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Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 329 [sound recording] / [various performers]

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]

Josephine Keegan Collection. Reel-to-Reel 2 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Keegan, Joe, Armagh, flute solo A1–25, B12–13;
speech in English B13;
flute in duet C26?;
Unidentified performers, speech in English and Irish A25, 47, B11, 17, 35, C21, 23;
O Suilleabhain, Eoin, Dublin, speech in Irish and English A26–27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, B1–3, 5, 8–9, C33, 35;
Kiltormer Ceili Band, The, Galway, instrumental group A26, 28, 30, 34, 38, 40, 44;
Fallon, Joe, Galway, fiddle solo A32, 36, 42;
Unidentified performer [McGann, Andy, New York], fiddle in trio A46, B17?;
Unidentified performer [Burke, Joe, Galway], accordion in trio A46;
accordion in duet A48;
Ardellis Ceili and Old-Time Band, The, instrumental group A48;
Gardiner, Bobby, Clare / USA / Tipperary, accordion in duet A48, B26;
Eugene Leddy's Ceili Band, Cavan, instrumental group A48;
O Se, Sean, Cork, singing in Irish and English with instrumental accompaniment B1;
singing in Irish with instrumental accompaniment B4, 8, C34;
Sean O Riada agus Ceoltoiri Chualann, Dublin, instrumental accompaniment to singing B1, 4, 8, C34;
instrumental group B1–2, 8, 10, C32;
Keane, Eamon, Dublin, speech in English B3, C33;
Sheehy, Anne, Kerry, accordion solo B6–7;
Unidentified performer [Redican, Larry, New York?], fiddle in trio B17;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English B17, 19, 23, 25, 27, 30, 32, 34;
McGann, Andy, New York, fiddle in trio B18;
Reynolds, Paddy, Longford / New York, fiddle in trio B18;
Brennan Grant, Katherine, New York, fiddle in duet B20–22;
Fishman, Dina, New York, singing in English to own guitar accompaniment B24;
Redican, Larry, New York, fiddle in duet B28–29;
Fahy, Jimmy / Fahy, Joe, Mayo / Chicago, singing in English B31;
Mulvihill, Charlie, New York, accordion in trio B33;
Mulvihill, Tom, New York, fiddle in trio B33;
Cronin, Paddy, Kerry / Boston, fiddle in duet B35;
O Murchu, Sean, Galway / Dublin, speech in Irish and English C1–2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18;
Killina Ceili Band, The, Roscommon, instrumental group C1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 15, 19;
Connolly, Seamus, Clare / Boston, fiddle solo C7, 13, 17;
Partly identified performer (John Joe), accordion solo C22;
Rowsome, Liam, Dublin, fiddle solo C23;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group(s) C24, 27–31;
Unidentified performer, accordion in duet C25;
Keane, James, Dublin / USA, accordion solo C36–37

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [Sporting Nell (related tune); for another performance of this tune from this performer, see track B13]
