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Performers:
Reel-to-reel tape recorded by Sean McKiernan, Coillin, Carna, Co Galway, and loaned by him to ITMA for copying on 19 March 2006Digitised and catalogued from the reel-to-reel tape by Jackie Small, completed June 2006.Two donor copies sent by post to Sean McKiernan, June 2006. Original tape kept to be returned to Sean McKiernan in person.Imported from Reeldubs July 2013ARDI: Tracks A16–21: Friday 31 March 1967Abbreviation used: DMWC = \'The Dance Music of Willie Clancy\', edited by Pat MitchellTracks 1–15 are dubs from other reel-to-reel recordings;
Tracks 16–21 are an off-air dub of a radio programme featuring Seamus Ennis, broadcast on RTE radio on Friday 31 March 1967;
Tracks 22–31 are an off-air dub from an RTE radio programme in the series \'American Journey\', presented by Ciaran Mac Mathuna;
Tracks 32–48 are private recordings of Willie Clancy, pipes, made by Sean McKiernan;
Tracks 49–56 are an off-air dub of an edition of the RTE radio programme \'Sounds Traditional\', presented by Ciaran Mac Mathuna, featuring Seamus Ennis;
Tracks 57–66 are dubs from other reel-to-reel recordings

Running Order:
1. Reel: The Ravelled Hank of Yarn [DMWC, # 2]
2. Reel: Untitled [The Boys of Ballisodare; DMWC, # 53 (untitled); for a different recording of this by the same performer, see track B16]
3. Jig: Sixpenny Money [DMWC, # 18]
4. Air: An Buachaill Caol Dubh
5. Reels: Tarbolton [DMWC, # 14; Cooleen Bridge], Fermoy Lasses [DMWC, # 16]
6. Air: My Lagan Love
7. Jig, Speech: Tiocfaidh Tu Abhaile Liom [DMWC, # 21; Will You Come Home with Me?], Untitled
8. Jig: The Frieze Breeches [DMWC, # 11; I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her; 2-part version of The Frieze Breeches]
9. Reel: Untitled [DMWC, # 27 (untitled); Farewell to Erin (CRE, # 139)]
10. Reel: The Pinch of Snuff [DMWC, # 122]
11. Jig: Bimid ag Ol [DMWC, # 7]
12. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled (incomplete) [The Steampacket]
13. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Announcement on original recording], Untitled [The Morning Star] [From a private cylinder recording]
14. Hornpipe: Untitled (incomplete) [The Kildare Fancy]
15. Speech, Reel, Speech, Jig: Untitled [Announcement on original recording], Bean an Ti ar Urlar ag Obair [The Woman of the House], Untitled [Announcement on original recording], Untitled [The Geese in the Bog] [From a cylinder recording made by Feis Ceoil officials about 1900] [END OF BAND ONE]
16. Speech, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [Introduction to the tunes that follow]
17. Hornpipes: O'Dwyer's Hornpipe, The Derry Hornpipe
18. Speech, Air: Untitled, The Trip We Took over the Mountain
19. Speech: Untitled
20. Jigs, Speech: Paidin O Raifeartaigh, The Lad in the Shed / Westering Home, Airgead Realach [Sixpenny Money], Untitled [Interspersed with the music performance]
21. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement, signalling the end of this radio programme]
22. Reel, Speech: McFadden's Reel [McFadden's Favourite; DMI, # 716], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over]
23. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; interview with Paddy O'Sullivan]
24. Reels, Speech: Trim the Velvet, Untitled [The First House in Connacht], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over]
25. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; interview with Bill Greenall]
26. Air, Speech: Ar Eirinn ni Neosfainn Ce Hi / For Ireland I'd not Tell Her Name, Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over]
27. Speech: Untitled [Radio interviews with Roger Casey (dancer), his father Pat Casey, and accordion-player Joe Madden]
28. Reels, Speech: Untitled [The Dawn], Untitled [The Golden Keyboard; composed by Martin Mulhaire], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over]
29. Speech: Untitled [Radio interview]
30. Speech, Jigs, Speech: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, Untitled [The music on this track, and part of the speech at the end of the track, plays at double the speed of the rest of the contents of this tape; for an edited version with the speeds adjusted, see track A31] [END OF BAND FOUR]
31. Speech, Jigs, Speech: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled [The Lark on the Strand], Untitled [This track is an edited version of track A30 with speeds adjusted to normal speed]
32. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled [Pat Tuohy's Reel (DMI, # 595); Patsy Touhey's Reel]
33. Slip Jig, Speech: Untitled [Will You Come down to Limerick?; DMWC, # 58; Kitty Come down to Limerick; The Munster Gimlet], Untitled
34. Slip Jig, Speech: Untitled [Give Us a Drink of Water; DMWC, # 123], Untitled
