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Performers:
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Donnelly, Maeve, Galway, speech in English throughout;
fiddle solo throughout;
Unidentified performer [Kelly, John (senior), Clare / Dublin?], speech in English intermittently

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [The date of recording; where the performer comes from – near Kylemore Abbey, which is near Loughrea, Co Galway]
2. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Belles of Tipperary], Untitled
3. Reels: Colonel Fraser, Untitled [The Floating Crowbar; The Rathcroghan Reel]
4. Speech: Untitled [The performer's version of Colonel Fraser was derived from Sean Keane, fiddle; how the performer acquired her music; she associates the second reel with Brendan McGlinchey, fiddle]
5. Jig: The Gold Ring [Version associated originally with Willie Clancy; popularised by Sean Keane, fiddle]
6. Speech, Jig: Untitled [About the tune to be played next], The Gold Ring
7. Speech: Untitled [Tune played in previous track is not related to that played in track before that]
8. Single Jig: Untitled
9. Speech: Untitled [About the tune just played]
10. Reel: Untitled [Lord Gordon]
11. Jig: Untitled [The Castle Jig; composed by Sean Ryan] [END OF BAND ONE]
12. Reels, Speech: The Mooncoin Reel (clipped at start), Untitled [Related to 'Mrs Crotty's' ?], Untitled [Related to 'The Monsignor's Blessing' ?], Untitled [About the tunes just played; the performer learned the tunes from Denis Murphy (fiddle)]
13. Jigs, Speech: The Trip to Athlone, The Pipe on the Hob [Tonic note: D], Untitled [About the tunes just played]
14. Reel: Farewell to Ireland
15. Speech: Untitled [The performer favours Sean Keane's style of playing; about the tune to be played next]
16. Reel, Speech: The Bucks of Oranmore, Untitled
17. Reels, Speech: The Wheels of the World, The Chicago Reel, Untitled [About the tunes just played]
18. Hornpipe: Untitled [Brigid of Knock; composed by Ed Reavy]
19. Speech: Untitled [The performer's sources for the pieces played in the last two tracks – Seamus Connolly (fiddle) for the hornpipe in track A18; Tommy Peoples (fiddle) for the reels in track A17] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
White, Aggie, Galway, fiddle in duet A1;
O'Loughlin, Peadar / O'Loughlin, Peter, flute in duet A1;
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, pipes solo A2;
Kelly, John, Clare and Dublin, fiddle solo A3;
Russell, Micho, Clare, whistle solo A4, 6;
Clancy, Willie, Clare, pipes solo A5;
Doran, Johnny, Wicklow, pipes solo A7;
Moloney, Eddie, Galway, flute solo A8

Running Order:
1. Jig: Untitled [Cathaoir an Phiobaire], Untitled [Whelan's Jig]
2. Jigs: Untitled [The Pipe on the Hob], Untitled [Down the Back Lane], Untitled [Sixpenny Money], Untitled [Paidin O Raifeartaigh]
3. Reel: Untitled
4. Reel: The Boy in the Gap [CICD 3096.11–.16, 3097 (none from this recording); standard version of this tune; MR also plays an 'old' version]
5. Slow Air: Untitled [The Green Linnet]
6. 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)]
7. Reels: Untitled [Colonel Fraser], Untitled [My Love is in America], Untitled [Rakish Paddy] (incomplete)
8. Reels: Untitled [Tommy Whelan's Reel], Untitled [The Sailor on the Rock] [END]

