Performers:
McIntyre, Geordie, Scotland, speech in English throughout;
singing in English C7, 14–15;
Unidentified performers, speech in English throughout;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group(s) A1–8, 11, 15, 23–24, 28, 33;
Unidentified performers, singing in English to instrumental accompaniment A6, 8, 12, 19–20, 28;
singing in Irish to instrumental accompaniment A27;
O'Donnell, Eugene, Donegal / USA, fiddle in duet A9–10, 14;
22?, 30, 32;
fiddle in instrumental group A11?;
fiddle solo A16, 18, 21, 25–26, 29;
Unidentified performer(s), fiddle solo A13;
fiddle in duet 22, 31;
Partly identified performer ('Packy'), singing in duet in English to instrumental accompaniment A15;
Partly identified performer ('Packy's wife'), singing in duet in English to instrumental accompaniment A15;
Unidentified performer, piano in duet A31;
Gillespie, Hugh, Donegal / USA, fiddle in duet B1–4, 6–16, C2–5, D4–8, 10–11;
speech in English throughout tracks B, C and D;
singing in English C9;
fiddle solo D3;
fiddle in trio D9;
Kelly, Francis, Donegal, fiddle in duet B1–4, 6–16, C2–5, D4–8, 10–11;
speech in English throughout tracks B, C and D;
fiddle in trio D9;
Tunney, Paddy, Donegal, speech in English throughout tracks B, C and D;
singing in English C6, 10–11, 13, D1;
singing in English with lilting C16;
lilting in trio D9;
Philip, Ian, England, speech in English throughout tracks B, C and D;
singing in English C8, 12, D2
Running Order:
1. Speech, Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled [Harvest Home; The Cork Hornpipe], The Boys of Blue Hill
2. Jig: Untitled [The Wandering Minstrel]
3. Waltz: Untitled [Lovely Leitrim]
4. Reel, Air: Untitled [Bonnie Kate], Untitled [The Coulin / An Chuileann]
5. Air: Untitled [Roisin Dubh]
6. Waltzes with Singing: Untitled [The Homes of Donegal], Untitled [The Bold Thady Quill]
7. Jig: Untitled [Paddy's Return]
8. Song: The Wild Rover
9. Reels: Bonnie Kate, Miss McLeod, Untitled [The Donegal Reel], Untitled [The Star of Munster], Untitled [Peter Street]
10. Air, March: Untitled [The Bonnie Lass of Bon Accord; composed by Scott Skinner], Untitled [The Bonnie Lass of Bon Accord; the air just played, played this time as a march]
11. Reels: Untitled [Miss McLeod], Untitled [The Swallow's Tail]
12. Song: The Wild Rover
13. Air: Untitled [Easter Snow (related tune?)]
14. Reel: Bonnie Kate
15. Song: Muirsheen Durkin
16. Air: The Coulin [An Chuileann]
17. Speech: Untitled
18. Speech, Air: Untitled, Untitled [Roisin Dubh]
19. Song, Speech: Lough Swilly Shore, Untitled
20. Song: Untitled [Thank God We're Surrounded by Water]
21. Slip Jig: The Foxhunter's Jig
22. Slip Jig: Untitled [The Rocky Road to Dublin]
23. Reel: Untitled [Lucy Campbell]
24. Strathspey, Reel, Strathspey: Untitled [Stirling Castle], Untitled [The Spey in Spate], Untitled [Stirling Castle]
25. Reel: Untitled [The Maid of Mount Cisco]
26. Air: Untitled
27. Song: Untitled [Eamonn an Chnoic]
28. Song: Untitled [The Irish Soldier Boy]
29. Reel: Untitled [Sean McGuire; composed by Bert Murray]
30. Reels [?]: Untitled [American tune], Untitled [American tune], Untitled [American tune]
31. Hornpipe: Untitled [McDermott's; The Galway Hornpipe]
32. Slip Jig: The Foxhunter's Jig
33. Reel: Untitled [The Lads of Laois]
34. Reels, Speech: Untitled [Master McDermott's Reel; composed by Michael 'Master' McDermott; CRE 4, # 119], Reavy's / The Sparkling Dawn [The Hunter's House; composed by Ed Reavy], Untitled [About the tunes just played]
35. Reels, Speech: Trim the Velvet, Paddy on the Turnpike [The Bunch of Keys], Untitled [About the tunes just played]
36. Slip Jig, Speech: The Kid on the Mountain [With lilted accompaniment], Untitled [About the tune just played]
37. Hornpipes: The Stage Hornpipe, Parker's Fancy [The Western], Coleman's Fancy [Jack O'Neill's Fancy]
38. Speech: Untitled [About the tunes just played; Hugh Gillespie was associated with Michael Coleman (whom he refers to as 'The Professor') from 1928 to 1945; HG and Coleman made radio broadcasts together; HG's other experiences of playing for radio and TV; poor standards of music and song performance on public media]
39. Reel, Speech: Miss McLeod's Reel, Untitled
40. Reels, Speech: Lord McDonald's Reel, Untitled [Ballinasloe Fair], Untitled
41. Strathspeys [Highland Flings]: Untitled [Stirling Castle], Untitled [Miss Ramsey's]
42. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled, The Caledonian [The Cameronian], Hand Me down the Tackle / Tom Steele, Untitled [About the tunes just played; Hugh Gillespie recorded Tom Steele for the Decca company; HG has Michael Coleman's fiddle; other fiddles that HG has owned]
