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Performers:
Unidentified performer, speech in English A1, B27;
O Murchu, Sean, Galway / Dublin, speech in Irish and English A2–3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21–23, 25, 27–29, 31, B1–2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18–20, 22, 24–25, C4–5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 33, 36;
Johnny Pickering Ceili Band, The, Tyrone, instrumental group A2, 4, 8, 10, 14, 16, 20, B33, 37;
Moriarty, Patrick, Kerry, mouth organ / harmonica solo A6, 12, 18;
Dermot O'Brien Ceili Band, The, Louth, instrumental group A22, 24;
O'Brien, Dermot, Louth, speech in English A25;
singing in English with instrumental accompaniment A26;
O Se, Sean, Cork, singing in Irish with instrumental accompaniment A27;
Ceoltoiri Chualann, Dublin, instrumental group A27;
Dempsey, Martin, Dublin, singing in English with instrumental accompaniment A28;
speech in English A29;
Maguire, Sean / McGuire, Sean, Belfast, fiddle in duet A30;
Unidentified performers, speech in English and Irish A32, B28, 31–32, 34, 36, 38, C1–3, 24;
McPeake Trio, The, Belfast, instrumental group A32–33;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English and Irish A32–33, B28–30, C24, 26–28, 30;
O Lochlainn, Colm, Dublin, speech in English A33;
Bunclody Ceili Band, The, Wexford, instrumental group B1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 15, 17;
Egan, Cathleen, Tipperary, singing in English B7, 13;
Birmingham Comhaltas Ceili Band, The, Birmingham, instrumental group B19, 21, 23, 26;
Hipkiss, Michael, Birmingham singing in English B25;
Unidentified performer [McGann, Andy, New York?], fiddle in trio B28, C24;
Unidentified performer [Redican, Larry, New York?], fiddle in trio B28, C24;
Concannon, Tom / O Coinceanainn, Tomas, Galway / Boston, speech in Irish B28;
Connolly, Mickey, Galway / Boston, speech in English B29;
Mellott, Tommy / O Mealoid, Tomas, Galway / Boston, accordion in instrumental group B28, 30;
speech in Irish B29;
O'Malley, Joe, Galway / Boston, accordion in instrumental group B28, 30;
Tonra, Brendan, Mayo / Boston, fiddle in instrumental group B28, 30;
Sturr [?], Frank, Boston, piano accordion in instrumental group B28, 30;
Kelly, Jimmy, Boston, banjo in instrumental group B28, 30;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo B31;
McCusker Brothers Ceili Band, The, Armagh, instrumental group B35, 39;
Reynolds, William [Reynolds, Willie], Westmeath, pipes in duet C1–3;
Healion, Sean, Westmeath, fiddle in duet C1–3;
Malachy Doris Ceili Band, The, Tyrone, instrumental group C4, 6, 10, 12, 16, 18, 22;
Rowsome, Leon, Dublin, pipes solo C8, 14, 20;
Redican, Larry, New York, fiddle in duet C25;
speech in English C26;
McKenna, John, Leitrim / New York, flute in duet C26;
Morrison, Tom, Galway / New York, flute in duet C27;
Morrison, Jimmy / Morrison, James, Sligo / New York, fiddle in trio C27;
Coleman, Michael, Sligo / New York, fiddle in duet C29, 31;
Pride of Erin Ceili Band, The, instrumental group C32, 34–35