Performers:
Cronin, Patrick / Cronin, Paddy, Kerry, fiddle solo throughout

Running Order:
1. Air: The Lament for O'Donnell [Caoine Ui Dhomhnaill]
2. Set Dance: The Jockey to the Fair [Log contains comment: 'Beginning Faulty. Check disc']
3. Hornpipes: Delahunty's Hornpipe [Byrne's Hornpipe], Byrne's Hornpipe [Names given in incorrect order in log?]
4. Single Jigs / Slides: The Quarry Cross [The Dingle Regatta, in the version played by Sliabh Luachra musicians], Re Bui Frolics [Barrack Hill (DMI, # 410)], The Pocan [The Pucan; The Worn Torn Petticoat; Quarry Cross; The Leprechaun; log contains comment: 'Bad thump on tape at start'] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Droney, Chris, Clare, concertina in duet A1–6;
Unidentified performer, whistle in duet A1–6;
Donohue, John / Donoghue, John, Clare, box solo [= concertina?] A7–14;
Russell, Micho, Clare, whistle solo A16, 25–28, 30–34;
flute solo A15;
flute in duet A35–38;
Flanagan, Patrick, concertina solo A17–24;
Conlon, John, accordion solo A25–31, 34

Running Order:
1. Reels: Untitled [The Silver Spear], Untitled [Tim Moloney]
2. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5407 & 5409 (from this recording); Jackie Coleman's Reel; composed by Jackie Coleman, flute player from Gurteen, Co Sligo (information source: CPG 4569, with BB sequential ID 349.22)]
3. Reel: Untitled [The Boys of Ballisodare]
4. Reel: Untitled [The Kilmaley]
5. Reel: Untitled [The Hunter's House, composed by Ed Reavy]
6. Polka / Single Reel: Untitled [CICD 6300 (from this recording); St Mary's Polka / Saint Mary's Polka]
7. 7: Jig: The Maid on the Green
8. Reel: The Fermoy Lasses
9. Reel: Untitled [The Heather Breeze]
10. Jig: The Idle Road [CICD 2461 (from this recording); not the tune generally known by the title 'The Idle Road'; The Boys of the Town (Roche 1, # 118)]
11. Reels: The Sally Gardens, Untitled [The Bird in the Bush]
12. Reel: Untitled [Sporting Paddy (CRE, # 133)]
13. Jig: The Idle Road [Title from typed list of contents – erroneous? The Rose in the Heather]
14. Jig: The Last Farewell [CICD 2103 (from this recording); Donnybrook Fair / The Joy of My Life (DMI, # 79)]
15. Jigs: The Ship in Full Sail [CICD 895 (from this recording); also at track A35a], Untitled [CICD 2234 (from this recording, probably from track A35b); CICD 2233, 2228.11 (none from this recording); Sean Phaidin; The Boys of the Town (DMI, # 89) is a related tune; MR also plays a separate but related tune called The Boys of the Town (Roche 1, # 118); also at track A35b]
16. Reels: Bean a' Ti ar Lar [Not in CICD from MR? The Woman of the House (standard version as recorded by Michael Coleman)], An Bhean Tinceara [CICD 2686.11, 4028, 4029, 4030, 5750.11–5750.12 (none from this recording)]
17. Reel: The Bucks of Oranmore
18. Reel: Untitled [The Sligo Maid]
19. Reel: Untitled [Jackie Fitzpatrick's Reel; CRE 2, # 225 (from MR); source of MR's version? Related to Dowd's Favourite / O'Dowd's Favourite as recorded by Michael Coleman?]
20. Reels: Untitled (incomplete), Untitled [The Copperplate]
21. Reel: Untitled [Sporting Nellie]
22. Reel: Untitled [The Ladies Pantalettes – source of MR's version?]
23. Reel: Untitled
24. Reel: Untitled [Fermoy Lasses]
25. Reel: Come West along the Road [CICD 5505 (from this recording; written with tonic note D; played with tonic note F); 5502–5502.11 (none from this recording); DMI, # 793]
26. Reel: Miss Monaghan [CICD 3179.12 (not from this recording); DMI, # 575]
27. Jig: The Battering Ram [CICD 2195.12–2195.15 (none from this recording)]
28. Reel: The Humours of Tulla [CICD 3857.12 (not from this recording); standard setting of the tune; CRE 3, # 135; for MR's 'old' setting, see CICD 3726.11]
29. Reel: The Dairy Maid [Not in CICD from this recording]
30. Jig: Munster Buttermilk 2 [Not in CICD from this recording; The Sports of Multyfarnham (CRE 1, # 43)]
31. Jigs: The Connachtman's Rambles / Bean an Brown Dilisc / Bean ag Baint Dilisc [CICD 2133, 2136.11–12, 2138 (none from this recording)], Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; Haste to the Wedding]
32. Reel: The Blackhaired Girl / The Blackhaired Lass / Cailin na Gruaige Duibhe [CICD 4230.12–4230.13, 4239 (none from this recording)]
33. Jig: The Killeshandra Lasses [CICD 1761 (from this recording); 1756.11 (not from this recording)]
34. Reel: The Green Mountain [Not in CICD from this recording; The Maid behind the Bar (tonic note D]
35. Jigs: The Ship in Full Sail [CICD 895 (from this recording); also at track A15a], Untitled [CICD 2234 (from this recording, probably from this track); CICD 2233, 2228.11 (none from this recording); Sean Phaidin; The Boys of the Town (DMI, # 89) is a related tune; MR also plays a separate but related tune called The Boys of the Town (Roche 1, # 118); also at track A15b]
36. Jigs: Three Little Drummers [CICD 2292 (from this recording); 2292.11 (not form this recording)], Delaney's Drummers [CICD 2828, 2829 (from this recording); 2406.11–.12 (not from this recording)]
37. 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)]
38. Reel: The Five Mile Chase [CICD 2880 (from this recording); 2880.11, 2914.11 (not from this recording)]

