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Performers:
McKenna, Mick, tenor guitar, track 1-9; speech in English, track 2-4, 6, 9
Ni Bheolain, Niamh, Dublin, speech in English, track 7, 9; fiddle, track 7-9
Burke, Joe, speech in English, track 10-12, B1-10; accordion, track 10-12, B1-8, 10
Conroy-Burke, Anne, accordion B8, 9; speech in English B9
Ward, Kevin, speech in English, track 1, 7, 9; guitar, track 1-9
Conroy-Burke, Anne, guitar, track 10-12, B1-7, B10

Running Order:
1. [Speech]: [Introduction]; Rag: The black and white rag
2. [Speech]; Jigs: Untitled
3. [Speech]; Air: I can't give you anything but love
4. [Speech]; Reels: The scholar, The teetotaler, The Boyne hunt
5. [Jazz piece]: Sweet Georgia Brown
6. Reels: Bonnie Kate, Jenny's chickens
7. [Speech]; Hornpipes: The eclipse, The tailor's twist
8. Hornpipe: The blackbird [not the commonly-known `Blackbird']
9. [Speech]; Reels: Lad O'Beirne's, The college groves, Untitled [followed by a few minutes where the following artists set up]
10. [Speech]; Jigs: Gallagher's frolics, Paddy Killoran's
11. [Speech]; Hornpipes: Fly by night, The shaskeen hornpipe
12. Reels: Paddy Kelly's four-part reel, Seán sa cheo; Speech: [speech about Paddy Kelly from East Galway, Joe and Seamus Cooley] [recording continued on 1b-ITMA-DAT/CDR]
13. [Speech]; [Air]; Jigs: Ross Memorial Hospital, Untitled, The pride of Slieve Aughton
14. Reels: The flogging reel, The pigeon on the gate; [Speech]
15. [Speech about Ian O'Kelly of Portumna]; Hornpipes: O'Kelly's fancy, The cuckoo's hornpipe, The smell of the bog
16. [Speech]; Reels: Bonnie Kate, Jenny's chicken's
17. [Speech]; Air: The bonny bunch of roses; Reels: Paddy Kelly's reels
18. [Speech]; Set dance: The humours of Bandon; Slip jig: A fig for a kiss
19. Reels: The bunch of keys, The mouse that strangled the cat
20. [Speech]; Hornpipe: Untitled; Reels: Untitled
21. [Speech]; Reels: The tailor's thimble, The red-haired lass
22. [Speech]; Reels: The yellow tinker, The sally gardens, The bucks of Oranmore [END OF DAT]

Performers:
Cassidy, Dave, Dublin, speech in English, track 1, 4, mandola in trio, track 1-6
Ni Bheolain, Niamh, Dublin, speech in English, track 1-6, fiddle in trio, track 1-6
Pigott, Charlie, Cork/Galway, speech in English, track 7-14, B1-7, accordion in quartet, track 7-10, 12, 14, B1-4, 6-7, accordion in duet B5
Fahy, Martin, Clare/Galway, concertina in quartet, track 7-10, 12, 1, B1-4, 6-7, speech in English, track 13-, concertina duet/trio, track 13
Fahy, Florence, Clare/Galway, concertina in quartet, track 7-10, 12, 14, B1-4, 6-7, concertina duet/trio, track 13
O'Neylon, Tomas, Galway, storytelling in English, track 11
Ward, Kevin, guitar
O'Neylon, Tomas, bodhrán

Running Order:
1. Speech/Jigs: The Rambling Pitchfork, The Banks of Lough Gowns, The Black Rogue
2. Speech/Hornpipe: The Coarse Air
3. Speech/Reels: The Boy in the Gap, Paddy Fahey's
4. Speech/Polka: The Ukranian Polka
5. Speech/Jigs: Banish Misfortune, Out on the Ocean
6. Speech/Polkas: Untitled, Begley's Polka
7. Speech/Jigs: O'Connel's Welcome to Parliment, Willie Hayes
8. Speech/Reels: The Boyne Hunt, Clogher Reel?
9. Speech/Jigs: The Trip to Bantry (comp: Paddy O'Brien), The Bahola Jig
10. Speech/Reels: St Patrick's Night, Larkin's Beehive (both comp: Paddy O'Brien)
11. Storytelling: Humorous Tales about Poorer Times
12. Speech/Jigs: The Killavel, Untitled
13. Speech/Reels: The Hills of Tipperary, Larry's Favourite (both comp: Paddy O'Brien)
14. Speech/March/Speech: Napoleon Crossing the Alps [=Boney Crossing the Alps] [recording continued on CDR b]
15. Speech/Reels: (a setting of) The Kilarney Boys of Pleasure/The Sweat House (comp: Joe Liddy), The Fox on the Prowl (comp: Vincent Broderick)
16. Speech/Hornpipes: The Cuckoo's Nest, The Swan
17. Speech/Jigs: I Buried my Wife and Danced on her Grave, Down the Back Lane
18. Speech/Reels: Swinging on the Gate, Untitled
19. Speech/Jigs: (a setting of) The West Wind/The West-Mesth Jig, Jack Welsh's Jig
20. Speech/Jigs: The Fair Haired Boy, (a setting of) Jack Welsh's Jig/Scatter the Mud, Untitled
21. Speech/Reels: The Reel of Mullinavat, The Congress Reel [END OF DAT]

