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Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 155 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
O'Keeffe, Patrick / O'Keeffe, Pádraig / O'Keefe, Pádraig, Kerry, fiddle solo A1–2?, 6?, 12?;
fiddle in duet A4–5?, 11;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle solo A3?;
fiddle in duet A4–5?, 11;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A7;
Unidentified performer, speech in Irish A8;
lilting solo A8–9;
Unidentified performer(s), speech in Irish A8, 10;
Breathnach, Breandán, Dublin, speech in English A11

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [Kiss the Maid behind the Barrel; The Maid behind the Bar]
2. Slides: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
3. Reels: Untitled [Anderson's; the first section of this tune is at twice the speed of the rest of the contents of the tape; speed change in mid-tune], Untitled [Kennedy's; The Hare's Foot / The Hare's Paw] [For an edited version of this track to eliminate the speed change in mid-track, see track A13]
4. Slides: Untitled, Untitled [Dingle Regatta, Sliabh Luachra version]
5. Polkas: Untitled [As I Went out upon the Ice], Untitled [Melody of the song 'Annie Laurie'], Untitled
6. Reels: Untitled, Untitled [The Morning Star]
7. Song: Untitled [My Darling, I'm Fond of You] [END OF RELEVANT MATERIAL ON BAND ONE]
8. Speech, Single Jig, Speech: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
9. Reel: Untitled
10. Speech: Untitled
11. Speech, Slides: Untitled [Information about the source of the music that follows], Untitled [Chase Me Charlie], Untitled [The Kilcummin Slide] (clipped at end) [END OF BAND TWO]
12. Reels: Untitled [Rolling on the Ryegrass / Rolling in the Ryegrass], Untitled [The Heather Breeze], Untitled [Rolling on the Ryegrass / Rolling in the Ryegrass], Untitled [The Heather Breeze] [END OF RELEVANT MATERIAL ON BAND THREE]
13. Reels: Untitled [Anderson's; the first section of this tune is at twice the speed of the rest of the contents of the tape], Untitled [Kennedy's; The Hare's Foot / The Hare's Paw] [Edited version of track A3 to eliminate the speed change in mid-track]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 274 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle solo A1;
Partially identified performer [Kelly, Patrick, Clare], fiddle solo A2–13;
Unidentified performer, speech in English intermittently throughout A2–13

Running Order:
1. Tune Medley: Wren Selection [Consists of the march 'The Rising of the Moon', the slide 'The Gallant Tipperary Boys' and the jig 'Petticoat Loose / Con Carthy's']
2. Jigs: The Sporting Pitchfork, The Rambling Pitchfork
3. Reel: Untitled [An Baisteadh / The Christening; Mrs Crotty's]
4. Reel: Bonny Kate [Bonnie Kate]
5. Reels: The Salamanca, The Milliner's Daughter
6. Reel: Drowsie Maggie [Drowsy Maggie; The Reel with the Beryl]
7. Reel: The Star of Munster
8. Jig: The Leitrim Jig [Old Tipperary]
9. Reel: Connemara Stockings [The Connemara Stocking; clock strikes during tune]
10. Reel: The College Grove
11. Jig: The Tidy Girleen [My Love in the Morning]
12. Reel: My Love Is in America
13. Jig: Anthony Frawley's Jig [END OF BAND ONE]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 51 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Digitised and catalogue updated by Jackie Small, February 2008. Report year 2008The title of the DAT(s) was altered from the old title (DCS) to the new title (ITMA-REEL/DAT) using different numbers in order to establish consistency in the titling of DAT copies of reel-to-reel tapes, Niall Hackett, 2010DAT transferred digitally to hard drive and saved as 24 bit BWF using the DATs original sample rate. Files are stored on ITMA server. The WAV titles follow the convention of their relevant DAT copies.Imported from Reeldubs July 2013ARDI: Tracks A19–B9: see documentation for 4145-LP in CSRECS databaseTracks A19–B9 have the same contents as the commercial recording \'The Humours of Lisheen\', released by Topic Records in their LP series \'Music from Sliabh Luachra\'. That recording was later re-released on cassette by Ossian

Running Order:
1. Reels: Untitled [Dublin Porter], Untitled [The Old 'Wheels of the World'] [Several breaks in the recording]
2. Jig: Untitled [The Geese in the Bog; The Lark's March] [Several breaks in the recording]
3. Reels: Untitled [The Mountain Road], Untitled
4. Polkas: Untitled [The Knocknaboul Polka], Untitled [The Ballydesmond Polka]
5. Reels: Untitled [Boil the Breakfast Early], Untitled [Bunker Hill]
6. Air: Untitled [An Buachaill Caol Dubh / The Dark Slender Boy]
7. Reels: Untitled [The Crooked Road to Dublin], Untitled
8. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled
9. Jigs: Untitled [Port Sheain tSeosaimh; Old Joe's Jig], Untitled [The Leitrim Jig]
10. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled
11. Reel: Untitled [The Chicago Reel]
12. Set Dance: Untitled [Bonaparte's Retreat]
13. Jigs: Untitled [Connie the Soldier], Untitled [Port Chuilinn Ui Chaoimh / The Cullen Jig; The Humours of Glin (related tune)]
14. Song Air / Set Dance[?]: Untitled [The Palatine's Daughter / The Garden of Daisies]
15. Hornpipe: Untitled [Flee as a Bird (as recorded on commercial 78rpm disc by James Morrison, fiddle)]
16. Jig: Untitled [Cherish the Ladies]
17. Hornpipe: Untitled [Father Dollard's Hornpipe]
18. Reels: Untitled [The Old Bush], Untitled [Within a Mile of Dublin]
19. Jigs: Untitled [The Humours of Lisheen; The Thrush in the Straw], Untitled [Art O'Keefe's / Art O'Keeffe's] [HL / MSL, side A, track 1]
20. Reels: Untitled [Tap the Barrel], Untitled [Jenny Tie the Bonnet / Jenny Tie Your Bonnet / Tie the Bonnet] [HL / MSL, side A, track 2]
21. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Frisco Hornpipe] [HL / MSL, side A, track 3]
22. Jig / Slide: Untitled [Biddy Crowley's Ball; Mo Ghrasa ar Maidin / My Love in the Morning] [HL / MSL, side A, track 4]
23. Air, Slide: Untitled [The Bold Trainor O / The Bold Trainer O; The Green Linnet], Untitled [Denis Murphy's Slide; Padraig O'Keeffe's Slide] [HL / MSL, side A, track 5]
24. Polkas: Untitled [The Blue Riband], Untitled [Up and Away] [HL / MSL, side A, track 6]
25. Jig: Untitled [Cailin an Ti Mhoir; The Housekeeper] [HL / MSL, side A, track 7]
26. Polka: Untitled [Tom Sullivan's Polka] [HL / MSL, side A, track 8]
27. Hornpipes: Untitled [Freddy Kimmel's Hornpipe], Untitled [The Home Brew; The Wicklow Hornpipe] [HL / MSL, side A, track 9]
28. Polka: Untitled [Padraig O'Keefe's / Padraig O'Keeffe's] [HL / MSL, side B, track 1]
29. Hornpipe: Untitled [Poll Ha'penny / Poll Ha'penny] [HL / MSL, side B, track 2]
30. Jigs: Untitled [John Mahinney's No 2], Untitled [The Ducks and the Oats; The Tenpenny Bit (related tune?)] [HL / MSL, side B, track 3]
31. Polka: Untitled [I Looked East and I Looked West] [Continued on tracks B] [HL / MSL, side B, track 4]
32. Slides: Untitled, Untitled [The Worn Torn Petticoat] [Continued from tracks A] [HL / MSL, side B, track 5]
33. Air: Untitled [Taimse im' Chodhladh / Taimse im Chodladh] [HL / MSL, side B, track 6]
34. Slide: Untitled [Going to the Well for Water; The Kaiser] [HL / MSL, side B, track 7]
35. Polkas: Untitled [Julia Clifford's; Tarrant's], Untitled [Bill the Waiver's / Bill the Weaver's; Din Tarrant's] [HL / MSL, side B, track 8]
36. Jig / Slide / March: Untitled [Maguire's Kick] [HL / MSL, side B, track 9]
37. Hornpipe: Untitled [Johnny Cope] [HL / MSL, side B, track 10]
38. Speech, Polka: Untitled [Introduction to a polka set; identifies the musicians about to play], Untitled [John Clifford's] [HL / MSL, side B, track 11a]
39. Speech, Jig / Slide: Untitled, Behind the Bush in the Garden [Billy O'Rourke Is the Boy] [HL / MSL, side B, track 11b]
40. 9: Slide: Untitled [Going for Water (title given on commercial release); Going to the Well for Water; Scattery Island] [HL / MSL, side B, track 11c] [END OF BAND ONE]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 26 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer [Seamas O hIghne], chanting of a Fenian lay in Irish A1;
Unidentified performer, harp [?] solo A2–4;
Unidentified performer [Keane, Sean, Dublin], fiddle solo A5–6;
Unidentified performer [Murphy, Mollie / Murphy, Mrs, Cork], fiddle solo A7, 11;
Unidentified performer [Murphy, Denis, Kerry], fiddle solo A8–10;
speech in English A9;
Unidentified performer [Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin], speech in English A9;
Unidentified performer [Ennis, Seamus, Dublin], pipes solo A12;
Unidentified performer [Clancy, Willie, Clare], pipes solo A13;
Unidentified performer [Russell, Micho, Clare], whistle solo A14;
Unidentified performer [Doran, Johnny, Wicklow], pipes solo A15;
Unidentified performer [Eddie Moloney, Galway], flute solo A16

Running Order:
1. Fenian Lay: Untitled [Laoi na Mna Moire]
2. Air: Untitled
3. Air: Untitled
4. Miscellaneous, Speech: Untitled [Instrument tuning], Untitled
5. Jigs: Untitled [The Gander in the Pratie Hole], Untitled [The Trip to Killavel] [This track is probably a dub from track 6 of the accompanying sound recording to BB's book 'Folk Music and Dances of Ireland']
6. Reels: Untitled [The Congress], Untitled [The Foxhunter's Reel] [This track is probably a dub from track 4 of the accompanying sound recording to BB's book 'Folk Music and Dances of Ireland']