Performers:
Russell, Micho, Clare, whistle A1–12, 14–24, 26, 28–29;
speech in English A13, 25, 27, throughout;
speech in Irish A27;
Breathnach, Breandan, speech in English A30, throughout

Running Order:
1. Slip Jig: Untitled [CICD 315.11–.12 (where this recording is referenced), 318 (not from this recording); Barney Brallaghan (DMI, # 429, with 3 parts); 2 parts in MR's version]
2. Slip Jig: Bimid ag Ol go dti Maidin [CICD 252, 252.13 (from which the title), 252.11–252.12, 252.14 (none from this recording); written from MR in two different registers]
3. Jig, Speech: The Blackthorn Stick [CICD 1176.11 (from this recording); The Maid at the Well, DMI, # 24]; Untitled [Words that were sung to dance tunes]
4. Hornpipe: Fisher's Hornpipe [CICD 6089.11 (from which the title), 6090, 6090.11 (unclear if it is in CICD from this recording)]
5. Reel: The Knotted Cord [CICD 4469.11 (from this recording); The Wise Maid]
6. Polka / Single Reel: Untitled [CICD 6511, 6511.11, 6511.12; unclear if it is in CICD from this recording; only one part of the tune is played]
7. Jig / Slide: The Clare Jig [CICD 1162.11–.12, 2364.11–.15 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 71 (untitled, from MR)]
8. Reel: The Top of the Morning [CICD 5276.11 (from which the title, also given in CRE 5; not from this recording); 5277.11 (where this recording is referenced); 5277.12, 5278 (none from this recording); CRE 5, # 181]
9. Jig: McCormick's Jig [CICD 903.11 (where this recording is referenced), 903.12 (not from this recording)]
10. Jig: An Bainbhin Dubh / Tumble the Tinker [CICD 2007.11 (from this recording), 1887.12 (not from this recording); The Walls of Liscarroll (version)]
11. Jig: The Walls of Liscarroll [CICD 1092.11 (from this recording); Tumble the Tinker; related to An Bainbhin Dubh (also from MR)?]
12. Reel: Untitled [CICD 2923–4, 4033.11 (none from this recording), 2924.11 (where this recording is referenced)]
13. Speech: Untitled [Discussion about customs related to dancing; dancing a fling]
14. Fling: Moneymusk [CICD 6539 (where this recording is referenced); 6538, 6540 (not from this recording)]
15. Reel: Rafferty's Reel [CICD 3316.11–.12 (none from this recording); 3317.11 (where this recording is referenced; where BB says it is a version of The Rising Sun); The Old Blackthorn (version)]
16. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5084.11–.14, 5091.11, 5093, 5096 (none from this recording); 5091.12–.13 (where this recording is referenced); The Green Pigeon (title from CICD 5092, ex Pat Ward ms)]
17. Reels: The Swallow's Tail [CICD 5060.12 (where this recording is referenced); 5062, 5062.11 (none from this recording)], The Pigeon on the Gate [CICD 5261.11–.12 (from this recording; in a different register than at 5239.11–.12); 5239.11–.12 (none from this recording)]
18. Reel: The Morning Star [CICD 4489.11 (from this recording)] (incomplete) [END OF BAND ONE]
