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Performers:
The McNulty Family, singing in English with group instrumental A1-2;
John McGettigan and his Irish Minstrels, singing in English with group instrumental A21-22

Running Order:
1. When it's teatime in the meadow, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
2. Irish soldier boy, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
3. O'Bryson has no place to go, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
4. Kelly the boy from Killane, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
5. Barney Brannigan, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
6. Erin's green shore, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
7. O'son remember my love today, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
8. If you ever go over to Ireland, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
9. The reel and mountain dew, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
10. My beauty of Limerick, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
11. Moriarty the happy cop, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
12. The old house far away, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
13. When Rafferty brought the rhumba to the town of Aughnacloy, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
14. The Galway rogue, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
15. Susie O'Malley, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
16. Far away in Australia [The girl I left behind], song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
17. Mother Malone, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
18. Haste to the wedding, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
19. The little house under the hill, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
20. They sailed away from Dublin Bay, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
21. Martha the flower of sweet Strabane, song / John McGettigan and his Irish Minstrels, singing in English
22. Untitled (skipping), hornpipes / John McGettigan and his Irish Minstrels [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Myles O'Malley and his Orchestra, group instrumental A1-4,;
O'Malley, Myles, solo whistle A5-8;
The McNulty Family, singing in English with group instrumental A9-20

Running Order:
1. Shannon bells, The joy of life, jigs / Myles O’Malley and his Orchestra, band
2. The Kildare fancy, The boys of Bluehill, hornpipes / Myles O’Malley and his Orchestra, band
3. Off she goes, Fire on the mountain, jigs / Myles O’Malley and his Orchestra, band
4. The morning star, The ships are sailing, reels / Myles O’Malley and his Orchestra, band
5. The quarrelsome piper, Harvest home, hornpipes / Myles O’Malley, tin whistle
6. The four hand reel, The ivy leaf, reels / Myles O’Malley, tin whistle
7. Sweeney's, hornpipe / Myles O’Malley, tin whistle
8. The swallows tail, The heathery breeze, reels / Myles O’Malley, tin whistle
9. We'd take you back to Ireland, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
10. The maid of sweet brown Knowe, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
11. The thirty two counties Ireland, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
12. A mothers lament, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
13. The rose of Aranmore, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
14. The Limerick races, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
15. In Kerry long ago, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
16. Grandfather Brian, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
17. The old potato cake, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
18. Ye all be Irish tonight, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
19. The half door, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
20. The stone outside Dan Murphy's door, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Clingan, James 'Jimmy', Donegal, singing in English A2-8, speech in English A1, 5-7;
O'Hara, Aidan, Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Unidentified performer [possibly McGonigle, Donegal], accordion solo A9

