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Performers:
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English
Toland, Grace, speech in English

Running Order:
1. Interview with Alen MacWeeney on 'The Alen MacWeeney Collection', and the music of the Irish Traveller community, speech in English / Alen MacWeeney ; Grace Toland
2. Alen MacWeeney discussing his photographic work, speech in English [videorecording] / Alen MacWeeney

Performers:
Digitised and catalogued by Jackie Small, November 2012Imported from Reeldubs July 2013[Tracks 1–53 contain off-air dubbings from editions of the BBC radio programme \'Folk on Friday\', presented by Jim Lloyd][Tracks 1–4 are badly affected by sound dropouts on the original reel-to-reel tape]

Running Order:
1. Jig, Speech, Song: Untitled [The Lark in the Morning; signature tune of the BBC radio programme 'Folk on Friday', marking the beginning of an edition], Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [Twa Corbies]
2. Speech, Song, Speech, Instrumental Piece (?): Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled, Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled (inaudible)
3. Instrumental Piece (?): Untitled (mostly inaudible)
4. Speech, Song: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled
5. Speech, Carolan Piece: Untitled [Radio announcement, partly as voice-over], Untitled [Carolan's Concerto; as background to radio announcement]
6. Song, Speech: Ballad of Exploration [We're Only Over Here for Exploration], Untitled [Radio announcement and interview]
7. Song: Arthur McBride
8. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
9. Song: The Lowlands of Holland
10. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and interview]
11. Song, Speech: I'm Looking for a Job, Untitled [Radio announcement]
12. Song, Speech: Fitba' Referee [Football Referee], Untitled [Radio announcement]
13. Song: Paddy Maloney Forgot That He Was Dead
14. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and interview]
15. Air, Slip Jig: The Fairy Child, The Wayward Traveller
16. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
17. Polka, Speech: Untitled [The Grand Old Dame], Untitled [Radio announcement and interview]
18. Song: Dame Durden
19. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
20. Speech: Untitled [Radio comedy sketch]
21. Song, Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [Radio announcements], Untitled [The Fermoy Lasses], Untitled [Radio announcement]
22. Song, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [Radio announcements, the first as voice-over]
23. Song, Speech: Peggy and the Soldier, Untitled [Radio announcement]
24. Song, Speech: The Press Printer [Composed by Brian Badley(?), the performer here], Untitled [Radio announcement]
25. Song, Speech: Wild Blowing Sands, Untitled [Radio announcement]
26. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Toss the Feathers; signature tune of radio programme], Untitled [Final radio announcement of this edition of 'Folk on Friday'; as voice-over]
27. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcements] [END OF BAND ONE]
28. Jig, Speech, Song, Speech: Untitled [The Lark in the Morning; signature tune of the BBC radio programme 'Folk on Friday', marking the beginning of another edition], Untitled [Radio announcement], Black and White, Untitled [Radio announcement]
29. Slip Jig, Speech: Drops of Brandy, Untitled [Radio announcement; the instrument played by Finbar Furey (i.e., the uilleann pipes) is named as 'the Irish pipes']
30. Song, Speech: The Broadside Man, Untitled [Radio announcement]
31. Song, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [Radio announcement]
32. Song, Speech: Jennifer Gentle, Untitled [Radio announcement and interview]
33. Song: The Death of the Earl of Essex / Welladay
34. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
