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Performers:
Maguire, Sean / McGuire, Sean, Belfast, fiddle in instrumental group throughout;
fiddle in duet A6–9, B4, 17–19;
speech in English A8;
Roland, Raymond, Galway / London, accordion in instrumental group throughout;
accordion in duet B5–6, 13–16;
Keegan, Josephine, Armagh, piano accompaniment throughout;
piano solo B11–12;
Unidentified performer(s), accordion solo A3;
accordion in duet A11;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A10;
singing in English with instrumental accompaniment A10;
Mahony, Frank, Clare / London, fiddle in duet B7–10;
Unidentified performer, speech in English B20

Running Order:
1. Jigs: Untitled [The Humours of Glendart], Untitled [The Swallow's Nest], Untitled [Paddy's Return]
2. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Galway Hornpipe; McDermott's], Untitled [Swinging around the Circle], Untitled (short; incomplete)
3. Reel: Untitled [Father Kelly's]
4. Marches: Untitled [Shane O'Neill's March], Untitled [The Battle of Aughrim], Untitled [Kelly, the Boy from Killane], Untitled [Roddy McCorley] [Sound problems on this track due to problems on the original tape]
5. Reels: Untitled [The Templehouse], Untitled [Drowsy Maggie], Untitled [Mullingar Races]
6. Reels: Untitled [Miss Johnson]
7. Reels: Untitled [The Shaskeen Reel], Untitled [Master McDermott's Reel; composed by Master McDermott], Untitled [Faral Gara; played 7 times]
8. Speech, Air: Untitled, Roisin Dubh
9. Air: Untitled [Boolavogue]
10. Speech, Song: Untitled, Untitled [Six Miles From Bangor To Donaghadee]
11. Waltz: Untitled (short; incomplete; tape runs out) [END OF BAND ONE]
12. Reel: Untitled [The Providence]
13. Reels: Untitled [Eileen Curran], Untitled [The Sandmount; Mick Hand's]
14. Reels: Untitled [The Yellow Tinker], Untitled [The Sally Gardens], Untitled [The Yellow Tinker], Untitled [The Bunch of Keys]
15. Reels: Untitled [The Sligo Maid], Untitled [Molloy's Favourite]
16. Reel: Untitled [Paddy Kelly's; composed by Paddy Kelly]
17. Reels: Untitled [Composed by Paddy Fahy], Untitled [Kitty in the Lane], Untitled [Toss the Feathers]
18. Reels: Untitled [For the Sake of Old Decency], Untitled [The Ballykett Courthouse]
19. Reel: Untitled [Kilbaha]
20. Reel: Untitled [Tansey's Favourite]
21. Reel: Untitled [Corney Is Coming]
22. Reel: Untitled
23. Hornpipe: Untitled [Beeswing; composed by James Hill] (clipped at end)
24. Reels: Untitled [The Little Thatched Cabin; The Log Cabin], Untitled [Master Crowley's]
25. Reel: Untitled [Composed by Paddy Fahy]
26. Reels: Untitled [Paddy Cronin's No. 2]
27. Reels: Untitled [Music in the Glen], Untitled [Rakish Paddy], Untitled [Maude Miller (DMI, # 480)] [Sound problems on this track due to problems on the original tape]
28. Reels: Untitled [Bonnie Kate], Untitled [Jenny's Chickens]
29. Reels: Untitled [The Providence], Untitled [Geoghegan's]
30. Air: Untitled [Amhran na bhFiann; the Irish national anthem]
31. Speech: Untitled [Test message] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English A1–4, 9–11, 13, 17, 19, 21, B3, 15;
speech in Irish A25;
Clancy, Willie, Clare, pipes solo A1–4, B3–4, 8–10, 15–17, B3–4, 8–10, 15–19;
speech in English B15;
Rowsome, Leo, Dublin, pipes solo A5–8, 22–24, B5–7;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English A9;
Doran, Felix, Wicklow / Manchester, speech in English A9–10, 17, 19;
pipes solo A9–11, 18, 20–21;
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, speech in Irish and English A12–13, 15;
pipes solo A12, 14–16;
Moloney, Paddy, Dublin, pipes solo A26–27, B1;
Touhey, Patsy, Galway / New York, pipes solo B2;
O Murchu, Sean, Galway / Dublin, speech in English B5, 7;
O'Loughlin, Peter, Clare, pipes solo B11–14;
Mac Donnchadha, Sean / 'ac Dhonncha, Sean / Johnny Joe Pheaitsin / McDonagh, Johnny, Galway, singing in Irish B20;
O hEanai, Seosamh / Einiu, Joe / Heaney, Joe, Galway, singing in Irish B21

Running Order:
1. Speech, Air: Untitled, The Rocks of Bawn [Stated to be a version of the melody of the song generally known by this title]
2. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Information about the date of recording], The Old Bush
3. Speech, Reels: Untitled, The West Wind, Sean Reid's Fancy [Sean Reid's Favourite; Gilbert Clancy's]
4. Speech, Slip Jig: Untitled, An dTiocfaidh Tu sios go Luimneach / Kitty Come down to Limerick / The Munster Gimlet
5. Air: An Chuileann [The Coolin]
6. Reels: The Bag of Potatoes, Untitled [Dillon's Fancy], Untitled [The Moving Cloud], The Maid behind the Bar [Kiss the Maid behind the Barrel]
7. Airs: An Raibh Tu ag an gCarraig, The Castle of Dromore [For a different performance of this piece by the same performer, see track B6]
8. Reels: The Sligo Maid, The First House in Connacht
9. Speech, Speech, Reel: Untitled [Information that the performance that follows was recorded at a Fleadh Ceoil in Mullingar, Co Westmeath in 1963; further detail in documentation], Untitled, The Maid in the Cherry Tree
10. Speech, Reel: Untitled [How Felix Doran began playing the pipes; his family background in piping], Untitled [The Pigeon on the Gate]
11. Speech, Jig: Untitled, Untitled [The Newport Lass; The Newport Lasses; The Trip to Athlone], Garrett Barry's Jig
12. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Story about the scolaire bocht, the poor scholar], An Scolaire Bocht / The Scholar [The Poor Scholar]
13. Speech: Untitled [Topics: about Seamus Ennis's pipes; story about a headstrong woman]
14. Reel: The Woman of the House [The Mistress of the House]
15. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The Gold Ring
16. Air: Untitled (clipped at start) [Tiarna Mhaigh Eo / Lord Mayo; in a version deriving from Frank Cassidy, fiddle, Donegal]
17. Speech: Untitled [Topics: Felix Doran's new set of pipes, made by Leo Rowsome; how Irish traditional music is faring in Manchester]
18. Reel: The Mayo Lasses [Mistitled? George White's Favourite]
19. Speech: Untitled [Topics include: Felix Doran had just acquired a new set of pipes at the time of this recording; his first experience of learning the pipes, in 1932; his family background in piping; his father was a good player; his grandfather Cash; other piping members of his family; he travelled a lot in counties Galway and Clare, and played especially with musicians Paddy Fahy, Paddy Kelly, Willie Clancy and Joe Leary; how the chanter of his pipes got broken in a traffic accident in Laytown, Co Meath; buying his first set of pipes, a practice set, in 1932 in Capel St in Dublin]
20. Reel: The Mountain Lark [The Steampacket]
21. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Toss the Feathers
22. Descriptive Piece: The Fox Chase
23. Reels: Untitled [Johnny When You Die], The Woman of the House
24. Reel: The Star of Munster, The Copperplate
25. Speech: Untitled [Stage announcement]
26. Hornpipe: Untitled [Pretty Maggie Morrissey]
27. Air: A Spailpin a Run [END OF BAND ONE]
28. Reel: Trim the Velvet
29. Reel: The Mountain Lark [The Steampacket], The Morning Star, Miss McLeod's Reel [Dubbing from a 78 rpm commercial disc]
30. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Star of Munster
31. Jigs: The Frieze Breeches [Version of; I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her], Old Tipperary
32. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Radio announcement], The Scholar, The Primrose Lass
33. Air, Jig: The Castle of Dromore [For a different performance of this piece by the same performer, see track A7], Untitled [Malowney's Wife]
34. Speech, Set Dance: Untitled [Radio announcement], Bonaparte's Retreat
35. Reels: The Copperplate, Rakish Paddy
36. Hornpipe: The Plains of Boyle
37. Jig: Garrett Barry's Jig
38. Set Dance: The Blackbird
39. Jigs: The Butcher's March, Down the Back Lane
40. Hornpipes: The Leitrim Fancy, Untitled [Byrne's]
41. Speech, Air, Reel: Untitled, Sliabh na mBan, Gilbert Clancy [Sean Reid's Favourite]
42. Speech, Jig: Untitled, Down the Back Lane
43. Jig: Paidin O Raifeartaigh
44. Air: The Trip We Took over the Mountains
45. Reel: The Connacht Heifer
46. Reels: The Old Bush, The Ravelled Hank of Yarn [Dub from a 78 rpm Gael-Linn commercial disc]
47. Song: Ta na Paipeir Da Saighneail
48. Song: Ta na Paipeir Da Saighneail [Mistitled?] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
O'Donoghue, Michael, Clare, concertina solo A1–10, 13–28;
speech in English occasionally throughout A1–28;
Wathen, Ronnie, speech in English occasionally throughout A1–28, B12;
Gallagher, Noel, Dublin, pipes solo A11–12;
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, speech in English A29, 31, 33–35;
B1, 3, 6–7, 9–11;
pipes solo A30, 32–3, B1–2, 4–6, 8, 10–11;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English A35;
Russell, Micho, Clare, whistle solo B12–14;
speech in English B13–14;
Gallahar, Maeve, Dublin / Mayo, speech in Irish B15;
Unidentified performer, whistle solo B15;
Unidentified performer(s), fiddle solo B16–17;
Corcoran, Sean, Louth, singing in English B18;
Unidentified performer, pipes solo B19–20

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [Version of Sporting Nell]
2. Reel: P. J. Moloney's [The Killavil Fancy]
3. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Information about the previous and next pieces of music], Paidin O Raifeartaigh [Mistitled? The Boys of Tandaragee]
4. Reel: Untitled [Version of The Ashplant]
5. Fling / Barn Dance, Speech: Buttercups and Daisies [Maggie Pickens], Untitled [Information about the tune just played]
6. Fling / Barn Dance, Speech: Green Grow the Rushes - O, Untitled [Information about the tune just played]
7. Reel: Untitled [The Steampacket]
8. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Version of The Otter's Holt?], Untitled [Discussion about the next piece of music to be played]
9. Reel, Speech: The Earl's Chair, Untitled [Information about the tune just played]
10. Reel: Untitled [Gregg's Pipes]
11. Reel: Sporting Paddy
12. Fling / Barn Dance: Green Grow the Rushes - O
13. Speech, Jigs: Untitled, Untitled [The Frost is All Over], Untitled
14. Reel: Untitled [The Ashplant]
15. Reel: Untitled [The Longford Collector]
16. Reel: Untitled [The Mountain Top]
17. Reel: Untitled [Version of The Green Groves of Erin]
18. Reel: Untitled
19. Reel: Untitled [The Wind that Shakes the Barley]
20. Reel / Fling: Untitled [Recorded by the fiddle duet Michael Coleman and Packie Dolan on a 78rpm commercial disc in a selection of flings called Miss Ramsey]
21. Reel: Untitled [The Flogging Reel]
22. Jig: Untitled [Version of 'Have a Drink with Me' (DMI, # 20)]
23. Dance Tune: Untitled (short, incomplete)
24. Hornpipe: Untitled
25. Jig: Untitled
26. Reel: Untitled [The Green Field of Rossbeigh]
27. Reel: Untitled [The Green Gowned Lass]
28. Jig, Speech: Untitled [The Maid on the Green], Untitled
29. Speech: Untitled [About the uilleann pipes; consonant sympathy; theoretical re the pipes] [Tracks A29–37 and B1–11 were recorded at a presentation by Seamus Ennis at Scoil Samhradh Willie Clancy, Miltown Malbay, Co Clare, 25 July 19For a different recording made at the same event, see 1187-ITMA-REEL and 1188-ITMA-REEL]
30. Jig: The Munster Buttermilk
31. Speech: Untitled [About Pat Ward, piper, who played a double chanter; performer's father learns Pat Ward's Jig; theoretical about jigs; introduction to 'Ask My Father']
32. Single Jigs: Ask My Father, Pat Ward's Jig
33. Speech, Hornpipe: Untitled, The Fairy's Hornpipe
34. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Fairy Reel
35. Speech: Untitled [Story: background to the jig 'The Gold Ring']
36. Jig: The Gold Ring
37. Speech, Air, Slip Jig: Untitled, The Lament for the Fox, The Foxhunter's Jig [END OF BAND ONE]
38. Speech: Untitled [Includes instrument tuning; introduction to the piece of music to follow; the difference between a set dance and a long dance]
39. Long Dance / Set Dance: The Ace and Deuce of Piping
40. Speech: Untitled (short, incomplete) [Story about the origin of a tune]
41. Jigs: Untitled [The Lark's March; The Geese in the Bog (with tonic note D)], Untitled [The Lark in the Morning]
42. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Groves Hornpipe]
43. Speech, Hornpipe: Untitled [Introduction to the next piece of music], O'Dwyer's Hornpipe
44. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next piece of music; the previous night to this recording was the first time that the performer played on his own pipes the reel he is about to play; asks the audience for help in identifying the tune]
45. Reel: The Kind Maid [The Wise Maid]
46. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next piece of music]
47. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Continuation of the introduction to the next piece of music], The Flags of Dublin, The Dublin Reel
48. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Introduction to the next piece of music], The Bucks of Oranmore
49. Reel, Speech: Untitled [All the Ways to Galway], Untitled [Information about the piece of music just played]
50. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Ballykett Courthouse], Untitled [Information about the piece of music just played]
51. Jigs: The Maid in the Meadow [Jimmy O'Brien's Jig], An Rogaire Dubh / The Black Rogue
52. Speech: Jack and the Beanstalk [Folktale, with occasional whistle-playing in the background]
53. Reel: Untitled [The Oak Tree]
54. Air, Jig: Untitled [Anach Cuain / Eanach Dhuin], Untitled [Jig derived from the air just played; composed by Junior Crehan]
55. Speech, Song: Untitled, Untitled
56. Air: Untitled [Se Fath Mo Bhuartha]
57. Air: Untitled [Mo Ghra-sa an Jug Mor is E Lan] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Ward, Jimmy, Clare, singing in English A1, 16;
whistling solo A5, 25;
whistle solo A20;
Unidentified performers (including, according to supplied information with the cassette, Willie Clancy, Clare), singing in English A2, 6–11;
Unidentified performers, speech in English A3–4, 12, 15;
Egan, John, Sligo / Dublin, flute in instrumental group A3 [?], 12–14 [?], 17 [?];
Unidentified performers playing flute, whistle, and banjo (including, according to supplied information with the cassette, Willie Clancy, Martin Talty and Jimmy Ward, Clare) in instrumental groups A3, 12–14, 17–19;
Unidentified performers, whistle solo A24;
whistle in duet 26

