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Performers:
O'Hara, Aidan, speech in English A1, 6;
Dunning, Ina, speech in English A1;
Mulkere, Brendan, fiddle solo A2-3, fiddle in duet A4;
Roland, Raymond, accordion in duet A4, concertina solo A5, speech in English A6

Running Order:
1. Speech [music in Spotted Dog, young people playing music in London, greetings home] / Aidan O’Hara, speech in English ; Ina Dunning, speech in English
2. The steeple chase, Seamus Breathnach's, reels / Brendan Mulkere, fiddle
3. Larry Redigans, The humours of Tulla, reels / Brendan Mulkere, fiddle
4. March/Reel: The Battle Of Aughrim, march, Paddy Cronin's, reel / Brendan Mulkere, fiddle ; Raymond Roland, accordion
5. An cuilfionn, air / Raymond Roland, concertina
6. Speech [greetings home, music scene in London, Le Cheile, recordings] / Aidan O’Hara, speech in English ; Raymond Roland, speech in English [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
O'Hara, Aidan, speech in English throughout;
Nally, James, (aged 15yrs) speech in English A1;
Nally, Kathleen, speech in English A1;
McMenamin, Catriona, singing in English A2;
Jim Power Group, instrumental group A3;
Unidentified performer, banjo in duet A4-5;
Mulynn, Paddy, speech in English A6;
Martin, Tony, speech in English A7

Running Order:
1. Speech [CCE London, winning the All-Ireland, James' interest in music] / Aidan O’Hara, speech in English ; Kathleen Nally, speech in English ; James Nally, speech in English
2. Song: Hello Dolly / [Unidentified speaker] ; Catriona McMenamin, speech in English, singing in English
3. [Untitled], reels (fragment) / Jim Power Group, band
4. [Untitled], reel (fragment) / [Unidentified banjo]
5. [Untitled], reel / [Unidentified banjo]
6. Speech [The Favourite pub, other musicians in London: Raymond Roland, Roger Sherlock, Bobby Casey, Paddy Taylor, learning music] / Paddy Mulynn, speech in English ; Aidan O’Hara, speech in English
7. Speech [how Tony became interested in making fiddles, fiddle construction] / Tony Martin, speech in English [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Carty, John, fiddle, speech in English
Crawford, Kevin, flute, speech in English
Kelly, John Joe, bodhrán, speech in English

Running Order:
1. Unidentified, reel set / John Carty, fiddle ; Kevin Crawford, flute ; John Joe Kelly, bodhrán
2. Oral presentation on the Irish music tradition in Birmigham, Manchester and London, speech in English / John Carty ; Kevin Crawford ; John Joe Kelly

Performers:
O'Flynn, Liam, pipes A1-5;
Brady, Paul, singing in English A6-7;
Crehan, Junior, fiddle A8-11;
Crehan, Ita, whistle A8-11;
Burke, Kevin, fiddle A12;
Finn, Fred, fiddle A12;
Horan, Peter, flute

Running Order:
1. Jig: Mairseal Alasdroim ; Air: Lament (Cnoc na nOs)
2. Reels: Untitled, Over the Moor to Maggie
3. Slip jigs: Little Fair Canavans, The First Slip
4. Reels: The Pigeon on the Gate, The West Wind
5. Reels: The Rainy Day, The Pretty Girls of Mayo
6. Song: The Keech in the Creel
7. Song: The Lakes of Pontchartrain
8. Air: A Stor Mo Chroi; Reel: Untitled
9. Jig: Untitled
10. Jig: The Mist Covered Mountain
11. Jig: Casey's Jig
12. Reel: Music in the Glen [unfinished]

