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Louis Quinn Collection. Reel-to-Reel 39 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, spoken introductions A2-;
Quinnettes=;
Quinnettes, instrumental group A2, 8-9;
singing in English A4, 9;
accordion in group A2, 5, 8-9, accordion in duet A3;
fiddle in group A2, 4-5, 8-9, fiddle in duet A7;
harp in group A2, 8, harp solo A6

Running Order:
1. Tone
2. Speech/Jigs/Tone: Untitled, Untitled
3. Speech/Pieces/Tone: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
4. Speech/Song/Tone: It's Heaven Around Galway Bay [When they told me that Ireland was heaven...]
5. Speech/Pieces/Tone: Untitled, Untitled
6. Speech/Air/Tone: Untitled
7. Speech/Air/Tone: Untitled
8. Speech/PieceTone: Untitled
9. Speech/Song/March/Strathspey: Scotland the Brave [Hark when the night is falling...], Untitled, Untitled [END OF STEREO BANDS]

Louis Quinn Collection. Reel-to-Reel 41 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, singing in English A1-2;
Quinn, Louis, Armagh/New York, speech in English A3-5;
Cash, Kathleen, fiddle in duet A3-5;
Off-air dub of a TV programme A6;
Quinnettes A6

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled (beginning clipped)
2. Song: Untitled (beginning clipped)
3. Speech/Air: Blind Mary
4. Speech/Air: Ned of the Hill
5. Hornpipe: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
6. Radio Programme: off-air dub of Christmas music featuring one track from the Quinnettes [END OF BAND TWO]

Louis Quinn Collection. Reel-to-Reel 34 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer(s), speech in English A1, 3, 6, 8, 10-11, 13-14, 18, 20-24, 27-44, B1, 3, 6-24, 26-28;
O'Dowd, Joe, Sligo, fiddle solo A2-7, fiddle in ensemble A12-13, fiddle in duet A18-21;
Reynolds, Willie, Athlone, pipes duet A9-10, pipes in ensemble A12-13;
Doran, John, Dublin, pipes duet A9-10, pipes in ensemble A12;
Keenan, John, Dublin/Wicklow, accordion in ensemble A12-13;
Dowling, Jim, Dublin, ???? in ensemble A12-13;
Potts, Sean, Dublin, flute in ensemble A12-13;
Brown, Billy, accordion solo A14-17, accordion in duet A18-21;
Coen, Tommy, Galway, fiddle in quartet A23-26, fiddle in duet A27, 29-32, fiddle solo A28;
Moloney, Eddie, Galway, flute in quartet A23-26, flute in duet A29-32;
Kelly, Lar, Galway, flute in quartet A23-26, flute in duet A27;
Cummins????, Jimmy, Galway, accordion in quartet A23-26;
Green, Tommy, Longford, flute solo A34-37, whsitle solo A28 (aged 11yrs);
Mulhere, Brendan, accordion solo A39-40, B8, accordion in duet A41-42,;
Unidentified performer, fiddle in duet A41-42;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A43-44;
Quinn, Louis, Armagh/New York, speech in English B2, fiddle in quartet B3-6;
Ryan, John, ? in quartet B3-6;
Brogan, Tommy, concertina in quartet B3-6;
Unidentified performer, accordion in quartet B3-6;
McMahon, ????, singing in English B7;
Reilly, Mrs, Cavan, singing in English B9-10;
McAndrew, Hector, Scotland, fiddle in duet B12-15 (off-disc dubs);
Hardy, Bill, Scotland, fiddle in duet B16-17 (off-disc dubs);
Turkington, Tom, Tyrone, fiddle in duet B19-23;
Taggart, Fergus, fiddle solo B25-27