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled [I Couldn't]
2. Song: Untitled [The Death of Brugha]
3. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Untitled [Maud Miller], Untitled [The Reel of Mullinavat]
4. Speech: Untitled [Funny story]
5. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
6. Song: Untitled ['A young man lived in Dublin...']
7. Song: Untitled [General Monroe]
8. Song: Untitled [The Boys from the County Armagh]
9. Song: Untitled [James Connolly]
10. Song: Untitled [Lovely Old Miltown]
11. Song: Untitled [The Boys of Barr na Sraide]
12. Speech, Reels: Untitled, The Jolly Tinker, The Pretty Girls of Mayo
13. Speech, Jigs: Untitled, Old Man Dillon, The Rose in the Heather
14. Reels: Untitled [Eileen Curran], Untitled [The Sandmount / Mick Hand's]
15. Recitation: Untitled [The Man from God Knows Where]
16. Speech, Song: Untitled, Untitled (incomplete; tape runs out) [END OF BAND ONE]
17. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Boy in the Gap
18. Speech, Reels: Untitled, The Liffey Banks, The Shaskeen Reel
19. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Concert Reel [With irregular number of beats in the first part]
20. Reel: Untitled
21. Reel: Untitled [The Mountain Top], Untitled
22. Jig: Untitled [The Pipe on the Hob]
23. Reel: Peter O'Loughlin's Reel [Announced on the tape by this name; Murphy's Reel (CRE 2, # 203)]
24. Air: Untitled [Cuaichin Ghleann Neifin]
25. Air: Untitled
26. Jig: Untitled [Gillan's Apples] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Curtin, Mary-Ellen, concertina A1-15, 17;
singing in English A16

Running Order:
1. Unidentified
2. Unidentified
3. Unidentified
4. Unidentified
5. Unidentified
6. Unidentified
7. Unidentified
8. Unidentified
9. Unidentified
10. Unidentified
11. Unidentified
12. Unidentified
13. Unidentified
14. Unidentified
15. Unidentified
16. Unidentified
17. Unidentified

Performers:
Keville, Breda, concertina A9;
fiddle A1-6, 8-11, 13-15;
singing in English A7, 12, 16;
Keville, Claire, concertina A9;
fiddle A5;
Lewis, Liam, fiddle A11;
O'Reilly, Terence, guitar A2, 9, 15

Running Order:
1. Jigs: Palm Sunday, An bóithrín cam
2. Reels: The West wind, For the sake of old decency
3. Air: Ros a Mhíl cois cuain
4. Set dance: Seán Ó Duibhir; Hornpipe: Poll Ha'penny
5. Reels: The new road, My love is in America
6. Reels; The ewe reel, Paddy Fahey's, Paddy Fahey's
7. Song: The cuckoo
8. Reels: The ragged hank of yarn, The hairy chested frog
9. Reels: The ceilier, Ed Reavey's
10. Air: Sail Óg Rua
11. Reels: Paddy Fahey's, Paddy Fahey's, Paddy Fahey's
12. Song: Blackwaterside
13. Reels: Eileen Curran, The rainy day
14. Jigs: The Gallowglass, Kitty's rambles
15. Reels: The morning mist, The Monasterevin fancy
16. Song: Bean an fhir rua
17. Jig: Clancy's jig
18. Fling: Mary Brennan's favourite; Jig: The fowler on the moor
19. Reel: The hop down