2. Reel: Untitled [Rattigan's Reel; for another performance of this tune from this performer, see track B14]
3. Reel: Untitled [The Cup of Tea]
4. Reel: Untitled [The Ewe Reel]
5. Reel: Untitled [Master McDermott's Reel; composed by Master McDermott]
6. Reel: Untitled [The Star of Munster]
7. Reel: Untitled [The Blackberry Blossom]
8. Reel: Untitled [Sporting Paddy]
9. Reel: Untitled [The Sailor on the Rock; sound level very low on original tape]
10. Reel: Untitled [The Beauty Spot]
11. Reel: Untitled [Miss Monaghan; sound level low]
12. Reel: Untitled [The Plough and the Stars]
13. Reel: Untitled [The Collier's Reel]
14. Jigs: Untitled [Do You Want Any More; The Collier's Reel (related tune)], Untitled (incomplete)
15. Jig: Untitled [Garrett Barry's Jig]
16. Reel: Untitled [The Mountain Road; composed by Michael Gorman]
17. Reel: Untitled [Paddy Taylor's Reel (related tune?)]
18. Reel: Untitled
19. Reels: Untitled [Dinny O'Brien's Reel; composed by Paddy O'Brien], Untitled [Farewell to Connacht]
20. Reel: Untitled [Tim Moloney]
21. Reel: Untitled [Down the Broom]
22. Reel: Untitled [The Old Torn Petticoat]
23. Reel: Untitled [Tory Island; Murphy's Greyhound]
24. Reel: Untitled [The Steampacket]
25. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Earl's Chair], Untitled [Radio announcement
26. Speech, March / Jig: Untitled [Radio announcement, signalling the start of an edition of the radio programme 'Ceili House' on Radio Eireann], Untitled [The Men of the West]
27. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
28. Reels: The Piper's Dream [The Red-Haired Lass], Buckley's Reel, Father Kelly's [Ben Hill Reel; composed by Father Kelly]
29. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; the personnel of the Kiltormer Ceili Band]
30. Jigs: The Liverpool Jig [Tonra's Jig; composed by Brendan Tonra], The Chestnut Grove [Ellis' Jig], The Tulla Jig [Ceol a' Mala / Ceol an Mhala]
31. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
32. Hornpipe: Sean Ryan Number Four [Sean Ryan's No. 4; The Ballyoran; composed by Sean Ryan]
33. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
34. Marches: The Minstrel Boy, My Singing Bird, God Save Ireland
35. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
36. Jigs: The Idle Road, Trip to Belfast [The First Night in America]
37. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
38. Hornpipes: Andy McGann's [Flaherty's], O'Brien's [The Humours of Tuamgraney]
39. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
40. Polkas: My Aunt Jane, Gurteen March, The Road to Blarney [St. Mary's Polka / Saint Mary's Polka]
41. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
42. Reels: Killabeg House [Ah Surely], Joe Fallon's Number Three / Joe Fallon's No. 3
43. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
44. Jigs: The Kilfenora (clipped at end)
45. Test Signal: Untitled
46. Reels: Untitled [The Girl Who Broke My Heart / The Girl That Broke My Heart], Untitled [Sean sa Cheo; Sean sa Cheo]
47. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
48. March, Reels, Speech, Set Dance: Untitled (short; incomplete), Untitled [The Sally Gardens], Untitled [The Bucks of Oranmore], Untitled [Radio announcement], The King of the Fairies (short; incomplete)
49. Speech, Song, Reel: Untitled [Radio announcement, signalling the start of an edition of the radio programme 'Flea Cheoil an Raidio' on Radio Eireann], An Spailpin Fanach [Sung with verses in Irish and English], Untitled [The Traveller; played between verses of the song sung in this track]
50. Speech, Carolan Piece: Untitled [Radio announcement], Planxty Drury
51. Speech, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled (short; incomplete)
52. Song: Untitled
53. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
54. Reels: Paddy Fahy's, Farrell's [The Killavil Fancy]
55. Hornpipe: Burke's
56. Speech, Song, Jig: Untitled [Radio announcement], Torramh an Bhairille, Untitled [The Humours of Ennistymon; played between verses of the song sung in this track]
57. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
58. Carolan Piece: Planxty Maguire [Faded out; end of the edition of 'Flea Cheoil an Raidio' that began in track B1]
59. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
60. Reel: Untitled [The Liffey Banks]
61. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Sporting Nell (related tune); for another performance of this tune from this performer, see track A1], Untitled
62. Reel: Untitled [Rattigan's Reel; for another performance of this tune from this performer, see track A2]
63. Jig: Untitled (incomplete; tape runs out) [END OF BAND ONE]
