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Performers:
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout;
Maguire, John, Tonaydrumallard, Co Fermanagh, speech in English A1-2, 4, singing in English A4, 7;
Unidentified performers, speech in English A3, fiddle duet A3;
?, Frank, singing in English A5-6

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about changes in farming and agriculture
2. Speech: talk about John Maguire's family (Hughie, Bridie, John-Joe), talk about the dowry for a daughter
3. Jig/Speech: The Bride of Bonnie ?
4. Speech/Song: Untitled
5. Song: Untitled
6. Song: Untitled
7. Song: The Lass from Glasgow Town [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout, B6, accordion in duet B4;
Unidentified performers, speech in English A1-3;
Young, Robert, singing in English A1;
Turkington, Bertie, singing in English A3;
Kennedy, Peter, speech in English A4;
Bowman, Billy, Cockamerth, accordion in duet A4, 6, speech in English A5;
Wilson, Myles, singing in English A4, 6, speech in English A5;
Unidentified performer: singing in ? A8;
O'Riada, Sean, with unindentified performers, playing in ensemble A8;
Troy, Paddy, Doonaha, Co.Clare, singing in English A10, 13;
Shey, Hugh, singing in English A11;
Unidentified performer (landlord), singing in English A12;
Lee, Hugh, Co Fermanagh, singing in English A14-18, B5, 7, 8, 10-14, speech in English B9, 10, 13;
McConnell, Cathal, whistle in duet B1, flute solo B2, 3, whistle/flute in duet B4;
Unidentified performers, speech in English B9, 10

Running Order:
1. Speech/Song: The 1st Creation
2. Speech: background noise
3. Song/Speech: The Hills of Tandragee
4. Speech/Song: Untitled (hunting song)
5. Speech: talking about the tradition of hunting songs
6. Song: Untitled
7. Song: Untitled
8. Piece: Untitled (from the album 'Ding Dong')
9. Speech: background noise
10. Song: Navvy Shoes
11. Song: The Auld Cow
12. Song: South of Doonaha
13. Song: Still I Love Her
14. Song: Heather on the Moor (Queen among the Heather)
15. Song: Erin's Isle
16. Song: The Green and Happy Land of Erin
17. Song: Farmer's Boy
18. Song: Lovely Banks of Boyne [END OF BAND ONE]
19. Piece: O'Rourke's Feast
20. Piece: Planxty Maguire
21. Air: The Coolin (old version in two keys)
22. Air: Anach Chuain
23. Song: Young Edwin in the Lowlands
24. Speech: brief words about Hugh Lee and where these recordings of him originated
25. Song: Molly Bawn
26. Song: No Irish Need Apply
27. Speech: talking to Hugh Lee about singing, playing the fiddle and flute
28. Speech/Song: The Heights of Alma
29. Song: Are You the Maid of Erin ?
30. Song: Erin's Lovely Isle
31. Speech/Song: The Strayed Ass
32. Song: Pat and his Drum [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Gunn, Tommy, speech in English throughout, fiddle solo A1, 3-5, lilting A1, lilting with fiddle in duet A6

Running Order:
1. Speech/Reel: talk about the technique of writing tunes, Untitled
2. Speech: talk about Tommy Gunn's compositions
3. Speech/Reel: The Mossy Banks (composed by performer)
4. Speech/Reel: talk about the fiddler Willie Jones, Willie Jones' Reel
5. Speech/Reel: The Cottage in the Grove (The Teetotaler)
6. Speech/Jig: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Unidentifed performers, singing in Irish A1-2, singing in English A3, fiddle solo A4, 6, B1-3, pipes solo A5, B4, 8, 12, flute solo A7, B10-11, accordion solo A8, B7, whistle solo B5, 6, concertina solo B9

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled
2. Song: Untitled
3. Song: Untitled
4. Reels: The Congress Reel, Untitled
5. Reel: Untitled
6. Jigs: Untitled
7. Slip Jigs: Untitled
8. Jig: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
9. Jig: Untitled
10. Reel: Untitled
11. Jig: Untitled
12. Single Jig: Ask My Father
13. Slides: Untitled
14. Reels: Untitled
15. Hornpipes: Untitled
16. Hornpipe: Untitled
17. Hornpipes: Untitled, The Ebb Tide
18. Set Dance: The Hunt
19. Set Dance: Untitled
20. Jig: Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, speech in English throughout;
Battlefield Band, The, speech in English throughout, singing an playing in ensemble throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech/Piece: Dueling Banjos
2. Speech/Song: The Three Gypsies
3. Speech/Reels: Richmonds, The Hanged Man's Reel
4. Speech/Song: The Orange Blossom Special
5. Speech/Song: Bakerhill
6. Speech/Polkas: Untitled
7. Speech/Song: The Bloomin Laddies [END OF BAND ONE]
8. Speech/Song: The Black Legged Miner
9. Speech/Reels: The Four Poster Bed, Statin Island, Untitled
10. Speech/Song: The Sand Gate Girl's Lament (?)
11. Speech/Song: High Germany
12. Set Dance/Reel: The Blackbird, The Mason's Apron
13. Speech/Song: Untitled
14. Speech: A few words to finish up the night [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, playing in ensemble: singing in English, playing in ensemble: harmonium, bouzouki, whistle, guitar, concertina, fiddle, mandolin

