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Performers:
Clarke, Eddie, harmonica;
Ryan, Joe, fiddle

Running Order:
1. 1. Reels: The college grove, The beauty spot
2. 2. Hornpipes: John Joe Gannon's, The fisherman's lilt
3. Jig: Kit O'Mahony's
4. 4. Reels: Dinny O'Brien's, Farewell to Connacht
5. 5. Waltz: Old time waltz
6. 6. Jigs: The two-and-sixpenny girl, The boys of the town
7. 7. Set dance: The hunt
8. 8. Reels: The stone in the field, Thady Casey's fancy
9. 9. Hornpipe: Callaghan's
10. 10. Reels: The wheels of the world, Rakish Paddy
11. 11. Polkas: Johnny Leary's
12. 12. Reels: The old torn petticoat, Toss the feathers, The maids of Mitchelstown
13. 13. Air: The dear Irish boy

Performers:
O'Donoghue, Michael, Clare, concertina solo A1–10, 13–28;
speech in English occasionally throughout A1–28;
Wathen, Ronnie, speech in English occasionally throughout A1–28, B12;
Gallagher, Noel, Dublin, pipes solo A11–12;
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, speech in English A29, 31, 33–35;
B1, 3, 6–7, 9–11;
pipes solo A30, 32–3, B1–2, 4–6, 8, 10–11;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English A35;
Russell, Micho, Clare, whistle solo B12–14;
speech in English B13–14;
Gallahar, Maeve, Dublin / Mayo, speech in Irish B15;
Unidentified performer, whistle solo B15;
Unidentified performer(s), fiddle solo B16–17;
Corcoran, Sean, Louth, singing in English B18;
Unidentified performer, pipes solo B19–20

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [Version of Sporting Nell]
2. Reel: P. J. Moloney's [The Killavil Fancy]
3. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Information about the previous and next pieces of music], Paidin O Raifeartaigh [Mistitled? The Boys of Tandaragee]
4. Reel: Untitled [Version of The Ashplant]
5. Fling / Barn Dance, Speech: Buttercups and Daisies [Maggie Pickens], Untitled [Information about the tune just played]
6. Fling / Barn Dance, Speech: Green Grow the Rushes - O, Untitled [Information about the tune just played]
7. Reel: Untitled [The Steampacket]
8. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Version of The Otter's Holt?], Untitled [Discussion about the next piece of music to be played]
9. Reel, Speech: The Earl's Chair, Untitled [Information about the tune just played]
10. Reel: Untitled [Gregg's Pipes]
11. Reel: Sporting Paddy
12. Fling / Barn Dance: Green Grow the Rushes - O
13. Speech, Jigs: Untitled, Untitled [The Frost is All Over], Untitled
14. Reel: Untitled [The Ashplant]
15. Reel: Untitled [The Longford Collector]
16. Reel: Untitled [The Mountain Top]
17. Reel: Untitled [Version of The Green Groves of Erin]
18. Reel: Untitled
19. Reel: Untitled [The Wind that Shakes the Barley]
20. Reel / Fling: Untitled [Recorded by the fiddle duet Michael Coleman and Packie Dolan on a 78rpm commercial disc in a selection of flings called Miss Ramsey]
21. Reel: Untitled [The Flogging Reel]
22. Jig: Untitled [Version of 'Have a Drink with Me' (DMI, # 20)]
23. Dance Tune: Untitled (short, incomplete)
24. Hornpipe: Untitled
25. Jig: Untitled
26. Reel: Untitled [The Green Field of Rossbeigh]
27. Reel: Untitled [The Green Gowned Lass]
28. Jig, Speech: Untitled [The Maid on the Green], Untitled
29. Speech: Untitled [About the uilleann pipes; consonant sympathy; theoretical re the pipes] [Tracks A29–37 and B1–11 were recorded at a presentation by Seamus Ennis at Scoil Samhradh Willie Clancy, Miltown Malbay, Co Clare, 25 July 19For a different recording made at the same event, see 1187-ITMA-REEL and 1188-ITMA-REEL]
30. Jig: The Munster Buttermilk
31. Speech: Untitled [About Pat Ward, piper, who played a double chanter; performer's father learns Pat Ward's Jig; theoretical about jigs; introduction to 'Ask My Father']
32. Single Jigs: Ask My Father, Pat Ward's Jig
33. Speech, Hornpipe: Untitled, The Fairy's Hornpipe
34. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Fairy Reel
35. Speech: Untitled [Story: background to the jig 'The Gold Ring']
36. Jig: The Gold Ring
37. Speech, Air, Slip Jig: Untitled, The Lament for the Fox, The Foxhunter's Jig [END OF BAND ONE]
38. Speech: Untitled [Includes instrument tuning; introduction to the piece of music to follow; the difference between a set dance and a long dance]
