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Performers:
Reel-to-reel tape recorded by Sean McKiernan, Coillin, Carna, Co Galway, and loaned by him to ITMA for copying on 19 March 2006Digitised and catalogued from the reel-to-reel tape by Jackie Small, completed June 2006.Two donor copies sent by post to Sean McKiernan, June 2006. Original tape kept to be returned to Sean McKiernan in person.Imported from Reeldubs July 2013ARDI: Tracks A16–21: Friday 31 March 1967Abbreviation used: DMWC = \'The Dance Music of Willie Clancy\', edited by Pat MitchellTracks 1–15 are dubs from other reel-to-reel recordings;
Tracks 16–21 are an off-air dub of a radio programme featuring Seamus Ennis, broadcast on RTE radio on Friday 31 March 1967;
Tracks 22–31 are an off-air dub from an RTE radio programme in the series \'American Journey\', presented by Ciaran Mac Mathuna;
Tracks 32–48 are private recordings of Willie Clancy, pipes, made by Sean McKiernan;
Tracks 49–56 are an off-air dub of an edition of the RTE radio programme \'Sounds Traditional\', presented by Ciaran Mac Mathuna, featuring Seamus Ennis;
Tracks 57–66 are dubs from other reel-to-reel recordings

Running Order:
1. Reel: The Ravelled Hank of Yarn [DMWC, # 2]
2. Reel: Untitled [The Boys of Ballisodare; DMWC, # 53 (untitled); for a different recording of this by the same performer, see track B16]
3. Jig: Sixpenny Money [DMWC, # 18]
4. Air: An Buachaill Caol Dubh
5. Reels: Tarbolton [DMWC, # 14; Cooleen Bridge], Fermoy Lasses [DMWC, # 16]
6. Air: My Lagan Love
7. Jig, Speech: Tiocfaidh Tu Abhaile Liom [DMWC, # 21; Will You Come Home with Me?], Untitled
8. Jig: The Frieze Breeches [DMWC, # 11; I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her; 2-part version of The Frieze Breeches]
9. Reel: Untitled [DMWC, # 27 (untitled); Farewell to Erin (CRE, # 139)]
10. Reel: The Pinch of Snuff [DMWC, # 122]
11. Jig: Bimid ag Ol [DMWC, # 7]
12. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled (incomplete) [The Steampacket]
13. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Announcement on original recording], Untitled [The Morning Star] [From a private cylinder recording]
14. Hornpipe: Untitled (incomplete) [The Kildare Fancy]
15. Speech, Reel, Speech, Jig: Untitled [Announcement on original recording], Bean an Ti ar Urlar ag Obair [The Woman of the House], Untitled [Announcement on original recording], Untitled [The Geese in the Bog] [From a cylinder recording made by Feis Ceoil officials about 1900] [END OF BAND ONE]
16. Speech, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [Introduction to the tunes that follow]
17. Hornpipes: O'Dwyer's Hornpipe, The Derry Hornpipe
18. Speech, Air: Untitled, The Trip We Took over the Mountain
19. Speech: Untitled
20. Jigs, Speech: Paidin O Raifeartaigh, The Lad in the Shed / Westering Home, Airgead Realach [Sixpenny Money], Untitled [Interspersed with the music performance]
21. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement, signalling the end of this radio programme]
22. Reel, Speech: McFadden's Reel [McFadden's Favourite; DMI, # 716], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over]
23. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; interview with Paddy O'Sullivan]
24. Reels, Speech: Trim the Velvet, Untitled [The First House in Connacht], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over]
25. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; interview with Bill Greenall]
26. Air, Speech: Ar Eirinn ni Neosfainn Ce Hi / For Ireland I'd not Tell Her Name, Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over]
27. Speech: Untitled [Radio interviews with Roger Casey (dancer), his father Pat Casey, and accordion-player Joe Madden]
28. Reels, Speech: Untitled [The Dawn], Untitled [The Golden Keyboard; composed by Martin Mulhaire], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over]
29. Speech: Untitled [Radio interview]
30. Speech, Jigs, Speech: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, Untitled [The music on this track, and part of the speech at the end of the track, plays at double the speed of the rest of the contents of this tape; for an edited version with the speeds adjusted, see track A31] [END OF BAND FOUR]
31. Speech, Jigs, Speech: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled [The Lark on the Strand], Untitled [This track is an edited version of track A30 with speeds adjusted to normal speed]
32. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled [Pat Tuohy's Reel (DMI, # 595); Patsy Touhey's Reel]
33. Slip Jig, Speech: Untitled [Will You Come down to Limerick?; DMWC, # 58; Kitty Come down to Limerick; The Munster Gimlet], Untitled
34. Slip Jig, Speech: Untitled [Give Us a Drink of Water; DMWC, # 123], Untitled
35. Jig: Untitled [Banish Misfortune; DMWC, # 137]
36. Jig, Speech: Untitled [Nora Criona; DMWC, # 152; has been described as Patsy Touhey's version; for a different recording of this by the same performer, see track B11], Untitled
37. Reel: Untitled [Jenny's Welcome to Charlie; DMWC, # 144]
38. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [The Flags of Dublin], Untitled [While instrument is being tuned]
39. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Untitled [My Love is in America; DMWC, # 83], Untitled [Jenny Picking Cockles; DMWC, # 124]