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [Initial test message]
2. Speech, March: Untitled [Radio announcement, signalling the start of an edition of the radio programme 'Ceili House' on Radio Eireann], Untitled [Shane O'Neill's March (first part only)]
3. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; followed by test signal]
4. Reels: Untitled [The Green Mountain], Untitled, Untitled
5. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
6. Marches: Clare's Dragoons, Ninety-Eight [Who Fears to Speak of '98?]
7. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
8. Jigs: The Gold Ring, Father O'Carroll, The Irish Jig [Extraneous noise on this track]
9. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; the personnel of the Johnny Pickering Ceili Band]
10. Hornpipes: Tim the Turncoat [Mistitled?; The Friendly Visit], The Fiddler's Contest
11. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
12. Set Dance: Madame Bonaparte
13. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
14. Marches: The Milkmaid, Ireland Abu [The Ballydesmond]
15. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
16. Waltzes: The Blue Ribbon, The Listener
17. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
18. Jigs: Paddy's Return, The Chorus Jig [The Queen of the Rushes]
19. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
20. Reels: The Corner House, The Mountain Road [Composed by Michael Gorman], Untitled [Geoghegan's]
21. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement, signalling the end of the edition of the 'Ceili House' radio programme that began in track 2]
22. Polka, Speech: Untitled [The Rakes of Mallow], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over, signalling the start of an edition of the radio programme 'Ceili Time' on Radio Eireann]
23. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
24. Reels: Untitled [Staten Island], Untitled
25. Speech: Untitled [Radio interview with Dermot O'Brien; topics include: the reasons why O'Brien stopped playing ceili music; strict tempo in ceili music; response to criticisms of his music as 'non-traditional'; Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann]
26. Song: The Merry Ploughboy / The Jolly Ploughboy
27. Speech, Song, Jig: Untitled [Radio interview], Untitled [Ta Mo Mhadra; "Ta mo mhadra, nil mo mhadra, ta mo mhadra scaoilte" (etc)], Untitled [The Maid of the Spinning Wheel / Cailleach an Tuirne; first part only; played between verses of the song performed in this track]
28. Speech, Song: Untitled [Radio announcement], Deep in Canadian Woods
29. Speech: Untitled [Radio interview with Martin Dempsey; topics include: the recent controversy about the teaching of Irish; Dempsey's career as a performer; the recent ballad boom]
30. Reels: Untitled [Lucy Campbell], Untitled (incomplete)
31. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
32. Speech, Hornpipe, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement signalling the start of a radio programme on Radio Eireann], Untitled [The Derry Hornpipe / The Londonderry Hornpipe], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over]
33. Speech, Air: Untitled [Radio announcement; topic: Francie McPeake telling of Irish music evenings at the house of Francis Joseph Biggar in Belfast 60 years previously; interview with Colm O Lochlainn; topics include: Biggar's role as antiquarian and as sponsor of pipe bands all over Ireland; Biggar's role in starting the Black Black Raven Pipe Band in Lusk, Co. Dublin; after the banner of the Lusk band was destroyed by the Black and Tans, O Lochlainn replaced the banner; O Lochlainn met Roger Casement at one of Biggar's music evenings; Francie McPeake used to perform 'In Bodenstown Churchyard' in Biggar's house; O Lochlainn performed William Rooney's poem "Dear Dark Head" and was congratulated for it by Casement; O Lochlainn had lunch with Biggar and Casement in Dublin], Eamon an Chnoic
34. Speech, March: Untitled [Radio announcement, signalling the start of an edition of the radio programme 'Ceili House' on Radio Eireann], Untitled [Kelly, the Boy from Killane]
35. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
36. Reels: The Bunch of Keys, Rakish Paddy, The Copperplate
37. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; topic: the buck dance – a virility dance performed in Clare]
38. Jigs: The Barber's Jig [Molloy's Favourite], Green's Jig [Malowney's Wife], The Idle Road
39. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
40. Song: The Cliffs of Dooneen
41. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
42. Set Dances: The Jockey to the Fair, The Three Sea Captains
43. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
44. Marches: Erin go Bragh, Ar Son Eireann, The Centenary March
45. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
46. Song: Noreen Bawn / Noirin Ban (incomplete)
47. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
48. Jigs: The Wandering Minstrel, O'Brien's Fancy [Katie's Fancy]
49. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement: the personnel of the Bunclody Ceili Band]
50. Reels: The Kilmaley Reel, The High Reel, Father Kelly's [Rossmore Jetty; composed by Father Kelly; for another performance of this tune, see track C14]
51. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; signalling the end of an edition of 'Ceili House']
52. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Radio announcement, signalling the start of an edition of 'Ceili House'], Untitled [The Red-Haired Lass]
53. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
54. Reels: Larry Redican's [The Culfada; composed by Larry Redican], Dick Sherlock's [Dicky Sherlock's], Lord McDonagh's [Geoghegan's], Untitled [The Ewe Reel]
55. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
56. Jigs: Untitled, Untitled [The First Night in America], Untitled [Andy McGann's]
57. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
58. Song, Speech: The Flower of Sweet Strabane (imcomplete), Untitled [Radio announcement]
59. Hornpipes: Anne Sheehy's Hornpipe [The Flowing Tide], Chief O'Neill's (incomplete; clipped at end) [END OF BAND ONE]
60. Speech: Untitled [Initial test message at start of tape band]
61. Reel, Speech, Speech, Reel, Speech, Reel: 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 coming from Tom Concannon's saloon in Norwood, near Boston, USA], Untitled [Down the Broom], Untitled [Radio interviews], Untitled [The Corner House]
62. Speech: Untitled [Radio interview]
63. Reels, Speech: Untitled [The Boys of Ballisodare / The Boys of Ballysadare], Untitled [Gregg's Pipes], Untitled [The Mason's Apron], Untitled [Radio announcement (short; incomplete)]
64. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Bonnie Kate], Untitled [Radio announcement (short; incomplete), signalling the end of a Radio Eireann programme, probably the 'American Journeywork' edition beginning on track B28]
65. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement signalling the start of a Radio Eireann programme of Irish dance music]
66. Reels: Dinny O'Brien's Reel [Composed by Paddy O'Brien], The Sally Gardens, St Anne's Reel / Saint Anne's Reel
67. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
68. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Tailor's Twist], Untitled
69. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
70. Jigs: Jackson's Morning Brush, Paddy on the Mountain [Delaney's Drummers], Kinnegad Slashers
71. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
72. Reels, Speech: Untitled [George White's Favourite], Untitled [The Bag of Potatoes / The Bag of Spuds], Untitled [The Silver Spear], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over, signalling the end of the radio programme beginning on track B32]
73. Speech, March: Untitled [Radio announcement signalling the start of a Radio Eireann radio programme], Sean O'Neill [Shane O'Neill's March]
74. Speech, Jigs: Untitled [Radio announcement], Whelan's, Bill Harte's
75. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Radio announcement], The Donegal, The Leitrim [Rakish Paddy]
76. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Radio announcement, signalling the start of an edition of 'Ceili House'], Untitled [The Boys of the Lough]
77. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
78. Jigs: The Rakes of Kildare, The Fisherman's Widow [The Rambling Pitchfork], The Blackthorn Stick [The Humours of Bantry]
79. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; topics include: the use of a casadoir / twister in the making of ropes of hay or straw]
80. Air: Casadh an tSugain
81. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
82. Hornpipes: The Galway Hornpipe, The Golden Eagle, The Locomotive [Composed by James Hill of Tyneside]
83. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
84. Jigs: The Lilting Fisherman, The Humours of Ballycastle, I Will if I Can
85. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; topics include: a tongue-twister in Irish]
86. Reels: Father Kelly's [Father Kelly's Reel; Rossmore Jetty; composed by Father Kelly; for another performance of this tune, see track B17], The Green Mountain, Whelan's Reel [The Hare's Foot]
87. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
88. Marches: Captain Dunne's, Slattery's Mounted Foot, The Merry Ploughboy
89. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
90. Waltzes: The Green Glens of Antrim, The Castle of Dromore, Lovely Leitrim
91. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
92. Jig: Gillan's Apples
93. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement: the personnel of the Malachy Doris Ceili Band]
94. Reels: The Morning Mist, Peter Street, The Plough and the Stars
95. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement, signalling the end of the edition of 'Ceili House' that began in track C4]
96. 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, as voice-over]
97. Reels: Untitled [Father Kelly's], Untitled [Trim the Velvet]
98. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Radio interview with Larry Redican; topics include: Redican made 78rpm records with Eddie Meehan's Rosaleen Quartet; the personnel of the quartet; John McKenna], The Lady of the House
99. Speech, Reels, Speech, Reels: Untitled [Radio interview with Larry Redican; topics include: older musicians in New York, including Tom Morrison (flute), who used to wake Redican up at 2.30am to hear Redican play a tune], The Dunmore Lasses, The Manchester Reel, The Castlebar Traveller, Untitled [Radio interview, continued], Miss Langford's Reel, The Milestone at the Garden [The Humours of Westport]
100. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
101. Reels: Untitled [O'Rourke's], Untitled [The Wild Irishman]
102. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
103. Reels: The Liffey Banks, The Shaskeen
104. Reels: Untitled [The Crooked Road to Dublin], Untitled [The Ivy Leaf], Untitled [Ceol na Ceartan / Music of the Forge; The Pretty Girls of Mayo]
105. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
106. Jigs: Jim Fahy's Jig [The New House; composed by Paddy O'Brien], The Mooncoin (incomplete)
107. Reel: Untitled [A combination of the first part of 'Coen's Memories' (composed by Tommy Coen) with the second part of 'The Corner House'], Untitled, Untitled [The Reel of Bogie]
108. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement] [END OF BAND TWO]

