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Recorded from Richard O'Driscoll (spare-time weaver, native Irish-speaker) in the garage-cum-weaving room of his house Glenawilling, Knockadoon, Co. Cork, and from Mrs Mary Wall, 18 August 1972 (tracks 1–19)

Performers:
Wall, Mary, singing in English Tracks 1, 7-11, 17, speech in English Track 2, singing in Irish Tracks 3, 13;
O'Driscoll, Richard, singing in Irish Tracks 4, 6, 14, 16, 18, speech in English Tracks 5, 15, speech in Irish Track 19, singing in English Track 12;
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 2, 5, 15, speech in Irish Track 19

Running Order:
1. Knockadoon (‘I’ll sing tonight of a lovely spot in a village by the sea...’), song [words by her uncle, Michael Welsh] / Mrs Mary Wall (aged about 55, of Glenawilling, was native speaker as a child in Knockadoon), singing in English
2. Talk about the songs ‘Knockadoon’ and ‘Baile Mhic Coda’, speech / Bill Shanahan, speech in English ; Mary Wall, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
3. Baile Mhic Códa (‘A Bhaile Mhic Códa, táim tinn lag breoite...’), song [words by Michael Welsh] / Mrs Mary Wall, singing in English
4. Eochaill (‘Maidin Domhnaigh ’s mé ag dul go hEochaill...’), song [learnt from local man Séamus Welsh] / Richard O’Driscoll, singing in Irish
5. Talk about the source of the song ‘Eochaill’, speech / Richard O’Driscoll, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
6. Casadh an tsúgáin, song [learnt from Séamus Welsh] / Richard O’Driscoll, singing in Irish
7. Good luck to those people (‘Good luck to those people and safe may they land...’), song [learnt from her uncle Michael Welsh] / Mrs Mary Wall, singing in English
8. I am longing for the day (‘I am longing for the day when my barque shall sail away...’), song [Knockadoon song, words recently composed, air: Snowy-breasted pearl]  / Mrs Mary Wall, singing in English
9. Barbara Allen (‘It was early early all in the spring-time of the year...’), song / Mrs Mary Wall, singing in English
10. The curly fair moustache (‘Once I loved a charming boy...’), song [air: Close of an Irish day, in 6:8] / Mrs Mary Wall, singing in English  [END OF BAND ONE]
11. Johnny me darling lad (‘Oh when will we get married, Johnny me darling lad...’) / Mrs Mary Wall, singing in English  
12. Seán O Duír an ghleanna (‘After Aughrim’s great disaster...’), song [literary version, learnt from a Cork city man] / Richard O’Driscoll, singing in English
13. Cáit Ni Dhuír (‘Tráthnóinín beag déanach...’), song [incomplete, learnt locally] / Richard O’Driscoll, singing in Irish
14. Donal óg, song [learnt from an old woman in Ring, Co. Waterford] / Richard O’Driscoll, singing in Irish
15. Conversation about the song ‘Donal óg’[which R. O’D sang at the Oireachtas and which the adjudicator, Sorcha Ní Ghuairim, condemned on the grounds that it was a song ‘from the Deise’ and he had no business singing it], speech / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Richard O’Driscoll, speech in English
16. Ná beadh buachaillín deas ag sile (‘Ná beadh buachaillín deas ag sile dá bpósadh sí mé féin mar fhear...’), song [learnt locally] / Richard O’Driscoll, singing in Irish
17. Seana Eire na nGael go deo (‘The song I sing is a song of hope ...’), song / Mrs Mary Wall, singing in English
18. Cá rabhais ar feadh an lae uaim, song [Irish version of the old ballad ‘Lord Randal’ learnt locally in his childhood] / Richard O’Driscoll, singing in Irish
19. Conversation about the song ‘Cá rabhais ar feadh an lae uaim’,  speech / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Richard O’Driscoll, speech in English [end of session] [END OF BAND TWO

Performers:
Moore, Christy, singing in English A1, 4-10;
O'Flynn, Liam, pipes A2, 3, 11;
Casey, Nollaig, fiddle A3, 11

Running Order:
1. Song: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Russian Roulette
2. Descriptive piece: The Fox Hunt
3. Harp piece: Planxty Sudley
4. Song: Back Home in Derry
5. Song: Ride on
6. Song: The Flickering Light
7. Song: Ronnie Reagan
8. Song: Irish Ways and Irish Laws
9. Song: The Well below the Valley
10. Song: Diamontina Drover
11. Hornpipe: The Groves Hornpipe

Performers:
O'Flynn, Liam, Kildare, pipes A1;
Stockton's Wing, Clare, instrumental group A3, 4;
singing in English A2, 10;
O'Connell, Maura, Clare, singing in English A5-9

