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Performers:
McGann, Frank, Roscommon/Dublin, speech in English, track 1-11, B1-7
[also present were John Wynne, Roscommon and Paul Doyle, Dublin]

Running Order:
1. Spoken Introduction
2. Speech: born 7th July 1923 in Lisalwey, moved to Kilmurray, Frank's mother and Frank Brown played at the crossroads, 'our house there was music every night in it...', men dancing sets, staying up late
3. Speech: men dancing local sets, `tapping it out...', very poor times, father reared eight on eighteen shillings and one penny, tunes for the sets, mother played fiddle and flute, family played in local schools and at weddings
4. Speech: instruments handed down, Robert Jones a great fiddler (mother's maiden name), drinking first pint in Johnny Casey's, Frank's family originally came from Wales, Frank's uncle Joe McGann a great melodeon player, brought a melodeon back fron Canada
5. Speech: flutes and fiddles played locally, mostly by men, `a man's game...', grandmother smoked a clay pipe but not in public, going to town with her and the ass and cart, smoking at a young age, two old pennies for counting the sheep, eating the meal mixed with sugar, Jimmy Weldon breaking and mixing eggs into a quart bottle of milk, not alot of music in the village, the Carlos family, townland names
6. Speech: local musicians: Willie Rafferty, Frank Brown, Jimmy Gearity, Jimmy's father was a writer and whistle player, loosening the wooden plug with a pen-knife, Paddy Carney, Kilina Ceili Band, Frank Kelly, Mike McHale, Master McHale, Bernie Dobie, Frank's family in a band
7. Speech: tunes played by musicians, never polkas or slides, mostly reels, many tunes from America, tapes arrived home, 78rpm discs, the McNulty family, the Grehan sisters, music always in the house, grandmother had a gramaphone fron Canada, Uncle Peter going to Canada in the 19th century, losing touch when you leave home, Paddy Carney
8. Speech: Frank's mother dying, `things die when the mother dies...', she taught Frank's cousin Martin, she was very interested in Michael Coleman, gramaphone records, McNulty family very popular, local songs
9. Speech: travelling musicians, Johnny Doran camping beside Gearty's house, `like fairy music...', the Raineys, Paddy Rainey lost the tip of his finger, took up the accordion, always camped across from Frank's house, canvas hoop tents, Patrick `Rainey' Madden, tinsmithing, Johnny Doran a `guest', greatest piper, Frank met him and Aggie White in Dublin doing an audition for RTE, Johnny working with Andy Conroy
10. Speech: pipers Pat and Jim Lavin, Dennis McGarry, old John Burke, tunes dancers liked, Frank's father a great dancer, Paddy Lavin a great dancer, made up their own steps, Frank danced himself
11. Speech: John Carlos, Frank's grandfather, Mary Anne McGann, Jim Dowd, John Burke, playing tricks on people [DAT continued on CDRb]
12. Speech: house dancing and playing music, `long' Johnny Moran and Mary, `short' Johnny Moran, Rathmile House, Colonel Erwell, Frank's father a postman, uncle Mick some character, Frank's first job in the bogs of Kildare during the war, first cousin Frank came back from London, took on uncle Mick drinking, `he that grasps at too much shall loose all...'
13. Speech: Tommy and Pat Rodgers, Frank's brother Pat, Frank's father, getting Pat a flute, Tommy Callaghan, The Golden Eagle pub, Martin Lavin, Paddy Carney, Jack Lavin, Paddy Ryan
14. Speech: ceili bands, no Irish music in pubs, May Collins, no women served in O'Donoghue's, Fingal Céilí Band, Killina Céilí Band, money wasn't good, Mayglass Céilí Band, never music in Harold's Cross, John O'Brien, Paddy Canney, Paddy Maloney
15. Speech: first came to Dublin in 1944, the Rathcrochan reel/The Floating Crowbar, people going astray, Frank's father went astray, Bernie Dobie, Frank visiting the Duignan's, his experience of ghosts
16. Speech: Johnny and Felix Doran, Ted Furey
17. Speech: Frank's father a great singer, Jim Carty, no singing in Irish
18. Speech: singing at funerals, funeral games, Frank's father bought him his first pint, getting up to tricks, dressing up in straw and going to weddings, wren boys on Stephen's Day, all-night dances [END OF DAT]

