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Performers:
Keenan Family, The, instrumental group, Dublin A1-2, 4-6, 8, 11;
Unidentified performer [Mick Moriarty?], flute solo A3;
Keenan, Paddy, pipes solo A7;
Keenan, Johnny, banjo solo A9, 16;
Unidentified performer, whistle solo A10, 12-13, 15;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A14 [and on other tracks]

Running Order:
1. Carolan Air: Untitled [Lord Inchiquin]
2. Reel: Untitled [The Sally Gardens]
3. Air: Untitled [Sliabh na mBan]
4. Song: Untitled [The Verdant Braes of Skreen]
5. Reels: Untitled [Colonel Fraser], untitled [My Love Is in America]
6. Song: Untitled [Molly Bawn]
7. Air: Untitled [Molly Bawn]
8. Reel: Untitled [Colonel Fraser]
9. Reel: Untitled [The Old Bush]
10. Air: Untitled [An Chuileann]
11. Song: Untitled [Sam Hall]
12. Reel: Untitled [Sean sa Cheo]
13. Air: Untitled [An Falaingin Mhuimhneach]
14. Song: Untitled
15. Reel: Untitled [Sean sa Cheo]
16. Reel: Untitled [Rakish Paddy] [END OF BANDS ONE AND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performer [Martin Donovan?], singing in English A1;
Donovan, Martin, singing in English A3, 5, 16;
whistle A2-4, 16;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A6-9, 21-24;
?, (nephew of Joe O'Donoghue), singing in English A10;
?, Pat, singing in English A11-13;
Flynn, Paddy, singing in English A14;
O'Donoghue, Joe, singing in English A18;
speech in English A15, 17;
O'Donoghue, Mary, singing in English A18;
?, Mick, singing in English A19-20

Running Order:
1. Song: Billy Boy
2. Jigs: Untitled [The Old Grey Goose], untitled [Old Man Dillon], untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], untitled [Lanigan's Ball]
3. Air, Song: Wings of a Swallow [Little Town in the Old County Down], ditto
4. Reels: The Sligo Maid, untitled [The Sally Gardens]
5. Song: Untitled
6. Song: The Wild Side of Life
7. Song: The Wild Side of Life
8. Song: A Mother's Love [A Mother's Love Is a Blessing]
9. Song: Untitled
10. Song: Bold O'Donoghue
11. Song: Paddy Purcell and Wm Scanlon [William Scanlon]
12. Song: Untitled (unfinished)
13. Song: The Green Hills of Kerry
14. Song: Grand Bungle Rye [END OF SIDE ONE]
15. Speech: Proverb
16. Air, Song, Jigs: What Will We Do When We're Sailing - By the Banks of the Lee, ditto, untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], The Battering Ram
17. Speech: [Address to radio listeners]
18. Song: Campaign Song, 3rd recording [The Travellers' Campaign, composed by Joe O'Donoghue]
19. Song: Pat from Bowlanier
20. Song: Bold Connaught Ranger Boy
21. Song: Sent to Charlestown [The Boston Burglar]
22. Song: Untitled [Lovely Derry on the Banks of the Foyle]
23. Song: Master [Master McGrath]
24. Song: Untitled [Kelly the Boy from Killane] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, singing in English A1, 4, 9-11, 17-19;
O'Donoghue, Mary, singing in English A2-3;
O'Donoghue, Joe, singing in English A3;
D. [O'Donoghue?], Pat, whistle A5-8[?];
Donovan, Martin, whistle A15-16, 22;
lilting A14;
whistling A12;
singing in English A13, 22-23;
Weldon, Nellie, Dublin, singing in English A20;
Weldon, Liam, Dublin, singing in English A21

