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Performers:
Keegan, Joe, Armagh, flute solo A1–25, B12–13;
speech in English B13;
flute in duet C26?;
Unidentified performers, speech in English and Irish A25, 47, B11, 17, 35, C21, 23;
O Suilleabhain, Eoin, Dublin, speech in Irish and English A26–27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, B1–3, 5, 8–9, C33, 35;
Kiltormer Ceili Band, The, Galway, instrumental group A26, 28, 30, 34, 38, 40, 44;
Fallon, Joe, Galway, fiddle solo A32, 36, 42;
Unidentified performer [McGann, Andy, New York], fiddle in trio A46, B17?;
Unidentified performer [Burke, Joe, Galway], accordion in trio A46;
accordion in duet A48;
Ardellis Ceili and Old-Time Band, The, instrumental group A48;
Gardiner, Bobby, Clare / USA / Tipperary, accordion in duet A48, B26;
Eugene Leddy's Ceili Band, Cavan, instrumental group A48;
O Se, Sean, Cork, singing in Irish and English with instrumental accompaniment B1;
singing in Irish with instrumental accompaniment B4, 8, C34;
Sean O Riada agus Ceoltoiri Chualann, Dublin, instrumental accompaniment to singing B1, 4, 8, C34;
instrumental group B1–2, 8, 10, C32;
Keane, Eamon, Dublin, speech in English B3, C33;
Sheehy, Anne, Kerry, accordion solo B6–7;
Unidentified performer [Redican, Larry, New York?], fiddle in trio B17;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English B17, 19, 23, 25, 27, 30, 32, 34;
McGann, Andy, New York, fiddle in trio B18;
Reynolds, Paddy, Longford / New York, fiddle in trio B18;
Brennan Grant, Katherine, New York, fiddle in duet B20–22;
Fishman, Dina, New York, singing in English to own guitar accompaniment B24;
Redican, Larry, New York, fiddle in duet B28–29;
Fahy, Jimmy / Fahy, Joe, Mayo / Chicago, singing in English B31;
Mulvihill, Charlie, New York, accordion in trio B33;
Mulvihill, Tom, New York, fiddle in trio B33;
Cronin, Paddy, Kerry / Boston, fiddle in duet B35;
O Murchu, Sean, Galway / Dublin, speech in Irish and English C1–2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18;
Killina Ceili Band, The, Roscommon, instrumental group C1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 15, 19;
Connolly, Seamus, Clare / Boston, fiddle solo C7, 13, 17;
Partly identified performer (John Joe), accordion solo C22;
Rowsome, Liam, Dublin, fiddle solo C23;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group(s) C24, 27–31;
Unidentified performer, accordion in duet C25;
Keane, James, Dublin / USA, accordion solo C36–37

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [Sporting Nell (related tune); for another performance of this tune from this performer, see track B13]