Running Order:
1. Speech [Talk about tunes used for dancing with examples; old songs heard from James' father with examples; Jimmy talks about the old dances: Haste to the Wedding, the Lancers, Quadrilles, Walls of Limerick, Siege of Limerick, Shoe the Donkey, Lannigan's Ball, Siege of Ennis, Maggie Pickens, etc.; gives the airs to them; songs he recalls his father singing: Mountain Streams where the Moorcock Crows, The Silvery Tide, Betsy Baker (sings a verse and says it has maybe ten verses, quite comical; see http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/supptrad.html)] ; Lannigan’s ball, air ; Maggie Pickens, air ; Betsy Baker, song / Aidan O’Hara, speech in English ; Jimmy Clingan, speech in English, lilting, singing in English
2. The rambling Irishman, song / Jimmy Clingan, singing in English
3. Speech [getting the song from his father] ; The rambling Irishman, song / Jimmy Clingan, singing in English
4. The rambling Irishman
5. Speech [song introduction] ; The hat McGuinness wore, song ; Speech [Information provided by AOH: the song just sung was written by local man, Neil Kearney from Carndonagh. McGuinness was from nearby Ballyloskey. Neil also wrote 'My Lovely Irish Rose' and 'The Green Fields of Annagh': The Hat McGuinness Wore, Untitled] / Jimmy Clingan, speech in English, singing in English ; Neil Kearney, composer [END OF BAND ONE]
6. Speech [song introduction] ; Clonmany For Me, song ; Speech [Information provided by AOH: Jimmy sings a tongue-in-cheeky song, 'Clonmany for Me', written by Pat Lynch, Carndonagh. Jimmy said that Pat also wrote 'The Lighthouse Down at Bunagee' - and the funny part of it all was that there's no lighthouse at Bunagee - 'The Banks of the Shannon'. Pat was a comedian, Jimmy said. He did recitations like 'An Angel Grew Tired of Heaven'. Pat and Neil Kearney were contemporaries of Harry Lauder and the pair met him one time. Harry wanted them to travel with him on his world tour, he thought they were so good] / Jimmy Clingan, speech in English, singing in English; Aidan O’Hara, speech in English
7. The mountain streams where the moorcocks crow, song ; Speech [Information provided by AOH: The performer says that he heard his mother singing it, a very old song as old as you'd get anywhere. http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=46396 ; also http://www.informatik.unihamburg.de/~zierke/peter.bellamy/songs/themountainstreamswherethemoorcockscrow.html / Jimmy Clingan, singing in English, speech in English
8. Speech [The performer introduces the next song, saying it's a dream a girl had about her lover] ; My love he is a miner lad, singing in English; Speech [Information provided by A O'H: the lad in question is named John Sleddin in the song (see the same song, ITMA Reference Number: 185-ITMA-MP3, recorded by Jimmy McBride)] / Jimmy Clingan, singing in English, speech in English ; Aidan O’Hara, speech in English
9. Londonderry hornpipe [Information provided by AOH: this may be a McGonigle man I recorded near Malin Town when Conal Beirne brought me to visit him] / [McGonigle], accordion [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Clingan, James 'Jimmy', Donegal, singing in English A1, 3, 5;
speech in English throughout A1–5;
fiddle solo A4–5;
O'Hara, Aidan, Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Clancy, John, Cavan, speech in English A6;
Clancy, Angela, Cavan, speech in English A6

Running Order:
1. The shores of Americay, song / Jimmy Clingan, singing in English
2. Speech [Talk about learning songs off records, people selling ballad sheets; Jimmy talks about his love of Gilbert and Sullivan songs which he learned from a recording of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company; he saw ballad song sellers at markets and fairs in Carndonagh the last thirty years ago; tinkers, men and women sold the songs which they had printed up, songs by Thomas Moore and the like. Sheets would be three pence or four pence each; how they know what air to sing the song to; He showed me a song called 'The Bonnie Wee Lass o' the Glen', written out for him 30 or 40 years earlier by a man from Balleighan, Malin, his name, John White Paddy, a Doherty or a McLaughlin man. Jimmy said the man had a lovely voice and he liked the song; talks about the 'timbre' in a good singer's voice. "I haven't that," he said.' (description provided by AOH)] / Jimmy Clingan, speech in English ; Aidan O’Hara, speech in English]
3. Speech [Information from A O'H: 'Starts off talking about an RIC man who wrote a song about a woman he liked in Clonmany and he quotes lines from it. Sings a verse and says, "That's a good song and nobody in Inishowen hardly knows it either." He got it from hearing it sung by others. On line the song is called Dark Iniseoghain: http://celtic-lyrics.com/lyrics/566.html and http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/deante/dark_iniseoghain-lyrics-1155631.html , also http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=13326, etc.; I asked him for The Star of Inishowen but he didn't know the air of it. He said he worked as a carpenter all his life and was in the Irish Army during the Emergency. He was 71 when I recorded this] ; Dark Iniseoghain, song / Jimmy Clingan, speech in English, singing in English
4. An Chúilfhionn [An Chuileann / The Coolin], air ; Speech [Information from A O'H: 'I asked him about a song called 'Came whistling o'er the hill' (same air as 'Sullivan's John'). Jimmy said it was well known locally'] / Jimmy Clingan, fiddle
5. Came whistling o'er the hill, air ; Speech [Information from A O'H: 'Talks about a song he heard only once sung by a man from Glengad. It took his fancy because it was so pleasing and he was sorry he didn't get it off him. Sings a few lines of it']; [untitled], song / Jimmy Clingan, fiddle, speech in English
6. Speech: [Information from A O'H: 'This recording was made after interview with Jimmy Clingan in 19AOH begins by reciting a few lines from verses written about the Derragarra Inn, Butler's Bridge. With him are the owners, John and Angela Clancy to whom he talks about their establishment: a recorded interview for Aidan's programme, 'Fáilte Isteach' on RTÉ Radio 1] / Aidan O’Hara, speech in English ; John Clancy, speech in English ; Angela Clancy, speech in English

