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Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 298 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 9

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 298 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 9

Speech: Untitled (incomplete) [Topic: instrumental music; Irish did not use harmony; primitively flavoured singing of Connemara; woodwind instruments carried by the Celts on their travels; these instruments derive from the shepherd's reed with which he called his flock; that reed was later developed to a bagpipe; which came first, string or reed instruments?; quotes Dryden's 'Ode to Saint Cecilia's Day'] [END OF BAND ONE]

Ennis, Seamus, Dublin - lecture in English [= speech in English]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 309 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 12

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 309 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 12

Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement about the previous and next items; topics include: the words of the song 'Phil the Fluter's Ball'; SE's first journey as a child to the Carna area in Connemara in 1927, when he took the train to Galway and from there the train to Maam Cross; SE collected 212 songs from Colm O Caoidheain; the song Nora Ni Choncubhair Bhain; C O C the only person who had the full version of the melody of the song]

Ennis, Seamus
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin

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