Running Order:
1. Speech: Introduction to Joe O'Dowd
2. Reel: Boys of the Lough, [The Boys of Ballisodare]
3. Speech/Reel: McFadden's
4. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
5. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
6. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
7. Reel: Untitled
8. Speech: Introduction to Willie Reynolds and John Doran
9. Jig: The Battering Ram
10. Speech/Reels: The Maid of Mount Cisco, Rakish Paddy
11. Speech: Introduction to Joe O'Dowd, Willie Reynolds, John Keenan, Jim Dowling and Sean Potts
12. Reel: Tim Maloney, The Lady of the House [=The Woman of the House]
13. Speech/Reels: Reavy's, Cooley's
14. Speech/Reel: Untitled (comp. Martin Mulhere - some of the following tracks may also be compositions of Martin Mulhere)
15. Reel: Untitled
16. Reel: Untitled
17. Reel: Untitled
18. Reel/Speech: Untitled
19. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
20. Speech/Reel: Untitled
21. Speech/Jigs: Untitled
22. Speech: Introduction to Tommy Coen, Eddie Maloney, Lar Kelly, Jimmy Cummins????
23. Speech/Reels: Amanda Rollins, Greig's Pipes
24. Speech/Reels: Joe Burke's, Untitled
25. Reel: The Moving Cloud
26. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
27. Speech/Reel: The Hunter's Purse (end clipped)
28. Speech/Reel: Maud Miller
29. Speech/Reel: Coen's Reel (comp. Tommy Coen) (interrupted)
30. Speech/Reel: The Limestone Rock
31. Speech/Reel: Eddie Maloney's Reel (comp. Eddie Maloney)
32. Speech/Reel: For the Sake of Old Decency
33. Speech: Introduction to Tommy Green (aged 11yrs)
34. Speech/Reel: Brearty's
35. Speech/Reel: Dillon's Fancy
36. Speech/Jig: O'Neill's
37. Speech/Hornpipe: Cooley's?
38. Speech/Reel: (named)
39. Speech/Reel: Untitled (comp. Brendan Mulhere)
40. Speech/Jigs: Untitled, Untitled
41. Speech/Reel: Untitled
42. Speech/Reel: Andy McGann's
43. Speech/Jigs: Untitled (performer introduced - difficult to make out)
44. Speech/Hornpipe: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
45. Speech: Introduction to Radio Eireann broadcast featuring Louis Quinn
46. Speech: Interview with Louis Quinn from a Radio Eireann programme
47. Speech: Introduction to....
48. Jig: Untitled (beginning clipped)
49. Jig: Untitled (beginning clipped)
50. Reel/Speech: Untitled (beginning clipped), performers back-announced
51. Speech/Song:Bold Jack Donoghue
52. Speech/Reel: Untitled
53. Speech/Song: The Home we Left Behind
54. Speech/Song: The Shores of America
55. Speech: Introduction to off-disc dubs of Hector McAndrew
56. Speech/Air/Strathspey/Reel: The Braes of..., The Glenlivet, The Gladstone Reel
57. Speech/Slow Strathspey/Reel/Hornpipe: The Deanbrig of Edinburgh, The Deanbrig Reel, The Banks
58. Speech/Strathspeys/Reels: Stirling Castle, Miller of Mearn, The Ould Wheel, Freddy Peggy
59. Speech/Air/Strathspeys, Reel: The Laird of Brae...., Sandy Cammon, Fogus Morrison, The Left Handed Fiddler
60. Speech/March/Strathspey/Reels/March/Strathspey/Reel: Scotland the Brave, The Laird of Drumblair, Speed the Plough, The De'il Among the Tailors, The Lass of Bon Accord, The Marquess of Huntley's Farewell, The Ten Pound Fiddle
61. Speech/Polkas/Strathspesy/Reel: The Bluebell Polka, Peter Head Polka, The Balkan Hills, Lady Mary Ramsey, Pretty Peggy
62. Speech: Introduction to Tom Turkington and Billy Adams
63. Speech/Reels: Shehan's, Miss McLeod's
64. Speech/Jig: The New Town Hall (comp. Tom Turkington) (end clipped)
65. Speech/Air: The Lark in the Clear Air
66. Speech/Hornpipes: Smith's Favourite, The Tailor's Twist
67. Speech/Reels: McSweeny's, The Ivy Leaf, Reavy's
68. Speech: Introduction to Fergus Taggart
69. Reel: Untitled
70. Speech/Reel: Mulhere's No 5 (comp. Martin Mulhere)
71. Speech/Reel: Untitled
72. Speech: Final greetings to Louis Quinn and family [END OF BAND TWO]

