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Tony Knowland Collection. Cassette 1 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, singing in English A1–3, 5–7;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A4;
Unidentified performer, singing in French A4

Running Order:
1. Song: The Little Old Mud Cabin
2. Song: The Black Ribbon Band
3. Song: The Rocks of Bawn
4. Speech, Song: Untitled [Introduction to the song about to be sung], Tooo-la-la
5. Song: Buckle Her Shoe
6. Song: Nelson [Home, Boys, Home]
7. Song: The Zoological Gardens

Tony Knowland Collection. Reel-to-Reel 1 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Rainey, Stephen 'Spare Parts', fiddle solo A1[?], 4, 6–9, 11;
fiddle duet A3, 13–14, 18–20;
Rainey, Paddy 'Big', fiddle solo A2[?], 5, 10, 12, 15;
fiddle duet A3, 13–14, 18–20;
Conneelly, Martin, fiddle solo A16–17;
singing in English B15;
O'Malley, Tommy, accordion in group A21–24, 29, B10–11;
accordion solo A25;
singing in English B4–5, 8–9;
speech in English B6;
?, Henry, singing in English A26, B13;
? [indistinct], Anny?, singing in English A27;
?, Christie[? female], singing in Irish A28;
Unidentified performer, whistle solo A30–32;
O'Malley, Patrick, singing in English A33, B1–2, 7;
Keane, Donal, singing in English B3;
?, Anne, singing in English B12;
Kane, Phil / Keane, Phil, accordion solo B14;
Unidentified performers, singing in English B16;
?, Pam, singing in English B17;
?, John, singing in English B17;
Hayward, Richard, singing in English B18–20;
speech in English B19–21;
singing in Irish B21

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [The Hunter's Purse]
2. Reels: Untitled [The Collier's Reel], Untitled [The Sally Gardens]
3. Reel: Untitled [The Woman of the House]
4. Jig, Reel: Untitled [The Lark in the Morning], Untitled (brief; incomplete) [The New-mown Meadow]
5. Reels: Untitled [Over the Moor to Maggie], Untitled [The Star of Munster]
6. Reels: Untitled [The Bucks of Oranmore], Untitled [The Sally Gardens]
7. Jigs: Untitled [Delaney's Drummers], Untitled [Saddle the Pony / The Priest's Leap (DMI, # 59)]
8. Reel: Untitled [George White's Favourite] (interrupted)
9. Reel: Untitled [The Fermoy Lasses] (beginning clipped)
10. Song Air: Valley of Knocknamore (beginning clipped) [The Valley of Knockanure]
11. Reel: Untitled [The Pigeon on the Gate]
12. Waltz / Song Air: Lowlands of Lough Glyn [The Woodlands of Lough Lynn]
13. Reel, Hornpipe: Untitled [Drowsy Maggie], Untitled [The Boys of Blue Hill]
14. Reel: Untitled [The Sally Gardens]
15. Reel: Untitled [The Collier's Reel] (end clipped)
16. Reel: Untitled [The Copperplate]
17. Reel, Dance Tune: Untitled [The New-mown Meadow], Untitled (brief; incomplete)
18. Reel, Dance Tune: Untitled [The Swallow's Tail], Untitled (brief; incomplete)
19. Reels: Untitled [Miss Monaghan], Untitled [The Sally Gardens]
20. Reel, Song Air: Untitled [The Jolly Tinker], Untitled [Che Sera Sera]
21. Fling / Barn Dance: Untitled [Love Will You Marry Me]
22. Jig: Untitled [The Queen of the Rushes; played for set-dancers]
23. Reel: Untitled [Drowsy Maggie; played for set-dancers]
24. Reel: Untitled [Miss McLeod] (beginning clipped)
25. Reel: Untitled [The Sally Gardens]
26. Song: The Gypsy Rover (beginning clipped)
27. Song: Enniskillen Dragoons
28. Song: Untitled [Tailliuir an Mhagaigh]
29. Air and Song: Untitled [The Flower of Sweet Strabane]
30. Reel: Untitled [The Sally Gardens]
31. Reel: Untitled [The Swallow's Tail]
32. Reel: Untitled [The Sally Gardens]
33. Song: John O'Brien (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]
34. Song: John O'Brien
35. Song: My Bonny Boy is Young but He's Growing
36. Song: The River that Flows through Cashleen [The River that Flows through Raheen ?]
37. Song: Sweet Wesport Town (interrupted)
38. Song: The Skating Tragedy
39. Speech: Untitled [Background to previous song]
40. Song: Cod Liver Oil
41. Song: The Farmer's Daughter (unfinished)
42. Speech, Song: Untitled, Untitled [Rocking the Cradle] (interrupted)
43. Polka: Untitled
44. Fling / Barn Dance: Untitled
45. Song: The Star of the County Down
46. Song: Trod on the Tail of my Coat [Mush Mush Mush Tooral-eye-addy]
47. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Londonderry Hornpipe / The Derry Hornpipe]
48. Song: As I Came Home [Seven Drunken Nights]
49. Song: Erie Canal – John Sebastian
50. Song: Tooo-la-la [Mistitled? The title given refers to a song in French; When Do We Get Married, John]
51. Song: Untitled [The Bard of Armagh; off-air radio dubbing, as are also tracks 19–21]
52. Speech, Song: Untitled [Introduction to the next item], Little Bridget Flynn [Composed by Percy French]
53. Speech, Song: Untitled [Introduction to the next item], Down in Glaslough [Composed by Richard Hayward]
54. Speech, Song: Untitled [Introduction to the next item], Aileen Aroon [Eibhlin a Run / Eileen Aroon] [END OF BAND TWO]