Performers:
Murphy, Bridget, singing in English A1, 4, 6, 9-10, 12;
Murphy, Gene, singing in English A2, 7, 11;
Murphy, Tommy, singing in English A3, 8;
Murphy, Mick, singing in English A5;
Unidentified performer (child), singing in English A13;
Stokes, Patrick, singing in English A14;
Stokes, Mary Ellen, singing in English A15-16;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A17-18

Running Order:
1. Song: The Trees They Grow So Tall [speed variation at beginning of track] [My Bonny Boy]
2. Song: The Hills of Glenswilly
3. Song: Biddy Donoghue [Bridget Donoghue]
4. Song: Avondale
5. Song: My Name It Is MacGuire (interrupted)
6. Song: Caroline from Edinburgh Town
7. Song: The Croppy Boy
8. Song: A Mother's Love [A Mother's Love's a Blessing]
9. Song: Macroom-Cork Rebel Song [The Lonely Woods of Upton] (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]
10. Song: Macroom-Cork rebel song [The Lonely Woods of Upton]
11. Song: Early, Early in the Spring [The Croppy Boy]
12. Song: A Mother's Last Goodbye (interrupted)
13. Song: The Butcher Boy (interrupted, end clipped)
14. Song: A Child in the Budget
15. Song: The Prison Song [Shall My Soul Pass through Ireland] (unfinished)
16. Song: The Black and Tan Gun
17. Song: The Farmer's Boy
18. Song: The Hills of Knocknashee [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Murphy, Bridget, singing in English A1-2, 5, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18;
singing in Irish A12;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A3-4;
Murphy, Mick, lilting A6;
singing in English A6, 7, 8, 9, 20, 21;
Murphy, Tommy, singing in English A8;
Wall, Luke, singing in English A10, 11, 19;
Murphy, Gene, singing in English A15, 16, 18

Running Order:
1. Song: Macroom-Cork rebel song [The Lonely Woods of Upton] (last verse only)
2. Song: Quiet Cottage Home
3. Song: Noreen Ban (unfinished)
4. Song: Noreen Ban (interrupted)
5. Song: Noreen Ban
6. Song: Poll and Nancy Hogan [The Wexford Mummers' Song] (interrupted)
7. Song: The Cradle
8. Song: Bit o' Butter (interrupted)
9. Song: New Ross Town (interrupted)
10. Song: Untitled [Old Mick Murphy]
11. Song: Early, Early in the Spring
12. Song: Happy Woodpecker's Song [END OF BAND ONE]
13. Song: The Station of Knocklong (beginning clipped, unfinished)
14. Song: Green Mossy Banks of the Lee
15. Song: Skibbereen (interrupted)
16. Song: Oxford City
17. Song: Old Shep
18. Song: Lady in Her Father's Garden (interrupted) (unfinished)
19. Song: The Factory Girl
20. Song: The Cradle [longer version]
21. Song: Poll and Nancy Hogan [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Flynn, Miley, singing in English A1, 8, 10[?], 12, 17;
Flynn, Kathleen, singing in English A2-3 =;
[Cassidy, Kathleen];
Flynn, Kitty, singing in English A4, 7, 11;
Cassidy, Jimmy, singing in English A5-6, 9;
Cassidy, Andy, singing in English A13, 14;
Cassidy, Bill, singing in English A15, 16