Louis Quinn Collection. Reel-to-Reel 12 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Tonkin, Phil, announcer, speech in English A1, 10;
Quinnettes, New York, singing in English A4, 9;
Quinnettes=;
Quinn, Sean, fiddle in ensemble A1-2, 4-5, 8-10, fiddle in duet A7;
Quinn, Brian, accordion in ensemble A1-2, 5, 8-10, accordion in duet 3;
Quinn, Kathleen, harp in ensemble A1-2, 5, 8, 10, harp solo A6

Running Order:
1. Programme Start: Announcement over music
2. Jigs: Untitled
3. Polkas: Untitled
4. Song: Untitled
5. Air/Piece: Untitled
6. Air: Untitled
7. Air: Untitled
8. Medley: Untitled
9. Song/Air/March: Scotland the Brave
10. Medley/Speech: Announcement over music

Louis Quinn Collection. Reel-to-Reel 20 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Quinn, Louis, speech in English A1-4, 20-23;
Rowsome, Leon, pipes solo A1-2, pipes duet A19, pipes A24?;
Rowsome, Liam, fiddle in duet A3, fiddle solo A20-23;
Rowsome, Leo, speech in English A4, pipes solo A5, pipes duet A19,;
Unidentified performer(s), singing in English A6-10;
Unidentified performer, concertina in trio A11, concertina in duet A12-18;
Unidentified performer, fiddle in trio A11

Running Order:
1. Speech/Reel: Untitled
2. Air/Jig: Untitled
3. Reel: Untitled
4. Speech: Leo sends greetings to all the musicians in America
5. Reels: Untitled
6. Scales on Piano with Vocals
7. Song: Untitled
8. Song: Untitled
9. Song: Untitled
10. Song: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
11. Reels: Untitled
12. Reel: Untitled
13. Reel: Untitled
14. Reel: Untitled
15. Reels: Untitled
16. Reels: Untitled
17. Reels: Untitled
18. Jigs: Untitled (end clipped)
19. Hornpipes: Untitled (beginning clipped)
20. Speech/Reel: Untitled
21. Speech/Hornpipes: Untitled
22. Speech/Reels: Untitled
23. Speech/Jigs: Untitled
24. Reel: Untitled (fragment) [END OF BAND TWO]

Louis Quinn Collection. Reel-to-Reel 64 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Tonkin, Phil, announcer, speech in English A1, 9
Quinnettes, New York, singing in English A3, 8
Quinnettes=
Quinn, Sean, fiddle in ensemble A1, 4, 7, 9, 11, 13, fiddle in duet A6, 15-16
Quinn, Brian, accordion in ensemble A1, 4, 7, 9, 11, 13, accordion in duet A2
Quinn, Kathleen, harp in ensemble A1, 7, 9, 11, 13, harp solo A5
Unidentified performer [Hugh Handy?], speech in English A10, 14, 16

Running Order:
1. Programme Start: Announcement over music
2. Polkas: Untitled
3. Song: Untitled (When they told me that Ireland was heaven...)
4. Air/Piece: Untitled
5. Air: Untitled
6. Air: Untitled
7. Medley: Untitled [END OF STEREO BANDS]
8. Song/Air/March: Scotland the Brave
9. Speech: introducing the Quinnettes
10. Waltz/Reel: Untitled, Untitled
11. Speech: introducing family
12. Medley: Untitled
13. Speech: introducing Sean Quinn
14. Air: My Lagan Love
15. March/Strathspey/Speech: Untitled, Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]

Louis Quinn Collection. Reel-to-Reel 23 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Quinn, Larry, Armagh/New York, fiddle solo A2-9;
Unidentified performer(s), fiddle A10, singing in English A10

Running Order:
1. Incidental Noise
2. Reel: Untitled
3. Reel: Untitled
4. Reel: Untitled
5. Reel: Untitled
6. Hornpipe: Untitled
7. Reel: Untitled
8. Jigs: Untitled
9. Reel: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
10. Reel/Song: Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]

