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Speech: Untitled [Reminiscences of piper and pipemaker Dan O'Dowd. Topics include: where and when (1903) D O'D was born; the Easter Rising 1916 and the surrender that followed it; story about drunken soldier who ignores warning and is shot; account of courageous sisters Ann and Eileen Cooney; D O'D joins the Fianna and then the Volunteers; the Battalion in which he served; activities during the Civil War; D O'D is captured & plays the warpipes in captivity, first in Dublin (in Mountjoy Jail), later in the Curragh; how D O'D started playing warpipes; with other formed the Connolly Band of warpipers about 1922; band is ambushed; band members; D O'D meets Leo Rowsome where LR was teaching in Chatham Row; D O'D goes to Billy Andrews for lessons on the uilleann pipes; other uilleann pipers at the time – Nugent, John Fleming, Sean Doran (an assistant in Billy Andrews's shop); Martin Burke; D O'D buys practice set from Willie Rowsome; D O'D joined Fire Brigade in 1928; had motorbike with sidecar, on which he used to carry Billy Andrews to classes that Andrews gave; D O'D married in 1933; other students of the uilleann pipes at the time; Breandan Breathnach went to Billy Andrews for piping classes in 1928; Andrews's method of teaching; Andrews very fond of slip jigs; Andrews broadcasting on the radio station 2RN – he was a very nervous performer; D O'D sells a reed for Andrews, price half-a-crown; D O'D met Seamus Ennis for the first time in the house of the pipemaker McCrone (who came from Mullingar); D O'D competed at the Mansion House with Seamus Ennis's father as adjudicator; Eddie Potts competing as an uilleann piper; D O'D sold pipes that McCrone had made for him to Johnny Doran for £5; John Clarke made a new set for D O'D; D O'D competing in pipe band competitions in Scotland; warpiping teachers, competitions and bands in Dublin; the Fintan Lalor pipe band; D O'D's friendship with members of the Potts family; other memories of Dublin and acquaintances that he and Breandan Breathnach had in common]

Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin - speech in English throughout
O'Dowd, Dan, Dublin - speech in English throughout

Airs: Untitled [Version of An Caisideach Ban?], Untitled [An Droighnean Donn] (from an acetate disc; much surface noise; overmodulated on original tape)

Ennis, Seamus, Dublin - pipes solo