Performers:
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English and Irish throughout;
Crehan, Junior, Clare, speech in English A1, 14;
fiddle solo A1;
Unidentified performer [Ward, Jim, Clare], whistling solo A1;
singing in English A1;
Unidentified performers, speech in English throughout;
Killeen, Tom, singing in English A2;
Unidentified performer(s), accordion solo A3;
accordion in duet A10;
Unidentified performer [Murphy, Denis, Kerry?], fiddle solo A4, 12;
fiddle in duet A6;
Doyle, Jimmy / Doyle, Seamus, Kerry, accordion in duet A5, 22, 24;
O'Leary, Johnny, Kerry, accordion in duet A5, 6[?];
accordion solo A8;
Sweeney, Sonny, Kerry, fiddle solo A7;
Unidentified performer(s), whistle in duet A9;
whistle solo A17;
Unidentified performer, fiddle in duet A10;
Kane, Eleanor / Neary, Eleanor, Chicago, speech in English A11;
piano solo A11;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group A13;
Donoghue, Jack, Clare, concertina solo A14;
Lawlor, Peter, [Clare?], concertina or mouth organ in duet A15;
Unidentified performer, [Clare?], concertina or mouth organ in duet A15;
Clifford, Julia, Kerry / London, fiddle in duet A16;
Clifford, Billy, Kerry / London, whistle in duet A16;
Unidentified performer [Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin], speech in English A18, 28–30;
Daly, Michael, Worthing, flute solo A18;
O Meachair, Eamonn, [Clare?], fiddle in duet A19–20;
O Meachair, Padraig / Maher, Paddy, [Clare?], whistle in duet A19–20;
Cronin, Dan, whistle in duet A21, 25–26;
O'Sullivan, Cornelius, fiddle in duet A21, 24;
fiddle solo A23;
Murphy, Diarmuid, Kerry, fiddle in duet A22;
fiddle solo A27;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle in duet A25–26;
McKeown, Tom, Tyrone, fiddle in duet A28–29, 31–32;
speech in English A28–30;
fiddle solo A30;
Unidentified performer, fiddle in duet A28–29, 31–32

Running Order:
1. Speech with Music and Singing: Untitled [Discussion about dances performed in the area (west Clare?), with examples of dance tunes played on fiddle, whistled, and sung; dances discussed include sets and also other dances like Cock Your Leg up, Moll Roe (tune played; Father Halpin's Top Coat; The Varsovienne); Green Grow the Rushes; The Gabhairin Bui (tune played); The Peeler and the Goat; and Saint Patricks's Day; the slip jig 'Moll Roe' is whistled and words to it sung]
2. Speech, Song: Untitled [Introduction to the performance that follows], Untitled (incomplete)
3. Jig: Untitled [Related to 'The Sports of Multyfarnham'] (clipped at both ends) [Music is followed on the tape by periods of silence interspersed with tone signals (not digitised)]
4. Jig: Untitled (incomplete)
5. Speech, Slides: Untitled [Introduction to the performance that follows], Untitled [If I Had a Wife; 3 parts; not the tune associated with that title that was recorded by the Chieftains], Untitled [For another performance of the music selection played in this track, see track A5]
6. Speech, Polkas: Untitled [Introduction to the performance that follows], The Blue Ribbon, The Knocknagree Polka [Dan O'Connell's Favourite]
7. Speech, Polka: Untitled [Introduction to the performance that follows], Sweeney's Polka [For another performance of this tune, see track A10b]
8. Speech, Slides: Untitled [Introduction to the performance that follows], Untitled [If I Had a Wife; 3 parts; not the tune associated with that title that was recorded by the Chieftains], Untitled [For another performance of the music selection played in this track, see track A5] (clipped at end)
9. Slides: Untitled, Untitled
10. Polkas: Untitled, Untitled [Sweeney's Polka; for another performance of this tune, see track A7], Untitled (incomplete; clipped at end)
11. Speech, Slide: Untitled [Introduction to the performance that follows; tune was learned from someone who was a pupil of Padraig O'Keeffe at home in Ireland and who later came to Chicago], Untitled [Terry Teahan's]
12. Polkas: Untitled [Jimmy Doyle's Favourite], Untitled [Bill the Weaver's (2); Tarrant's]
13. Polkas: Untitled [Recorded on commercial 78rpm disc by John McKenna, flute], Untitled, Untitled
14. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Introduction to the performance that follows], Molly's Lough
15. Speech, Polka: Untitled [Introduction to the performance that follows], Drink Your Tea
16. Speech, Polkas: Untitled [Introduction to the performance that follows], Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
17. Polka: Untitled
18. Speech, Polka: Untitled [Introduction to the performance that follows], The Little Green Cottage
19. Speech, Polkas: Untitled [Introduction to the performance that follows], The Dandy Peeler [Related to melody of song 'Finnegan's Wake'], Untitled [[Stated to be 'an old Clare set' tune]
20. Speech, Polkas: Untitled [Introduction to the performance that follows], Untitled [I Looked East and I Looked West], Untitled [Melody of song 'Muirsheen Durkin']
21. Speech, Slides: Untitled [Introduction to the performance that follows], Untitled, Untitled, Untitled [Repeat of the first tune in this selection]
22. Speech, Polka: Untitled [Introduction to the performance that follows], Untitled
23. Speech, Slide: Untitled [Introduction to the performance that follows], Untitled
24. Speech, Slide: Untitled [Introduction to the performance that follows], Duggan's Favourite [Composed by Mick Duggan, Kerry, fiddle, according to CICD; false start]
25. Speech, Polka: Untitled [Introduction to the performance that follows], Jimmy Barry's Polka [Sound level low]
26. Speech, Slide: Untitled [Introduction to the performance that follows], Art O'Keeffe's Jig
27. Speech, Polka: Untitled [Introduction to the performance that follows], Denis Murphy's Polka [Tom Billy's Polka]
28. Speech, Polka, Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the performance that follows], Gurteen Cross [?] / Curtin's Cross [?] [The Church Street Polka], Untitled [Information about dancing in the local area (Galbally, Co Tyrone)]
29. Polka, Speech: Untitled [Saint Mary's Polka], Untitled
30. Polka, Speech: Untitled, Untitled
31. Polka: Untitled
32. Speech, Polka: Untitled, Untitled [END OF BAND ONE - Band Two contains an episode of the radio drama series 'The Kennedys of Castleross' (not digitised)]

