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Performers:
Canny, Paddy, Clare, fiddle in duet, track 1-11, 20-21, 25-26, B1-3, fiddle solo, track 22-24
Griffin, Vincent, fiddle in duet, track 1-11, 20-21, 25-26, B1-3, fiddle solo, track 12-19, B4-10
Strogen, Monica, Galway, piano throughout

Running Order:
1. Jigs: The Luckpenny, Garrett Barry (unfinished)
2. Jigs: The Luckpenny, Garrett Barry
3. Hornpipe: The Drunken Sailor
4. Reels: Master Crowley's, Roscommon Reel
5. Reels: The Enchanted Lady, The Holy Land
6. Reels: Paddy Fahy's, Paddy Fahy's
7. Reels: Lads of Laois, The First Month of Summer
8. Reel: The Graf Spee
9. Reels: Julia Delaney, Reel of Mullinavat
10. Reels: The Bunch of Green Rushes, Untitled
11. Reels: Dowd's Favourite, Untitled
12. Air: Jimmy Mo Mhile Stor
13. Air: Blind Mary
14. Reels: Lad O'Beirne's, The Galway Rambler (A major)
15. Reels: Untitled [composed by Tommy Coen], Brendan McGlinchey's
16. Reels: Love at the Endings, The Monsignor's Blessing, Limerick Lasses
17. Reel: Miss Langford
18. Reel: Miss Langford (retake)
19. Reel: The Donegal Traveller (unfinished)
20. Jigs: Sean Ryan's, The Cliffs of Moher (A minor)
21. Reels: Julia Delaney, Reel of Mullinavat, The Queen of May
22. Jigs: Untitled, The Cliffs of Moher (G minor)
23. Reels: The Bunch of Keys, Untitled
24. Reel: The Jolly Tinker (John Doherty version)
25. Reel: O'Rourke's (unfinished)
26. Reels: O'Rourke's, The Wild Irishman
27. Reel: Jenny's Welcome to Charlie
28. Reels: The Jolly Tinker, Maud Millar, Molloy's Favourite
29. Reel: Lord Gordon
30. Reel: Gerry Cronin's (played in C and D)
31. Reels: Bonnie Kate, Jenny's Chickens
32. Reel: The Donegal Traveller
33. Reels: Untitled [Redigan composition ?], The Moving Cloud (F major)
34. Reels: Sergeant Early's Dream, Paddy Fahy's, Paddy Fahy's
35. Hornpipe: The Swan (composed by Sean Ryan)
36. Hornpipes: Untitled (composed by Ed Reavy), The Cuckoo Hornpipe

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:
Dungan, Michael, interview in English, track 1-14
Deane, Raymond, speech in English, track 1-14

Running Order:
1. Speech: anti-establishment, being on the Leaving Certificate
2. Speech: suitability of `seachanges' for an introduction to contemporary classical music
3. Speech: the trilogy being an irreverant view of death
4. Speech: resonances with earlier music
5. Speech: influences
6. Speech: suggested further listening
7. Speech: origins of the piece
8. Speech: focus on the micro-structure of the piece
9. Speech: the musical language of young people
10. Speech: view on music education in Ireland
11. Speech: suggested listening outside of `seachanges'
12. Speech: music in Raymond's teenage life
13. Speech: the background of the piece
14. Speech: organic nature of the piece [END OF DAT]

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]