40. Speech, Reels: Untitled [During tentative playing of possible candidate tunes for recording], Untitled [The Connacht Heifers; DMWC, # 62; The Connacht Heifer], Untitled [Corney is Coming; DMWC, # 8; followed by instrument tuning]
41. Reel: Untitled [The Pinch of Snuff; DMWC, # 122]
42. Speech, Jig, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [Nora Criona; DMWC, # 152; has been described as Patsy Touhey's version; for a different recording of this by the same performer, see track B5], Untitled
43. Jig, Speech: Untitled [The Geese in the Bog; The Lark's March], Untitled
44. Hornpipe, Speech: Untitled [Ballymanus Fair], Untitled
45. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Pigeon on the Gate], Untitled
46. Speech, Jigs: Untitled, Untitled [Down the Back Lane; DMWC, # 103], Untitled [Paidin O Raifeartaigh; DMWC, # 60]
47. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Boys of Ballisodare; DMWC, # 53 (untitled); for a different recording of this by the same performer see track A2], Untitled
48. Air: Untitled (incomplete) [Sliabh na mBan; tape runs out] [END OF BAND THREE]
49. Speech, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [Radio interview; includes story about the Scolaire Bocht, the Poor Scholar]
50. Reel: The Scholar / The Poor Scholar
51. Speech: Untitled [Radio interview; topics: Seamus Ennis's pipes; a story connected with the next tune to be played]
52. Reel: The Woman of the House
53. Speech: Untitled [Story connected with the tune The Gold Ring]
54. Jig: The Gold Ring
55. Speech: Untitled [Story connected with the tune that follows]
56. Reel, Speech: Did the Rum Do, Da? [Anything for John-Joe], Untitled [Radio announcements]
57. Jig, Speech: Strop the Razor / Piocfad an Snathaid [DMWC, 29; The Cook in the Kitchen (version of)], Untitled [Information about the titles of the tune just played]
58. Jig, Speech: Untitled [The Frieze Breeches (version of); DMWC, 12 (one of several versions given); pieced together here with difficulty], Untitled
59. Air: Untitled [Related to the melody of the song The Lowlands of Holland?]
60. Single Jig: Untitled [Willie's Single; DMWC, # 75]
61. Jig, Speech: Fasten the Leg in Her [DMWC, # 73], Untitled
62. Jig, Speech: Untitled [The Lark in the Morning (version of); 2 parts only; DMWC, # 78], Untitled
63. Speech, Fling, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [Fling No. 1 (DMWC, # 146); Kitty Got a Clinking Coming from the Fair], Untitled
64. Reel: Down the Broom [DMWC, # 77]
65. Reel, Speech: The Dublin Lads [DMWC, # 67], Untitled
66. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Concertina Reel; DMWC, # 72], Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, singing in Irish A1;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A2;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A2;
Unidentified performers, group instrumental A3, A6;
Unidentified performers, singing in group A4;
Unidentified performer, speech in Irish A5;
O Dufaigh, Seamus, singing in Irish A5;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A7, 10-15;
(Charlie and Denis), fiddle and accordion in duet A6, 11-12;
(Joe Mills, Paddy O'Sullivan, Andy McGann, Tim O' Riardan, Larry Redigan, Jack Coen, Denis Murphy, Pete Reynolds, Pat Brady) Group instrumental A7-9;
Mellony, Joe, accordion solo A10;
Unidentified performer, accordion in trio with flutes A13;
Murty, Joe, flute in trio with flute and accordion A13;
Flynn, Barney, flute in trio with flute and accordion A13;
Kelly, Eugene, accordion in duet with fiddle A14;
Lamont, Joe, fiddle in duet with accordion A14;
(Barney Flynn, Jim Morrison, Larry Redigan, Michael Rodgers, Pat Murray, Pat Shields, Nick Irwin, Tommy Flynn) speech in English A15, group instrumental A16;
Rankin, Andrew, accordion solo A17;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A17;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A18-19;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo B1;
Unidentified performers, singing in English and Irish B2-7, speech in Irish A8, speech in English A8-9, 11-16, keyboard solo B10;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo B17;
Unidentified performer [O'Keefe, Padraig / O'Keeffe, Padraig], fiddle solo C1;
MacMathuna, Ciaran, speech in Irish C2-3, D15;
Canny, Paddy, fiddle in duet with accordion C2-3;
Mulvihill, Martin, accordion in duet with fiddle C2-3;
Unidentified performer, lilting C4;
O Concluain, Prionsias, speech in Irish C4;
Fatharty, Paitin, speech in Irish C4;
Derrane, Maggie, singing in Irish C4;
Ui Arnain?, Bean, speech in Irish C4;
De Bhailis, Sean, singing in Irish C4;
Unidentified performer, accordion solo C4;
Unidentified performers (school chrildren), singing in Irish C4;
Unidentified performer, pipes solo C5, 7;
Unidentified performer, group instrumental C6, 8-9;
O Se, Sean, singing in Irish C10, 12-13;
Tyres, Padraig, speech in Irish C11-12;
O Cadhladh, Donal, speech in Irish C11;
Unidentified performer, speech in Irish C14;
McGlinchey, Brendan, fiddle solo C14;
Unidentified performers, singing in English D1-7, speech in English D8;
Cussen, Mrs, organ solo D8;
Unidentified performer, singing in Irish D9;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo D10;
Unidentified performers, group instrumental D11, 14;
Unidentified performer, singing in Irish D12;
Unidentified performer, speech in Irish D13;
O Dufaigh, Seamus, singing in Irish D13;
Unidentified performers (Charlie, Denis), fiddle and accordion duet D15