Performers:
Speirs, Lord Mayor Jim, Armagh, speech in English, track 1
Vallely, Brian, Armagh, speech in English, track 2, 5, 7, 11-12, 15, 18
Henderson, Jarlath (aged 10 years), Armagh, pipes, track 3-4
Lennon, Sinead (aged 12 years), Armagh, pipes, track 6
Warpipes quartet, track 8-11,=
Owens, Nichola, Armagh
Owens, Leroy, Armagh
Beattie, Lynne, Armagh
Currie, Gail, Armagh
McMahon, Ailish, Armagh, pipes, track 13-14
McCormick, Martin, Monaghan, pipes, track 16-17
O'Hare, Brendan, speech in English, track 19

Running Order:
1. Speech: Official Opening of Festival
2. Speech: Introduction to Jarlath Henderson etc...
3. Air: An Mhaidin Mhara
4. Jig: Coppers and Brass
5. Speech: Introduction to Sinead Lennon
6. Reels: The Milner's Daughter, The Bunch of Keys
7. Speech: Introducing young Armagh warpipe quartet, background noise
8. Air: Untitled
9. Air/Reel: Untitled
10. March/Strathspey: Untitled
11. Jigs/Speech: Untitled
12. Speech: Introduction to Ailish McMahon
13. Jig: Humours of Ballyloughin
14. Reel: The Scholar
15. Speech: Introduction to Martin McCormack and overview of the coming week
16. Hornpipe: The Bantry Hornpipe
17. Reels: The Spike Island Lasses, The Connaught Heifers
18. Speech: Introducing Brendan O'Hare
19. Speech: talk about the two discovered sets of William Kennedy pipes, their discovery and restoration

Performers:
Ryan, Joe, tin whistle throughout, Generation D whistle, track 1-12, Clark's C whistle, track 13-23, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech/Jig: Francie's Jig, Untitled [The Killavil ?], talk about the tunes
2. Reel/Speech: Devaney's Goat, talk about the tune
3. Hornpipes/Speech: The Fort of Kincora, Dunphy's, talk about music in the family
4. Polkas/Speech: Untitled, talk about the Ballycommon/Ballyconnell? Set
5. Polka/Speech: The Rose Tree in full Bearing, talk about the house dancing, barn dances
6. Hornpipe: The Harvest Home
7. Hornpipe: The Swan (unfinished) [composed by Sean Ryan]
8. Hornpipes: The Swan, Kitty's Wedding, talk about the tunes, Sean Ryan composing tunes
9. Reels/Speech: The Corner House, The Green Fields of America
10. Jigs/Speech: [The New York Jig recorded by Kimmel?], [Sean Ryan composition ?], Have a Drink on Me, talk about the tunes
11. Set Dance: The Blackbird
12. Reels: The Silver Spear, The Sally Gardens
13. Jig: The Castle Jig [Sean Ryan composition]
14. Jig: The Luckypenny
15. Jigs: Untitled, The Cliffs of Moher
16. Reels: Untitled, Miss McLeod's
17. Jigs: The Battering Ram, Tell Her I am
18. Reel/Speech: Untitled, talk about Francie Brereton, Millo Burke, Bridge Ceili Band
19. Reels: The Fermoy Lassies, The Maid Behind the Bar
20. Hornpipe/Speech: The High Level, talk about the tune
21. Reels/Speech: The Yellow Tinker, The Old Copperplate
22. Reels/Speech: Untitled [Josie McDermott composition ?]
23. Reels: Cooley's, The Wise Maid, Untitled

Performers:
McGivney, Eamonn, Longford/Clare, fiddle solo, track 1-3, speech in English, track 3

Running Order:
1. Air: Gol na mBan *
2. Set Dance: The Trip Over the Mountain *
3. Fragments/Speech [END OF DAT]

Performers:
McGivney, Eamonn, Longford/Clare, fiddle solo, track 1-20, speech in Ebglish, track 1, 4-5, 14-15, 18-20

Running Order:
1. Speech/Hornpipes: Pol Halfpenny, Tullycrine *
2. Fragments
3. Hop Jig: Top it Off *
4. Speech/Jigs: Kiernan's Jig, Jimmy Ward's *
5. Speech/Jigs: Old Tipperary, Patsy Geary's *
6. Polka? Untitled
7. Flings: Kitty Got a Clinking, Mrs Galvin's *
8. Fragments
9. Reels: Untitled
10. Reels: The Morning Star, The Dark Haired Lass *
11. Reel: Thady Casey's *
12. Fragments
13. Jigs: The Piper's Chair, The Gallowglass
14. Speech/Jigs: The Piper's Chair, The Gallowglass *
15. Fragments/Speech
16. Hornpipes: Scully Casey's, Byrnes *
17. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled
18. Fragments/Speech
19. Speech/Hop Jig: Top it Off
20. Fragments/Speech [END OF DAT]