Running Order:
1. Jigs: I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her, The Gold Ring
2. Song: Ceili Swing
3. Reel: The Mason's Apron
4. Jigs: The Sydney Jigs
5. Song: Saw You Running
6. Song: If You Love Me
7. Song: The Scholar
8. Song: Leaving Neidin
9. Song: My Irish Molly O
10. Song: Lo Lo Lo

Performers:
Foley, Catherine, Cork / Limerick, speech in English A1;
Foley, Patrick, Cork, accordion solo A2–10;
singing in English A11–12

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled
2. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Plains of Boyle]
3. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Liverpool Hornpipe], Untitled [Rickett's Hornpipe], Untitled [The Stack of Barley]
4. Barndance / Hornpipe: Untitled [The Curlew Hills Barndance; The Glenbeigh Hornpipe]
5. Hornpipes: Untitled [Harvest Home], Untitled [The Boys of Blue Hill]
6. Fling: Untitled [The Moneymusk]
7. Jig: Untitled [Haste to the Wedding]
8. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Honeysuckle]
9. Reel: Untitled [Miss McLeod's Reel]
10. Reel / Hornpipe: Untitled [The Soldier's Joy]
11. Song: Untitled [A Little Too Small]
12. Song: Untitled [The Little Beggarman] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Foley, Patrick, Cork, accordion solo A1, 3–4, 7–8, 13, 17–19, 21, 23–28, B2–4, 7–9, 12–15, 17, 21, 23, 25–26;
singing in English A2, B26;
accordion in duet A6, 9–11, 16, 22, 30, B1, 10–11;
Foley, Catherine, Cork / Limerick, singing in English A2, 20, B26;
whistle solo A5, 12, 29, B5–6, 16, 22, 24;
concertina in duet A6, 9–11, 16, 22, 30, B1, 10–11;
concertina solo A14–15, B19–20;
singing in Irish B18

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [The Maid behind the Bar]
2. Song: Untitled [A Little Too Small]
3. Polka: Untitled [The Waves of Torey (Roche, vol 3, # 136); the first 2 parts as played here are also part of 'Off to Skelligs (Quadrille)' (Roche, vol 2, # 296); for another performance of this tune, see track B10(b)]
4. Quadrille Tune / Slide: Untitled [Princess Margaret's Fancy (The Fiddler's Tune-Book, ed. Kennedy, # 193)]
5. Reels: Untitled [The Boys of the Lough], Untitled [The Dublin Reel]
6. Barndance / Hornpipe: Untitled [The Curlew Hills Barndance; The Glenbeigh Hornpipe]
7. Reel: Untitled [Miss McLeod's Reel]
8. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Stack of Barley]
9. Polka: Untitled
10. Polka: Untitled
11. Polka: Untitled [For another performance of this tune, see track A25(b)], Untitled [The British Grenadiers (march), played in polka time]
12. Air: Untitled [The Lonesome Boatman]
13. Jig: Untitled [Delaney's Drummers]
14. Polka: Untitled [Johnny I Do Miss You]
15. Polka: Untitled [O the Britches Full of Stitches / O the Breeches Full of Stitches]
16. Polka: Untitled [The Siege of Ennis (Roche, vol 3, # 139); Freedom for Ireland (as march; first 2 parts only)]
17. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Plains of Boyle]
18. Hornpipe: Untitled [Rickett's Hornpipe]
19. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Liverpool Hornpipe]
20. Song: Untitled [Baile Bhuirne]
21. Jigs: Untitled [The Three Little Drummers (version of)], Untitled
22. Reel: Untitled [Miss Monaghan (version of)]
23. Polka: Untitled [Melody of the song 'Comin' thro' the Rye']
24. Polka: Untitled [Melody of the song 'A Hundred Pipers']
25. Polkas: Untitled [The Barren Rocks of Aden (march), played in polka time], Untitled [For another performance of this tune, see track A11(a)]
26. Song Air: Untitled [The Homes of Donegal]
27. Slide: Untitled [The Perfect Cure; Sean O Duinnshleibhe's Slide]
28. Slide: Untitled [The Peeler and the Goat; The Bansha Peeler]
29. Jigs: Untitled [The Humours of Ballyloughlin; The Hurler's March], Untitled [Tom Billy's (1)]
30. Polka: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
31. Polka: Untitled [Sweeney's Polka]
32. Jig: Untitled [The Maid on the Green; for another performance of this tune, see track B21(b)]
33. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Boys of Blue Hill], Untitled [Harvest Home]
34. Set Dance: Untitled [Saint Patrick's Day]
35. Hornpipe: Untitled [The strathspey 'The Laird of Drumblair', played in hornpipe time]
36. Polkas: Untitled [Egan's; Peg Ryan's], Untitled [East Limerick Polka (2)], Untitled [The Ballydesmond Polkas (3)]
37. Jig: Untitled [The Irish Washerwoman]
38. Jig: Untitled [Saddle the Pony; The Priest's Leap]
39. Polka: Untitled [I Have a Bonnet Trimmed with Blue]
40. Polka: Untitled [The Girl I Left behind Me], Untitled [The Waves of Torey (Roche, vol 3, # 136); the first 2 parts as played here are also part of 'Off to Skelligs (Quadrille)' (Roche, vol 2, # 296); for another performance of this tune, see track A3]
41. Slide: Untitled [The Leg of the Duck (version of?)]
42. Hornpipe: Untitled
43. Reel / Hornpipe: Untitled [The Soldier's Joy]
44. Jig: Untitled [Jimmy O'Brien's Jig; melody of the song 'Molly Brannigan']
45. Reel / Polka: Untitled [The Rakes of Mallow]
46. Reel: Untitled [The Fermoy Lasses]
47. Hornpipe / March: Untitled [Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine]
48. Song: Untitled
49. Dance Tune: Untitled
50. Slide: Untitled [Johnny Mickey's Slide]
51. Jigs: Untitled [Haste to the Wedding], Untitled [The Maid on the Green; for another performance of this tune, see track B2]
52. Air: Untitled [An Chuileann / The Coolin]
53. Polka: Untitled [Con Thadhgo's; Matt Teehan's Polka]
54. Reel: Untitled, Untitled [Master McDermott's; composed by Michael 'Master' McDermott]
55. Jig: Untitled [The Geese in the Bog]
56. Song, Air: Untitled [Down by the Tanyard Side], Untitled [Down by the Tanyard Side]
57. Jig: Untitled (clipped at end) [Garryowen] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Cronin, Elizabeth, Cork, singing in Irish A1, 8, 10–11, 15–16, 18–19;
singing in English A3, 5, 7, 9, 13, 20;
singing in Irish and English A2, 4, 6, 12, 14, 17;
speech in Irish A21–23;
Unidentified performer, singing in Irish A24–26;
Unidentified performer [O Caoidheain, Colm, Galway], singing and speech in Irish A27;
Unidentified performer [O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig, Kerry], fiddle solo A28–29

