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

Clancy, Willie, Clare - pipes solo

Air, Reel: Pretty Molly Brannigan, The Green Fields of America

Clancy, Willie, Clare

Speech: Untitled [The first tune that Clancy played on the whistle, the jig 'Father O'Flynn']

Clancy, Willie
O'Donnell, Michael

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

Speech: Untitled [Account and reminiscences of Garrett Barry; Barry's birth; blind from infancy; Tom Talty (interviewee) went with an ass and cart to pick up Barry to play at his parent's home in Tooreen, near Miltown Malbay; Barry 's favourite public house in Miltown Malbay was Patsy Burke's; the names of tunes played by Barry; information about a fling called 'Ennis']

Clancy, Willie - pipes solo
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Dublin - speech in English
Talty, Tom ('Tom Charlie'), Clare - speech in English

Speech, Piece, Speech: Untitled [Further reminiscences of Garrett Barry; Barry coming to stay at Patsy Burke's public house in Miltown Malbay; Barry's physical appearance; Barry plays for benefits – music events to aid an unfortunate person in the locality; story about Garrett Barry meeting and playing with a piper named Stephenson, identified as Dick Stephenson, with whom 'The Fox Chase' was associated], The Fox Chase, Untitled [Story about Barry learning 'The Fox Chase' after hearing it only twice]

Barry, Michael, Clare - speech in English
Burke, Joe, Clare - speech in English
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Dublin
Rowsome, Leo, Dublin - pipes solo

Slip Jig: Will You Come down to Limerick? [Kitty Come down to Limerick / The Munster Gimlet]

Clancy, Willie

Speech: Untitled [Clancy's advice to those learning the tin whistle: 'Take it easy and break the lumps']

Clancy, Willie
O Ciobhain, Breandan, Dublin

Air: An Binnsin Luachra

Clancy, Willie

Speech: Untitled [Defining the art of piping; different styles of piping; Clancy's own styles, which varies from staccato to legato as the mood takes him; Clancy feels that he cannot do justice to slow airs because of his lack of knowledge of Irish; musicians who had most influence on Clancy – his father; Johnny and Felix Doran; Leo Rowsome; Tommy Reck; Peadar Broe; and Seamus Ennis; difficulties of maintaining the pipes and of finding suitable reeds]

Clancy, Willie
O Ciobhain, Breandan, Dublin