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Recorded from Joe McCafferty at his house in Derryconor, Co. Donegal, 9 September 1982 [track 1]
Recorded from Neilí Ní Dhomhnaill at her house in Ranafast, Co. Donegal, 10 September 1982 [tracks 2–17]

Performers:
McCafferty, Joe, speech in Irish Track 1;
Ni Dhomhnaill, Neilli, singing in English Tracks 2, 11, speech in Irish Tracks 3-4, 6-8, 10, 12, 14-15, A17, singing in Irish Tracks 5, 9, 13, 16;
Shields, Hugh, speech in Irish Tracks 3, 7, 10, 14, 17

Running Order:
1. An clibhistín maol óir (‘Bhí rí agus banríon ann fad ó shin...’), story / Joe McCafferty, speech in Irish [end of session] [END OF BAND ONE]
2. Barbara Allen (‘Oh Christmas comes but once a year...’), song / Neillí Ní Dhomhnaill, singing in English
3. Talk about the song ‘Barbara Allen’, speech / Neillí Ní Dhomhnaill, speech in Irish ; Hugh Shields, speech in Irish
4. Story of the song ‘A bhean udaí thall’ (‘[Bhí fear agus bean agus bhí siad pósta agus] bhí páistí acu...’), story / Neillí Ní Dhomhnaill, speech in Irish
5. A bhean udaí thall , (‘Tá no ghruag gheal bhuí, a shíogó...’), song’ / Neillí Ní Dhomhnaill, singing in Irish
6. The end of the story of the song ‘A bhean udaí thall’, story / Neillí Ní Dhomhnaill, speech in Irish
7. Talk about the song ‘A bhean udaí thall’, speech / Neillí Ní Dhomhnaill, speech in Irish ; Hugh Shields, speech in Irish
8. Story of the following unidentifed song (‘Sagart agus fad ó shin nuair a bhí an fiabhras go holc...’), story
9. Unidentified song, / Neillí Ní Dhomhnaill, singing in Irish
10. Talk about the preceding song, speech / Neillí Ní Dhomhnaill, speech in Irish ; Hugh Shields, speech in Irish
11. Wed to another (‘I courted a wee lass, I lved her so well...’), song / Neillí Ní Dhomhnaill, singing in English
12. Talk about the song ‘Aoibhneas na Maidne’, speech / Neillí Ní Dhomhnaill, speech in Irish
13. Aoibhneas na maidne (‘Maidin chiúine deas ar an tsamhraidh[?]...’), song [words by Neillí Ní Dhomhnaill] / Neillí Ní Dhomhnaill, singing in Irish
14. Talk about the song ‘Aoibhneas na maidne’, speech / Neillí Ní Dhomhnaill, speech in Irish ; Hugh Shields, speech in Irish
15. Talk about the song ‘Aisling an deoraí’, speech / Neillí Ní Dhomhnaill, speech in Irish
16. Aisling an deoraí (‘Ó, mo bheannacht go deo leis an bhaile...’), song [words and title by Neillí Ní Dhomhnaill] / Neillí Ní Dhomhnaill, singing in Irish
17. Talk about the songs ‘Aisling an deoraí’ and ‘Aoibhneas na maidne’, speech / Neillí Ní Dhomhnaill, speech in Irish ; Hugh Shields, speech in Irish [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, singing in English A1, 3-25, B1-6;
Unidentified performer, accordion solo A2, accordion accompaniment A15;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group C1;
Unidentified performers, whistle solo C2 (off-air dubs);
Unidentified performer, singing in Irish C3 (off-air dubs);
Unidentified performer, speech in English C3-4 (off-air dubs);
Unidentified performer, whistle in trio C4, 6 (off-air dubs);
Unidentified performer, fiddle in trio C4, 6 (off-air dubs);
Unidentified performer, accordion in trio C4, 6 (off-air dubs);
Unidentified performer, singing in Irish C5 (off-air dubs);
[O'Cannainn, Thomas], speech in English C7 (off-air dub);
Na Fili, instrumental group C7-8 (off-air dub);
Unidentified performer, singing in English C9-10;
Unidentified performer, whistle in quartet C11;
Unidentified performer, fiddle in quartet C11, fiddle in duet C12;
Unidentified performer, banjo in quartet C11, banjo in duet C13;
Unidentified performer, singing in English C14-15;
Planxty, instrumental group C16 (off-air dubs);
[MacMathuna, Ciaran], speech in English C16-24;
Crotty, Mrs, Clare, concertina C17-18 (off-air dubs);
Crehan Family, The, instrumental group C19, 21 (off-air dubs);
Mulqueen, Anne, singing in English C22 (off-air dubs);
Potts, Tommy, Dublin, fiddle solo C23 (off-air dubs);
Ceoltoiri Laighneann, instrumental group C24 (off-air dubs);
Unidentified performer, fiddle in duet C25, C27, C30, fiddle accompaniment C26;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group, singing in English C29;
