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Air: The Bright Lady

Clancy, Willie, Clare

Speech with Music: Untitled [Willie Clancy's background in music; mother played concertina; began playing the whistle at the age of five; was over 20 when he began to play the pipes; got first set of pipes from Felix Doran; the Moloney brothers, pipemakers in Co Clare; Garrett Barry used to send to a place called Toin an Bhothair, in Co Clare, to get reeds made; Clancy was helped in learning the pipes by a local musician, Hugh Curtin; the components of a practice set; fingering technique on the chanter versus that on the whistle; is it an advantage in learning the pipes to have played the whistle?; the difficulty of unlearning bad habits; demonstration of the range of the chanter – two full octaves; adapting tunes to suit the pipes

Clancy, Willie - speech in English
O'Donnell, Michael - speech in English

Jigs: Untitled [The Gander in the Pratie Hole], Untitled [Bimid ag Ol is ag Pogadh na mBan]

Clancy, Willie, Clare

Speech: Untitled [The reason for the strong music tradition in Clare; Clancy's opinion of musicians in Sligo; young people in Clare taking an interest in traditional music; the accordion: a problem instrument; the difficulty of acquiring and maintaining the pipes and of learning to play them; Clancy's advice to learners on the pipes; it is best to learn when young; the slow air is the cream of the music]

Clancy, Willie
O'Donnell, Michael

Air: An Binsin Luachra

Clancy, Willie, Clare

Speech: Untitled [Dance tunes possibly being derived from slow airs; for example, the reel 'The Green Fields of America' is possibly derived from the air 'Pretty Molly Brannigan']

Clancy, Willie
O'Donnell, Michael

Air, Reel: Pretty Molly Brannigan, The Green Fields of America

Clancy, Willie, Clare

Speech: Untitled [The first tune that Clancy played on the whistle, the jig 'Father O'Flynn']

Clancy, Willie
O'Donnell, Michael

Jig: Father O'Flynn

Clancy, Willie - whistle solo

Slip Jig, Speech, Slip Jig, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [Radio interview; topics: progress that the organisation Na Piobairi Uillean has made; the acquisition of premises for the organisation; its membership; the status of pipemaking; the age profile of members; representation of women], Untitled, Untitled [Radio announcement]

Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin - speech in English
O'Donnell, Michael, Dublin - speech in English
Unidentified performers, pipes in duet