35. Song, Speech: Jack Orion, Untitled [Radio announcement and interview]
36. Song: Lord Franklin
37. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
38. Reel, Speech: Crowley's Reel [Dowd's Number Nine / Dowd's No. 9], Untitled [Radio announcement]
39. Song: Untitled
40. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
41. Song: Untitled
42. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and interview]
43. Song: King Cotton
44. Speech, Song, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], The Night Visiting Song, Untitled [Radio announcement]
45. Song, Speech, Song, Speech: Ten Thousand Miles Away, Untitled [Radio announcement], The Arethusa, Untitled [Radio announcement]
46. Song: The Humber Bridge
47. Speech, Speech, Song: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled, Untitled
48. Speech, Song, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled, Untitled [Radio announcement]
49. Song, Speech, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [Radio announcement]
50. Song: Untitled [The Lord of the Dance]
51. Speech, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [Radio announcement]
52. Air, Jig, Speech: Roy's Hands, The Lark in the Morning [With sound dropout on the original reel-to-reel tape], Untitled [Radio announcement]
53. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Toss the Feathers; signature tune of radio programme], Untitled [Final radio announcement of this edition of 'Folk on Friday'; as voice-over]
54. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcements] [END OF BAND FOUR]
55. Song, Speech: Jock o' Hazeldean, Untitled
56. Reels: Untitled [The Sailor on the Rock], Untitled [The Longford Collector]
57. Reel: Untitled [Dowd's Number Nine / Dowd's No. 9]
58. Reels: Untitled [Colonel Fraser], Untitled [O'Rourke's], Untitled [The High Reel]
59. Carolan Piece: Untitled [Carolan's Concerto]
60. Reel: Untitled [The Pigeon on the Gate]
61. Reels: Untitled [The Moving Cloud], Untitled [Sean sa Cheo]
62. Reels: Untitled [Dowd's Favourite / O'Dowd's Favourite]
63. Reels: Untitled [Toss the Feathers], Untitled [The College Grove]
64. Slip Jig, Reel: Untitled [The Boys of Ballisodare], Untitled [The slip jig just played, here played in reel time]
65. Reel: Untitled [Another playing of the reel just played in track A10]
66. Reels: Untitled [Paddy Kelly's Reel; composed by Paddy Kelly], Untitled [Sean McGuire; composed by Bert Murray]
67. Reels: Untitled [The Plough and the Stars], Untitled [The Morning Dew; incomplete]
68. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Quarrelsome Piper]
69. Jigs: Untitled [The Walls of Liscarroll], Untitled [Bill Harte's Jig]
70. Jig: Untitled
71. Reel: Untitled [The Land of Sunshine; composed by Martin Mulhaire]
72. Reel: Untitled [Lord Ramsay's Reel]
73. Reels: Untitled [Ships Are Sailing], Untitled [The High Reel]
74. Reel: Untitled [The Connemara Stocking] [END OF RELEVANT CONTENT ON BAND THREE]
75. Reel: Untitled [Rolling in the Ryegrass; incomplete]
76. Reels: Untitled [Down the Broom], Untitled [The Gatehouse Maid]
77. Reels: Untitled [The Shoemaker's Daughter; composed by Ed Reavy], Untitled [The Eel in the Sink]
78. Reels: Untitled [Toss the Feathers], Untitled [The College Grove]
79. Reels: Untitled [Bonnie Kate], Untitled [Jenny's Chickens]
80. Reel: Untitled [Trim the Velvet]
81. Reels: Untitled [Paddy Ryan's Dream], Untitled [Mamma's Pet]
82. Reels: Untitled [The High Reel], Untitled [The Mason's Apron]
83. Reels: Untitled [The Shoemaker's Daughter; composed by Ed Reavy], Untitled [The Eel in the Sink]
84. Reels: Untitled [Lady Gordon], Untitled [Johnny When You Die], Untitled [The Old Blackthorn], Untitled [O'Rourke's], Untitled [The Wild Irishman], Untitled [The Boyne Hunt]
85. Carolan Piece: Untitled [Carolan's Concerto]
86. Reels: Untitled [Down the Broom], Untitled [Tim Moloney]