2. Reel: Untitled [Rattigan's Reel; for another performance of this tune from this performer, see track B14]
3. Reel: Untitled [The Cup of Tea]
4. Reel: Untitled [The Ewe Reel]
5. Reel: Untitled [Master McDermott's Reel; composed by Master McDermott]
6. Reel: Untitled [The Star of Munster]
7. Reel: Untitled [The Blackberry Blossom]
8. Reel: Untitled [Sporting Paddy]
9. Reel: Untitled [The Sailor on the Rock; sound level very low on original tape]
10. Reel: Untitled [The Beauty Spot]
11. Reel: Untitled [Miss Monaghan; sound level low]
12. Reel: Untitled [The Plough and the Stars]
13. Reel: Untitled [The Collier's Reel]
14. Jigs: Untitled [Do You Want Any More; The Collier's Reel (related tune)], Untitled (incomplete)
15. Jig: Untitled [Garrett Barry's Jig]
16. Reel: Untitled [The Mountain Road; composed by Michael Gorman]
17. Reel: Untitled [Paddy Taylor's Reel (related tune?)]
18. Reel: Untitled
19. Reels: Untitled [Dinny O'Brien's Reel; composed by Paddy O'Brien], Untitled [Farewell to Connacht]
20. Reel: Untitled [Tim Moloney]
21. Reel: Untitled [Down the Broom]
22. Reel: Untitled [The Old Torn Petticoat]
23. Reel: Untitled [Tory Island; Murphy's Greyhound]
24. Reel: Untitled [The Steampacket]
25. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Earl's Chair], Untitled [Radio announcement
26. Speech, March / Jig: Untitled [Radio announcement, signalling the start of an edition of the radio programme 'Ceili House' on Radio Eireann], Untitled [The Men of the West]
27. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
28. Reels: The Piper's Dream [The Red-Haired Lass], Buckley's Reel, Father Kelly's [Ben Hill Reel; composed by Father Kelly]
29. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; the personnel of the Kiltormer Ceili Band]
30. Jigs: The Liverpool Jig [Tonra's Jig; composed by Brendan Tonra], The Chestnut Grove [Ellis' Jig], The Tulla Jig [Ceol a' Mala / Ceol an Mhala]
31. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
32. Hornpipe: Sean Ryan Number Four [Sean Ryan's No. 4; The Ballyoran; composed by Sean Ryan]
33. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
34. Marches: The Minstrel Boy, My Singing Bird, God Save Ireland
35. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
36. Jigs: The Idle Road, Trip to Belfast [The First Night in America]
37. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
38. Hornpipes: Andy McGann's [Flaherty's], O'Brien's [The Humours of Tuamgraney]
39. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
40. Polkas: My Aunt Jane, Gurteen March, The Road to Blarney [St. Mary's Polka / Saint Mary's Polka]
41. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
42. Reels: Killabeg House [Ah Surely], Joe Fallon's Number Three / Joe Fallon's No. 3
43. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
44. Jigs: The Kilfenora (clipped at end)
45. Test Signal: Untitled
46. Reels: Untitled [The Girl Who Broke My Heart / The Girl That Broke My Heart], Untitled [Sean sa Cheo; Sean sa Cheo]
47. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
48. March, Reels, Speech, Set Dance: Untitled (short; incomplete), Untitled [The Sally Gardens], Untitled [The Bucks of Oranmore], Untitled [Radio announcement], The King of the Fairies (short; incomplete)
49. Speech, Song, Reel: Untitled [Radio announcement, signalling the start of an edition of the radio programme 'Flea Cheoil an Raidio' on Radio Eireann], An Spailpin Fanach [Sung with verses in Irish and English], Untitled [The Traveller; played between verses of the song sung in this track]
50. Speech, Carolan Piece: Untitled [Radio announcement], Planxty Drury
51. Speech, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled (short; incomplete)
52. Song: Untitled
53. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
54. Reels: Paddy Fahy's, Farrell's [The Killavil Fancy]
55. Hornpipe: Burke's
56. Speech, Song, Jig: Untitled [Radio announcement], Torramh an Bhairille, Untitled [The Humours of Ennistymon; played between verses of the song sung in this track]
57. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
58. Carolan Piece: Planxty Maguire [Faded out; end of the edition of 'Flea Cheoil an Raidio' that began in track B1]
59. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
60. Reel: Untitled [The Liffey Banks]
61. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Sporting Nell (related tune); for another performance of this tune from this performer, see track A1], Untitled
62. Reel: Untitled [Rattigan's Reel; for another performance of this tune from this performer, see track A2]
63. Jig: Untitled (incomplete; tape runs out) [END OF BAND ONE]
64. Test Signal: Untitled
65. Reel, Speech, Speech: Untitled [McFadden's Favourite; signature tune signalling the start of an edition of the Radio Eireann programme 'American Journeywork'], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over], Untitled [Radio announcement; topic: this programme is the last of the current series of music from the USA]
66. Reel: Paddy Fahy's Reel
67. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
68. Air: Jimmy Mo Mhile Stor