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled [Johnny Seoighe]
2. Speech/Slow/Set Dance: talk about the following tunes, Untitled [Dear Irish Boy], Untitled [The King of the Fairies]
3. Reel: Untitled [The Bucks of Oranmore]
4. Song: Untitled
5. Speech/Song: talk about the following performer and song, Amhran na Tra Baine
6. Jig: Untitled
7. Speech/Reels: talk about the following tunes, Mulvihill's Reels
8. Speech/Jigs: talk about the following performers, The Lark in the Morning
9. Reel: Untitled [The Bucks of Oranmore]
10. Speech/Reels: talk about the following tunes, Peter Street, The Mason's Apron
11. Speech/Jigs: talk about the following tunes, Untitled
12. Speech/Hornpipe: talk about the following performers, Untitled
13. Speech/Reel: talk about the following performers, The Sally Gardens
14. Speech/Reels: talk about the following performers, Untitled
15. Speech: talk about the musicians and where they're from
16. Reel: Untitled
17. Jig/Speech: Untitled, talk about the preceding performer
18. Reels: Untitled [The Girl that Broke My Heart], Untitled [The Bunch of Keys]
19. Reel: Untitled [The Girl that Broke My Heart] [END OF BAND ONE]
20. Reel: Untitled (fragment)
21. Song: Untitled
22. Song: Untitled [Trasna na dTonnta]
23. Songs: Untitled
24. Song: Untitled [All Kinds of Everything]
25. Songs: Untitled
26. Songs: Untitled
27. Rhymes: Untitled
28. Poem: Untitled
29. March: Untitled [The Dawning of the Day]
30. Story: Untitled
31. Poem: The Old Brown Horse
32. Poem: Untitled
33. Poem: Untitled
34. Story: Apollo 13
35. Story: Untitled
36. Slow Air: Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]
37. Slow Air: Untitled
38. Speech/Reels: talk about the following performers, Untitled
39. Speech/Reel: talk about the following tunes, Untitled (fragment)
40. Reel/Speech/Song: Untitled, radio programme about the Aran Island of Inis Mor, Untitled
41. Reel: Untitled [Speed the Plough]
42. Hornpipe: Untitled
43. Jig: Untitled
44. Marches: Untitled
45. Reels: Untitled [The Trip to Durrow], Untitled [The Hare's Paw]
46. Song: Untitled
47. Speech: talk about 'Spailpini' or farm labourers
48. Speech/Song: talk about the following song, Amhran na Mireach?
49. Song: Untitled [An Spailpin Fanach]
50. Speech/Jigs: talk about the following performer, Untitled [The Pipe on the Hob] [END OF BAND THREE]
51. Song: Untitled [Silent Night]
52. Song: Untitled
53. Song: Untitled
54. Song: Untitled
55. Song: Untitled
56. Song: Untitled
57. Song: Untitled
58. Air: Untitled
59. Song: Untitled
60. Slow Air/Set Dance: Untitled [The Dear Irish Boy], Untitled
61. Reel: Untitled [The Bucks of Oranmore]
62. Song: Untitled
63. Speech/Song: talk about the following performer and song, Amhran na Tra Baine
64. Jig: Untitled
65. Speech/Reels: talk about the following tunes and performers, Mulvihill's Reels [END OF BAND FOUR]

