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Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 113 [sound recording] / [various performers]

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]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 150 [sound recording] / [various performers]

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]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 165 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Russell, Micho, Clare, tin whistle A1–27;
singing in English A6;
whistling A21(?);
speech in English, throughout;
[unidentified performer, Joe], lilting A1–11;
speech in English A1–11;
Breathnach, Breandán, speech in English, throughout;
Munnelly, Tom, speech in English, throughout;
[unidentified performers], speech in English A1–11

Running Order:
1. Jig: Donall na Greine [CICD 756–9, 760.11 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 10; Ceol III iv, p 99; Donnybrook Fair / The Joy of my Life (version of? DMI, # 79)]
2. Reels: Sporting Nellie [CICD 5075.11 (where this recording is referenced); 5075.12–.16 (none from this recording); Gorman's (CICD 5075, from Mrs Crotty); Sporting Nell], An Bhean Tinceara [CICD 5750.11–.12 (from this recording); 2686.11, 4028–30 (none from this recording)]
3. Jig: The Four Posts of the Bed [CICD 1349.12–.13 (none from this recording), 1349.14–.15 (where this recording is referenced)]
4. Air: An Drucht Geal Ceo / The Foggy Dew [Not in CICD]
5. Jig: Come into the Town, My Lady-O [CICD 987.11–.12 (from this recording)]
6. Song, Reel: Untitled (short; unfinished), Sean sa Cheo [CICD 3976.11–.12, 5649 (none from this recording), 3976.13–.14 (where this recording is referenced)]
7. Reel: The Boy in the Gap (old version) [CICD 2920.11 (where this recording is referenced); 2920, 2921–.11 (none from this recording); distinct from the standard version of this tune, which MR also plays.]
8. Reel: Boil the Kittle Early [CICD 5498.11 from this recording; Breandan Breathnach adds note: Mixture of 'Repeal of the Union' and 'Boy in the Gap'; Boil the Kettle Early]
9. Reels: The Green Groves of Erin [CICD 2913.11 (where this recording is referenced)], The Ivy Leaf [3622.11 (where this recording is referenced)]
10. Speech, Polka: The White Cockade [words sung to the tune], The White Cockade [CICD 6475.11 (where this recording is referenced); CRE 2, # 115]
11. Polka: Untitled [CICD 6506.11 (where this recording is referenced), 6507.12 (not from this recording); repeated at track 18]
12. Jig, Speech: Sagart na mBuataisi / The Priest in his Boots [CICD 1251.11 (where this recording is referenced); 1252 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 17], Untitled [Information about the tune Sagart na mBuataisi / The Priest in his Boots]
13. Jig / Single Jig / Slide: Untitled [CICD 2323.11 (Not from this recording), 2325.11 (where this recording is referenced)]
14. Jig: The Geese in the Bog [CICD 1809.12 (where this recording is referenced); 1809–.11, 1809–.13 (none from this recording)]
15. Reel: Carty's Reel / Cassidy's Reel [CICD 4684.11–.12 (where this recording is referenced); 4684.13, 4978–.12 (none from this recording); partly composed by MR; commonly known as Micho Russell's; as Carty's Reel from MR in CRE 2, # 294]
16. Reel: Rafferty's Reel [CICD 3316.11–.12 (from this recording); 3317.11 (not from this recording; where Breandan Breathnach says it is a version of The Rising Sun); The Old Blackthorn (version)]
17. Polka: The Bog Down in the Valley [CICD 6283.11 (where this recording is referenced); 6285 (not from this recording); The British Grenadiers (title supplied by Breandan Breathnach)]
18. Polka: Untitled [CICD 6506.11 (where this recording is referenced); 6507.12 (not from this recording); repeated at track 11]
19. 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']
20. Reel: The Sporting Days of Easter [CICD 3988.13 (where this recording is referenced, though reference is crossed out); 3988.11–.12, 3988.14, 3989 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 281] [END OF BAND ONE ?]
21. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5703.11 (where this recording is referenced); 5703.12 (not from this recording)]
22. Air / March, Speech: Untitled [Not in CICD], Untitled [about John White, flute player]
23. Jig / March: Brian Boru's March [CICD 1326.14–.15 (from this recording)]
24. Fling and Reel, Speech: The Keel Row [CICD 6533 (from this recording); played in fling time and then faster], Untitled [background to the tune; accompanying dance; words to the tune by MR and Breandan Breathnach]
25. Speech and Song, Dance Tune: The Verse of Vienna [background to tune, and sung version], do. [CICD 6544 (from this recording?); Father Halpin's Top Coat; Varsovienne]
26. Barn Dance / Fling, Speech: The Barn Dance / Moneymusk [CICD 6540 (from this recording?); 6538–39 (none from this recording)], Untitled [MR's reminiscences of people dancing the barn dance]
27. Jig / Dance Tune: The Handkerchief Dance [CICD 1196.12 (where this recording is referenced); 1196.11, 1197 (none from this recording); An Bothar o thuaidh go dti Arainn (from CICD 1197); CRE 2, # 65 from MR] [END OF BAND TWO]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 167 [sound recording] / Micho Russell ; Breandán Breathnach

Performers:
Russell, Micho, Clare, tin whistle A1–4, 6–20, 22–38;
speech in English A5, 21, throughout;
Breathnach, Breandán, tin whistle A8 and throughout;
speech in English, throughout

Running Order:
1. Reel: The Boy in the Gap (old version) [CICD 2920.11 (from this recording); 2921.11 (where this recording is referenced); 2920, 2921 (none from this recording); distinct from the standard version of this tune, which MR also plays.]