69. Jig: Paddy Fahy's Jig [Composed by Paddy Fahy]
70. Reel: Farewell to Ireland [Mistitled?; Faral Gara]
71. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
72. Song: As I Roved out through Galway City
73. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
74. Reels: Untitled [Music in the Glen], Untitled [The Donegal Traveller]
75. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
76. Set Dance: Peggy O'Neill
77. Reels: Untitled [Father Kelly's], Untitled [Trim the Velvet]
78. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
79. Song: The Colleen Bawn
80. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
81. Reel: Untitled [Stated in track B32 to have been composed by Charlie Mulvihill; is included in book of Father Kelly's compositions with the titles 'Derrycrag Reel' and 'Fr Kelly's No. 1']
82. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
83. Reel, Speech: The Humours of Westport, Untitled [Radio announcement signalling the end of the edition of 'American Journeywork' that began in track B17]
84. Speech, Hornpipe: Untitled [Radio announcement signalling the start of an edition of the programme 'Ceili House' on Radio Eireann], Untitled [The Plains of Boyle]
85. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
86. Reels: The Dublin Reel, Jackie Coleman's Reel, Miss McDonald
87. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
88. Jigs: Doctor O'Neill's, Strike the Gay Harp
89. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
90. Reel: Lord Gordon
91. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
92. Hornpipes: The Plains of Kilcorkery [The Home Brew], The Harristown Hornpipe [The Ballyoran; composed by Sean Ryan]
93. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
94. Marches: The Farmer's March, Sarsfield's March
95. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
96. Reels: Tom Ward's Downfall, The Mullinavat Reel [The Reel of Mullinavat]
97. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
98. Jigs: The Maid at the Spinning Wheel, The Lad from Briarfield [Langstern Pony / Langstrom Pony]
99. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
100. Hornpipe, Jig: Cooley's Hornpipe [Composed by Paddy O'Brien], Paddy Canny's Jig [Dougherty's; The Lark in the Morning (DMI, # 240)]
101. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement: the personnel of the Killina Ceili Band]
102. Reels: The Humours of Ballyconnell [Mistitled?; Lucky in Love; The Bloom of Youth], Postman's Knock [The Cameronian], The Woods of Clohanyquinn [?] [The Green Mountain], The Four Mile House [Boil the Breakfast Early]
103. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement signalling the end of the edition of 'Ceili House' that began in track C1]
104. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
105. Reels: Pride of Erin [The Green Groves of Erin], Congress [The Abbey Reel]
106. Speech, Air, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], Se Fath Mo Bhuartha (short; incomplete), Untitled [Radio announcement]
107. Reels: Untitled [The Sally Gardens], Untitled [The Mountain Road; composed by Michael Gorman], Untitled [Christmas Eve; composed by Tommy Coen]
108. Carolan Piece: Untitled [Planxty Drury]
109. Jig: Untitled [The Lark in the Morning]
110. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Sunshine Hornpipe], Untitled [The Standing Abbey]
111. Reels: Untitled [Martin Mulhaire's Number 9; composed by Martin Mulhaire], Untitled [The Steampacket]
112. Jigs: Untitled [Andy McGann's], Untitled [The Castle Jig; composed by Sean Ryan], Untitled [Sacco's Jig; Tripping up the Stairs]
113. Reels: Untitled [Rattigan's], Untitled [Carmel Mahoney Mulhaire; composed by Martin Mulhaire], Untitled [The Hare's Foot]
114. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Fairy Queen], Untitled [The Ballyoran; composed by Sean Ryan]
115. Reel: Untitled [The Ewe Reel]
116. Speech, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled (short; incomplete)
117. Song: Untitled
118. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
119. Jig: Langstrom Pony [Langstern Pony]
120. Reels: The Graf Spee [The Grand Spy], Mother's Delight (clipped at end) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, speech in English A1, 25, B1, 14, 27;
Keegan, Joe, Armagh, flute solo A2–29, B2–7, 28;
speech in English B1;
Kilfenora Ceili Band, The, Clare, instrumental group B8, 10;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in Irish and English B9, 11, 13, 19–20, 22, 24, 26;
Owens, Jesse, Dublin, singing in Irish and English in duet to own guitar accompaniment B12;
Byrne, Anne, Dublin, singing in Irish and English in duet to guitar accompaniment B12;
McKenna, Barney, Dublin, banjo in trio B14;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group(s) B15–18;
Staunton, Donal / Standuin, Donal, Galway, banjo in trio B19;
Keane, Sean, Dublin, fiddle in trio B19;
Mulqueen, Ann, Limerick, singing in English B21;
Flynn, Liam / O Floinn, Liam, Kildare, pipes solo B23;
O Se, Sean, Cork, singing in English with instrumental accompaniment B25;
Sean O Riada agus Ceoltoiri Chualann, Dublin, instrumental accompaniment to singing B25;
instrumental group B27

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [Test signals, etc]
2. Jig: Garrett Barry's
3. Reel: The Ewe Reel
4. Reel: Hand Me down the Tackle
5. Reel: The Cup of Tea
6. Reel: Down the Broom
7. Reel: The Milliner's Daughter
8. Reel: Music in the Glen
9. Reel: The Longford Collector
10. Reel: Untitled [Sporting Nell (related tune)]
11. Reel: Dinny O'Brien's [Composed by Paddy O'Brien]
12. Reel: Tom Ward's Downfall
13. Reel: Lucy Campbell
14. Reel: Miss McLeod's Reel
15. Reel: Untitled
16. Reel: The Liffey Banks
17. Reels: The Earl's Chair, Sporting Paddy
18. Reel: The Bunch of Keys
19. Reel: Gold Ring Jig [The Gold Ring]
20. Reel: McDermott's Reel [Master McDermott's Reel; composed by Master McDermott]
21. Jig: The Queen of the Fair
22. Jig: Kitty in the Lane [Kitty's Rambles; The Rambles of Kitty]
23. Reel: The Broken Pledge
24. Reel: Within a Mile of Dublin
25. Reel, Speech: Crowley's No. 1 [First tune in a set of 2 called 'Crowley's Reels' recorded by Michael Coleman, fiddle, on 78rpm disc], Untitled
26. Reel: Roaring Mary
27. Reel: Down the Broom
28. Reel: The Sligo Maid
29. Reel: The Flax in Bloom [END OF BAND ONE]
30. Speech, Speech: Untitled [Test signal], Untitled
31. Jig: Untitled [Happy to Meet and Sorry to Part (related tune)]
32. Jig: Untitled [Connie the Soldier]
33. Jig: Untitled [Do You Want Any More; The Collier's Reel (related tune)]
34. Reel: Untitled [The Liffey Banks]
35. Reel: Untitled [Lucy Campbell]
36. Reel: Untitled [Dicky Sherlock's]
37. Jigs: Untitled [Richard Brennan's Favourite], Untitled [The Idle Road] [Music signalling the start of a radio programme on Radio Eireann / RTE radio]
38. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
39. Reels: Untitled [The Kilmaley Reel], Untitled [The Hunter's House; composed by Ed Reavy; Reavy's Reel], Untitled [The Mountain Road; composed by Michael Gorman], Untitled [Tierney's Reel?], Untitled [Bonnie Kate], Untitled [Sean McGuire; composed by Bert Murray]
40. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
41. Song: Ballinderry
42. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
43. Reels, Speech: Untitled [My Love Is in America], Untitled [The Collier's Reel], Untitled [Radio announcement]
44. Jigs: Untitled [Andy McGann's], Untitled [The Castle Jig; composed by Sean Ryan], Untitled [Sacco's Jig; Tripping up the Stairs]
45. Reels: Untitled [Rattigan's], Untitled [Carmel Mahoney Mulhaire; composed by Martin Mulhaire], Untitled [The Hare's Foot]
46. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Fairy Queen], Untitled [The Ballyoran; composed by Sean Ryan]
47. Jigs: Untitled [The Lilting Fisherman], Untitled [Father Kelly's; Lough Derg Jig; composed by Father Kelly]
48. Reels, Speech: The Moving Bog, Miko Russell's / Micho Russell's, Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over]
49. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
50. Song: The Blackbird of Sweet Avondale
51. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
52. Reels: The Boy in the Gap, The Mistress [Maistreas an Ti / The Mistress of the House], The Cup of Tea
53. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
54. Song: The Boys of Kilmichael
55. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
56. Reels, Speech: Ril Mor Bhaile an Chalaidh, Untitled [Nelly Donovan], Untitled [The Shaskeen Reel], Untitled [Radio announcement; short; incomplete]
57. Reel: Untitled [The Milliner's Daughter] (clipped at end) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Digitised and catalogue updated by Jackie Small, completed December 2005.Tracks 7–19 are an off-air recording of the RTE radio programme \'The Long Note\'.The track listing that follows is a first draft showing the items that have not been digitised;
these items come from the LP record \'Mo Cheol Thu\'. They appear on the tape after track A6OMIT Air: Untitled [The Lark in the Clear Air] g o\'grady & Eily pno?OMIT Speech, Untitled [Radio announcement;
topic: background to the song \'An Clar Bog Deil\']OMIT Song: An Clar Bog DeilOMIT Polka: Untitled (incomplete) [PROBABLY END OF BAND ONE?DAT transferred digitally to hard drive and saved as 24 bit BWF using the DATs original sample rate. Files are stored on ITMA server. The WAV titles follow the convention of their relevant DAT copies. Niall Hackett, 2010Imported from Reeldubs July 2013Dubbed to DAT June 1998

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [The Bucks of Oranmore; dubbing of 78rpm disc]
2. Set Dance: Untitled [The Blackbird; dubbing of 78rpm disc]
3. Jigs: Untitled [An Rogaire Dubh; The Black Rogue], Untitled [Saddle the Pony; The Priest's Leap] [Dubbing of 78rpm disc]
4. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Derry Hornpipe / The Londonderry Hornpipe; sound extremely faint; dubbing of 78rpm disc]
5. Strathspey?: Untitled [Levels fluctuate widely; dubbing of 78rpm disc]
6. Waltzes: Untitled, Untitled [Dubbing of 78rpm disc; this is followed by dubbings from the commercial LP 'Mo Cheol Thu'; this content has not been digitised] [END OF RELEVANT CONTENT ON BAND ONE?]
