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Performers:
Casey, Bobby, Clare, fiddle solo A1–3;
Clancy, Willie, Clare, pipes solo A4–6;
pipes in instrumental group A7?;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group A7;
Russell, Micho, Clare, flute in duet A8?;
flute solo A10;
whistle solo A11;
whistle in duet A14;
Unidentified performer, lilting in duet A8;
lilting solo A9;
Unidentified performer, concertina solo A12–13, 15;
concertina in duet A14;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A16–17;
Unidentified performer, singing in Irish with lilting A18;
speech in English A18;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A18;
Unidentified performer, flute solo A19

Running Order:
1. Hornpipes: Untitled [Murphy's Hornpipe], Untitled [The Derry Hornpipe / The Londonderry Hornpipe]
2. Jigs: Untitled [The Rambling Pitchfork], Untitled [The Mist in the Meadow; Jimmy O'Brien's Jig]
3. Reels: Untitled [Rakish Paddy; 4-part version recorded on 78rpm disc by James Morrison, fiddle], Untitled [The Wheels of the World] [This selection was recorded by James Morrison]
4. Reels: Untitled [The Copperplate], Untitled [Rakish Paddy]
5. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Plains of Boyle]
6. Jig: Untitled [Garrett Barry's Jig]
7. Reel: Untitled [The Heather Breeze], Untitled [Miss McLeod's Reel]
8. Jig: Untitled [The Piper's Chair]
9. Jig: Untitled [The Piper's Chair]
10. 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)]
11. Reel: Untitled [Boil the Breakfast Early]
12. Reel: Untitled [Gorman's Reel]
13. Jig: Untitled [Version of Kitty's Rambles / The Rambles of Kitty]
14. Reel: Untitled [The Heather Breeze]
15. Reel: Untitled [The Peeler's Jacket]
16. Reel: Untitled [The Bag of Potatoes; The Bag of Spuds (version of)]
17. Jig: Untitled
18. Song, Speech: Untitled [A mixture of singing and lilting], Untitled
19. Reels: Untitled [The Maids of Mount Cisco], Untitled [The Hunter's Purse] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, whistle solo A2, 8–9, 17, 19, 23, 33;
speech in English and Irish throughout;
pipes solo A4, 6, 15, 25, 27, 31;
singing in English A11;
singing in Irish A13;
singing in Irish and English A21, 29;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English and Irish throughout;
lilting in duet A9;
Clancy, Willie, Clare, pipes solo A20, 22, 24, 26, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37

Running Order:
1. Tone Signal: Untitled
2. Slide: Untitled [The Dark Girl in Blue (CRE 3, # 50); Denis Murphy's Slide; short version to begin the 1st edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape; full version at track A9]
3. Speech: Untitled [Topics include: how long does it take to make a piper? Time required: 7 years learning, 7 years practising, 7 years playing; story about 3 squabbling brothers; introduction to the tune that follows, a test piece for pipers; SE plays his father's version]
4. Set Dance: A hAon is a Do na Piobaireachta / The Ace and Deuce of Piping [One of two versions of this tune that SE played; tonic note A]
5. Speech: Untitled [About the title of the piece of music that follows, The Shaskeen Reel; bo sheasc is a cow that is not giving milk, perhaps a barren cow; the word 'seaiscin' is the affectionate diminutive of the word 'seasc', referring to such a cow that is kept as a pet]
6. Reel: The Shaskeen Reel
7. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the theme of the story that follows; story about the hiring fairs, 'Don Nippery Septo'; story about the king of Greece who wanted to give his daughter's hand in marriage to the man who could tell the longest story – the story without end; Ennis refers to the tune that follows as 'The Eternal Slide']
8. Slide, Speech: The Eternal Slide [Dingle Regatta (Sliabh Luachra version)], Untitled
9. Slide: Untitled [The Dark Girl in Blue (CRE 3, # 50); Denis Murphy's Slide; with lilting; full version; short version at track A2]
10. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the song that follows, which was learnt from Mrs Cronin of Ballyvourney and her son Michael; song is about the treaty of Limerick, Sarsfield and the flight of the Wild Geese]
