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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, 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:
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]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, singing and speech in English with A1-11 [off-air dubs];
Unidentified performers, singing and speech in English with A12-19;
Morton, Robin, singing in English 20-22

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled
2. Speech/Song: Seven Gypsies
3. Song: Untitled
4. Song: Untitled
5. Song: Untitled
6. Song: Untitled
7. Song: Untitled
8. Song: Untitled
9. Song: Untitled
10. Song: Untitled
11. Song: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
12. Song/Speech: Untitled
13. Song/Speech: Untitled
14. Song: Blackwater Town
15. Song: She Moved Through the Fair
16. Song/Speech: Untitled
17. Song: Roll Me from the Wall
18. Song: Untitled
19. Song: Untitled (fragment)
20. Song: Untitled
21. Song: Untitled (fragment)
22. Song: Roll Me from the Wall [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Mullarky, Peter, singing in English in duet A1, 6-8;
Mullarky, Nelly, singing in English in duet A1, 6-8, singing in English A2;
Maguire, Biddy, singing in English A3-5, speech in English A3;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A9

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled [The Shady Woods of Trugh]
2. Song: Untitled
3. Song: The Strabane Hiring Fair (fragmented)
4. Song: The Strabane Hiring Fair
5. Song: The Strabane Hiring Fair [END OF BAND ONE]
6. Song: Untitled [The Shady Woods of Trugh] (fragment)
7. Song: Untitled [The Shady Woods of Trugh]
8. Song: Untitled [The Shady Woods of Trugh]
9. Song: Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Maguire, John, speech in English A1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 14, singing in English A2, 4, 6, 11, 14;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout;
Unidentified Performers:
singing in English A8-10, 12-13, 15, speech in English throughout band two

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about writing the song the following song
2. Song: The Molly Maguires
3. Speech: talk about the following song
4. Song: Untitled
5. Speech: talk about the previous song, The Hibernians, political songs, uniform of The Molly Maguires
6. Song: Texas Isle
7. Speech: talk about the previous song, John Fox, cock fighting, types of spades, McMahon spades, quarrying rock
8. Song: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
9. Song: Plains of Kildare
10. Song/Speech: Thatched Cabin on the Hill
11. Song/Speech: Untitled [Kate from Ballinamore]
12. Song/Speech: Untitled
13. Song/Speech: Untitled
14. Song/Speech: Untitled
15. Song/Speech: Young Mary From Kilmore [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Maguire, John, singing in English A1-4, speech in English A1-3

Running Order:
1. Speech/Song: The Wee Tailor from Tyrone
2. Song/Speech: The Hot Asphalt
3. Song/Speech: The Rambler from Clare
4. Song: Untitled (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Unidentified performers [Vincent Griffen, Geraldine Carrig ?] fiddle and harp duet A1-4;
Griffen, Vincent, speech in English A5, 7, 9, fiddle solo A6, 8;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Air: Untitled
2. Air: Untitled
3. Air: Untitled (fragment)
4. Air: Untitled
5. Speech: talk about music in the family, musicians in the area, Jim Mac Namara (Rua), Johnny Allen, Patrick Maloney,
6. Reel: Untitled (fragment)
7. Speech: talk about learning fiddle from Patty Powell, playing with the Shamrock Ceili Band, Hibernian Ceili Band in England, working in England, fiddle competitions
8. Reel: Untitled
9. Speech: talk about touring England and America with music groups, teaching music locally, breeding greyhounds, Paddy Fahy, Martin Rochford, Paddy Canny, Ed Reavy [END OF BAND ONE]
10. [BAND TWO NOT USED]