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Reel: Untitled [The Scholar] (fades out)

Reck, Tommy, Dublin - pipes solo

Slide: Untitled [Denis Murphy's Slide]

Ennis, Seamus, Dublin - whistle

Song: Untitled [The Charming Colleen Rua]

Ennis, Seamus - singing in English

Speech: Untitled [Topics include: the dialect of Irish in Waterford; Labhras O Cadhlaigh; faction fighting; introduction to the next item]

Ennis, Seamus
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin

Song: Untitled [Is Buachaill o Chluain Meala Me; song used to start a faction fight]

Ennis, Seamus - singing in Irish

Speech: Untitled [Discussion of topics related to the previous song, 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]

Ennis, Seamus
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin

Reel: An Lin faoi Bhlath / The Flax in Bloom

Ennis, Seamus

Speech: Untitled [Topics including: SE plays many instrument, including the fiddle and the Jew's Harp; SE does not play a melodeon or accordion, because the notes are 'ready made'; John Clarke of the Pipers' Club said that accordions were not allowed in the club; story about a changeling who plays the fiddle and later plays the melodeon after being thrown in the river; story about the blacksmith and the Scolaire Bocht – 'se buile moch an Luain agus buile deanach an tSathairn ata dod mhilleadh']

Ennis, Seamus
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin

Reel: The Merry Blacksmith

Ennis, Seamus

Speech: Untitled [Lore about blacksmiths, including: blacksmiths are never tired; the tiredness of the blacksmith is put over on the tinker; story about holy person who wants to get a pin made for a cloak – the tinker refuses to do it, but the blacksmith agrees, and for this reason tinkers are cursed; a poet or musician should never be refused in a forge; introduction to the song that follows]

Ennis, Seamus
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin