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Performers:
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout;
Connor, Mary, Derry, speech in English A1, 3, 5-11, recitation in English A2, 4-9;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A3, 5-11;
Abraham, Mr, singing in English A13;
Marshall, Billy, singing in English A14;
McAdam, David, singing in English A16;
Foy, Jimmy, singing in English A18, 20;
McAdam, Wilson, singing in English A21;
Menish, George, singing in English A24;
Forbes, Tom, singing in English A25;
Menish, Davy, singing in English A26;
Allen, Sam, singing in English B2, 4;
Harper, David, singing in English B3, 5;
Downes, Joe, singing in English B6;
Unidentified performer, singing in English B7;
Unidentified performers, harmonica, bodhran duet B8;
Rodgers, Ernie, singing in English B9;
Matchett, Willie, singing in English B10;
Symington, Willie F, singing in English B11;
Matchett, Sam, singing in English B12;
Unidentified singer, singing in English B13;
Whiteside, Arthur, singing in English B14;
Forbes, ?, singing in English B15

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about Mary Connor's mother singing
2. Recitation: Young Betsy
3. Speech: talk about previous recitation, old times, convoys, dances, musicians (warpiper) playing for dances, where do you come from?
4. Recitation: The Priest
5. Speech/Recitation: talk about previous recitation, continuation of the recitation `The Priest'
6. Speech/Recitation: talk about recitation following and John Flanagan
7. Speech/Recitation: The Banks of Claudy
8. Speech: true local tragic story about a young girl who fell for a local man Willie Doyle
9. Speech/Recitation: The London Lights
10. Speech: talk about how she learned song from a girl from Bellaghey
11. Speech: talk about Harry/Henry McKey (local singer)
12. Speech: background noise
13. Song: Untitled
14. Speech/Song: The Rose of Tralee
15. Speech: background noise
16. Song: My Mother's Day
17. Speech: background noise
18. Recitation: Sarah Anne
19. Speech: background noise
20. Recitation: The Company of the Boozer
21. Speech/Song: The Ould Bog Road
22. Song: Untitled [unfinished]
23. Speech: background noise
24. Song: The Black Velvet Band
25. Song: Still I Love Him
26. Song: Closing the Gates [END OF BAND ONE]
27. Start: Speech
28. Song: Portadown
29. Song: Cromie's Buck
30. Song: King Billy at the Boyne
31. Song: The Buck Around the World
32. Song: Clover Hill
33. Song: Untitled [unfinished]
34. Jigs: Unfinished [unfinished]
35. Song: Old House
36. Song: Gypse Rover
37. Song: Orange Hall (Wrecking of the Hall)
38. Song: The Mystic Ground
39. Song: The Rocks of Bawn
40. Song: The Armagh Market Cross
41. Song: Murder of Mullan (?) [END OF BAND TWO]

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:
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:
Unidentified performers, playing in ensemble A1;
Unidentified performers, speech in English throughout A;
Menish, David, singing in English A3, singing in English in ensemble A18;
Foy, Jimmy, recitation in English A4;
Metcalf, Albert, singing in English A6;
Dunlop, Jimmy, singing in English A8;
Wright, Jimmy, singing in English A10, 20;
Wright, Bob, singing in English A12;
Lowe, Mrs, singing in English A14;
Hamil, Willie, singing in English A16;
Marshall, Billy, singing in English in ensemble A18;
Unidentified performers, singing in English with guitar A21, 22;
Unidentified perfofmer, singing in English A23;
Unidentified perfofmers, singing in English in ensemble A24;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout B;
Smith, Eddie, Belturbit, speech in English B1, recitation B1, fiddle solo B2;
Keane, Sarah, Co Galway, singing in English in duet B3, singing in English in duet with accordion, B7, singing in Irish, B8, 9 (possible error on original track list for performer of B9);
Keane, Rita, Co Galway, singing in English in duet B3, singing in English in duet with accordion B7;
Unidentified performer, accordion with singing in duet B7;
Unidentified performers, singing in ? in duet, B4;
Glynn, Joe, Ballinasloe, Co Galway, singing in English B5, 11, speech in English B11;
Unidentified performer, singing in English, B6