35. Jig: Untitled [Banish Misfortune; DMWC, # 137]
36. Jig, Speech: Untitled [Nora Criona; DMWC, # 152; has been described as Patsy Touhey's version; for a different recording of this by the same performer, see track B11], Untitled
37. Reel: Untitled [Jenny's Welcome to Charlie; DMWC, # 144]
38. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [The Flags of Dublin], Untitled [While instrument is being tuned]
39. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Untitled [My Love is in America; DMWC, # 83], Untitled [Jenny Picking Cockles; DMWC, # 124]
40. Speech, Reels: Untitled [During tentative playing of possible candidate tunes for recording], Untitled [The Connacht Heifers; DMWC, # 62; The Connacht Heifer], Untitled [Corney is Coming; DMWC, # 8; followed by instrument tuning]
41. Reel: Untitled [The Pinch of Snuff; DMWC, # 122]
42. Speech, Jig, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [Nora Criona; DMWC, # 152; has been described as Patsy Touhey's version; for a different recording of this by the same performer, see track B5], Untitled
43. Jig, Speech: Untitled [The Geese in the Bog; The Lark's March], Untitled
44. Hornpipe, Speech: Untitled [Ballymanus Fair], Untitled
45. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Pigeon on the Gate], Untitled
46. Speech, Jigs: Untitled, Untitled [Down the Back Lane; DMWC, # 103], Untitled [Paidin O Raifeartaigh; DMWC, # 60]
47. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Boys of Ballisodare; DMWC, # 53 (untitled); for a different recording of this by the same performer see track A2], Untitled
48. Air: Untitled (incomplete) [Sliabh na mBan; tape runs out] [END OF BAND THREE]
49. Speech, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [Radio interview; includes story about the Scolaire Bocht, the Poor Scholar]
50. Reel: The Scholar / The Poor Scholar
51. Speech: Untitled [Radio interview; topics: Seamus Ennis's pipes; a story connected with the next tune to be played]
52. Reel: The Woman of the House
53. Speech: Untitled [Story connected with the tune The Gold Ring]
54. Jig: The Gold Ring
55. Speech: Untitled [Story connected with the tune that follows]
56. Reel, Speech: Did the Rum Do, Da? [Anything for John-Joe], Untitled [Radio announcements]
57. Jig, Speech: Strop the Razor / Piocfad an Snathaid [DMWC, 29; The Cook in the Kitchen (version of)], Untitled [Information about the titles of the tune just played]
58. Jig, Speech: Untitled [The Frieze Breeches (version of); DMWC, 12 (one of several versions given); pieced together here with difficulty], Untitled
59. Air: Untitled [Related to the melody of the song The Lowlands of Holland?]
60. Single Jig: Untitled [Willie's Single; DMWC, # 75]
61. Jig, Speech: Fasten the Leg in Her [DMWC, # 73], Untitled
62. Jig, Speech: Untitled [The Lark in the Morning (version of); 2 parts only; DMWC, # 78], Untitled
63. Speech, Fling, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [Fling No. 1 (DMWC, # 146); Kitty Got a Clinking Coming from the Fair], Untitled
64. Reel: Down the Broom [DMWC, # 77]
65. Reel, Speech: The Dublin Lads [DMWC, # 67], Untitled
66. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Concertina Reel; DMWC, # 72], Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]

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:
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]

Performers:
Clancy, Willie, uilleann pipes

Running Order:
1. Little red lark, [air] / Willie Clancy, uilleann pipes
2. Old man rocking the cradle, [air] / Willie Clancy, uilleann pipes
3. An buachaill caol dubh, [air] / Willie Clancy, uilleann pipes
4. [Sliabh na mbán], [air] / Willie Clancy, uilleann pipes
5. [An buachaillín bán], [air] / Willie Clancy, uilleann pipes
6. MacDonald of Glencoe, [air] / Willie Clancy, uillleann pipes
7. The green fields of America, [reel] / Willie Clancy, uilleann pipes
8. The Munster gimlet, [slip jig] ; The maid of Mount Kisco, [reel] ; The star of Munster, [reel] / Willie Clancy, uilleann pipes
9. Cherish the ladies, [jig] / Willie Clancy, uilleann pipes
10. Rakish Paddy, [reel] / Willie Clancy, uilleann pipes
11. Cusadhan lupan [sic], air / Willie Clancy, uilleann pipes
12. The jackets green, [air] / Willie Clancy, uilleann pipes
13. [tuning] / Willie Clancy, uilleann pipes
14. The flowers of Edinburgh, reel / Willie Clancy, uilleann pipes
15. [untitled air] / Willie Clancy, uilleann pipes
16. I'll mend your pots and kettles o, [air] / Willie Clancy, uilleann pipes
17. Caoineadh an spailpín, [air] ; Merrily kiss the quaker, [jig] / Willie Clancy, uilleann pipes ; [unidentified performer], tin whistle
18. Slaibh Gallion braes, [air] / Willie Clancy, uilleann pipes