2. Reel: All the Ways to Galway [CICD 3086.12 (from this recording); 3086.11, 3561.12 (where this recording is referenced); 3561–.11 (none from this recording); The Kerry Cow; I Wish I Had a Kerry Cow; CRE 2, # 282 (from MR) and also at CRE 2, # 116]
3. Jig: Untitled [CICD 795.11, 795.13 (both from this recording?); 1879 (not from this recording); as Gillan's Apples in CRE 2, # 7 and DMI, # 287; Apples in Winter]
4. Reel: Sporting Nellie [CICD 5075.16 (from this recording); 5075.11, 5075.13–.15 (none from this recording); Gorman's (CICD 5075, from Mrs Crotty); Sporting Nell]
5. Speech: Untitled [dancing customs]
6. Slip Jig: Bimid ag Ol go dti Maidin [first version] [CICD 252.13 (from this recording), 252.11–252.12 (from the next track on this recording), 252, 252.14 (none from this recording); recorded from MR in two different registers, of which the higher one is here, and the lower one is on the next track]
7. Slip Jig: Bimid ag Ol go dti Maidin [second version] [CICD 252.11–252.12 (from this recording); played in a lower register than on the previous track; for more information see previous track]
8. Jig / Slide: Untitled (short, tentative; unfinished)
9. Reel: The Chicago Reel [CICD 4599.11 (from this recording)]
10. Reel: Untitled [CICD 4137.11, 5456.13 (both from this recording); 5456.11–.12, 5456.14–.15 (none from this recording)]
11. Jig / Slide: The Road to Lisdoonvarna [Not in CICD?]
12. Reel: The Top of the Morning [CICD 5276.11 (from this recording); 5277–5277.12, 5278 (none from this recording); CRE 5, # 181]
13. Hornpipe: The Rights of Man [CICD 6248.11 (from this recording)]
14. Jig: The Butcher's March / Hurrah for the Gallant Tipperary Boys / Lonely Old Hag Is It Tae You Want? / Hello You Old Hag Is It Tea You Want? / When Sick Is It Tea You Want? [CICD 2200.11–.12, 2381.12–.13 (all from this recording); 2381.14 (not from this recording)]
15. Polka / Single Reel: Untitled [CICD 6511.11–.12 (both from this recording), 6511 ( not from this recording); only one part of the tune is played]
16. Polka: Bean na Stocai Bana / My Darling I'm Fond of You [CICD 6439.13 (from this recording)]
17. Polka: Rise Your Legs, Says Maire [CICD 6346.11 (from this recording), 6346 (not from this recording); The Rose Tree in Full Bearing; Bhios-sa La i bPort Lairge]
18. Polka: The Bog Down in the Valley [CICD 6283.11 (from this recording), 6285 (not from this recording); The British Grenadiers (title supplied by Breandan Breathnach)]
19. Polka: Untitled [CICD 6507.12 (from this recording); 6506.11 (where this recording is referenced)]
20. Reel: Carty's Reel / Cassidy's Reel [CICD 4684.13 (from this recording); 4684.11–.12 (where this recording is referenced); 4978–.12 (none from this recording); partly composed by MR; commonly known as Micho Russell's; as Carty's Reel from MR in CRE 2, # 294]
21. Speech: Untitled [dancing customs; dancing out of time with the music; other topics]
22. Polka: Untitled [CICD 6371.11 (from this recording)]
23. Reel: Turkey in the Straw [CICD 2669.11 (from this recording)]
24. Reel: The Banshee / An Bhean Si [CICD 4864.12 (from this recording); 4864.11–.13, 5384.11 (none from this recording); tune is featured on the Flanagan Brothers 78 rpm disc titled 'The Flanagans Chase the Banshee']
25. Polka / March: The Battle of Aughrim [CICD 6448.11–.12 (from this recording), 6448 (not from this recording)]
26. Reel: The Heights of Alma / The Rakes of Mallow [CICD 2692.11 (from this recording)]
27. Reel: The Fair of Ballinasloe [CICD 2812.11 (from this recording); Ballinasloe Fair]
28. Fling / Barn Dance, Speech: Moneymusk / The Barn Dance [CICD 6539 (from this recording); 6538, 6540 (none from this recording)]; Untitled [flings danced on the Aran Islands]
29. Fling / Barn Dance: Johnny Will You Marry Me? / Love Will You Marry Me? / When Kitty Is Convenient [CICD 6541 (from this recording); Some Say the Devil Is Dead]
30. Hornpipe: The Home Brew [CICD 6257.12 (from this recording); 6257–.11 (not from this recording); version of The Road to Boyle (CRE 3, # 227)]
31. Speech, Air: Untitled [information about the air and song Dark Lochnagar], Dark Lochnagar
32. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5703.11 (from this recording), 5703.12–.13 (not from this recording)]
33. Reel: The Sporting Days of Easter [CICD 3988.12 (from this recording); 3988.11, 3988.13–.14, 3989 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 281]
34. Hornpipe: The First of May / The Skillet Pot [CICD 6222.11 (from this recording); The Sweets of May]
35. Hornpipe: Fisher's Hornpipe [CICD 6089.11 (from this recording); 6090, 6090.11 (not from this recording)]
36. Hornpipe: The Cork Hornpipe [CICD 6231.11 (from this recording); Harvest Home]
37. Hornpipe: The Boys of Blue Hill [CICD 6274.11 (from this recording; only partially transcribed)]
38. Hornpipe: An Spealadoir [CICD 6225.11 (from this recording); The Cuckoo's Nest]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 169 [sound recording] / Micho Russell ; Breandán Breathnach

Performers:
Russell, Micho, Clare, tin whistle A1-35, 37-55, B1-61;
singing in Irish A27;
singing in English B59;
speech in English throughout;
Breathnach, Breandán, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Reel: The Boy in the Gap (old version) [CICD 2921.11 (from this recording); 2920, 2920.11, 2921 (none from this recording); for MR's 'standard' version, see tracks A2 and B20.]
2. Reel: The Boy in the Gap (standard version) [CICD 3096.12–.13 (from this track on this recording); 3096.14–.15 (where this track on this recording is referenced; also from this recording (137b-ITMA-REEL/CDR, track 20); 3096.11, 3096.16, 3097 (none from this recording); also at track B20; for MR's 'old' version, see track A1.]
3. Reel: Patsy Campbell's Reel [CICD 3778.11 (from this recording), 3779 (not from this recording)]
4. Reel: Upstairs in a Tent [CICD 4444.12 (from this recording); 4445, 4446 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 190 (from MR)]
5. Reel: Tadhg a Run / A Thaidhg, a Run [CICD 4964.11 (from this recording); CRE 2, # 150 (i) (from MR)]
6. Reel: Divide the Cally Fair [CICD 5300.11 (from this recording), 5300 (not from this recording); Kennaw's Reel (WSGM, # 326, version of)]
7. Jig / Slide: The Clare Jig [CICD 2364.11–.12 (both from this recording); 1162.11–.12, 2364.13–.14 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 71 (untitled, from MR)]
8. Jig: An Chailleach is a Ceag ar a Gualainn / An Chailleach is a Ceag ar a Guala / Kitty's Rambles [CICD 1467.11 (from this recording), 1467 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 36 (from MR)]
9. Jig: Tatter Jack Walsh / An t-Athair Jack Walsh [CICD 1394.11 (from this recording); 1393, 1394, 1394.12 (none from this recording)]
10. Jig: The Frost is All Over / Rince na gCoinini i nGarrai na hEorna [CICD 724.12 (from this recording; contains reference to 'card 2'); 809 (not from this recording)]