Louis Quinn Collection. Reel-to-Reel 56 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, speech in English A1;
Tonkin, Phil, announcer, speech in English A1, 10;
Quinnettes, New York, singing in English A4, 9;
Quinnettes=;
Quinn, Sean, fiddle in ensemble A1-2, 4-5, 8-10, fiddle in duet A7;
Quinn, Brian, accordion in ensemble A1-2, 5, 8-10, accordion in duet 3;
Quinn, Kathleen, harp in ensemble A1-2, 5, 8, 10, harp solo A6

Running Order:
1. Tone and Programme Start: Announcement over music
2. Jigs: Untitled
3. Polkas: Untitled
4. Song: Untitled (When they told me that Ireland was Heaven...)
5. Air/Piece: Untitled
6. Air: Untitled
7. Air: Untitled
8. Medley: Untitled
9. Song/Air/March: Scotland the Brave
10. Medley/Speech: Announcement over music [END OF BANDS ONE & TWO]

Louis Quinn Collection. Reel-to-Reel 05 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Quinn, Louis, Armagh/New York, incidental speech throughout;
Unidentified performers, speech in English throughout;
Maguire, Sean, Belfast, fiddle in duet A1-5 [possibly off-disc dubs], B15-17, 19-21;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A6;
Doherty, John, Donegal, fiddle solo A7-13 [possibly off-disc dubs - check against 'Pedlar's Pack'];
Carberry Brothers, Longford, pipes & mandolin (possibly banjo) A14-15;
Byrne, Michael J, Leitrim, speech in English A16, fiddle solo A17-19;
McNiffe, Michael, Longford, fiddle solo A20;
Clarke, Pat, Knockbride, speech in English A21, fiddle solo A21-22;
McCusker Brothers, Armagh, larger instrumental group A23, 26-27;
O'Hare, Kay, singing in English A24;
Unidentified performer, piano solo A25;
Seary, Sean, pipes solo B1-2, speech in English B3;
McAloon, John=;
McAloon, Sean, Fermanagh/Belfast, pipes solo B4-5, fiddle solo B12, pipes in duet B13-14;
Rooney, James, Fermanagh, fiddle in duet B6, 9? [either James or his brother], 10, fiddle solo B7, 11, speech in English B8;
McQuillan, Peter, Monaghan, banjo in duet B6, 9-10;
Rooney, ? [James' brother], Fermanagh, fiddle?;
Rooney, Seamus, fiddle in duet B13-14;
Unidentified performer, whistle in duet B18

Running Order:
1. Hornpipe: Untitled
2. Hornpipe: Untitled
3. Reel: Untitled
4. Reel: Untitled
5. Reel: Untitled
6. Reel: Untitled [unfinished]
7. Reel: Untitled
8. Reel: Untitled [unfinished]
9. Piece: The Fox Chase
10. Hornpipe: Untitled
11. Jig: Untitled
12. Hornpipe: Untitled
13. Hornpipe: Untitled
14. Reel: Untitled
15. Jig: Untitled
16. Speech: a few words to his brother in New York
17. Reels: Untitled
18. Jig: Untitled
19. Hornpipe: Untitled
20. Hornpipe: Untitled
21. Speech/Reel: Untitled
22. Jig: Untitled
23. Reels: Untitled
24. Song: Untitled
25. Hornpipe: Untitled
26. Reels: Untitled
27. Jigs: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
28. Jigs/Reels: Untitled
29. Hornpipes: Untitled
30. Speech: greetings to friends Eileen and Paddy in America
31. Jigs: Untitled
32. Reels: Untitled
33. Jigs: Untitled
34. Reel: The Chattering Magpie
35. Speech: greetings to a sister Eileen in America
36. Reels: Untitled
37. Speech/Hornpipe: The Gypsy
38. Speech/Reel: McKenna's Reel
39. Speech/Reel: Untitled
40. Speech/Jigs: The Setting Sun, The Lark in the Morning
41. Speech/Jigs: Lannigan's Hornpipe, The Kildare Fancy
42. Hornpipe: Untitled
43. Hornpipe: Untitled
44. Reel: Untitled
45. Reel: Untitled
46. Reel: Untitled
47. Reel: Untitled [Missing track - see 'Notes' field]
48. Hornpipe: Untitled [END OF BAND TWO] [Missing track - see 'Notes' field]