Performers:
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English and Irish intermittently throughout;
Keogh, Dan, Tipperary, concertina solo A1;
Scallon? Scully?, Peter, Shetland, fiddle solo A3, 6;
fiddle in duet A4–5;
Scannon? Scully?, Jimmy, Shetland, fiddle in duet A4–5;
Mac Gill-Eain, Calum, Scotland, speech in English A7;
Cronin, Hannah, Kerry, singing in English A8–9;
O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig,, Kerry, fiddle solo A10, 15–19;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle solo A11–13;
fiddle in duet A14;
O'Leary, Johnny, Kerry, accordion in duet A14;
O'Dwyer, John, fiddle solo A20;
Unidentified performer, accordion solo A21;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group A22;
O Murchu, Sean, Galway / Dublin, speech in English A22, B1;
McGuire, Seamus, Sligo, fiddle in duet B1;
Kelly, John, Clare / Dublin, fiddle in duet B2;
concertina in duet B3;
concertina solo B4;
Ryan, Joe, Clare, fiddle in duet B2–3;
Casey, Bobby, Clare / London, fiddle solo B5–10, 11–13?;
speech in English B5, 7;
Unidentified performer, lilting solo B14;
Russell, Micho, Clare, flute solo B15;
whistle solo B16;
Unidentified performer, concertina solo B17–18