39. Long Dance / Set Dance: The Ace and Deuce of Piping
40. Speech: Untitled (short, incomplete) [Story about the origin of a tune]
41. Jigs: Untitled [The Lark's March; The Geese in the Bog (with tonic note D)], Untitled [The Lark in the Morning]
42. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Groves Hornpipe]
43. Speech, Hornpipe: Untitled [Introduction to the next piece of music], O'Dwyer's Hornpipe
44. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next piece of music; the previous night to this recording was the first time that the performer played on his own pipes the reel he is about to play; asks the audience for help in identifying the tune]
45. Reel: The Kind Maid [The Wise Maid]
46. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next piece of music]
47. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Continuation of the introduction to the next piece of music], The Flags of Dublin, The Dublin Reel
48. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Introduction to the next piece of music], The Bucks of Oranmore
49. Reel, Speech: Untitled [All the Ways to Galway], Untitled [Information about the piece of music just played]
50. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Ballykett Courthouse], Untitled [Information about the piece of music just played]
51. Jigs: The Maid in the Meadow [Jimmy O'Brien's Jig], An Rogaire Dubh / The Black Rogue
52. Speech: Jack and the Beanstalk [Folktale, with occasional whistle-playing in the background]
53. Reel: Untitled [The Oak Tree]
54. Air, Jig: Untitled [Anach Cuain / Eanach Dhuin], Untitled [Jig derived from the air just played; composed by Junior Crehan]
55. Speech, Song: Untitled, Untitled
56. Air: Untitled [Se Fath Mo Bhuartha]
57. Air: Untitled [Mo Ghra-sa an Jug Mor is E Lan] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, pipes in duet, A1;
O'Donnell, Michael, Dublin, speech in English A1–5, 7, 9, 12;
speech in Irish A4;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English A1, 5;
O'Dowd, Dan, Dublin, speech in English A2;
Wathen, Ronnie, Wales, pipes solo A3;
speech in English A3;
Standeven, Thomas, USA, speech in English and Irish A4;
Conroy, Andy, Roscommon, pipes solo A6, 8, 10–11, 13;
speech in English A7, 9, 12

Running Order:
1. Slip Jig, Speech, Slip Jig, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [Radio interview; topics: progress that the organisation Na Piobairi Uillean has made; the acquisition of premises for the organisation; its membership; the status of pipemaking; the age profile of members; representation of women], Untitled, Untitled [Radio announcement]
2. Speech: Untitled [Radio interview; topics: reedmaking; cane plantations in Spain; 40 candidates in the reedmaking workshop; the standard of piping among young people, who are learning from tapes; acquiring a practice set of pipes, price: £14–15; a full set costs £60]
3. Air, Speech, Air: A Spailpin A Run, Untitled [Radio interview; topics: description of Ronnie Wathen's pipes, which he partly made himself], A Spailpin A Run
4. Speech: Untitled [Radio interview; topics: piping in the USA; how the interviewee learnt Irish]
5. Speech: Untitled [Radio interview; topics: the future prospects for piping; the availability of historic recordings; the willingness of present-day players to pass on their knowledge, a contrast to the secretiveness of an earlier generation]
6. Jigs, Slip Jig: The Maid on the Green, Untitled [Jackson's Jig], Give Us a Drink of Water [A Drink of Water] [This selection was recorded on a commercial 78rpm disc by piper Patsy Touhey]
7. Speech: Untitled [Radio interview; topics: Andy Conroy's home area in Loughlynn, Co Roscommon; other musicians in the area; AC began playing the pipes in England; studying the pipes in Dublin with Leo Rowsome; what impressed AC about Rowsome; AC played the tin whistle before playing the pipes]
8. Hornpipes: The Plains of Boyle, The Leitrim Fancy [This selection was recorded on commercial 78rpm discs by pipers Michael Gallagher and Willie Clancy]
