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Performers:
Henry, Johnny, fiddle A1, A2;
Ryan, Mick Joe, flute A1, A2

Running Order:
1. Untitled / Johnny Henry, fiddle ; Joe Ryan, flute
2. Untitled / Johnny Henry, fiddle ; Joe Ryan, flute

Performers:
Moore, Christy, singing in English A1-13;
Moore, Eilis, singign in English A14

Running Order:
1. Song: Follow Me up to Carlow
2. Song: Joe McCann
3. Song: The January Man
4. Song: Trip to Jerusalem
5. Song: Lannigan's Ball
6. Song: Patrick's Arrival
7. Song: As I Roved Out
8. Song: The Sun Is Burning
9. Song: My Name Is Nuke Power
10. Song: The Galtee Mountain Boy
11. Song: Nancy Spain
12. Song: Move Along Song (Go, Move Shift)
13. Song: Patrick Was a Gentleman
14. Song: Padraig the Fiddler

Performers:
Unidentified performers [Hunt, Michael and Tommy, Sligo?], speech in English throughout A1–18;
McDonagh, Laurence / Larry, Sligo, flute in duet A1–17;
McDonagh, Michael, Sligo, fiddle in duet A1–17;
fiddle solo A18;
Unidentified performer [Doran, Felix, Wicklow / Manchester], pipes solo A19–21

Running Order:
1. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Nicholson's [CICD 4000 (not from this recording)]
2. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Ballinafad Fancy [CICD 3104 (from this recording); The Dublin Reel, version of?]
3. Reel, Speech: Donoghue's Favourite [CICD 5429 (from this recording); The Maid of Laharc (CICD 5424, not from this recording); CRE 2, # 202 (untitled); Hughie Travers' Reel], Untitled
4. Reel, Speech: Miss Corbett [CICD 3499 (from this recording)], Untitled
5. Reel, Speech: Ganley's Reel [CICD 5951 (from this recording); The Curlews Maid (CICD 5950, not from this recording); Last Night's Fun, version of?], Untitled
6. Reel, Speech: Maggie on the Shore [CICD 2790 (from this recording)], Untitled
7. Jig, Speech: Touhey's Jig [CICD 2518 (from this recording); Mac's Fancy], Untitled
8. Jig: Reagan's Jig / Regan's Jig [Not in CICD; tape runs out during tune] [END OF BAND ONE]
9. Jig, Speech: Reagan's Jig / Regan's Jig [Continuation of previous tune], Untitled
10. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5691 (from this recording), where title 'Beal an Atha Fhada' is given on the card but crossed out; CICD 5690 (untitled; not from this recording)]
11. Reel, Speech: The Cat that Ate the Candle [CICD 3843 (from this recording); CICD 3844 (not from this recording); Miss Brady; Esther's Reel], Untitled
12. Reel, Speech: The Cup of Coffee [CICD 5890 (untitled, from this recording; incompletely transcribed); McDonagh's Reel (2), in CRE 2, # 207; The Cup of Tea, version of?], Untitled
13. Reel: Untitled (incomplete)
14. Jig, Speech: John McNiff's Favourite [CICD 2281 (from this recording); The Farewell (CICD 2280, not from this recording)], Untitled
15. Jig, Speech: Ganley's Jig [CICD 1335 (from this recording); CICD 1666 (not from this recording)], Untitled
16. Reel, Speech: Jack Fadden's Reel [CICD 2659 (from this recording); Sailing into Walpole's Marsh, version of?], Untitled
17. Reel, Speech: Parkmore Fancy [CICD 4725 (from this recording)], Untitled
18. Jig: Untitled [CICD 2063.31 (from this recording?); The Boys of Tandaragee; The Rollicking Boys around Tandaragee]
19. Reel: Untitled [Rakish Paddy]
20. Reel: Untitled [The London Lasses]
21. Reel: Untitled [Coen's Memories; composed by Tommy Coen; The Cottage in the Grove] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Busby, Tom, Fermanagh / New York, Sligo, speech in English A1, 3–9, 14, 19, 23–25;
pipes solo A2–8, 10?, 11?, 12?, 13?, 20, 21?, 22?, 23, 24;
Meehan, Seamus, Dublin, pipes solo A15;
Conroy, Andy, Roscommon / New York A16, 18;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English A17;
Touhey, Patsy, Galway / New York, speech in English A26–27?, 28;
pipes solo A28;
Hanafin, William, Kerry / Boston, fiddle solo A26–27;
Gallagher, Michael, Leitrim / New York, pipes in duet A29

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [Instruction to Ed Harrison on how to play the tune that follows]
2. Jig: The Lark in the Morning
3. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Introduction to the next piece of music], Miss McLeod's Reel
4. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Information about the performer's chanter reed], Untitled [The Merry Blacksmith]
5. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Introduction to the next piece of music], The Sligo Maid
6. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Introduction to the next piece of music], The Munster Buttermilk [With four parts; usually three]
7. Speech, March / Hornpipe: Untitled [Introduction to the next piece of music], Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine
8. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Introduction to the next piece of music], Untitled
9. Speech: Untitled [Instruction to Ed Harrison on playing traditional tunes]
10. Jig: Untitled [The Frieze Breeches] (very faint)
11. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Liverpool Hornpipe]
12. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Liverpool Hornpipe]
13. Jig: Untitled [The Frieze Breeches]
14. Speech: Untitled [Addressed to 'Kevin'; about 'backstitching', a type of ornamentation used on the uilleann pipes; introduction to the pieces of music that follow]
15. Jigs: The Humours of Ennistymon [Mistitled; Tell Her I Am], Untitled [When Sick Is It Tea You Want] [Recorded at a concert]
16. Hornpipe: The Plains of Boyle [Mistitled; The Kildare Fancy]
17. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next piece of music]
18. Jig: Cherish the Ladies
19. Speech: Untitled [Information about the previous pieces of music; introduction to the next piece of music]
20. Air: The Dark Woman of the Glen / Bean Dubh an Ghleanna [The version played here is very close to that recorded on a private cylinder by William Hanafin (fiddle) and also to that notated from Patsy Touhey (pipes) in O'Neill's 'Music of Ireland'; The Lament for Staker Wallace]
21. Reel, Jig, Reel: Untitled [Down the Broom], Untitled, Untitled [Bonnie Kate] [END OF BAND ONE]
22. Hornpipe: Untitled (with extraneous sounds from the source recording) [The High Level]
23. Speech, Air: Untitled [Introduction to the next piece of music], Blame Not the Bard [In a version close to those recorded by William Hanafin and by Patsy Touhey; Eamon an Chnoic]
24. Speech, Air: Untitled [Introduction to the next piece of music; stated to be a favourite of Michael Carney (pipes, Mayo / New York)], The Dear Irish Boy
25. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next pieces of music, which are dubbings from cylinders]
26. Speech, Air: Untitled [Spoken introduction on the original cylinder recording], Bean Dubh an Ghleanna [The Dark Woman of the Glen] [From a private cylinder recording in the collection of Tom Busby]
27. Speech, Air, Reel: Untitled [Spoken introduction on the original cylinder recording], Blame Not the Bard, The Shaskeen Reel (brief; cut short) [From a private cylinder recording in the collection of Tom Busby]
28. Speech, Air: Untitled [Spoken introduction on the original cylinder recording], Blame Not the Bard [From a private cylinder recording in the collection of Tom Busby]
29. Reels: Untitled [Lucy Campbell], Untitled [The Cup of Tea] [Dubbing from a commercial 78rpm disc] [END OF BAND TWO]