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled [Nil Mo Shlainte ar Fonamh (SEC, # 104)]
2. Song: Untitled
3. Song: Untitled [The Charming Sweet Girl That I Love (SEC, # 154)]
4. Song: Untitled [Girleen Don't be Idle (SEC, # 62)]
5. Song: Untitled [In Kerry Long Ago (SEC, # 73)]
6. Song: Untitled [Annon's anall, is trid an Abhainn (SEC, # 22); A Chailleach do Mharais Me / O Hag You Destroyed Me]
7. Song: Untitled [The Bonny Blue-Eyed Lassie (SEC, # 148)]
8. Song: Untitled [A Chaipin-ar-Leathstuaic, a' bhFeacais na Caoire? (SEC, # 1); with lilting]
9. Song: Untitled [Sweet Lisbweemore (SEC, # 142)]
10. Song: Untitled [Cu-Cuc, a Chuaichin (SEC, # 42)]
11. Song: Untitled
12. Song: Untitled [Cuckanandy (SEC, # 41)]
13. Song: Untitled [What Would You Do if You Married a Soldier (SEC, # 191); with lilting; melody is that of the jig 'The Frost Is All Over']
14. Song: Untitled [Faiche Bhrea Aerach an Cheoil (SEC, # 57)]
15. Song: Untitled [An Gamhain Geal Ban (SEC, # 18)]
16. Song: Untitled [Cuir a Chodladh (SEC, # 43)]
17. Song: Untitled [Taim Cortha O Bheith im' Aonar im' Lui (SEC, # 144)]; I'm Weary from Lying Alone] [END OF BAND ONE]
18. Song: Untitled
19. Song: Untitled [Da mBa Liom-sa an Ainnir (SEC, # 45)]
20. Song: Untitled [Down the Green Fields (SEC, # 55)]
21. Speech: Untitled [Folktale]
22. Speech: Untitled [Folktale]
23. Speech: Untitled [Folktale]
24. Song: Untitled [An Bonnan Bui]
25. Song: Untitled [Una Bhan]
26. Song: Untitled [Roisin Dubh]
27. Song: Untitled [Seachran Chearrbhail]
28. Air: Untitled [The Blackbird]
29. Air: Untitled [Caoineadh Ui Neill / The Lament for O'Neill] [END OF BAND TWO]