Running Order:
1. Piece: Untitled
2. Speech: background noise
3. Song: The Maple Leaf Forever
4. Recitation: Drumlister
5. Speech: background noise
6. Song: Mother Dear I Must Go
7. Speech: background noise
8. Song: The Hymn that I Sang as a Boy
9. Speech: background noise
10. Song: The Back of the HIll
11. Speech: background noise
12. Song: The Derryad Flute Band
13. Speech: background noise
14. Song: By the Old Mill Stream
15. Speech: background noise
16. Song: Faded Coat of Blue
17. Speech: background noise
18. Song: The Shadow of the Pines
19. Speech: background noise
20. Song: The Orange Maid of Sligo
21. Song: Untitled
22. Song: Untitled
23. Song: Untitled
24. Song: Untitled (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]
25. Speech/Recitation: Jackson and Jane
26. Jigs: Toman's Jigs
27. Song: Lord Donegal (last verse interupted by clapping)
28. Song/Speech: Holah
29. Song: Mary on the Banks
30. Song: The Cot in the Corner
31. Song: The Blackbird of Avondale
32. Song/Speech: Gra Mo Croi
33. Song: Ana Chuain
34. Speech/Song: background noise
35. Song/Speech: Mary from Glenrue [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Gunn, Tommy, speech in English throughout, fiddle solo A1-14;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Reel: McDermots
2. Speech/Reel: The Boys of Ballisadare, The Hare's Paw, mention of Paddy Kenny
3. Speech/Waltz: talk about technique - bow triplets, 'Daisy Bell' played as example
4. Speech/Reel: talk about technique - long bow, 'Poor Old Joe' and 'Tommy Coen's Reel' played as examples
5. Speech/Reel: talk about technique - bowing, 'Tommy Coen's Reel' played as example
6. Speech/Reel: Miss McCloud's Reel
7. Speech/Jig: The Lochenvar [?]
8. Speech/Reel: Lock Reavys Castle
9. Speech/Reel: The Noon Lasses
10. Speech/Jig: The Tranice Jig (Tranish Island?)
11. Speech/Reel: The Chorus Reel
12. Speech/Jig: The Tranice Single Jig (Tranish Island?)
13. Speech/Reel: The Rakes of Abbey
14. Speech/Reel: Untitled (incomplete) (composed by performer) [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Gunn, Tommy, speech in English throughout, fiddle solo A1-5, A7-9, A14-20, lilting A9, 13;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech/Reel: The First of May
2. Speech/Reel: talk about Andy Carne, Stormy Saturday
3. Speech/Reel: The Curla Reel [?]
4. Speech/Reel: mention of Johny Concart, The Yorkshire Lassies
5. Reel: Dillion's Reel
6. Speech: talk about differences between old and new tunes,
7. Speech/Reel: The Kilfenora Reel
8. Speech/Reel: talk about different techniques used for playing the older tunes - triplet at the end of a phrase, Lady Ann Montgomery
9. Speech/Lilt/Reel: talk about techniques used - the clean cut, George Whites
10. Speech: talk about techniques used - changing key
11. Speech: talk about techniques used - repeating tunes, hornpipes and set dances played for dancers
12. Speech: talk about the difference between playing for dancers and listeners,
13. Speech/Lilt: talk about putting tunes in sets, Untitled
14. Speech/Reel: The Humours of Ballyconnell
15. Reel: The Rakes of Abbey
16. Speech/Reel: The Humours of Macken
17. Speech/Jig: Untitled
18. Speech/Jig: The Three Hand Slip Jig [?]
19. Speech/Polka: Untitled
20. Speech/Waltz: Valetta Waltz [?] [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:
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:
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:
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]