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Song: Untitled [Is Buachaill o Chluain Meala Me; song used to start a faction fight]

Ennis, Seamus - singing in Irish

Speech: Untitled [Discussion of topics related to the previous song, including: faction fighting; dragging one's coat to start a fight; fair days and faction fights; '12 o'clock in the day and not a blow struck'; Labhras O Cadhlaigh interested in piping; An Lin faoi Bhlath / The Flax in Bloom, reel popular in Ring, Co Waterford]

Ennis, Seamus
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin

Reel: An Lin faoi Bhlath / The Flax in Bloom

Ennis, Seamus

Speech: Untitled [Topics including: SE plays many instrument, including the fiddle and the Jew's Harp; SE does not play a melodeon or accordion, because the notes are 'ready made'; John Clarke of the Pipers' Club said that accordions were not allowed in the club; story about a changeling who plays the fiddle and later plays the melodeon after being thrown in the river; story about the blacksmith and the Scolaire Bocht – 'se buile moch an Luain agus buile deanach an tSathairn ata dod mhilleadh']

Ennis, Seamus
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin

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