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00:00:50 - 00:01:39 | [Lough Isle Castle, reel] [tune fragment] / James Byrne, fiddle
00:02:17 - 00:04:25 | [Lough Isle Castle, reel] / James Byrne, fiddle ; Dermot McLaughlin, fiddle
00:04:29 - 00:05:30 | [Miss Crawford's strathspey] / James Byrne, fiddle
00:06:17 - 00:07:11 | [The 21 highland] / Dermot McLaughlin, fiddle
00:08:35 - 00:10:11 | [Rí Mhín na Saileach = The king of Meenasillagh, reel] / James Byrne, fiddle ; Dermot McLaughlin, fiddle
00:10:58 - 00:12:16 | [Paddy Hiúdaí's, slip jig] / James Byrne, fiddle
00:13:40 - 00:17:09 | [The girls of Ardara, highland] ; Unititled, [highland] [version of In the town of Ballybay, song] ; Untitled, [highland] [version of Miss Drummond of Perth, strathspey] / James Byrne, fiddle
00:18:03 - 00:19:57 | [McConnell's, barndance] / James Byrne, fiddle
00:21:15 - 00:24:08 | [Francie [Dearg] O'Byrne's, reel] ; [The pigeon on the gate, reel] / James Byrne, fiddle ; Dermot McLaughlin, fiddle
00:24:54 - 00:27:46 | [The hurricane] (comp. James Scott Skinner), reel / [The Shetland fiddler, reel] / Dermot McLaughlin, fiddle
00:29:46 - 00:31:37 | The maids of Mullagh, reel / James Byrne, fiddle ; Dermot McLaughlin, fiddle
00:32:51 - 00:34:47 | [Molloy's favourite, reel] / James Byrne, fiddle
00:34:51 - 00:37:02 | [The spinning wheel] = [The flood on the holm] [comp. James Scott Skinner], reel / James Byrne, fiddle ; Dermot McLaughlin, fiddle
00:37:08 - 00:39:47 | [McCahill's no. 1, reel] ; [McCahill's no. 2, reel] / James Byrne, fiddle
00:41:27 - 00:41:36 | [The harvest home, hornpipe] [tune fragment] / James Byrne, fiddle
00:41:37 - 00:43:48 | [Casey's pig, highland] ; [The ewe with the crooked horn, highland] / James Byrne, fiddle ; Dermot McLaughlin, fiddle
00:44:04 - 00:45:44 | [Dúlamán na binne buí no. 1 = Seaweed from the yellow cliff's, highland] ; [Dúlamán na binne buí no. 2, highland] / Dermot McLaughlin, fiddle
00:46:31 - 00:47:50 | Untitled, [highland] ; [The devil in the kitchen, reel] / James Byrne, fiddle ; Dermot McLaughlin, fiddle
00:48:57 - 00:50:53 | [An Mullach Garbh = The rugged height, highland] / James Byrne, fiddle ; Dermot McLaughlin, fiddle
00:51:05 - 00:52:59 | [Muineál a' bhardail = The drake's neck, reel] / James Byrne, fiddle
00:54:18 - 00:56:48 | [Jimmy McNelis', highland] ; Untitled, [reel] (version of Jimmy McNelis', highland) ; Untitled, [reel] (Danny Meehan version) / James Byrne, fiddle
00:59:35 - 01:00:05 | [O'Connor Donn, reel] [tune fragment] / James Byrne, fiddle
01:00:08 - 01:02:13 | [O'Connor Donn, reel] / James Byrne, fiddle
01:02:50 - 01:04:36 | [The highlandman who kissed his granny, reel] ; [The sportin' belles, reel] / Dermot McLaughlin, fiddle
01:05:09 - 01:07:42 | [Splendid isolation] (comp. Brendan McGlinchey), reel ; [McGlinchey's] (comp. Brendan McGlinchey), reel / Dermot McLaughlin, fiddle
01:07:43 - 01:12:30 | Brendan McGlinchey, speech ; Peter Murphy, speech ; Family of musicians in Dunfanaghy, speech / James Byrne, speech in English ; Dermot McLaughlin, speech in English
01:12:31 - 01:14:42 | [The blacksmith's fancy], reel / James Byrne, fiddle ; Dermot McLaughlin, fiddle
01:18:23 - 01:18:58 | Untitled, [reel] [version of The turnpike gate, reel] ; [Biddy of Barnes, reel] ; [The bungalow] [comp. James Scott Skinner], reel / Dermot McLaughlin, fiddle ; James Byrne, fiddle
01:18:60 - 01:14:42 | James gives Dermot directions to Con Cassidy's house, speech / James Byrne, speech in English ; Dermot McLaughlin, speech in English
01:21:38 - 01:24:31 | The Irish washerwoman, jig / James Byrne, fiddle ; Dermot McLaughlin, fiddle

The following item appears to have been recorded at a formal event such as a concert or in a hall.
01:25:43 - 01:27:57 | [The primrose lass, reel] ; [John Stenson's no. 1, reel] ; [John Stenson's no. 2, reel] / Unidentified, flute