Performers:
Kane, Elanor, piano solo A1-9;
Quinn, Louis, Armagh/New York, speech in English A10

Running Order:
1. Hornpipe: Untitled (beginning clipped)
2. Hornpipe: Untitled
3. Reel: Untitled
4. Hornpipe: Untitled
5. Reel: Untitled (interrupted, end clipped) [END OF BAND ONE]
6. Reel: Untitled (interrupted)
7. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
8. Hornpipe: Untitled
9. Hornpipe: Untitled
10. Speech: Louis Quinn introduces some musicians but the tape runs out [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Quinn Family, The, instrumental group A1-6

Running Order:
1. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
2. Air: Untitled
3. Waltz: Untitled
4. Slip Jig: Untitled
5. Air: Untitled
6. Jigs: Untitled, Untitled [END OF STEREO BANDS]

Performers:
Quinn, Louis, fiddle;
Unidentified performer, fiddle duet A1-2, fiddle solo A3-5, 7, fiddle in trio A6;
Unidentified performer, fiddle duet A1-2, fiddle in trio A6;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A8

Running Order:
1. Hornpipe: Untitled (beginning clipped)
2. Hornpipe: Untitled
3. Hornpipe: Untitled
4. Reels: Untitled
5. Jigs: Untitled
6. Hornpipe/Reel: Untitled
7. Hornpipe: Untitled
8. Speech: commentary on an Armagh/Cavan football match [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Tonkin, Phil, announcer, speech in English A1, 9
Quinnettes, New York, singing in English A3, 8
Quinnettes=
Quinn, Sean, fiddle in ensemble A1, 4, 7, 9, 11, 13, fiddle in duet A6, 15-16
Quinn, Brian, accordion in ensemble A1, 4, 7, 9, 11, 13, accordion in duet A2
Quinn, Kathleen, harp in ensemble A1, 7, 9, 11, 13, harp solo A5
Unidentified performer [Hugh Handy?], speech in English A10, 14, 16