Running Order:
1. Song: Her Hair Hung Down in Ringlets
2. Song: The Patriot Game
3. Song: Untitled [The Travellers' Campaign, composed by Joe O'Donoghue]
4. Song: The Shoemaker
5. Song Air: Untitled [Buttons and Bows]
6. Jig: Untitled [The Connachtman's Rambles]
7. Reel: Untitled (unfinished) [The First House in Connacht]
8. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Leitrim Fancy]
9. Song: Untitled [In My Own Peculiar Way] [END OF BAND ONE]
10. Song: Untitled [The Old Triangle]
11. Song: Untitled [James Connolly]
12. Reel: Delvin Lasses [Fermoy Lasses]
13. Song: Luck in the House, whistling and jigging [Around the House There Is No Luck]
14. Reel, Jig: Untitled (unfinished) [Down the Broom], untitled [Gallagher's Frolics]
15. Jigs: Untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], untitled [The Battering Ram]
16. Hornpipes, Reel, Song Air: Untitled [The Stack of Wheat], untitled [Harvest Home], untitled [Jenny Picking Cockles], untitled [Buttons and Bows]
17. Song: Untitled [From the Candy Store on the Corner]
18. Song: Untitled [Are You Lonesome Tonight]
19. Song: Untitled [Every Step of the Way]
20. Song: I Wished I Lived in Carrickfergus [Carrickfergus]
21. Song: The Blue Tarred Road [The Blue Tar Road]
22. Air, Song, Air: Untitled [The Banks of the Lee], untitled [The Banks of the Lee], The Boys of the West [The Men of the West]
23. Reel: Untitled (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performer (child), singing in English A1, 8-9, 14;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A2-3, 11-12, 15, 17 ,19;
Flynn, ?, singing in English A4-6;
Murphy, Mick, singing in English A7, 13, 16;
Wall, ?, singing in English A10;
Cassidy, Kate, singing in English A18

Running Order:
1. Song: Big Fine Agricultural Girl [The Agricultural Irish Girl]
2. Song: Long Farewell from Ireland [Home that I Left Behind]
3. Song: Untitled (unfinished)
4. Song: Lonesome Cattle Call, yodel
5. Song: Bit of cowboy song
6. Song: Cowboy song - No Place to Lie Down
7. Song: Rich Farmer's Daughter - Willy - Banks of Dundee [The Banks of Sweet Dundee]
8. Song: Untitled [I'll Tell My Ma]
9. Song: Paddy McGinty's Goat
10. Song: Early Early in the Spring
11. Song: Anybody's Baby
12. Song: Dear Old Mother [The Letter Edged in Black] [END OF BAND ONE]
13. Song: Horse song
14. Song: About country girl [The Agricultural Irish Girl]
15. Song: Indistinguishable song
16. Song: The Rushes Green
17. Song: Untitled (unfinished)
18. Song: Green Grow the Rushes
19. Song: Indistinguishable (unfinished) [Morrissey and the Russian Sailor] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, speech in English A1;
Furey, Nora, Dublin, speech in English A1;
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English A1;
Stokes, Patrick, singing in English B1;
speech in English B2-3, B4/C1

Running Order:
1. Speech: Interview with Mrs Nora Furey [conversation with Mrs Furey about many topics, including: dogs; bees; incidents with farmers; incident with man who harrassed traveller women; her parents play music and sing; going to wakes; playing games; tongue-twisters; settled man who joins the travellers; speaking Romany; man courts travelling woman who drinks; qualities of travelling people; court cases and Gardai; families with the same names; Kitty the Hare; an inhospitable woman; friendship with priest; how she cared for her children; music performers] [END OF BAND ONE ?]
2. Song: MacCaffery Murder, song by P. Stokes
3. Speech: Interview with Patrick Stokes; Christ and the Tinker; tinker customs [conversation about many topics, including: a wedding; being insulted by farmers; tale: Christ and the Tinker; the difference between a tinker and a shoemaker; Lord Crofton; etc]
4. Speech: Interview with Pat Stokes about money, priests, etc; lending and borrowing and taking the pledge; about tinman's trade and his family growing up, travelling, misc. incidents entering N. Ireland [conversation about many topics, including: radios; traveller weddings; mixed marriages; taking the pledge; learning the tinsmith's trade and acquiring the tools; difficulties of travelling in Northern Ireland; the tinker trade in Roscommon; begging]
5. Continuation of track B3 [END OF BAND TWO ?]

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]

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]