43. Reels: Untitled [Paddy Finlay's Favourite; The Galway Rambler (related tune)], The Copperplate / The Streams of Poulaphouca
44. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled ['The Streams of Poulaphouca' was Michael Coleman's name for the last tune just played], Ah Surely, Jackson's [The Dublin Reel], Untitled
45. Jigs, Speech: Jackson's Morning Brush, Flanagan's Favourite / The Rambling Pitchfork, Untitled
46. Jig, Speech: The Old Grey Goose, Untitled
47. Hornpipe: The High Level [The High Level Bridge; composed by James Hill]
48. Reels: Untitled [The Shaskeen Reel], The Bag of Spuds [The Bag of Potatoes]
49. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Kitty in the Lane (incomplete; clipped at end) [Track A16 is followed by approximately 3 minutes of silence on the tape]
50. Speech: Untitled [Hugh Gillespie gives his ideas about poor standards of playing and singing in Irish traditional music; 'there was no good Irish music until the like of Michael Coleman recorded first'; Paddy Tunney as an example of high standards in traditional singing; discussion of singers who wear Aran sweaters (identified later as the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem); discussion about the song 'Johnstone's Motor Car'] [END OF BAND ONE]
51. Speech: Untitled [Discussion about singing styles and playing styles in Irish and Scottish traditional music; Hugh Gillespie is consciously training Francis Kelly in the fiddle tradition in the same way as he himself was trained by Michael Coleman]
52. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Maude Miller (related tune)], Untitled
53. Reel: Untitled [The Boys of the Lough]
54. Waltzes, Speech: Untitled [Mrs Kenny's], The Men of the West [With singing], Untitled
55. Reel, Speech: Lord Gordon, Untitled
56. Speech, Song: Untitled, Willie Reilly
57. Song, Speech: The Braes o' Balquiddar, Untitled
58. Song, Speech: The Barley Mow [With chorus in which the company joins in], Untitled
59. Speech, Song, Speech: Untitled [About the song to be sung next; it was composed by Willie Gillespie, the uncle of the performer here], Johnstone's Motor Car, Untitled
60. Speech, Song: Untitled, The First Time That I Met My Love
61. Speech, Song, Speech: Untitled, The Mountain Streams Where the Moorcocks Crow, Untitled
62. Song: Lang A'Growin'
63. Song, Speech: Bonny Maggie Thompson, Untitled
64. Song, Speech: The Shira Dam, Untitled
65. Song, Speech: The A83, Untitled
66. Speech, Song, Speech: Untitled, The Hurricane of Reels, Untitled
67. Speech, Song: Untitled, The Rambling Boys of Pleasure
68. Speech, Song, Speech: Untitled, The Herring's Head [With participation of others in the company], Untitled
69. Slip Jig: The Rocky Road to Dublin [With singing by others in the company]
70. Reel: Untitled [The Pigeon on the Gate]
71. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Reel of Bogie; extraneous noises on this track], Untitled
72. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Jenny's Welcome to Charlie, Untitled
73. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled, The Wild Irishman [Title as given by the performers here; this tune was named 'O'Rourke's' on the 78rpm disc recording by Michael Coleman], O'Rourke's [Title as given by the performers here; this was named 'The Wild Irishman' on the 78rpm disc recording by Michael Coleman], Untitled
74. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled, Farewell to Ireland [CRE, # 139, as 'Farewell to Erin'], The Farmer's Daughter [DMI, # 701, as 'Farewell to Erin'], Untitled
75. March: The Battle of Aughrim
76. Speech, Jigs: Untitled, Tell Her I Am, Untitled [Richard Brennan's Favourite]
77. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled, Bonnie Kate [Played here in the key of C; usually in D], Untitled [The Donegal Traveller], Untitled, Untitled
78. Speech, Hornpipe, Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled, The Boys of Blue Hill, Untitled, The Ivy Leaf [The Green Groves of Erin], Paddy Ryan's Dream, Mamma's Pet, Untitled
79. Reels, Speech: Dowd's [O'Dowd's Favourite], Untitled [The Star of Munster], Untitled
80. Reel, Speech, Reel: Kreisler's Fancy [Named after the classical violinist Fritz Kreisler; Colonel Fraser], Untitled [About the tune just played; Fritz Kreisler and Michael Coleman played a lot together and were 'great buddies' – 'that's where Coleman got all the dressing for this music'], Untitled [Maudabawn Chapel; composed by Ed Reavy]
81. Reels, Speech: Yonkers [The Morning Dew], The Woman of the House, Untitled [Discussion about techniques of holding the fiddle, with played illustrations; Paddy Tunney tells a story; etc] [END OF BAND TWO]
