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Performers:
Unidentified performer(s), accordion solo A1–2, B10, 12;
accordion in duet A5–6, 31, B11–12, 18;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English and Irish intermittently throughout;
Lyons, Paddy, Tipperary, mouth organ solo A3–4;
Ardellis Ceili Band, The, instrumental group A7–8;
Doherty, John, Donegal, fiddle solo A9–11, 12?;
Unidentified performer, concertina solo A13;
Unidentified performer(s), fiddle solo A14–15, 17, 23, 35–36, B8, 14;
fiddles in duet B9;
fiddle in duet B11–12;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle in duet A16, 30, B1?;
fiddle solo A26;
fiddle in trio A28–29, 38?;
Unidentified performer [O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig, Kerry?], fiddle in duet A16;
McHugh, Frances, Galway / Donegal, singing in English A18;
Unidentified performer, singing in Irish A19;
Unidentified performer [Droney, Jim, Clare], concertina in duet A20–21;
Unidentified performer [Droney, Chris, Clare], concertina in duet A20–21;
Unidentified performer(s), concertina solo A24, 37;
Foley, Paddy Willie, whistle solo A22;
McGann, Andy, New York, fiddle in trio A25;
Reynolds, Paddy, Longford / New York, fiddle in trio A25;
O'Sullivan, Con, Kerry, fiddle in trio A28, 38?;
Cronin, Dan, Kerry, recorder in trio A28–29, 38?;
O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig, Kerry, fiddle in trio A29;
fiddle in duet A30?, B1?;
Burke, Joe, Galway, accordion in trio A32, 34;
Collins, Kathleen, New York / Galway, fiddle in trio A32, 34;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group [Kilfenora Ceili Band, The, Clare?], B2–4, 6–7;
Tierney, Gus, Clare, fiddle in duet B5;
Unidentified performer, speech in English B15–16;
Moloney, flute solo B15, 16?;
Unidentified performer, speech in English B17;
whistle solo B17;
Unidentified performer, flute in duet B18;
Canny, Paddy, Clare, fiddle solo B19–21;
Maguire, Johnny, Cavan, speech in English intermittently throughout B23–35;
whistle solo B23, 25–30, 32–35;
Unidentified performers, speech in English intermittently throughout B23–35;
Unidentified performer, speech in English B36

Running Order:
1. Reel: O'Mahony's Fancy [Carmel Mahoney Mulhaire; composed by Martin Mulhaire]
2. Reel: Coloney Rodney
3. Speech, Polka: Untitled [Information about the performance that follows], Finnegan's Wake
4. Speech, Polka: Untitled, Untitled [Maggie in the Wood]
5. Reels: Miss Patterson [Master Crowley's], Paddy Fahy's Reel [Composed by Paddy Fahy (information supplied by music scribe)]
6. Reels: Untitled [Mary O'Neill's Fancy], Sporting Nell, Untitled (incomplete)
7. Jig: Untitled
8. Jig: Hinchy's Delight
9. Reels: The Salamanca, Rakish Paddy
10. Jig: The Frieze Breeches
11. Hornpipe: Untitled
12. Jig: The Gold Ring
13. Reel: The Fair of Ballinasloe [Ballinasloe Fair], The Chicago Reel
14. Jig: Untitled (incomplete)
15. Reel: Untitled [The Foxhunter's Reel]
16. Slip Jig: Untitled [Ride a Mile]
17. Reel: The Enchanted Lady, The Maids of Castlebar (incomplete)
18. Speech, Song: Untitled [Information that the song sung next was composed by the performer's father], Louis Darcy
19. Speech, Song: Untitled, An Carabhat
20. Jig: Untitled [The Rambles of Kitty (not the tune commonly known by this name)]
21. Jig: Untitled [Paidin O Raifeartaigh, version of]
22. Speech, Single Jig / Slide: Untitled, Untitled
23. Speech, Polka / Hornpipe: Untitled, Untitled [Described by music scribe as 'Scotch Polka'; Staten Island (hornpipe)]
24. Jig: Untitled [The Bohola Jig; Joe Cooley's Jig]
25. Reel, Speech: The Belles of Tipperary, Untitled [Information about the performers of the tune just played]
26. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Information about the next music item, including that it was recorded in June 1955], The Morning Star, Durang's [Usually played as a hornpipe (information supplied by music scribe)]
27. Speech: Untitled [Information about the next music item]
28. Single Jigs / Slides: Cucanandy [The Whistling Thief Jig; Pete Sullivan's Fancy], Mount Collins [If I Had a Wife]
29. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Information about the next music item, including that it was recorded in June 1955], The Humours of Dingle
30. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Sporting Paddy
31. Reels: The Donegal Traveller, Miss Montgomery, The Donegal Traveller
32. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Lad O'Beirne's [The Coalminer], Finbarr Dwyer's Reel [Dwyer's Reel; The Holly Bush; Matt the Thresher; composed by Finbarr Dwyer]
33. Speech: Untitled [Information about the performers in the Joe Burke Trio]
34. Jigs: Untitled [The Humours of Kesh], Races at Carrick? [Title supplied by music scribe; The Coach Road to Sligo; CRE, # 33]
35. Reel: Shaney Mulhern? [Title supplied by music scribe; Never Was Piping so Gay, composed by Ed Reavy]
36. Jig: Untitled [The Rambler]
37. Reel: Untitled
38. Single Jigs / Slides: Untitled [Merrily Kiss the Quaker], Untitled [Dingle Regatta, in the version played by Sliabh Luachra musicians] [END OF BAND ONE]
39. Jig: When the Cock Crows it is Day [Ta an Coileach ag Fogairt an Lae]
40. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Mullin's Favourite [The Green Mountain]
41. Reel: The Reel of Rio [Composed by Sean Ryan]
42. Single Jigs / Slides, Jigs: Untitled [The Clare Jig; Old Kilfenora Jig], Untitled [Dinny Mescal's], Untitled [The Kesh Jig, version of], Untitled [Gillan's Apples]
43. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Paddy Fahy's Reel [Composed by Paddy Fahy; in ray mode (information supplied by music scribe)], Never was Piping so Gay [Composed by Ed Reavy]
44. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The Gold Ring
45. Reel: The Rainy Day
46. Reel: The Spey in Spate
47. Speech, Single Jig / Jig, Polka, Set Tune / Single Jig / Slide, Polka, Single Jigs / Slides: Untitled [Brief; describing the music selection that follows as one for a quadrille], Untitled, Untitled [Related to melody 'The Bog down in the Valley'], Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, Untitled [Comin' Thro' the Rye]
48. Jig: Untitled [The Boys of Lough Gowna; composed by Paddy O'Brien]
49. Reel: The Musical Priest
50. Reel: Devanney's Goat
51. Reel: The Sailor's Cravat
52. Reel: Lord McDonald
53. Speech, Hornpipes: Untitled, Tuamgraney Castle, Ann Sheehy's / The Bunch of Ferns [The Flowing Tide]
54. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Sean Ryan's Reel [The Reel of Rio; composed by Sean Ryan], Ganley's [Coen's Memories; composed by Tommy Coen]
55. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Fahy's
56. Jig: Untitled [Composed by Sean Ryan (information supplied by music scribe); The Hidden Ireland]
57. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Andy McGann's Reel
58. Reel: The Grand Spy [The Graf Spee]
59. Jigs: Apples in Winter, The Lark in the Morning [Dougherty's; Up Sligo]
60. Speech, Hornpipe: Untitled, The Cuckoo Hornpipe (incomplete)
61. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Reynold's Reel [The Sailor's Farewell; The Belharbour Reel; stated by the music scribe to have been composed by Martin Mulhaire, but this is questionable; Reynolds' Reel]
62. Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune that follows]
63. Reel: The Mount Nugent Reel [CICD 4609 (not from this recording); Miss Langford]
64. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Information about the tune that follows], The Boys of Twenty-Five [CICD 4895 (not from this recording); Ah Surely]
65. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Information about the tune that follows], The Maid of the House [CICD 5151 (not from this recording); published in Ceol, vol III, I]
66. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Gatehouse Maid [CICD 4541 (not from this recording); stated by the music scribe to be mistitled; The Baltimore Reel; Hickey's]
67. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Golden Keyboard [Composed by Martin Mulhaire]
68. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Jack Roe [CICD 4024 (not from this recording)]
69. Speech: Untitled [Information about the musician from whom the performer got the tune that follows]
70. Reel: The Crib of Perches [CICD 3124 (not from this recording)]
71. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled [Related to The Ewe Reel?]
72. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled
73. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Morning Star (incomplete)
74. Speech: Untitled (clipped at end) [Information about placenames] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle solo A1–11;
Doherty, Mickey, Donegal, fiddle solo A12;
speech in Irish A12?

Running Order:
1. Polkas: Untitled [The Ballybunnion], Untitled [The Knocknaboul (2)], Untitled [The Groves of Gneevegullia; The Top of Maol]
2. Slides: Untitled [Pete Sullivan's Fancy; Cucanandy; The Whistling Thief Jig], Untitled [If I Had a Wife], Untitled [Denis Murphy's Slide]
3. Hornpipes: Untitled [Fisher's Hornpipe; The Fisherman's Hornpipe], Untitled
4. Jigs: Untitled [Tom Billy's (1)], Untitled [Tom Billy's (2)]
5. Reels: Untitled [The Green Fields of Rossbeigh; The Kerry Reel], Untitled [Colonel Fraser], Untitled [The Mountain Lark; The Steampacket]
6. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled [The Bird in the Bush; usually played as a reel]
7. Airs: Untitled, Untitled [For another performance of this selection, see track A10]
8. Jigs: Untitled [The Rambler], Untitled [Heather and Sedge; The Castlebar Races], Untitled [Related to The Three Little Drummers?]
9. Reels: Untitled [The Girls of Farranfore; The Game of Love], Untitled [Callaghan's], Untitled [The Mountain Top, related to?]
10. Airs: Untitled, Untitled [For another performance of this selection, see track A7]
11. Hornpipes: Untitled [Cronin's Hornpipe], Untitled [Callaghan's]
12. Speech, Descriptive Piece: Untitled, An Chu agus an Ghiorria [The Hounds after the Hare; with spoken interjections (by the fiddle-player?)] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Unidentified performer [McConnell, Cathal, Fermanagh?], speech in English A1;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A2a;
Byrne, Anne, Dublin, singing in English with instrumental accompaniment A2b;
Bennett, John, speech in English A2c?, 2f?, 2i?, 2k?, 2m?;
Unidentified performers, singing in English with instrumental accompaniment A2d–e, 2h, 2l, 3–6;
McGuigan, Pat, harmonica in trio A2g;
McConnell, Cathal, Fermanagh, whistle in trio A2g;
Healy, James N, Cork, speech in English A2i, 2m;
singing in English with instrumental accompaniment A2j;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A7;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group A8;
Unidentified performer [Furey, Finbar, Dublin / Waterford?], pipes in duet A9;
Unidentified performer, whistle in duet A10–12;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle in duet B1, 3;
fiddle solo B2, 4–9;
speech in English A7;
Unidentified performer [O'Keeffe, Art / O'Keefe, Art, Kerry], whistle in duet B1, 3,;
Russell, Micho, Clare, whistle solo B10–18;
speech in English B10–16;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English intermittently throughout tracks B;
Doherty, John, Donegal, fiddle solo B19–30;
speech in English intermittently throughout tracks B19–30;
Unidentified performer [Kelly, John, Clare / Dublin?], speech in English and Irish B24;
Unidentified performers, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [Information about the contents of track A2]