11. Dance Tune: Untitled [not in CICD; learned by MR from a dance group in Ghent (?) in Belgium.]
12. Reel: The Rising Sun [CICD 2907.11 (from this recording), 2908 (not from this recording; CRE 2, # 260 (from MR); for other versions and titles, see BB index, cards 2983, 2657]
13. Reel: Untitled [CICD 4363.12 (from this recording); 4363.11, 3098 (not from this recording); learned from Johnny Byrt, flute player and travelling carpenter; CRE 2, # 175 (from MR)]
14. 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)]
15. Jig: The Four Posts of the Bed [CICD 1349.14–.15 (from this recording); 1349.12–.13 (none from this recording)]
16. Jig: The Connachtman's Rambles / Bean an Brown Dilisc [CICD 2136.11 (from this recording); 2133, 2136.12, 2138 (none from this recording)]
17. Jig: The Connachtman's Rambles [Version composed by Finbar Furey, according to MR; CICD 1389.12 (from this recording)]
18. Reel: The Blackhaired Girl / Cailin na Gruaige Duibhe [CICD 4230.13 (from this recording?); 4230.12 (where this recording is referenced); 4239 (not from this recording); The Blackhaired Lass]
19. Reel: Jackie Fitzpatrick's Reel / Jacky Fitzpatrick's Reel / Jack Fitz's Reel / Jackie Fitzgerald's Reel [CICD 4995.11 (from this track on this recording); 4995.12, 5018.12 (both also from this recording; see 137b-ITMA-REEL/CDR, track 30); 5016, 5017, 5018–.11 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 225 (from MR); related to Dowd's Favourite / O'Dowd's Favourite as recorded by Michael Coleman?]
20. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5084.11–.14 (all from this track on this recording); 5091.12–.13 (both also from this recording; see 137b-ITMA-REEL/CDR, track 60); 5091.11, 5093, 5096 (none from this recording); The Green Pigeon (title from CICD 5092, ex Pat Ward ms)]
21. Reels: The Swallow's Tail [CICD 5062.11 (from this recording); 5060.12, 5062 (none from this recording)]
22. Reel: The West Clare Reel [CICD 5883.11 (from this recording), 5883 (not from this recording); Dan Breen's]
23. Reel: Untitled [CICD 2924.11 (from this recording); 2923, 2924, 4033.11 (none from this recording)]
24. Jig: The Yellow Wattle [CICD 1133.11, 1828, 1829 (none from this recording)]
25. 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)]
26. Reel: The Heather Breeze / The Heathery Breeze [CICD 3415.13 (from this track on this recording); 3415.11 (also from this recording; see 137b-ITMA-REEL/CDR, track 18); 2856.11, 2857, 3415.12, 3415.14 (none from this recording)]
27. Reel, Singing: An Bhean Tinceara [CICD 2686.11 (from this recording); 4028, 4029, 4030, 5750.11–.12 (none from this recording)], An Bhean Tinceara [Sung version]
28. Jig: Barr na Feirsde / Barr na Feirisde / The Munster Buttermilk [CICD 818.11–.12 (from this recording); 825 (not from this recording)]
29. Jig / Quadrille Tune: The Cumann na mBan Is Dead and Gone [CICD 2146.11–.12 (both from this recording); The Cumann na mBan Are Dead and Gone; well known as a slide; one of two tunes that MR applies this name to.]
30. Jig, Singing, Speech: Christmas Day in the Morning / On Christmas Day in the Morning [CICD 2228.12 (from this recording); 2558 (not from this recording)]; Christmas Day in the Morning / On Christmas Day in the Morning [Sung version]; Untitled [Speech about the background to the tune / song 'Christmas Day in the Morning']
31. Jig: Garrett Barry's / The Ladies' Fancy [CICD 1006.11 (from this recording); 1007, 1008 (none from this recording)]
32. Polka: An Gabhairin Bui [CICD 6439.11 (from this recording); 6283 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 110 (from MR)]
33. Fling: Pop Goes the Weazel / Pop Goes the Weasel [CICD 6532.11 (from this recording)]
34. Jig: Ti-teen Girleen / Tidy Girlyeen [CICD 1326.13 (from this recording); 1325 (not from this recording); Behind the Bush in the Garden (DMI, # 398]