Running Order:
1. Programme Start: Announcement over music
2. Polkas: Untitled
3. Song: Untitled (When they told me that Ireland was heaven...)
4. Air/Piece: Untitled
5. Air: Untitled
6. Air: Untitled
7. Medley: Untitled [END OF STEREO BANDS]
8. Song/Air/March: Scotland the Brave
9. Speech: introducing the Quinnettes
10. Waltz/Reel: Untitled, Untitled
11. Speech: introducing family
12. Medley: Untitled
13. Speech: introducing Sean Quinn
14. Air: My Lagan Love
15. March/Strathspey/Speech: Untitled, Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Instrumental group A1;
O'Sullivan, Patrick, speech in English A2-9, B22-29;
Various Irish/American performers introduced throughout, speaking in English over the music performances;
Paddy Killoran Club, New York, instrumental group A3-4;
O'Beirne, Lad, Sligo/New York, fiddle in quartet A5-6;
Quinn, Louis, Armagh/New York, fiddle in quartet A5-6, B21-22, speech in English A12-14, 16-17, 19, B1, 3-15;
O'Malley, Luke, instrumental quartet A7-9, accordion in group B25;
Flynn, Joey, instrumental quartet A7-9;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A10;
Hare, Robbie, Monaghan, fiddle in trio A10-11;
Toal, John, Monaghan, fiddle in trio A10-11, fiddle in duet A19-20;
Shannon, Aloysious, Monaghan, accordion in trio A10-11, accordion solo A12, 17-18, accordion duet A19-20;
McAloon, John (Sean), Fermanagh, pipes solo A13-16;
O'Heine, Padraig, speech in Irish B1, speech in English B1;
Strange, Noel, banjo solo B2-4;
Conroy, Michael, speech in English B5, harmonica solo B5-7;
Ryan, Sean, fiddle solo B8-11, 14-15;
Jordan, William, Fiddle solo B12-13;
Unidentified performer, speech in English B16-20;
Brown, Billy, accordion in duet B16-17;
Gardiner, John Joe, fiddle B18-20;
Kennedy, Rory, accordion B18-20;
Redican, Larry, fiddle in quartet B21-22;
O'Donnell, Eugene, Derry, dancing B21-22;
Unidentified performers, jazz band B24;
Unidentified performers, instrumantal group B26;
Inishowen Ceili Band, instrumantal group B25;
Healy, Kevin, Chicago, war pipes in group B27-29;
Reavy, Ed, Cavan/Philidelphia, speech in English B28-29

Running Order:
1. Jigs: Untitled (beginning clipped)
2. Speech: Introduction to Martin Feeney and other New York/Irish musicians
3. Speech/Reels: Untitled, Untitled
4. Speech/Reel: Untitled
5. Speech/Reel: Untitled
6. Speech/Hornpipe: Untitled
7. Speech/Jig: Untitled
8. Reel/Speech: Untitled
9. Reel/Speech: Untitled
10. Speech/Reel: Untitled
11. Hornpipe: Untitled (beginning clipped)
12. Speech/Hornpipe: Untitled
13. Speech/Jigs: Untitled, Untitled
14. Speech/Reels: Untitled, Untitled
15. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled
16. Speech/Air: Sliabh na mBan
17. Speech/Reel: Untitled
18. Jig: Untitled
19. Speech/Reel: Miss Montgomery
20. Jig: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
21. Speech: Introduction to recording
22. Hornpipe Medley: Untitled
23. Speech/Reel: Untitled
24. Speech/Jigs: Untitled, Untitled
25. Speech/Reels: The Dawn Reel, The Maids of Castlebar
26. Speech/Jigs: The Knights of Saint Patrick, Molly's Advice
27. Speech/Hornpipe: The Sweeps Hornpipe (end clipped)
28. Speech/Jig: Untitled
29. Speech/Reels: The Bunch of Keys, Tom Steel
30. Speech/Hornpipe: Cooley's Hornpipe
31. Speech/Reel: Cooley's Reel
32. Speech/Jig: The Cliffs of Moher
33. Speech/Reel: Reavy Reel
34. Speech/Reels: Paddy Canny's Reel, Untitled
35. Speech/Reel: The Wheels of the World
36. Speech/Reel/Speech: Untitled (beginning clipped)
37. Reel/Speech: Untitled (comp. Martin Mulhere)
38. Speech/Reels: The Mountain Top, The Longford Collector (beginning clipped)
39. Speech/Reels: Music in the Glen, Untitled
40. Speech/Reel: The Maid Behind the Bar (end clipped)
41. Speech/Hornpipe/Speech: Untitled
42. Speech/Jig/Speech: Untitled
43. Speech: general
44. Speech/Piece: Jazz Band (end clipped)
45. Reel Medley/Speech: Untitled (end clipped)
46. Reel/Speech: Untitled (clipped)
47. Reel Medley/Speech: Untitled (beginning clipped)
48. Jig Medley/Speech: Untitled (beginning clipped)
49. Speech/Highland: Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]