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Reel: The Merry Blacksmith

Ennis, Seamus

Speech: Untitled [Lore about blacksmiths, including: blacksmiths are never tired; the tiredness of the blacksmith is put over on the tinker; story about holy person who wants to get a pin made for a cloak – the tinker refuses to do it, but the blacksmith agrees, and for this reason tinkers are cursed; a poet or musician should never be refused in a forge; introduction to the song that follows]

Ennis, Seamus
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin

Song: Amhran na nGaibhne [About a musician who went to a forge to borrow a spade]

Ennis, Seamus

Speech: Untitled [The richness of folklore in the Carna area in Connemara; introduction to the reel The Drunken Landlady, which SE learnt in Inis Ni, near Cloch na Ron [Roundstone], in Connemara; SE found the name for the tune in Co Cavan]

Ennis, Seamus
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin

Speech: Untitled [Topics include: how long does it take to make a piper? 7 years learning, 7 years practising, 7 years playing to become a piper; story about squabbling brothers; the test piece for pipers (the tune that follows); introduction to the next piece of music, which SE learned from his father]

Ennis, Seamus - speech in English and Irish
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin - speech in English and Irish

Reel: The Drunken Landlady

Ennis, Seamus

Speech: Untitled [Lore about competitions between musicians, which were based on repertoire; story about Henry Bohannon, who got the gift of music from the fairies – competition between him and another piper – wins the competition with The Lark's March / Mairseail na Fuiseoige]

Ennis, Seamus
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin

Jig: The Lark's March / Mairseail na Fuiseoige / The Lark in the Morning (incomplete; fades out) [END OF BAND ONE]

Ennis, Seamus, Dublin

Set Dance: A hAon is a Do na Piobaireachta / The Ace and Deuce of Piping [One of two versions of this tune that SE played; tonic note A]

Ennis, Seamus - pipes solo

Speech: Untitled [About the title of the piece of music that follows, The Shaskeen Reel; bo sheasc is a cow that is not giving milk, perhaps a barren cow; the word 'seaiscin' is the affectionate diminutive of the word 'seasc', referring to such a cow that is kept as a pet]

Ennis, Seamus
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin