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Performers:
Unidentified performer(s), accordion solo A1–2, B10, 12;
accordion in duet A5–6, 31, B11–12, 18;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English and Irish intermittently throughout;
Lyons, Paddy, Tipperary, mouth organ solo A3–4;
Ardellis Ceili Band, The, instrumental group A7–8;
Doherty, John, Donegal, fiddle solo A9–11, 12?;
Unidentified performer, concertina solo A13;
Unidentified performer(s), fiddle solo A14–15, 17, 23, 35–36, B8, 14;
fiddles in duet B9;
fiddle in duet B11–12;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle in duet A16, 30, B1?;
fiddle solo A26;
fiddle in trio A28–29, 38?;
Unidentified performer [O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig, Kerry?], fiddle in duet A16;
McHugh, Frances, Galway / Donegal, singing in English A18;
Unidentified performer, singing in Irish A19;
Unidentified performer [Droney, Jim, Clare], concertina in duet A20–21;
Unidentified performer [Droney, Chris, Clare], concertina in duet A20–21;
Unidentified performer(s), concertina solo A24, 37;
Foley, Paddy Willie, whistle solo A22;
McGann, Andy, New York, fiddle in trio A25;
Reynolds, Paddy, Longford / New York, fiddle in trio A25;
O'Sullivan, Con, Kerry, fiddle in trio A28, 38?;
Cronin, Dan, Kerry, recorder in trio A28–29, 38?;
O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig, Kerry, fiddle in trio A29;
fiddle in duet A30?, B1?;
Burke, Joe, Galway, accordion in trio A32, 34;
Collins, Kathleen, New York / Galway, fiddle in trio A32, 34;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group [Kilfenora Ceili Band, The, Clare?], B2–4, 6–7;
Tierney, Gus, Clare, fiddle in duet B5;
Unidentified performer, speech in English B15–16;
Moloney, flute solo B15, 16?;
Unidentified performer, speech in English B17;
whistle solo B17;
Unidentified performer, flute in duet B18;
Canny, Paddy, Clare, fiddle solo B19–21;
Maguire, Johnny, Cavan, speech in English intermittently throughout B23–35;
whistle solo B23, 25–30, 32–35;
Unidentified performers, speech in English intermittently throughout B23–35;
Unidentified performer, speech in English B36

Running Order:
1. Reel: O'Mahony's Fancy [Carmel Mahoney Mulhaire; composed by Martin Mulhaire]
2. Reel: Coloney Rodney
3. Speech, Polka: Untitled [Information about the performance that follows], Finnegan's Wake
4. Speech, Polka: Untitled, Untitled [Maggie in the Wood]
5. Reels: Miss Patterson [Master Crowley's], Paddy Fahy's Reel [Composed by Paddy Fahy (information supplied by music scribe)]
6. Reels: Untitled [Mary O'Neill's Fancy], Sporting Nell, Untitled (incomplete)
7. Jig: Untitled
8. Jig: Hinchy's Delight
9. Reels: The Salamanca, Rakish Paddy
10. Jig: The Frieze Breeches
11. Hornpipe: Untitled
12. Jig: The Gold Ring
13. Reel: The Fair of Ballinasloe [Ballinasloe Fair], The Chicago Reel
14. Jig: Untitled (incomplete)
15. Reel: Untitled [The Foxhunter's Reel]
16. Slip Jig: Untitled [Ride a Mile]
17. Reel: The Enchanted Lady, The Maids of Castlebar (incomplete)
18. Speech, Song: Untitled [Information that the song sung next was composed by the performer's father], Louis Darcy
19. Speech, Song: Untitled, An Carabhat
20. Jig: Untitled [The Rambles of Kitty (not the tune commonly known by this name)]
21. Jig: Untitled [Paidin O Raifeartaigh, version of]
22. Speech, Single Jig / Slide: Untitled, Untitled
23. Speech, Polka / Hornpipe: Untitled, Untitled [Described by music scribe as 'Scotch Polka'; Staten Island (hornpipe)]
24. Jig: Untitled [The Bohola Jig; Joe Cooley's Jig]
25. Reel, Speech: The Belles of Tipperary, Untitled [Information about the performers of the tune just played]
26. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Information about the next music item, including that it was recorded in June 1955], The Morning Star, Durang's [Usually played as a hornpipe (information supplied by music scribe)]
27. Speech: Untitled [Information about the next music item]
28. Single Jigs / Slides: Cucanandy [The Whistling Thief Jig; Pete Sullivan's Fancy], Mount Collins [If I Had a Wife]
29. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Information about the next music item, including that it was recorded in June 1955], The Humours of Dingle
30. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Sporting Paddy
31. Reels: The Donegal Traveller, Miss Montgomery, The Donegal Traveller
32. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Lad O'Beirne's [The Coalminer], Finbarr Dwyer's Reel [Dwyer's Reel; The Holly Bush; Matt the Thresher; composed by Finbarr Dwyer]
33. Speech: Untitled [Information about the performers in the Joe Burke Trio]
34. Jigs: Untitled [The Humours of Kesh], Races at Carrick? [Title supplied by music scribe; The Coach Road to Sligo; CRE, # 33]
35. Reel: Shaney Mulhern? [Title supplied by music scribe; Never Was Piping so Gay, composed by Ed Reavy]
36. Jig: Untitled [The Rambler]
37. Reel: Untitled
38. Single Jigs / Slides: Untitled [Merrily Kiss the Quaker], Untitled [Dingle Regatta, in the version played by Sliabh Luachra musicians] [END OF BAND ONE]
39. Jig: When the Cock Crows it is Day [Ta an Coileach ag Fogairt an Lae]
40. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Mullin's Favourite [The Green Mountain]
41. Reel: The Reel of Rio [Composed by Sean Ryan]
42. Single Jigs / Slides, Jigs: Untitled [The Clare Jig; Old Kilfenora Jig], Untitled [Dinny Mescal's], Untitled [The Kesh Jig, version of], Untitled [Gillan's Apples]
43. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Paddy Fahy's Reel [Composed by Paddy Fahy; in ray mode (information supplied by music scribe)], Never was Piping so Gay [Composed by Ed Reavy]
44. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The Gold Ring
45. Reel: The Rainy Day
46. Reel: The Spey in Spate
47. Speech, Single Jig / Jig, Polka, Set Tune / Single Jig / Slide, Polka, Single Jigs / Slides: Untitled [Brief; describing the music selection that follows as one for a quadrille], Untitled, Untitled [Related to melody 'The Bog down in the Valley'], Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, Untitled [Comin' Thro' the Rye]
48. Jig: Untitled [The Boys of Lough Gowna; composed by Paddy O'Brien]
49. Reel: The Musical Priest
50. Reel: Devanney's Goat
51. Reel: The Sailor's Cravat
52. Reel: Lord McDonald
53. Speech, Hornpipes: Untitled, Tuamgraney Castle, Ann Sheehy's / The Bunch of Ferns [The Flowing Tide]
54. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Sean Ryan's Reel [The Reel of Rio; composed by Sean Ryan], Ganley's [Coen's Memories; composed by Tommy Coen]
55. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Fahy's
56. Jig: Untitled [Composed by Sean Ryan (information supplied by music scribe); The Hidden Ireland]
57. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Andy McGann's Reel
58. Reel: The Grand Spy [The Graf Spee]
59. Jigs: Apples in Winter, The Lark in the Morning [Dougherty's; Up Sligo]
60. Speech, Hornpipe: Untitled, The Cuckoo Hornpipe (incomplete)
61. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Reynold's Reel [The Sailor's Farewell; The Belharbour Reel; stated by the music scribe to have been composed by Martin Mulhaire, but this is questionable; Reynolds' Reel]
62. Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune that follows]
63. Reel: The Mount Nugent Reel [CICD 4609 (not from this recording); Miss Langford]
64. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Information about the tune that follows], The Boys of Twenty-Five [CICD 4895 (not from this recording); Ah Surely]
65. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Information about the tune that follows], The Maid of the House [CICD 5151 (not from this recording); published in Ceol, vol III, I]
66. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Gatehouse Maid [CICD 4541 (not from this recording); stated by the music scribe to be mistitled; The Baltimore Reel; Hickey's]
67. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Golden Keyboard [Composed by Martin Mulhaire]
68. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Jack Roe [CICD 4024 (not from this recording)]
69. Speech: Untitled [Information about the musician from whom the performer got the tune that follows]
70. Reel: The Crib of Perches [CICD 3124 (not from this recording)]
71. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled [Related to The Ewe Reel?]
72. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled
73. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Morning Star (incomplete)
74. Speech: Untitled (clipped at end) [Information about placenames] [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:
Unidentified performer [McConnell, Cathal, Fermanagh?], speech in English A1;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A2a;
Byrne, Anne, Dublin, singing in English with instrumental accompaniment A2b;
Bennett, John, speech in English A2c?, 2f?, 2i?, 2k?, 2m?;
Unidentified performers, singing in English with instrumental accompaniment A2d–e, 2h, 2l, 3–6;
McGuigan, Pat, harmonica in trio A2g;
McConnell, Cathal, Fermanagh, whistle in trio A2g;
Healy, James N, Cork, speech in English A2i, 2m;
singing in English with instrumental accompaniment A2j;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A7;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group A8;
Unidentified performer [Furey, Finbar, Dublin / Waterford?], pipes in duet A9;
Unidentified performer, whistle in duet A10–12;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle in duet B1, 3;
fiddle solo B2, 4–9;
speech in English A7;
Unidentified performer [O'Keeffe, Art / O'Keefe, Art, Kerry], whistle in duet B1, 3,;
Russell, Micho, Clare, whistle solo B10–18;
speech in English B10–16;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English intermittently throughout tracks B;
Doherty, John, Donegal, fiddle solo B19–30;
speech in English intermittently throughout tracks B19–30;
Unidentified performer [Kelly, John, Clare / Dublin?], speech in English and Irish B24;
Unidentified performers, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [Information about the contents of track A2]
2. a) Speech, b) Song, c) Speech, d) Song, e) Song, f) Speech, g) Instrumental Piece, h) Song, i) Speech, j) Song, k) Speech, l) Song, m) Speech: a) Untitled [Radio announcement], b) Can You Dance the Polka?, c) Untitled [Radio announcement], d) Farewell to Tarwathie, e) Untitled [Brief; one verse only], f) Untitled [Information about the song just song and the tune to be played next; gives the title of the tune], g) ? the Forty Second [Tune has the same melody as that of the song sung before it here], h) Untitled, i) Untitled [Interview; topic: sea songs and shanties], j) The Bug-A-Boo, k) Untitled, l) Untitled [All for Me Grog], m) Untitled [Radio announcement & interview] [This track is a poor-quality off-air dubbing of a (radio or TV) programme titled 'The Sea Folk', broadcast on BBC Northern Ireland]
3. Song: Untitled [Track A5 contains another copy of the recording on this track]
4. Song: Untitled [The Sisters of Mercy, composed by Leonard Cohen]
5. Song: Untitled [Preceded by short recording of piano-playing; track A3 contains another copy of the recording on this track]
6. Song: Untitled
7. Song: Untitled [William Hollander]
8. Reel: Untitled
9. Air: Untitled
10. Reel: Untitled [The Stony Step]
11. Reel: Untitled [The Belles of Tipperary]
12. Reel: Untitled (incomplete) [The Skylark] [END OF BAND ONE]
13. Reel: Untitled [Donall a' Phumpa; CRE 5, # 147; Molly on the Shore]
14. Reel: Untitled [Donal a' Clumper's Reel; CRE 2, # 295 (where it is untitled)]
15. Reels: Untitled [The Morning Star], Untitled [Rolling in the Ryegrass]
16. Reel: Untitled [Callaghan's Reel / O'Callaghan's Reel; CRE 2, # 131]
17. Reel: Untitled [Quinn's Reel; CRE 2, # 171]
18. Reels: Untitled [The Mountain Road; composed by Michael Gorman], Untitled [The Doon Reel (JOLSL, ed. Moylan, # 94); Pat Ward's Jig (a version of this tune played as a single jig by Seamus Ennis)]
19. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Glountane Reel (CICD 3453)], Untitled
20. Jig: Untitled [Cailin a' Ti Mhoir / Cailin an Ti Mhoir (CRE 2, # 40); The Housekeeper; The House Maid; The Girl from the Big House]
21. Reel: Untitled [Callaghan's; The Doon Reel; Nellie Donovan; CRE 2, # 270]
22. Reel, Speech: The Boy in the Gap, Untitled
23. Reel, Speech: The Fair-Haired Boy, Untitled
24. Reel, Speech: Patsy Campbell's Reel, Untitled
25. Reel, Speech: Upstairs in a Tent [CRE 2, 190], Untitled
26. Reel, Speech: Tadhg a Run / A Thaidhg, a Run [CRE 2, 150 (i)], Untitled
27. Reel, Speech: The Rose in the Garden [Divide the Cally Fair; Kennaw's Reel (WSGM, # 326, related tune)], Untitled
28. Jig / Slide, Speech: Untitled [The Clare Jig; CRE 2, 71], Untitled [Tune just played was used for the fifth figure of a set]
29. Jig: Untitled [The Frieze Breeches]
30. Jig: Untitled [Tatter Jack Walsh]
31. Reel: Untitled [The Dispute at the Crossroads; a version of Doctor Gilbert]
32. Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled
33. Reel, Speech: Miss Ramsey, Untitled
34. Reel, Speech: Untitled [McFarley's; a version of 'The Maids of Castlebar'], Untitled
35. Reel: The Moving Bogs of Allen [The Moving Bogs (CRE 2, # 174)]
36. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Caher Rua, Untitled
37. Slip Jig: Untitled [Hardiman the Fiddler, version of]
38. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The Old Hag at the Churn [Related to Garrett Barrett's Jig]
39. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The King of the Pipers [CRE 2, # 45]
40. Jig, Speech: Untitled [The King of the Pipers; not the same tune as in the previous track], Untitled
41. Jig: Untitled [The Rambling Pitchfork, version of]
42. Reel: Untitled [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]

Performers:
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle solo throughout

Running Order:
1. Tone signal
2. Polkas: Untitled [The Ballybunnion], Untitled [The Knocknaboul (2)], Untitled [The Groves of Gneevegullia; The Top of Maol]
3. Single Jigs / Slides: Untitled [Pete Sullivan's Fancy; The Whistling Thief Jig; the melody of the song 'Cucanandy' is related to this tune], Untitled [If I Had a Wife], Untitled [Denis Murphy's Slide]
4. Hornpipes: Fisherman's [Fisher's Hornpipe (version of)], Byron's
5. Jigs: Padraig O'Keeffe's [Tom Billy's (1)], Tom Billy's [Tom Billy's (2)]
6. Reels: The Green Banks of Rossbeigh [The Green Fields of Rossbeigh; The Kerry Reel], Colonel Fraser, The Steampacket [The Mountain Lark]
7. Hornpipes: Corney Drew's, Two Birds in a Tree [The Bird in the Bush; usually played as a reel]
8. Airs: The Red-Haired Man's Wife, O'Rahilly's Grave [For another performance of this selection, see track A11]
9. Jigs: The House in the Glen [The Rambler], The Thrush on the Strand [Heather and Sedge; The Castlebar Races], Untitled [Related to The Three Little Drummers?]
10. Reels: Mount Collins [The Girls of Farranfore; The Game of Love], The Doon Reel [Callaghan's], Patsy McCarthy's [The Mountain Top, related to?]
11. Airs: The Red-Haired Man's Wife, O'Rahilly's Grave [For another performance of this selection, see track A8] [Information in log: 'improvement on first attempt']
12. Hornpipes: Cronin's, Callaghan's [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Cronin, Paddy, Kerry, fiddle solo throughout

Running Order:
1. Tone signal
2. Jigs: Untitled [The Munster Jig; CICD 735], Untitled [Tell Her I Am; for another performance of this tune, see track A8]
3. Reels: Untitled [Duggan's Fancy; CICD 4744; recorded on 78 rpm commercial disc by Michael Coleman, fiddle, as O'Rourke's (the first tune in a selection); The Wild Irishman (title used by Coleman for the second tune in the selection; often used for this tune and possibly Coleman's intended title for this tune)], Untitled [The Galtee / The Galtee Ranger / The Galtee Rangers], Untitled [The Woman of the House, Bean a' Ti ar Lar]
4. Single Jigs / Slides, Jig: Untitled [Tom Billy's Fancy; Johnny Mick Dinny's (JOLSL, # 95)], Untitled [CICD 1775; The Cat in the Corner (JOLSL, # 348)], Untitled [The Humours of Kilkenny; Cailleach an Airgid; CICD 4744; The Hag with the Money]
5. Single Jigs / Slides: Untitled [The Dark Girl in Blue; Denis Murphy's Slide], Untitled [Across the Road; Paddy Cronin's (JOLSL, # 75)]
6. Reels: Untitled [The Doon Reel; The Chorus Reel], Untitled [Pepper and Salt; Tansey's Favourite; CRE 3, # 136]
7. Hornpipes: Untitled [Cronin's Hornpipe (JOLSL, # 171)], Untitled [The Brittania Hornpipe; CICD 6077], Untitled [The Fisherman's Hornpipe; Fisher's Hornpipe]
8. Jigs: Untitled [Down the Meadows; related to Malowney's Wife (DMI, # 11)], Untitled [Tell Her I Am; for another performance of this tune, see track A2]
9. Reels: Untitled [The Dairy Maid], Untitled [The Morning Star]
10. Reels: Untitled [The Wind that Shakes the Barley], Untitled [Wellington's Reel (CRE 3, # 110); closely related to Sheehan's Reel (DMI)]
11. Air: Untitled [The Lament for O'Donnell / Caoine Ui Dhomhnaill]
12. Set Dance: Untitled [The Jockey to the Fair]
13. Hornpipes: Untitled [Byrne's Hornpipe], Untitled
14. Single Jigs, Slides: Untitled [The Quarry Cross; The Dingle Regatta, in the version played by Sliabh Luachra musicians], Untitled [Barrack Hill (DMI, # 410)], Untitled [Pucan; CICD 1415; The Worn Torn Petticoat; Quarry Cross; The Leprechaun] (clipped at end) [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Coleman, Owen, Sligo, speech in English A2;
Unidentified performer [Ennis, Seamus, Dublin], speech in English A2–3;
O'Dowd, Joe, Sligo, speech in English A3;
fiddle solo A4–16;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle solo A17;
O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig, Kerry, fiddle solo A18

Running Order:
1. Tone signals
2. Speech: Untitled [Interview with Owen Coleman, brother of the fiddle-player Michael Coleman; anecdotes about Michael Coleman's interest in dancing and music as a child; his father was a flute-player; Michael Coleman was a good dancer; was small in stature; how Michael Coleman learned to play – was taught by Kipeen Scanlon (who used to spend periods of up to 6 weeks in the Coleman household), P J McDermott of Buninadden, John O'Dowd, Phil O'Beirne, and Jack Mc Hugh; Michael Coleman went to the USA about 1911 at the age of about 21]
3. Speech: Untitled [Interview with the fiddle-player Joe O'Dowd; his background as a fiddle-player; he began to play at 10 years of age, taught by his brother Jack; the community in which he was brought up was rich in music; his uncle John O'Dowd (who taught Michael Coleman) was regarded as a fine player; the bands that Joe O'Dowd played with in London; the tune that follows was a favourite of Jim Coleman, brother of Michael Coleman]
4. Reel: Miss Johnson's Reel
5. Jigs: Coppers and Brass [The Humours of Ennistymon], Coleman's Jig [The Primrose Vale; The Lark on the Strand], Coppers and Brass [The Humours of Ennistymon]
6. Hornpipes: The Stage Hornpipe [The Norfolk], Untitled [The Western] [This selection was recorded by Michael Coleman, fiddle, on commercial 78rpm disc]
7. Reels: Lord McDonald, Ballinasloe Fair, The Round Towers of Ballymote [Touch Me If You Dare] [The first two tunes in this selection were recorded together by Michael Coleman, fiddle, on commercial 78rpm disc]
8. Slip Jigs: Untitled [The Foxhunter's Jig], Untitled [Comb Your Hair and Curl It] [This selection was recorded by Michael Coleman, fiddle, on commercial 78rpm disc?]
9. Reels: Dowd's Favourite / O'Dowd's Favourite, The Star of Munster, Miss Johnson [The first two tunes in this selection were recorded together by Michael Coleman, fiddle, on commercial 78rpm disc?]
10. Reels: Farewell to Ireland [Farewell to Erin; CRE 1, # 139], The Cherry Tree [Farewell to Erin (DMI, # 701)], Reidy Johnson [Hand Me Down the Tackle]
11. Reel: The Lads of Leith [The Lads of Laois], Dungloe Reel [The Humours of Castlefin], The Green Banks of Rossbeigh [The Green Fields of Rossbeigh; The Kerry Reel]
12. Jigs: Jackson's Jigs [1] [The Humours of Kesh], Jackson's Jigs [2] [Doherty's Fancy; The Pet of the Pipers]
13. Air: The Lakes of Sligo / Loch [? E--h] [The Lass o' Gowrie]
14. Reels: The Boys of the Lough, Faral Gara
15. Set Dances: The King of the Fairies, The Blackbird
16. Reels: Faral Gara, Untitled [The Silver Spire], The Shaskeen
17. Polkas: The Green Cottage Polkas [1], The Green Cottage Polkas [2]
18. Air: The Old Man Rocking the Cradle [An Seanduine; includes part of the slip jig 'The Foxhunter's Jig'] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig, Kerry, fiddle solo A2–9?;
fiddle in duet A10?;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle in duet A10?

Running Order:
1. Tone signal
2. Slides: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
3. Reels: Quinn's [CRE 2, # 171], Callaghan's [The Doon Reel], Bean a' Ti ar Lar [The Woman of the House]
4. Hornpipe: Johnny Cope
5. Hornpipes: Campbell's Hornpipe [The Smoky Chimney; with extra parts, including one from 'Kitty O'Neill'?], English Hornpipe
6. Single Jigs / Slides: Sheehan's Jig, Untitled, Untitled
7. Reel: Untitled [Kiss the Maid behind the Barrel; The Maid behind the Bar; with more parts than in the standard version]
8. Reel: Untitled [First part is that of Colonel Fraser; second differs]
9. Air: Untitled [The Wounded Hussar]
10. Slides: Untitled, Untitled [Chase Me Charlie], Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Digitised and catalogue updated by Jackie Small, February 2008. Report year 2008The title of the DAT(s) was altered from the old title (DCS) to the new title (ITMA-REEL/DAT) using different numbers in order to establish consistency in the titling of DAT copies of reel-to-reel tapes, Niall Hackett, 2010DAT 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.Imported from Reeldubs July 2013ARDI: Tracks A19–B9: see documentation for 4145-LP in CSRECS databaseTracks A19–B9 have the same contents as the commercial recording \'The Humours of Lisheen\', released by Topic Records in their LP series \'Music from Sliabh Luachra\'. That recording was later re-released on cassette by Ossian

Running Order:
1. Reels: Untitled [Dublin Porter], Untitled [The Old 'Wheels of the World'] [Several breaks in the recording]
2. Jig: Untitled [The Geese in the Bog; The Lark's March] [Several breaks in the recording]
3. Reels: Untitled [The Mountain Road], Untitled
4. Polkas: Untitled [The Knocknaboul Polka], Untitled [The Ballydesmond Polka]
5. Reels: Untitled [Boil the Breakfast Early], Untitled [Bunker Hill]
6. Air: Untitled [An Buachaill Caol Dubh / The Dark Slender Boy]
7. Reels: Untitled [The Crooked Road to Dublin], Untitled
8. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled
9. Jigs: Untitled [Port Sheain tSeosaimh; Old Joe's Jig], Untitled [The Leitrim Jig]
10. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled
11. Reel: Untitled [The Chicago Reel]
12. Set Dance: Untitled [Bonaparte's Retreat]
13. Jigs: Untitled [Connie the Soldier], Untitled [Port Chuilinn Ui Chaoimh / The Cullen Jig; The Humours of Glin (related tune)]
14. Song Air / Set Dance[?]: Untitled [The Palatine's Daughter / The Garden of Daisies]