7. Jig: Untitled [Cnocan an Teampaill / Church Hill]
8. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Rights of Man] (end clipped)
9. March, Speech: Untitled, Untitled
10. Reel: Untitled [Colonel Fraser / Colonel Frazer]
11. Jig / March: Untitled [Painneach na nUbh / Painneach na n-Ubh / O'Sullivan's March]
12. Jigs: Untitled [The Pipe on the Hob], Untitled [Down the Back Lane], Untitled [Sixpenny Money], Untitled [Paidin O Raifeartaigh]
13. Air: Untitled [The Green Linnet]
14. Jig: Donall na Greine [CICD 756, 757, 758, 759, 760.11 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 10 (from MR); Ceol III iv, p 99; Donnybrook Fair / The Joy of My Life (version of? DMI, # 79)] (running too fast)
15. Reels: Untitled [Colonel Fraser], Untitled [My Love is in America], Untitled [Rakish Paddy] (running too fast)
16. Reels: Untitled [Tommy Whelan's Reel], Untitled [The Sailor on the Rock] (overmodulated on original) [END OF BAND ONE]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 340 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle solo throughout

Running Order:
1. Tone signal
2. Polkas: Untitled [The Ballybunnion], Untitled [The Knocknaboul (2)], Untitled [The Groves of Gneevegullia; The Top of Maol]
3. Single Jigs / Slides: Untitled [Pete Sullivan's Fancy; The Whistling Thief Jig; the melody of the song 'Cucanandy' is related to this tune], Untitled [If I Had a Wife], Untitled [Denis Murphy's Slide]
4. Hornpipes: Fisherman's [Fisher's Hornpipe (version of)], Byron's
5. Jigs: Padraig O'Keeffe's [Tom Billy's (1)], Tom Billy's [Tom Billy's (2)]
6. Reels: The Green Banks of Rossbeigh [The Green Fields of Rossbeigh; The Kerry Reel], Colonel Fraser, The Steampacket [The Mountain Lark]
7. Hornpipes: Corney Drew's, Two Birds in a Tree [The Bird in the Bush; usually played as a reel]
8. Airs: The Red-Haired Man's Wife, O'Rahilly's Grave [For another performance of this selection, see track A11]
9. Jigs: The House in the Glen [The Rambler], The Thrush on the Strand [Heather and Sedge; The Castlebar Races], Untitled [Related to The Three Little Drummers?]
10. Reels: Mount Collins [The Girls of Farranfore; The Game of Love], The Doon Reel [Callaghan's], Patsy McCarthy's [The Mountain Top, related to?]
11. Airs: The Red-Haired Man's Wife, O'Rahilly's Grave [For another performance of this selection, see track A8] [Information in log: 'improvement on first attempt']
12. Hornpipes: Cronin's, Callaghan's [END OF BAND ONE]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 345 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Coleman, Owen, Sligo, speech in English A2;
Unidentified performer [Ennis, Seamus, Dublin], speech in English A2–3;
O'Dowd, Joe, Sligo, speech in English A3;
fiddle solo A4–16;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle solo A17;
O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig, Kerry, fiddle solo A18

Running Order:
1. Tone signals
2. Speech: Untitled [Interview with Owen Coleman, brother of the fiddle-player Michael Coleman; anecdotes about Michael Coleman's interest in dancing and music as a child; his father was a flute-player; Michael Coleman was a good dancer; was small in stature; how Michael Coleman learned to play – was taught by Kipeen Scanlon (who used to spend periods of up to 6 weeks in the Coleman household), P J McDermott of Buninadden, John O'Dowd, Phil O'Beirne, and Jack Mc Hugh; Michael Coleman went to the USA about 1911 at the age of about 21]
3. Speech: Untitled [Interview with the fiddle-player Joe O'Dowd; his background as a fiddle-player; he began to play at 10 years of age, taught by his brother Jack; the community in which he was brought up was rich in music; his uncle John O'Dowd (who taught Michael Coleman) was regarded as a fine player; the bands that Joe O'Dowd played with in London; the tune that follows was a favourite of Jim Coleman, brother of Michael Coleman]
4. Reel: Miss Johnson's Reel
5. Jigs: Coppers and Brass [The Humours of Ennistymon], Coleman's Jig [The Primrose Vale; The Lark on the Strand], Coppers and Brass [The Humours of Ennistymon]
6. Hornpipes: The Stage Hornpipe [The Norfolk], Untitled [The Western] [This selection was recorded by Michael Coleman, fiddle, on commercial 78rpm disc]
7. Reels: Lord McDonald, Ballinasloe Fair, The Round Towers of Ballymote [Touch Me If You Dare] [The first two tunes in this selection were recorded together by Michael Coleman, fiddle, on commercial 78rpm disc]
8. Slip Jigs: Untitled [The Foxhunter's Jig], Untitled [Comb Your Hair and Curl It] [This selection was recorded by Michael Coleman, fiddle, on commercial 78rpm disc?]