2. a) Speech, b) Song, c) Speech, d) Song, e) Song, f) Speech, g) Instrumental Piece, h) Song, i) Speech, j) Song, k) Speech, l) Song, m) Speech: a) Untitled [Radio announcement], b) Can You Dance the Polka?, c) Untitled [Radio announcement], d) Farewell to Tarwathie, e) Untitled [Brief; one verse only], f) Untitled [Information about the song just song and the tune to be played next; gives the title of the tune], g) ? the Forty Second [Tune has the same melody as that of the song sung before it here], h) Untitled, i) Untitled [Interview; topic: sea songs and shanties], j) The Bug-A-Boo, k) Untitled, l) Untitled [All for Me Grog], m) Untitled [Radio announcement & interview] [This track is a poor-quality off-air dubbing of a (radio or TV) programme titled 'The Sea Folk', broadcast on BBC Northern Ireland]
3. Song: Untitled [Track A5 contains another copy of the recording on this track]
4. Song: Untitled [The Sisters of Mercy, composed by Leonard Cohen]
5. Song: Untitled [Preceded by short recording of piano-playing; track A3 contains another copy of the recording on this track]
6. Song: Untitled
7. Song: Untitled [William Hollander]
8. Reel: Untitled
9. Air: Untitled
10. Reel: Untitled [The Stony Step]
11. Reel: Untitled [The Belles of Tipperary]
12. Reel: Untitled (incomplete) [The Skylark] [END OF BAND ONE]
13. Reel: Untitled [Donall a' Phumpa; CRE 5, # 147; Molly on the Shore]
14. Reel: Untitled [Donal a' Clumper's Reel; CRE 2, # 295 (where it is untitled)]
15. Reels: Untitled [The Morning Star], Untitled [Rolling in the Ryegrass]
16. Reel: Untitled [Callaghan's Reel / O'Callaghan's Reel; CRE 2, # 131]
17. Reel: Untitled [Quinn's Reel; CRE 2, # 171]
18. Reels: Untitled [The Mountain Road; composed by Michael Gorman], Untitled [The Doon Reel (JOLSL, ed. Moylan, # 94); Pat Ward's Jig (a version of this tune played as a single jig by Seamus Ennis)]
19. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Glountane Reel (CICD 3453)], Untitled
20. Jig: Untitled [Cailin a' Ti Mhoir / Cailin an Ti Mhoir (CRE 2, # 40); The Housekeeper; The House Maid; The Girl from the Big House]
21. Reel: Untitled [Callaghan's; The Doon Reel; Nellie Donovan; CRE 2, # 270]
22. Reel, Speech: The Boy in the Gap, Untitled
23. Reel, Speech: The Fair-Haired Boy, Untitled
24. Reel, Speech: Patsy Campbell's Reel, Untitled
25. Reel, Speech: Upstairs in a Tent [CRE 2, 190], Untitled
26. Reel, Speech: Tadhg a Run / A Thaidhg, a Run [CRE 2, 150 (i)], Untitled
27. Reel, Speech: The Rose in the Garden [Divide the Cally Fair; Kennaw's Reel (WSGM, # 326, related tune)], Untitled
28. Jig / Slide, Speech: Untitled [The Clare Jig; CRE 2, 71], Untitled [Tune just played was used for the fifth figure of a set]
29. Jig: Untitled [The Frieze Breeches]
30. Jig: Untitled [Tatter Jack Walsh]
31. Reel: Untitled [The Dispute at the Crossroads; a version of Doctor Gilbert]
32. Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled
33. Reel, Speech: Miss Ramsey, Untitled
34. Reel, Speech: Untitled [McFarley's; a version of 'The Maids of Castlebar'], Untitled
35. Reel: The Moving Bogs of Allen [The Moving Bogs (CRE 2, # 174)]
36. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Caher Rua, Untitled
37. Slip Jig: Untitled [Hardiman the Fiddler, version of]
38. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The Old Hag at the Churn [Related to Garrett Barrett's Jig]
39. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The King of the Pipers [CRE 2, # 45]
40. Jig, Speech: Untitled [The King of the Pipers; not the same tune as in the previous track], Untitled
41. Jig: Untitled [The Rambling Pitchfork, version of]
42. Reel: Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]