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Performers:
Maguire, Sean, Belfast, fiddle in trio A1-2, 4, 6-8, 12-13, fiddle in duet A3, 9-10 (all tracks off-disc dubs);
Sherlock, Roger, Sligo/London, flute in trio A1-2, 4, 6-8, 12-13, flute in duet A5, 11 (all tracks off-disc dubs);
Unidentified performer, whistle A14

Running Order:
1. Reels: Untitled
2. Reels: Untitled
3. Air: Untitled
4. Hornpipes: Untitled
5. Reels: Untitled
6. Jig: Untitled
7. Reels: Untitled
8. Reels: Untitled
9. Hornpipe: Untitled (end clipped) [END OF BAND ONE]
10. Reels: Untitled
11. Reels: Untitled
12. Jigs: Untitled
13. Jigs: Untitled
14. Reels: Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performer(s), speech in English A1, 3, 6, 8, 10-11, 13-14, 18, 20-24, 27-44, B1, 3, 6-24, 26-28;
O'Dowd, Joe, Sligo, fiddle solo A2-7, fiddle in ensemble A12-13, fiddle in duet A18-21;
Reynolds, Willie, Athlone, pipes duet A9-10, pipes in ensemble A12-13;
Doran, John, Dublin, pipes duet A9-10, pipes in ensemble A12;
Keenan, John, Dublin/Wicklow, accordion in ensemble A12-13;
Dowling, Jim, Dublin, ???? in ensemble A12-13;
Potts, Sean, Dublin, flute in ensemble A12-13;
Brown, Billy, accordion solo A14-17, accordion in duet A18-21;
Coen, Tommy, Galway, fiddle in quartet A23-26, fiddle in duet A27, 29-32, fiddle solo A28;
Moloney, Eddie, Galway, flute in quartet A23-26, flute in duet A29-32;
Kelly, Lar, Galway, flute in quartet A23-26, flute in duet A27;
Cummins????, Jimmy, Galway, accordion in quartet A23-26;
Green, Tommy, Longford, flute solo A34-37, whsitle solo A28 (aged 11yrs);
Mulhere, Brendan, accordion solo A39-40, B8, accordion in duet A41-42,;
Unidentified performer, fiddle in duet A41-42;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A43-44;
Quinn, Louis, Armagh/New York, speech in English B2, fiddle in quartet B3-6;
Ryan, John, ? in quartet B3-6;
Brogan, Tommy, concertina in quartet B3-6;
Unidentified performer, accordion in quartet B3-6;
McMahon, ????, singing in English B7;
Reilly, Mrs, Cavan, singing in English B9-10;
McAndrew, Hector, Scotland, fiddle in duet B12-15 (off-disc dubs);
Hardy, Bill, Scotland, fiddle in duet B16-17 (off-disc dubs);
Turkington, Tom, Tyrone, fiddle in duet B19-23;
Taggart, Fergus, fiddle solo B25-27