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, Catherine, Cork / Limerick, speech in English A1;
Foley, Patrick, Cork, accordion solo A2–17

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled
2. Polka: Untitled [Melody of the song 'Comin' Thro' the Rye']
3. Polka: Untitled [Con Thadhgo's; Matt Teehan's Polka]
4. Polka: Untitled [Paddy Spillane's (1)]
5. Polka: Untitled [Sweeney's Polka]
6. Polka: Untitled [The Rose Tree in Full Bearing; melody of the song 'Bhios-sa La i bPort Lairge']
7. Polka: Untitled [Jerome Burke's]
8. Jig: Untitled [Tobin's Favourite]
9. Jig: Untitled [Larry O'Gaff; Daniel O'Connell]
10. Jig: Untitled [Saddle the Pony; The Priest's Leap]
11. Slide: Untitled [The Peeler and the Goat; The Bansha Peeler]
12. Jig: Untitled [The Irish Washerwoman; for another performance of this tune, see track A16]
13. Jig: Untitled [The Geese in the Bog]
14. Jig: Untitled [The Three Little Drummers (version of)]
15. Jig: Untitled [Delaney's Drummers]
16. Jig: Untitled [The Irish Washerwoman; for another performance of this tune, see track A12]
17. Jig: Untitled [The Connachtman's Rambles] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Foley, Catherine, Cork / Limerick, speech in English A1;
Foley, Patrick, Cork, accordion solo A2–13

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled
2. 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)]
3. Polkas: Untitled, Untitled
4. Polka: Untitled
5. Polka: Untitled
6. Quadrille Tune / Slide: Untitled [Princess Margaret's Fancy (The Fiddler's Tune-Book, ed. Kennedy, # 193)]
7. Polka: Untitled [The British Grenadiers (march), played in polka time]
8. Polka: Untitled [The Lass o' Gowrie; The Lakes of Sligo]
9. Polka: Untitled [Grand Old Dame; The Waves of Tory (Allan's Irish Fiddler, # 120, where it is the first of a set of tunes)]
10. Polka: Untitled [The Siege of Ennis (Roche, vol 3, # 139); Freedom for Ireland (as march; first 2 parts only)]
11. Polka: Untitled [The Barren Rocks of Aden (march), played in polka time]
12. Slide: Untitled [The Perfect Cure; Sean O Duinnshleibhe's Slide]
13. Polka: Untitled [The Girl I Left behind Me] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Foley, Patrick, Cork, speech in English A1;
accordion in duet A1–2, 4;
accordion solo A3;
Foley, Catherine, Cork / Limerick, whistle in duet A4

Running Order:
1. Speech, Polkas: Untitled, Untitled [The Rose Tree in Full Bearing; melody of the song 'Bhios-sa La i bPort Lairge'], Untitled [The Lass o' Gowrie; The Lakes of Sligo], Untitled [Grand Old Dame; The Waves of Tory (Allan's Irish Fiddler, # 120, where it is the first of a set of tunes)]
2. Jigs: Untitled [Tobin's Favourite], Untitled [Saddle the Pony; The Priest's Leap], Untitled [The Three Little Drummers (version of)], Untitled [Saddle the Pony; The Priest's Leap]
3. Reel: Untitled [Miss McLeod's Reel]
4. Polkas: 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)], Untitled [The British Grenadiers (march), played in polka time], Untitled [Sweeney's Polka] [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:
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]

Performers:
Quill, Ellen Mary / O Duibhir, Eibhlin Bean Ui Dh- / O'Dwyer, Mrs, Limerick, concertina solo A1;
speech in English A1;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English throughout;
speech in Irish throughout;
Unidentified performers, speech in English and Irish throughout;
O Duibhir, Roibeard / O'Dwyer, Robert [Limerick?], accordion solo A2–3;
O hUardaill, Padraig, Waterford [?], speech in Irish A4;
singing in Irish A5;
O Suilleabhain, Criostoir, Waterford [?], speech in Irish A5;
singing in Irish A6–7

