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Performers:
Russell, Micho, Clare, tin whistle A1-35, 37-55, B1-61;
singing in Irish A27;
singing in English B59;
speech in English throughout;
Breathnach, Breandán, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Reel: The Boy in the Gap (old version) [CICD 2921.11 (from this recording); 2920, 2920.11, 2921 (none from this recording); for MR's 'standard' version, see tracks A2 and B20.]
2. Reel: The Boy in the Gap (standard version) [CICD 3096.12–.13 (from this track on this recording); 3096.14–.15 (where this track on this recording is referenced; also from this recording (137b-ITMA-REEL/CDR, track 20); 3096.11, 3096.16, 3097 (none from this recording); also at track B20; for MR's 'old' version, see track A1.]
3. Reel: Patsy Campbell's Reel [CICD 3778.11 (from this recording), 3779 (not from this recording)]
4. Reel: Upstairs in a Tent [CICD 4444.12 (from this recording); 4445, 4446 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 190 (from MR)]
5. Reel: Tadhg a Run / A Thaidhg, a Run [CICD 4964.11 (from this recording); CRE 2, # 150 (i) (from MR)]
6. Reel: Divide the Cally Fair [CICD 5300.11 (from this recording), 5300 (not from this recording); Kennaw's Reel (WSGM, # 326, version of)]
7. Jig / Slide: The Clare Jig [CICD 2364.11–.12 (both from this recording); 1162.11–.12, 2364.13–.14 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 71 (untitled, from MR)]
8. Jig: An Chailleach is a Ceag ar a Gualainn / An Chailleach is a Ceag ar a Guala / Kitty's Rambles [CICD 1467.11 (from this recording), 1467 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 36 (from MR)]
9. Jig: Tatter Jack Walsh / An t-Athair Jack Walsh [CICD 1394.11 (from this recording); 1393, 1394, 1394.12 (none from this recording)]
10. Jig: The Frost is All Over / Rince na gCoinini i nGarrai na hEorna [CICD 724.12 (from this recording; contains reference to 'card 2'); 809 (not from this recording)]
11. Dance Tune: Untitled [not in CICD; learned by MR from a dance group in Ghent (?) in Belgium.]
12. Reel: The Rising Sun [CICD 2907.11 (from this recording), 2908 (not from this recording; CRE 2, # 260 (from MR); for other versions and titles, see BB index, cards 2983, 2657]
13. Reel: Untitled [CICD 4363.12 (from this recording); 4363.11, 3098 (not from this recording); learned from Johnny Byrt, flute player and travelling carpenter; CRE 2, # 175 (from MR)]
14. Reel: The Boys of the Lake [CICD 3199.11–.12 (both from this recording); 3195, 3196 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 164 (from MR)]
15. Jig: The Four Posts of the Bed [CICD 1349.14–.15 (from this recording); 1349.12–.13 (none from this recording)]
16. Jig: The Connachtman's Rambles / Bean an Brown Dilisc [CICD 2136.11 (from this recording); 2133, 2136.12, 2138 (none from this recording)]
17. Jig: The Connachtman's Rambles [Version composed by Finbar Furey, according to MR; CICD 1389.12 (from this recording)]
18. Reel: The Blackhaired Girl / Cailin na Gruaige Duibhe [CICD 4230.13 (from this recording?); 4230.12 (where this recording is referenced); 4239 (not from this recording); The Blackhaired Lass]
19. Reel: Jackie Fitzpatrick's Reel / Jacky Fitzpatrick's Reel / Jack Fitz's Reel / Jackie Fitzgerald's Reel [CICD 4995.11 (from this track on this recording); 4995.12, 5018.12 (both also from this recording; see 137b-ITMA-REEL/CDR, track 30); 5016, 5017, 5018–.11 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 225 (from MR); related to Dowd's Favourite / O'Dowd's Favourite as recorded by Michael Coleman?]
20. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5084.11–.14 (all from this track on this recording); 5091.12–.13 (both also from this recording; see 137b-ITMA-REEL/CDR, track 60); 5091.11, 5093, 5096 (none from this recording); The Green Pigeon (title from CICD 5092, ex Pat Ward ms)]
21. Reels: The Swallow's Tail [CICD 5062.11 (from this recording); 5060.12, 5062 (none from this recording)]
22. Reel: The West Clare Reel [CICD 5883.11 (from this recording), 5883 (not from this recording); Dan Breen's]
23. Reel: Untitled [CICD 2924.11 (from this recording); 2923, 2924, 4033.11 (none from this recording)]
24. Jig: The Yellow Wattle [CICD 1133.11, 1828, 1829 (none from this recording)]
25. Jig: Donall na Greine [CICD 756, 757, 758, 759, 760.11 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 10 (from MR); Ceol III iv, p 99; Donnybrook Fair / The Joy of My Life (version of? DMI, # 79)]
26. Reel: The Heather Breeze / The Heathery Breeze [CICD 3415.13 (from this track on this recording); 3415.11 (also from this recording; see 137b-ITMA-REEL/CDR, track 18); 2856.11, 2857, 3415.12, 3415.14 (none from this recording)]
27. Reel, Singing: An Bhean Tinceara [CICD 2686.11 (from this recording); 4028, 4029, 4030, 5750.11–.12 (none from this recording)], An Bhean Tinceara [Sung version]
28. Jig: Barr na Feirsde / Barr na Feirisde / The Munster Buttermilk [CICD 818.11–.12 (from this recording); 825 (not from this recording)]
29. Jig / Quadrille Tune: The Cumann na mBan Is Dead and Gone [CICD 2146.11–.12 (both from this recording); The Cumann na mBan Are Dead and Gone; well known as a slide; one of two tunes that MR applies this name to.]
30. Jig, Singing, Speech: Christmas Day in the Morning / On Christmas Day in the Morning [CICD 2228.12 (from this recording); 2558 (not from this recording)]; Christmas Day in the Morning / On Christmas Day in the Morning [Sung version]; Untitled [Speech about the background to the tune / song 'Christmas Day in the Morning']
31. Jig: Garrett Barry's / The Ladies' Fancy [CICD 1006.11 (from this recording); 1007, 1008 (none from this recording)]
32. Polka: An Gabhairin Bui [CICD 6439.11 (from this recording); 6283 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 110 (from MR)]
33. Fling: Pop Goes the Weazel / Pop Goes the Weasel [CICD 6532.11 (from this recording)]
34. Jig: Ti-teen Girleen / Tidy Girlyeen [CICD 1326.13 (from this recording); 1325 (not from this recording); Behind the Bush in the Garden (DMI, # 398]
