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Performers:
McGlinchey, Brendan, Armagh / London, fiddle solo A1–17, B1–7;
speech in English A2;
Unidentified performers, speech in English throughout;
Peoples, Tommy, Donegal, fiddle solo B8, 11–23;
fiddle in duet B9–10;
Unidentified performer, whistle in duet B9–10;
Casey, Bobby, Clare / London, fiddle in duet B24–27, C1–16;
O'Connor, Mick, London, banjo in duet C1, 4, 30;
Whyte, Aggie / White, Aggie, Galway, fiddle solo C17–29;
Unidentified performer, banjo in duet C30;
O'Connor, Mick, London, banjo in duet B24–27, C2–3, 5–16;
Unidentified performer, guitar in duet C30

Running Order:
1. Reels: Untitled [O'Rourke's reel], Untitled [The humours of Westport; The Clyde-side lassies]
2. Speech, Reel: Untitled, McLoughlin's reel
3. Reels: Untitled [The wheels of the world], Untitled [Music in the glen], Untitled [Rakish Paddy]
4. Reels, Jigs: Untitled [Jenny's welcome to Charlie], Untitled [The pigeon on the gate], Untitled [Connie the soldier], Untitled [The Monaghan jig], Untitled [Hinchy's delight]
5. Hornpipe: Untitled [The drunken sailor]
6. Reels: Untitled [The humours of Ballyconnell], Untitled [The Galway rambler], Untitled [Wellington's; Sheehan's reel (related tune)]
7. Reels: Untitled [Colonel Rodger's reel; McKenna's number one], Untitled [The happy days of youth; McKenna's number two]
8. Reels: Untitled [Grandpa Tommy's ceili band; composed by Martin Mulhaire], Untitled [The yellow tinker]
9. Reels: Untitled [Tarbolton], Untitled [The Longford collector], Untitled [The sailor's bonnet]
10. Jigs: Untitled [Paddy Fahey's jig / Paddy Fahy's jig; composed by Paddy Fahey / Paddy Fahy], Untitled [Cailleach an airgid; The hag with the money]
11. Reels: Untitled [The devil in Dublin; The merry blacksmith (related tune)], Untitled [Sporting Paddy]
12. Reels: Untitled [The old bush], Untitled [The Galtee reel]
13. Reels: Untitled [Music in the glen], Untitled [Rakish Paddy]
14. Reels: Untitled [The jolly tinker], Untitled [The four courts]
15. Reel: Untitled [The Graf Spee; The grand spy]
16. Reel: Untitled [Lord Gordon]
17. Reel: Untitled [The fisherman's island, composed by Ed Reavy] [END OF BAND ONE]
18. Reels: Untitled [The fisherman's island, composed by Ed Reavy], Untitled [The college grove]
19. Reel: Untitled [The morning dew]
20. Reel: Untitled (incomplete)
21. Reels: Untitled [The Chicago reel], Untitled [The green fields of America]
22. Reels: Untitled [The steampacket], Untitled [Trim the velvet]
23. Reels: Untitled [Andy McGann's reel], Untitled [The humours of Scarriff]
24. Reels: Untitled [Down the broom], Untitled [The gatehouse maid; clipped at end] [There is distortion at the end of this track; this would be consistent with the distortion at the end of a reel-to-reel tape from which a dubbing was being made]
25. Jig: Untitled [Paidin O Raifeartaigh]
26. Reel: Untitled [Crowley's reel # 1]
27. Jig: Untitled [Tom Billy's]
28. Reels: Untitled [Jackson's reel], Untitled [The oak tree]
29. Reel: Untitled [My love is fair and handsome]
30. Jig: Untitled [The Blarney pilgrim]
31. Reel: Untitled [The man of the house]
32. Reel: Untitled [The boys of Portaferry; clipped at end]
33. Reels: Untitled [Caher rua], Untitled [The wild Irishman]
34. Reel: Untitled [Bean an ti ar lar; Donegal tune, i.e., not the tune commonly known by this title]
35. Reel: Untitled [Toss the feathers]
36. Jig: Untitled [Langstern pony]
37. Reel: Untitled [La Cosa Mulligan (the title given to the tune by its composer, Tommy Peoples (the probable performer here)); Jackson's reel], Untitled [The green fields of Glentown; composed by Tommy Peoples]
38. Reel: Untitled
39. Reel: Untitled [Upstairs in a tent]
40. Reel: Untitled (incomplete)
41. Reels: Untitled [Micho Russell's], Untitled [Tom Ward's downfall]
42. Reels: Untitled [The wind that shakes the barley], Untitled [The Boyne hunt]
43. Jigs Untitled [The ship in full sail], Untitled [Jim Ward's], Untitled [The lark on the strand]
44. Reels: Untitled [Dan Breen's], Untitled [A fair wind], Untitled [The gravel walks], Untitled [McFadden's handsome daughter; clipped at end] [END OF BAND FOUR]
45. Reel: Untitled [The Mullingar races]
46. Reel: Untitled [Paddy Ryan's dream]
47. Reel: Untitled [Christmas Eve; Tommy Coen's reel; composed by Tommy Coen]
48. Reel: Untitled [The stone in the field]
49. Reels: Untitled [Faral Gara], Untitled [Martin Wynne's; composed by Martin Wynne]
50. Reel: Untitled [Coen's memories; composed by Tommy Coen; variant version played here]
51. Reel: Untitled
52. Reel: Untitled [The green mountain]
53. Reels: Untitled [Spike Island lasses], Untitled [O'Dowd's favourite]
54. Hornpipe: Untitled [The plains of Boyle]
55. Hornpipe: Untitled [Hawk hornpipe / Hawke's hornpipe]
56. Reels: Untitled [The reel of Rio; composed by Sean Ryan], Untitled [The ragged hank of yarn]
57. Reel: Untitled [Martin Wynne's 2; composed by Martin Wynne]
58. Reel: Untitled [The Galtee reel]
59. Jig: Untitled [The gold ring]
60. Hornpipe: Untitled [The drunken sailor] [END OF CONTENT ON BAND THREE][After track C16 band three is blank]
61. Reel: Untitled [The Culfada; composed by Larry Redican; Hit or miss (related tune)]
62. Reel: Untitled [The lads of Laois]
63. Speech, Jigs: Untitled, Untitled [The thrush in the bush; composed by (or, at least, associated with) Josephine Keegan], Untitled [The frost is all over]
64. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The maid behind the bar [The barmaid]
65. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled [Paddy Fahey's reel / Paddy Fahy's reel; composed by Paddy Fahey / Paddy Fahy]
66. Reel: Untitled [Derrycrag reel; composed by Father P J Kelly]
67. Reels: Untitled [Paddy Kelly's reel], Untitled [Miss Thornton]
68. Air, Reel: Untitled [Se fath mo bhuartha], Untitled [The shaskeen reel]
69. March: Untitled
70. Jig: Untitled [Connie O'Connell's jig]
71. Reel: Untitled [The high reel]
72. Reels: Untitled [Bonnie Kate], Untitled [Jenny's chickens]
73. Jig: Untitled [Tonra's jig; composed by Brendan Tonra]
74. Reels: Untitled [The repeal of the Union], Untitled [The trip to Durrow] [END OF CONTENT ON BAND TWO] [After track C30 band two is blank]