11. Song: Untitled [The Charming Colleen Rua]
12. Speech: Untitled [Topics include: the dialect of Irish in Waterford; Labhras O Cadhlaigh; faction fighting; factions Carabhat & Seana-Bheist; introduction to the next item]
13. Song: Untitled [Is Buachaill o Chluain Meala Me; song used to start a faction fight]
14. Speech: Untitled [Discussion of topics related to the song just sung, including: faction fighting; dragging one's coat to start a fight; fair days and faction fights; '12 o'clock in the day and not a blow struck'; Labhras O Cadhlaigh interested in piping; An Lin faoi Bhlath / The Flax in Bloom, reel popular in Ring, Co Waterford]
15. Reel: An Lin faoi Bhlath / The Flax in Bloom [End of the first edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape]
16. Speech: Untitled
17. Polkas: Untitled [The Dark Girl Dressed in Blue], Untitled [The Knocknaboul Polka # 2; faded out] [End of the first edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape]
18. Tone signal
19. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; attitudes of people to pipes] [Beginning of the second edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape]
20. Jigs: Down the Back Lane, Sergeant Early's Jig / An Maidrin Treitheach
21. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; the chanter of the uilleann pipes played by Willie Clancy here was made by the Moloney brothers of Kilrush, who lived in the first half of the 19th century; chanter is 18 long & is on loan from Sean Reid, who in turn got the chanter from Brother Gildas O'Shea, Kerry, of the De La Salle congregation; introduction to the next item]
22. Air: The Trip over the Mountain [The Trip We Took over the Mountain]
23. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; Willie Clancy was influenced by other pipers, including Garrett Barry and Johnny Doran]
24. Reels: The Steampacket, Rakish Paddy
25. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
26. Hornpipes: The Faithful Friend [Learned from Leo Rowsome], The Plains of Boyle (faded out) [End of the second edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape]
27. Tone signal
28. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; Willie Clancy was influenced by other pipers, including Garrett Barry, Johnny Doran, Leo Rowsome and Seamus Ennis; he was also influenced by John Potts, of Ardee St, Dublin, a native of south Co Wexford; introduction to the next item] [Beginning of the third edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape]
29. Reel: The Connacht Heifers [The Connacht Heifer; learned from John Potts], Corney is Coming
30. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; the tune that follows is a version played by the piper Garrett Barry, whom Willie Clancy's father Gilbert knew well; introduction to the next item]
31. Jig: The Frieze Breeches [First two parts of this 5-part jig form the melody of the song sung in Connemara 'Cunnla, a chroi, na teara nios goire dom']
32. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; Willie Clancy's interest in Irish traditional singing is reflected in his playing of slow airs; introduction to the air that follows; Willie Clancy learned the melody from a ballad in English that his father used to sing called 'The Bold Trainer-O']
33. Air: Uilleachan Dubh O / Banchnoic Eireann O / The Bold Trainer-O [The Green Linnet; M'Uilleagan Dubh O; The Bold Traynor O]
34. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; West Clare is no longer a Gaeltacht; a verse in Irish connected with the first tune in the selection to be played next]
35. Reel: Bean an Tinceara [Bean a' Tinceara; An Bhean Tinceara], Carney's Reel [Kearney's Reel; The Ravelled Hank of Yarn; recorded on a commercial 78rpm disc for Gael-linn by this performer as 'Ril Mhichil Ui Cheithearnaigh', i.e. 'Michael Carney's Reel'; that recording reissued on the CD publication 'Seoltai Seidte'; recorded by Michael Carney on a commercial 78rpm disc as 'The Peeler's Jacket' (mistitled?)]
36. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; introduction to the next tune]
37. Slip Jig: Tiocfaidh Tu sios go Luimneach / Won't You Come down to Limerick? [An dTiocfaidh Tu sios go Luimneach? / Kitty Come down to Limerick / Will You Come down to Limerick? / The Munster Gimlet] (faded up at start) [End of third edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Clancy, Willie, Clare, pipes solo A1, 3, 5, 7, 13;
speech in English A2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12;
whistle solo A9, 11;
O'Donnell, Michael, speech in English A2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12

Running Order:
1. Reels: The Connacht Heifers / The Connacht Heifer, Jenny Picking Cockles
2. Speech with Music: Untitled [Willie Clancy's background in music; mother played concertina; began playing the whistle at the age of five; was over 20 when he began to play the pipes; got first set of pipes from Felix Doran; the Moloney brothers, pipemakers in Co Clare; Garrett Barry used to send to a place called Toin an Bhothair, in Co Clare, to get reeds made; Clancy was helped in learning the pipes by a local musician, Hugh Curtin; the components of a practice set; fingering technique on the chanter versus that on the whistle; is it an advantage in learning the pipes to have played the whistle?; the difficulty of unlearning bad habits; demonstration of the range of the chanter – two full octaves; adapting tunes to suit the pipes
3. Jigs: Untitled [The Gander in the Pratie Hole], Untitled [Bimid ag Ol is ag Pogadh na mBan]
4. Speech: Untitled [The reason for the strong music tradition in Clare; Clancy's opinion of musicians in Sligo; young people in Clare taking an interest in traditional music; the accordion: a problem instrument; the difficulty of acquiring and maintaining the pipes and of learning to play them; Clancy's advice to learners on the pipes; it is best to learn when young; the slow air is the cream of the music]
5. Air: An Binsin Luachra
6. Speech: Untitled [Dance tunes possibly being derived from slow airs; for example, the reel 'The Green Fields of America' is possibly derived from the air 'Pretty Molly Brannigan']
7. Air, Reel: Pretty Molly Brannigan, The Green Fields of America
8. Speech: Untitled [The first tune that Clancy played on the whistle, the jig 'Father O'Flynn']
9. Jig: Father O'Flynn
10. Speech: Untitled [The first reel that Clancy played on the whistle, which is the first tune in the next selection]
11. Reels: Untitled [The Ladies Pantalettes], Untitled [The Crooked Road to Dublin], Untitled [The Ravelled Hank of Yarn]
12. Speech: Untitled [Sean O Riada, whose funeral had just taken place; Clancy's acquaintance and musical rapport with O Riada; the lament 'The Bright Lady', which Clancy played at O Riada's funeral]
13. Air: The Bright Lady

Performers:
Clancy, Willie, Clare, pipes in duet A1–2[?], 7[?], 9[?], 11[?];
pipes solo A3, 12, 14, 20, 22, 24;
speech in English A7, 10, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23;
whistle solo A16, 18;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Dublin, speech in English A1–3, 5–8, 10–11;
Talty, Tom ('Tom Charlie'), Clare, speech in English A3, 6, 8;
concertina solo A6;
Burke, Joe, Clare, speech in English A5, 10;
Barry, Michael, Clare, speech in English A5;
Rowsome, Leo, Dublin, pipes solo A5;
McGough, Michael, Clare, speech in English A6;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A8;
O Ciobhain, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English A13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23;
O'Donnell, Michael, speech in English B1, 6, 8, 10;
Tubridy, Michael, Clare / Dublin, speech in English B1, 3, 5, 6;
flute solo B2, 11;
whistle solo B4, 9;
concertina solo B5, 7

Running Order:
1. Jig, Speech: Garrett Barry's Favourite, Untitled [Voiceover; introduction to the radio programme; date of Garrett Barry's death; the jig 'Garrett Barry's Favourite']
2. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Garrett Barry's place in the life of west Clare], Colonel Fraser
3. Speech: Untitled [Account and reminiscences of Garrett Barry; Barry's birth; blind from infancy; Tom Talty (interviewee) went with an ass and cart to pick up Barry to play at his parent's home in Tooreen, near Miltown Malbay; Barry 's favourite public house in Miltown Malbay was Patsy Burke's; the names of tunes played by Barry; information about a fling called 'Ennis']
4. Single Jig / Jig / [Fling?]: Untitled [DMWC, # 70 (untitled); Clancy's Jig (commercial sound recording 'The Pipering of Willie Clancy', vol 1; noticed wrongly as a slip jig); this might be the fling referred to by the speaker in the previous track]
5. Speech, Piece, Speech: Untitled [Further reminiscences of Garrett Barry; Barry coming to stay at Patsy Burke's public house in Miltown Malbay; Barry's physical appearance; Barry plays for benefits – music events to aid an unfortunate person in the locality; story about Garrett Barry meeting and playing with a piper named Stephenson, identified as Dick Stephenson, with whom 'The Fox Chase' was associated], The Fox Chase, Untitled [Story about Barry learning 'The Fox Chase' after hearing it only twice]
6. Speech, Jig: [Further reminiscences of Garrett Barry; Barry's fondness for whiskey], Untitled (incomplete)
7. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Introduction to story; story about Garrett Barry wanting to turn water into wine on the feast of the Epiphany; Barry playing slow tunes like 'The Gold Ring' and 'A Chailleach do Mhairis Me'], Untitled [The Gold Ring]
8. Speech: Untitled [Garrett Barry and the legend of the changeling; Barry regarded as a fine singer both in English and in Irish; Barry's republicanism; quotes words of republican song sung by Barry]
9. Reel: Untitled [The Steampacket]
10. Speech: Untitled [Garrett Barry had a keen ear; story about him recognising that a pot was cracked from the sound it made; Barry's death; speaker collects Barry's pipes after his death; speaker's mother sells pipes]
11. Reel: Untitled [Jenny's Welcome to Charlie] [End of the Radio Eireann documentary, 'The Blind Piper from Inagh']
12. Air, Reel: Bean Dubh an Ghleanna, The Copperplate Reel
13. Speech: Untitled [Willie Clancy's background as a piper; music tradition in Clancy's family; Clancy's first set of pipes, obtained from Felix Doran]
14. Slip Jig: Will You Come down to Limerick? [Kitty Come down to Limerick / The Munster Gimlet]
15. Speech: Untitled [The attractiveness of the previous tune for Clancy; Clancy's lack of formal musical training; Clancy describes the uilleann pipes and the activities needed to play them; Clancy describes his pipes, which were made by Taylor in the USA; Clancy begins learning the whistle at the age of five]
16. Jig: The Legacy
17. Speech: Untitled [Clancy's advice to those learning the tin whistle: 'Take it easy and break the lumps']
18. Air: An Binnsin Luachra
19. Speech: Untitled [Defining the art of piping; different styles of piping; Clancy's own styles, which varies from staccato to legato as the mood takes him; Clancy feels that he cannot do justice to slow airs because of his lack of knowledge of Irish; musicians who had most influence on Clancy – his father; Johnny and Felix Doran; Leo Rowsome; Tommy Reck; Peadar Broe; and Seamus Ennis; difficulties of maintaining the pipes and of finding suitable reeds]
20. Hornpipe: Untitled [Chief O'Neill's Favourite]
21. Speech: Untitled [Potential for further development for the uilleann pipes; Irish spoken in Clancy's area; playing of airs on the pipes; Clancy's regret at not being able to speak Irish]
22. Air: Casadh an tSugain
23. Speech: Untitled [Poverty as an influence on music; what music means to Clancy; the current situation – is tradition weakening?]
