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Performers:
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, pipes solo A1–5

Running Order:
1. Airs: Untitled [Version of An Caisideach Ban?], Untitled [An Droighnean Donn]
2. Reels: Untitled [The First House in Connacht], Untitled [Miss Monaghan], Untitled [The First House in Connacht]
3. Jig: When the Cock Crows it is Day [Ta an Coileach ag Fogairt an Lae], Sixpenny Money [Airgead Realach]
4. Jig / Single Jig, Slip Jigs: Smash the Windows, The Drops of Brandy, The Tenpenny Piece
5. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Bantry Hornpipe], Untitled [The Tailor's Twist] [END OF BAND ONE]

Recorded from Paddy Tunney and Dermot Leahy (age about 40) at the house of Hugh Shields, Dublin, 4 July 1968 [tracks 1–3]

Performers:
Paddy Tunney, singing in English Tracks 1–2
Dermot Leahy, singing in English Track 3

Running Order:
1. Tam Lin (‘Lady Margaret, Lady Margaret with a needle and thread...’), song [learnt from A.L. Lloyd] / Paddy Tunney, singing in English
2. Edward (‘Where have you been the whole afternoon...’), song  [ learnt from Paddy Doran] /  Paddy Tunney, singing in English
3. The walls of Jerusalem (‘Oh the poor man lived outside the walls of Jerusalem...’), song [learnt from his father] / Dermot Leahy, singing in English  [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Ennis, Seamus, speech in Irish A1, B1;
singing in Irish, English and Scots Gaelic, A1, B1;
lilting A1, B1;
Unidentified performer, speech in Irish B1

Running Order:
1. Speech, Song and Lilting: Untitled [Part One of the first of two lectures in Irish given by Seamus Ennis to trainee schoolteachers; subject: children's songs, adult nonsense and extemporised verses, stories and lullabies; with singing and story-telling by Ennis in Irish, English and Scots Gaelic; topics: purpose of the lecture – to interest the audience in this kind of material in order for them to impart it to their pupils; music a conducting medium for such material; verses composed to disparage neighbours; song 'I went to the fair of Kilkenny'; song 'Fuisce o rowlaway rowlaway'; lilting and nonsense words to dance tunes common in Scotland; example from Colm O Caoidhean, who was illiterate – 'Na Ceannabhain Bhana'; dandling song 'Digis o deamhais'; example from Feenish Island, 'Si do Mhaimeo I' (melody: Cailleach an Airgid / The Hag with the Money); example from Maoinis 'Ton an Aircin – Ton = diminutive for Tony; 'An Ceallaichin Fionn', from Connemara; example from Scotland, 'Amhran na hEala / The Swan's Song' – the swan sings only when dying – the song, with verses in Scots Gaelic and English – SE teaches the song to the audience; Caoine na Maighdine / Ri na hAoine; verses concerning a Connemara boatman who sailed to Co Clare to sell turf, got drunk, and was mocked by local people; a song that is the origin of the previous; a dispute in verse between a Connemara business man, Tomas O Bia, and his boatman, who got drunk and spent the money he received for turf; 'Moll Roe', with words in Irish and English; example from Scotland of nonsense words to a dance tune; another of the same; a lament (in the local dialect of Irish) from the Claddagh in Galway city, sung by a woman whose husband has died; story and song about a travelling man who visits a house (incomplete)]
2. Speech, Song and Lilting: Untitled [Part Two of the first of two lectures in Irish given by Seamus Ennis to trainee schoolteachers; subject: children's songs, adult nonsense and extemporised verses, stories and lullabies; with singing and story-telling by Ennis in Irish, English and Scots Gaelic; topics: continuation from 1245a-ITMA-CS/CDR, track 1 of a story and song about a travelling man who visits a house – the man of the house sings a lullaby to the child, and in the words of the lullaby tells his wife that she has given too much butter to the visitor; song 'Bean Phaidin', about an envied woman, who is married to a rich man; wandering poets; song composed by a wandering thresher (suistear), who was hungry at his work; song 'Johnny Seoighe', written in famine times in praise of a distributor of Indian meal (min bhui), from whom the poet wanted to receive favourable treatment; a story that SE collected in Scotland in 1946, about a magic hood; lullaby 'An Seanduine', collected by Elizabeth Cronin, sung first solo and then with the audience; an announcement by an unidentified person [Carysfort College staff member?]; SE sings 'Amhran na hEala' with the audience]

Performers:
Munnelly, Tom, incidental speech in English throughout;
All performers, incidental speech in English throughout;
Carbury, Peter, Longford, pipes solo A1-3, 5-7;
Breathnach, Eadaoin, Dublin, pipes solo A8-12;
Donnelly, Sean, Dublin, pipes solo 13-15;
Neill, Paddy, Belfast, pipes solo 16-17;
Garvin, William, pipes solo 18-21;
Kiernan, Brian, Dublin, pipes solo 22-24;
Walsh, Tom, pipes solo A25-27;
Clarke, Tom, Donegal, pipes solo A28-29;
O'Neill, Finbar, Dublin, pipes solo A30-32;
Grant, Dick, Clare, pipes solo A33-36;
Munnelly, Annette, Dublin, pipes solo A4, 37-38;
O hAlmhain, Michael, pipes solo A39

Running Order:
1. Reels: The Chattering Magpie, Untitled
2. Reel: The Old Irish Blackthorn
3. Reel/Fragment: The Strokestown Reel
4. Fragment
5. Reel Fragment: The Old Irish Blackthorn
6. Reels: The Steampacket, The Miller's Daughter
7. Reels: Eileen Curran, Jenny's Wedding
8. Reel: The Galtee Reel
9. Jigs: Untitled, Tatter Jack Walsh (interrupted)
10. Jig: Tatter Jack Walsh (beginning clipped)
11. Reel: The Green Groves of Erin
12. Reel: Follow me Down to Carlow
13. Hornpipe: The Leitrim Fancy
14. Jig: Paidin O'Rafferty
15. Reel: The Copperplate
16. Jig: The High Kings
17. Air: Sorrow Lane
18. March: Untitled
19. Jig: Untitled
20. Air: Na Conneries
21. Reel: The Copperplate
22. Jig: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
23. Hornpipe: Untitled
24. Jig: Untitled
25. Reel: The Cup of Tea
26. Reel: The Leitrim Fancy
27. Reels: Trim the Velvet, The Fermoy Lasses
28. Jigs: Munster Buttermilk, Untitled
29. Hornpipes: Untitled, The Boys of Bluehill
30. Jig: Untitled
31. Hornpipe: Untitled
32. Jig: The Donnybrook Jig
33. Reels: Colonel Fraser, The Bank of Ireland, Untitled
34. Reel: The Woman of the House
35. Jig: The Pig in the Rookery
36. Reel: Untitled (end clipped)
37. Jig: Untitled
38. Fragment
39. Reel: Rolling in the Rye Grass, The Wing that Shakes the Barley [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, singing in Irish A1;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A2;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A2;
Unidentified performers, group instrumental A3, A6;
Unidentified performers, singing in group A4;
Unidentified performer, speech in Irish A5;
O Dufaigh, Seamus, singing in Irish A5;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A7, 10-15;
(Charlie and Denis), fiddle and accordion in duet A6, 11-12;
(Joe Mills, Paddy O'Sullivan, Andy McGann, Tim O' Riardan, Larry Redigan, Jack Coen, Denis Murphy, Pete Reynolds, Pat Brady) Group instrumental A7-9;
Mellony, Joe, accordion solo A10;
Unidentified performer, accordion in trio with flutes A13;
Murty, Joe, flute in trio with flute and accordion A13;
Flynn, Barney, flute in trio with flute and accordion A13;
Kelly, Eugene, accordion in duet with fiddle A14;
Lamont, Joe, fiddle in duet with accordion A14;
(Barney Flynn, Jim Morrison, Larry Redigan, Michael Rodgers, Pat Murray, Pat Shields, Nick Irwin, Tommy Flynn) speech in English A15, group instrumental A16;
Rankin, Andrew, accordion solo A17;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A17;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A18-19;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo B1;
Unidentified performers, singing in English and Irish B2-7, speech in Irish A8, speech in English A8-9, 11-16, keyboard solo B10;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo B17;
Unidentified performer [O'Keefe, Padraig / O'Keeffe, Padraig], fiddle solo C1;
MacMathuna, Ciaran, speech in Irish C2-3, D15;
Canny, Paddy, fiddle in duet with accordion C2-3;
Mulvihill, Martin, accordion in duet with fiddle C2-3;
Unidentified performer, lilting C4;
O Concluain, Prionsias, speech in Irish C4;
Fatharty, Paitin, speech in Irish C4;
Derrane, Maggie, singing in Irish C4;
Ui Arnain?, Bean, speech in Irish C4;
De Bhailis, Sean, singing in Irish C4;
Unidentified performer, accordion solo C4;
Unidentified performers (school chrildren), singing in Irish C4;
Unidentified performer, pipes solo C5, 7;
Unidentified performer, group instrumental C6, 8-9;
O Se, Sean, singing in Irish C10, 12-13;
Tyres, Padraig, speech in Irish C11-12;
O Cadhladh, Donal, speech in Irish C11;
Unidentified performer, speech in Irish C14;
McGlinchey, Brendan, fiddle solo C14;
Unidentified performers, singing in English D1-7, speech in English D8;
Cussen, Mrs, organ solo D8;
Unidentified performer, singing in Irish D9;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo D10;
Unidentified performers, group instrumental D11, 14;
Unidentified performer, singing in Irish D12;
Unidentified performer, speech in Irish D13;
O Dufaigh, Seamus, singing in Irish D13;
Unidentified performers (Charlie, Denis), fiddle and accordion duet D15