7. Speech, Speech, Single Jig, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled, Untitled [The Long Note; signature tune of the RTE radio programme of which this is a dub; this tune is related to the reel 'Jenny's Welcome to Charlie'], Untitled [Radio announcements, the first as voice-over]
8. Jig: Untitled [The Newport Lass; The Trip to Athlone]
9. Speech, Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [Introduction to the next piece of music], Drowsy Maggie, Untitled
10. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; information about a concert of traditional music in the Tailor's Hall, Dublin, which was recorded as part of a radio series presented by Breandan Breathnach on BBB radio Northern Ireland]
11. Jigs / Marches, Speech: Montrose O'Sullivan's March, Allistrum's March [Mairseail Alasdroim], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over]
12. Speech, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [Radio presentation; topic: the history of the Dublin area The Little Green]
13. Hornpipe, Speech: Untitled [The Blackbird; George Rowley's Blackbird], Untitled [Radio announcement]
14. Song: Lovely Nancy
15. Speech, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [Introduction to poem; poem 'Leeds no Amsterdam' recited by its author]
16. Speech, Jig, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [The Lark in the Morning], Untitled [Radio presentation about busking in Dublin]
17. Speech, Speech, Song?: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [Radio presentation; topics: the names of islands in Scotland; introduction to the performance of mouth music that follows], Untitled [Mouth music performance]
18. Strathspeys, Speech: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over]
19. Instrumental Piece, Speech, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [Radio announcement; topic: current music events in Dublin], Untitled [Radio announcement]

Performers:
Unidentified performer [Russell, Micho, Clare?], whistle in duet A1;
Unidentified performer [Russell, Pakie, Clare?], concertina in duet A1;
concertina solo A2;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A3–4;
Unidentified performer, Clare, speech in Irish A5–6;
Unidentified performer [Ennis, Seamus, Dublin], speech in Irish A5–7, 9;
speech in Irish and English A10;
speech in English A11;
Unidentified performer, Clare, speech in Irish A7;
Unidentified performer, Clare, singing in English A8;
Unidentified performer, Clare, speech in Irish A9;
singing in Irish A9;
Conlon, John 'Baser', Clare, speech in Irish and English A10;
speech in English A11;
lilting solo A12;
singing in Irish A12;
whistling solo A12;
singing in English A12;
Unidentified performer, flute solo A13

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [The Heather Breeze]
2. Reel: Untitled [The Peeler's Jacket]
3. Reel: Untitled [The Bag of Potatoes]
4. Jig: Untitled
5. Speech: Untitled [Includes a story about Diarmaid and Grainne at Ceann Leime / Loophead]
6. Speech: Untitled
7. Speech: Untitled [Includes discussion about blindness & reading by means of Braille]
8. Song: Untitled
9. Speech, Song: Untitled, Taimse im Chodladh is na Duisigh Me
10. Speech: Untitled [Entertaining tourists with fiddle-playing (mainly in Irish)]
11. Speech: Untitled [Entertaining tourists with fiddle-playing; how the speaker got the nickname 'Baser' (in English)]
12. Jig / Song, Speech, Jig / Song: Untitled [Jig lilted and words to it sung], Untitled, Untitled [Jig whistled and lilted and words to it sung; The Dark-Eyed Gypsy]
13. Reels: Untitled [The Maid of Mount Cisco], Untitled [The Hunter's Purse] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Ryan, Paddy, Limerick, fiddle in duet A2, 4, 6, 8;
Supple, Paddy, Limerick, fiddle in duet A2, 4, 6, 8;
Keogh, Dan, Tipperary, concertina solo A10;
Hayes, Matt, Tipperary, singing in English A12;
Rainsford, Mary B, Limerick, fiddle in instrumental group A14;
Walsh, Michael, Tipperary, flute in instrumental group A14;
Ahern, Mrs, Limerick, fiddle in instrumental group A14;
O'Brien, Liam, Limerick, accordion in instrumental group A14;
O'Donnell, Joseph, Limerick, accordion in instrumental group A14;
Dick Ryan 'Larry', Tipperary, fiddle in trio A16–17;
Anthony Ryan 'Donal', Tipperary, accordion in trio A16–17;
Shaw, Pat, Tipperary, fiddle in trio A16–17;
Mulkere, Jack, Clare, fiddle solo A19;
Preston, Michael, Clare, flute in trio A21;
Shaughnessy, Jack, Clare, fiddle in trio A21;
Divinney, Pat, Clare, fiddle in trio A21

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows; the music on tracks A2–8 was recorded in Annacotty, Co Limerick in December 1955]
2. Reel: The Swallow's Tail
3. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows]
4. Hornpipe: The Woods of Kilkenny (fades out)
5. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows]
6. Jig: Old Man Dillon
7. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows]
8. Reel: The Boyne Hunt
9. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows; the performances on tracks A10–12 were recorded in Cappawhite, Co Tipperary in December 1955]
10. Polka: Untitled
11. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows]
12. Song: Hollyford
13. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows]