9. Reels: Dowd's Favourite / O'Dowd's Favourite, The Star of Munster, Miss Johnson [The first two tunes in this selection were recorded together by Michael Coleman, fiddle, on commercial 78rpm disc?]
10. Reels: Farewell to Ireland [Farewell to Erin; CRE 1, # 139], The Cherry Tree [Farewell to Erin (DMI, # 701)], Reidy Johnson [Hand Me Down the Tackle]
11. Reel: The Lads of Leith [The Lads of Laois], Dungloe Reel [The Humours of Castlefin], The Green Banks of Rossbeigh [The Green Fields of Rossbeigh; The Kerry Reel]
12. Jigs: Jackson's Jigs [1] [The Humours of Kesh], Jackson's Jigs [2] [Doherty's Fancy; The Pet of the Pipers]
13. Air: The Lakes of Sligo / Loch [? E--h] [The Lass o' Gowrie]
14. Reels: The Boys of the Lough, Faral Gara
15. Set Dances: The King of the Fairies, The Blackbird
16. Reels: Faral Gara, Untitled [The Silver Spire], The Shaskeen
17. Polkas: The Green Cottage Polkas [1], The Green Cottage Polkas [2]
18. Air: The Old Man Rocking the Cradle [An Seanduine; includes part of the slip jig 'The Foxhunter's Jig'] [END OF BAND ONE]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 52 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
McKenna, Francie, Monaghan, speech in English throughout band 1;
fiddle solo A2–8;
20–35?;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Murphy, James, Fermanagh, speech in English A9–14;
fiddle solo A10–14;
Scott, Philip, Fermanagh, speech in English A15–19;
fiddle solo A16–19;
Unidentified performers, speech in English throughout band 1;
Fitzgerald, Jim, Kerry, fiddle solo A36–43;
speech in English intermittently throughout A36–43

Running Order:
1. Speech, Untitled
2. Reels, Speech: Untitled [Jenny's Chickens (related tune)], Untitled [The Wild Irishman], Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
3. Reels: Untitled, Untitled [The Monaghan Twig (related tune)]
4. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Tune-names are given, but it is not clear what tunes they apply to], Untitled [Drowsy Maggie (related tune?)]
5. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled
6. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
7. Reel, Speech: The Emyvale Reel [For other performances of this tune, see tracks A11 & 32a], Untitled
8. Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled
9. Speech: Untitled
10. Reel, Speech: All White, Untitled
11. Reel: The Emyvale Reel [For other performances of this tune, see tracks A7 & 32a]
12. Speech: Untitled [Instructions to the performer]
13. Reel, Speech: The Glass of Beer, Untitled
14. Speech, Jig, Speech: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
15. Speech: Untitled
16. Jig: The Trip to the Cottage [The Connachtman's Rambles (related tune)]
17. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Drowsy Maggie, Untitled [Accompanied by lilting]
18. Reel, Speech: Miss Johnson, Untitled [The tune just played is stated to be like Miss McLeod's Reel]
19. Reel / Hornpipe, Speech: Dwyer's [O'Dwyer's Hornpipe in DMI], Untitled
20. Jig, Speech, Jig, Speech: Untitled [The Setting Sun], Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
21. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Steeplechase], Untitled
22. Reel: Untitled [The Galway Rambler (related tune)]
23. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled [The title 'Tear the Calico' is given, but it is not clear which tune it applies to], McGrath's, Jenny Tie Your Bottom Strings, Untitled
24. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled
25. Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled
26. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Old 'Wheels of the World'], Untitled
27. Reel: Untitled [The Chattering Magpie]
28. Speech: Untitled
29. Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled
30. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Miss Farr's Reel [The Ivy Leaf], Untitled
31. Reel: Untitled [The Swallow's Tail (related tune)]
32. Reels, Speech: Untitled [The Emyvale Reel; for other performances of this tune, see tracks A7 & 11], The Dublin Reel [Local setting of], Untitled
33. Reel: Untitled [Within a Mile of Dublin]
34. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Fermoy Lasses (related tune?)], Untitled
35. Reel: McKenna's [Miss Thornton] (clipped at end) [END OF BAND ONE]
36. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Out in the Rain [CICD 4091.13 (from this recording); The Cabin Hunter (related tune)]
37. Speech, Reel: Untitled, William O'Brien [CICD 5814.11 (from this recording)]
38. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled [About the tune to be played next], Sheehan's / Sheehas ? [CICD 5462.11 (from this recording; gives title 'Sheehas ?')], Untitled [About the tune to be played next; it was learned from a local player, Jack Costello, an ex-RIC man]
39. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Mount Collins Reel [CICD 4406.11 (from this recording); The Mountcollins Reel]
40. Speech, Jig, Speech: Untitled, The Black Stripper [CICD 1176.12 (from this recording; gives the title as 'The Black Slipper', a mistranscription); The Maid at the Well], Untitled
41. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The Merry Man into His Grave / Down the Merry Man into His Grave [CICD 1276.11 (from this recording); Down Goes the Merry Man into His Grave; Connie the Soldier]
42. Jig: Untitled [CICD 1814.13 (from this recording); The Rakes of Clonmel]
43. Reels, Speech: Untitled [CICD 3901.11 (from this recording); Drowsy Maggie (related tune); Toss the Feathers (related tune)], Untitled [CICD 4985.11 (from this recording); The Templeglantine Reel], Untitled [Where the performer comes from: Dromtrasna / Drom Treasna, Abbeyfeale, in west Limerick] [END OF BAND TWO]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 328 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig, Kerry, fiddle solo A1–5;
Cronin, Paddy, Kerry, fiddle solo A6–18;
O'Loughlin, Peadar, Clare, flute solo A19–20;
Unidentified performer [O'Loughlin, Peadar, Clare? White, Aggie, Galway (suggested by BB)?], fiddle solo A21

Running Order:
1. Air: O'Rahilly's Grave [Available on RTE CD 174, track 10]
2. Jigs: Coppers and Brass / The Humours of Ennistymon [CICD 1521–1522 (from this recording?); Larry Grogan is a related tune], I Will if I Can / Up and Away [CICD 696 (from this recording?); DMI, # 207] [Available on RTE CD 174, track 11]
3. Hornpipes: John Quinn's Favourites # 1 / The Home Brew [The Wicklow Hornpipe (DMI, # 828); The Road to Boyle (CRE 3, # 227)], John Quinn's Favourites # 2 / The Sands [Stated in notes to RTE CD 174 to be a variant of Miss McLeod's Reel; An Tri is a Rian] [Available on RTE CD 174, track 11]
4. Single Jigs / Slides: The Kilcummin / Dingle Regatta / Tarrant's Slide [In notes to RTE CD 174, it is pointed out that this tune is related to the popular version of The Dingle Regatta; CICD 1075.12 (not from this recording; provides title 'Tarrant's Slide')], If I Had a Wife [(JOLSL, # 90, which also gives the title Mick Mahony's (1); CRE 3, # 41; Johnny Leary's], The Worn Torn Petticoat / Quarry Cross / The Leprechaun [CICD 1415 (untitled; from this recording?); Pucan; for another performance of this tune, see track A18] [Available on RTE CD 174, track 15]
5. Reels: Rolling in the Ryegrass [CICD 5678 (from this recording?)], The Heather Breeze, Rolling in the Ryegrass [Repeat of first tune in this selection], The Heather Breeze [Repeat of second tune in this selection]
6. Jigs: The Munster Jig [CICD 735 (not from this recording)], Tell Her I Am [For another performance of this tune, see track A12]
7. Reels: Duggan's Fancy [CICD 4744 (from this recording?); recorded on 78 rpm commercial disc by Michael Coleman, fiddle, as O'Rourke's (the first tune in a selection); The Wild Irishman (title used by Coleman for the second tune in the selection; often used for this tune and possibly Coleman's intended title for this tune)], The Galtee [The Galtee Ranger / The Galtee Rangers], Bean a' Ti ar Lar [The Woman of the House]
8. Single Jigs / Slides, Jig: Tom Billy's Fancy [Johnny Mick Dinny's (JOLSL, # 95)], Cailleach an Airgid (mi-cheart) [CICD 1775 (from this recording?); The Cat in the Corner (JOLSL, # 348)], The Humours of Kilkenny / Cailleach an Airgid [CICD 4744 (from this recording?); The Hag with the Money]