Unidentified performer, banjo in duet C30;
Unidentified performer, whistle C28;
Unidentified performer, singing in English C26;
Unidentified performer, singing in Irish C31;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group D1-4;
[Band three contains material dubbed from discs - not copied to CDR];
Unidentified performer, speech in English E1-32, F1-7, whistle solo E1-32, F1-7

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1. Song: Untitled (beginning clipped, interrupted)
2. Waltz/Song: Untitled
3. Song: Untitled (interrupted)
4. Song: Untitled (beginning clipped)
5. Song: Untitled (beginning clipped)
6. Song: Untitled (clipped)
7. Song: Untitled
8. Song: Untitled (beginning clipped)
9. Song: Untitled
10. Song: Untitled
11. Song: Untitled (beginning clipped)
12. Song: Untitled (beginning clipped)
13. Song: Untitled (beginning clipped)
14. Song: Untitled
15. Song: Untitled
16. Song/Fragment: Untitled (beginning clipped)
17. Song: Untitled
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19. Song: Untitled (beginning clipped)
20. Song: Untitled
21. Song: Untitled (beginning clipped)
22. Song: Untitled
23. Song: Untitled (end clipped)
24. Song: Untitled (beginning clipped)
25. Song: Untitled [band one continued on CDR b]
26. Song: Untitled
27. Song: Untitled
28. Song: Untitled
29. Song: Untitled
30. Song: Untitled (beginning clipped)
31. Song: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
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Performers:
Flynn, Jim, speech in English
Quinn, Mick, speech in English, singing in English

Running Order:
1. Introduction, speech in English / Jim Flynn
2. Mick Quinn singing at The Vintage Inn, Clonmany [videorecording] / Mick Quinn, singing in English
3. Presentation on the life of Mick Quinn / Jim Flynn
4. Mick Quinn lilting at McFeeley's Bar, Clonmany [videorecording] / Mick Quinn & accompanying artists, singing in English
5. My brother he is a TD, song in English [sound recording] / Mick Quinn, singing in English
6. Mick Quinn storytelling at The North Pole, 2013, speech in English [sound recording] / Mick Quinn
7. Mick Quinn storytelling at Rusty Nail bar, 2003, speech in English [videorecording] / Mick Quinn
8. Mick Quinn storytelling at McFeeley's Bar, Clonmany, 1996, speech in English [videorecording] / Mick Quinn
9. Cowan mountain, song in English [sound recording] / Mick Quinn, singing in English
10. Mick Quinn storytelling in The King and Queen, London, 2011, speech in English [videorecording] / Mick Quinn
11. The Boys of Mullaghbawn, song in English [videorecording] / Mick Quinn, singing in English

Performers:
Clingan, James 'Jimmy', Donegal, singing in English A2-8, speech in English A1, 5-7;
O'Hara, Aidan, Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Unidentified performer [possibly McGonigle, Donegal], accordion solo A9

Running Order:
1. Speech [Talk about tunes used for dancing with examples; old songs heard from James' father with examples; Jimmy talks about the old dances: Haste to the Wedding, the Lancers, Quadrilles, Walls of Limerick, Siege of Limerick, Shoe the Donkey, Lannigan's Ball, Siege of Ennis, Maggie Pickens, etc.; gives the airs to them; songs he recalls his father singing: Mountain Streams where the Moorcock Crows, The Silvery Tide, Betsy Baker (sings a verse and says it has maybe ten verses, quite comical; see http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/supptrad.html)] ; Lannigan’s ball, air ; Maggie Pickens, air ; Betsy Baker, song / Aidan O’Hara, speech in English ; Jimmy Clingan, speech in English, lilting, singing in English
2. The rambling Irishman, song / Jimmy Clingan, singing in English
3. Speech [getting the song from his father] ; The rambling Irishman, song / Jimmy Clingan, singing in English
4. The rambling Irishman
5. Speech [song introduction] ; The hat McGuinness wore, song ; Speech [Information provided by AOH: the song just sung was written by local man, Neil Kearney from Carndonagh. McGuinness was from nearby Ballyloskey. Neil also wrote 'My Lovely Irish Rose' and 'The Green Fields of Annagh': The Hat McGuinness Wore, Untitled] / Jimmy Clingan, speech in English, singing in English ; Neil Kearney, composer [END OF BAND ONE]
