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Performers:
Unidentified performers, speech in English A1, 25, B1, 14, 27;
Keegan, Joe, Armagh, flute solo A2–29, B2–7, 28;
speech in English B1;
Kilfenora Ceili Band, The, Clare, instrumental group B8, 10;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in Irish and English B9, 11, 13, 19–20, 22, 24, 26;
Owens, Jesse, Dublin, singing in Irish and English in duet to own guitar accompaniment B12;
Byrne, Anne, Dublin, singing in Irish and English in duet to guitar accompaniment B12;
McKenna, Barney, Dublin, banjo in trio B14;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group(s) B15–18;
Staunton, Donal / Standuin, Donal, Galway, banjo in trio B19;
Keane, Sean, Dublin, fiddle in trio B19;
Mulqueen, Ann, Limerick, singing in English B21;
Flynn, Liam / O Floinn, Liam, Kildare, pipes solo B23;
O Se, Sean, Cork, singing in English with instrumental accompaniment B25;
Sean O Riada agus Ceoltoiri Chualann, Dublin, instrumental accompaniment to singing B25;
instrumental group B27

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [Test signals, etc]
2. Jig: Garrett Barry's
3. Reel: The Ewe Reel
4. Reel: Hand Me down the Tackle
5. Reel: The Cup of Tea
6. Reel: Down the Broom
7. Reel: The Milliner's Daughter
8. Reel: Music in the Glen
9. Reel: The Longford Collector
10. Reel: Untitled [Sporting Nell (related tune)]
11. Reel: Dinny O'Brien's [Composed by Paddy O'Brien]
12. Reel: Tom Ward's Downfall
13. Reel: Lucy Campbell
14. Reel: Miss McLeod's Reel
15. Reel: Untitled
16. Reel: The Liffey Banks
17. Reels: The Earl's Chair, Sporting Paddy
18. Reel: The Bunch of Keys
19. Reel: Gold Ring Jig [The Gold Ring]
20. Reel: McDermott's Reel [Master McDermott's Reel; composed by Master McDermott]
21. Jig: The Queen of the Fair
22. Jig: Kitty in the Lane [Kitty's Rambles; The Rambles of Kitty]
23. Reel: The Broken Pledge
24. Reel: Within a Mile of Dublin
25. Reel, Speech: Crowley's No. 1 [First tune in a set of 2 called 'Crowley's Reels' recorded by Michael Coleman, fiddle, on 78rpm disc], Untitled
26. Reel: Roaring Mary
27. Reel: Down the Broom
28. Reel: The Sligo Maid
29. Reel: The Flax in Bloom [END OF BAND ONE]
30. Speech, Speech: Untitled [Test signal], Untitled
31. Jig: Untitled [Happy to Meet and Sorry to Part (related tune)]
32. Jig: Untitled [Connie the Soldier]
33. Jig: Untitled [Do You Want Any More; The Collier's Reel (related tune)]
34. Reel: Untitled [The Liffey Banks]
35. Reel: Untitled [Lucy Campbell]
36. Reel: Untitled [Dicky Sherlock's]
37. Jigs: Untitled [Richard Brennan's Favourite], Untitled [The Idle Road] [Music signalling the start of a radio programme on Radio Eireann / RTE radio]
38. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
39. Reels: Untitled [The Kilmaley Reel], Untitled [The Hunter's House; composed by Ed Reavy; Reavy's Reel], Untitled [The Mountain Road; composed by Michael Gorman], Untitled [Tierney's Reel?], Untitled [Bonnie Kate], Untitled [Sean McGuire; composed by Bert Murray]
40. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
41. Song: Ballinderry
42. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
43. Reels, Speech: Untitled [My Love Is in America], Untitled [The Collier's Reel], Untitled [Radio announcement]
44. Jigs: Untitled [Andy McGann's], Untitled [The Castle Jig; composed by Sean Ryan], Untitled [Sacco's Jig; Tripping up the Stairs]
45. Reels: Untitled [Rattigan's], Untitled [Carmel Mahoney Mulhaire; composed by Martin Mulhaire], Untitled [The Hare's Foot]
46. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Fairy Queen], Untitled [The Ballyoran; composed by Sean Ryan]
47. Jigs: Untitled [The Lilting Fisherman], Untitled [Father Kelly's; Lough Derg Jig; composed by Father Kelly]
48. Reels, Speech: The Moving Bog, Miko Russell's / Micho Russell's, Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over]
49. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
50. Song: The Blackbird of Sweet Avondale
51. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
52. Reels: The Boy in the Gap, The Mistress [Maistreas an Ti / The Mistress of the House], The Cup of Tea
53. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
54. Song: The Boys of Kilmichael
55. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
56. Reels, Speech: Ril Mor Bhaile an Chalaidh, Untitled [Nelly Donovan], Untitled [The Shaskeen Reel], Untitled [Radio announcement; short; incomplete]
57. Reel: Untitled [The Milliner's Daughter] (clipped at end) [END OF BAND TWO]

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:
Unidentified performer(s), speech in English A1, 3, 6, 8, 10-11, 13-14, 18, 20-24, 27-44, B1, 3, 6-24, 26-28;
O'Dowd, Joe, Sligo, fiddle solo A2-7, fiddle in ensemble A12-13, fiddle in duet A18-21;
Reynolds, Willie, Athlone, pipes duet A9-10, pipes in ensemble A12-13;
Doran, John, Dublin, pipes duet A9-10, pipes in ensemble A12;
Keenan, John, Dublin/Wicklow, accordion in ensemble A12-13;
Dowling, Jim, Dublin, ???? in ensemble A12-13;
Potts, Sean, Dublin, flute in ensemble A12-13;
Brown, Billy, accordion solo A14-17, accordion in duet A18-21;
Coen, Tommy, Galway, fiddle in quartet A23-26, fiddle in duet A27, 29-32, fiddle solo A28;
Moloney, Eddie, Galway, flute in quartet A23-26, flute in duet A29-32;
Kelly, Lar, Galway, flute in quartet A23-26, flute in duet A27;
Cummins????, Jimmy, Galway, accordion in quartet A23-26;
Green, Tommy, Longford, flute solo A34-37, whsitle solo A28 (aged 11yrs);
Mulhere, Brendan, accordion solo A39-40, B8, accordion in duet A41-42,;
Unidentified performer, fiddle in duet A41-42;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A43-44;
Quinn, Louis, Armagh/New York, speech in English B2, fiddle in quartet B3-6;
Ryan, John, ? in quartet B3-6;
Brogan, Tommy, concertina in quartet B3-6;
Unidentified performer, accordion in quartet B3-6;
McMahon, ????, singing in English B7;
Reilly, Mrs, Cavan, singing in English B9-10;
McAndrew, Hector, Scotland, fiddle in duet B12-15 (off-disc dubs);
Hardy, Bill, Scotland, fiddle in duet B16-17 (off-disc dubs);
Turkington, Tom, Tyrone, fiddle in duet B19-23;
Taggart, Fergus, fiddle solo B25-27

Running Order:
1. Speech: Introduction to Joe O'Dowd
2. Reel: Boys of the Lough, [The Boys of Ballisodare]
3. Speech/Reel: McFadden's
4. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
5. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
6. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
7. Reel: Untitled
8. Speech: Introduction to Willie Reynolds and John Doran
9. Jig: The Battering Ram
10. Speech/Reels: The Maid of Mount Cisco, Rakish Paddy
11. Speech: Introduction to Joe O'Dowd, Willie Reynolds, John Keenan, Jim Dowling and Sean Potts
12. Reel: Tim Maloney, The Lady of the House [=The Woman of the House]
13. Speech/Reels: Reavy's, Cooley's
14. Speech/Reel: Untitled (comp. Martin Mulhere - some of the following tracks may also be compositions of Martin Mulhere)