9. Single Jigs / Slides: The Dark Girl in Blue [Denis Murphy's Slide], Across the Road [Paddy Cronin's (JOLSL, # 75)]
10. Reel: The Doon Reel [The Chorus Reel], Pepper and Salt [Tansey's Favourite; CRE 3, # 136]
11. Hornpipes: Cronin's Hornpipe [JOLSL, # 171], The Brittania Hornpipe [CICD 6077 (not from this recording)], The Fisherman [Fisher's Hornpipe]
12. Jig: Down the Meadows [Related to Malowney's Wife (DMI, # 11)], Tell Her I Am [For another performance of this tune, see track A6]
13. Reels: The Dairy Maid, The Morning Star
14. Reels: The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Untitled [In BB's short-list titled 'Broom (wrongly); Wellington's Reel (CRE 3, # 110); closely related to Sheehan's Reel (DMI)]
15. Air: The Lament for O'Donnell
16. Set Dance: The Jockey to the Fair
17. Hornpipes: Byrne's Hornpipe, Untitled
18. Single Jigs, Slides: The Quarry Cross [The Dingle Regatta, in the version played by Sliabh Luachra musicians], Untitled [Barrack Hill (DMI, # 410)], Pucan [CICD 1415 (untitled; not from this track on this recording); The Worn Torn Petticoat; Quarry Cross; The Leprechaun; for another performance of this tune, see track A4]
19. Reels: The Boyne Hunt, The Flogging Reel
20. Jigs: The Maid of the Rushes [The Queen of the Rushes], Nora Crionna [Stated to be (Patsy) Touhey's version; DMWC, # 152]
21. Reel: My Love is in America [END OF BAND ONE]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 335 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer [McConnell, Cathal, Fermanagh?], speech in English A1;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A2a;
Byrne, Anne, Dublin, singing in English with instrumental accompaniment A2b;
Bennett, John, speech in English A2c?, 2f?, 2i?, 2k?, 2m?;
Unidentified performers, singing in English with instrumental accompaniment A2d–e, 2h, 2l, 3–6;
McGuigan, Pat, harmonica in trio A2g;
McConnell, Cathal, Fermanagh, whistle in trio A2g;
Healy, James N, Cork, speech in English A2i, 2m;
singing in English with instrumental accompaniment A2j;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A7;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group A8;
Unidentified performer [Furey, Finbar, Dublin / Waterford?], pipes in duet A9;
Unidentified performer, whistle in duet A10–12;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle in duet B1, 3;
fiddle solo B2, 4–9;
speech in English A7;
Unidentified performer [O'Keeffe, Art / O'Keefe, Art, Kerry], whistle in duet B1, 3,;
Russell, Micho, Clare, whistle solo B10–18;
speech in English B10–16;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English intermittently throughout tracks B;
Doherty, John, Donegal, fiddle solo B19–30;
speech in English intermittently throughout tracks B19–30;
Unidentified performer [Kelly, John, Clare / Dublin?], speech in English and Irish B24;
Unidentified performers, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [Information about the contents of track A2]
2. a) Speech, b) Song, c) Speech, d) Song, e) Song, f) Speech, g) Instrumental Piece, h) Song, i) Speech, j) Song, k) Speech, l) Song, m) Speech: a) Untitled [Radio announcement], b) Can You Dance the Polka?, c) Untitled [Radio announcement], d) Farewell to Tarwathie, e) Untitled [Brief; one verse only], f) Untitled [Information about the song just song and the tune to be played next; gives the title of the tune], g) ? the Forty Second [Tune has the same melody as that of the song sung before it here], h) Untitled, i) Untitled [Interview; topic: sea songs and shanties], j) The Bug-A-Boo, k) Untitled, l) Untitled [All for Me Grog], m) Untitled [Radio announcement & interview] [This track is a poor-quality off-air dubbing of a (radio or TV) programme titled 'The Sea Folk', broadcast on BBC Northern Ireland]
3. Song: Untitled [Track A5 contains another copy of the recording on this track]
4. Song: Untitled [The Sisters of Mercy, composed by Leonard Cohen]
5. Song: Untitled [Preceded by short recording of piano-playing; track A3 contains another copy of the recording on this track]
6. Song: Untitled
7. Song: Untitled [William Hollander]
8. Reel: Untitled