35. Reel: The Ladies Pantalettes [CICD 5626.11 (from this recording); 5626, 5637 (none from this recording)]
36. Speech: Untitled [Johnny Kilmartin, concertina, known as Johnny Sally; dancing style among the older people.]
37. Reel: All the Ways to Galway [CICD 3561.12 (from this track on this recording); 3086.11–.12, 3561–.11 (none from this recording); The Kerry Cow; I Wish I Had a Kerry Cow; CRE 2, # 282 (from MR) and also at CRE 2, # 116; for MR's version of this tune as single reel / polka, see 137b-ITMA-REEL/CDR, track 47]
38. Reel: Kitty Jones' Reel / Kitty Jones's Reel [CICD 4275.12 (from this recording); 4275.11, 4276, 4277 (none from this recording)]
39. Reel: The Old Torn Petticoat [CICD 4348.11 (from this recording), 4351 (not from this recording)]
40. Reel: Fochairi Beaga na Foraoire [CICD 5943.11 (from this recording); 5943, 5947.11 (not from this recording); Spike Island Lasses (here with only two parts, rather than the usual three)]
41. Jig / Dance Tune: An Bothar o thuaidh go dti Arainn / The Handkerchief Dance [CICD 1196.11 (from this recording); 1196.12 (also from this recording?); 1197 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 65 (from MR)]
42. Reel: Is Trua gan Peata 'n Mhaoir Agam / An Peata Beag is a Mhathair [CICD 4007.11, 5635.11 (both from this recording); 4008, 5634, 5635 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 259 (from MR); The Mother and Child Reel]
43. Reel: Is Trua gan Peata 'n Mhaoir Agam / An Peata Beag is a Mhathair [Partial repeat of the tune in the previous track]
44. Reel: The Sporting Days of Easter [CICD 3988.11 (from this recording); 3988.13 (where this recording is referenced; notation has been corrected from this recording?); 3988.12, 3988.14, 3989 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 281 (from MR)]
45. Jig: Sagart na mBuataisi / The Priest in his Boots [CICD 1251.11 (from this recording), 1252 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 17 (from MR)]
46. Jig: Connie the Soldier / The South-west Wind [CICD 2369.11 (from this recording), 2368 (not from this recording)]
47. Jig: The Rambling Pitchfork [CICD 1649.11 (from this recording); 1648 (not from this recording)]
48. Reel: The College Grove [CICD 5573.11 (from this recording); 3484 (not from this recording)]
49. Jig: The Cliffs of Moher (a), (b) [(a) CICD 784.12 (from this recording); 784.11, 784.14 (with G as the tonic note)], (b) [CICD 784.13 (from this recording); 784.15, 2113.11 (none from this recording); (with A as its tonic note)]
50. Slip Jig: The Rocky Road to Dublin / Slainte an Briste Leathain / Slainte an Bristin Leathair [CICD 440.11–.12 (both from this recording?); 435, 436 (not from this recording)]
51. Slip Jig: Untitled [CICD 315.11–.12 (from this recording), 318 (not from this recording); Barney Brallaghan (DMI, # 429, with 3 parts); 2 parts in MR's version]
52. Reel: Dunagore Reel [CICD 5610.11 (from this recording); 5610, 5610.12, 5769 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 210 and 275 (both from MR); The Concertina Reel (DMWC, # 72); The Doonagore Reel]
53. Jig: The Irish Washerwoman / The Big Jig / Paddy McGinty's Goat [CICD 1678.12–.13 (from this recording); 1678.11, 1679, 1686 (none from this recording)]
54. Jig, Speech: Nora Criona [CICD 628.11 (not from this recording; incipit only)], Untitled [information about Larry Sharry, musician who played the tune]
55. Jig: The Boys of the Town / Sean Phaidin [CICD 2228.11 (from this recording but not this track; see 137b-ITMA-REEL/CDR, track 1 ); 2233 (not from this recording); unfinished] [END OF BAND ONE]
56. Jig: The Boys of the Town / Sean Phaidin [CICD 2228.11 (from this recording), 2233 (not from this recording)]
57. Jig: Untitled [CICD 1497.13 (from this recording); 1496, 1497.12 (not from this recording); Kitty Come Over (DMI, # 55); The Cow that Ate the Blanket]
58. Reel: Tear the Calico [CICD 3131.13–.14 (from this recording), 3130 (not from this recording); 'standard' version of the tune; MR plays the tune in two registers, and this is the higher of the two. The other version is on the next track.]
59. Reel: Tear the Calico, the old way [CICD 3131.11 (from this recording), 3131.12 (not from this recording); MR plays the tune in two registers, and this is the lower of the two. The 'standard' version is on the previous track.]
60. Jig: The Maid on the Green / The Mountainy Boy [CICD 1202.11–.12 (from this recording), 1200 (not from this recording)]
61. Jig: The Trip to the Cottage [CICD 2180.11 (from this recording), 2179 (not from this recording)]
62. Reel: The Last House in Connacht [CICD 4437.11 (from this track on this recording); 4437.12–.13 (both from track B56 on this recording)]
63. Jig: Brian O'Lynn [CICD 1567.11 (from this recording); 1565 (not from this recording)]
64. Jig: The Rakes of Clonmel [CICD 1814.12 (from this recording); 1814.11 (where this recording is referenced); 1814 (not from this recording)]
65. Reel: London Bridge [CICD 2884.11 (from this recording); 2888, 2889, 5480 (not from this recording)]
66. Polka / March / Quadrille Tune: The Boyne Water [CICD 6508.14 (from this recording); 6508.11–.13 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 124 (from MR)]
67. Reel: The Banshee / An Bhean Si [CICD 4864.11 (from this recording); 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']
68. Jig: Willie Walsh's Jig [CICD 2386.11 (from this recording); 2382 (not from this recording); DMI, # 88 (as Willy Walsh's Jig); related to The Wandering Minstrel]
69. Jig: The Little House under the Hill [CICD 2048.11 (from this recording); 2047 (not from this recording)]
70. Reel: The Ships Are Sailing [CICD 2962.11–.12 (from this recording)]
71. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5456.14 (from this recording); 4137.11, 5456.11–.13, 5456.15 (none from this recording)]
72. Jig: Untitled [CICD 1559.14 (from this recording); 1559.13, 1559.15 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 67 (from MR); often played as a slide]
73. Reel: The Heather Breeze / The Heathery Breeze [CICD 3415.11–.12 (both from this track on this recording); 3415.13 (also from this recording; see 137a-ITMA-REEL/CDR, track 26); 2856.11, 2857, 3415.14 (none from this recording)]
74. Reel: Sean sa Cheo [CICD 3976.13–.14 (from this recording), 3976.11–.12, 5649 (none from this recording)]
75. Reel: The Boy in the Gap [CICD 3096.14–.15 (both from this track on this recording); CICD 3096.12–.13 (also from this recording; see 137a-ITMA-REEL/CDR, track 2); 3096.11, 3096.16, 3097 (none from this recording); standard version of this tune; for MR's 'old' version, see track A1]
76. Reel: Clochairin Ban, An [CICD 4514.11 (from this recording); 4513, 4514 (none from this recording); The Collier's Reel]
77. Reel: Untitled [CICD 4808.11 (from this recording), 4807.11 (not from this recording); Down the Broom]
78. Reel: The Gatehouse Maid [CICD 3051.11 (from this recording); 3062, 3068.11 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 233 (not from MR)]
79. Jig: Cathaoir an Phiobaire [CICD 1993.11 (from this recording), 1993 (not from this recording); The Piper's Chair; CRE 1, # 9 (not from MR)]
80. Jig: Cathaoir an Phiobaire [as at previous track]
81. Reel: Knocknagow [CICD 4593.12 (from this recording); 4590, 4593.11 (none from this recording); Scotch Mary]
82. Reel: Over the Moor to Maggie / Over the Meadows / Down the Meadows / Kitty's Wedding / The Dublin Reel [CICD 2804.11 (from this recording); 2804.12, 2805 (not from this recording)]
83. Reel: The Star of Munster (standard version) [CICD 4162.12 (from this recording); 4162.11, 4163, 4164 (none from this recording)], The Star of Munster (concertina version) [CICD 4019.11 (from this recording)]
84. Reel: Untitled [CICD 4772.13 (from this recording); 4772, 4772.11–.12 (none from this recording); The Rainy Day]
85. Reel: Jackie Fitzpatrick's Reel / Jacky Fitzpatrick's Reel / Jack Fitz's Reel / Jackie Fitzgerald's Reel [CICD 5018.12, 4995.12 (both from this track on this recording); 4995.11 (also from this recording; see 137a-ITMA-REEL/CDR, track 19); 5016, 5017, 5018–5018.11 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 225 (from MR); related to Dowd's Favourite / O'Dowd's Favourite as recorded by Michael Coleman?]