Running Order:
1. Speech, Polka: Untitled [Information about the tune that follows; it was recorded in Cappawhite, Co Tipperary in December 1955], Untitled [Micho Russell used to sing a comic song to this melody]
2. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the music and speech on tracks A3–7, consisting of fiddle music from Shetland and information about it]
3. Dance Tune: Kail and Knockit Corn
4. Speech, Dance Tune: Untitled, The Merry Boys of Greenland
5. Speech, Dance Tune: Untitled, The Mason's Apron
6. Speech, Dance Tune: Untitled, Arrasdale [Stated to be similar to Cornphiopa na Mairnealach (The Sailor's Hornpipe); stated to have been composed by the performer]
7. Speech: Untitled [Information about the Shetland music just played; the performers were father (Jimmy) and son (Peter) Scully; the version of the performers' surname given here does not seem to match with that given in earlier speech links]
8. Speech, Song: Untitled [Information about the next performer and the song she sings], Two and Three Strings to my Bow (incomplete)
9. Song: The Ploughboy (incomplete)
10. Speech, Air: Untitled, The Blackbird
11. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled [Stated to be an old reel that derives from the performer's father; Anything for John Joe?; The Lisheen Reel; Did the Rum Do, Da?]
12. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The Lark in the Bog / The Geese in the Bog [The Lark's March]
13. Speech, Polka: Untitled, The Green Cottage Polka
14. Speech, Slide: Untitled, I'd Rather be Married than Left Alone
15. Speech, Air: Untitled, An Buachaillin Ban [The Dear Irish Boy]
16. Speech, Air: Untitled, O'Rahilly's Grave
17. Speech, Slides: Untitled, Untitled [Mickeen Dawley's], Untitled [If I Had a Wife]
18. Speech, Hornpipe: Untitled, The Woods of Kilkenny
19. Reel: The New-Mown Meadow [Joe Mhaire Mhicilin]
20. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Information about the last tune played and about the tune that follows], Untitled
21. Jig: Untitled
22. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Grandpa Tommy's Ceili Band; composed by Martin Mulhaire], Untitled (incomplete) [Radio announcement] [END OF BAND ONE]
23. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Radio announcement], The First Month of Summer, The Green Banks of Rossbeigh [The Green Fields of Rossbeigh]
24. Set Dances: Bonaparte's Retreat, The Ace and Deuce of Piping
25. Reels: Untitled [Reference given in documentation to this tune's appearance in print (The Smiles and Tears of Erin, in CRE, # 101); The Crooked Road to Dublin], Nellie Donovan [The Ladies Pantalettes] [This selection was recorded by Michael Coleman and J P (Pakie) Dolan, fiddles, on 78rpm commercial disc as 'The Duke of Leinster and His Wife']
26. Hornpipe: Untitled [Fisher's Hornpipe]
27. Reel: Untitled [Sporting Nell; Gorman's Reel; The Long Strand; for other performances of this tune, see tracks B6 &17]
28. Speech, Reels: Untitled, The Long Strand [Sporting Nell; Gorman's Reel; for other performances of this tune, see tracks B5 &17], The Beauty Spot
29. Speech, Hornpipes: Untitled, Scully's Hornpipe, Untitled [Murphy's Hornpipe; for another performance of this tune, see track B11a]
30. Speech, Jig: Untitled, Untitled [Bobby Casey's Jig; Scully Casey's Jig; CRE 3, # 16], Coppers and Brass [The Humours of Ennistymon]
31. Reels: Untitled [Dwyer's Reel; Finbarr Dwyer's Reel; The Holly Bush; Matt the Thresher; composed by Finbarr Dwyer], Untitled [The Dogs among the Bushes]
32. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled [Rakish Paddy; 4-part version as recorded on 78rmp disc by James Morrison, fiddle; for another performance of this version, see track B13a]
33. Hornpipes: Untitled [Murphy's Hornpipe; for another performance of this tune, see track B7b], Untitled [The Derry Hornpipe / The Londonderry Hornpipe; faded out at end]
34. Jigs: Untitled [The Rambling Pitchfork], Untitled [Jimmy O'Brien's Jig]
35. Reels: Untitled [Rakish Paddy; 4-part version as recorded on 78rmp disc by James Morrison, fiddle; for another performance of this version, see track B10], Untitled [The Wheels of the World; faded out]
36. Jig: Untitled [The Piper's Chair]
37. Jig: Untitled [Donal na Greine]
38. Reel: Untitled [Boil the Breakfast Early]
39. Reel: Untitled [Gorman's; Sporting Nell; The Long Strand; for other performances of this tune, see tracks B5 & 6]
40. Jig: Untitled (tape runs out) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Digitised and catalogue updated by Jackie Small, February 2008. Report year 2008The title of the DAT(s) was altered from the old title (DCS) to the new title (ITMA-REEL/DAT) using different numbers in order to establish consistency in the titling of DAT copies of reel-to-reel tapes, Niall Hackett, 2010DAT transferred digitally to hard drive and saved as 24 bit BWF using the DATs original sample rate. Files are stored on ITMA server. The WAV titles follow the convention of their relevant DAT copies.Imported from Reeldubs July 2013ARDI: Tracks A19–B9: see documentation for 4145-LP in CSRECS databaseTracks A19–B9 have the same contents as the commercial recording \'The Humours of Lisheen\', released by Topic Records in their LP series \'Music from Sliabh Luachra\'. That recording was later re-released on cassette by Ossian