Running Order:
1. Song: Forty Shades of Green
2. Song: Green Grow the Rushes [version 1]
3. Song: Green Grow the Rushes [version 2]
4. Song: Lovely Willie (interrupted)
5. Song: My Gentle Mother's Grave = [Gentle Mother ?]
6. Song: Hold My Hand Precious Lord
7. Song: Fraulein (beginning clipped) (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]
8. Song: The Road That Flows through Ratheen [Raheen ?]
9. Song: My Father's Serving Boy
10. Song: Father Murphy [Boolavogue] (beginning clipped) (interrupted)
11. Song: Lord Bateman's Castle (interrupted) (unfinished)
12. Song: Danny Boy
13. Song: My Rifle, Pony, and Me
14. Song: My Good Man ? (unfinished) (end clipped)
15. Song: The Jolly Ploughboy
16. Song: Moll and Nancy Hogan [The Wexford Mummers' Song] (interrupted)
17. Song: My Mother's Sweet Voice (unfinished) (end clipped) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Cassidy, Johnny, storytelling in English A1;
Unidentified performers (male), singing in English A2-4, 8-10;
Unidentified performer [female fortune teller], singing in English A6;
speech in English A5;
Unidentified performers (female), singing in English A7, 11

Running Order:
1. Story: Jack the Giant Killer
2. Song: The Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe
3. Song: Galway Bay (satirical)
4. Song: The Boys of the County Armagh (satirical)[END OF BAND ONE]
5. Speech: Artelia's hand being read by a tinker woman
6. Song: A Home down in Texas
7. Song: Goodbye Romance (unfinished)
8. Song: The Old County Down (interrupted)
9. Song: Untitled [I Won't Get Drunk Again ?]
10. Song: Untitled [The Labouring Man's Daughter ?]
11. Song: Skibbereen (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Furey, Finbar, Dublin, pipes A1-5;
Furey, Edward, Dublin, guitar A1-5;
Donaghue, Pat, speech in English B1;
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English B1

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled [The Verdant Braes of Skreen]
2. Jig / Slide: Untitled [Dingle Regatta]
3. Air: Roisin Dubh
4. Jig: Untitled [The Lark in the Morning]
5. Song: Pretty Saro (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]
6. Interview with Pat Donaghue about the countryside and catching birds, about Joe and police, etc [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performer (boy), singing in English A1-2;
Unidentified performer [Cassidy, Mary, Mrs?], singing in English A3-4;
speech in English A11;
Flynn, Miley, singing in English A5-6;
Flynn, Kate (Cassidy), singing in English A7;
Cassidy, Johnny, singing in English A8;
storytelling in English A9;
Doran, Maggie, storytelling in English A10-11

Running Order:
1. Song: My Name Is Johnny Connors
2. Song: Pat O'Brien (fragment)
3. Song: Half Crown Song [The Old Widow Song]
4. Song: Half Crown Song [The Old Widow Song]
5. Song: Untitled [A Stoirin Ban When Are You Coming Home?] (end clipped)
6. Song: Untitled [The Sally Gardens] (interrupted) (unfinished)
7. Song: The North Strand [Pretty Polly] (interrupted) (unfinished)
8. Song: The North Strand [Pretty Polly] [END OF BAND ONE]
9. Story: Blacksmith's Story
10. Story: Drunken Story
11. Speech: Interview (by Artelia) with Mrs Cassidy
12. Speech: Interview (by Artelia) with Mrs Cassidy continued (interrupted) (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]