19. Reel: The Morning Star [CICD 4489.11 (from this recording)]
20. 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']
21. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5703.11 (where this recording is referenced), 5703.12–.13 (not from this recording)]
22. Jig: The Butcher's March / Hurrah for the Gallant Tipperary Boys / Lonely Old Hag Is It Tae You Want? [CICD 2200.11–.12 (none from this recording)]
23. Jig: Back of the Haggard [CICD 1607.12 (not from this recording)] / Paddle My Own Canoe [CICD 1607.13 (where this recording is referenced)]
24. Jig: Happy to Meet and Sorry to Part [CICD 2127.11 (where this recording is referenced)]
25. Speech: Untitled [Conversation about MR's mother; Larry Sharry; the tune Cathaoir an Phiobaire]
26. Jig: The Boys of the Town [CICD 864.11 (from this recording; gives reference to Roche I, # 118), 865.11 (not from this recording); MR also plays a separate but related tune of this name, which is nearer to the tune in DMI, # 89]
27. Speech: Untitled [Words in Irish to the tune Paidin O Raifeartaigh]
28. Jig: Banish Misfortune / The Irishman's Misfortune / The Shady Groves of Peamount [CICD 1367.11–.12 (not from this recording)]
29. Jig: Jimmy O'Brien's Jig [CICD 1860.11 (where this recording is referenced) / The Maid in the Meadows [CICD 1866–7 (not from this recording)]
30. Speech: Untitled [Breandan Breathnach makes a phone call; subject unrelated to the music on this tape] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Hickey, Ted, singing in English with guitar A2;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A3-7;
Unidentified performer, singing in English with guitar A8;
Unidentified performer, singing in English with guitar A9-10, speech in English A10;
Unidentified performer, singing in English with guitar A11;
Unidentified performers [Altan], group instumental A12, 14;
Unidentified performer, singing in English with guitar A13

Running Order:
1. Tone
2. Song: Untitled
3. Speech/Poem: introduction to peom, Skara Brae
4. Speech/Poem: introduction to peom, A Stone Enscribed with a Cross
5. Speech/Poem: introduction to peom, A Standing Stone
6. Speech/Poem: introduction to peom, Ogham stone
7. Speech/Poem: introduction to peom, The White Butterfly
8. Song: Untitled
9. Song: Untitled
10. Speech/Song: introduction to song, Untitled
11. Song: Untitled
12. Reels: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled,
13. Song: Untitled
14. Hornpipes: Untitled [END OF STEREO BANDS]

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

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

Performers:
Keane, Dolores, singing in English;
The Reel Union, instrumental group;
[Keane, Seán, Galway, flute;
whistle];
[Faulkner, John, London, guitar;
singing in English;
speech in English];
[O'Connor, Máirtín, Galway, accordion];
[Curran, Eamonn, Monaghan, uilleann pipes;
tin whistle;
singing in English]