35. Reel: The Ladies Pantalettes [CICD 5626.11 (from this recording); 5626, 5637 (none from this recording)]
36. Speech: Untitled [Johnny Kilmartin, concertina, known as Johnny Sally; dancing style among the older people.]
37. Reel: All the Ways to Galway [CICD 3561.12 (from this track on this recording); 3086.11–.12, 3561–.11 (none from this recording); The Kerry Cow; I Wish I Had a Kerry Cow; CRE 2, # 282 (from MR) and also at CRE 2, # 116; for MR's version of this tune as single reel / polka, see 137b-ITMA-REEL/CDR, track 47]
38. Reel: Kitty Jones' Reel / Kitty Jones's Reel [CICD 4275.12 (from this recording); 4275.11, 4276, 4277 (none from this recording)]
39. Reel: The Old Torn Petticoat [CICD 4348.11 (from this recording), 4351 (not from this recording)]
40. Reel: Fochairi Beaga na Foraoire [CICD 5943.11 (from this recording); 5943, 5947.11 (not from this recording); Spike Island Lasses (here with only two parts, rather than the usual three)]
41. Jig / Dance Tune: An Bothar o thuaidh go dti Arainn / The Handkerchief Dance [CICD 1196.11 (from this recording); 1196.12 (also from this recording?); 1197 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 65 (from MR)]
42. Reel: Is Trua gan Peata 'n Mhaoir Agam / An Peata Beag is a Mhathair [CICD 4007.11, 5635.11 (both from this recording); 4008, 5634, 5635 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 259 (from MR); The Mother and Child Reel]
43. Reel: Is Trua gan Peata 'n Mhaoir Agam / An Peata Beag is a Mhathair [Partial repeat of the tune in the previous track]
44. Reel: The Sporting Days of Easter [CICD 3988.11 (from this recording); 3988.13 (where this recording is referenced; notation has been corrected from this recording?); 3988.12, 3988.14, 3989 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 281 (from MR)]
45. Jig: Sagart na mBuataisi / The Priest in his Boots [CICD 1251.11 (from this recording), 1252 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 17 (from MR)]
46. Jig: Connie the Soldier / The South-west Wind [CICD 2369.11 (from this recording), 2368 (not from this recording)]
47. Jig: The Rambling Pitchfork [CICD 1649.11 (from this recording); 1648 (not from this recording)]
48. Reel: The College Grove [CICD 5573.11 (from this recording); 3484 (not from this recording)]
49. Jig: The Cliffs of Moher (a), (b) [(a) CICD 784.12 (from this recording); 784.11, 784.14 (with G as the tonic note)], (b) [CICD 784.13 (from this recording); 784.15, 2113.11 (none from this recording); (with A as its tonic note)]
50. Slip Jig: The Rocky Road to Dublin / Slainte an Briste Leathain / Slainte an Bristin Leathair [CICD 440.11–.12 (both from this recording?); 435, 436 (not from this recording)]
51. Slip Jig: Untitled [CICD 315.11–.12 (from this recording), 318 (not from this recording); Barney Brallaghan (DMI, # 429, with 3 parts); 2 parts in MR's version]
52. Reel: Dunagore Reel [CICD 5610.11 (from this recording); 5610, 5610.12, 5769 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 210 and 275 (both from MR); The Concertina Reel (DMWC, # 72); The Doonagore Reel]
53. Jig: The Irish Washerwoman / The Big Jig / Paddy McGinty's Goat [CICD 1678.12–.13 (from this recording); 1678.11, 1679, 1686 (none from this recording)]
54. Jig, Speech: Nora Criona [CICD 628.11 (not from this recording; incipit only)], Untitled [information about Larry Sharry, musician who played the tune]
55. Jig: The Boys of the Town / Sean Phaidin [CICD 2228.11 (from this recording but not this track; see 137b-ITMA-REEL/CDR, track 1 ); 2233 (not from this recording); unfinished] [END OF BAND ONE]
56. Jig: The Boys of the Town / Sean Phaidin [CICD 2228.11 (from this recording), 2233 (not from this recording)]
57. Jig: Untitled [CICD 1497.13 (from this recording); 1496, 1497.12 (not from this recording); Kitty Come Over (DMI, # 55); The Cow that Ate the Blanket]
58. Reel: Tear the Calico [CICD 3131.13–.14 (from this recording), 3130 (not from this recording); 'standard' version of the tune; MR plays the tune in two registers, and this is the higher of the two. The other version is on the next track.]
59. Reel: Tear the Calico, the old way [CICD 3131.11 (from this recording), 3131.12 (not from this recording); MR plays the tune in two registers, and this is the lower of the two. The 'standard' version is on the previous track.]
60. Jig: The Maid on the Green / The Mountainy Boy [CICD 1202.11–.12 (from this recording), 1200 (not from this recording)]
61. Jig: The Trip to the Cottage [CICD 2180.11 (from this recording), 2179 (not from this recording)]
62. Reel: The Last House in Connacht [CICD 4437.11 (from this track on this recording); 4437.12–.13 (both from track B56 on this recording)]
63. Jig: Brian O'Lynn [CICD 1567.11 (from this recording); 1565 (not from this recording)]
64. Jig: The Rakes of Clonmel [CICD 1814.12 (from this recording); 1814.11 (where this recording is referenced); 1814 (not from this recording)]
65. Reel: London Bridge [CICD 2884.11 (from this recording); 2888, 2889, 5480 (not from this recording)]
66. Polka / March / Quadrille Tune: The Boyne Water [CICD 6508.14 (from this recording); 6508.11–.13 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 124 (from MR)]
67. Reel: The Banshee / An Bhean Si [CICD 4864.11 (from this recording); 4864.12–.13, 5384.11 (none from this recording); tune is featured on the Flanagan Brothers 78 rpm disc titled 'The Flanagans Chase the Banshee']
68. Jig: Willie Walsh's Jig [CICD 2386.11 (from this recording); 2382 (not from this recording); DMI, # 88 (as Willy Walsh's Jig); related to The Wandering Minstrel]
69. Jig: The Little House under the Hill [CICD 2048.11 (from this recording); 2047 (not from this recording)]
70. Reel: The Ships Are Sailing [CICD 2962.11–.12 (from this recording)]
71. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5456.14 (from this recording); 4137.11, 5456.11–.13, 5456.15 (none from this recording)]
72. Jig: Untitled [CICD 1559.14 (from this recording); 1559.13, 1559.15 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 67 (from MR); often played as a slide]
73. Reel: The Heather Breeze / The Heathery Breeze [CICD 3415.11–.12 (both from this track on this recording); 3415.13 (also from this recording; see 137a-ITMA-REEL/CDR, track 26); 2856.11, 2857, 3415.14 (none from this recording)]
74. Reel: Sean sa Cheo [CICD 3976.13–.14 (from this recording), 3976.11–.12, 5649 (none from this recording)]
75. Reel: The Boy in the Gap [CICD 3096.14–.15 (both from this track on this recording); CICD 3096.12–.13 (also from this recording; see 137a-ITMA-REEL/CDR, track 2); 3096.11, 3096.16, 3097 (none from this recording); standard version of this tune; for MR's 'old' version, see track A1]
76. Reel: Clochairin Ban, An [CICD 4514.11 (from this recording); 4513, 4514 (none from this recording); The Collier's Reel]
77. Reel: Untitled [CICD 4808.11 (from this recording), 4807.11 (not from this recording); Down the Broom]
78. Reel: The Gatehouse Maid [CICD 3051.11 (from this recording); 3062, 3068.11 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 233 (not from MR)]
79. Jig: Cathaoir an Phiobaire [CICD 1993.11 (from this recording), 1993 (not from this recording); The Piper's Chair; CRE 1, # 9 (not from MR)]
80. Jig: Cathaoir an Phiobaire [as at previous track]
81. Reel: Knocknagow [CICD 4593.12 (from this recording); 4590, 4593.11 (none from this recording); Scotch Mary]
82. Reel: Over the Moor to Maggie / Over the Meadows / Down the Meadows / Kitty's Wedding / The Dublin Reel [CICD 2804.11 (from this recording); 2804.12, 2805 (not from this recording)]
83. Reel: The Star of Munster (standard version) [CICD 4162.12 (from this recording); 4162.11, 4163, 4164 (none from this recording)], The Star of Munster (concertina version) [CICD 4019.11 (from this recording)]
84. Reel: Untitled [CICD 4772.13 (from this recording); 4772, 4772.11–.12 (none from this recording); The Rainy Day]
85. Reel: Jackie Fitzpatrick's Reel / Jacky Fitzpatrick's Reel / Jack Fitz's Reel / Jackie Fitzgerald's Reel [CICD 5018.12, 4995.12 (both from this track on this recording); 4995.11 (also from this recording; see 137a-ITMA-REEL/CDR, track 19); 5016, 5017, 5018–5018.11 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 225 (from MR); related to Dowd's Favourite / O'Dowd's Favourite as recorded by Michael Coleman?]