87. Reels: Untitled [Lord Gordon], Untitled [Colonel Rodney] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Ennis, Seamus, speech in Irish A1, B1–2;
singing in Irish, English, Scots Gaelic and Welsh, A1, B1;
lilting A1, B1;
Unidentified performer, speech in Irish B1

Running Order:
1. Speech, Song and Lilting: Untitled [Part One of the second of two lectures in Irish given by Seamus Ennis to trainee schoolteachers; subject: children's songs, adult nonesense and extemporised verses, stories and lullabies; with singing and story-telling by Ennis in Irish, English and Scots Gaelic; topics: lullaby 'An Seanduine' [collected from Elizabeth Cronin]; lullaby 'Anonn is anall'; song/luibin 'Luibin o Lu'; song 'Deoin du o deighdil o'; lore and songs to do with the cuckoo – 'Cuach Mo Londubh Bui' and the background to the song – a relevant song in Welsh – one in Scots Gaelic – the song 'Bunclody'; 'An Chead La de Nollaig', a version in Irish of 'The Twelve Days of Christmas'; the song 'Peigi na gCarad' and the story that is the background to it; 'An Cailin Rua' [melody: Finnegan's Wake]; 'Taid na Baid go Doimhin sa bhFarraige' [melody: Lannigan's Ball]; lore about faction fights – song 'Is Buachaill o Chluain Meala Me'; lore about fish, and the song 'The Herring Song' / 'The Song of the Herring' (repeated line in chorus: 'Sing aberum fane, sing abero ling'); one could be executed for a crime like stealing – relevant song beginning 'An la sin a d'fhag me sraid an Chlochain Leith', collected from Hiudai Devanney [melody: Enniskillen Dragoons]; song about clogs (shoes with wooden soles)]
2. Speech, Song and Lilting: Untitled [Part Two of the second of two lectures in Irish given by Seamus Ennis to trainee schoolteachers; subject: children's songs, adult nonesense and extemporised verses, stories and lullabies; with singing and story-telling by Ennis in Irish, English and Scots Gaelic; topics: continuation from 1246a-ITMA-CS/CDR, track 1 of discussion of meaning of phrase 'O bhean an ti, cen bhuairt sin ort' in songs – stock phrase used to give singer or song extemporiser time to think of what comes next; background to song 'Amhran na Leabhar / Cuan Bheil Inse' and performance of it; 'Bim-se istoice ag ol' [melody: Moll Roe]; Rilam Ralam – vocables used in Scotland for cantaireacht (the vocal rendering of piping music) – sung examples given, including the reel 'Clagar na gCearc'; song popular among members of the Claisceadal, 'A shaighdiuirin a chroi'; American folksong learned from Library of Congress records sent to the Irish Folklore Commission by Alan Lomax – a version of the same song, 'Soldier, Soldier' as collected from Colm O Caoidheain, who did not understand English, and for whom SE had to translate the lyrics into Irish; lore about Mikey Byrnes, An Rinn, Co Waterford, song-writer and pyromaniac – song, 'The Racket' composed by him; song, 'An tSean-bhean Bhocht'; 'Brachan Lom' (= porridge), sung words to a dance tune; Amhran na hEala / The Swan's Song]
3. Speech: Untitled [Brief; introductory, at start of lecture?]

Performers:
Finnerty, Johnny, Galway, speech in English A1;
singing in English A2;
Unidentified performers, speech in English A1;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Ryan, John, Tipperary / Dublin, concertina solo A3, 5, 7, 9–10;
speech in English throughout A4–10;
concertina in duet A11;
Ryan, Eddie, Dublin, banjo in duet A11

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled
2. Song: Untitled [Young men of Tipperary and of Ireland far and near (etc); song about the McCormick brothers, who were hanged in Nenagh during the land troubles]
3. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [CICD 3438.11 (from a BB working copy of this recording); CRE 5, # 136] [For BB's working copy of the John Ryan material presented here on tracks A3–10, see 1359-ITMA-REEL]