Performers:
Donnelly, Maeve, [fiddle] A1;
Cotter, Geraldine, [piano] A1;
Harris, Charlie, [accordion] A1;
Ó Gráda, Conal, [flute] A1;
Droney, Chris, [concertina] A2;
Kelleher, Michael, [fiddle] A2;
Droney, Francis, [concertina] A2;
McGrath, Aine, [fiddle] A2;
Healy, Colm, [accordion] A3;
Healy, Eric, [guitar] A3;
Hehir, Kieran A3;
McGrath, Seanie A3;
Griffin, Kevin, [banjo] A4;
O'Neill, Eoin, [bozouki] A4;
Cooper, Quentin, [guitar] A4;
Madden, Paul A5;
O'Donnell, Maria A5;
Heagney, Sinéad A5;
Howley, Eimear A5;
Moloney, John A6;
Hogan, Elaine, [harp] A6;
Garry, Sheila, [fiddle] A6;
Kelly, John A6;
Mulvey, Shane A7;
Peoples, Siobhán, [fiddle] A7;
Ryan, Murty, [accordion] A7;
Dermody, Martin A7;
Linnane, Tony, [fiddle] A8;
O'Connor, Jim, [flute] A8;
Conneely, Mick, [fiddle] A8;
McDonagh, Johnny, [bodhrán] A8;
Arkins, Eimear A9;
O'Reilly, Damien A9;
O'Loughlin, Brian A9;
O'Loughlin, Keith A9;
Vaughan, Sean A10;
Sanders, David A10;
Moloney, Eddie A10;
Lambe, Ian A10;
Cotter, Eamonn, [flute] A11;
McCarthy, Conor A11;
MacDiarmaida, Oisín, [fiddle] A11;
O'Reilly, Padraic, [concertina] A11;
Kissane, Kieran A12;
Vaughan, Edel A12;
Moonry, Brian A12;
Flanagan, Liam A12;
The Kilfenora Céilí Band, instrumental group A13;
Rynne, Pádraig, [piano] A14;
O'Donaghue, Noel A14;
Mooney, Brian A14;
Murphy, Liam A14;
Lynch, Karol A15;
O'Donaghue, Cyril A15;
Morris, Samantha A15;
Dunne, Mickey A15

Running Order:
1. Reels: [Cooley's]; [The Dublin reel]; [The steampacket]
2. Hornpipes: [The Stack of wheat]; [The flowing tide]
3. Reels: [Martin Wynne's]; [Tom Ward's downfall, reel]; [The silver spear]
4. Reels: [The green mountain]; [Unidentified]; [Lucy Campbell]
5. Reels: [Farrell O'Gara]; [The Duke of Leinster]; [The Cameronian]
6. Reels: [Kiss me Kate]; [Mayor Harrison's fedora]; [Unidentified]
7. Jigs: [Unidentified]; [I was born for sport]; [Unidentified]
8. Reels: [The wind that shakes the barley]; [Unidentified]
9. Reels: [The enchanted lady]; [The shaskeen]; [The sailor's bonnet]
10. Reels: [Lucy Campbell]; [The green gates]; [The lady's pantalettes]
11. Reels: [Unidentified]; [Unidentified]
12. Reels: [Jim Donaghue's]; [John Brennan's]
13. Marches: [Unidentified]; [Unidentified]
14. Reels: [Unidentified]; [Unidentified]; [Unidentified]
15. Reels: [The Limerick lasses]; [Kiss the maid behind the barrel]

Performers:
Gardiner, Mike, accordion

Running Order:
1. Reel: Bonnie Kate
2. Set dance; Hornpipe: The blackbird; The harvest home
3. Reels: The colliers, The Mullingar races
4. Jigs: The butcher's march, Rose in the heather
5. Reel: The copperplate
6. Jig: The geese in the bog
7. Waltzes: When I grow too old to dream, Mockingbird hill
8. Jigs: The humours of Glendart; Ship in full sail
9. Reel: The salamanca
10. Jig: Lark in the morning
11. Reels: George White's; The Galway rambler