86. Slip Jig: Bimid ag Ol go dti Maidin [CICD 252.14 (from this recording); 252–252.13 (none from this recording); recorded from MR in two different registers, of which the higher one is here]
87. Reel: The Maid that Left the County [CICD 4288.13 (from this recording); 4288.12 (where this recording is referenced); 4286, 4288.11, 4288.14, 4289 (none from this recording); The Honeymoon (DMI, # 791)]
88. Reel: The Wind that Shakes the Barley [CICD 5757.13–.14 (both from this recording); 5757.11–.12 (both also from this recording?); 5743.11 (not from this recording)]
89. Reel: The Lady on the Island [CICD 5853.12–.13 (both from this recording); 5853.11 (not from this recording)]
90. Reel: The Five Mile Chase [CICD 2914.11 (from this recording); 2880–.11 (not from this recording)]
91. Reels: Sporting Nellie [CICD 5075.14 (from this recording); 5075.11–.13, 5075.15–.16 (none from this recording); Gorman's (CICD 5075, from Mrs Crotty); Sporting Nell]
92. Jig: The Walls of Liscarroll [CICD 1092.11 (from this recording); Tumble the Tinker; MR's An Bainbhin Dubh (related tune?)]
93. Reel: The Fermoy Lasses [CICD 3945.11 (from this recording)]
94. Reel: The Connemara Stockings [CICD 4006.11 (from this recording)]
95. Jig: The Battering Ram [CICD 2195.14–.15 (from this recording); 2195.12–.13 (not from this recording)]
96. Jig: Rory O'Moore [CICD 2195.11 (from this recording)]
97. Reel: The Top of the Morning [CICD 5277.11 (from this recording); 5276.11, 5277, 5277.12, 5278 (none from this recording); CRE 5, # 181 (from MR)]
98. Reel: The Bucks of Oranmore [CICD 5726.13–.14 (from this recording); 5482, 5725, 5726–.12 (none from this recording)]
99. Jig: An Rogaire Dubh [CICD 2620.11 (from this recording); 1858, 2620.12 (none from this recording); The Black Rogue]
100. Jig: McCormick's Jig [CICD 903.11–.12 (both from this recording)]
101. Jig: The Geese in the Bog [CICD 1809.13 (both from this recording?); 1809.12 (where this recording is referenced); 1809–.11, 1809.14 (none from this recording)]
102. Single Reel / Polka / Reel: Untitled [CICD 6496 (from this track on this recording); played here in polka-like tempo; All the Ways to Galway; for MR's version in reel tempo, see track A37.]
103. Reel: Untitled [CICD 4364.11 (from this recording); CRE 2, # 187 (not from MR)]
104. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5885.11–.12 (both from this recording)]
105. Jig: The Butcher's March / Hurrah for the Gallant Tipperary Boys / Lonely Old Hag Is It Tae You Want? / Hello You Old Hag Is It Tea You Want? / When Sick Is It Tea You Want? [CICD 2381.14 (from this recording); 2200.11–.12, 2224, 2381.12–.13 (none from this recording)]
106. Jig: The Walls of Liscarroll [CICD 2023.11 (from this recording); The Mug of Brown Ale; title 'The Walls of Liscarroll' given on card, in error?]
107. Jig: The Walls of Liscarroll [CICD 1483.11 (from this recording); not the tune of the same name at track B37; The Mouse in the Cupboard]
108. Jig: Cailleach a Mhairbh Me [CICD 2578.11 (from this recording); A Chailleach do Mhairis Me]
109. Hornpipe: The Flowers of Edinburgh [CICD 6256.11 (from this recording; '2 UCD 30' also given on the card as a source – in error? The tune does not appear on UCD 2)]
110. Reel: Peter Street [CICD 3440.11 (from this recording)]
111. Reel: The Last House in Connacht [CICD 4437.12–.13 (both from this track on this recording); 4437.11 (from track B7 on this recording)]
112. Jig: Happy to Meet and Sorry to Part [CICD 2127.11 (from this recording)]
113. Jig: Tom Hanna's [CICD 2374.11–.13 (all from this recording)]
114. Jig, Singing, Jig: Paddle My Own Canoe [CICD 1607.13 (from this recording)]; do. [sung version of the previous]; Back of the Haggard [CICD 1607.12 (from this recording), another version of the tune]
115. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5091.12–.13 (from this track on this recording); 5084.11–.14 (all also from this recording; see 137a-ITMA-REEL/CDR, track 20); 5091.11, 5093, 5096 (none from this recording); The Green Pigeon (title from CICD 5092, ex Pat Ward ms)]
116. Hornpipe: Dance the Figure of Eighty on the Blackbird's Back [CICD 6191.11 (from this recording); Bantry Bay (DMI, # 823); recorded by Michael Coleman with The Stack of Barley (?)] [END OF BAND TWO]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 171 [sound recording] / Micho Russell ; Breandán Breathnach

Performers:
Russell, Micho, Clare, tin whistle A1–11, 13–26;
speech in English A12 and throughout;
Breathnach, Breandán, tin whistle, occasionally;
speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Reel: Farewell to Connacht [CICD 3041.12 (from this recording); 3041.11 (not from this recording)]
2. Reel: Carty's Reel / Cassidy's Reel [CICD 4684.11–.12 (from this recording); 4684.13, 4978–.12 (none from this recording); partly composed by MR; commonly known as Micho Russell's; as Carty's Reel from MR in CRE 2, # 294]
3. Jig: The Humours of Bantry [CICD 1194.11 (from this recording; DMI, # 13)]
4. Jig: Jimmy O'Brien's Jig [CICD 1860.11 (from this recording) / The Maid in the Meadows [CICD 1866–7 (not from this recording)]
5. Jig: The Frieze Breeches / La Sin' Seain / Trom La [CICD 1492.11–.13 (all from this recording); 1486, 1487, 1488, 1490 (none from this recording); standard version of the tune; for MR's 'old' version see the next track.]
6. Jig: Frieze Breeches (the old way) [CICD 954.11 (from this recording); as MR heard it played on concertina and jew's harp; for MR's 'standard' version of the tune, see the previous track.]