Performers:
Ni Cheileachair, Nora Ban, speech in Irish, track 1
Ni Cheileachair, Maire, interviewer, track 1

Running Order:
1. Speech: Schooldays; newspapers; War of Independence; change-over from English to Irish money in 1928; the pension; the Irish language; summer courses; collecting folklore and songs; her father wrote by candlelight; the barracks in Ballyvourney, the RIC and British soldiers; no cars in the area but the military had lorries and armoured cars (1921); bomb factories; hiding guns; the IRA and the Provisional government; incident with the army; bowling; her brother Sean moved to her Auntie's; Donncha and Padraig; throwing ink in school; clothes line in front of fire; wellingtons and shoes; men's work and pastimes; women's work and pastimes; rinci gallda

Performers:
Ni Cheilleachair, Maire, interviewer
O Duinnin, Sean, speech in Irish; singing in English, track 2, 5, 14

Running Order:
1. Speech: Johnny Nora Aodha
2. Song: One Saturday Evening
3. Speech: Muintir Chroinin
4. Speech: Introduction to Mary She Went to Bunnan
5. Song: Mary She Went to Bunnan
6. Speech: Johnny Nora Aodha's brother
7. Speech: Scotsman learning Irish
8. Speech: First attempt at storytelling
9. Speech: Spell in hospital which lead him to lose his Irish
10. Speech: Storytelling at the feiseanna
11. Speech: Johnny Nora Aodha and drink
12. Speech: Sean's writing
13. Song: Our Once Happy Home by the Lee [air: Ar Eirinn Ni Neosfainn Ce hI]

Performers:
Ní Chéilleachair, Máire, interviewer
Ó Duinnín, Seán, singing in Irish, track 1; speech in Irish

Running Order:
1. Speech: An Spiaireacht
2. Song: An Gandal
3. Speech: Introduction; Song: An Seanduine i gCill Chocain

Performers:
Keane, Pat, Clare, singing and speech in English throughout, singing in Irish, track 12

Running Order:
1. Speech: introduction and brief history from performer
2. Song/Speech: The Six Girls, talk about the song
3. Song/Speech: The Jacket of Blue, talk about the song
4. Song/Speech: The Kerryman's Ramble to Tipperary, talk about the song
5. Song/Speech: Cleary's Van, talk about the song
6. Song/Speech: At the Setting of the Sun
7. Song/Speech: The Limerick Lover, talk about the song
8. Song/Speech: Does Your Mother Know You're Out
9. Speech: talk about a local songwriter 'Matt Mahon', talk about the following song
10. Song: Untitled, talk about the song
11. Speech: talk about musicians in the area, Tom Lenihan, Tommy Moloney, house dances, Reel Set, Plain Set, Clare Set, description of the barndance, Stack of Barley, singing in Irish
12. Song/Speech: Untitled (fragmented)
13. Speech: talk about a local song, playing the melodeon, house dances

Performers:
Killourhy, John (Jack), Clare, whistle in duet, speech in English
Killourhy, Paddy, Clare, fiddle in duet, speech in English