14. Jigs: The Shandon Bells, Haste to the Wedding
15. Speech: Untitled [About the performances that follow on tracks A16–17]
16. Jig: The Merry Maiden [Related to The Wandering Minstrel?]
17. Reel: Far from Home
18. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows, which was recorded in Crusheen, Co Clare in January 1955]
19. Air: The Dark Woman of the Mountain
20. Speech: Untitled [About the performances that follow]
21. Jigs: Gallagher's Frolics, Paddy's Favourite [Whelan's Jig]
22. Reels: The Wheels of the World [Joe Cooley's version of 'The Morning Dew'], Cooley's Reel [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Finnegan, Thomas, Galway, singing in English A2;
Unidentified performers, speech in English throughout;
Keaveney, Patrick, Galway, singing in English A3;
Kelly, Jim / Kelly, James, Galway, singing in English A4, 6, 11, 13;
speech in English A4, 13;
Glynn, William / Glynn, Willie, Galway, speech in English A7, 9–10, 12, 14;
singing in English A8, 10, 12, 14;
Clancy, Jack ('Jack the Jigger'), Clare, lilting solo A15–16;
speech in English A15;
Crotty, Elizabeth, Clare, speech in English A17;
singing in English A18;
concertina solo A20;
White, Aggie, Galway, fiddle in duet A22;
fiddle solo A24;
Hegney, Agnes, Galway, fiddle in duet A22;
Mulhaire, Thomas, Galway, fiddle in trio A26;
Mulhaire, Brendan, Galway, accordion in trio A26;
Mulhaire, Martin, Galway, accordion in trio A26;
accordion solo A28;
Tracy, John Joe, Galway, flute in trio A30;
Downey, Patsy, Galway, accordion in trio A30;
Dooley, Michael Joe, Galway, fiddle in trio A30;
Finnerty, Johnny, Galway, speech in English A31;
singing in English A31

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [About the song that follows, recorded in Glenamaddy, Co Galway in June 1956]
2. Song: Untitled [In a dreary old cabin sat a grey-haired old father (etc)]
3. Speech, Song: Untitled, Untitled [Only a Bunch of Violets; Out in a moonlit garden, far from the ballroom bright (etc)]
4. Speech, Song: Untitled, The Maid of Athenry
5. Speech: Untitled [Song just sung was recorded in Corofin, Co Galway in June 1956]
6. Song: The Kellys and Molloys [Stated to be related to the American song 'The Martins and the Coyles']
7. Speech: Untitled [About the song that follows]
8. Song: The 1916 Rising in County Galway
9. Speech: Untitled
10. Song, Speech: John Reilly, Untitled
11. Speech, Song: Untitled, The Star of Donegal
12. Speech, Song: Untitled, The Woodlands of Loughglynn (incomplete)
13. Speech, Song: Untitled, A Bird without a Gall / Captain Woodburn's Courtship [Captain Wedderburn's Courtship]
14. Speech, Song: Untitled, Untitled [About Louis Darcy of Headford, County Galway]
15. Jig, Speech: Untitled [The Rambling Pitchfork ?], Untitled
16. Reel: Down the Broom
17. Speech: Untitled
18. Song: An Droighnean Donn [Version in English; learned from Mrs Lillis, Cooraclare, Co Clare]
19. Speech: Untitled [The song and music here from Mrs Crotty was recorded in Kilrush, Co Clare in June 1956]
20. Reel: Bean an Tinceara [An Bhean Tinceara]
21. Speech: Untitled [About the tune that follows, recorded in Tom White's pub, Ballinakill, Co Galway in January 1956]
22. Reels: The Bird in the Tree, The Shannon Breeze [Rolling in the Ryegrass]
23. Speech: Untitled
24. Reels: Untitled [O'Rourke's], Untitled [Colonel Rodney]
25. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows; recorded in Kiltormer, Co Galway in February 1956]
26. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Martin Mulhaire's Reel [Composed by Martin Mulhaire (a member of the trio that plays here)]
27. Speech: Untitled
28. Reel: Untitled [The Golden Keyboard; composed by the performer]
29. Speech: Untitled
30. Reel: Dowd's Favourite [O'Dowd's Favourite]
31. Speech, Song: Untitled, 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] (incomplete; repeated on tape Breandan Breathnach Reel-to-Reel 348) [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, concertina in duet A2–5;
Unidentified performer, flute in duet A2–5;
Kilfenora Ceili Band, The, Clare, instrumental group A6–11;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Hayes, P.J., Clare, fiddle solo A13;