24. Reel: Rakish Paddy
25. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the performer; Michael Tubridy's background in traditional music]
26. Reels: Ships Are Sailing, The Green Groves of Erin, The Mountain Top
27. Speech: Untitled [clipped at start; mid-section missing]
28. Jigs: The Geese in the Bog, Sweet Biddy Daly [Mistitled? The Boys of the Town], The Killaloe Boat
29. Speech, Air: Untitled, An Droighnean Donn
30. Speech: Untitled (clipped at end)
31. Hornpipes: The Stack of Barley, The Stack of Wheat
32. Speech: Untitled (clipped at end)
33. Reels: Untitled [The Reel of Mullinavat], Untitled [Tommy Whelan's Reel], Untitled [Touch me if you Dare]
34. Speech: Untitled (clipped at end)
35. Jigs: Untitled [Garrett Barry's Jig], Untitled [Castlebar Races], Untitled [Delaney's Drummers] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Clancy, Willie, Clare, pipes solo A1–9

Running Order:
1. Jigs: Down the Back Lane, Sergeant Early's Jig / An Maidrin Treitheach
2. Air: The Trip over the Mountain [The Trip We Took over the Mountain]
3. Reels: The Steampacket, Rakish Paddy
4. Hornpipe: Faithful Friend [Learned from Leo Rowsome], The Plains of Boyle (faded out)
5. Reels: The Connaught Heifers [The Connacht Heifers / The Connacht Heifer; learned from John Potts], Corney's Coming [Corney is Coming]
6. Jig: The Frieze Breeches
7. Air: M'Uilleagan Dubh O / The Bold Traynor O [The Bold Trainer O / The Green Linnet] (with drop in sound level in mid-tune)
8. Reels: Bean a' Tinceara [An Bhean Tinceara], Kearney's Reel [Recorded on a commercial 78rpm disc for Gael-linn by this performer as 'Ril Mhichil Ui Cheithearnaigh', i.e. 'Michael Carney's Reel'; that recording reissued on the CD publication 'Seoltai Seidte'; The Ravelled Hank of Yarn; recorded by Carney as 'The Peeler's Jacket' (mistitled?)]
9. Slip Jig: Tiocfaidh Tu sios go Luimneach [Kitty Come down to Limerick / Will You Come down to Limerick / The Munster Gimlet] (faded up at the start)

Performers:
Clancy, Willie, Clare, pipes in duet A1–5 [?];
pipes solo A6–7;
whistle solo A8–10

Running Order:
1. Hornpipe / Single Jig: Untitled [Garrai na Saileog / Mrs Galvin's; not reissued on PWC 2; DMWC, # 85 (where it is listed as a single jig but written in 4/4 time); usually regarded as a hornpipe by musicians]
2. Slip Jig: Untitled [An Phis Fhliuch; reissued as PWC 2, track 18; The Choice Wife / O'Farrell's Welcome to Limerick]
3. Jig: Untitled [Garrett Barry's Jig; reissued as PWC 2, track 21]
4. Set Dance: Untitled [The Hunt; The Mount Phoebus Hunt; The Mount Famous Hunt]
5. Reel: Untitled [Colonel Fraser]
6. Jig: Untitled [The Frieze Breeches / I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her; reissued as PWC 2, track 6; DMWC, # 11]
7. Single Jig / Fling: Untitled [Kitty Got a Clinking Coming from the Fair; played by Willie Clancy on track 13 of the CD 'The Pipering of Willie Clancy – Volume 1' (Claddagh Records / RTE; CC32CD); noticed there as a single jig; this is a different performance here; DMWC, # 146, as 'Fling No. 1']
8. Reels: Untitled [McKenna's Reels, two reels consisting of: (a) Colonel Rodger's Favourite; (b) The Happy Days of Yore / The Happy Days of Youth. This selection was reissued as PWC 2, track 3, but this is a different performance here; the selection was recorded in the USA on a commercial 78rpm disc by John McKenna (flute) and Michael Gaffney (banjo) as 'Colonel Roger's Favorite' and 'The Happy Days of Youth']
9. Reel: Untitled [The Concert Reel (DMWC, # 9)]
10. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Galway Hornpipe; not in DMWC], Untitled [McDermott's Hornpipe; CRE 2, # 299] [The performer repeats the selection on the track, i.e. tune order is 1–2–1–2; not reissued on PWC 2] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English A1–4, 9–11, 13, 17, 19, 21, B3, 15;
speech in Irish A25;
Clancy, Willie, Clare, pipes solo A1–4, B3–4, 8–10, 15–17, B3–4, 8–10, 15–19;
speech in English B15;
