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Ireland: Singing in Irish With digital objects
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Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 313 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 4

Speech: Untitled [About the title of the piece of music that follows, The Shaskeen Reel; bo sheasc is a cow that is not giving milk, perhaps a barren cow; the word 'seaiscin' is the affectionate diminutive of the word 'seasc', referring to such a cow that is kept as a pet]

Ennis, Seamus
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 313 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 6

Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the theme of the story that follows; story about the hiring fairs, 'Don Nippery Septo'; story about the king of Greece who wanted to give his daughter's hand in marriage to the man who could tell the longest story – the story without end; Ennis refers to the tune that follows as 'The Eternal Slide']

Ennis, Seamus
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin

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