Tulla Ceili Band, The, Clare, instrumental group A14–16;
Preston, Michael, Clare, flute solo A18–19;
Griffin, Vincent, Clare, fiddle solo A21;
Malley, Bill, Clare, fiddle in duet A22;
Houlihan, Pat, Clare, whistle in duet A22;
Canny, Paddy, Clare, fiddle in duet A25–26;
Bane, Joe, Clare, whistle in duet A25–26;
whistle solo A28;
McMahon, Robert [McMahon, Robbie], Clare, singing in English A30;
Ryan, Paddy, Limerick, fiddle in duet A32;
Supple, Paddy, Limerick, fiddle in duet A32

Running Order:
1. Tone Signal: Untitled
2. Reels: Untitled [The Wind that Shakes the Barley], Untitled [Music in the Glen]
3. Reels: Untitled [The Sally Gardens], Untitled [Dillon's Fancy]
4. Reels: Untitled [The Rainy Day], Untitled
5. Jigs: Untitled [The Angry Peeler], Untitled [Shares first part with The Ship in Full Sail – second differs]
6. Reels: Untitled, Untitled [The Limerick Lasses], Untitled
7. Jigs: Untitled [Cherish the Ladies], Untitled [Gallagher's Frolics]
8. Reels: Untitled [The Boyne Hunt], Untitled [The Fermoy Lasses]
9. Jigs: Untitled [Paddy's Return; What Would You Do if the Kettle Boiled over], Untitled [The Kilfenora Jig]
10. Hornpipes: Untitled [Kitty's Wedding], Untitled [Fisher's Hornpipe]
11. Reels: Untitled [The Doon Reel], Untitled [The Bucks of Oranmore; not the standard version]
12. Speech: Untitled [About the performers and date of recording of the music on this tape]
13. Jigs: John Ryan's Jig [Sean Ryan's Jig; The Castle Jig; composed by Sean Ryan], Untitled [The Nightingale; composed by Sean Ryan]
14. Reels: Untitled [The Sally Gardens], Untitled [The Bag of Potatoes; The Bag of Spuds], Untitled [The Congress Reel]
15. Jigs: Untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], Untitled [Cailleach an Tuirne; The Maid of the Spinning Wheel], Untitled [The Trip to the Cottage]
16. Reels: Untitled [The Maid of Mount Cisco], Untitled [The Hunter's Purse]
17. Speech: Untitled
18. Reels: The Mist on the Mountain, The Cameronian
19. Reel: Farewell to Ballinakill [Miss Pierce's]
20. Speech: Untitled
21. Reels: The Sally Gardens, Jenny's Chickens
22. Speech: Untitled
23. Reels: The Glandree Reel [The Honeymoon]
24. Speech: Untitled
25. Reels: Down the Broom, The Gatehouse Maid
26. Jigs: Untitled [The Shandon Bells], Untitled [The Lark in the Morning]
27. Speech: Untitled
28. Reels: Paddy Finlay's Fancy [The Galway Rambler], Untitled [The Traveller]
29. Speech: Untitled
30. Song: The Hills of Sweet Mayo
31. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows, which was recorded in Annacotty, Co Limerick in December 1955]
32. Reel: The Swallow's Tail (incomplete; tape runs out) [This performance is available in full on BB_RR_349] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, accordion A1–6, 27–29, 34;
Unidentified performer, flute A1–2, 4–6;
Unidentified performer [Pakie Russell?], concertina A7–10, 30;
Unidentified performer, whistle A7–10;
Unidentified performers [The Kilfenora Ceili Band?], instrumental group A11, 15–16;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A12–13;
Russell, Micho, Clare, whistle A14, 17–21, 39–40;
flute A22–24, 35–38;
Unidentified performer, bodhran A21;
Unidentified performer, piano A24–26;
Unidentified group (accordion, concertina, flute), A31–33

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [The Dairy Maid]
2. Reels: Untitled [The Sligo Maid], Untitled [The Gatehouse Maid (CRE 2, # 233)]
3. Reel: Untitled [Recorded by the Kilfenora Ceili Band as one of the Kilrush Polkas (?)]
4. Reel: Untitled [The Humours of Ballyconnell]
5. Reel: Untitled [The Bunch of Keys]
6. Jig: Untitled (incomplete)
7. Reel: Untitled [The Traveller (DMI, # 719)]
8. Reel: Untitled [Miss Thornton's Reel (DMI, # 534)]
9. Reel: Untitled [The Heather Breeze]
10. Reel: Untitled [An Bhean Tinceara]
11. Jig: Untitled [Dubbed from a ceili band record? Incomplete; Sacko's Jig / Tripping up the Stairs]
12. Song: Untitled [Blackwater Side (barely audible in parts)]
13. Song: Untitled [Hardly audible; preceded by short section of a ceili band dubbing]
14. Jig: Banish Misfortune / The Irishman's Misfortune / The Shady Groves of Peamount [CICD 1367.11–.12 (not from this recording)]