6. Speech [song introduction] ; Clonmany For Me, song ; Speech [Information provided by AOH: Jimmy sings a tongue-in-cheeky song, 'Clonmany for Me', written by Pat Lynch, Carndonagh. Jimmy said that Pat also wrote 'The Lighthouse Down at Bunagee' - and the funny part of it all was that there's no lighthouse at Bunagee - 'The Banks of the Shannon'. Pat was a comedian, Jimmy said. He did recitations like 'An Angel Grew Tired of Heaven'. Pat and Neil Kearney were contemporaries of Harry Lauder and the pair met him one time. Harry wanted them to travel with him on his world tour, he thought they were so good] / Jimmy Clingan, speech in English, singing in English; Aidan O’Hara, speech in English
7. The mountain streams where the moorcocks crow, song ; Speech [Information provided by AOH: The performer says that he heard his mother singing it, a very old song as old as you'd get anywhere. http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=46396 ; also http://www.informatik.unihamburg.de/~zierke/peter.bellamy/songs/themountainstreamswherethemoorcockscrow.html / Jimmy Clingan, singing in English, speech in English
8. Speech [The performer introduces the next song, saying it's a dream a girl had about her lover] ; My love he is a miner lad, singing in English; Speech [Information provided by A O'H: the lad in question is named John Sleddin in the song (see the same song, ITMA Reference Number: 185-ITMA-MP3, recorded by Jimmy McBride)] / Jimmy Clingan, singing in English, speech in English ; Aidan O’Hara, speech in English
9. Londonderry hornpipe [Information provided by AOH: this may be a McGonigle man I recorded near Malin Town when Conal Beirne brought me to visit him] / [McGonigle], accordion [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
McIntyre, Geordie, Scotland, speech in English throughout;
singing in English C7, 14–15;
Unidentified performers, speech in English throughout;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group(s) A1–8, 11, 15, 23–24, 28, 33;
Unidentified performers, singing in English to instrumental accompaniment A6, 8, 12, 19–20, 28;
singing in Irish to instrumental accompaniment A27;
O'Donnell, Eugene, Donegal / USA, fiddle in duet A9–10, 14;
22?, 30, 32;
fiddle in instrumental group A11?;
fiddle solo A16, 18, 21, 25–26, 29;
Unidentified performer(s), fiddle solo A13;
fiddle in duet 22, 31;
Partly identified performer ('Packy'), singing in duet in English to instrumental accompaniment A15;
Partly identified performer ('Packy's wife'), singing in duet in English to instrumental accompaniment A15;
Unidentified performer, piano in duet A31;
Gillespie, Hugh, Donegal / USA, fiddle in duet B1–4, 6–16, C2–5, D4–8, 10–11;
speech in English throughout tracks B, C and D;
singing in English C9;
fiddle solo D3;
fiddle in trio D9;
Kelly, Francis, Donegal, fiddle in duet B1–4, 6–16, C2–5, D4–8, 10–11;
speech in English throughout tracks B, C and D;
fiddle in trio D9;
Tunney, Paddy, Donegal, speech in English throughout tracks B, C and D;
singing in English C6, 10–11, 13, D1;
singing in English with lilting C16;
lilting in trio D9;
Philip, Ian, England, speech in English throughout tracks B, C and D;
singing in English C8, 12, D2

Running Order:
1. Speech, Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled [Harvest Home; The Cork Hornpipe], The Boys of Blue Hill
2. Jig: Untitled [The Wandering Minstrel]
3. Waltz: Untitled [Lovely Leitrim]
4. Reel, Air: Untitled [Bonnie Kate], Untitled [The Coulin / An Chuileann]
5. Air: Untitled [Roisin Dubh]
6. Waltzes with Singing: Untitled [The Homes of Donegal], Untitled [The Bold Thady Quill]
7. Jig: Untitled [Paddy's Return]
8. Song: The Wild Rover
9. Reels: Bonnie Kate, Miss McLeod, Untitled [The Donegal Reel], Untitled [The Star of Munster], Untitled [Peter Street]
10. Air, March: Untitled [The Bonnie Lass of Bon Accord; composed by Scott Skinner], Untitled [The Bonnie Lass of Bon Accord; the air just played, played this time as a march]