Performers:
McGivney, Eamonn, Longford/Clare, fiddle solo, track 1-15, speech in English, track 9, 14
Off-air due, speech in Irish, track 15

Running Order:
1. Reels: The Bunch of Keys, Spike Island Lasses *
2. Reels: The Sligo Maid, The Bank of Ireland *
3. Fragments
4. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
5. Jigs: Pipe on the Hob, Scully Casey's *
6. Fragment
7. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
8. Set Dance: Sean O'Duibhir a Ghleanna *
9. Speech/Set Dance: The Humours of Bandon *
10. Speech/Reels: The Longford Collector/The Hen and her Clutch *
11. Fragments
12. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
13. Fragments
14. Speech/Reels: The Star of Munster, Untitled
15. Fragments
16. Off-air dub [END OF DAT]

Performers:
Vallely, Brian, Armagh, speech in English, track 2, 6, 8, B2
McCutcheon, Norman, Armagh, warpipes, track 3-5
Roberts, Alan, Sligo, pipes, track 7, 9
Munnely, Tom, Dublin/Clare, lecture in English, track 11, B1

Running Order:
1. Start: background noise
2. Speech: opening address and introduction to Norman McCutcheon
3. Air: Untitled
4. Air: Untitled
5. Hornpipe: The Boys of Bluehill
6. Speech: Introduction to Alan Roberts playing ther Kennedy Pipes
7. Hornpipes: Untitled, The Cork Hornpipe
8. Speech: William Kennedy's pipes and William Kennedy himself ####
9. Jigs: Untitled, Spot the Wallop
10. Speech: Introduction to Tom Munnelly lecture
11. Lecture: The Travelling Musician of Ireland and Scotland [recording continued on CDR 4b]
12. Lecture: continued...
13. Speech: general thanks [end of DAT]

Performers:
Killourhy, John (Jack), Clare, whistle in duet, speech in English
Killourhy, Paddy, Clare, fiddle in duet, speech in English

Running Order:
1. Jigs: Bridgie McGrath's Jigs
2. Speech: talk about concertina player Mrs McGrath, beginning in music, Paddy making his first fiddle, concertina player Martin Killourhy, playing with Johnny Doran, long lists of local concertina players, buying concertinas in England, instruments, German concertinas, story about a clock
3. Speech/Reel: Untitled (from Martin Killourhy)
4. Reel/Speech: Kitty Jones', Pappy Looney's
5. Jig/Speech: Untitled (from Martin Killourhy)
6. Polka/Speech: Untitled (from Martin Killourhy, played for the last figure of the set)
7. Reel/Speech: Untitled (from Paddy Reynolds, Kilfenora)
8. Jigs: The Pipers Chair, Untitled (from Martin Killourhy)
9. Speech: talk about Seamus Ennis recording in the area
10. Reel/Speech: Nora Marshall's (Nora McMahon, fiddle , Kilfenora)
11. Reels/Speech: Paddy Marshall's (Paddy McMahon, Kilfenora) ['Up to your Knees in Sand', Mary Bergin, 'Feadoga Stain'], Rip the Calico (old version from Martin Killourhy)
12. Hornpipes/Speech: The Greencastle, Untitled (from Joe Byrnes) [Pretty Maggie Morrissey], May Day [Sweets of May]
13. Hornpipe/Speech: Jimmy Ward's [The Standing Abbey], O'Dwyers
14. Jigs/Speech: Jetty Howley's Jig, Jetty Howley's Jig, Willie Shannon's, talk about music for set dancing
15. Hornpipe: Murphy's
16. Speech: talk about the previous tune, listening to 78's, learning tunes
17. Reels/Speech: Pappy Tierney's [Tommy Peoples', Boys of the Lough], Dublin Porter, talk about the tunes
18. Reels/speech: Sporting Nelly, Untitled (Gus Tierney's), talk about the tunes
19. Reels/Speech: John Joe Lynch's, Sean Darcy's, talk about the tunes
20. Reels/Speech: Sporting Paddy [Steampacket], Jimmy Mulqueeny's [version of 'Kiss the Maid Behind the Barrel' CRE 1,74 ?], talk about the tunes
21. Reels/Speech: Untitled (from Jimmy Ward), Untitled (from Austin Linnane), talk about the tunes
22. Jigs/Speech: Untitled, Untitled (from Paddy Bert, concertina), Untitled ['A Visit to Ireland', DMI 39]
23. Speech: stories of the supernatural, fairies in the house [END OF 244-ITMA-DAT]
24. Speech: conclusion of story of the supernatural [from previous track], talk about house dances, local musicians [END OF 245-ITMA-DAT]