15. Jigs: Untitled [Father Kelly's Jig], Untitled [When Sick Is it Tea You Want? Dubbed from a ceili band record?]
16. Reels: Untitled [I'm Waiting for You; dubbed from a ceili band record? needle gets stuck in a groove], Untitled [The Humours of Lissadell], Untitled [The Doon Reel] [END OF BAND ONE]
17. Reel: The Wind that Shakes the Barley [CICD 5743.11, 5757.11–.14 (none from this recording); DMI, # 737]
18. Reel: Untitled [CICD 3912 (from this recording); Kitty in the Lane (DMI, # 796)]
19. Reel: London Bridge [CICD 2888, 5480 (both from this recording); 2884.11, 2888 (none from this recording)]
20. Jig: My Darling Asleep [CICD 1822 (from this recording); 1822.11 (where title 'The Miners of Wicklow' is given - in error?), 1822.12–.13 (none from this recording); DMI, # 159]
21. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; Boil the Breakfast Early (DMI, # 789)]
22. Jig: An Rogaire Dubh [CICD 1858 (where this recording is referenced); 2620.11–.12 (none from this recording); The Black Rogue]
23. Reel: Kitty's Gone a-Milking / The Dublin Reel [CICD 5211.11 (not from this recording); not the tune generally called The Dublin Reel; DMWC, # 31]
24. Reel: The Heights of Alma / The Rakes of Mallow [CICD 2692.11 (not from this recording)]
25. Reel: Untitled [The Heights of Alma / The Rakes of Mallow]
26. Airs: Untitled, Untitled [Believe Me if All Those Endearing Young Charms]
27. Reels: Untitled [The Green Groves of Erin], Untitled [Toss the Feathers (with tonic note D)]
28. Jig: Untitled [The Frost is All Over]
29. Jig: Untitled [The Frieze Breeches]
30. Reels: Untitled [The Star of Munster], Untitled [The Swallow's Tail]
31. Jig: Untitled [Mac's Fancy?]
32. Reels: Untitled [Sporting Nellie], Untitled [Gregg's Pipes]
33. Reels: Untitled [The Humours of Ballyconnell], Untitled [Toss the Feathers (tonic note E)], Untitled [Joe Cooley's Reel]
34. Waltz: Untitled [Gentle Mother; incomplete]
35. Jigs: Cathaoir an Phiobaire [CICD 1993–.11 (none from this recording); The Piper's Chair; CRE 1, # 9 (not from MR)], The Yellow Wattle [CICD 1133.11, 1828, 1829 (none from this recording)]
36. Reel: The Dublin Reel [CICD 3101, 3103.11, 3103.12, 3103.14, 3104.11–3104.12 (none from this recording); standard version (tonic note D)]
37. Jig: The Battering Ram [CICD 2195.12–.15 (none from this recording)]
38. Set Dance: The Retreat [CICD 6528, 6529, 6530, 6531, 6532 (none from this recording); Bonaparte's Retreat]
39. Reel: The Silver Spear [CICD 5768.11 (not from this recording); CRE, # 141]
40. Reels: Miss Monaghan [CICD 3179.12 (not from this recording); DMI, # 575], Untitled [CICD 5399 (from this recording); 5399.11 (not from this recording); version of Lord McDonald?], Come West along the Road [CICD 5502 (from this recording); 5502.11, 5505 {with tonic note D} (none from this recording); DMI, # 793] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
O'Flynn, Liam, pipes A1-5;
Brady, Paul, singing in English A6-7;
Crehan, Junior, fiddle A8-11;
Crehan, Ita, whistle A8-11;
Burke, Kevin, fiddle A12;
Finn, Fred, fiddle A12;
Horan, Peter, flute

Running Order:
1. Jig: Mairseal Alasdroim ; Air: Lament (Cnoc na nOs)
2. Reels: Untitled, Over the Moor to Maggie
3. Slip jigs: Little Fair Canavans, The First Slip
4. Reels: The Pigeon on the Gate, The West Wind
5. Reels: The Rainy Day, The Pretty Girls of Mayo
6. Song: The Keech in the Creel
7. Song: The Lakes of Pontchartrain
8. Air: A Stor Mo Chroi; Reel: Untitled
9. Jig: Untitled
10. Jig: The Mist Covered Mountain
11. Jig: Casey's Jig
12. Reel: Music in the Glen [unfinished]