9. Speech: Untitled [Interview; topics: Andy Conroy's style of piping; was influenced by fiddlers as well as pipers; describes his style as 'staccato'; rolls up his trouser leg while playing in order to 'surround the chanter with flesh'; played in Carnegie Hall; worked as a bricklayer; went to the USA in 1952; doesn't speak with an American accent; traditional music in the USA; AC keeps in practice; problems with neighbours when practicing the pipes; introduction to next piece of music]
10. Reels: Lucy Campbell, The Cup of Tea (clipped at end; tape runs out) [This selection was recorded on a commercial 78rpm disc by piper Michael Gallagher] [END OF BAND ONE]
11. Reels: Lucy Campbell, The Cup of Tea (full version of selection at track A10?; sound fade-out during 2nd tune, then the tune is repeated)
12. Speech: Untitled [Interview; topics: the number of pipers in the USA; Thomas Standeven, who speaks several languages; Andy Conroy intends to return to Ireland; may get married; was crossed in love as a young man; introduction to the next tune]
13. Jig: The Geese in the Bog [Influenced by the version recorded by Michael Carney, pipes] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
McArdle, Peter, Louth, speech in English throughout;
fiddle solo throughout;
occasional lilting throughout;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A17

Running Order:
1. Speech, Untitled [Level low]
2. Jig: Tip in to Bed, Honey
3. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The Old Dash Churn [The Humours of Castlelyons]
4. Speech: Untitled [Information about the tunes already played; music in the performer's family]
5. Jig / Quadrille Tune: Tickle Her Leg with a Barley Straw / Tickle My Leg with a Barley Straw [Information given in speech on track A26 for this tune]
6. Speech: Untitled [About set dancing in the performer's local area in his youth (near Ardee, Co Louth)]
7. Reels: The Boyne Hunt, Miss Monaghan, The Soldier's Joy
8. Speech: Untitled [About dancing; local singers; dances other than sets; introduction to the next piece to be played]
9. Dance Tune: Mrs Simpson Sells Beer / Cock Your Leg up / Cock a Leg up / Shoe the Donkey / Varsovienne
10. Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune just played; schottisches as performed in the area]
11. Hornpipe / Schottische: The Boys of Bluehill [The well-known hornpipe, here as played for dancing the schottische locally]
12. Speech: Untitled [About local dances; introduction to the next piece to be played]
13. Dance Tune, Speech: The Larch Fort, Untitled [About the tune just played, with lilting; about local dances; introduction to the next piece to be played; BB says that he is not interested in collecting barn dances but nevertheless requests that an example be played]
14. Barn Dance: Untitled [The Peacock's Feather # 2 (as recorded by Frankie Gavin, fiddle); The Highland Barn Dance (Keane family, Caherlistrane, Co Galway); The Berlin Polka]
15. Speech: Untitled [About local dances; arrival of sets in the area; step-dancing was still alive in the performer's youth; community participation in music; arrival of gramophones and radios in the area]
16. Dance Tune: Untitled
17. Speech: Untitled
18. Quadrille Tune, Speech: The Cake Is on the Griddle / The Cake's on the Griddle, Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
19. Speech, Quadrille Tune: Untitled, The Ould Clay Floor / The Old Clay Floor
20. Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune just played; BB explains that up to that point (April 1973) in his dance music collecting project, he had been collecting only double jigs, slip jigs, and reels; not even hornpipes; it is only in the last 6–8 months that he has been picking up hornpipes, polkas, and single reels; he is thus only beginning to collect those tune-types; he thus requests the performer here to 'beat out all the set tunes you can think of']
21. Quadrille Tune: Untitled
22. Speech, Quadrille Tune: Untitled, Untitled [The slide 'Scattery Island' is a related tune]
23. Speech, Quadrille Tune / Song Air: Untitled, Oh She Was a Quare One / She Was a Queer One / Mending the Roof
24. Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune just played]
25. Quadrille Tune: Diggin' the Spuds / Digging the Spuds
26. Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune just played; information about 'Tickle My Leg with a Barley Straw' (track A5)]
27. Speech, Quadrille Tune: Untitled, The Ould Elm Tree / The Old Elm Tree [Princess Margaret's Fancy]
28. Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune just played]
29. Quadrille Tune: Untitled
30. Speech: Untitled
31. Speech, Quadrille Tune: Untitled, Untitled [Billy O'Rourke Is the Boy]
32. Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune to be played next, which was the melody of a song as well as a dance tune; with lilting]
33. Quadrille Tune / Song Air: McCarthy / We're off to Philadelphia in the Morning [With speech interlude]
34. Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune just played; discussion of other tunes, with lilting]
35. March / Quadrille Tune / [Polka?]: Untitled [Melody of the slide popularly known as 'Denis Murphy's Slide' (= 'The Dark Girl in Blue', CRE 3, # 50), here played in march / polka rhythm]
36. Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune just played]
37. Quadrille Tune, Speech: The Pigs Ateing Nuts in the Wood / The Pigs Eating Nuts in the Wood [Melody of song 'Jack of All Trades'; played tentatively at first, then repeated; both played on fiddle and lilted], Untitled
38. Speech, Quadrille Tune: Untitled, Off the the Bog Wearing Clogs / The Lancers
39. Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune just played & about other tunes, including 'The Swallow's Tail'; about the tune 'I Daren't Tell']
40. Jig: The Old Woman's Pipe / The Mountaineer's March [The Kesh Jig]
41. Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune just played; double jigs were played for sets]
42. Quadrille Tune, Speech: There's no Luck about the House, Untitled [Information about the tune just played] [END OF BAND TWO - The recording session with Peter McArdle is continued on tape Breandan Breathnach Reel-to-Reel 90 (1180-ITMA-REEL)]

Performers:
McArdle, Peter, Louth, speech in English throughout;
fiddle solo throughout;
occasional lilting throughout;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Quadrille Tune: The Very Last Penny [Rural Felicity; Kathleen Hehir's (related tune)]
2. Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune just played; the performer made many radio broadcasts]
3. Speech, Jig, Speech: Untitled, Nora Crionna, Untitled
4. Jig, Speech: The Frost Is All Over, Untitled
5. Jig: The Rakes of Tipp / The Rakes of Tipperary [Related to Three Little Drummers / Delaney's Drummers]
6. Speech, Jig, Speech: Untitled, The Connachtman's Rambles, Untitled [With lilting]
7. Jigs, Speech: The Geese in the Bog, The Trip to the Cottage, Untitled
8. Jig, Speech, Jig, Speech: The Irish Washerwoman, Untitled, The Maid on the Green, Untitled [With lilting]
9. Jig, Speech: The Rambling Pitchfork, Untitled [Information about the tune to be played next]
10. Reel, Speech: Within a Mile of Dublin / The Silver Spear [The New Mown Meadow; Joe Mhaire Mhicilin], Untitled [Discussion about tunes that were played for set-dancing; with lilting]
11. Quadrille Tune / Song Air: Johnny I Hardly Knew You [Played for The Lancers]
12. Speech, Quadrille Tune, Speech: Untitled, There Are Very Few Straws in the Tick / There's Very Few Straws in the Tick, Untitled [About the tune just played & the tunes to be played next]
13. Quadrille Tune, Speech: Untitled, Untitled
14. Speech, Quadrille Tune / Song Air, Speech: Untitled [With lilting], The One-Eyed Reilly, Untitled
15. Quadrille Tune, Speech: The Dashing White Sergeant, Untitled [The tune just played was used for the dance 'The High Caul Cap']
16. Polka, Speech: Farewell to Whiskey, Untitled
17. Polka, Speech: La Russe, Untitled [The dance performed to the tune just played]
18. Reel, Speech: The Swallow's Tail, Untitled
19. Reel, Speech, Reel, Speech: The Pigeon on the Gate [Tonic note: G; reminiscent of the version recorded on commercial 78rpm disc by Frank O'Higgins (fiddle)], Untitled, The Pigeon on the Gate [Tonic note: E], Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
20. Speech, Jig, Speech: Untitled, The Rose in the Heather [Related to the tune known popularly by that name], Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]