakers; characteristics of double chanters]
21. Jig: Untitled
22. Reel: Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English and Irish A1, 3, 5–6, 8, 10, 13–14, 16–17, 19, 22, B1, 6, 9, 11–12, 14, 16, 21, 25;
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, speech in Irish A2;
pipes solo A2–5, B7–10;
O'Dowd, Dan, Dublin, pipes A7, B15;
Summers, Rory, Dublin, warpipes solo A9;
Conroy, Andy, Roscommon, pipes A11–12, B13;
Hutton, Joe, Northumbria, Northumbrian pipes solo A14–16, B2–5;
Mitchell, Pat, Dublin, pipes A5–8, B17–20;
O'Flynn, Liam Og, Kildare, pipes A20–21, B22–24

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the concert and to the first performer; the recording on this tape was made at a concert of piping in the Rupert Guinness Hall, Dublin, on 17 March 1974]
2. Speech, Air: Untitled [Remark by the performer], Cuan Bheil Inse / Valencia Harbour
3. Speech, Hornpipes: Untitled [Introduction to the next performance], The Boys of Blue Hill, Ballymanus Fair [Alexander's Hornpipe]
4. Jig: Untitled [The Gold Ring]
5. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Introduction to the next performance], O'Sullivan's [Tim Moloney], The Dublin Reel
6. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next performer]
7. Airs: Bean Dubh an Ghleanna / The Dark Woman of the Glen, Taimse im Chodhladh
8. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next performer]
9. Marches, Air, Jig, Pipe Tune, Jig: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled; Untitled; Untitled [The Peeler and the Goat]; Untitled [Breton tune? Recorded by Alan Stivell]; Untitled
10. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next performer]
11. Jig / March, Jig: The Butcher's March, Untitled [Jackson's Jig / Jackson's Bottle of Brandy / Pay the Reckoning]
12. Reel: Untitled [The Flogging Reel]
13. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next performer]
14. Speech, Air, Hornpipe, Reel: Untitled [Continuation of introduction to the next performer], Bonny North Tyne, Whinshield's Hornpipe, Hesleyside Reel
15. Hornpipes: The Glen Aln Hornpipe, Barrington Hornpipe, Rowley Burn
16. Speech, Air: Untitled [Introduction to the next performance], The Cheviot Hills
17. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next performer and performance]
18. Piece: The Humours of Glin
19. Jig / March, Piece, Jig: Mairseal Alasdruim, Gol na mBan san Ar, Cnocan an Teampaill / Church Hill
20. Speech: Untitled [Information about the previous piece, and introduction to the next performer]
21. Jigs: A Chailleach do Mharais Me, The Hurler's March / The Humours of Ballyloughlin
22. Reels: Untitled [Kiss the Maid behind the Barrel], Untitled [The Merry Blacksmith]
23. Speech: Untitled [Announcement of interval in concert]
24. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the beginning of the second half of the concert and the next performance; the recording on this tape was made at a concert of piping in the Rupert Guinness Hall, Dublin, on 17 March 1974]
25. Air, March: Sweet Hesleyside, Sidney Smith's March
26. Hornpipes: The Navvy on the Line, The Wonder
27. Tuning: Untitled [Performer tunes his pipes]
28. Air, Hornpipe: Memories, The Champion
29. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next performer]
30. Air: Nora Ni Choncubhair Bhain [White Connor's Daughter Nora]
31. Hornpipe: The Derry Hornpipe [The Londonderry Hornpipe]
32. Speech, Single Jigs, Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next performance], Ask My Father, Pat Ward's Jig, Untitled [Introduction to the next performance] [END OF BAND ONE]
33. Reel: The Flags of Dublin (clipped at start) [The introduction to this piece (on previous track) mentions that the reel 'Jenny's Welcome to Charlie' was played before this tune. For a full version of this track, see the other recording of this concert in the BB collection]
34. Speech, Strathspeys, Reels, Hornpipe, Air, Jigs: Untitled [Introduction to the next performer]; Untitled, Untitled; Untitled, Untitled, Untitled [The High Reel]; Untitled; Untitled; Untitled [Tune related to 'The Geese in the Bog'], Untitled
35. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next performer]
36. Reels: The Morning Star, Miss McLeod's Reel, Untitled [The Strawberry Blossom]
37. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next performer]
38. Air, Jig: An Buachaill Caol Dubh, Paidin O Raifeartaigh
39. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next performer]
40. Speech, Tuning: Untitled [Remark by the performer], Untitled [Tuning of his pipes by the performer]
41. Single Jig: The Old Hag in the Kiln
42. Air: The Churchyard of Creggan / Uirchill an Chreagain
43. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Remark by the performer], The Repeal of the Union
44. Speech: Untitled [Concluding remarks and introduction to the final performer]
45. Jig: The Gold Ring
46. Hornpipe: Johnny Cope
47. Reel: The Bucks of Oranmore
48. Speech: Untitled [Final announcement by presenter] [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:
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, whistle solo A2, 4, 8;
speech in English and Irish throughout;