86. Slip Jig: Bimid ag Ol go dti Maidin [CICD 252.14 (from this recording); 252–252.13 (none from this recording); recorded from MR in two different registers, of which the higher one is here]
87. Reel: The Maid that Left the County [CICD 4288.13 (from this recording); 4288.12 (where this recording is referenced); 4286, 4288.11, 4288.14, 4289 (none from this recording); The Honeymoon (DMI, # 791)]
88. Reel: The Wind that Shakes the Barley [CICD 5757.13–.14 (both from this recording); 5757.11–.12 (both also from this recording?); 5743.11 (not from this recording)]
89. Reel: The Lady on the Island [CICD 5853.12–.13 (both from this recording); 5853.11 (not from this recording)]
90. Reel: The Five Mile Chase [CICD 2914.11 (from this recording); 2880–.11 (not from this recording)]
91. Reels: Sporting Nellie [CICD 5075.14 (from this recording); 5075.11–.13, 5075.15–.16 (none from this recording); Gorman's (CICD 5075, from Mrs Crotty); Sporting Nell]
92. Jig: The Walls of Liscarroll [CICD 1092.11 (from this recording); Tumble the Tinker; MR's An Bainbhin Dubh (related tune?)]
93. Reel: The Fermoy Lasses [CICD 3945.11 (from this recording)]
94. Reel: The Connemara Stockings [CICD 4006.11 (from this recording)]
95. Jig: The Battering Ram [CICD 2195.14–.15 (from this recording); 2195.12–.13 (not from this recording)]
96. Jig: Rory O'Moore [CICD 2195.11 (from this recording)]
97. Reel: The Top of the Morning [CICD 5277.11 (from this recording); 5276.11, 5277, 5277.12, 5278 (none from this recording); CRE 5, # 181 (from MR)]
98. Reel: The Bucks of Oranmore [CICD 5726.13–.14 (from this recording); 5482, 5725, 5726–.12 (none from this recording)]
99. Jig: An Rogaire Dubh [CICD 2620.11 (from this recording); 1858, 2620.12 (none from this recording); The Black Rogue]
100. Jig: McCormick's Jig [CICD 903.11–.12 (both from this recording)]
101. Jig: The Geese in the Bog [CICD 1809.13 (both from this recording?); 1809.12 (where this recording is referenced); 1809–.11, 1809.14 (none from this recording)]
102. Single Reel / Polka / Reel: Untitled [CICD 6496 (from this track on this recording); played here in polka-like tempo; All the Ways to Galway; for MR's version in reel tempo, see track A37.]
103. Reel: Untitled [CICD 4364.11 (from this recording); CRE 2, # 187 (not from MR)]
104. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5885.11–.12 (both from this recording)]
105. Jig: The Butcher's March / Hurrah for the Gallant Tipperary Boys / Lonely Old Hag Is It Tae You Want? / Hello You Old Hag Is It Tea You Want? / When Sick Is It Tea You Want? [CICD 2381.14 (from this recording); 2200.11–.12, 2224, 2381.12–.13 (none from this recording)]
106. Jig: The Walls of Liscarroll [CICD 2023.11 (from this recording); The Mug of Brown Ale; title 'The Walls of Liscarroll' given on card, in error?]
107. Jig: The Walls of Liscarroll [CICD 1483.11 (from this recording); not the tune of the same name at track B37; The Mouse in the Cupboard]
108. Jig: Cailleach a Mhairbh Me [CICD 2578.11 (from this recording); A Chailleach do Mhairis Me]
109. Hornpipe: The Flowers of Edinburgh [CICD 6256.11 (from this recording; '2 UCD 30' also given on the card as a source – in error? The tune does not appear on UCD 2)]
110. Reel: Peter Street [CICD 3440.11 (from this recording)]
111. Reel: The Last House in Connacht [CICD 4437.12–.13 (both from this track on this recording); 4437.11 (from track B7 on this recording)]
112. Jig: Happy to Meet and Sorry to Part [CICD 2127.11 (from this recording)]
113. Jig: Tom Hanna's [CICD 2374.11–.13 (all from this recording)]
114. Jig, Singing, Jig: Paddle My Own Canoe [CICD 1607.13 (from this recording)]; do. [sung version of the previous]; Back of the Haggard [CICD 1607.12 (from this recording), another version of the tune]
115. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5091.12–.13 (from this track on this recording); 5084.11–.14 (all also from this recording; see 137a-ITMA-REEL/CDR, track 20); 5091.11, 5093, 5096 (none from this recording); The Green Pigeon (title from CICD 5092, ex Pat Ward ms)]
116. Hornpipe: Dance the Figure of Eighty on the Blackbird's Back [CICD 6191.11 (from this recording); Bantry Bay (DMI, # 823); recorded by Michael Coleman with The Stack of Barley (?)] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performer [Casey, Bobby, Clare / London], fiddle solo A1–3;
Unidentified performer [Clancy, Willie, Clare], pipes solo A4–6;
pipes in instrumental group A8;
Unidentified performer [Ennis, Seamus, Dublin], speech in Irish A7, 9;
speech in English A10;
Partially identified performer [Peadar], speech in Irish A7;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group A8;
Partially identified performer [O'Brien, Pat 'Cuckoo', Clare], speech in Irish A9;
speech in English A10;
Unidentified performer [Russell, Micho, Clare], flute in duet A11;
flute solo A13;
whistle solo A14;
Unidentified performer, lilting in duet A11;
lilting solo A12;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A15;
Unidentified performer, concertina solo A16–17

Running Order:
1. Hornpipes: Untitled [Murphy's Hornpipe; preceded by brief tone signal], Untitled [The Derry Hornpipe / The Londonderry Hornpipe; faded out]
2. Jigs: Untitled [The Rambling Pitchfork], Untitled [Jimmy O'Brien's Jig]
3. Reels: Untitled [Rakish Paddy; 4-part version as recorded on 78rpm disc by James Morrison, fiddle], Untitled [The Wheels of the World; faded out]
4. Reels: Untitled [The Copperplate], Untitled [Rakish Paddy]
5. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Plains of Boyle]
6. Jig: Untitled [Garrett Barry's Jig]
7. Speech: Untitled [Interview for radio; topics include: origins of the name of the town Ballyvaughan; why Connemara people no longer bring turf to Clare in boats; at one time there was heavy traffic in turf on the sea between Clare and Connemara; origin of the name Ceann Boirne; the landlords in north Clare; An Craoibhin Aoibhinn / Douglas Hyde had high praise for the dialect of Irish spoken in north Clare; the characteristics of the Irish spoken in north Clare; the prospects for the Irish language in the area]
8. Reels: Untitled [The Heather Breeze], Untitled [Miss McLeod's Reel]
9. Speech: Untitled [Interview for radio; topics include: looking after tourists in north Clare; high seas off north Clare; how the speaker and interviewer searched unsuccessfully for bales of rubber on Oilean na bPortan / Crab Island, off Doolin, Co Clare; how the speaker acquired the nickname 'Cuckoo']
10. Speech: Untitled [How the speaker acquired the nickname 'Cuckoo'; working as a lifeguard for the beach in Doolin, Co Clare; how the speaker and interviewer searched unsuccessfully for bales of rubber on Oilean na bPortan / Crab Island, off Doolin; travelling from Doolin to Inis Oirr by currach; the dangers of that crossing; drinking poteen]
11. Jig: Untitled [The Piper's Chair]
12. Jig: Untitled [The Piper's Chair]
13. Jig: Untitled [Donal na Greine]
14. Reel: Untitled [Boil the Breakfast Early]
15. Song: Untitled [Chorus begins 'My name is Mickey Moloney'; about Miltown Malbay, Co Clare]
16. Reel: Untitled [Gorman's Reel; related to Sporting Nell]
17. Jig: Untitled [Version of Kitty's Rambles / The Rambles of Kitty] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Unidentified performer(s), accordion solo A1–2, B10, 12;