64. Test Signal: Untitled
65. Reel, Speech, Speech: Untitled [McFadden's Favourite; signature tune signalling the start of an edition of the Radio Eireann programme 'American Journeywork'], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over], Untitled [Radio announcement; topic: this programme is the last of the current series of music from the USA]
66. Reel: Paddy Fahy's Reel
67. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
68. Air: Jimmy Mo Mhile Stor
69. Jig: Paddy Fahy's Jig [Composed by Paddy Fahy]
70. Reel: Farewell to Ireland [Mistitled?; Faral Gara]
71. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
72. Song: As I Roved out through Galway City
73. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
74. Reels: Untitled [Music in the Glen], Untitled [The Donegal Traveller]
75. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
76. Set Dance: Peggy O'Neill
77. Reels: Untitled [Father Kelly's], Untitled [Trim the Velvet]
78. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
79. Song: The Colleen Bawn
80. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
81. Reel: Untitled [Stated in track B32 to have been composed by Charlie Mulvihill; is included in book of Father Kelly's compositions with the titles 'Derrycrag Reel' and 'Fr Kelly's No. 1']
82. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
83. Reel, Speech: The Humours of Westport, Untitled [Radio announcement signalling the end of the edition of 'American Journeywork' that began in track B17]
84. Speech, Hornpipe: Untitled [Radio announcement signalling the start of an edition of the programme 'Ceili House' on Radio Eireann], Untitled [The Plains of Boyle]
85. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
86. Reels: The Dublin Reel, Jackie Coleman's Reel, Miss McDonald
87. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
88. Jigs: Doctor O'Neill's, Strike the Gay Harp
89. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
90. Reel: Lord Gordon
91. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
92. Hornpipes: The Plains of Kilcorkery [The Home Brew], The Harristown Hornpipe [The Ballyoran; composed by Sean Ryan]
93. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
94. Marches: The Farmer's March, Sarsfield's March
95. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
96. Reels: Tom Ward's Downfall, The Mullinavat Reel [The Reel of Mullinavat]
97. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
98. Jigs: The Maid at the Spinning Wheel, The Lad from Briarfield [Langstern Pony / Langstrom Pony]
99. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
100. Hornpipe, Jig: Cooley's Hornpipe [Composed by Paddy O'Brien], Paddy Canny's Jig [Dougherty's; The Lark in the Morning (DMI, # 240)]
101. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement: the personnel of the Killina Ceili Band]
102. Reels: The Humours of Ballyconnell [Mistitled?; Lucky in Love; The Bloom of Youth], Postman's Knock [The Cameronian], The Woods of Clohanyquinn [?] [The Green Mountain], The Four Mile House [Boil the Breakfast Early]
103. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement signalling the end of the edition of 'Ceili House' that began in track C1]
104. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
105. Reels: Pride of Erin [The Green Groves of Erin], Congress [The Abbey Reel]
106. Speech, Air, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], Se Fath Mo Bhuartha (short; incomplete), Untitled [Radio announcement]
107. Reels: Untitled [The Sally Gardens], Untitled [The Mountain Road; composed by Michael Gorman], Untitled [Christmas Eve; composed by Tommy Coen]
108. Carolan Piece: Untitled [Planxty Drury]
109. Jig: Untitled [The Lark in the Morning]
110. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Sunshine Hornpipe], Untitled [The Standing Abbey]
111. Reels: Untitled [Martin Mulhaire's Number 9; composed by Martin Mulhaire], Untitled [The Steampacket]
112. Jigs: Untitled [Andy McGann's], Untitled [The Castle Jig; composed by Sean Ryan], Untitled [Sacco's Jig; Tripping up the Stairs]
113. Reels: Untitled [Rattigan's], Untitled [Carmel Mahoney Mulhaire; composed by Martin Mulhaire], Untitled [The Hare's Foot]
114. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Fairy Queen], Untitled [The Ballyoran; composed by Sean Ryan]
115. Reel: Untitled [The Ewe Reel]
116. Speech, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled (short; incomplete)
117. Song: Untitled
118. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
119. Jig: Langstrom Pony [Langstern Pony]
120. Reels: The Graf Spee [The Grand Spy], Mother's Delight (clipped at end) [END OF BAND TWO]