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Performers:
Murphy, Tom (old), singing in English A1, speech in English A2;
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English A2, 7;
Wall, Luke, speech in English A2;
Connors, Johnny, lilting A3-6;
Murphy, Bridget (Wall), speech in English A7;
Cassidy, Johnny, storytelling in English B1-3

Running Order:
1. Song: Farewell Lovely Mary
2. Speech: Conversation: prayer for stopping blood - old Tom; curing horse of farcie - Luke Wall; prayer for toothache - old Tom
3. Lilting: Jigging - Johnny Connors [Dunphy's Hornpipe]
4. Lilting: Jigging - Johnny Connors [The High Level, hornpipe]
5. Lilting: Jigging - Johnny Connors [The Steampacket, reel]
6. Lilting: Jigging - Johnny Connors [Harvest Home, hornpipe]
7. Speech: Bridget Murphy (nee Wall), life story [conversation, biographical: settled woman becomes a traveller] [END OF BAND ONE ?]
8. Speech: Tale: Willy Wapster
9. Speech: Tale: Seven Little Pipers
10. Speech: Tale: Dickie Milburn [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Stokes, Patrick, storytelling in English A1, 5-10;
Unidentified performer [Patrick Stokes?], singing in English A2;
Stokes, Mary Ellen, singing in English A3;
Stokes, ?, (child), singing in English A4

Running Order:
1. Story: The Cats and Their New Eyes and the Lord's Daughter
2. Song: Ellen Heaney - tinker song about window breaking
3. Song: Murder ballad [Air: Once I Loved]
4. Song: I'm a Rambler [END OF BAND ONE]
5. Story: About Dan O'Connell,'The Turf Trickster, and the Tobacco'
6. Story: Further stories about Dan O'Connell, the Hat, the Poisoned Cup, the Hotel Party, the Tinker's Hotel, the Lord Mayor
7. Stories: Obscene Stories about Dan O'Connell
8. Stories: The Policeman, the Bridge, and the Priest, Ghost Story
9. Stories: Cramp Story, Vicar Story, Cutting Pigs Tails, Chase by Cattle
10. Story: Story about Dogs (beginning clipped) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Stokes, Patrick, speech in English, speech in cant/gammon, storytelling in English A1-9, B1-7

Running Order:
1. Speech: Riddles (Speed variation on track)
2. Speech: Tongue twisters, riddles (Speed variation on track)
3. Speech: Comments on Michael and Martin Mahon and their habits (Beginning clipped)
4. Stories: Untitled [The Policeman and the Dogs]
5. Story: The Insult from the Policeman (Speed variation at end of track)
6. Story: The Ass and the Gate
7. Story: The Insult from the Policeman repeated (Speed variation at end of track) [repeated]
8. Story: The Guard's Bike
9. Story: Patrick's Sleeping Trick
10. Story: Pat's Interfering Child, the Sticks and the Gunman [END OF BAND ONE]
[Band two has not been digitised but originally contained the following tracks]
11. Story: The Enchanted Swans
12. Story: Catching the Pike
13. Story: The Talking Cats
14. Story: The Motor Car and the Motor Cycle
15. Story: Johnny and Tommy (The Boxing Story = The Dead Man's Promise)
16. Speech: Description of Banshees
17. Story: The Banshee and the Shop-owner Fight [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, speech in English A1;
Cassidy, Johnny, speech in English A1;
Stokes, Patrick, storytelling in English A2

Running Order:
1. Speech: Recollections of storytelling with his father - about disciplining children and dogs, etc - their rearing
2. Speech: The Invisible Man - and other ghosts - eng. woods and experiences - ghost tricksters and misfortunes of mockery [[Stories and anecdotes, including: a story about a parrot; drunken man swims a river; how horses swim; selling and taming a wild horse; a sea-horse that returned to the sea after being tamed; story about a mermaid who marries and has a family, and later returns to the sea (cf An Mhaighdean Mhara); the invisible man; becoming invisible by using a special ring; experiences when stranded in a wood in Roscommon; story about a fake ghost] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, lilting A1;
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English A2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 13, 15, 17, 20, 22, 24;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A3, 5, 9, 14, 18, 25;
Donovan, Martin, singing in English A7, 19;
whistle A11-12;
Flynn, Paddy, singing in English A16;
O'Donoghue, Joe, singing in English A21;
O'Donoghue, Mary, singing in English A21;
Unidentified performer, singing in English and yodelling A23

Running Order:
1. Set Dance: Jigging - drum [The Blackbird]
2. Speech: Untitled [Introductory link]
3. Song: The Patriot Game
4. Speech: Untitled [Introductory link]
5. Song: Ann O'Brien
6. Speech: Untitled [Introductory link]
7. Song: Billy Boy
8. Speech: Untitled [Introductory link]
9. Song: Liverpool Lou
10. Speech: Untitled [Introductory link]
11. Jigs: Untitled (incomplete) [The Battering Ram], untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], untitled [Lanigan's Ball]
12. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Leitrim Fancy], untitled [The Boys of Blue Hill]
13. Speech: Untitled [Introductory link] [END OF BAND ONE]
14. Song: Untitled [From the Candy Store on the Corner]
15. Speech: Untitled [Introductory link]
16. Song: Standing at the Corner
17. Speech: Untitled [Introductory link]
18. Song: William Scanlon
19. Song: There Is No Luck Around the House
20. Speech: Untitled [Introductory link]
21. Song: Untitled [The Jolly Beggarman]
22. Speech: Untitled [Introductory link]
23. Song: Untitled [I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes]
24. Speech: Untitled [Introductory link]
25. Song: Untitled [The Bold Fenian Men] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Keenan Family, The, instrumental group, Dublin A1-2, 4-6, 8, 11;
Unidentified performer [Mick Moriarty?], flute solo A3;
Keenan, Paddy, pipes solo A7;
Keenan, Johnny, banjo solo A9, 16;
Unidentified performer, whistle solo A10, 12-13, 15;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A14 [and on other tracks]

Running Order:
1. Carolan Air: Untitled [Lord Inchiquin]
2. Reel: Untitled [The Sally Gardens]
3. Air: Untitled [Sliabh na mBan]
4. Song: Untitled [The Verdant Braes of Skreen]
5. Reels: Untitled [Colonel Fraser], untitled [My Love Is in America]
6. Song: Untitled [Molly Bawn]
7. Air: Untitled [Molly Bawn]
8. Reel: Untitled [Colonel Fraser]
9. Reel: Untitled [The Old Bush]
10. Air: Untitled [An Chuileann]
11. Song: Untitled [Sam Hall]
12. Reel: Untitled [Sean sa Cheo]
13. Air: Untitled [An Falaingin Mhuimhneach]
14. Song: Untitled
15. Reel: Untitled [Sean sa Cheo]
16. Reel: Untitled [Rakish Paddy] [END OF BANDS ONE AND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performer [Martin Donovan?], singing in English A1;
Donovan, Martin, singing in English A3, 5, 16;
whistle A2-4, 16;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A6-9, 21-24;
?, (nephew of Joe O'Donoghue), singing in English A10;
?, Pat, singing in English A11-13;
Flynn, Paddy, singing in English A14;
O'Donoghue, Joe, singing in English A18;
speech in English A15, 17;
O'Donoghue, Mary, singing in English A18;
?, Mick, singing in English A19-20

Running Order:
1. Song: Billy Boy
2. Jigs: Untitled [The Old Grey Goose], untitled [Old Man Dillon], untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], untitled [Lanigan's Ball]
3. Air, Song: Wings of a Swallow [Little Town in the Old County Down], ditto
4. Reels: The Sligo Maid, untitled [The Sally Gardens]
5. Song: Untitled
6. Song: The Wild Side of Life
7. Song: The Wild Side of Life
8. Song: A Mother's Love [A Mother's Love Is a Blessing]
9. Song: Untitled
10. Song: Bold O'Donoghue
11. Song: Paddy Purcell and Wm Scanlon [William Scanlon]
12. Song: Untitled (unfinished)
13. Song: The Green Hills of Kerry
14. Song: Grand Bungle Rye [END OF SIDE ONE]
15. Speech: Proverb
16. Air, Song, Jigs: What Will We Do When We're Sailing - By the Banks of the Lee, ditto, untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], The Battering Ram
17. Speech: [Address to radio listeners]
18. Song: Campaign Song, 3rd recording [The Travellers' Campaign, composed by Joe O'Donoghue]
19. Song: Pat from Bowlanier
20. Song: Bold Connaught Ranger Boy
21. Song: Sent to Charlestown [The Boston Burglar]
22. Song: Untitled [Lovely Derry on the Banks of the Foyle]
23. Song: Master [Master McGrath]
24. Song: Untitled [Kelly the Boy from Killane] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, singing in English A1, 4, 9-11, 17-19;
O'Donoghue, Mary, singing in English A2-3;
O'Donoghue, Joe, singing in English A3;
D. [O'Donoghue?], Pat, whistle A5-8[?];
Donovan, Martin, whistle A15-16, 22;
lilting A14;
whistling A12;
singing in English A13, 22-23;
Weldon, Nellie, Dublin, singing in English A20;
Weldon, Liam, Dublin, singing in English A21

Running Order:
1. Song: Her Hair Hung Down in Ringlets
2. Song: The Patriot Game
3. Song: Untitled [The Travellers' Campaign, composed by Joe O'Donoghue]
4. Song: The Shoemaker
5. Song Air: Untitled [Buttons and Bows]
6. Jig: Untitled [The Connachtman's Rambles]
7. Reel: Untitled (unfinished) [The First House in Connacht]
8. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Leitrim Fancy]
9. Song: Untitled [In My Own Peculiar Way] [END OF BAND ONE]
10. Song: Untitled [The Old Triangle]
11. Song: Untitled [James Connolly]
12. Reel: Delvin Lasses [Fermoy Lasses]
13. Song: Luck in the House, whistling and jigging [Around the House There Is No Luck]
14. Reel, Jig: Untitled (unfinished) [Down the Broom], untitled [Gallagher's Frolics]
15. Jigs: Untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], untitled [The Battering Ram]
16. Hornpipes, Reel, Song Air: Untitled [The Stack of Wheat], untitled [Harvest Home], untitled [Jenny Picking Cockles], untitled [Buttons and Bows]
17. Song: Untitled [From the Candy Store on the Corner]
18. Song: Untitled [Are You Lonesome Tonight]
19. Song: Untitled [Every Step of the Way]
20. Song: I Wished I Lived in Carrickfergus [Carrickfergus]
21. Song: The Blue Tarred Road [The Blue Tar Road]
22. Air, Song, Air: Untitled [The Banks of the Lee], untitled [The Banks of the Lee], The Boys of the West [The Men of the West]
23. Reel: Untitled (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]