11. Reels: Untitled [Miss McLeod], Untitled [The Swallow's Tail]
12. Song: The Wild Rover
13. Air: Untitled [Easter Snow (related tune?)]
14. Reel: Bonnie Kate
15. Song: Muirsheen Durkin
16. Air: The Coulin [An Chuileann]
17. Speech: Untitled
18. Speech, Air: Untitled, Untitled [Roisin Dubh]
19. Song, Speech: Lough Swilly Shore, Untitled
20. Song: Untitled [Thank God We're Surrounded by Water]
21. Slip Jig: The Foxhunter's Jig
22. Slip Jig: Untitled [The Rocky Road to Dublin]
23. Reel: Untitled [Lucy Campbell]
24. Strathspey, Reel, Strathspey: Untitled [Stirling Castle], Untitled [The Spey in Spate], Untitled [Stirling Castle]
25. Reel: Untitled [The Maid of Mount Cisco]
26. Air: Untitled
27. Song: Untitled [Eamonn an Chnoic]
28. Song: Untitled [The Irish Soldier Boy]
29. Reel: Untitled [Sean McGuire; composed by Bert Murray]
30. Reels [?]: Untitled [American tune], Untitled [American tune], Untitled [American tune]
31. Hornpipe: Untitled [McDermott's; The Galway Hornpipe]
32. Slip Jig: The Foxhunter's Jig
33. Reel: Untitled [The Lads of Laois]
34. Reels, Speech: Untitled [Master McDermott's Reel; composed by Michael 'Master' McDermott; CRE 4, # 119], Reavy's / The Sparkling Dawn [The Hunter's House; composed by Ed Reavy], Untitled [About the tunes just played]
35. Reels, Speech: Trim the Velvet, Paddy on the Turnpike [The Bunch of Keys], Untitled [About the tunes just played]
36. Slip Jig, Speech: The Kid on the Mountain [With lilted accompaniment], Untitled [About the tune just played]
37. Hornpipes: The Stage Hornpipe, Parker's Fancy [The Western], Coleman's Fancy [Jack O'Neill's Fancy]
38. Speech: Untitled [About the tunes just played; Hugh Gillespie was associated with Michael Coleman (whom he refers to as 'The Professor') from 1928 to 1945; HG and Coleman made radio broadcasts together; HG's other experiences of playing for radio and TV; poor standards of music and song performance on public media]
39. Reel, Speech: Miss McLeod's Reel, Untitled
40. Reels, Speech: Lord McDonald's Reel, Untitled [Ballinasloe Fair], Untitled
41. Strathspeys [Highland Flings]: Untitled [Stirling Castle], Untitled [Miss Ramsey's]
42. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled, The Caledonian [The Cameronian], Hand Me down the Tackle / Tom Steele, Untitled [About the tunes just played; Hugh Gillespie recorded Tom Steele for the Decca company; HG has Michael Coleman's fiddle; other fiddles that HG has owned]
43. Reels: Untitled [Paddy Finlay's Favourite; The Galway Rambler (related tune)], The Copperplate / The Streams of Poulaphouca
44. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled ['The Streams of Poulaphouca' was Michael Coleman's name for the last tune just played], Ah Surely, Jackson's [The Dublin Reel], Untitled
45. Jigs, Speech: Jackson's Morning Brush, Flanagan's Favourite / The Rambling Pitchfork, Untitled
46. Jig, Speech: The Old Grey Goose, Untitled
47. Hornpipe: The High Level [The High Level Bridge; composed by James Hill]
48. Reels: Untitled [The Shaskeen Reel], The Bag of Spuds [The Bag of Potatoes]
49. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Kitty in the Lane (incomplete; clipped at end) [Track A16 is followed by approximately 3 minutes of silence on the tape]
50. Speech: Untitled [Hugh Gillespie gives his ideas about poor standards of playing and singing in Irish traditional music; 'there was no good Irish music until the like of Michael Coleman recorded first'; Paddy Tunney as an example of high standards in traditional singing; discussion of singers who wear Aran sweaters (identified later as the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem); discussion about the song 'Johnstone's Motor Car'] [END OF BAND ONE]