7. Jig: The Chorus Jig / The Kilfenora Jig [CICD 2218.11–.12 (from this recording)]
8. Jig: Is Fearr Paidir na Port [CICD 1713.11 (from this recording); MR explains that this tune is played after The Chorus Jig / The Kilfenora Jig (see previous track) and is sometimes regarded as part of it.]
9. Cudreels / Cudrils / Quadrille Tunes / [Jigs / Slides]: She Hadn't the Knack She Thought She Had [CICD 1470.12 (from this recording); 1470.11 (not from this recording)], The Cumann na mBan Are Dead and Gone [CICD 1968.13 (from this recording); 1968.11–.12 (none from this recording); one of 2 tunes that MR assigns this name to.]
10. Speech, Set Dance: Untitled [Patrick Killoughrey, dancer; confusion about parts of the tune that follows], The Retreat [CICD 6528, 6529, 6530 (all from this recording? Part of the tune replayed separately {card 6530?}); 6531, 6532 (none from this recording); Bonaparte's Retreat]
11. Set Dance: Rodney's Glory [CICD 6527 (from this recording)]
12. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the music on track 13, mainly topics related to dancing, including: the travelling dancing master and fiddle player Hennessy (trained local people to dance the jig, reel and hornpipe; first taught the rising step in the jig, then the side-step for the reel; was active in the 1920s and '30s; taught MR's father; {MR himself saw H.}; taught pupils individually and charged sixpence per step, then thought very expensive; used to stay and teach in Michael Flanagan's house; would stay for one to two months at a time; when the lessons were over, sets would be danced in Flanagan's house); the dancing master Stack (from Ballycotton, Co Kerry); the dancer Paddy Moloney (danced in knickerbockers; danced Sagart na mBuataisi {The Priest in his Boots} as a solo dance); dancers in the Aran Islands (made up their own steps; when dancing a set would make the figures very long); Mairtin O Griofa, Carraroe, Co Galway, solo dancer (would make up his own steps); 'single' dancing (i.e. solo dancing by one man); a girl from Belgium performed what she called 'nature dancing' at the festival in Lisdoonvarna to the tune selection in track 13 (BB enquires if she was still dressed); Father Pat Ahearn (Siamsa Tire) arranged this tune set for the Fleadh Nua; MR offers to demonstrate a double batter with heel and toe in reel or quick hornpipe time.]
13. Air / Slow March, Slip Jig, Reel, Air: The South Wind [not in CICD], The Foxhunter's Jig / Nead na Lachan sa mButa [CICD 272.11 (from this recording); MR's name in Irish from Donal Standun (banjo, Spiddal, Co Galway); BB says that Willie Clancy's tune The Humours of Derrykissane is a version of this], The Foxhunter's Reel [CICD 2898.11 (from this recording; transcribed only in part); BB says that Patrick Kelly (fiddle) was the first person he heard playing this, and that Sean Keane (fiddle, The Chieftains) had popularised it], The South Wind [as played earlier in this track]
14. Reel: The Green Fields of America / Molly Branagan (Molly Brannigan?) [CICD 4754.11 (from this recording); 4749 (not from this recording); DMI, # 523]
15. Reel: Rakish Paddy [CICD 6015.11 (from this recording); 3108, 3109, 3110 (not from this recording); DMI, # 749; CRE, # 145]
16. Reel: The Blackhaired Lass / The Blackhaired Girl / Cailin na Gruaige Duibhe [CICD 4230.12 (from this recording), 4230.13, 4239 (not from this recording)]
17. Reel: Untitled [CICD 4363.11 (from this recording); 4363.12, 3098 (not from this recording); played by Johnny Byrt, a travelling carpenter from Liscannor; CRE 2, # 175 (from MR)]
18. Reel: Patsy Campbell's Reel [CICD 3778.11 (where this recording is referenced); 3779 (not from this recording)]
19. Reel: Drowsy Maggie (mother's version) [CICD 3896.11 (from this recording); from MR's mother, who played the concertina; for another version, which MR learned in Donegal, see the next track.]
20. Reel: Drowsy Maggie (Donegal version) [CICD 3896.12–.13 (from this recording); version learned by MR from the Byrnes of Kilcar (fiddle players) while on a visit to Donegal.]
21. Jig: The Geese in the Bog [CICD 724.11 (from this recording); 1604, 1605 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 53 (from MR); The Lark's March]
22. Jig: The Geese in the Bog [CICD 1809.11 (from this recording); 1809 (not from this recording); not the same tune as on previous track; minor key, tonic note A; for a version of this tune with tonic note B, see the next track]
23. Jig: The Geese in the Bog [CICD 1809.12 (from this recording); 1809.13–.14 (not from this recording); not the same tune as that at track 21; minor key, tonic note B; for a version of this tune with tonic note A, see the previous track]
24. Reel, Speech: Upstairs in a Tent [CICD 4444.12 (where this recording is referenced); 4445, 4446 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 190 (from MR)], Untitled [about Jimmy Mulqueeny (fiddle), who supplied the name for this tune. From BB's comments re 'Jimmy Mucai' it looks as if he had CICD card 4446 card in front of him when talking to MR here.]
25. Jigs / Single Jigs / Slides: Mickey Callaghan's Slide [CICD 2325.11 (from this recording), 2323.11 (not from this recording)], The Clare Jig [CICD 2364.13–.14 (from this recording); 1162.11–.12, 2364.11–.12, 2364.15 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 71 (untitled, from MR)]
26. Speech: Untitled [Speech to introduce the reel The Boy in the Gap (the old way), but tape runs out before tune gets under way.] [END OF BAND ONE]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 188 [sound recording] / Micho Russell ; Breandán Breathnach

Performers:
Russell, Micho, Clare, tin whistle A2–5, 7–37, B1–29, 31;
flute B32–33;
speech in English, throughout;
singing in English A1, B12;
speech in Irish B30;
Breathnach, Breandán, Dublin, tin whistle A6, B31 and throughout;
speech in English, throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech, Song: Untitled [Name of, and words to, the hornpipe An Spealadoir / The Cuckoo's Nest; continued from previous tape (UCD 2)?], The Cuckoo's Nest
2. Hornpipe: The Plains of Boyle [CICD 6217.11 (source not given); partly transcribed only; CRE 2, # 315 (not from MR)]
3. Reel: Miss Thornton's Reel [CICD 3099.11 (from this recording)]
4. Jig: My Darling Asleep [CICD 1822.11 (from this recording; title 'The Wicklow Miners' / 'The Miners of Wicklow' given - in error?); 1822, 1822.12–.13 (not from this recording)]
5. Jig: The Rakes of Clonmel [CICD 1814.11 (from this recording); 1814.12, 1814 (not from this recording); DMI, # 149]
6. Jig, Speech: Miners of Wicklow [Not in CICD from this recording], Untitled [BB recites words sung to The Miners of Wicklow]