4. Speech: Untitled [Radio interview]
5. Polka, Speech, Polkas: Untitled [CICD 6323 (from a BB working copy of this recording); CRE 5, # 85], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over], Untitled [CICD 6512 (from a BB working copy of this recording); CRE 5, # 104], Untitled [CICD 6360 (from a BB working copy of this recording); John Ryan's]
6. Speech: Untitled [About the tune just played & other tunes; with lilting]
7. Speech, Polkas: Untitled [After a brief introductory performance of the tune that follows], Untitled [CICD 6446 (from a BB working copy of this recording); CRE 5, # 96], Untitled [CICD 6457 (from a BB working copy of this recording); CRE 5, # 98]
8. Speech: Untitled
9. Speech, Quadrille Tune / Set Tune: Untitled [Radio interview], Untitled [CICD 2268.11 (from a BB working copy of this recording); The Soldier's Cloak]
10. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Radio interview, including lyrics sung to the tune just played: I'll hang my harp on a willow tree and I'm off to the wars again], Untitled [CICD 4546.11 (from a BB working copy of this recording); CICD 4546 (probably transcribed from a different copy of this recording); CRE 5, # 162]
11. Speech, Hornpipes: Untitled [Radio announcement], The Kingston [The Standing Abbey], Dunphy's [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Redican, Larry, New York, speech in English A1;
fiddle in duet A1;
McGann, Andy, New York, fiddle in duet A1;
Field, Paddy, Tipperary, concertina solo A2–6;
speech in English A3;
Keane, James, Dublin / New York, accordion in duet A7–11;
speech in English A9–11;
McKiernan, Jim, Leitrim, speech in English A12;
fiddle solo A12, 16;
fiddle in duet A15;
McHugh, Bernie, Leitrim, speech in English A13;
mouth organ solo A13;
Rahill, Jim, Leitrim, fiddle solo A14;
speech in English A15?;
fiddle in duet A15;
Partially identified performer [Fitzgerald, P, Leitrim?], fiddle in instrumental group A17;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group A17;
Strange, N, speech in English A18;
banjo mandolin solo A18;
Reilly, Frank, speech in English A19;
fiddle solo A19;
Reilly, Michael, accordion in duet A20;
Unidentified performer(s), fiddle in duet A20, B9;
Mulkere, Jack, Clare, fiddle in duet A21;
Preston, Michael, Clare, flute in duet A21;
Canny, Paddy, Clare, fiddle solo A22–24;
Shannon Star Ceili Band, The, instrumental group A25;
McCarthy, Gerry, Kerry / Manchester / New York, fiddle in duet A26;
fiddle solo B10–12;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle in duet A27–28, B20;
fiddle solo A31, B13–18, 21;
speech in English throughout B13–20;
Cooley, Seamus, Galway, flute solo A29–30, 32;
speech in English A30;
McMahon, Bobbie / Robbie, Clare, lilting solo A33;
O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig, Kerry, fiddle solo B1–8;
Ray, J, accordion solo B9;
Unidentified performer, mouth organ in duet B20

Running Order:
1. Speech, Reels: Untitled, The Providence [CICD 4023 (from this recording)], The Belles of Tipperary [CICD 3599 (from this recording)] [This track was recorded on 30 April 1962]
2. Polka: Untitled [CICD 6341 (from this recording?)]
3. Speech, Polka: Untitled, Untitled [CICD 6441 (from this recording)]
4. Polka: The Humours of Whiskey [CICD 6473 (from this recording); My Love Is but a Lassie]
5. Jig: Rory O'Moore
6. Reel: The Dublin Reel
7. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Untitled [Thady Casey's Fancy], Untitled [Lady Gordon], Untitled [Mary MacMahon]
8. Reel: The Limestone Rock, Untitled [The Humours of Loughrea]
9. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Spike Island Lasses, The Sailor on the Rock
10. Speech, Jigs: Untitled, Untitled [Father Tom's Wager], The Frieze Breeches [Do You Want Any More?; same melody as The Collier's Reel]
11. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Untitled [The Roscommon Reel], The College Grove [Sudden dip in sound level during this tune]
12. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Hobble the Botches, Peeping through the Keyhole / Faral O'Gara
13. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Plough and the Stars
14. Reel: The Reconciliation Reel [CICD 3506 (from this recording); 3433 (from ms possibly transcribed from this recording)]
15. Speech, Reels: Untitled, The Cloone Reel [The Humours of Toonagh], The Aughavas Reel [CICD 5530 (for which this recording is a partial source); CRE 5, # 145]
16. Speech, Reels: Drowsy Maggie, The Ranting Widow [The Tap Room]
17. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Untitled [The Morning Mist; composed by Paddy Kelly's?], Untitled [I'm Waiting for You] [Performers on this track are listed by BB as 'Fitz et al']
18. Speech, Reels: Eleanor Kane's Reel [The Providence], The Leinster Ladies [Anderson's Reel]
19. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Gregg's Pipes [The Leitrim version of The Bucks of Oranmore; performer is identified by BB as a blacksmith]
20. Speech, Jigs: Untitled, The House in the Glen [CICD 1352, 1353 & 1354 (none from this recording; 1352 provides title)], Untitled (incomplete)
21. Speech, Polka: Untitled [Information about this track; recording was made in Crusheen, Co Clare in 1955], The Mountain Pathway
22. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Information about the next 3 tracks; they were recorded in Crusheen, Co Clare, January 1955], Sporting Nell, Ballinasloe Fair
23. Jigs: The Luckpenny, The Cherry Tree [The Humours of Ennistymon; Coppers and Brass]
24. Hornpipe: The Cuckoo Hornpipe
25. Jig: Father Hanley's Jig [CICD 2499 (partly from this recording); The Rambler]
26. Jigs: The Housekeeper [For another version, see track B4], Cailleach an Airgid [The Hag with the Money]
27. Reels: Untitled [CICD 3036 (from this recording); Tom Billy's; The New Post Office (CRE 5, # 146); The Gleanntan Reel], The Cameronian [CICD 5372 (from this recording)] [This track was recorded on 11 June 1957]
28. Jigs: The Unfortunate Rake [Apples in Winter], Untitled [CICD 749 (from this recording); The Munster Jig]
29. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Earl's Chair
30. Speech, Jigs: Untitled, The Cockadoon Man, Sean Ryan's [The Killimor; composed by Sean Ryan]
31. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Shaskeen Reel
32. Hornpipes: Untitled [CICD 6057 (from this recording); Joe Cooley's Hornpipe; composed by Paddy O'Brien], The Friendly Visit [CICD 6126 (from this recording)
33. Reel: The Mason's Apron [END OF BAND ONE]
34. Hornpipe: Fisher's Hornpipe [CICD 6092–6093 (from this recording); 6092 gives date of recording as 3 November 1960; for another version, see track B14]
35. Air: Cath Cheim an Fhia
36. Reels: Untitled [The Game of Love; The Girls of Farranfore], The Bucks of Oranmore
37. Jigs: Untitled [The Housekeeper; for another version, see track A26], The Rambling Pitchfork
38. Slides: Untitled [Merrily Kiss the Quaker], Mickeen Dawley's [CICD 2169 (not from this recording)], Untitled [The Dark Girl in Blue; Denis Murphy's Slide], Mickeen Dawley's [Repeat of the second tune in this selection]
39. Reel: The New-Mown Meadows [CICD 2725–2726 (not from this recording?); Joe Mhaire Mhicilin], The Flowing Bowl [CICD 5748 (not from this recording); The Piper's Despair, version of]
40. Jig: Tell Her I Am
41. Air: Untitled [The Wounded Hussar]
42. Reels: The Road to Poulaphouca / Mulhaire's no. 4 [CICD 3334 (partly from this recording); Grandpa Tommy's Ceili Band; composed by Martin Mulhaire; CRE 5, # 129], The Copperplate
43. Polkas: Untitled [Egan's; Peg Ryan's], Untitled [Peggy Ryan's Fancy; The Murroe], Untitled [CICD 6353 (from this recording); Denis Doody's], Untitled [CICD 6286 & 6287 (both from this recording); The Knocknaboul Polka] [Order of the tunes in this selection is 1,2,1,2,3,4]
44. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Lad among the Spriggers / The Steeplechase [CICD 5045 (from ms; transcribed possibly from this recording; gives reference to secondary source where Denis Murphy is the performer) and 5313 (not from this recording)]
45. March / Jig: O'Sullivan's March / Painneach na nUbh
46. Speech, Jigs: Untitled, The Munster Buttermilk / The Sports of Multyfarnham, The Munster Jig
47. Speech, Hornpipe: Untitled, The Fisherman's Hornpipe [CICD 6091 (not from this recording); Fisher's Hornpipe; for another version, see track B1]
48. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Sheila's Fancy [CICD 4460 (not from this recording); The Monsignor's Blessing (related tune)]
49. Speech, Hornpipe: Untitled, Walsh's Hornpipe [CICD 6119 (from this recording; recording date given as August 1966) and 6120 (where this recording is given as a secondary source)]
50. Air: Untitled [Sweet Kingwilliamstown]
51. Air: Staker Wallace [Caoine Ui Dhomhnaill / The Lament for O'Donnell]
52. Slides, Speech: The Rathawaun [CICD 1743 (not from this recording], The Hare in the Corn [CICD 1450 (not from this recording], Untitled
53. Speech, Polkas: Untitled, Untitled [The Knocknaboul Polka # 2], Untitled [The Knocknaboul Polka # 1]
54. Slide: Untitled [Danny Ab's; played for dancing] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English and Irish intermittently throughout;
Keogh, Dan, Tipperary, concertina solo A1;
Scallon? Scully?, Peter, Shetland, fiddle solo A3, 6;
fiddle in duet A4–5;
Scannon? Scully?, Jimmy, Shetland, fiddle in duet A4–5;
Mac Gill-Eain, Calum, Scotland, speech in English A7;
Cronin, Hannah, Kerry, singing in English A8–9;
O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig,, Kerry, fiddle solo A10, 15–19;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle solo A11–13;
fiddle in duet A14;
O'Leary, Johnny, Kerry, accordion in duet A14;
O'Dwyer, John, fiddle solo A20;
Unidentified performer, accordion solo A21;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group A22;
O Murchu, Sean, Galway / Dublin, speech in English A22, B1;
McGuire, Seamus, Sligo, fiddle in duet B1;
Kelly, John, Clare / Dublin, fiddle in duet B2;
concertina in duet B3;
concertina solo B4;
Ryan, Joe, Clare, fiddle in duet B2–3;
Casey, Bobby, Clare / London, fiddle solo B5–10, 11–13?;
speech in English B5, 7;
Unidentified performer, lilting solo B14;
Russell, Micho, Clare, flute solo B15;
whistle solo B16;
Unidentified performer, concertina solo B17–18

Running Order:
1. Speech, Polka: Untitled [Information about the tune that follows; it was recorded in Cappawhite, Co Tipperary in December 1955], Untitled [Micho Russell used to sing a comic song to this melody]
2. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the music and speech on tracks A3–7, consisting of fiddle music from Shetland and information about it]
3. Dance Tune: Kail and Knockit Corn
4. Speech, Dance Tune: Untitled, The Merry Boys of Greenland
5. Speech, Dance Tune: Untitled, The Mason's Apron
6. Speech, Dance Tune: Untitled, Arrasdale [Stated to be similar to Cornphiopa na Mairnealach (The Sailor's Hornpipe); stated to have been composed by the performer]
7. Speech: Untitled [Information about the Shetland music just played; the performers were father (Jimmy) and son (Peter) Scully; the version of the performers' surname given here does not seem to match with that given in earlier speech links]
8. Speech, Song: Untitled [Information about the next performer and the song she sings], Two and Three Strings to my Bow (incomplete)
9. Song: The Ploughboy (incomplete)
10. Speech, Air: Untitled, The Blackbird
11. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled [Stated to be an old reel that derives from the performer's father; Anything for John Joe?; The Lisheen Reel; Did the Rum Do, Da?]
12. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The Lark in the Bog / The Geese in the Bog [The Lark's March]
13. Speech, Polka: Untitled, The Green Cottage Polka
14. Speech, Slide: Untitled, I'd Rather be Married than Left Alone
15. Speech, Air: Untitled, An Buachaillin Ban [The Dear Irish Boy]
16. Speech, Air: Untitled, O'Rahilly's Grave
17. Speech, Slides: Untitled, Untitled [Mickeen Dawley's], Untitled [If I Had a Wife]
18. Speech, Hornpipe: Untitled, The Woods of Kilkenny
19. Reel: The New-Mown Meadow [Joe Mhaire Mhicilin]
20. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Information about the last tune played and about the tune that follows], Untitled
21. Jig: Untitled
22. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Grandpa Tommy's Ceili Band; composed by Martin Mulhaire], Untitled (incomplete) [Radio announcement] [END OF BAND ONE]
23. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Radio announcement], The First Month of Summer, The Green Banks of Rossbeigh [The Green Fields of Rossbeigh]
24. Set Dances: Bonaparte's Retreat, The Ace and Deuce of Piping
25. Reels: Untitled [Reference given in documentation to this tune's appearance in print (The Smiles and Tears of Erin, in CRE, # 101); The Crooked Road to Dublin], Nellie Donovan [The Ladies Pantalettes] [This selection was recorded by Michael Coleman and J P (Pakie) Dolan, fiddles, on 78rpm commercial disc as 'The Duke of Leinster and His Wife']
26. Hornpipe: Untitled [Fisher's Hornpipe]
27. Reel: Untitled [Sporting Nell; Gorman's Reel; The Long Strand; for other performances of this tune, see tracks B6 &17]
28. Speech, Reels: Untitled, The Long Strand [Sporting Nell; Gorman's Reel; for other performances of this tune, see tracks B5 &17], The Beauty Spot
29. Speech, Hornpipes: Untitled, Scully's Hornpipe, Untitled [Murphy's Hornpipe; for another performance of this tune, see track B11a]
30. Speech, Jig: Untitled, Untitled [Bobby Casey's Jig; Scully Casey's Jig; CRE 3, # 16], Coppers and Brass [The Humours of Ennistymon]
31. Reels: Untitled [Dwyer's Reel; Finbarr Dwyer's Reel; The Holly Bush; Matt the Thresher; composed by Finbarr Dwyer], Untitled [The Dogs among the Bushes]
32. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled [Rakish Paddy; 4-part version as recorded on 78rmp disc by James Morrison, fiddle; for another performance of this version, see track B13a]
33. Hornpipes: Untitled [Murphy's Hornpipe; for another performance of this tune, see track B7b], Untitled [The Derry Hornpipe / The Londonderry Hornpipe; faded out at end]
34. Jigs: Untitled [The Rambling Pitchfork], Untitled [Jimmy O'Brien's Jig]
35. Reels: Untitled [Rakish Paddy; 4-part version as recorded on 78rmp disc by James Morrison, fiddle; for another performance of this version, see track B10], Untitled [The Wheels of the World; faded out]
36. Jig: Untitled [The Piper's Chair]
37. Jig: Untitled [Donal na Greine]
38. Reel: Untitled [Boil the Breakfast Early]
39. Reel: Untitled [Gorman's; Sporting Nell; The Long Strand; for other performances of this tune, see tracks B5 & 6]
40. Jig: Untitled (tape runs out) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, pipes solo A2, 4, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46–47, 49, 51, 53;
speech in English throughout;
singing in Irish A6;
singing in Irish and English A8;
singing in Scots Gaelic A10;
singing in English A12, 14, 16, 18;
whistle solo A20, 28, 30;
whistle in duet A32;
pipes in instrumental group A34;
pipes in duet A36, 38;
Folan, Stephen / O Cualain, Stiofain, Galway, dancing A20;
Mac Donnchadha, Sean / 'ac Dhonncha, Sean / Johnny Joe Pheaitsin / McDonagh, Johnny, Galway, singing in English A22;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle solo A24, 26;
speech in English A25;
fiddle in duet A32, 36, 38;
Clifford family, the, Kerry / Limerick / London, instrumental group A34

Running Order:
1. Tone signal
2. Air: Untitled [Uirchill an Chreagain / The Churchyard of Creggan]
3. Speech: Untitled ['I know that music...' Topics: SE's father, regarded as the best piper in Ireland; a tune played for SE in his cradle, The Munster Buttermilk]
4. Jig: The Munster Buttermilk