accordion in duet A5–6, 31, B11–12, 18;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English and Irish intermittently throughout;
Lyons, Paddy, Tipperary, mouth organ solo A3–4;
Ardellis Ceili Band, The, instrumental group A7–8;
Doherty, John, Donegal, fiddle solo A9–11, 12?;
Unidentified performer, concertina solo A13;
Unidentified performer(s), fiddle solo A14–15, 17, 23, 35–36, B8, 14;
fiddles in duet B9;
fiddle in duet B11–12;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle in duet A16, 30, B1?;
fiddle solo A26;
fiddle in trio A28–29, 38?;
Unidentified performer [O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig, Kerry?], fiddle in duet A16;
McHugh, Frances, Galway / Donegal, singing in English A18;
Unidentified performer, singing in Irish A19;
Unidentified performer [Droney, Jim, Clare], concertina in duet A20–21;
Unidentified performer [Droney, Chris, Clare], concertina in duet A20–21;
Unidentified performer(s), concertina solo A24, 37;
Foley, Paddy Willie, whistle solo A22;
McGann, Andy, New York, fiddle in trio A25;
Reynolds, Paddy, Longford / New York, fiddle in trio A25;
O'Sullivan, Con, Kerry, fiddle in trio A28, 38?;
Cronin, Dan, Kerry, recorder in trio A28–29, 38?;
O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig, Kerry, fiddle in trio A29;
fiddle in duet A30?, B1?;
Burke, Joe, Galway, accordion in trio A32, 34;
Collins, Kathleen, New York / Galway, fiddle in trio A32, 34;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group [Kilfenora Ceili Band, The, Clare?], B2–4, 6–7;
Tierney, Gus, Clare, fiddle in duet B5;
Unidentified performer, speech in English B15–16;
Moloney, flute solo B15, 16?;
Unidentified performer, speech in English B17;
whistle solo B17;
Unidentified performer, flute in duet B18;
Canny, Paddy, Clare, fiddle solo B19–21;
Maguire, Johnny, Cavan, speech in English intermittently throughout B23–35;
whistle solo B23, 25–30, 32–35;
Unidentified performers, speech in English intermittently throughout B23–35;
Unidentified performer, speech in English B36

Running Order:
1. Reel: O'Mahony's Fancy [Carmel Mahoney Mulhaire; composed by Martin Mulhaire]
2. Reel: Coloney Rodney
3. Speech, Polka: Untitled [Information about the performance that follows], Finnegan's Wake
4. Speech, Polka: Untitled, Untitled [Maggie in the Wood]
5. Reels: Miss Patterson [Master Crowley's], Paddy Fahy's Reel [Composed by Paddy Fahy (information supplied by music scribe)]
6. Reels: Untitled [Mary O'Neill's Fancy], Sporting Nell, Untitled (incomplete)
7. Jig: Untitled
8. Jig: Hinchy's Delight
9. Reels: The Salamanca, Rakish Paddy
10. Jig: The Frieze Breeches
11. Hornpipe: Untitled
12. Jig: The Gold Ring
13. Reel: The Fair of Ballinasloe [Ballinasloe Fair], The Chicago Reel
14. Jig: Untitled (incomplete)
15. Reel: Untitled [The Foxhunter's Reel]
16. Slip Jig: Untitled [Ride a Mile]
17. Reel: The Enchanted Lady, The Maids of Castlebar (incomplete)
18. Speech, Song: Untitled [Information that the song sung next was composed by the performer's father], Louis Darcy
19. Speech, Song: Untitled, An Carabhat
20. Jig: Untitled [The Rambles of Kitty (not the tune commonly known by this name)]
21. Jig: Untitled [Paidin O Raifeartaigh, version of]
22. Speech, Single Jig / Slide: Untitled, Untitled
23. Speech, Polka / Hornpipe: Untitled, Untitled [Described by music scribe as 'Scotch Polka'; Staten Island (hornpipe)]
24. Jig: Untitled [The Bohola Jig; Joe Cooley's Jig]
25. Reel, Speech: The Belles of Tipperary, Untitled [Information about the performers of the tune just played]
26. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Information about the next music item, including that it was recorded in June 1955], The Morning Star, Durang's [Usually played as a hornpipe (information supplied by music scribe)]
27. Speech: Untitled [Information about the next music item]
28. Single Jigs / Slides: Cucanandy [The Whistling Thief Jig; Pete Sullivan's Fancy], Mount Collins [If I Had a Wife]
29. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Information about the next music item, including that it was recorded in June 1955], The Humours of Dingle
30. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Sporting Paddy
31. Reels: The Donegal Traveller, Miss Montgomery, The Donegal Traveller
32. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Lad O'Beirne's [The Coalminer], Finbarr Dwyer's Reel [Dwyer's Reel; The Holly Bush; Matt the Thresher; composed by Finbarr Dwyer]
33. Speech: Untitled [Information about the performers in the Joe Burke Trio]
34. Jigs: Untitled [The Humours of Kesh], Races at Carrick? [Title supplied by music scribe; The Coach Road to Sligo; CRE, # 33]
35. Reel: Shaney Mulhern? [Title supplied by music scribe; Never Was Piping so Gay, composed by Ed Reavy]
36. Jig: Untitled [The Rambler]
37. Reel: Untitled
38. Single Jigs / Slides: Untitled [Merrily Kiss the Quaker], Untitled [Dingle Regatta, in the version played by Sliabh Luachra musicians] [END OF BAND ONE]
39. Jig: When the Cock Crows it is Day [Ta an Coileach ag Fogairt an Lae]
40. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Mullin's Favourite [The Green Mountain]
41. Reel: The Reel of Rio [Composed by Sean Ryan]
42. Single Jigs / Slides, Jigs: Untitled [The Clare Jig; Old Kilfenora Jig], Untitled [Dinny Mescal's], Untitled [The Kesh Jig, version of], Untitled [Gillan's Apples]
43. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Paddy Fahy's Reel [Composed by Paddy Fahy; in ray mode (information supplied by music scribe)], Never was Piping so Gay [Composed by Ed Reavy]
44. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The Gold Ring
45. Reel: The Rainy Day
46. Reel: The Spey in Spate
47. Speech, Single Jig / Jig, Polka, Set Tune / Single Jig / Slide, Polka, Single Jigs / Slides: Untitled [Brief; describing the music selection that follows as one for a quadrille], Untitled, Untitled [Related to melody 'The Bog down in the Valley'], Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, Untitled [Comin' Thro' the Rye]
48. Jig: Untitled [The Boys of Lough Gowna; composed by Paddy O'Brien]
49. Reel: The Musical Priest
50. Reel: Devanney's Goat
51. Reel: The Sailor's Cravat
52. Reel: Lord McDonald
53. Speech, Hornpipes: Untitled, Tuamgraney Castle, Ann Sheehy's / The Bunch of Ferns [The Flowing Tide]
54. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Sean Ryan's Reel [The Reel of Rio; composed by Sean Ryan], Ganley's [Coen's Memories; composed by Tommy Coen]
55. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Fahy's
56. Jig: Untitled [Composed by Sean Ryan (information supplied by music scribe); The Hidden Ireland]
57. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Andy McGann's Reel
58. Reel: The Grand Spy [The Graf Spee]
59. Jigs: Apples in Winter, The Lark in the Morning [Dougherty's; Up Sligo]
60. Speech, Hornpipe: Untitled, The Cuckoo Hornpipe (incomplete)
61. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Reynold's Reel [The Sailor's Farewell; The Belharbour Reel; stated by the music scribe to have been composed by Martin Mulhaire, but this is questionable; Reynolds' Reel]
62. Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune that follows]
63. Reel: The Mount Nugent Reel [CICD 4609 (not from this recording); Miss Langford]
64. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Information about the tune that follows], The Boys of Twenty-Five [CICD 4895 (not from this recording); Ah Surely]
65. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Information about the tune that follows], The Maid of the House [CICD 5151 (not from this recording); published in Ceol, vol III, I]
66. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Gatehouse Maid [CICD 4541 (not from this recording); stated by the music scribe to be mistitled; The Baltimore Reel; Hickey's]
67. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Golden Keyboard [Composed by Martin Mulhaire]
68. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Jack Roe [CICD 4024 (not from this recording)]
69. Speech: Untitled [Information about the musician from whom the performer got the tune that follows]
70. Reel: The Crib of Perches [CICD 3124 (not from this recording)]
71. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled [Related to The Ewe Reel?]
72. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled
73. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Morning Star (incomplete)
74. Speech: Untitled (clipped at end) [Information about placenames] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, whistle solo A2, 8–9, 17, 19, 23, 33;
speech in English and Irish throughout;
pipes solo A4, 6, 15, 25, 27, 31;
singing in English A11;
singing in Irish A13;
singing in Irish and English A21, 29;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English and Irish throughout;
lilting in duet A9;
Clancy, Willie, Clare, pipes solo A20, 22, 24, 26, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37

Running Order:
1. Tone Signal: Untitled
2. Slide: Untitled [The Dark Girl in Blue (CRE 3, # 50); Denis Murphy's Slide; short version to begin the 1st edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape; full version at track A9]
3. Speech: Untitled [Topics include: how long does it take to make a piper? Time required: 7 years learning, 7 years practising, 7 years playing; story about 3 squabbling brothers; introduction to the tune that follows, a test piece for pipers; SE plays his father's version]
4. Set Dance: A hAon is a Do na Piobaireachta / The Ace and Deuce of Piping [One of two versions of this tune that SE played; tonic note A]
5. Speech: Untitled [About the title of the piece of music that follows, The Shaskeen Reel; bo sheasc is a cow that is not giving milk, perhaps a barren cow; the word 'seaiscin' is the affectionate diminutive of the word 'seasc', referring to such a cow that is kept as a pet]
6. Reel: The Shaskeen Reel
7. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the theme of the story that follows; story about the hiring fairs, 'Don Nippery Septo'; story about the king of Greece who wanted to give his daughter's hand in marriage to the man who could tell the longest story – the story without end; Ennis refers to the tune that follows as 'The Eternal Slide']
8. Slide, Speech: The Eternal Slide [Dingle Regatta (Sliabh Luachra version)], Untitled
9. Slide: Untitled [The Dark Girl in Blue (CRE 3, # 50); Denis Murphy's Slide; with lilting; full version; short version at track A2]
10. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the song that follows, which was learnt from Mrs Cronin of Ballyvourney and her son Michael; song is about the treaty of Limerick, Sarsfield and the flight of the Wild Geese]
11. Song: Untitled [The Charming Colleen Rua]
12. Speech: Untitled [Topics include: the dialect of Irish in Waterford; Labhras O Cadhlaigh; faction fighting; factions Carabhat & Seana-Bheist; introduction to the next item]
13. Song: Untitled [Is Buachaill o Chluain Meala Me; song used to start a faction fight]
14. Speech: Untitled [Discussion of topics related to the song just sung, including: faction fighting; dragging one's coat to start a fight; fair days and faction fights; '12 o'clock in the day and not a blow struck'; Labhras O Cadhlaigh interested in piping; An Lin faoi Bhlath / The Flax in Bloom, reel popular in Ring, Co Waterford]
15. Reel: An Lin faoi Bhlath / The Flax in Bloom [End of the first edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape]
16. Speech: Untitled
17. Polkas: Untitled [The Dark Girl Dressed in Blue], Untitled [The Knocknaboul Polka # 2; faded out] [End of the first edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape]
18. Tone signal
19. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; attitudes of people to pipes] [Beginning of the second edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape]
20. Jigs: Down the Back Lane, Sergeant Early's Jig / An Maidrin Treitheach
21. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; the chanter of the uilleann pipes played by Willie Clancy here was made by the Moloney brothers of Kilrush, who lived in the first half of the 19th century; chanter is 18 long & is on loan from Sean Reid, who in turn got the chanter from Brother Gildas O'Shea, Kerry, of the De La Salle congregation; introduction to the next item]
22. Air: The Trip over the Mountain [The Trip We Took over the Mountain]
23. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; Willie Clancy was influenced by other pipers, including Garrett Barry and Johnny Doran]
24. Reels: The Steampacket, Rakish Paddy
25. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
26. Hornpipes: The Faithful Friend [Learned from Leo Rowsome], The Plains of Boyle (faded out) [End of the second edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape]
27. Tone signal
28. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; Willie Clancy was influenced by other pipers, including Garrett Barry, Johnny Doran, Leo Rowsome and Seamus Ennis; he was also influenced by John Potts, of Ardee St, Dublin, a native of south Co Wexford; introduction to the next item] [Beginning of the third edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape]
29. Reel: The Connacht Heifers [The Connacht Heifer; learned from John Potts], Corney is Coming
30. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; the tune that follows is a version played by the piper Garrett Barry, whom Willie Clancy's father Gilbert knew well; introduction to the next item]
31. Jig: The Frieze Breeches [First two parts of this 5-part jig form the melody of the song sung in Connemara 'Cunnla, a chroi, na teara nios goire dom']
32. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; Willie Clancy's interest in Irish traditional singing is reflected in his playing of slow airs; introduction to the air that follows; Willie Clancy learned the melody from a ballad in English that his father used to sing called 'The Bold Trainer-O']
33. Air: Uilleachan Dubh O / Banchnoic Eireann O / The Bold Trainer-O [The Green Linnet; M'Uilleagan Dubh O; The Bold Traynor O]
34. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; West Clare is no longer a Gaeltacht; a verse in Irish connected with the first tune in the selection to be played next]
35. Reel: Bean an Tinceara [Bean a' Tinceara; An Bhean Tinceara], Carney's Reel [Kearney's Reel; The Ravelled Hank of Yarn; recorded on a commercial 78rpm disc for Gael-linn by this performer as 'Ril Mhichil Ui Cheithearnaigh', i.e. 'Michael Carney's Reel'; that recording reissued on the CD publication 'Seoltai Seidte'; recorded by Michael Carney on a commercial 78rpm disc as 'The Peeler's Jacket' (mistitled?)]
36. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; introduction to the next tune]
37. Slip Jig: Tiocfaidh Tu sios go Luimneach / Won't You Come down to Limerick? [An dTiocfaidh Tu sios go Luimneach? / Kitty Come down to Limerick / Will You Come down to Limerick? / The Munster Gimlet] (faded up at start) [End of third edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Russell, Micho, Clare, tin whistle A2–5, 7–37, B1–29, 31;
flute B32–33;
speech in English, throughout;
singing in English A1, B12;
speech in Irish B30;
Breathnach, Breandán, Dublin, tin whistle A6, B31 and throughout;
speech in English, throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech, Song: Untitled [Name of, and words to, the hornpipe An Spealadoir / The Cuckoo's Nest; continued from previous tape (UCD 2)?], The Cuckoo's Nest
2. Hornpipe: The Plains of Boyle [CICD 6217.11 (source not given); partly transcribed only; CRE 2, # 315 (not from MR)]
3. Reel: Miss Thornton's Reel [CICD 3099.11 (from this recording)]
4. Jig: My Darling Asleep [CICD 1822.11 (from this recording; title 'The Wicklow Miners' / 'The Miners of Wicklow' given - in error?); 1822, 1822.12–.13 (not from this recording)]
5. Jig: The Rakes of Clonmel [CICD 1814.11 (from this recording); 1814.12, 1814 (not from this recording); DMI, # 149]
6. Jig, Speech: Miners of Wicklow [Not in CICD from this recording], Untitled [BB recites words sung to The Miners of Wicklow]
7. Jig: Sixpenny Money [CICD 1573.11 (from this recording?)]
8. Jig: The Guinea Gold Ring [CICD 1012–.12 (from this recording?); 3 parts played; The Gold Ring (CRE, # 47, where 4 parts are given)]
9. Jig: The Castlebar Races [CICD 795.12 (from this recording); 1672 (not from this recording); Morrison's Fancy (WSGM, # 197)]
10. Jig: The Cliffs of Moher [CICD 784.11 (from this recording?); 784.12–.15, 2113.11 (none from this recording); MR plays this tune in 2 versions, one with G as the tonic note (as here), one with A]
11. Jig: Delia McQuane and her Charlemoi / Delia McQuane and her Charlemy / Come Back, Paddy Reilly (P. French) [CICD 2091.11 (from this recording?); 2089 (not from this recording; where BB suggests that Percy French used this tune for his song Come Back, Paddy Reilly); Sweet Biddy Daly (DMI, # 278)]
12. Reel: Matt the Thresher [CICD 5359.11 (from this recording); 5359 (not from this recording)]
13. Reel: Untitled [CICD 4033.11 (from this recording); 2923, 2924–.11 (none from this recording)]
14. Jig: Willie Coleman's [CICD 1406.12 (from this recording); 1401 (not from this recording; on which title is given as Willie Cronin's – in error?); composed by Martin Wynne?]
15. Reel: The Maid that Left the County [CICD 4288.12, 4288.14 (both from this recording); 4286, 4288.11, 4288.13, 4289 (none from this recording); The Honeymoon (DMI, # 791); Lady O'Brien's Reel (Tunes of the Munster Pipers, # 96)]
16. Polka: The White Cockade [CICD 6475.11 (from this recording); CRE 2, # 115 (from MR)]
17. Reel: Come West along the Road [CICD 5502.11 (from this recording); 5502, 5505 (not from this recording); DMI, # 793]
18. Reel: Miss Monaghan [CICD 3179.12 (from this recording)]
19. Reel: The Dairy Maid / Kiss the Bride in Bed [CICD 5358.11 (from this recording); CRE 3, # 191]
20. Reel: The Humours of Tulla [CICD 3857.12 (from this recording); standard setting of the tune; CRE 3, # 135; for MR's 'old' setting, see the next track]
21. Reel: The Humours of Tulla [CICD 3726.11 (from this recording); old setting, as played by the flute-player Austin Linnane, from Ballycotton; for MR's 'standard' setting, see the previous track]
22. Reel: The Heather Breeze / The Heathery Breeze [CICD 3415.14 (from this recording); 3415.12 (where this recording is referenced); 2856.11, 2857, 3415.11, 3415.13 (none from this recording); DMI, # 779]
23. Reel: Sporting Nellie [CICD 5075.11–.12 (both from this recording); 5075.13–.16 (none from this recording); Gorman's (CICD 5075, from Mrs Crotty); Sporting Nell; CRE 3, # 194]
24. Reel: Kitty's Gone a-Milking / The Dublin Reel [CICD 5211.11 (where this recording is referenced? from this recording?); not the tune generally called The Dublin Reel; DMWC, # 31]
25. Reel, Speech: The Dublin Reel (a) [not in CICD in this version; tonic note C; local version from concertina players], The Dublin Reel (b) [CICD 3103.11, 3103.12, 3103.14 (all from this recording?); 3101, 3104.11–.12 (none from this recording); standard version (tonic note D)], Untitled [78 rpm recording by William J. Mullaly]
26. Reels: The Green Groves of Erin [CICD 2913.11 (from this recording?)], The Ivy Leaf [CICD 3622.11 (from this recording); also at track 28]
27. Reel: The Pigeon on the Gate [5239.11–.12 (both from this recording? With tonic note A); 5261.11–.12 (none from this recording; with tonic note E)]
28. Reel: The Ivy Leaf [CICD 3622.11 (from this recording); also at track 26(b)]
29. Reel: The Swallow's Tail / Howley's Swallow [CICD 5060.11 (from this recording); the version played by Corney Howley; for MR's 'standard' version, see the next track]
30. Reel: The Swallow's Tail [CICD 5060.12 (from this recording); 5062–.11 (none from this recording); for a local version played by MR, see the previous track]
31. Reel: The Silver Spear [CICD 5768.11 (from this recording); CRE, # 141]
32. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5399.11 (from this recording); 5399 (not from this recording); version of Lord McDonald?]