singing in Irish A6, 13;
pipes solo A10, 12, 14, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 32;
singing in English A16–17;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English and Irish throughout

Running Order:
1. Tone Signal: Untitled
2. Reel: The Sack of Potatoes / An Mala Fatai / The Bag of Spuds [The Bag of Potatoes; short version to begin the 1st edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape; full version at track A4]
3. Speech: Untitled [Topics include: the tune at tracks A2 and A4 was learned by SE in 1941 from a man named Geoghegan, a member of the Gardai Siochana in Salthill, Galway; superstition about sowing potatoes on Good Friday; the reel just played was a favourite of the Ballinakill Ceili Band; dependency on potatoes in Connemara; fairy story relating to the potato crop during the famine, told to SE by Colm O Caoidheain, Glinsce, Connemara; story includes mention of Fionnbhara, the king of the good fairies, and the Siafra, the queen of the bad fairies]
4. Reel: The Sack of Potatoes / An Mala Fatai / The Bag of Spuds [The Bag of Potatoes; short version at track A2]
5. Speech: Untitled [Topics include: the background to the song that follows; stories about the fairy folk spiriting away cows or newly-wed women to serve their need for milk]
6. Song with Speech: Amhran na Bo Baine [Song about the spiriting away of a white cow by the fairies, with explanatory speech interjections by SE; includes mention of a 'snaidhm bua' (a charmed knot)]
7. Speech: Untitled [Topics include: snuff and its healing properties; story that is the background to the next tune]
8. Reel: The Pinch of Snuff / An Pinsin Snaoisin [End of 1st edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape]
9. Tone signal
10. Reel: Ceol na Ceartan / The Music of the Forge [The Pretty Girls of Mayo; short version to begin the 2nd edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape; full version at A12; clipped at start]
11. Speech: Untitled
12. Reel: Ceol na Ceartan / The Music of the Forge [The Pretty Girls of Mayo; short version at track A10]
13. Speech with Singing: Untitled [A poet asks a blacksmith for the loan of a spade and is refused; he responds by writing a song cursing all blacksmiths and then gets the loan of the spade; SE first heard the reel The Merry Blacksmith in 1925]
14. Speech, Reel: Untitled, An Gabha Aerach / The Merry Blacksmith
15. Speech: Untitled [About SE's home place, Baile Sheamais / Jamestown; his father and forebears lived in the Naul; ancestors came originally from Scotland; an ancestor had been a stable-boy in Scotland and had eloped with the daughter of his master and with her jewels; with those riches they bought a farm in the Naul; introduction to the next song, one that was sung by SE's grandfather only after dinner on Christmas Day]
16. Song, Speech: Untitled [First line: 'My name is McCarty, I'm a native of Trim'], Untitled [Introduction to the next song, which also was sung by SE's grandfather]
17. Song: Untitled ['Bonnie bonnie bairn']
18. Speech, Air: Untitled, Untitled [Melody of the song fragment just sung, 'Bonnie bonnie bairn']
19. Speech: Untitled [The tune that follows was learned from the Drogheda piper Pat Ward, who played a double chanter]
20. Reel: Diuc Goran / Lord Gordon [End of 2nd edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape]
21. Tone signal
22. Air: Mo Ghra-Sa an Jug Mor is e Lan / Cailin Deas Cruite na mBo [Short version to begin the 3rd and last edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape; full version at track A24]
23. Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune just played; in the old days it was banned by the clergy because a priest was delayed through listening to the song while on his way to a sick call; the song was performed by the devil in the form of a young woman milking a cow; story about Saint Patrick and the devil; the tune just played is the melody of a song sung by Cait Ni Mhuimhneachain of Beal Atha an Ghaorthaigh / Ballingeary, Co Cork; some of the words of that song]
24. Air: Mo Ghra-Sa an Jug Mor is e Lan / Cailin Deas Cruite na mBo [Short version at track A22]
25. Speech: Untitled [SE met a spalpeen / spailpin recently; introduction to the air to be played next]
26. Air: The Maid from Ballingarry / An Spailpin Fanach [The Maid of Ballingarry; said by SE to be a version of An Spailpin Fanach; the melody of a ballad in English, learned from the singing of John Connell of Baile Mhuirne]
27. Speech: Untitled [Hiring fairs in Athenry and Ballinasloe, Co Galway]
28. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The Rambling Pitchfork
29. Speech: Untitled [Seanchas / folklore from Colm O Caoidheain, Connemara; any poet or musician who wants anything from a blacksmith should get it without payment; story that is the background to that belief, connected with the song that follows]
30. Song: Untitled [About a poet who was refused a request by a blacksmith]
31. Speech: Untitled [Music connected with the forge]
32. Reel: Ceol na Ceartan / The Music of the Forge [End of 3rd edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape] [END OF BAND ONE]