The following material is dubbed from a recording made by Caoimhín Mac Aoidh on 14 January 1977:
01:34:58 - 02:02:35 | An enchanted fiddle bought by John's father in a pawn shop, speech ; Anthony Helforty, speech ; John Mhosaí McGinley and his composition of the tune 'The Atlantic roar', speech ; What makes a good fiddle?, speech ; A Glenfin fiddle player who was given the gift of music from the fairies, speech ;John's father, Mickey and how good a fiddle player he was, speech ; 'Doyle' the dark fiddler of Fanad, speech ; The black mare of Fanad, speech / John Doherty, speech in English
02:03:19 - 02:04:18 | The pet in the kitchen, [jig] / John Doherty, fiddle
02:04:46 - 02:06:12 | The black Fanad mare, [reel] = [The nine points of rougery, reel] / John Doherty, fiddle
02:06:51 - 02:08:08 | The Loughside hornpipe / John Doherty, fiddle
02:08:26 - 02:10:15 | The high level, [hornpipe] ; Madam Vanoni, [hornpipe] / John Doherty, fiddle
02:10:30 - 02:12:29 | Music of the area, speech ; The area in Donegal where John travels, speech ; Social history about farm labourers, speech / John Doherty, speech in English
02:12:50 - 02:15:36 | The blackbird, air ; The blackbird, hornpipe / John Doherty, fiddle
02:15:59 - 02:16:58 | The piper in the cave, speech / John Doherty, speech in English
02:17:28 - 02:18:46 | Welcome home Gráinne, [march] / John Doherty, fiddle
02:19:25 - 02:20:24 | My love is in America, [reel] / John Doherty, fiddle
02:20:33 - 02:21:34 | The return to Miltown, [reel] / John Doherty, fiddle
02:22:28 - 02:23:28 | The last house in Connacht] [comp. Paddy O'Brien], reel / John Doherty, fiddle
02:23:43 - 02:24:19 | Mickey Browne's reel (version of The gravel walks to Granny) / John Doherty, fiddle
02:24:24 - 02:32:34 | Fiddler able to charm an animal or beast, speech ; Paganini mesmerising a bull to collect £1,000 inside the castle door, speech ; Dónal, a Glenfin man who found a book written in ogham script prophesying the end of the world, speech / John Doherty, speech in English
02:32:40 - 02:33:37 | Kitty's rambles, jig / John Doherty, fiddle
02:34:06 - 02:36:28 | A dream that John had where a young woman appeared and taught him a piece of music, speech / John Doherty, speech in English
02:36:47 - 02:38:07 | John Doherty's dream, slow air / John Doherty, fiddle
02:39:57 - 02:41:51 | Untitled (comp. James Scott Skinner), march / John Doherty, fiddle
02:42:27 - 02:46:07 | The fiddler Anthony Helforty and the tune 'The four posts of the bed', speech / John Doherty, speech in English
02:46:13 - 02:47:30 | The four posts of the bed, reel / John Doherty, fiddle
02:47:42 - 02:49:33 | The postman's knock, [hornpipe] / John Doherty, fiddle
02:49:40 - 02:51:13 | Kitty's fancy, mazurka / John Doherty, fiddle
02:51:32 - 02:52:32 | The rising of the sun, [reel] / John Doherty, fiddle
02:52:43 - 02:54:40 | Who was the best fiddle player in the world?, speech / John Doherty, speech in English
02:55:00 - 02:56:08 | The pinch of snuff, [reel] / John Doherty, fiddle
02:56:13 - 02:57:22 | The scholar, [reel] / John Doherty, fiddle
02:57:45 - 02:59:41 | Background to the tune 'Paddy's rambles through the park', speech / John Doherty, speech in English
02:59:42 - 03:01:51 | Paddy's rambles through the park, air / John Doherty, fiddle
03:02:09 - 03:03:31 | The cuckoo's nest, hornpipe / John Doherty, fiddle
03:03:38 - 03:04:43 | The wild Irishman, [reel] / John Doherty, fiddle
03:05:01 - 03:06:32 | The flood on the holm, [reel] / John Doherty, fiddle
03:06:43 - 03:07:51 | Doherty's reel = [The Gweebarra bridge reel] / John Doherty, fiddle

Féile na Bóinne, the Drogheda Folk Festival, was first organised as a weekend festival in January 1976 by a local committee of the Tradition Club of Drogheda, with an emphasis on Co Louth performers. It was next held on a larger scale in October 1977. A great concourse of singers, musicians, and dancers came to the town from all parts of Ireland that year, and parallel sessions of recitals, concerts, workshops, lectures, and sessions were held in the Whitworth Hall, the O’Raghallaighs GAA Club, and other local venues. The festival continued on a smaller scale into the 1980s. Revived in the 1990s, Féile na Bóinne still continues annually as an autumn weekend festival.

Many of the artists at the 1976 and 1977 festivals were photographed in performance by Drogheda professional photographer Joe Dowdall of West Street. His artistic work constitutes a valuable record of traditional music of the period, memorialising older source-singers and musicians who were then being discovered, and the young performers who were learning from them, in what was a heady and exciting period for Irish traditional music. Many of the singers, musicians and dancers pictured here have since died, and it is good to be able to see them in their heyday.