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled
2. Reels: Untitled
3. Song: Untitled
4. Song: Untitled
5. Song: Untitled
6. March/Reels: Untitled
7. Slow Reel/Stratspey/March/Reel: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A10, 11, fiddle in duet A1-9;
Unidentified performer, flute in duet A1-9

Running Order:
1. Reels: Untitled
2. Reels: Untitled (take 1)
3. Reels: Untitled (take 2)
4. Reels: Untitled (take 3)
5. Reels: Untitled (take 4)
6. Highland/Reel: Untitled
7. Jigs: Untitled (take 1)
8. Jigs: Untitled (take 2)
9. Reels: Untitled
10. Reels: Untitled
11. Reel: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Gunn, Tommy, speech in English throughout, fiddle solo A1, 9, singing in English A1, 2;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech/Air/Song: My Own Native Land Far Away [Erin Gra Mo Chroi], mention of Katie Gunn
2. Speech/Song: The Jazz Dance (composed by performer)
3. Speech: talk about jazz dances, modern dances, The Starlight Dance Band, the decline of traditonal music and dances, radio, record players, records from America, television, Comhaltas and the revival of traditional music
4. Speech: talk about the recordings from America, Micheal Coleman's recordings, Phil Martin's Ceili Band, the effect of Coleman's recordings on musicians, changing repetoire
5. Speech: talk about the changing repertoire of local young musicians, changes in local style, Morrison, John McKenna, Tommy McBrine, Frank McGovern
6. Speech: talk about popular instruments at the time, fiddle, accordion, Hugh Lee, Phil Martin, Brian Boru pipes
7. Speech: talk about good places for music in the locality, Andy Carne, Hugh Gunn, John Mac, John Eddie's house, Old Tom's house, Paddy Gunn's house
8. Speech: talk about local people composing tunes and songs, Eddie Corrigan
9. Speech/Reel: The Yellow Heifer
10. Speech/March: March to Vinegar Hill [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Gunn, Tommy, speech throughout, fiddle solo A1-5, 7-16, singing in English A6, lilting A17;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Reel/Speech: The Boys of Ballisadare, The Hare's Paw
2. Reel: The Dublin Reel, The Tulla Reel
3. Reel: The Floggin Reel, The Kilfenora Reel, The Liffey Banks
4. Jigs/Speech: Untitled
5. Speech/Air: talk about the song 'Lovely Jane' sung by Mrs Gunn, Lovely Jane
6. Song/Speech: Lovely Jane (incomplete)
7. Reel: Lucy Cambell
8. Hornpipe: The Cork Hornpipe
9. Reel/Speeech: McCoys Measure (composed by performer)
10. Speech/Reel: talk about the names of tunes composed by the performer, The Miller of Drone (composed by performer)
11. Speech/Reel: The Swallow's Tail
12. Speech/Reel: Murphy's Reel, Untitled
13. Speech/Reel: The Black Haired Lass
14. Speech/Jig: The Galway Jig
15. Speech/Hornpipe: The Derrylinn Hornpipe (composed by performer)
16. Speech/Jig: The Cloghen Jig [?] (composed by performer)
17. Speech/Lilt: talk about composing tunes, Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout, lilting B15, 16;
Whiteside, Arthur, Canary Moy, aged 80, speech in English A1, 9, 11, 12, 14, B1, 2, 4-10, 16, 18, singing in English A7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 15, B1-3, 5, 7-9, 18, fiddle solo B10-17;
Rodgers, Ernie, singing in English A2;
Matchett, ?, singing in English A3;
Matchett, Sam, singing in English A4;
W. J, ?, singing in English A5, 6;
Unidentified, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about the song 'Tullyrone'
2. Song: Townlands of Bowvane (fragment)
3. Song: 1st Creation
4. Song: 1st of July
5. Song: The Flowers of Sweet Strabane
6. Song: Inniskilling Dragoons
7. Song: Londonderry
8. Song: Tullyrone
9. Speech: talk about the 'Armagh Market Cross'
10. Song: Armagh Market Cross
11. Speech: talk about singing and the source of songs
12. Song/Speech: Bonny Bunch of Roses
13. Song/Speech: The Ladder Out of Purgatory
14. Speech: talk about Orange songs
15. Song: Banks of the Boyne [END OF BAND ONE]
16. Speech/Song: The Town of Belfast
17. Song/Speech: Farewell Ballyroney
18. Song: Derry the Maiden City
19. Speech: talk about the songs 'No Surrender' and 'Cromie's Orange Buck'
20. Speech/Song: The Bones of Portadown
21. Speech: talk about their attitudes towards Catholics and mention of songs about women dressing up in men's clothes
22. Song/Speech: On Patrick's Day in the Morning
23. Song/Speech: Fal da dal laddie (Priest Song)
24. Song/Speech: Transubstantiation
25. Speech/March: [The Sash]
26. March: Untitled
27. Reel: Untitled
28. Jig: Untitled
29. Reel/Hornpipe: Untitled
30. Jigs/Lilting: The Racks of Malin, Haste to the Wedding
31. Speech/Lilting: Untitled
32. Jig/Speech: Untitled
33. Speech/Song: Reared on the Orange and the Blue [END OF BAND TWO]