7. Jig: Sixpenny Money [CICD 1573.11 (from this recording?)]
8. Jig: The Guinea Gold Ring [CICD 1012–.12 (from this recording?); 3 parts played; The Gold Ring (CRE, # 47, where 4 parts are given)]
9. Jig: The Castlebar Races [CICD 795.12 (from this recording); 1672 (not from this recording); Morrison's Fancy (WSGM, # 197)]
10. Jig: The Cliffs of Moher [CICD 784.11 (from this recording?); 784.12–.15, 2113.11 (none from this recording); MR plays this tune in 2 versions, one with G as the tonic note (as here), one with A]
11. Jig: Delia McQuane and her Charlemoi / Delia McQuane and her Charlemy / Come Back, Paddy Reilly (P. French) [CICD 2091.11 (from this recording?); 2089 (not from this recording; where BB suggests that Percy French used this tune for his song Come Back, Paddy Reilly); Sweet Biddy Daly (DMI, # 278)]
12. Reel: Matt the Thresher [CICD 5359.11 (from this recording); 5359 (not from this recording)]
13. Reel: Untitled [CICD 4033.11 (from this recording); 2923, 2924–.11 (none from this recording)]
14. Jig: Willie Coleman's [CICD 1406.12 (from this recording); 1401 (not from this recording; on which title is given as Willie Cronin's – in error?); composed by Martin Wynne?]
15. Reel: The Maid that Left the County [CICD 4288.12, 4288.14 (both from this recording); 4286, 4288.11, 4288.13, 4289 (none from this recording); The Honeymoon (DMI, # 791); Lady O'Brien's Reel (Tunes of the Munster Pipers, # 96)]
16. Polka: The White Cockade [CICD 6475.11 (from this recording); CRE 2, # 115 (from MR)]
17. Reel: Come West along the Road [CICD 5502.11 (from this recording); 5502, 5505 (not from this recording); DMI, # 793]
18. Reel: Miss Monaghan [CICD 3179.12 (from this recording)]
19. Reel: The Dairy Maid / Kiss the Bride in Bed [CICD 5358.11 (from this recording); CRE 3, # 191]
20. Reel: The Humours of Tulla [CICD 3857.12 (from this recording); standard setting of the tune; CRE 3, # 135; for MR's 'old' setting, see the next track]
21. Reel: The Humours of Tulla [CICD 3726.11 (from this recording); old setting, as played by the flute-player Austin Linnane, from Ballycotton; for MR's 'standard' setting, see the previous track]
22. Reel: The Heather Breeze / The Heathery Breeze [CICD 3415.14 (from this recording); 3415.12 (where this recording is referenced); 2856.11, 2857, 3415.11, 3415.13 (none from this recording); DMI, # 779]
23. Reel: Sporting Nellie [CICD 5075.11–.12 (both from this recording); 5075.13–.16 (none from this recording); Gorman's (CICD 5075, from Mrs Crotty); Sporting Nell; CRE 3, # 194]
24. Reel: Kitty's Gone a-Milking / The Dublin Reel [CICD 5211.11 (where this recording is referenced? from this recording?); not the tune generally called The Dublin Reel; DMWC, # 31]
25. Reel, Speech: The Dublin Reel (a) [not in CICD in this version; tonic note C; local version from concertina players], The Dublin Reel (b) [CICD 3103.11, 3103.12, 3103.14 (all from this recording?); 3101, 3104.11–.12 (none from this recording); standard version (tonic note D)], Untitled [78 rpm recording by William J. Mullaly]
26. Reels: The Green Groves of Erin [CICD 2913.11 (from this recording?)], The Ivy Leaf [CICD 3622.11 (from this recording); also at track 28]
27. Reel: The Pigeon on the Gate [5239.11–.12 (both from this recording? With tonic note A); 5261.11–.12 (none from this recording; with tonic note E)]
28. Reel: The Ivy Leaf [CICD 3622.11 (from this recording); also at track 26(b)]
29. Reel: The Swallow's Tail / Howley's Swallow [CICD 5060.11 (from this recording); the version played by Corney Howley; for MR's 'standard' version, see the next track]
30. Reel: The Swallow's Tail [CICD 5060.12 (from this recording); 5062–.11 (none from this recording); for a local version played by MR, see the previous track]
31. Reel: The Silver Spear [CICD 5768.11 (from this recording); CRE, # 141]
32. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5399.11 (from this recording); 5399 (not from this recording); version of Lord McDonald?]
