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Speech, Jig: [Further reminiscences of Garrett Barry; Barry's fondness for whiskey], Untitled (incomplete)

Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Dublin
McGough, Michael, Clare - speech in English
Talty, Tom ('Tom Charlie') - concertina solo
Talty, Tom ('Tom Charlie'), Clare

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]

Clancy, Willie - speech in English
Clancy, Willie, Clare[?]
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Dublin

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]

Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Dublin
Talty, Tom ('Tom Charlie'), Clare
Unidentified performer - speech in English

Reel: Untitled [The Steampacket]

Clancy, Willie, Clare[?]

Reels: The Connacht Heifers / The Connacht Heifer, Jenny Picking Cockles

Clancy, Willie, Clare - pipes solo

Speech: Untitled [The first reel that Clancy played on the whistle, which is the first tune in the next selection]

Clancy, Willie
O'Donnell, Michael

Reels: Untitled [The Ladies Pantalettes], Untitled [The Crooked Road to Dublin], Untitled [The Ravelled Hank of Yarn]

Clancy, Willie

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]

Clancy, Willie
O'Donnell, Michael

Air: The Bright Lady

Clancy, Willie, Clare

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

Clancy, Willie - speech in English
O'Donnell, Michael - speech in English