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled [Johnny Seoighe]
2. Speech/Slow/Set Dance: talk about the following tunes, Untitled [Dear Irish Boy], Untitled [The King of the Fairies]
3. Reel: Untitled [The Bucks of Oranmore]
4. Song: Untitled
5. Speech/Song: talk about the following performer and song, Amhran na Tra Baine
6. Jig: Untitled
7. Speech/Reels: talk about the following tunes, Mulvihill's Reels
8. Speech/Jigs: talk about the following performers, The Lark in the Morning
9. Reel: Untitled [The Bucks of Oranmore]
10. Speech/Reels: talk about the following tunes, Peter Street, The Mason's Apron
11. Speech/Jigs: talk about the following tunes, Untitled
12. Speech/Hornpipe: talk about the following performers, Untitled
13. Speech/Reel: talk about the following performers, The Sally Gardens
14. Speech/Reels: talk about the following performers, Untitled
15. Speech: talk about the musicians and where they're from
16. Reel: Untitled
17. Jig/Speech: Untitled, talk about the preceding performer
18. Reels: Untitled [The Girl that Broke My Heart], Untitled [The Bunch of Keys]
19. Reel: Untitled [The Girl that Broke My Heart] [END OF BAND ONE]
20. Reel: Untitled (fragment)
21. Song: Untitled
22. Song: Untitled [Trasna na dTonnta]
23. Songs: Untitled
24. Song: Untitled [All Kinds of Everything]
25. Songs: Untitled
26. Songs: Untitled
27. Rhymes: Untitled
28. Poem: Untitled
29. March: Untitled [The Dawning of the Day]
30. Story: Untitled
31. Poem: The Old Brown Horse
32. Poem: Untitled
33. Poem: Untitled
34. Story: Apollo 13
35. Story: Untitled
36. Slow Air: Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]
37. Slow Air: Untitled
38. Speech/Reels: talk about the following performers, Untitled
39. Speech/Reel: talk about the following tunes, Untitled (fragment)
40. Reel/Speech/Song: Untitled, radio programme about the Aran Island of Inis Mor, Untitled
41. Reel: Untitled [Speed the Plough]
42. Hornpipe: Untitled
43. Jig: Untitled
44. Marches: Untitled
45. Reels: Untitled [The Trip to Durrow], Untitled [The Hare's Paw]
46. Song: Untitled
47. Speech: talk about 'Spailpini' or farm labourers
48. Speech/Song: talk about the following song, Amhran na Mireach?
49. Song: Untitled [An Spailpin Fanach]
50. Speech/Jigs: talk about the following performer, Untitled [The Pipe on the Hob] [END OF BAND THREE]
51. Song: Untitled [Silent Night]
52. Song: Untitled
53. Song: Untitled
54. Song: Untitled
55. Song: Untitled
56. Song: Untitled
57. Song: Untitled
58. Air: Untitled
59. Song: Untitled
60. Slow Air/Set Dance: Untitled [The Dear Irish Boy], Untitled
61. Reel: Untitled [The Bucks of Oranmore]
62. Song: Untitled
63. Speech/Song: talk about the following performer and song, Amhran na Tra Baine
64. Jig: Untitled
65. Speech/Reels: talk about the following tunes and performers, Mulvihill's Reels [END OF BAND FOUR]

Performers:
O'Connor, Liam, speech in English
Armagh Pipers Club, instrumental group =
Ní Bhradáin, Caoimhe, flute
White, Áine, fiddle
White, Annalise, accordion
White, Aoife, uilleann pipes
MacMahon, Piaras Óg, accordion

Running Order:
1. Introduction, speech in English / Liam O'Connor
2. The sunnyside, jig ; Emmet's hedgehog, jig ; Down the lane, jig / Armagh Pipers Club [= Caoimhe Ní Bhradáin, flute ; Áine White, fiddle ; Annalise White, accordion ; Aoife White, uilleann pipes]
3. Stephen's waltz [comp. Jack Talty], waltz / Armagh Pipers Club [= Caoimhe Ní Bhradáin, flute ; Áine White, fiddle ; Annalise White, accordion ; Aoife Smith, uilleann pipes]
4. [The Limerick rover?], jig ; The sunny hills of Beara, jig ; The Castleblaney piper, jig / Armagh Pipers Club [= Aoife Smith, uilleann pipes]
5. The high level, hornpipe / Armagh Pipers Club [= Annalise White, accordion]
6. Unidentified, reel / Armagh Pipers Club [= Piaras Óg MacMahon, accordion]
7. The march of the Mín na Toiteán bull, march ; Unidentified [comp. Niall Vallely], march ; Unidentified, reel / Armagh Pipers Club [= Caoimhe Ní Bhradáin, flute ; Áine White, fiddle ; Annalise White, accordion ; Aoife Smith, uilleann pipes]