Running Order:
1. Reels: Untitled [Dublin Porter], Untitled [The Old 'Wheels of the World'] [Several breaks in the recording]
2. Jig: Untitled [The Geese in the Bog; The Lark's March] [Several breaks in the recording]
3. Reels: Untitled [The Mountain Road], Untitled
4. Polkas: Untitled [The Knocknaboul Polka], Untitled [The Ballydesmond Polka]
5. Reels: Untitled [Boil the Breakfast Early], Untitled [Bunker Hill]
6. Air: Untitled [An Buachaill Caol Dubh / The Dark Slender Boy]
7. Reels: Untitled [The Crooked Road to Dublin], Untitled
8. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled
9. Jigs: Untitled [Port Sheain tSeosaimh; Old Joe's Jig], Untitled [The Leitrim Jig]
10. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled
11. Reel: Untitled [The Chicago Reel]
12. Set Dance: Untitled [Bonaparte's Retreat]
13. Jigs: Untitled [Connie the Soldier], Untitled [Port Chuilinn Ui Chaoimh / The Cullen Jig; The Humours of Glin (related tune)]
14. Song Air / Set Dance[?]: Untitled [The Palatine's Daughter / The Garden of Daisies]
15. Hornpipe: Untitled [Flee as a Bird (as recorded on commercial 78rpm disc by James Morrison, fiddle)]
16. Jig: Untitled [Cherish the Ladies]
17. Hornpipe: Untitled [Father Dollard's Hornpipe]
18. Reels: Untitled [The Old Bush], Untitled [Within a Mile of Dublin]
19. Jigs: Untitled [The Humours of Lisheen; The Thrush in the Straw], Untitled [Art O'Keefe's / Art O'Keeffe's] [HL / MSL, side A, track 1]
20. Reels: Untitled [Tap the Barrel], Untitled [Jenny Tie the Bonnet / Jenny Tie Your Bonnet / Tie the Bonnet] [HL / MSL, side A, track 2]
21. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Frisco Hornpipe] [HL / MSL, side A, track 3]
22. Jig / Slide: Untitled [Biddy Crowley's Ball; Mo Ghrasa ar Maidin / My Love in the Morning] [HL / MSL, side A, track 4]
23. Air, Slide: Untitled [The Bold Trainor O / The Bold Trainer O; The Green Linnet], Untitled [Denis Murphy's Slide; Padraig O'Keeffe's Slide] [HL / MSL, side A, track 5]
24. Polkas: Untitled [The Blue Riband], Untitled [Up and Away] [HL / MSL, side A, track 6]
25. Jig: Untitled [Cailin an Ti Mhoir; The Housekeeper] [HL / MSL, side A, track 7]
26. Polka: Untitled [Tom Sullivan's Polka] [HL / MSL, side A, track 8]
27. Hornpipes: Untitled [Freddy Kimmel's Hornpipe], Untitled [The Home Brew; The Wicklow Hornpipe] [HL / MSL, side A, track 9]
28. Polka: Untitled [Padraig O'Keefe's / Padraig O'Keeffe's] [HL / MSL, side B, track 1]
29. Hornpipe: Untitled [Poll Ha'penny / Poll Ha'penny] [HL / MSL, side B, track 2]
30. Jigs: Untitled [John Mahinney's No 2], Untitled [The Ducks and the Oats; The Tenpenny Bit (related tune?)] [HL / MSL, side B, track 3]
31. Polka: Untitled [I Looked East and I Looked West] [Continued on tracks B] [HL / MSL, side B, track 4]
32. Slides: Untitled, Untitled [The Worn Torn Petticoat] [Continued from tracks A] [HL / MSL, side B, track 5]
33. Air: Untitled [Taimse im' Chodhladh / Taimse im Chodladh] [HL / MSL, side B, track 6]
34. Slide: Untitled [Going to the Well for Water; The Kaiser] [HL / MSL, side B, track 7]
35. Polkas: Untitled [Julia Clifford's; Tarrant's], Untitled [Bill the Waiver's / Bill the Weaver's; Din Tarrant's] [HL / MSL, side B, track 8]
36. Jig / Slide / March: Untitled [Maguire's Kick] [HL / MSL, side B, track 9]
37. Hornpipe: Untitled [Johnny Cope] [HL / MSL, side B, track 10]
38. Speech, Polka: Untitled [Introduction to a polka set; identifies the musicians about to play], Untitled [John Clifford's] [HL / MSL, side B, track 11a]
39. Speech, Jig / Slide: Untitled, Behind the Bush in the Garden [Billy O'Rourke Is the Boy] [HL / MSL, side B, track 11b]
40. 9: Slide: Untitled [Going for Water (title given on commercial release); Going to the Well for Water; Scattery Island] [HL / MSL, side B, track 11c] [END OF BAND ONE]

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

Running Order:
1. Reels: The Boyne hunt, The coleminer
2. Speech: Introduction; Song: The low, low lands of Holland
3. Reels: The old bush set
4. Song: Will you go to Flanders
5. Song: Taglioni
6. Jigs: Mary Shore (Larry Redican composition), The Drumshambo jig, [unidentified], [unidentified]
7. Song: Paddy's green shamrock shore
8. Song: Allan Tyne of Harrow
9. Song: Moll Dubh a ghleanna
10. Song: Johnny, lovely Johnny
11. Slip jig: The tongs by the fire; Reel: Down the broom
12. Hornpipe: The home ruler, Joe Cooley's hornpipe
13. Reels: Round the house set = The controversial reel, [unidentified], [unidentified]