Running Order:
1. Reel, Speech: Toss the Feathers (clipped at start) [Part overlap and continuation of the last track on BB_RR_353], Untitled
2. Jigs, Speech: Garrett Barry's Favourite, The Leitrim Double Jig [The Leitrim Jig], Garrett Barry's Favourite, Untitled
3. Country Dance Tunes [Polkas]: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, Untitled [The Croppies' March], Untitled [Repeat of first tune in this selection]
4. Speech: Untitled
5. Song, Speech: Bruach na Carraige Baine [With alternate verses in Irish and English], Untitled
6. Song: Untitled [Sliabh na mBan]
7. Speech, Song: Untitled, Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English throughout;
speech in Irish throughout;
O Cuilleanan, Micheal, Cork, speech in Irish A2–4;
Quill, Ellen Mary / O Duibhir, Eibhlin Bean Ui Dh- / O'Dwyer, Mrs, Limerick, speech in English and Irish A5, 7;
concertina in duet A6, 8;
concertina solo A10, 15;
O Duibhir, Roibeard / O'Dwyer, Robert [Limerick?], speech in English A5, 7;
accordion in duet A6, 8;
speech in Irish A11;
accordion solo A12–14;
O Duibhir, Liam, [Limerick?], speech in English A13

Running Order:
1. Tone Signal: Untitled
2. Speech: Untitled [About Seamus Goodman (the collector James Goodman); as a child, the present speaker saw G; G used to repair pipes for many pipers, who would visit him for that purpose; G spoke Irish very well; one piper who visited G was unable to walk and travelled on a donkey; G used play the pipes with the pipers who visited him; memorial to G; G lived in the glebe; G's appearance; G was a good neighbour; G's family, including Godfrey, a doctor, who would treat poor people despite their being unable to pay him; Irish in the local area (Skibbereen)]
3. Speech: Untitled [Irish in the local area (Skibbereen); people who spoke Irish; street-sweepers spoke Irish during their work; present speaker used follow the street-sweepers around the town to listen to their Irish; songs sung in the area; Sean O Duibhir an Ghleanna; Seoladh na nGamhna sa bhFasach; Ceo Draiochta; Liam O Raghallaigh; discussion of song lyrics, with examples]
4. Speech: Untitled [Damhscoil Mhuscrai; activities and meetings connected with the revival of Irish in the Skibbereen area; the first branch of Connradh na Gaeilge there; present speaker heard an tAthair Peadar O Laoghaire speak at the Munster Feis in Cork; how Damhscoil Mhuscrai was founded; An Suibhneach Meann; verses composed by the present speaker (recited); account of an tAthair Sean de Paor, including verses written about him and miracles were effected by him, even after his death; an 'aisling' poem/song written by the local poet Micheal O Suilleabhain; Sean O Coileain]
5. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows]
6. Reels: Nelly's Reel [The Collier's Reel], The Woman of the House
7. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows]
8. Jig: Paddy's Return
9. Speech: Untitled [About the tune that follows, which was played for the last figure of a set]
10. Barn Dance / Hornpipe: Untitled
11. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows]
12. Hornpipes: Sean Ryan's [McMahon's; composed by Sean Ryan], The Echo, Untitled [Slievenamon]
13. Speech with Music, Reel, Speech: Untitled [Story about the tune that follows; with music illustration], Donal an Choill's Reel [?], Untitled
14. Reels: George White's Fancy / George White's Favourite, The Bag of Potatoes / An Mala Fatai / An Mala Pratai
15. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Toss the Feathers [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English throughout;
speech in Irish throughout;
Harrington, Mrs, Sligo / Dublin, fiddle in instrumental group A2, 4;
Gardiner, John [Gardiner, John Joe], Sligo / Louth, flute in instrumental group A2, 4;
Gardiner, Pauline, Louth, flute in instrumental group A2, 4;
Gardiner, Pat, Louth, flute in instrumental group A2, 4;
Toibin, Padraig, Waterford, singing in Irish A6–8;
speech in Irish A6, 8;
Liddy, Joe, Dublin, speech in English A9;
O Droma, Tomas, Waterford, speech in Irish A9;
singing in Irish A9;
White, James, Wexford, speech in English A10;
singing in English A10

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows; Mrs Harrington and John (= John Joe?) Gardiner are sister and brother; Pauline and Pat Gardiner are John's daughters]
2. Reel: The Mountain Top
3. Speech: Untitled
4. Jig: The Frost Is All Over
5. Speech: Untitled [Preceded by a short and incomplete recording of music]
6. Song, Speech: Inion an Fhaoit on nGleann, Untitled
7. Song: Na Connerys
8. Speech, Song: Untitled, Idir Aird Mhor is Eochaill
9. Speech, Song: Untitled, Bean Dubh an Ghleanna
10. Speech, Song: Untitled, Carroll Ban [Followed by a short and incomplete recording of singing] [END OF BAND ONE]