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Barney McKenna & Tony MacMahon recorded at the Focus Theatre, [Dublin], 1970s

The kid on the mountain, slip jig / Barney McKenna, banjo

A field recording made by Cathal McConnell in the home of Micho Russell, Doonagore, Doolin, Co. Clare of flute, tin whistle and singing / featuring Cathal McConnell, tin whistle, singing in English ; Micho Russell, flute ; Eamonn Curran, tin whistle

Side A
00:00 - 04:17 | Unidentified, fling / Micho Russell, flute
04:18 - 06:20 | Kitty Jones' reel / Micho Russell, flute, speech in English ; Cathal McConnell, tin whistle, speech in English
06:21 - 07:44 | Jig / Micho Russell, flute
07:45 - 10:11 | Andy Kerrin's, set dance / Eamonn Curran, tin whistle
10:12 - 12:23 | Speed the plough, reel / Eamonn Curran, tin whistle
13:12 - 14:37 | Reel / Cathal McConnell, tin whistle
14:38 - 15:14 | Reel / Micho Russell, flute
17:28 - 19:30 | Reel / Micho Russell, flute
19:31 - 21:40 | Unidentified, jig [learned from John Ward] / Cathal McConnell, tin whistle
22:55 - 25:42 | Reels / Cathal McConnell, tin whistle
25:44 - 27:35 | The concertina reel / Micho Russell, flute
27:36 - 29:20 | Micho Russell's slide / Micho Russell, flute
29:44 - 33:37 | Bonnie Killaloe, song / Cathal McConnell, singing in English

Side B
Blank

Performers:
Ward, Jimmy, Clare, singing in English A1, 16;
whistling solo A5, 25;
whistle solo A20;
Unidentified performers (including, according to supplied information with the cassette, Willie Clancy, Clare), singing in English A2, 6–11;
Unidentified performers, speech in English A3–4, 12, 15;
Egan, John, Sligo / Dublin, flute in instrumental group A3 [?], 12–14 [?], 17 [?];
Unidentified performers playing flute, whistle, and banjo (including, according to supplied information with the cassette, Willie Clancy, Martin Talty and Jimmy Ward, Clare) in instrumental groups A3, 12–14, 17–19;
Unidentified performers, whistle solo A24;
whistle in duet 26

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled [I Couldn't]
2. Song: Untitled [The Death of Brugha]
3. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Untitled [Maud Miller], Untitled [The Reel of Mullinavat]
4. Speech: Untitled [Funny story]
5. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
6. Song: Untitled ['A young man lived in Dublin...']
7. Song: Untitled [General Monroe]
8. Song: Untitled [The Boys from the County Armagh]
9. Song: Untitled [James Connolly]
10. Song: Untitled [Lovely Old Miltown]
11. Song: Untitled [The Boys of Barr na Sraide]
12. Speech, Reels: Untitled, The Jolly Tinker, The Pretty Girls of Mayo
13. Speech, Jigs: Untitled, Old Man Dillon, The Rose in the Heather
14. Reels: Untitled [Eileen Curran], Untitled [The Sandmount / Mick Hand's]
15. Recitation: Untitled [The Man from God Knows Where]
16. Speech, Song: Untitled, Untitled (incomplete; tape runs out) [END OF BAND ONE]
17. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Boy in the Gap
18. Speech, Reels: Untitled, The Liffey Banks, The Shaskeen Reel
19. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Concert Reel [With irregular number of beats in the first part]
20. Reel: Untitled
21. Reel: Untitled [The Mountain Top], Untitled
22. Jig: Untitled [The Pipe on the Hob]
23. Reel: Peter O'Loughlin's Reel [Announced on the tape by this name; Murphy's Reel (CRE 2, # 203)]
24. Air: Untitled [Cuaichin Ghleann Neifin]
25. Air: Untitled
26. Jig: Untitled [Gillan's Apples] [END OF BAND TWO]

Recorded at the Fleadh Cheoil, Listowel, Co. Kerry, 1973

00:02:00 - 00:03:39|The steampacket, reel / Joe Burke, accordion ; Martin Byrnes. Fiddle

The following recordings from 00:00:15 - 00:23:00 were dubbed from a recording of John Doherty made by Len Graham in 1967:
00:00:15 - 00:02:34 | The harvest morning, air / John Doherty, fiddle
00:03:26 - 00:04:59 | The Lord Gordon, reel [two-part version] / John Doherty, fiddle
00:05:43 - 00:06:53 | The Saint John's Point reel [two-part version of The gravel walks to Granny] / John Doherty, fiddle
00:07:13 - 00:08:58 | The foxhunt, [descriptive piece] / John Doherty, fiddle
00:09:27 - 00:12:36 | The miller o'hirn, [strathspey] ; Stirling Castle, [strathspey] ; The spey in spate, [comp. James Scott Skinner], reel / John Doherty, fiddle
00:12:55 - 00:14:37 | Bonnie Kate, reel / John Doherty, fiddle
00:15:02 - 00:16:59 | Rocking the cradle, song / John Doherty, singing in English
00:17:43 - 00:19:52 | The speaking waltz [version of Mrs Kenny's, waltz] / John Doherty, fiddle
00:20:08 - 00:21:35 | The white cockade, [polka] / John Doherty, fiddle
00:21:58 - 00:23:00 | The golden slipper, slip jig [hop jig] / John Doherty, fiddle

The following material from 00:24:48 - 00:47:37 was recorded in The Golden Gate Bar, Carrick, Co. Donegal in 1974 and features the playing of John Doherty, fiddle ; Cathal McConnell, flute ; Unidentified, guitar:
00:24:48 - 00:25:57 | O'Donnell's return, march / Various performers, instrumental music
00:26:11 - 00:27:16 | Collier's, reel / Various performers, instrumental music
00:27:29 - 00:28:45 | [Stirling Castle, strathspey] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:28:46 - 00:30:23 | The golden slipper, [hop jig] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:31:12 - 00:32:03 | Muineál a'bhardail = [The drake's neck, reel] / John Doherty, fiddle
00:32:09 - 00:33:14 | The granny in the corner [?] [The Westport chorus] [The green pigeon], reel / John Doherty, fiddle ; Unidentified, guitar
00:33:19 - 00:34:10 | John's brother Simon the source for the last tune, speech / John Doherty, speech in English ; Cathal McConnell, speech in English
00:34:30 - 00:36:06 | Muileann na maidí = [Crushing of the twigs, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:36:36 - 00:37:43 | [Tommy Gunn's, reel] / Cathal McConnell, flute ; Unidentified, guitar
00:37:51 - 00:39:36 | The pigeon on the gate, reel / Various performers, instrumental music
00:40:13 - 00:42:51 | Cradle song [Our highland queen] [comp. James Scott Skinner], waltz [originally composed as a strathspey] ; [The miller o'dervil] [comp. James Scott Skinner], strathspey ; Untitled, reel / John Doherty, fiddle
00:43:02 - 00:44:07 | The wise maid, [reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:44:57 - 00:45:43 | Máire na Sop, [reel] = [Scotch Mary, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:45:46 - 00:46:51 | The morning star, [reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:47:06 - 00:47:37 | Lord MacDonald, reel / Various performers, instrumental music