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Performers:
Smith, Danny, accordion, speech in English

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about musicians in the locality in 1910, learning music from aunt Nora O'Brien
2. Jig/Speech: Leave it Down Easy [The Killaloe Boatman]
3. Speech: talk about Tommy Ward, Globe single row accordions, house and barn dances, local sets, sets in Philadelphia
4. Jig/Polka: Untitled, The Three Little Drummers, The Three Little Drummers
5. Slides/Speech: Cock of the North, Patsy Gan Naire
6. Reel/Speech: The Cat that Ate the Candle [Johnny when You Die]
7. Highland Fling/Speech: The Cat that Ate the Candle
8. Highland Flings/Speech: The Eel in the Sink, The Blackberry Blossom, talk about local dances
9. Barndances/Speech: Untitled, talk about dancing a barndance
10. Barndances/Speech: Casey Jordan, The Chicken Reel
11. Barndance/Speech: Turkey in the Straw
12. Highland Flings/Speech: Untitled
13. Fling/Speech: The Flanagan's Chase the Banshee, talk about local dances
14. Polka/Speech: All the Way to Galway
15. Polka/Speech: Untitled
16. Polkas/Speech: Untitled, talk about the tunes used for local dances, lilt of 'The Irish Washerwoman'
17. Hornpipes/Speech: The Stack of Barley, The Rights of Man, The Derry Hornpipe
18. Hornpipe/Reel/Speech: The Carabhat (The Stack of Wheat), The Bird in the Tree
19. Polka/Speech: Jenny Lind
20. Waltz/Speech: Pull Down the Blind, Lurgan Stream ?
21. Speech: talk about singers, going to Philadelphia in 1927 (returned 1969), life in America, listening to the Victrola, records available at the time
22. Reels: The Tap Room Reel, The Moving Bog
23. Speech: talk about PJ Conlon, John Kimmel, accordion maker Frank Walters, description of his accordion
24. Reel/Speech: The Graff-Spey
25. Reel/Speech: Miss McLeod's Reel, talk about the style of American musicians
26. Speech: talk about playing in Ceili Bands for dances, description of sets danced in Philadelphia, highland flings, lilt of 'Shoe the Donkey', one steps
27. Katie Conors (medley)/Barndance/Speech: Katie Conor, The Arkansas Traveller, talk about the tunes used for the 'Katie Conors', examples of reels played as highland flings
28. Flings/Speech: Jenny Tie your Bonnet, Upstairs in a Tent [The Devil in the Kitchen or The Ivy Leaf]
29. Highland Flings/Speech: The Eel in the Sink, The Blackberry Blossom
30. Highland Flings/Speech: Handy Andy, Untitled, talk about musicians
31. Flings/Speech: The Moneymusk

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:
Carroll, Jack, Dublin, speech in English, track 2, recitation in English, track 2-3, 9-10, singing in English, track 14, 17
Greaney, Con, Limerick, singing in English, track 4-6, 12, 15-16, 19, B2-3, 8
Gleeson, Barry, Dublin, singing in English, track 7, 11, 18
Conniff, Kevin, Dublin, singing in English, track 8, 13, 20
Cheevers, Luke, Dublin, singing in English B7
Weldon, Nellie, Dublin, singing in English B1
Unidentified singers, singing in English B4-6
Coniff, Kevin, bodhran, track 11, 20

Running Order:
1. Start: background noise
2. Speech/Recitation: Flowery Nolan (unfinished) (mic pops)
3. Recitation: The Bare Half Crown (mic pops)
4. Song: Untitled
5. Song: Untitled
6. Song: Untitled
7. Song: Bold Doherty
8. Song: The Lovely Helen Brown
9. Recitation: The Bright Silvery Light of the Moon
10. Recitation: Sinful, Gin-full, Rum Soaked Men
11. Song: Untitled
12. Song: Untitled
13. Song: Untitled
14. Song: The Old Bog Road
15. Song: Untitled
16. Song: Untitled
17. Song: Untitled
18. Song: Untitled
19. Song: Untitled
20. Song: The Pride of Pimlico [recording continued on CDR b]
21. Song: You and I Truely One, background noise
22. Song: Untitled
23. Song: Untitled
24. Song: Untitled
25. Song: Untitled
26. Speech/Song: Willie Reilly
27. Song: Untitled
28. Song: Untitled [end of DAT]