5. Speech: Untitled ['Our house was always a house of music...' Topics: SE's family background; mother sang, father played the pipes, flute, fiddle, tin whistle; pipers visited the house; Pat Ward, piper, who played a double chanter; he was killed by a bus in Drogheda; his daughter was also a good piper; other pipers, including Jim Brogan, Sharkey, Liam Andrew; father played the Highland pipes for visitors; SE played Highland pipes; another visitor, Billy Clarke, from Co Monaghan, took part in the recording 'The Pipes of Three Nations'; Colm O Lochlainn visited the Ennis household every Thursday evening; O Lochlainn learned pipes from SE's father, and in exchange taught the Irish language to SE's father; O Lochlainn took SE with him on holidays in Connemara; SE learned his first song, An Droighnean Donn, in Rosmuc, in Connemara]
6. Song: An Droighnean Donn
7. Speech: Untitled ['Now, I can never thank Colm O Lochlainn enough...' Topics: SE's gratitude to Colm O Lochlainn; SE roamed Ireland on a bicycle to collect music for the Irish Folklore Commission; introduction to the next song]
8. Song: Untitled [Siuil A Ruin]
9. Speech: Untitled ['I found that Connemara...' Topics: riches of Connemara as a repository of folk traditions; SE enjoyed working in Connemara and hated returning to Dublin city; SE visited the Hebrides for the Irish Folklore Commission and spent 6 months there; the song 'O Son of the Earl of the White Banners']
10. Song, Speech: O Son of the Earl of the White Banners [Mhic Iarla Nam Bratach Bana], Untitled
11. Speech: Untitled ['Since then, though, I've been to Scotland several times...' Topics: SE visited the north-east of Scotland, Aberdeenshire and Banffshire; introduction to the next song]
12. Song, Speech: The Barnyards of Delgaty, Untitled
13. Speech: Untitled ['That's one my favourites...' Topic: SE visited Winslow, in Buckinghamshire, where he collected songs from Amos Beckett]
14. Song: Untitled [I Am a Wild and Wicked Youth]
15. Speech: Untitled ['Well, I suppose all of you heard of The Croppy Boy...' Topic: the source of the next song]
16. Song: Untitled [The Herring Song / The Song of the Herring; repeated line in chorus: 'Sing aberum fane, sing abero ling']
17. Speech: Untitled ['Now, I want to let you hear something from Wales...' Topics: SE's visit to Wales; introduction to the next song, which SE heard in Fishguard]
18. Song: Untitled ['My name is Billy Williams...']
19. Speech: Untitled ['Now, all these songs remind me forcibly...' Topic: music nights in Connemara]
20. Reel with Dancing: The Copperplate Reel
21. Speech: Untitled ['I've seen some old people dancing...' Topic: information about the previous item and the next item]
22. Song, Speech: Morrissey and the Russian Sailor, Untitled ['And on this merry note...' Closing remarks at end of radio programme]
23. Speech: Untitled ['When I was in Cork the other day...' Topic: a meeting with Denis Murphy and Padraig O'Keeffe]
24. Reel: The Flowing Bowl [The Piper's Despair]
25. Speech: Untitled ['The best of Padraig's pupils...']
26. Reel: Turkey in the Straw
27. Speech: Untitled ['Thank you, Denis...' Topic: the tune 'The Mountain Road'; visiting Julia Clifford in Newcastle West; her 13-year-old son Billy plays the tin whistle for SE]
28. Reel: Kitty Gone A-Milking [Mistitled?; The Old Bush]
29. Speech: Untitled ['That's the tune he was playing...' Topic: SE teaches 'The Mountain Road' to Denis Murphy]
30. Reel: The Mountain Road
31. Speech: Untitled ['I put on the drones at the end of it...']
32. Reel: The Mountain Road
33. Speech: Untitled ['Thank you, Denis. I could see young Billy Clifford's eyes...' Topics: the Clifford family learn to play the reel 'The Mountain Road']
34. Reel: The Mountain Road
35. Speech: Untitled ['It was a long road home...' Topics: going home after a long session of music with the Clifford family; setting a clutch of eggs under a turkey; introduction to the next piece of music]
36. Jig: The Humours of Lisheen
37. Speech: Untitled ['All I can say is...']
38. Reel: The Woman of the House [End of a programme?]
39. Miscellaneous: Untitled [End-of-tape noises, including the sound of the original tape rewinding] [END OF BAND ONE]