15. Hornpipe: Untitled [Flee as a Bird (as recorded on commercial 78rpm disc by James Morrison, fiddle)]
16. Jig: Untitled [Cherish the Ladies]
17. Hornpipe: Untitled [Father Dollard's Hornpipe]
18. Reels: Untitled [The Old Bush], Untitled [Within a Mile of Dublin]
19. Jigs: Untitled [The Humours of Lisheen; The Thrush in the Straw], Untitled [Art O'Keefe's / Art O'Keeffe's] [HL / MSL, side A, track 1]
20. Reels: Untitled [Tap the Barrel], Untitled [Jenny Tie the Bonnet / Jenny Tie Your Bonnet / Tie the Bonnet] [HL / MSL, side A, track 2]
21. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Frisco Hornpipe] [HL / MSL, side A, track 3]
22. Jig / Slide: Untitled [Biddy Crowley's Ball; Mo Ghrasa ar Maidin / My Love in the Morning] [HL / MSL, side A, track 4]
23. Air, Slide: Untitled [The Bold Trainor O / The Bold Trainer O; The Green Linnet], Untitled [Denis Murphy's Slide; Padraig O'Keeffe's Slide] [HL / MSL, side A, track 5]
24. Polkas: Untitled [The Blue Riband], Untitled [Up and Away] [HL / MSL, side A, track 6]
25. Jig: Untitled [Cailin an Ti Mhoir; The Housekeeper] [HL / MSL, side A, track 7]
26. Polka: Untitled [Tom Sullivan's Polka] [HL / MSL, side A, track 8]
27. Hornpipes: Untitled [Freddy Kimmel's Hornpipe], Untitled [The Home Brew; The Wicklow Hornpipe] [HL / MSL, side A, track 9]
28. Polka: Untitled [Padraig O'Keefe's / Padraig O'Keeffe's] [HL / MSL, side B, track 1]
29. Hornpipe: Untitled [Poll Ha'penny / Poll Ha'penny] [HL / MSL, side B, track 2]
30. Jigs: Untitled [John Mahinney's No 2], Untitled [The Ducks and the Oats; The Tenpenny Bit (related tune?)] [HL / MSL, side B, track 3]
31. Polka: Untitled [I Looked East and I Looked West] [Continued on tracks B] [HL / MSL, side B, track 4]
32. Slides: Untitled, Untitled [The Worn Torn Petticoat] [Continued from tracks A] [HL / MSL, side B, track 5]
33. Air: Untitled [Taimse im' Chodhladh / Taimse im Chodladh] [HL / MSL, side B, track 6]
34. Slide: Untitled [Going to the Well for Water; The Kaiser] [HL / MSL, side B, track 7]
35. Polkas: Untitled [Julia Clifford's; Tarrant's], Untitled [Bill the Waiver's / Bill the Weaver's; Din Tarrant's] [HL / MSL, side B, track 8]
36. Jig / Slide / March: Untitled [Maguire's Kick] [HL / MSL, side B, track 9]
37. Hornpipe: Untitled [Johnny Cope] [HL / MSL, side B, track 10]
38. Speech, Polka: Untitled [Introduction to a polka set; identifies the musicians about to play], Untitled [John Clifford's] [HL / MSL, side B, track 11a]
39. Speech, Jig / Slide: Untitled, Behind the Bush in the Garden [Billy O'Rourke Is the Boy] [HL / MSL, side B, track 11b]
40. 9: Slide: Untitled [Going for Water (title given on commercial release); Going to the Well for Water; Scattery Island] [HL / MSL, side B, track 11c] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
McKenna, Francie, Monaghan, speech in English throughout band 1;
fiddle solo A2–8;
20–35?;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Murphy, James, Fermanagh, speech in English A9–14;
fiddle solo A10–14;
Scott, Philip, Fermanagh, speech in English A15–19;
fiddle solo A16–19;
Unidentified performers, speech in English throughout band 1;
Fitzgerald, Jim, Kerry, fiddle solo A36–43;
speech in English intermittently throughout A36–43

Running Order:
1. Speech, Untitled
2. Reels, Speech: Untitled [Jenny's Chickens (related tune)], Untitled [The Wild Irishman], Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
3. Reels: Untitled, Untitled [The Monaghan Twig (related tune)]
4. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Tune-names are given, but it is not clear what tunes they apply to], Untitled [Drowsy Maggie (related tune?)]
5. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled
6. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
7. Reel, Speech: The Emyvale Reel [For other performances of this tune, see tracks A11 & 32a], Untitled
8. Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled
9. Speech: Untitled
10. Reel, Speech: All White, Untitled
11. Reel: The Emyvale Reel [For other performances of this tune, see tracks A7 & 32a]
12. Speech: Untitled [Instructions to the performer]
13. Reel, Speech: The Glass of Beer, Untitled
14. Speech, Jig, Speech: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
15. Speech: Untitled
16. Jig: The Trip to the Cottage [The Connachtman's Rambles (related tune)]
17. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Drowsy Maggie, Untitled [Accompanied by lilting]
18. Reel, Speech: Miss Johnson, Untitled [The tune just played is stated to be like Miss McLeod's Reel]
19. Reel / Hornpipe, Speech: Dwyer's [O'Dwyer's Hornpipe in DMI], Untitled
20. Jig, Speech, Jig, Speech: Untitled [The Setting Sun], Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
21. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Steeplechase], Untitled
22. Reel: Untitled [The Galway Rambler (related tune)]
23. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled [The title 'Tear the Calico' is given, but it is not clear which tune it applies to], McGrath's, Jenny Tie Your Bottom Strings, Untitled
24. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled
25. Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled
26. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Old 'Wheels of the World'], Untitled
27. Reel: Untitled [The Chattering Magpie]
28. Speech: Untitled
29. Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled
30. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Miss Farr's Reel [The Ivy Leaf], Untitled
31. Reel: Untitled [The Swallow's Tail (related tune)]
32. Reels, Speech: Untitled [The Emyvale Reel; for other performances of this tune, see tracks A7 & 11], The Dublin Reel [Local setting of], Untitled
33. Reel: Untitled [Within a Mile of Dublin]
34. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Fermoy Lasses (related tune?)], Untitled
35. Reel: McKenna's [Miss Thornton] (clipped at end) [END OF BAND ONE]
36. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Out in the Rain [CICD 4091.13 (from this recording); The Cabin Hunter (related tune)]
37. Speech, Reel: Untitled, William O'Brien [CICD 5814.11 (from this recording)]
38. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled [About the tune to be played next], Sheehan's / Sheehas ? [CICD 5462.11 (from this recording; gives title 'Sheehas ?')], Untitled [About the tune to be played next; it was learned from a local player, Jack Costello, an ex-RIC man]
39. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Mount Collins Reel [CICD 4406.11 (from this recording); The Mountcollins Reel]
40. Speech, Jig, Speech: Untitled, The Black Stripper [CICD 1176.12 (from this recording; gives the title as 'The Black Slipper', a mistranscription); The Maid at the Well], Untitled
41. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The Merry Man into His Grave / Down the Merry Man into His Grave [CICD 1276.11 (from this recording); Down Goes the Merry Man into His Grave; Connie the Soldier]
42. Jig: Untitled [CICD 1814.13 (from this recording); The Rakes of Clonmel]
43. Reels, Speech: Untitled [CICD 3901.11 (from this recording); Drowsy Maggie (related tune); Toss the Feathers (related tune)], Untitled [CICD 4985.11 (from this recording); The Templeglantine Reel], Untitled [Where the performer comes from: Dromtrasna / Drom Treasna, Abbeyfeale, in west Limerick] [END OF BAND TWO]