Running Order:
1. Jigs: Bridgie McGrath's Jigs
2. Speech: talk about concertina player Mrs McGrath, beginning in music, Paddy making his first fiddle, concertina player Martin Killourhy, playing with Johnny Doran, long lists of local concertina players, buying concertinas in England, instruments, German concertinas, story about a clock
3. Speech/Reel: Untitled (from Martin Killourhy)
4. Reel/Speech: Kitty Jones', Pappy Looney's
5. Jig/Speech: Untitled (from Martin Killourhy)
6. Polka/Speech: Untitled (from Martin Killourhy, played for the last figure of the set)
7. Reel/Speech: Untitled (from Paddy Reynolds, Kilfenora)
8. Jigs: The Pipers Chair, Untitled (from Martin Killourhy)
9. Speech: talk about Seamus Ennis recording in the area
10. Reel/Speech: Nora Marshall's (Nora McMahon, fiddle , Kilfenora)
11. Reels/Speech: Paddy Marshall's (Paddy McMahon, Kilfenora) ['Up to your Knees in Sand', Mary Bergin, 'Feadoga Stain'], Rip the Calico (old version from Martin Killourhy)
12. Hornpipes/Speech: The Greencastle, Untitled (from Joe Byrnes) [Pretty Maggie Morrissey], May Day [Sweets of May]
13. Hornpipe/Speech: Jimmy Ward's [The Standing Abbey], O'Dwyers
14. Jigs/Speech: Jetty Howley's Jig, Jetty Howley's Jig, Willie Shannon's, talk about music for set dancing
15. Hornpipe: Murphy's
16. Speech: talk about the previous tune, listening to 78's, learning tunes
17. Reels/Speech: Pappy Tierney's [Tommy Peoples', Boys of the Lough], Dublin Porter, talk about the tunes
18. Reels/speech: Sporting Nelly, Untitled (Gus Tierney's), talk about the tunes
19. Reels/Speech: John Joe Lynch's, Sean Darcy's, talk about the tunes
20. Reels/Speech: Sporting Paddy [Steampacket], Jimmy Mulqueeny's [version of 'Kiss the Maid Behind the Barrel' CRE 1,74 ?], talk about the tunes
21. Reels/Speech: Untitled (from Jimmy Ward), Untitled (from Austin Linnane), talk about the tunes
22. Jigs/Speech: Untitled, Untitled (from Paddy Bert, concertina), Untitled ['A Visit to Ireland', DMI 39]
23. Speech: stories of the supernatural, fairies in the house [END OF 244-ITMA-DAT]
24. Speech: conclusion of story of the supernatural [from previous track], talk about house dances, local musicians [END OF 245-ITMA-DAT]

Performers:
Killourhy, John (Jack), Clare, speech in English
Killourhy, Paddy, Clare, speech in English

Running Order:
1. Speech: conclusion of story of the supernatural [from 244-ITMA-DAT track B7], talk about house dances, local musicians [END OF 245-ITMA-DAT]

Performers:
Vallely, Brian, Armagh, speech in English, track 2, 6, 8, B2
McCutcheon, Norman, Armagh, warpipes, track 3-5
Roberts, Alan, Sligo, pipes, track 7, 9
Munnely, Tom, Dublin/Clare, lecture in English, track 11, B1

Running Order:
1. Start: background noise
2. Speech: opening address and introduction to Norman McCutcheon
3. Air: Untitled
4. Air: Untitled
5. Hornpipe: The Boys of Bluehill
6. Speech: Introduction to Alan Roberts playing ther Kennedy Pipes
7. Hornpipes: Untitled, The Cork Hornpipe
8. Speech: William Kennedy's pipes and William Kennedy himself ####
9. Jigs: Untitled, Spot the Wallop
10. Speech: Introduction to Tom Munnelly lecture
11. Lecture: The Travelling Musician of Ireland and Scotland [recording continued on CDR 4b]
12. Lecture: continued...
13. Speech: general thanks [end of DAT]

Performers:
McGivney, Eamonn, Longford/Clare, fiddle solo, track 1-15, speech in English, track 9, 14
Off-air due, speech in Irish, track 15

Running Order:
1. Reels: The Bunch of Keys, Spike Island Lasses *
2. Reels: The Sligo Maid, The Bank of Ireland *
3. Fragments
4. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
5. Jigs: Pipe on the Hob, Scully Casey's *
6. Fragment
7. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
8. Set Dance: Sean O'Duibhir a Ghleanna *
9. Speech/Set Dance: The Humours of Bandon *
10. Speech/Reels: The Longford Collector/The Hen and her Clutch *
11. Fragments
12. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
13. Fragments
14. Speech/Reels: The Star of Munster, Untitled
15. Fragments
16. Off-air dub [END OF DAT]