Running Order:
1. Song: Sliabh Gallion Brae
2. Song: The banks of Newfoundland
3. Song: Craigie Hills
4. Polkas: [unidentified]
5. Reels: [unidentified]
6. Song: The May morning dew
7. Speech: Introduction, speech
8. Song: [unidentified]; Reel: Craig's pipes
9. Song: William Taylor

Performers:
Unidentified performers, inaudible audio A1;
Unidentified performer, banjo solo A2-5;
Unidentified performers, group instrumental A6;
MacMathuna, Ciaran, speech in English A7-13, 15-17, B12-16;
?, Pat, flute in duet with fiddle A7;
Ahern, Pat, fiddle in duet with flute A7;
McKenna, Thomas, whistle solo A8;
Dalton, William, speech in English A9, fiddle solo A9-10;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A11;
Unidentified performers, fiddle and flute duet A12;
Unidentified performers, fiddle and pipes duet A13;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A14;
Healy, Dan, accordion solo A15;
Ahern, Frank, banjo in duet with fiddle A16;
?, Barney, fiddle in duet with banjo A16;
Loch?, Sean, accordion solo A17;
Unidentified performers, group instrumental B1-3;
Unidentified performers, speech in English B3;
Unidentified performer, accordion solo B4;
Unidentified performer, singing in English B5;
Unidentified performer, speech in English B6-7;
Unidentified performer, accordion solo B6, 9;
?, Paddy Joe, flute solo B7;
Unidentified performer, accordion solo B8;
Unidentified performers, group instrumental B10;
Unidentified performer, fiddle in duet with accordion B11;
Unidentified performer, accordion in duet with fiddle B11;
Tunney, Paddy, singing in English B12;
Unidentified performers (Martin Lavin), group instrumental B13;
?, Paddy, fiddle solo B14;
?, Billy, flute in trio with fiddle and accordion B15;
Coughlan, Pat, fiddle in trio with flute and accordion B15;
Unidentified performer, accordion in trio with flute and accordion B15;
Unidentified performers, flute and fiddle in duet B16

Running Order:
1. Audio: inaudible material
2. Jigs: Untitled
3. Reels: Untitled
4. Hornpipes: Untitled
5. Jig: Untitled
6. Polkas: Untitled
7. Speech/Reels: talk about the following performers, Untitled
8. Speech/Hornpipe: talk about the following performer, Untitled
9. Speech/Slide: talk about the following performer and tunes, Untitled
10. Speech/Hornpipe: talk about the following performer, Untitled
11. Speech/Song: talk about the following song, Untitled
12. Speech/Reels: talk about the following tunes, The Sally Gardens, Ms. McLeod's
13. Speech/Jigs: talk about the following tune, Untitled
14. Reel: Untitled [The Sligo Maid]
15. Speech/Hornpipes: talk about the following tune, Untitled
16. Speech/Jig: talk about the following tune, Old Man Dillion
17. Speech/Marches: talk about the following performer, Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
18. Reels: Untitled
19. Polkas: Untitled
20. Hornpipes/Speech: Untitled, background noise
21. Marches: Untitled
22. Song: Untitled
23. Speech/Jigs: talk about the following tunes, Untitled
24. Speech/Reels: talk about the following performer, Untitled
25. Hornpipes: Untitled
26. Polka/Reel: Untitled, Untitled [The Morning Star]
27. Reels: Untitled
28. Jigs: Untitled [The Monaghan Jig], Untitled
29. Speech/Song: talk about the following song, The Mountains Streams Where the Moorcock Crows
30. Speech/Reels: talk about the following performers and tunes, Untitled, Untitled [George White's]
31. Speech/Reel: talk about the following tune, The Pigeon on the Gate
32. Speech/Jigs: talk about the following performers, Untitled
33. Speech/Reels: talk about the following tunes, The Morning Dew, Drowsy Maggie [END OF BAND TWO]