33. Reel: Rafferty's Reel [CICD 3317.11 (from this recording); 3316.11–.12 (not from this recording); according to BB, a version of The Rising Sun; The Old Blackthorn (version)]
34. Jig: Banish Misfortune / The Irishman's Misfortune / The Shady Groves of Peamount [CICD 1367.11–.12 (both from this recording)]
35. Jig / Quadrille Tune / Slide: Untitled [CICD 708.11 (from this recording); Rural Felicity; a four-part version was recorded by De Danann as 'Kathleen Hehir's']
36. Polka: Untitled [CICD 6506.11, 6507.12 (none from this recording)]
37. Jig: Down the Back Lane / Kitty Come Down the Meadows [CICD 1097.11 (from this recording); Bimid ag Ol] [END OF BAND ONE]
38. Jig / March: Brian Boru's March [CICD 1326.14–.15 (none from this recording)]
39. Reel: Sailing into Walpole's Marsh [Not in CICD from this recording]
40. Reel: Rolling in the Ryegrass / The Shannon Breeze [Not in CICD from this recording]
41. Reel: The Peeler's Jacket [Not in CICD from this recording]
42. Reel: The Morning Star [CICD 4489.11 (not from this recording)]
43. Reel: The Teetotaller / Old Mary Ann [Not in CICD from this recording]
44. Reel: Upstairs in a Tent [CICD 4444.12, 4445, 4446 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 190 (from MR)]
45. Jig: Come into the Town, My Lady Oh [CICD 987.11–.12 (not from this recording)]
46. Jig: Off She Goes [Not in CICD from this recording]
47. Reels: Boil the Breakfast Early [Not in CICD from this recording; DMI, # 789], Boil the Kittle Early [CICD 5498.11 (not from this recording); BB adds note: Mixture of 'Repeal of the Union' and 'Boy in the Gap'; Boil the Kettle Early]
48. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Description of the handkerchief dance / rag dance / cloth dance; danced by couples; danced to The Peeler and the Goat], The Peeler and the Goat [Not in CICD from this recording]
49. Speech, Fling, Song: Untitled [Dancing customs; the chair dance], The Keel Row [CICD 6533 (not from this recording)], The Keel Row
50. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Man in Ennistymon asks for the tune 'Bean an Ti ar Lar'], The Woman of the House / The Mistress of the House [Not in CICD from this recording; learned by MR from group from San Francisco; piping version; for the 'standard' version, see the next track]
51. Reel: The Woman of the House [Not in CICD from this recording; 'standard' version; for the piping version, see the previous track]
52. Reel: The Shaskeen [Not in CICD from this recording]
53. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; Jackie Coleman's Reel]
54. Reel: The Dunagore Reel / The Concertina Reel [CICD 5610–.12, 5769 (none from this recording); MR's mother played it on the concertina; CRE 2, # 210 and 275 (both from MR); The Concertina Reel (DMWC, # 72)]
55. Jig: The Donnybrook Jig [Not in CICD from this recording; Donnybrook Fair (DMI, # 79)]
56. Reel: The Sally Gardens [Not in CICD from this recording]
57. Reel: The Mason's Apron [Not in CICD from this recording; played the 'old' way, as played by local concertina players]
58. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; version of The Humours of Westport]
59. Reel: The Flogging Reel [Not in CICD from this recording]
60. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; The Old 'Wheels of the World' (DMWC, # 56)]
61. Reel: The Hunter's Purse / An Sceach / Maire Ni Luachra's Reel / Maire Ni Dhonaill [Not in CICD from this recording]
62. Jig: The Humours of Ennistymon / Coppers and Brass [Not in CICD from this recording]
63. Reel: The Moving Bog / Miss Wallace / The Upper Room [Not in CICD from this recording]
64. Jig: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; The Kinnegad Slashers (DMI, # 148)]
65. Speech with Music Demonstration: Untitled [BB questions MR about his technique and ornamentation; to demonstrate, MR plays the reels Jenny Picking Cockles and The Concertina Reel, and the jig Donall na Greine]
66. Reel: Bonny Kate [Not in CICD from this recording]
67. Speech, Untitled [Words in Irish to the jig Paidin O Raifeartaigh and to other tunes, including Slainte an Bristin Leathair and The Blackthorn Stick; information about MR's mother, Annie Moloney, a concertina player; words she had to The Blackthorn Stick]
68. Jig, Air: The Blackthorn Stick [CICD 1176.11 (not from this recording); The Maid at the Well (DMI, # 24)], The Blackthorn Stick / Buachaill on Eirne
69. Reel: The Fermoy Lasses [CICD 3945.11 (not from this recording); DMI, # 573]
70. Reel: Toss the Feathers (the old way) [CICD 3630.11 (not from this recording); incomplete] [END OF BAND TWO]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 26 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer [Seamas O hIghne], chanting of a Fenian lay in Irish A1;
Unidentified performer, harp [?] solo A2–4;
Unidentified performer [Keane, Sean, Dublin], fiddle solo A5–6;
Unidentified performer [Murphy, Mollie / Murphy, Mrs, Cork], fiddle solo A7, 11;
Unidentified performer [Murphy, Denis, Kerry], fiddle solo A8–10;
speech in English A9;
Unidentified performer [Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin], speech in English A9;
Unidentified performer [Ennis, Seamus, Dublin], pipes solo A12;
Unidentified performer [Clancy, Willie, Clare], pipes solo A13;
Unidentified performer [Russell, Micho, Clare], whistle solo A14;
Unidentified performer [Doran, Johnny, Wicklow], pipes solo A15;
Unidentified performer [Eddie Moloney, Galway], flute solo A16

Running Order:
1. Fenian Lay: Untitled [Laoi na Mna Moire]
2. Air: Untitled
3. Air: Untitled
4. Miscellaneous, Speech: Untitled [Instrument tuning], Untitled
5. Jigs: Untitled [The Gander in the Pratie Hole], Untitled [The Trip to Killavel] [This track is probably a dub from track 6 of the accompanying sound recording to BB's book 'Folk Music and Dances of Ireland']
6. Reels: Untitled [The Congress], Untitled [The Foxhunter's Reel] [This track is probably a dub from track 4 of the accompanying sound recording to BB's book 'Folk Music and Dances of Ireland']
7. Jig: Untitled [Cnocan an Teampaill / Church Hill]
8. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Rights of Man] (end clipped)
9. March, Speech: Untitled, Untitled
10. Reel: Untitled [Colonel Fraser / Colonel Frazer]
11. Jig / March: Untitled [Painneach na nUbh / Painneach na n-Ubh / O'Sullivan's March]
12. Jigs: Untitled [The Pipe on the Hob], Untitled [Down the Back Lane], Untitled [Sixpenny Money], Untitled [Paidin O Raifeartaigh]
13. Air: Untitled [The Green Linnet]
14. 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)] (running too fast)
15. Reels: Untitled [Colonel Fraser], Untitled [My Love is in America], Untitled [Rakish Paddy] (running too fast)
16. Reels: Untitled [Tommy Whelan's Reel], Untitled [The Sailor on the Rock] (overmodulated on original) [END OF BAND ONE]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 274 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle solo A1;
Partially identified performer [Kelly, Patrick, Clare], fiddle solo A2–13;
Unidentified performer, speech in English intermittently throughout A2–13

Running Order:
1. Tune Medley: Wren Selection [Consists of the march 'The Rising of the Moon', the slide 'The Gallant Tipperary Boys' and the jig 'Petticoat Loose / Con Carthy's']
2. Jigs: The Sporting Pitchfork, The Rambling Pitchfork
3. Reel: Untitled [An Baisteadh / The Christening; Mrs Crotty's]
4. Reel: Bonny Kate [Bonnie Kate]
5. Reels: The Salamanca, The Milliner's Daughter
6. Reel: Drowsie Maggie [Drowsy Maggie; The Reel with the Beryl]
7. Reel: The Star of Munster
8. Jig: The Leitrim Jig [Old Tipperary]
9. Reel: Connemara Stockings [The Connemara Stocking; clock strikes during tune]
10. Reel: The College Grove
11. Jig: The Tidy Girleen [My Love in the Morning]
12. Reel: My Love Is in America
13. Jig: Anthony Frawley's Jig [END OF BAND ONE]

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