Tony Knowland Collection. Reel-to-Reel 2 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Coyne family, the, Galway, instrumental group A1–16;
Unidentified performer, accordion in trio A1, 12, 16;
accordion in duet A2–4, 6–9;
Unidentified performer, fiddle in trio A1, 12, 16;
fiddle in duet A2–4, 6–9;
fiddle solo A3, 5, 10, 14–15;
Unidentified performer, flute in trio A1, 12, 16;
flute solo A11, 13;
Rainey, Stephen 'Spare Parts', fiddle duet A17, 23–24, B1;
fiddle solo A18, 20, 24;
Rainey, Paddy 'Big', fiddle duet A17, 23–24, B1;
fiddle solo A19;
Rainey, Mrs, singing in English A21–22, 25;
Unidentified performer, whistle solo B2–3;
Unidentified performers, singing in English B4–6, 10;
Unidentified performer, fiddle in duet B7–9, 11–14, 16;
fiddle solo B15, 17–23;
Unidentified performer, banjo in duet B7–9, 11–14, 16

Running Order:
1. Jigs: Untitled [Jerry's Beaver Hat], Untitled [The Humours of Glendart / East at Glendart], Untitled [The Lark in the Morning]
2. Jigs: Untitled [Malowney's Wife / Moloney's Wife], Untitled [My Darling Asleep] (beginning clipped)
3. Jigs: Untitled [The Lilting Fisherman], Untitled [Kelly's Jig / The Killimer Jig; composed by Sean Ryan] (duet first, then fiddle solo)
4. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Plains of Boyle], Untitled [The Boys of Blue Hill], Untitled [The Harvest Home]
5. Hornpipe: Untitled [Cooley's Hornpipe; composed by Paddy O'Brien]
6. Jig: Untitled [Gillan's Apples]
7. Jig: Untitled [Version of 'The King of the Pipers'?]
8. March: Untitled
9. Jigs: Untitled [The Newport Lass / The Trip to Athlone], Untitled [An Rogaire Dubh / The Black Rogue], Untitled [Shandon Bells]
10. Reel: Untitled
11. Reel: Untitled [Gregg's Pipes]
12. Reels: Untitled [The Fermoy Lasses], Untitled [Rolling in the Ryegrass]
13. Reel: Untitled (unfinished) [Tom Ward's Downfall]
14. Reels: Untitled [The Morning Dew], Untitled [The Woman of the House]
15. Reel: Untitled [John McKenna's / The Happy Days of Youth]
16. Polkas: Untitled, Untitled [Bhios-sa La i bPort Lairge / The Rose Tree in Full Bearing], Untitled
17. Jigs: Untitled [The Primrose Vale (CRE, # 5); The Lark on the Strand], Untitled [An Rogaire Dubh / The Black Rogue], Untitled [The Frost is All Over]
18. Reels: Untitled [The Templehouse], Untitled [The Swallow's Tail], Untitled [The Sally Gardens]
19. Reels: Untitled [The Sally Gardens], Untitled [The Bird in the Bush], Untitled [Rakish Paddy], Untitled [The Sligo Maid]
