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Speech: Untitled [Reminiscences of piper and pipemaker Dan O'Dowd. Topics include: where and when (1903) D O'D was born; the Easter Rising 1916 and the surrender that followed it; story about drunken soldier who ignores warning and is shot; account of courageous sisters Ann and Eileen Cooney; D O'D joins the Fianna and then the Volunteers; the Battalion in which he served; activities during the Civil War; D O'D is captured & plays the warpipes in captivity, first in Dublin (in Mountjoy Jail), later in the Curragh; how D O'D started playing warpipes; with other formed the Connolly Band of warpipers about 1922; band is ambushed; band members; D O'D meets Leo Rowsome where LR was teaching in Chatham Row; D O'D goes to Billy Andrews for lessons on the uilleann pipes; other uilleann pipers at the time – Nugent, John Fleming, Sean Doran (an assistant in Billy Andrews's shop); Martin Burke; D O'D buys practice set from Willie Rowsome; D O'D joined Fire Brigade in 1928; had motorbike with sidecar, on which he used to carry Billy Andrews to classes that Andrews gave; D O'D married in 1933; other students of the uilleann pipes at the time; Breandan Breathnach went to Billy Andrews for piping classes in 1928; Andrews's method of teaching; Andrews very fond of slip jigs; Andrews broadcasting on the radio station 2RN – he was a very nervous performer; D O'D sells a reed for Andrews, price half-a-crown; D O'D met Seamus Ennis for the first time in the house of the pipemaker McCrone (who came from Mullingar); D O'D competed at the Mansion House with Seamus Ennis's father as adjudicator; Eddie Potts competing as an uilleann piper; D O'D sold pipes that McCrone had made for him to Johnny Doran for £5; John Clarke made a new set for D O'D; D O'D competing in pipe band competitions in Scotland; warpiping teachers, competitions and bands in Dublin; the Fintan Lalor pipe band; D O'D's friendship with members of the Potts family; other memories of Dublin and acquaintances that he and Breandan Breathnach had in common]

Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin - speech in English throughout
O'Dowd, Dan, Dublin - speech in English throughout

Radio Program: James Joyce and The Lass of Aughrim (about James Joyce and his interest in folk songs and ballads). The follwing songs are contained in the program with detailed references and information: Song: Turpin Hero, Recitation: extract from Finnegan's Wake, Song: The Croppy Boy, Song: Little Harry Hughes, Recitation: extract from 'As I was going down Sackville Street' by Oliver St. John Gogarty, Song: Johnny I Hardly Knew You, Recitation: extract from letter written by James Joyce, Recitation: extract from letter written by James Joyce, Recitation: extract from 'Dubliners', Recitation: She Weeps Over Rahoon, Song: The Lass of Aughrim [END OF STEREO BANDS]

Colin Higgins, guitar
Trevor Stewart, concertina and uilleann pipes
Kevin Flood, reader
Paul Muldoon, producer
Ted Hickey, writer and presenter

Performers:
Potts, Tommy, Dublin, fiddle solo, track 1–6
Unidentified performer, speech in English, track 3
Reck, Tommy, Dublin, pipes solo, track 7–23, 26–28
Unidentified performer [Jim Ward?], speech in English, track 24; lilting, track 24
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Dublin, speech in English, track 24
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo, track 25

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [Julia Delaney]
2. Reels: Untitled [Faral O'Gara], Untitled [The Humours of Scarriff]
3. Speech, Air, Reel: Untitled [Identification of the musician], Untitled [An Raibh Tu ag an gCarraig?], Untitled [The Bunch of Keys]
4. Reels: Untitled [The Queen of May], Untitled [The Lads of Laois]
5. Air, Jig: Untitled [My Lagan Love], Untitled [Garrett Barry's Jig]
6. Reel: Untitled [The Pigeon on the Gate]
7. Reels: Untitled [Roaring Mary], Untitled [The Shaskeen Reel]
8. Reels: Untitled [The Maid in the Cherry Tree (CRE, # 103)], Untitled [The Woman of the House]
9. Jigs: Untitled [The Frieze Breeches], Untitled [The Rambles of Kitty]
10. Reels: Untitled [The Salamanca], Untitled [Rolling in the Ryegrass]
11. Airs: Untitled [The Dear Irish Boy], Untitled [Cailin Deas Cruite na mBo / The Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow]
12. Hornpipes: Untitled [Pretty Maggie Morrissey], Untitled [Dunphy's Hornpipe], Untitled (incomplete) [Harvest Home] [END OF BAND ONE]
13. Hornpipe: Untitled (clipped at start) [Harvest Home; continuation of previous track]
14. Slip Jig: Untitled [The Munster Gimlet / Will You Come down to Limerick / Kitty Come down to Limerick]
15. Reels: Untitled [Speed the Plough], Untitled [The Skylark], Untitled [The Merry Blacksmith], Untitled [The Scholar], Untitled [Hand Me down the Tackle]
16. Jigs: Untitled [Port an Bhrathar (CRE, # 21)], Untitled [Port Shean tSeain (CRE, # 22)]
17. Jig: Untitled [Port Shean tSeain (CRE, # 22)]
18. Jig: Untitled [The Gander in the Pratie Hole]
19. Reel: Untitled [Miss Monaghan]
20. Air: Untitled [An Buachaill Caol Dubh]
21. Air: Untitled [The Lament for Staker Wallace]
22. Reel: Untitled [The Bucks of Oranmore]
23. Reel: Untitled [Played in three different registers]
24. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Information about the tune to be performed], Untitled [Jim Ward's Jig]
25. Reel: Untitled [The Crooked Road to Dublin]
26. Air: Untitled [An Raibh Tu ag an gCarraig?]
27. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Londonderry Hornpipe / The Derry Hornpipe]
28. Hornpipe: Untitled (clipped at end) [The Tailor's Twist] [END OF BAND TWO]