9. Air: Untitled
10. Reel: Untitled [The Stony Step]
11. Reel: Untitled [The Belles of Tipperary]
12. Reel: Untitled (incomplete) [The Skylark] [END OF BAND ONE]
13. Reel: Untitled [Donall a' Phumpa; CRE 5, # 147; Molly on the Shore]
14. Reel: Untitled [Donal a' Clumper's Reel; CRE 2, # 295 (where it is untitled)]
15. Reels: Untitled [The Morning Star], Untitled [Rolling in the Ryegrass]
16. Reel: Untitled [Callaghan's Reel / O'Callaghan's Reel; CRE 2, # 131]
17. Reel: Untitled [Quinn's Reel; CRE 2, # 171]
18. Reels: Untitled [The Mountain Road; composed by Michael Gorman], Untitled [The Doon Reel (JOLSL, ed. Moylan, # 94); Pat Ward's Jig (a version of this tune played as a single jig by Seamus Ennis)]
19. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Glountane Reel (CICD 3453)], Untitled
20. Jig: Untitled [Cailin a' Ti Mhoir / Cailin an Ti Mhoir (CRE 2, # 40); The Housekeeper; The House Maid; The Girl from the Big House]
21. Reel: Untitled [Callaghan's; The Doon Reel; Nellie Donovan; CRE 2, # 270]
22. Reel, Speech: The Boy in the Gap, Untitled
23. Reel, Speech: The Fair-Haired Boy, Untitled
24. Reel, Speech: Patsy Campbell's Reel, Untitled
25. Reel, Speech: Upstairs in a Tent [CRE 2, 190], Untitled
26. Reel, Speech: Tadhg a Run / A Thaidhg, a Run [CRE 2, 150 (i)], Untitled
27. Reel, Speech: The Rose in the Garden [Divide the Cally Fair; Kennaw's Reel (WSGM, # 326, related tune)], Untitled
28. Jig / Slide, Speech: Untitled [The Clare Jig; CRE 2, 71], Untitled [Tune just played was used for the fifth figure of a set]
29. Jig: Untitled [The Frieze Breeches]
30. Jig: Untitled [Tatter Jack Walsh]
31. Reel: Untitled [The Dispute at the Crossroads; a version of Doctor Gilbert]
32. Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled
33. Reel, Speech: Miss Ramsey, Untitled
34. Reel, Speech: Untitled [McFarley's; a version of 'The Maids of Castlebar'], Untitled
35. Reel: The Moving Bogs of Allen [The Moving Bogs (CRE 2, # 174)]
36. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Caher Rua, Untitled
37. Slip Jig: Untitled [Hardiman the Fiddler, version of]
38. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The Old Hag at the Churn [Related to Garrett Barrett's Jig]
39. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The King of the Pipers [CRE 2, # 45]
40. Jig, Speech: Untitled [The King of the Pipers; not the same tune as in the previous track], Untitled
41. Jig: Untitled [The Rambling Pitchfork, version of]
42. Reel: Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 325 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
O'Keeffe, Maurice / O'Keefe, Maurice,, Kerry, fiddle solo A1, 2?;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, speech in English throughout;
fiddle in duet A24–27;
Murphy, Mollie / Murphy, Mrs, Cork, fiddle solo A3?, 4–23;
speech in English throughout A4–27;
fiddle in duet A24–27;
Moynihan, Pat, Kerry, whistle solo A28–31;
speech in English A29;
Murphy, Mike, Cork, fiddle solo A32–37;
speech in English A32–37;
Unidentified performer, accordion solo A38–41;
speech in English A38–41;
Kelly, Patrick, Clare, fiddle solo A42–46, 48;
speech in English A42–48;
whistle solo A47?;
Unidentified performer [Mac Mathuna, Seamus, Clare / Dublin?], speech in English A42–48

Running Order:
1. Jig: Tatter Jack Walsh [CICD 1397–1398 (from this recording)]
2. Jig, Speech: Arise Bonnie Lassie and Bundle and Go / Larry O'Gaff [CICD 873 (from this recording); discussion on CICD card as to who the performer is; from the evidence on the tape, seems most likely to be Maurice O'Keeffe], Untitled [Information about the tune just played]
3. Speech, Polka: Untitled, Untitled [CICD 6515 (from this recording); discussion on CICD card as to who the performer is; CRE 5, # 106]
4. Speech, Reel, Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled (incomplete), Untitled, The Morning Star (incomplete)
5. Reel, Speech: The Maids of Erin [CICD 5522 (from this recording)], Untitled
6. Reel: Evening Bells [CICD 4312 (from track A27 on this recording); The Game Cock (CRE 5, # 158, as reel; CRE 4, # 62, as slide; see notes for more information); The Bog Carrot]