15. Reel: Untitled
16. Reel: Untitled
17. Reel: Untitled
18. Reel/Speech: Untitled
19. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
20. Speech/Reel: Untitled
21. Speech/Jigs: Untitled
22. Speech: Introduction to Tommy Coen, Eddie Maloney, Lar Kelly, Jimmy Cummins????
23. Speech/Reels: Amanda Rollins, Greig's Pipes
24. Speech/Reels: Joe Burke's, Untitled
25. Reel: The Moving Cloud
26. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
27. Speech/Reel: The Hunter's Purse (end clipped)
28. Speech/Reel: Maud Miller
29. Speech/Reel: Coen's Reel (comp. Tommy Coen) (interrupted)
30. Speech/Reel: The Limestone Rock
31. Speech/Reel: Eddie Maloney's Reel (comp. Eddie Maloney)
32. Speech/Reel: For the Sake of Old Decency
33. Speech: Introduction to Tommy Green (aged 11yrs)
34. Speech/Reel: Brearty's
35. Speech/Reel: Dillon's Fancy
36. Speech/Jig: O'Neill's
37. Speech/Hornpipe: Cooley's?
38. Speech/Reel: (named)
39. Speech/Reel: Untitled (comp. Brendan Mulhere)
40. Speech/Jigs: Untitled, Untitled
41. Speech/Reel: Untitled
42. Speech/Reel: Andy McGann's
43. Speech/Jigs: Untitled (performer introduced - difficult to make out)
44. Speech/Hornpipe: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
45. Speech: Introduction to Radio Eireann broadcast featuring Louis Quinn
46. Speech: Interview with Louis Quinn from a Radio Eireann programme
47. Speech: Introduction to....
48. Jig: Untitled (beginning clipped)
49. Jig: Untitled (beginning clipped)
50. Reel/Speech: Untitled (beginning clipped), performers back-announced
51. Speech/Song:Bold Jack Donoghue
52. Speech/Reel: Untitled
53. Speech/Song: The Home we Left Behind
54. Speech/Song: The Shores of America
55. Speech: Introduction to off-disc dubs of Hector McAndrew
56. Speech/Air/Strathspey/Reel: The Braes of..., The Glenlivet, The Gladstone Reel
57. Speech/Slow Strathspey/Reel/Hornpipe: The Deanbrig of Edinburgh, The Deanbrig Reel, The Banks
58. Speech/Strathspeys/Reels: Stirling Castle, Miller of Mearn, The Ould Wheel, Freddy Peggy
59. Speech/Air/Strathspeys, Reel: The Laird of Brae...., Sandy Cammon, Fogus Morrison, The Left Handed Fiddler
60. Speech/March/Strathspey/Reels/March/Strathspey/Reel: Scotland the Brave, The Laird of Drumblair, Speed the Plough, The De'il Among the Tailors, The Lass of Bon Accord, The Marquess of Huntley's Farewell, The Ten Pound Fiddle
61. Speech/Polkas/Strathspesy/Reel: The Bluebell Polka, Peter Head Polka, The Balkan Hills, Lady Mary Ramsey, Pretty Peggy
62. Speech: Introduction to Tom Turkington and Billy Adams
63. Speech/Reels: Shehan's, Miss McLeod's
64. Speech/Jig: The New Town Hall (comp. Tom Turkington) (end clipped)
65. Speech/Air: The Lark in the Clear Air
66. Speech/Hornpipes: Smith's Favourite, The Tailor's Twist
67. Speech/Reels: McSweeny's, The Ivy Leaf, Reavy's
68. Speech: Introduction to Fergus Taggart
69. Reel: Untitled
70. Speech/Reel: Mulhere's No 5 (comp. Martin Mulhere)
71. Speech/Reel: Untitled
72. Speech: Final greetings to Louis Quinn and family [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]

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]