20. Reels: Untitled [The Pigeon on the Gate], Untitled [Miss McLeod's Reel]
21. Song: Woodlands of Lough Glyn [The Woodlands of Lough Lynn]
22. Song: My Bonny Irish Boy
23. Reel: Untitled [The Mason's Apron]
24. Reels: Untitled [The Flogging Reel], Untitled [Version of 'Down the Broom' ?], Untitled [The Jolly Tinker] (some parts solo fiddle)
25. Song: Katie Daly [Katey Daly / Katy Daly]
26. Set Dance, Hornpipes: Untitled [The Blackbird], Untitled [The Boys of Blue Hill], Untitled [The Flowers of Edinburgh], Untitled [The Londonderry Hornpipe / The Derry Hornpipe]
27. Jigs: Untitled [The Wandering Minstrel], Untitled [The Maid on the Green]
28. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Untitled [The Swallow's Tail], Untitled [The Sally Gardens]
29. Song: My Old Orange Flute
30. Song: Untitled
31. Song: Untitled [Change in Renvyle; composed by the singer (Tony Knowland?); about changes in the area since he and his family began to visit the area] [END OF BAND ONE]
32. Reel: Untitled [The High Reel]
33. Jig: The Lark in the Morning, Untitled [The Wandering Minstrel]
34. Jig: Untitled [Version of 'The Rambles of Kitty'?], Untitled [Kelly's / The Killimer (composed by Sean Ryan)]
35. Song: Untitled [Last night I had a happy dream... / Gra Mo Chroi, I Long to See Old Ireland Free Once More]
36. Reel: Untitled [Jenny's Wedding]
37. Reel: Untitled [Toss the Feathers]
38. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Harvest Home], Untitled [The Boys of Blue Hill]
39. Jig: Untitled [The Lilting Fisherman]
40. Jig: Untitled [The Cat in the Corner]
41. March: Untitled
42. Reel: Untitled [The Collier's Reel]
43. Reel: Untitled [The Sligo Maid]
44. Jig: Untitled [Sixpenny Money] (possibly a different performer)
45. Jig: Untitled [The Girls of Banbridge (DMI, # 83)]
46. Jig: Untitled [Langstern Pony]
47. Reel: Untitled [The Kilmaley Reel]
48. Jig, Dance Tune: Untitled (beginning clipped) [The Gold Ring], Untitled (brief; incomplete) [END OF BAND TWO]

Tony Knowland Collection. Reel-to-Reel 3 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer(s), accordion solo A1–9, 17, B3–5;
accordion in duet B6;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A10–16, 20–24, B7–12;
Unidentified performers, whistle duet A18–19;
Rainey, Stephen 'Spare Parts', fiddle duet B1, 2?, 16–22;
fiddle solo B14–15?;
Rainey, Paddy 'Big', fiddle duet B1, 2?, 16–22;
Unidentified performer, fiddle in duet B6;
Unidentified performer, flute solo B13