7. Reel: Untitled [CICD 3052 (from this recording); related to The Green Groves of Erin?]
8. Slip Jig: The Cuckold Old Man [CICD 197 (untitled; from this recording)]
9. Reel, Speech: The Boyne Hunt, Untitled
10. Reel: The Five Mile Chase [CICD 3555 (from this recording; untitled)]
11. Reel, Speech: Untitled [CICD 5309–5310 (from this recording); The Mourne Mountains (DMI, # 477); related to Tom Ward's Downfall], Untitled [Information about the tune just played]
12. Reel, Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled, The Silver Tip / The Flowing Bowl [CICD 4404 (from this recording; untitled); title 'The Silver Tip' is supplied by the collector and performer (from a written source being consulted during this recording session?); title 'The Flowing Bowl' is supplied by Denis Murphy], Untitled [Information about the tune just played]
13. Reel, Speech: Boil the Kettle Early [CICD 2868 (from this recording)], Untitled
14. Reel, Speech, Reel, Speech, Reel: Ships Are Sailing [Tentative; incomplete], Untitled, Untitled [Tentative; incomplete; second part is that of The Hunter's Purse?], Untitled, The Maid behind the Bar (incomplete)
15. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [CICD 2844.11 (from this recording); CRE 2, # 290 (from this recording); The Pride of Rathmore; 2 parts here; this tune is often heard with 3 parts], Untitled
16. Slip Jig, Speech: Untitled [CICD 146 (from this recording)], Untitled
17. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Drowsy Maggie [CICD 2999 (from this recording)]
18. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, The Piper's Despair [CICD 5931 (from this recording; untitled)], Untitled
19. Reel, Jig, Speech, Reel, Speech, Reel, Speech, Reel: Untitled [The Peeler's Jacket], The Butcher's March, Untitled, Kitty's Wedding (incomplete), Untitled, Untitled [CICD 2863 (from this recording); related to The Galway Rambler?], Untitled, My Love is in America (incomplete)
20. Speech, Slides: Untitled, Untitled [CICD 551.11 (from this recording)], Untitled [CICD 2295.11 (from this recording); Tom Connors' Jig (CRE 2, # 57); Put on the Chain on the Pony (CRE 5, # 73)], Untitled [CICD 2275.13 (from this recording)], Untitled [CICD 2131.11 (from this recording)], Untitled (incomplete) [The first part of the first tune in this selection of slides]
21. Speech, Slide: Untitled, Untitled [CICD 1559.12 (from this recording); related to Pete Sullivan's Fancy / The Whistling Thief Jig / She Didn't Dance and Dance?]
22. Reel, Speech: Jenny Picking Cockles / The Old Slipper Shoe [CICD 5186 (from this recording; gives title 'The Old Slipper Shoe')], Untitled [Information about the tune just played, including further title]
23. Polka: Untitled [CICD 6435 (from this recording); Din Tarrant's (1); The Cobbler]
24. Jig: Three Little Drummers [Delaney's Drummers]
25. Polka: Untitled [CICD 6336 (from this recording); played by duet, but CICD card gives only one performer, Mrs Murphy]
26. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Lisheen Reel (CRE 2, # 19)], Untitled
27. Reel: Evening Bells [CICD 4312 (from this track on this recording; untitled); also on track A6 on this recording; The Game Cock (CRE 5, # 158, as reel, from this recording; CRE 4, # 62, as slide; see notes for more information); The Bog Carrot]
28. Jig: Untitled [CICD 1673 (from this recording); The Castlebar Races; The Races of Castlebar; performer on tracks A28–31 is playing a wooden whistle (information source: CICD 666)]
29. Jig, Speech: I Will if I Can [CICD 666 (from this recording)], Untitled
30. Jig: Jackson's Morning Brush [CICD 2087 (from this recording)]
31. Hornpipe: Callaghan's Hornpipe [END OF BAND ONE]
32. Jig, Speech: There's a Hole in the Bucket / Thane Buckley [?] [CICD 1793 (from this recording; untitled)], Untitled [Denis Murphy suggests a name (Thane Buckley [?]) for the jig just played]
33. Speech, Jig, Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune to be played], The Tuirin Garbh Jig, Untitled [About John Quinn, the local flute-player from whom the performer learned music that he plays]
34. Speech, Jig, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [CICD 2454 (from this recording)], Speech
35. Jig, Speech: Leahy's Jig [CICD 2469 (from this recording)], Untitled [Information about Leahy, fiddler and dancing master]
36. Jig, Speech, Jig: The Leg of the Duck [CICD 1435 (from this recording)], Untitled [Words sung to the tune just played]
37. Jig, Speech: Untitled [CICD 1934 (from this recording)], Untitled
38. Jig: Untitled [Haste to the Wedding]
39. Set Dance / Jig: Untitled [The Sweets of May; related to the melody of the song Follow me up to Carlow]
40. Jig, Speech: Untitled [Kenmure's On and Awa'], Untitled
41. Polka: Untitled [Melody of song Muirsheen Durkin; played in two different registers]
42. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Bucks of Oranmore], Untitled
43. Reel: The Foxhunter's Reel
44. Jig: Untitled [Mo Ghrasa ar Maidin / My Love in the Morning (CRE, # 57)]
45. Reel: Untitled [My Love is in America]
46. Jig: Untitled [Anthony Frawley's Jig (CRE 2, # 9)]
47. Reel: Untitled [A Fair Wind]
48. Reel, Speech: Untitled [A Fair Wind], Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]

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