Rowsome, Leo, Dublin, pipes solo A5–8, 22–24, B5–7;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English A9;
Doran, Felix, Wicklow / Manchester, speech in English A9–10, 17, 19;
pipes solo A9–11, 18, 20–21;
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, speech in Irish and English A12–13, 15;
pipes solo A12, 14–16;
Moloney, Paddy, Dublin, pipes solo A26–27, B1;
Touhey, Patsy, Galway / New York, pipes solo B2;
O Murchu, Sean, Galway / Dublin, speech in English B5, 7;
O'Loughlin, Peter, Clare, pipes solo B11–14;
Mac Donnchadha, Sean / 'ac Dhonncha, Sean / Johnny Joe Pheaitsin / McDonagh, Johnny, Galway, singing in Irish B20;
O hEanai, Seosamh / Einiu, Joe / Heaney, Joe, Galway, singing in Irish B21

Running Order:
1. Speech, Air: Untitled, The Rocks of Bawn [Stated to be a version of the melody of the song generally known by this title]
2. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Information about the date of recording], The Old Bush
3. Speech, Reels: Untitled, The West Wind, Sean Reid's Fancy [Sean Reid's Favourite; Gilbert Clancy's]
4. Speech, Slip Jig: Untitled, An dTiocfaidh Tu sios go Luimneach / Kitty Come down to Limerick / The Munster Gimlet
5. Air: An Chuileann [The Coolin]
6. Reels: The Bag of Potatoes, Untitled [Dillon's Fancy], Untitled [The Moving Cloud], The Maid behind the Bar [Kiss the Maid behind the Barrel]
7. Airs: An Raibh Tu ag an gCarraig, The Castle of Dromore [For a different performance of this piece by the same performer, see track B6]
8. Reels: The Sligo Maid, The First House in Connacht
9. Speech, Speech, Reel: Untitled [Information that the performance that follows was recorded at a Fleadh Ceoil in Mullingar, Co Westmeath in 1963; further detail in documentation], Untitled, The Maid in the Cherry Tree
10. Speech, Reel: Untitled [How Felix Doran began playing the pipes; his family background in piping], Untitled [The Pigeon on the Gate]
11. Speech, Jig: Untitled, Untitled [The Newport Lass; The Newport Lasses; The Trip to Athlone], Garrett Barry's Jig
12. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Story about the scolaire bocht, the poor scholar], An Scolaire Bocht / The Scholar [The Poor Scholar]
13. Speech: Untitled [Topics: about Seamus Ennis's pipes; story about a headstrong woman]
14. Reel: The Woman of the House [The Mistress of the House]
15. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The Gold Ring
16. Air: Untitled (clipped at start) [Tiarna Mhaigh Eo / Lord Mayo; in a version deriving from Frank Cassidy, fiddle, Donegal]
17. Speech: Untitled [Topics: Felix Doran's new set of pipes, made by Leo Rowsome; how Irish traditional music is faring in Manchester]
18. Reel: The Mayo Lasses [Mistitled? George White's Favourite]
19. Speech: Untitled [Topics include: Felix Doran had just acquired a new set of pipes at the time of this recording; his first experience of learning the pipes, in 1932; his family background in piping; his father was a good player; his grandfather Cash; other piping members of his family; he travelled a lot in counties Galway and Clare, and played especially with musicians Paddy Fahy, Paddy Kelly, Willie Clancy and Joe Leary; how the chanter of his pipes got broken in a traffic accident in Laytown, Co Meath; buying his first set of pipes, a practice set, in 1932 in Capel St in Dublin]
20. Reel: The Mountain Lark [The Steampacket]
21. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Toss the Feathers
22. Descriptive Piece: The Fox Chase
23. Reels: Untitled [Johnny When You Die], The Woman of the House
24. Reel: The Star of Munster, The Copperplate
25. Speech: Untitled [Stage announcement]
26. Hornpipe: Untitled [Pretty Maggie Morrissey]
27. Air: A Spailpin a Run [END OF BAND ONE]
28. Reel: Trim the Velvet
29. Reel: The Mountain Lark [The Steampacket], The Morning Star, Miss McLeod's Reel [Dubbing from a 78 rpm commercial disc]
30. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Star of Munster
31. Jigs: The Frieze Breeches [Version of; I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her], Old Tipperary
32. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Radio announcement], The Scholar, The Primrose Lass
33. Air, Jig: The Castle of Dromore [For a different performance of this piece by the same performer, see track A7], Untitled [Malowney's Wife]
34. Speech, Set Dance: Untitled [Radio announcement], Bonaparte's Retreat
35. Reels: The Copperplate, Rakish Paddy
36. Hornpipe: The Plains of Boyle
37. Jig: Garrett Barry's Jig
38. Set Dance: The Blackbird
39. Jigs: The Butcher's March, Down the Back Lane
40. Hornpipes: The Leitrim Fancy, Untitled [Byrne's]
41. Speech, Air, Reel: Untitled, Sliabh na mBan, Gilbert Clancy [Sean Reid's Favourite]
42. Speech, Jig: Untitled, Down the Back Lane
43. Jig: Paidin O Raifeartaigh
44. Air: The Trip We Took over the Mountains
45. Reel: The Connacht Heifer
46. Reels: The Old Bush, The Ravelled Hank of Yarn [Dub from a 78 rpm Gael-Linn commercial disc]
47. Song: Ta na Paipeir Da Saighneail
48. Song: Ta na Paipeir Da Saighneail [Mistitled?] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performer [Russell, Micho, Clare?], whistle in duet A1;
Unidentified performer [Russell, Pakie, Clare?], concertina in duet A1;
concertina solo A2;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A3–4;
Unidentified performer, Clare, speech in Irish A5–6;
Unidentified performer [Ennis, Seamus, Dublin], speech in Irish A5–7, 9;
speech in Irish and English A10;
speech in English A11;
Unidentified performer, Clare, speech in Irish A7;
Unidentified performer, Clare, singing in English A8;
Unidentified performer, Clare, speech in Irish A9;
singing in Irish A9;
Conlon, John 'Baser', Clare, speech in Irish and English A10;
speech in English A11;
lilting solo A12;
singing in Irish A12;
whistling solo A12;
singing in English A12;
Unidentified performer, flute solo A13

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [The Heather Breeze]
2. Reel: Untitled [The Peeler's Jacket]
3. Reel: Untitled [The Bag of Potatoes]
4. Jig: Untitled
5. Speech: Untitled [Includes a story about Diarmaid and Grainne at Ceann Leime / Loophead]
6. Speech: Untitled
7. Speech: Untitled [Includes discussion about blindness & reading by means of Braille]
8. Song: Untitled
9. Speech, Song: Untitled, Taimse im Chodladh is na Duisigh Me
10. Speech: Untitled [Entertaining tourists with fiddle-playing (mainly in Irish)]
11. Speech: Untitled [Entertaining tourists with fiddle-playing; how the speaker got the nickname 'Baser' (in English)]
12. Jig / Song, Speech, Jig / Song: Untitled [Jig lilted and words to it sung], Untitled, Untitled [Jig whistled and lilted and words to it sung; The Dark-Eyed Gypsy]
13. Reels: Untitled [The Maid of Mount Cisco], Untitled [The Hunter's Purse] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Unidentified performer [Casey, Bobby, Clare / London], fiddle solo A1–3;
Unidentified performer [Clancy, Willie, Clare], pipes solo A4–6;
pipes in instrumental group A8;
Unidentified performer [Ennis, Seamus, Dublin], speech in Irish A7, 9;
speech in English A10;
Partially identified performer [Peadar], speech in Irish A7;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group A8;
Partially identified performer [O'Brien, Pat 'Cuckoo', Clare], speech in Irish A9;
speech in English A10;
Unidentified performer [Russell, Micho, Clare], flute in duet A11;
flute solo A13;
whistle solo A14;
Unidentified performer, lilting in duet A11;
lilting solo A12;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A15;
Unidentified performer, concertina solo A16–17

Running Order:
1. Hornpipes: Untitled [Murphy's Hornpipe; preceded by brief tone signal], Untitled [The Derry Hornpipe / The Londonderry Hornpipe; faded out]
2. Jigs: Untitled [The Rambling Pitchfork], Untitled [Jimmy O'Brien's Jig]
3. Reels: Untitled [Rakish Paddy; 4-part version as recorded on 78rpm disc by James Morrison, fiddle], Untitled [The Wheels of the World; faded out]
4. Reels: Untitled [The Copperplate], Untitled [Rakish Paddy]
5. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Plains of Boyle]
6. Jig: Untitled [Garrett Barry's Jig]
7. Speech: Untitled [Interview for radio; topics include: origins of the name of the town Ballyvaughan; why Connemara people no longer bring turf to Clare in boats; at one time there was heavy traffic in turf on the sea between Clare and Connemara; origin of the name Ceann Boirne; the landlords in north Clare; An Craoibhin Aoibhinn / Douglas Hyde had high praise for the dialect of Irish spoken in north Clare; the characteristics of the Irish spoken in north Clare; the prospects for the Irish language in the area]
8. Reels: Untitled [The Heather Breeze], Untitled [Miss McLeod's Reel]
9. Speech: Untitled [Interview for radio; topics include: looking after tourists in north Clare; high seas off north Clare; how the speaker and interviewer searched unsuccessfully for bales of rubber on Oilean na bPortan / Crab Island, off Doolin, Co Clare; how the speaker acquired the nickname 'Cuckoo']
10. Speech: Untitled [How the speaker acquired the nickname 'Cuckoo'; working as a lifeguard for the beach in Doolin, Co Clare; how the speaker and interviewer searched unsuccessfully for bales of rubber on Oilean na bPortan / Crab Island, off Doolin; travelling from Doolin to Inis Oirr by currach; the dangers of that crossing; drinking poteen]
11. Jig: Untitled [The Piper's Chair]
12. Jig: Untitled [The Piper's Chair]
13. Jig: Untitled [Donal na Greine]
14. Reel: Untitled [Boil the Breakfast Early]
15. Song: Untitled [Chorus begins 'My name is Mickey Moloney'; about Miltown Malbay, Co Clare]
16. Reel: Untitled [Gorman's Reel; related to Sporting Nell]
17. Jig: Untitled [Version of Kitty's Rambles / The Rambles of Kitty] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Ryan, Paddy, Limerick, fiddle in duet A2, 4, 6, 8;
Supple, Paddy, Limerick, fiddle in duet A2, 4, 6, 8;
Keogh, Dan, Tipperary, concertina solo A10;
Hayes, Matt, Tipperary, singing in English A12;
Rainsford, Mary B, Limerick, fiddle in instrumental group A14;
Walsh, Michael, Tipperary, flute in instrumental group A14;
Ahern, Mrs, Limerick, fiddle in instrumental group A14;
O'Brien, Liam, Limerick, accordion in instrumental group A14;
O'Donnell, Joseph, Limerick, accordion in instrumental group A14;
Dick Ryan 'Larry', Tipperary, fiddle in trio A16–17;
Anthony Ryan 'Donal', Tipperary, accordion in trio A16–17;
Shaw, Pat, Tipperary, fiddle in trio A16–17;
Mulkere, Jack, Clare, fiddle solo A19;
Preston, Michael, Clare, flute in trio A21;
Shaughnessy, Jack, Clare, fiddle in trio A21;
Divinney, Pat, Clare, fiddle in trio A21

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows; the music on tracks A2–8 was recorded in Annacotty, Co Limerick in December 1955]
2. Reel: The Swallow's Tail
3. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows]
4. Hornpipe: The Woods of Kilkenny (fades out)
5. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows]
6. Jig: Old Man Dillon
7. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows]
8. Reel: The Boyne Hunt
9. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows; the performances on tracks A10–12 were recorded in Cappawhite, Co Tipperary in December 1955]
10. Polka: Untitled
11. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows]
12. Song: Hollyford
13. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows]
14. Jigs: The Shandon Bells, Haste to the Wedding
15. Speech: Untitled [About the performances that follow on tracks A16–17]
16. Jig: The Merry Maiden [Related to The Wandering Minstrel?]
17. Reel: Far from Home
18. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows, which was recorded in Crusheen, Co Clare in January 1955]
19. Air: The Dark Woman of the Mountain
20. Speech: Untitled [About the performances that follow]
21. Jigs: Gallagher's Frolics, Paddy's Favourite [Whelan's Jig]
22. Reels: The Wheels of the World [Joe Cooley's version of 'The Morning Dew'], Cooley's Reel [END OF BAND ONE]