Running Order:
1. Jig: Untitled (beginning clipped) [The Frost is All Over]
2. Song Air: Untitled (beginning clipped) [Patsy Fagan]
3. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped) [Bonnie Kate / Bonny Kate]
4. Jig: Untitled (beginning clipped) [The Geese in the Bog]
5. Fling / Barn Dance: Untitled (beginning clipped)
6. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped) [Rolling in the Ryegrass]
7. Hornpipe: Untitled (beginning clipped) [The Harvest Home]
8. Slip Jig: Untitled (beginning clipped) [The Rocky Road to Dublin]
9. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped) [Miss McLeod's Reel]
10. Song: Untitled [Down by the Glenside]
11. Song: Untitled
12. Song: Untitled
13. Song: Untitled [The Snowy-breasted Pearl]
14. Song: Untitled (beginning clipped) [The Christening of Pat]
15. Song: Untitled [Eileen]
16. Song: Untitled [Nell Flaherty's Drake]
17. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Londonderry Hornpipe / The Derry Hornpipe]
18. Jig: Untitled [The Frost is All Over]
19. Jigs: Untitled (brief; incomplete), Untitled [The Connachtman's Rambles]
20. Song, Speech: Untitled [The Wild Colonial Boy], Untitled
21. Song: Untitled [The Glens of Sweet Mayo]
22. Song: Untitled (beginning clipped) [Moonlight in Mayo (parody)]
23. Song: Untitled (beginning clipped) [We Parted on the Shore]
24. Song: Untitled (incomplete; tape runs out) [END OF BAND ONE]
25. Jig: Untitled (beginning clipped) [The Connachtman's Rambles]
26. Reel: Untitled [Miss McLeod's Reel]
27. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped) [Bonnie Kate / Bonny Kate]
28. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped) [Miss McLeod's Reel]
29. Reel: Untitled [The Sally Gardens]
30. Hornpipe: Untitled (beginning clipped) [The Londonderry Hornpipe / The Derry Hornpipe]
31. Song: Untitled [Mush Mush Mush Tooral-eye-addy]
32. Song: Untitled [Composed by the singer]
33. Song: Untitled [Topic: fishing for pollock]
34. Song, Recitation: Untitled [Melody: Ned of the Hill / Eamon an Chnoic], Untitled
35. Song: Untitled [The Lovely Cottage by the Lee]
36. Song: Untitled [Caroline of Edinburgh Town]
37. Air: Untitled (beginning clipped) [The Snowy-breasted Pearl]
38. Reels: Untitled [Jenny Picking Cockles], Untitled [Rakish Paddy]
39. Jig, Song: Untitled (beginning clipped) [The Lark in the Morning], Untitled (brief; incomplete)
40. Reels: Untitled (beginning clipped) [The Sally Gardens], Untitled [The Woman of the House]
41. Waltzes: Untitled [The Woodlands of Lough Lynn], Untitled [The Homes of Donegal]
42. Hornpipe, Set Dance: Untitled [The Boys of Blue Hill], Untitled [The Blackbird]
43. Reels: Untitled [The Collier's Reel], Untitled [The London Lasses]
44. Reels: Untitled (beginning clipped) [The Pigeon on the Gate], Untitled
45. Song Airs: Untitled [The Valley of Knockanure], Untitled [Tipperary So Far Away ?], Untitled (brief; incomplete) [Doonaree]
46. Reels: Untitled [The Star of Munster], Untitled [The Swallow's Tail], Untitled (brief; incomplete; faded out) [The Bucks of Oranmore] [END OF BAND TWO]

Tony Knowland Collection. Reel-to-Reel 4 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Conneelly, Martin, singing in English A1, 3;
Kane, Paddy, singing in English A2, 5;
Coyne, Martin, singing in Irish A4;
Austen O'Malley, Mrs, singing in English A6;
speech in English A6;
O'Malley, Tommy, singing in English A7–14, speech in English A15;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A16;
Coyne, Paddy, singing in English A17

Running Order:
1. Song: As I Came Home One ... Night [Seven Drunken Nights]
2. Song: Norah Daly
3. Song: It Was Down in Yonder Valley [Charming Lovely Molly]
4. Song: A Song in Irish
5. Song: Come All Ye Airy Bachelors (drop-out on right leg)
6. Song, Speech, Jig: The Bullock Song, Untitled [Background to The Bullock Song], Untitled (brief; incomplete)
7. Song: Getting Up in the Morning
8. Song: I Am a Rambling Hero
9. Song: The Brothers
10. Song: O'Malley from the County Galway
11. Song: The Green Mossy Banks of the Lea [The Green Mossy Banks of the Lee]
12. Song: The Star of Dear Old Ireland, the Pride of Sweet Mayo [END OF BAND ONE]
13. Song: Westport Town [Sweet Westport Town] (beginning clipped)
14. Song: The Skating Tragedy
15. Speech: Untitled [Background to the song 'The Skating Tragedy', which concerns an accident that happened in 1897]
16. Song: The Pollock Song
17. Song: The Green Fields of Holy Old Ireland [Melody: Ned of the Hill / Eamon an Chnoic] [END OF BAND TWO]