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The Kilfenora and Tulla Céilí Bands in competition in The Square, Kilrush, Co. Clare, July 1959 (The Kilfenora Ceilí Band won the competition). Recorded by Martin Forde, Galway

00:00:10 - 00:02:40 | Roddy McCorley, march / Tulla Céilí Band
00:02:42 - 00:04:57 | Angry peeler, jig ; I will if I can, jig / Tulla Céilí Band
00:05:00 - 00:07:33 | Connemara stockings, reel ; Westmeath hunt, reel ; Tear the calico, reel / Tulla Céilí Band
00:07:35 - 00:09:49 | Unidentified, march ; unidentified, march / Tulla Céilí Band
00:09:58 - 00:11:59 | Joe Burke's, jig ; Leitrim fancy, jig / Tulla Céilí Band
00:12:01 - 00:14:01 | The Kilmaley, reel ; Unidentified, reel / Tulla Céilí Band

The Kilfenora Céilí Band performing in a marquee, Ballinderreen, Co. Galway, 22 September 1959. Recorded by Martin Forde, Galway

00:14:04 - 00:14:21 | Introduction to the Kilfenora band recorded in Ballinderreen, 1959, speech / Martin Ford, speech in English
00:14:23 - 00:16:47 | Old man Dillon, jig ; Rose in the heather, jig / Kilfenora Céilí Band
00:17:04 - 00:19:38 | The Four Courts [Paddy in London], jig ; Unidentified, jig ; The Four Courts, jig / Kilfenora Céilí Band
00:19:41 - 00:22:40 | The frost is all over, jig ; Kilfenora, jig / Kilfenora Céilí Band
00:22:49 - 00:26:32 | The gentle maiden, waltz ; Unidentified, waltz / Kilfenora Céilí Band
00:26:38 - 00:31:33 | Unidentified, waltzes / Kilfenora Céilí Band

Barney McKenna & Tony MacMahon recorded at the Focus Theatre, [Dublin], 1970s

The kid on the mountain, slip jig / Barney McKenna, banjo

Recording of Joe Ryan, Eoin O'Neill and Gerdie Commane, 1980s

Side A
00:22:08 - 00:25:37 | The Chicago reel ; Scotch Mary, reel ; Templehouse, reel / Joe Ryan, fiddle ; Eoin O'Neill, bouzouki
00:31:25 - 00:33:36 | Piper's chair, jig ; The maids in the meadow, jig / Joe Ryan, fiddle ; Eoin O'Neill, bouzouki
00:33:38 - 00:36:07 | Stone in the field, reel ; Laurel tree, reel / Joe Ryan, fiddle ; Eoin O'Neill, bouzouki ; Unidentified, concertina

An evening at East Avenue, Minneapolis, Mn.

Side A
00:08:09 - 00:14:41 | The foxhunter's reel / James Kelly, fiddle ; Daithí Sproule, guitar
00:16:10 - 00:20:28 | The ashplant, reel ; The merry harriers, reel ; The Limerick lasses, reel / Tony MacMahon, accordion ; James Kelly, fiddle ; Daithí Sproule, guitar

Recorded by Doug Hillyard in Arcata, California, 10 July 1980

Side A:
00:00:00 - 00:02:45 | Tony recounts the fame of Joe Cooley in Ireland and US, especially in San Francisco, speech / Tony MacMahon, speech in English
00:02:35 - 00:06:11 | The morning dew, reel ; Cooley's, reel / Tony MacMahon, accordion
00:07:19 - 00:10:51 | The bucks of Oranmore, reel ; Toss the feathers, reel / Tony MacMahon, accordion, speech in English
00:10:53 - 00:13:26 | Joe Heaney recounts growing up in Connemara and importance of passing on the musical and singing tradition, speech / Joe Heaney, speech in English
00:13:27 - 00:17:06 | As I roved out on a May morning, song / Joe Heaney, singing in English
00:17:07 - 00:19:34 | Recalling Cromwell's invasion of Ireland and anecdote about the 'The rocks of bawn', speech / Joe Heaney, speech in English
00:19:35 - 00:22:42 | The rocks of bawn, song / Joe Heaney, singing in English
00:23:22 - 00:26:35 | Intro to song, speech ; [Eggs and marrowbones], song / Joe Heaney, singing in English
00:26:36 - 00:35:16 | Story telling in Carna, Connemara, riddle story, story about Protestant converting so he could court a Catholic woman with clover under pillow to win the love of Mary, and eating meat on a Friday, speech / Joe Heaney, speech in English
00:35:16 - 00:38:07 | Intro to song, speech ; An chúilfhionn, song / Joe Heaney, singing in Irish, speech in English
00:38:08 - 00:43:18 | Intro to Seven drunken nights, speech ; Seven drunken nights, song / Joe Heaney, singing in English
00:43:19 - 00:47:06 | Dear Irish boy [Buachaillín bán], slow air / Tony MacMahon, accordion, speech in English [abrupt ending to tape]

Side B:
00:00:06 - 00:02:17 | Ships are sailing, reel / Tony MacMahon, accordion
00:02:35 - 00:04:17 | Intro to Banish misfortune, reference to the Famine and emigration to US, speech / Tony MacMahon, speech in English
00:04:18 - 00:09:34 | Banish misfortune, jig ; Piper on the hob, jig ; Geese in the bog, jig / Tony MacMahon, accordion
00:09:35 - 00:12:43 | Intro to 'The wounded huzzar', collected from Séamus Ennis, speech / Tony MacMahon, speech in English
00:12:44 - 00:18:69 | The wounded huzzar, slow air / Tony MacMahon, accordion
00:19:00 - 00:23:50 | Intro by Joe about love song, speech ; I wish I had someone to love me, song / Joe Heaney, singing in English
00:23:51 - 00:27:14 | The American wake, port béil, speech ; My love is in America, reel ; off to California, hornpipe / Joe Heaney, speech in English, lilting, singing in English
00:27:48 - 00:31:02 | Intro, speech ; A stór mo chroí, song / Joe Heaney, singing in English, speech in English
00:32:18 - 00:36:22 | Captain Wedderburn's courtship [And you lie next the wall], song / Joe Heaney, singing in English
00:36:26 - 00:42:04 | Story of couple going to the parish priest for advice for 'wild son', speech / Joe Heaney, speech in English
00:42:20 - 00:47:18 | Intro to Cúnla ; Cúnla, song / Joe Heaney, singing in English, singing in Irish

Recorded at Windle's, Carrigkerry, Co. Limerick

My trousers turned back, song / Con Greaney, singing in English