51. Speech: Untitled [Discussion about singing styles and playing styles in Irish and Scottish traditional music; Hugh Gillespie is consciously training Francis Kelly in the fiddle tradition in the same way as he himself was trained by Michael Coleman]
52. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Maude Miller (related tune)], Untitled
53. Reel: Untitled [The Boys of the Lough]
54. Waltzes, Speech: Untitled [Mrs Kenny's], The Men of the West [With singing], Untitled
55. Reel, Speech: Lord Gordon, Untitled
56. Speech, Song: Untitled, Willie Reilly
57. Song, Speech: The Braes o' Balquiddar, Untitled
58. Song, Speech: The Barley Mow [With chorus in which the company joins in], Untitled
59. Speech, Song, Speech: Untitled [About the song to be sung next; it was composed by Willie Gillespie, the uncle of the performer here], Johnstone's Motor Car, Untitled
60. Speech, Song: Untitled, The First Time That I Met My Love
61. Speech, Song, Speech: Untitled, The Mountain Streams Where the Moorcocks Crow, Untitled
62. Song: Lang A'Growin'
63. Song, Speech: Bonny Maggie Thompson, Untitled
64. Song, Speech: The Shira Dam, Untitled
65. Song, Speech: The A83, Untitled
66. Speech, Song, Speech: Untitled, The Hurricane of Reels, Untitled
67. Speech, Song: Untitled, The Rambling Boys of Pleasure
68. Speech, Song, Speech: Untitled, The Herring's Head [With participation of others in the company], Untitled
69. Slip Jig: The Rocky Road to Dublin [With singing by others in the company]
70. Reel: Untitled [The Pigeon on the Gate]
71. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Reel of Bogie; extraneous noises on this track], Untitled
72. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Jenny's Welcome to Charlie, Untitled
73. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled, The Wild Irishman [Title as given by the performers here; this tune was named 'O'Rourke's' on the 78rpm disc recording by Michael Coleman], O'Rourke's [Title as given by the performers here; this was named 'The Wild Irishman' on the 78rpm disc recording by Michael Coleman], Untitled
74. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled, Farewell to Ireland [CRE, # 139, as 'Farewell to Erin'], The Farmer's Daughter [DMI, # 701, as 'Farewell to Erin'], Untitled
75. March: The Battle of Aughrim
76. Speech, Jigs: Untitled, Tell Her I Am, Untitled [Richard Brennan's Favourite]
77. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled, Bonnie Kate [Played here in the key of C; usually in D], Untitled [The Donegal Traveller], Untitled, Untitled
78. Speech, Hornpipe, Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled, The Boys of Blue Hill, Untitled, The Ivy Leaf [The Green Groves of Erin], Paddy Ryan's Dream, Mamma's Pet, Untitled
79. Reels, Speech: Dowd's [O'Dowd's Favourite], Untitled [The Star of Munster], Untitled
80. Reel, Speech, Reel: Kreisler's Fancy [Named after the classical violinist Fritz Kreisler; Colonel Fraser], Untitled [About the tune just played; Fritz Kreisler and Michael Coleman played a lot together and were 'great buddies' – 'that's where Coleman got all the dressing for this music'], Untitled [Maudabawn Chapel; composed by Ed Reavy]
81. Reels, Speech: Yonkers [The Morning Dew], The Woman of the House, Untitled [Discussion about techniques of holding the fiddle, with played illustrations; Paddy Tunney tells a story; etc] [END OF BAND TWO]