Performers: Cherry, Rab, speech in English, tracks 1, 13 ; Mick, Brown, speech in English throughout ; Meehan, Danny, speech in English throughout, fiddle solo, tracks 3-4, 6, 8-9, 11-12

Running Order:
Speech: Introduction of the performer and background information
Speech: Introduction of the performer and background information about Danny Meehan, his local area, stone cutters, John Mhosai McGinley, local musicians around Mountcharles, music in the family, McGroarty family, house dances, quarantines, Thomas Doherty, Charlie McCahill, Peter Quinn, Paddy McDyer, John Doherty
Speech/Jig: Background speech, Money in both Pockets
Speech/Reel/Speech: Talk about the tune, The Maid that Dare Not Tell, further talk about the tune
Speech: Talk about fidlers Eddie Monahan, John James Cunningham, bowing technique
Speech/Reel: Introduction of the tune, Erwin's Roar ? (Erwin Rourke's ?)
Speech: Talk about the local musicians in Danny's youth, James Byrne, music in London in the 1960's, Le Cheile
Speech/Jig: Introduction of the tune, Untitled (Neilidh Boyle's)
Speech/Reel: Introduction of the tune, The Graf Spey
Speech: Talk about the fiddle player 'McGonagle'
Speech/Jig: Introduction of the tune, The Wren Jig
Speech/Jig: Talk about the tune, The Irish Washerwoman
Speech: Talk about working in London, family, music, moving back to Donegal, different tunings for the fiddle, musicians in London, advice for young fiddle players, background speech [END OF DAT]

Performers:
Mooney, Gearoid, speech in English and Irish, track 1, B9
Mc Keon, Conor, speech in English, track 2-3, 6, 8, B2, 5, 7, pipes in trio, track 2-3, 7-8, B1-2, 6-8, pipes solo, track 6, B5
Mc Keon, Sean, speech in English, track 4, 7, B1, 3, 6, 8, pipes in trio, track 2-3, 7-8, B1-2, 6-8, pipes solo, track 4, B3
Mc Keon, Gay, speech in English B4, pipes in trio, track 2-3, 7-8, B1-2, 6-8, pipes solo, track 5, B4
McGlynn, Arty, guitar, track 2-4, 6-8, B1-8
Corcoran, Mary, piano, track 7-8, B6-8
O'Neachtain, Seosamh, dancing B7

Running Order:
1. Speech: introduction to the concert
2. Speech/Jigs: talk about the following tunes, Tom Billy's, The Hag at the Churn, The Horseshoe
3. Speech/Hop Jigs: talk about the following tunes, Comb Your Hair and Curl it, The Dusty Miller
4. Speech/Jigs: talk about the following tunes, Jackson's Morning Brush, Untitled, Happy to Meet Sorry to Part
5. Slow Air: Untitled [An Speic Seoigheach]
6. Speech/Reels: talk about the following tunes, Garret Barry's Reel, The Maid in the Cherry Tree, The Flax in Bloom
7. Speech/O'Carolan Pieces: introduction to Mary Corcoran, talk about the following tunes, Bumper Squire Jones, Planxty Charles O'Connor
8. Speech/Reels: talk about the following tunes, The Blackthorn Stick, Tansey's Favourite, Barr na Cuile [END OF THE FIRST HALF OF CONCERT]
9. Speech/Reels: talk about the following tunes, The Pretty Girls of Mayo, The Jolly Tinker
10. Speech/Hornpipes: talk about the following tunes, An tSean Bhean Bhocht, The Buck from the Mountain
11. Speech/Fling/Reels: talk about the following tunes, Kitty Got a Clinking Coming from the Fair, Farewell to Erin, The Silver Spear
12. Speech/Slip Jigs: talk about the following tunes, talk about his set of pipes, An Phis Fliuch, The Humours of Derrykissane
13. Speech/Reels: The Salamanca, The Braes of Busby, Bonnie Kate
14. Speech/Jigs: talk about the following tunes, The Humours of Lisheen, The Gallowglass, The Chordal Jig
15. Speech/Reels: thanking various people, talk about the following tunes, The Dublin Reel, Peter Street, The Fairy Reel
16. Speech/Reels: talk about the following tunes, The Crooked Road to Dublin, The Bucks of Oranmore
17. Speech: closing of the concert