33. Reel: Rafferty's Reel [CICD 3317.11 (from this recording); 3316.11–.12 (not from this recording); according to BB, a version of The Rising Sun; The Old Blackthorn (version)]
34. Jig: Banish Misfortune / The Irishman's Misfortune / The Shady Groves of Peamount [CICD 1367.11–.12 (both from this recording)]
35. Jig / Quadrille Tune / Slide: Untitled [CICD 708.11 (from this recording); Rural Felicity; a four-part version was recorded by De Danann as 'Kathleen Hehir's']
36. Polka: Untitled [CICD 6506.11, 6507.12 (none from this recording)]
37. Jig: Down the Back Lane / Kitty Come Down the Meadows [CICD 1097.11 (from this recording); Bimid ag Ol] [END OF BAND ONE]
38. Jig / March: Brian Boru's March [CICD 1326.14–.15 (none from this recording)]
39. Reel: Sailing into Walpole's Marsh [Not in CICD from this recording]
40. Reel: Rolling in the Ryegrass / The Shannon Breeze [Not in CICD from this recording]
41. Reel: The Peeler's Jacket [Not in CICD from this recording]
42. Reel: The Morning Star [CICD 4489.11 (not from this recording)]
43. Reel: The Teetotaller / Old Mary Ann [Not in CICD from this recording]
44. Reel: Upstairs in a Tent [CICD 4444.12, 4445, 4446 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 190 (from MR)]
45. Jig: Come into the Town, My Lady Oh [CICD 987.11–.12 (not from this recording)]
46. Jig: Off She Goes [Not in CICD from this recording]
47. Reels: Boil the Breakfast Early [Not in CICD from this recording; DMI, # 789], Boil the Kittle Early [CICD 5498.11 (not from this recording); BB adds note: Mixture of 'Repeal of the Union' and 'Boy in the Gap'; Boil the Kettle Early]
48. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Description of the handkerchief dance / rag dance / cloth dance; danced by couples; danced to The Peeler and the Goat], The Peeler and the Goat [Not in CICD from this recording]
49. Speech, Fling, Song: Untitled [Dancing customs; the chair dance], The Keel Row [CICD 6533 (not from this recording)], The Keel Row
50. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Man in Ennistymon asks for the tune 'Bean an Ti ar Lar'], The Woman of the House / The Mistress of the House [Not in CICD from this recording; learned by MR from group from San Francisco; piping version; for the 'standard' version, see the next track]
51. Reel: The Woman of the House [Not in CICD from this recording; 'standard' version; for the piping version, see the previous track]
52. Reel: The Shaskeen [Not in CICD from this recording]
53. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; Jackie Coleman's Reel]
54. Reel: The Dunagore Reel / The Concertina Reel [CICD 5610–.12, 5769 (none from this recording); MR's mother played it on the concertina; CRE 2, # 210 and 275 (both from MR); The Concertina Reel (DMWC, # 72)]
55. Jig: The Donnybrook Jig [Not in CICD from this recording; Donnybrook Fair (DMI, # 79)]
56. Reel: The Sally Gardens [Not in CICD from this recording]
57. Reel: The Mason's Apron [Not in CICD from this recording; played the 'old' way, as played by local concertina players]
58. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; version of The Humours of Westport]
59. Reel: The Flogging Reel [Not in CICD from this recording]
60. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; The Old 'Wheels of the World' (DMWC, # 56)]
61. Reel: The Hunter's Purse / An Sceach / Maire Ni Luachra's Reel / Maire Ni Dhonaill [Not in CICD from this recording]
62. Jig: The Humours of Ennistymon / Coppers and Brass [Not in CICD from this recording]
63. Reel: The Moving Bog / Miss Wallace / The Upper Room [Not in CICD from this recording]
64. Jig: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; The Kinnegad Slashers (DMI, # 148)]
65. Speech with Music Demonstration: Untitled [BB questions MR about his technique and ornamentation; to demonstrate, MR plays the reels Jenny Picking Cockles and The Concertina Reel, and the jig Donall na Greine]
66. Reel: Bonny Kate [Not in CICD from this recording]
67. Speech, Untitled [Words in Irish to the jig Paidin O Raifeartaigh and to other tunes, including Slainte an Bristin Leathair and The Blackthorn Stick; information about MR's mother, Annie Moloney, a concertina player; words she had to The Blackthorn Stick]
68. Jig, Air: The Blackthorn Stick [CICD 1176.11 (not from this recording); The Maid at the Well (DMI, # 24)], The Blackthorn Stick / Buachaill on Eirne
69. Reel: The Fermoy Lasses [CICD 3945.11 (not from this recording); DMI, # 573]
70. Reel: Toss the Feathers (the old way) [CICD 3630.11 (not from this recording); incomplete] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Russell, Micho, Clare, tin whistle A1–27;
singing in English A6;
whistling A21(?);
speech in English, throughout;
[unidentified performer, Joe], lilting A1–11;
speech in English A1–11;
Breathnach, Breandán, speech in English, throughout;
Munnelly, Tom, speech in English, throughout;
[unidentified performers], speech in English A1–11

Running Order:
1. Jig: Donall na Greine [CICD 756–9, 760.11 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 10; Ceol III iv, p 99; Donnybrook Fair / The Joy of my Life (version of? DMI, # 79)]
2. Reels: Sporting Nellie [CICD 5075.11 (where this recording is referenced); 5075.12–.16 (none from this recording); Gorman's (CICD 5075, from Mrs Crotty); Sporting Nell], An Bhean Tinceara [CICD 5750.11–.12 (from this recording); 2686.11, 4028–30 (none from this recording)]
3. Jig: The Four Posts of the Bed [CICD 1349.12–.13 (none from this recording), 1349.14–.15 (where this recording is referenced)]
4. Air: An Drucht Geal Ceo / The Foggy Dew [Not in CICD]
5. Jig: Come into the Town, My Lady-O [CICD 987.11–.12 (from this recording)]
6. Song, Reel: Untitled (short; unfinished), Sean sa Cheo [CICD 3976.11–.12, 5649 (none from this recording), 3976.13–.14 (where this recording is referenced)]
7. Reel: The Boy in the Gap (old version) [CICD 2920.11 (where this recording is referenced); 2920, 2921–.11 (none from this recording); distinct from the standard version of this tune, which MR also plays.]
8. Reel: Boil the Kittle Early [CICD 5498.11 from this recording; Breandan Breathnach adds note: Mixture of 'Repeal of the Union' and 'Boy in the Gap'; Boil the Kettle Early]
9. Reels: The Green Groves of Erin [CICD 2913.11 (where this recording is referenced)], The Ivy Leaf [3622.11 (where this recording is referenced)]
10. Speech, Polka: The White Cockade [words sung to the tune], The White Cockade [CICD 6475.11 (where this recording is referenced); CRE 2, # 115]
11. Polka: Untitled [CICD 6506.11 (where this recording is referenced), 6507.12 (not from this recording); repeated at track 18]
12. Jig, Speech: Sagart na mBuataisi / The Priest in his Boots [CICD 1251.11 (where this recording is referenced); 1252 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 17], Untitled [Information about the tune Sagart na mBuataisi / The Priest in his Boots]
13. Jig / Single Jig / Slide: Untitled [CICD 2323.11 (Not from this recording), 2325.11 (where this recording is referenced)]
14. Jig: The Geese in the Bog [CICD 1809.12 (where this recording is referenced); 1809–.11, 1809–.13 (none from this recording)]
15. Reel: Carty's Reel / Cassidy's Reel [CICD 4684.11–.12 (where this recording is referenced); 4684.13, 4978–.12 (none from this recording); partly composed by MR; commonly known as Micho Russell's; as Carty's Reel from MR in CRE 2, # 294]
16. Reel: Rafferty's Reel [CICD 3316.11–.12 (from this recording); 3317.11 (not from this recording; where Breandan Breathnach says it is a version of The Rising Sun); The Old Blackthorn (version)]
17. Polka: The Bog Down in the Valley [CICD 6283.11 (where this recording is referenced); 6285 (not from this recording); The British Grenadiers (title supplied by Breandan Breathnach)]
18. Polka: Untitled [CICD 6506.11 (where this recording is referenced); 6507.12 (not from this recording); repeated at track 11]
19. Reel: The Banshee / An Bhean Si [CICD 4864.11 (where this recording is referenced); 4864.12–.13, 5384.11 (none from this recording); tune is featured on the Flanagan Brothers 78 rpm disc titled 'The Flanagans Chase the Banshee']
20. Reel: The Sporting Days of Easter [CICD 3988.13 (where this recording is referenced, though reference is crossed out); 3988.11–.12, 3988.14, 3989 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 281] [END OF BAND ONE ?]
21. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5703.11 (where this recording is referenced); 5703.12 (not from this recording)]
22. Air / March, Speech: Untitled [Not in CICD], Untitled [about John White, flute player]
23. Jig / March: Brian Boru's March [CICD 1326.14–.15 (from this recording)]
24. Fling and Reel, Speech: The Keel Row [CICD 6533 (from this recording); played in fling time and then faster], Untitled [background to the tune; accompanying dance; words to the tune by MR and Breandan Breathnach]
25. Speech and Song, Dance Tune: The Verse of Vienna [background to tune, and sung version], do. [CICD 6544 (from this recording?); Father Halpin's Top Coat; Varsovienne]
26. Barn Dance / Fling, Speech: The Barn Dance / Moneymusk [CICD 6540 (from this recording?); 6538–39 (none from this recording)], Untitled [MR's reminiscences of people dancing the barn dance]
27. Jig / Dance Tune: The Handkerchief Dance [CICD 1196.12 (where this recording is referenced); 1196.11, 1197 (none from this recording); An Bothar o thuaidh go dti Arainn (from CICD 1197); CRE 2, # 65 from MR] [END OF BAND TWO]

Audio originally recorded on reel-to-reel tape of performers including Seamus Ennis, Paddy Canny, P.J. Hayes, Peadar O'Loughlin and Robert (Robbie) McMahon. Piping tracks feature Seamus Ennis playing on his standard set of pipes, except for tracks 12 - 19, where he plays a B flat set described in the accompanying information to the tape as Brother Gildas's set. This B flat pipes section of the tape is recorded at 7 1/2ips; the rest is at 3 3/4ips.

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled [The Banks of the Nile] (beginning clipped)
2. Slow Air: The Wounded Huzzar
3. Story with Singing: Untitled [Man whose hump is cured by fairies]
4. Instrumental Piece: The Fox Chase
5. Reel: The Bucks of Oranmore
6. Slow Air: The Rocks of Bawn [Casadh an tSugain]
7. Slow Air: Slievenamon [Sliabh na mBan]
8. Slow Air: The Fairy Boy
9. Jig: The Gold Ring
10. Reel: Colonel Fraser
11. Reels: The College Groves [The College Grove; not the standard version of this; also related to The New Demesne], Jenny's Welcome to Charlie
12. Slow Air: Jimmy Mo Mhile Stor - Brother Gildas's pipes [Casadh an tSugain / The Turning of the Hayrope; played on B flat pipes - tune is followed by a recording of the pipes being tuned]
13. Jig: The Gander in the Pratie Hole [Played on B flat pipes]
14. Reel: The Repeal of the Union [Toss the Feathers] [Played on B flat pipes]
15. Reel: The Connacht Heifers / The Connacht Heifer [Played on B flat pipes]
16. Reel: Colonel Fraser [Played on B flat pipes]
17. Jig: Cailleach an Tuirne [The Maid of the Spinning Wheel; The Maid at the Churn] [Played on B flat pipes]
18. Reel: The Moving Bog [Played on B flat pipes]
19. Jig: Munster Buttermilk [Played on B flat pipes] [END OF BAND ONE]
20. Speech, Song: Untitled [Topics: father plays him to sleep as a child; Carl Hardebeck composes this song], The Piper that Played before Moses
21. Speech, Jig: Untitled, Munster Buttermilk
22. Song: My Father and Mother Were Irish
23. Speech: Untitled [Topics: Colm O'Lochlainn; introduction to the next piece]
24. Slow Air: Fairhaired Cassidy [An Caisideach Ban]
25. Story: The Bailiff
26. Speech, Slow Air: Untitled, Bean Dubh an Ghleanna
27. Speech, Song: Untitled [The Herring Song / The Song of the Herring; repeated line in chorus: 'Sing aberum fane, sing abero ling']
28. Speech, Song and Jig: Untitled, Cunnla, Frieze Breeches
29. Story with Singing, Reel: The Man and his Three Daughters - Did the Rum Do Da?
30. Story and Song: An Droighnean Donn [Background to song; sung in Irish and English]
31. Slow Air: An Droighnean Donn
32. Speech: Untitled [Remarks about the current state of traditional music and its revival]
33. Reel: The Silver Spear, The Dublin Reel
34. Story and Reel: The Pinch of Snuff
35. Reel: Miss Monaghan
36. Reels: Untitled [St Ruth's Bush], untitled [The Corner House]
37. Jig: The Old Grey Goose [Doctor O'Neill]
38. Reel: Lucy Campbell
39. Reels: The Morning Dew, The Earl's Chair
40. Song: Bold Jack Donoghue
41. Song: O'Brien the Blacksmith
42. Reel: The Mason's Apron [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded at Marrinan's pub, Miltown Malby. Co. Clare, 6 July 1979, after a concert of Clare singers (including Martin [Reidy?] and Michael [Flanagan?]), presented by Tom Munnelly [tracks A1–4]
Recorded from Joe McCafferty in his house at Derryconor, Co. Donegal, 22 August 1979 [tracks 5–10]

Performers:
[Reidy?], Martin, singing in English Tracks 1, 3
[Flanagan?], Michael, singing in English Tracks 2, 4
McCafferty, Joe, speech in Irish Track 5
McCafferty, Joe, speech in English Tracks 6-8, 10
McCafferty, Joe, singing in Irish Track 9
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 7-8, 10
Shields, Lisa, speech in English Tracks 7-8

Running Order:
1. The Moorlough shore (‘You hills and dales and flowery vales that lies near the Moorlough shore...’), song / Martin [Reidy?], singing in English
2. Pat O'Donnell (‘My name is Patrick O’Donnell, and I came from Donegal...’), song / Michael [Flanagan?], singing in English
3. Moorlough Mary (‘[The first place I met?] my Moorlough Mary...’), song / Martin [Reidy?], singing in English
4. The Irish emigrants drafted by the Yankees (‘All you that loves the shamrock green, attend both one and all...’), Michael [Flanagan?], singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
5. An cleamhnas (‘Sin fad ó shin ba gnáthach le na fir agus na mná, sin dóigh a n-iarradh na fir na mná...’), story / Joe McCafferty, speech in Irish
6. Match-making [English version of 'An cleamhnas'] (‘It was long ago they used – women would use to go to the houses to ask girls for the boys...] / Joe McCafferty, speech in English
7. Talk about 'An cleamhnas' and about Maolmhuire an Bhata Bhuí, speech / Joe McCafferty, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Lisa Shields, speech in English
8. Talk about Lord Leitrim's death, speech / Joe McCafferty, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Lisa Shields, speech in English
9. Dark are the hills of Donegal, song (‘Dark are the hills of Donegal that strongly darkly rise...’) [the song about Maolmhuire an Bhata Bhuí, mentioned above], song / Joe McCafferty, singing in Irish
10. Talk about the song 'Dark are the hills of Donegal' (clipped), speech / Joe McCafferty, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English [END OF BAND TWO]