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]

Performers:
Doherty, John, Donegal, fiddle in duet A1

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled
2. Reel: Untitled

Performers:
Quinn, Louis, Armagh/New York, incidental speech in English throughout A and B, fiddle in trio B13-14, 16-17, fiddle duet B15;
Doherty, John, Donegal, fiddle in duet A1-33, incidental speech in English throughtout A;
Quinn, Kevin, New York, flute in duet B1-3, picollo in trio B4;
Quinn, Louis jnr, New York, fiddle in trio B4, fiddle in duet B5-6;
Quinn, Brian, New York, accordion in duet B7-12, accordion in trio B13-14, 16-17;
Quinn, Sean, New York, fiddle in duet B10-12

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled
2. Reel: Untitled
3. Reel: McColgan's Reel (?)
4. Reel: Untitled
5. Reel: Untitled
6. Reel: Peter Street
7. Hornpipe: The Japanese Hornpipe
8. Jig: Untitled
9. Air/Strathspey/Reel: Untitled
10. Strathspeys: Untitled
11. Reel: Untitled
12. Reel: Untitled
13. Reel: Untitled
14. Reel: Untitled
15. Reel: Untitled
16. Jig: Untitled
17. Reel: Untitled
18. Hornpipe: Untitled
19. Hornpipe: Untitled
20. Reel: Untitled
21. Reel: Untitled
22. Reel: Untitled
23. Reel: Untitled
24. Hornpipe: Untitled
25. Reel: Untitled
26. Strathspey: Untitled
27. Piece: Untitled
28. Air: Untitled
29. Air: Untitled
30. Hornpipe: Untitled
31. Reel: Untitled
32. Hornpipe: Untitled
33. Reel: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
34. Speech/Air: Untitled
35. Air: Untitled
36. Reel: Untitled
37. Reels: Untitled
38. Hornpipe: Untitled
39. Hornpipe: Untitled
40. Waltz: Flight of the Engine (?)
41. Reel: Untitled
42. Hornpipe: Untitled
43. Piece: Untitled
44. Air/Piece: Untitled
45. Reel: Untitled
46. Reel: Untitled
47. Jig: Untitled
48. Hornpipe: Untitled
49. Reel: Untitled
50. Jig: The Castleblaney Piper [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Byrne, James, Donegal, fiddle solo A1-2, 6-8, fiddle in duet A3-5;
Unidentified performer, accordion in duet A3-5

Running Order:
1. Highland: Untitled
2. Strathspey/Reel: Untitled, Untitled
3. Jigs: Untitled, Untitled
4. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
5. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled
6. Jig: Untitled
7. Reel: Untitled
8. Reel: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]