Running Order:
1. Speech: Introduction to Joe O'Dowd
2. Reel: Boys of the Lough, [The Boys of Ballisodare]
3. Speech/Reel: McFadden's
4. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
5. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
6. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
7. Reel: Untitled
8. Speech: Introduction to Willie Reynolds and John Doran
9. Jig: The Battering Ram
10. Speech/Reels: The Maid of Mount Cisco, Rakish Paddy
11. Speech: Introduction to Joe O'Dowd, Willie Reynolds, John Keenan, Jim Dowling and Sean Potts
12. Reel: Tim Maloney, The Lady of the House [=The Woman of the House]
13. Speech/Reels: Reavy's, Cooley's
14. Speech/Reel: Untitled (comp. Martin Mulhere - some of the following tracks may also be compositions of Martin Mulhere)
15. Reel: Untitled
16. Reel: Untitled
17. Reel: Untitled
18. Reel/Speech: Untitled
19. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
20. Speech/Reel: Untitled
21. Speech/Jigs: Untitled
22. Speech: Introduction to Tommy Coen, Eddie Maloney, Lar Kelly, Jimmy Cummins????
23. Speech/Reels: Amanda Rollins, Greig's Pipes
24. Speech/Reels: Joe Burke's, Untitled
25. Reel: The Moving Cloud
26. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
27. Speech/Reel: The Hunter's Purse (end clipped)
28. Speech/Reel: Maud Miller
29. Speech/Reel: Coen's Reel (comp. Tommy Coen) (interrupted)
30. Speech/Reel: The Limestone Rock
31. Speech/Reel: Eddie Maloney's Reel (comp. Eddie Maloney)
32. Speech/Reel: For the Sake of Old Decency
33. Speech: Introduction to Tommy Green (aged 11yrs)
34. Speech/Reel: Brearty's
35. Speech/Reel: Dillon's Fancy
36. Speech/Jig: O'Neill's
37. Speech/Hornpipe: Cooley's?
38. Speech/Reel: (named)
39. Speech/Reel: Untitled (comp. Brendan Mulhere)
40. Speech/Jigs: Untitled, Untitled
41. Speech/Reel: Untitled
42. Speech/Reel: Andy McGann's
43. Speech/Jigs: Untitled (performer introduced - difficult to make out)
44. Speech/Hornpipe: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
45. Speech: Introduction to Radio Eireann broadcast featuring Louis Quinn
46. Speech: Interview with Louis Quinn from a Radio Eireann programme
47. Speech: Introduction to....
48. Jig: Untitled (beginning clipped)
49. Jig: Untitled (beginning clipped)
50. Reel/Speech: Untitled (beginning clipped), performers back-announced
51. Speech/Song:Bold Jack Donoghue
52. Speech/Reel: Untitled
53. Speech/Song: The Home we Left Behind
54. Speech/Song: The Shores of America
55. Speech: Introduction to off-disc dubs of Hector McAndrew
56. Speech/Air/Strathspey/Reel: The Braes of..., The Glenlivet, The Gladstone Reel
57. Speech/Slow Strathspey/Reel/Hornpipe: The Deanbrig of Edinburgh, The Deanbrig Reel, The Banks
58. Speech/Strathspeys/Reels: Stirling Castle, Miller of Mearn, The Ould Wheel, Freddy Peggy
59. Speech/Air/Strathspeys, Reel: The Laird of Brae...., Sandy Cammon, Fogus Morrison, The Left Handed Fiddler
60. Speech/March/Strathspey/Reels/March/Strathspey/Reel: Scotland the Brave, The Laird of Drumblair, Speed the Plough, The De'il Among the Tailors, The Lass of Bon Accord, The Marquess of Huntley's Farewell, The Ten Pound Fiddle
61. Speech/Polkas/Strathspesy/Reel: The Bluebell Polka, Peter Head Polka, The Balkan Hills, Lady Mary Ramsey, Pretty Peggy
62. Speech: Introduction to Tom Turkington and Billy Adams
63. Speech/Reels: Shehan's, Miss McLeod's
64. Speech/Jig: The New Town Hall (comp. Tom Turkington) (end clipped)
65. Speech/Air: The Lark in the Clear Air
66. Speech/Hornpipes: Smith's Favourite, The Tailor's Twist
67. Speech/Reels: McSweeny's, The Ivy Leaf, Reavy's
68. Speech: Introduction to Fergus Taggart
69. Reel: Untitled
70. Speech/Reel: Mulhere's No 5 (comp. Martin Mulhere)
71. Speech/Reel: Untitled
72. Speech: Final greetings to Louis Quinn and family [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performer(s), fiddle in duet A1-13, 16-20, B1-16, fiddle in trio A14-15, B17-18 (off-disc dubs);
Coleman, Michael (tracks as yet unspecified);
Unidentified performer, flute in trio A14-15 (off-disc dubs);
Unidentified performer, piccolo in trio B17-18 (off-disc dubs)

Running Order:
1. Jigs: Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped)
2. Reels: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
3. Barndances: Untitled, Untitled
4. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled
5. Jig: Untitled
6. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
7. Jigs: Untitled, Untitled
8. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
9. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
10. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
11. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
12. Jigs: Untitled, Untitled (skips)
13. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
14. Reels: Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped)
15. Jigs: Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped)
16. Hornpipe: Untitled
17. Reels: Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped, interrupted)
18. Reel: Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped)
19. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled
20. Set Dance: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
21. Reel: Untitled
22. Strathspeys: Untitled, Untitled
23. Reels: Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped)
24. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled (skips)
25. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
26. Reels: Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped)
27. Jig: Untitled (beginning clipped)
28. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
29. Jig: Untitled
30. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
31. Jigs: Untitled, Untitled
32. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
33. Barndance: Untitled
34. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
35. Set Dance: Untitled (beginning clipped)
36. Reels: Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped)
37. Jigs: Untitled, Untitled
38. Reel: Untitled (end clipped) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
[performers may not necessarily be those indicated on certain tracks];
Maguire, Sean, Belfast, fiddle in duet A1-9, 21-31, B1-2, 5-9, 13-15, 17-19, 23, 27-30, fiddle solo A10-12, B3-4, 12, 16, 20-22, 25-26;
Quinn, Louis, Armagh/New York, speech in English A10-13, fiddle in trio A13-20;
O'Bierne, Lad, Sligo/New York, fiddle in trio A13-20;
Unidentified performers, fiddles in trio B10-11, 24

Running Order:
1. Hornpipe: Untitled (beginning clipped, interrupted)
2. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
3. Hornpipe: Untitled (beginning clipped)
4. Seán sa cheo, reel / unidentified, fiddle ; unidentified, piano
5. Tim Maloney, reel / unidentified, fiddle ; unidentified, piano
6. The boys of the lough, reel / Seán McGuire, fiddle ; James Lad O'Beirne, piano
7. Hornpipe: Untitled (beginning clipped)
8. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
9. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
10. Speech/Reel: The Earl's Chair
11. Speech/Reel: The Lass of Ballintra
12. Speech/Reel: The Deer's Horn
13. Speech/Jig Fragment/Piece: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped)
14. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
15. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
16. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
17. Hornpipe: Untitled (beginning clipped)
18. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
19. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
20. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
21. The mathematician [comp. James Scott Skinner], hornpipe / Seán McGuire, fiddle ; James Lad O'Beirne, piano
22. Hornpipe: Untitled (beginning clipped, interrupted)
23. Hornpipe: Untitled (beginning clipped)
24. Hornpipe: Untitled (clipped)
25. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
26. Reels: Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped, interrupted)
27. Untitled, reel / Seán Maguire, fiddle ; unidentified, piano
28. Reel: Untitled (clipped)
29. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped, interrupted)
30. Hornpipe: Untitled
31. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped) [END OF BAND ONE]
32. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
33. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
34. March: Untitled (beginning clipped)
35. Air: Untitled
36. Hornpipe: Untitled
37. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
38. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
39. Reel: Untitled
40. Strathspey/Reel: Untitled, Untitled
41. Hornpipe: Untitled
42. Hornpipe: Untitled (clipped, interrupted)
43. Air: Untitled
44. Reel: Untitled
45. Reel: Untitled
46. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
47. Jig: Untitled
48. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
49. Reel: Untitled
50. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
51. Air: Untitled (beginning clipped)
52. Jig: Untitled (beginning clipped)
53. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
54. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
55. Reel: Untitled
56. Air: Untitled
57. Reel Fragment: Untitled (beginning clipped)
58. Reel: Untitled
59. Hornpipe: Untitled (clipped)
60. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
61. Reel: Untitled (clipped) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Instrumental group A1;
O'Sullivan, Patrick, speech in English A2-9, B22-29;
Various Irish/American performers introduced throughout, speaking in English over the music performances;
Paddy Killoran Club, New York, instrumental group A3-4;
O'Beirne, Lad, Sligo/New York, fiddle in quartet A5-6;
Quinn, Louis, Armagh/New York, fiddle in quartet A5-6, B21-22, speech in English A12-14, 16-17, 19, B1, 3-15;
O'Malley, Luke, instrumental quartet A7-9, accordion in group B25;
Flynn, Joey, instrumental quartet A7-9;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A10;
Hare, Robbie, Monaghan, fiddle in trio A10-11;
Toal, John, Monaghan, fiddle in trio A10-11, fiddle in duet A19-20;
Shannon, Aloysious, Monaghan, accordion in trio A10-11, accordion solo A12, 17-18, accordion duet A19-20;
McAloon, John (Sean), Fermanagh, pipes solo A13-16;
O'Heine, Padraig, speech in Irish B1, speech in English B1;
Strange, Noel, banjo solo B2-4;
Conroy, Michael, speech in English B5, harmonica solo B5-7;
Ryan, Sean, fiddle solo B8-11, 14-15;
Jordan, William, Fiddle solo B12-13;
Unidentified performer, speech in English B16-20;
Brown, Billy, accordion in duet B16-17;
Gardiner, John Joe, fiddle B18-20;
Kennedy, Rory, accordion B18-20;
Redican, Larry, fiddle in quartet B21-22;
O'Donnell, Eugene, Derry, dancing B21-22;
Unidentified performers, jazz band B24;
Unidentified performers, instrumantal group B26;
Inishowen Ceili Band, instrumantal group B25;
Healy, Kevin, Chicago, war pipes in group B27-29;
Reavy, Ed, Cavan/Philidelphia, speech in English B28-29

Running Order:
1. Jigs: Untitled (beginning clipped)
2. Speech: Introduction to Martin Feeney and other New York/Irish musicians
3. Speech/Reels: Untitled, Untitled
4. Speech/Reel: Untitled
5. Speech/Reel: Untitled
6. Speech/Hornpipe: Untitled
7. Speech/Jig: Untitled
8. Reel/Speech: Untitled
9. Reel/Speech: Untitled
10. Speech/Reel: Untitled
11. Hornpipe: Untitled (beginning clipped)
12. Speech/Hornpipe: Untitled
13. Speech/Jigs: Untitled, Untitled
14. Speech/Reels: Untitled, Untitled
15. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled
16. Speech/Air: Sliabh na mBan
17. Speech/Reel: Untitled
18. Jig: Untitled
19. Speech/Reel: Miss Montgomery
20. Jig: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
21. Speech: Introduction to recording
22. Hornpipe Medley: Untitled
23. Speech/Reel: Untitled
24. Speech/Jigs: Untitled, Untitled
25. Speech/Reels: The Dawn Reel, The Maids of Castlebar
26. Speech/Jigs: The Knights of Saint Patrick, Molly's Advice
27. Speech/Hornpipe: The Sweeps Hornpipe (end clipped)
28. Speech/Jig: Untitled
29. Speech/Reels: The Bunch of Keys, Tom Steel
30. Speech/Hornpipe: Cooley's Hornpipe
31. Speech/Reel: Cooley's Reel
32. Speech/Jig: The Cliffs of Moher
33. Speech/Reel: Reavy Reel
34. Speech/Reels: Paddy Canny's Reel, Untitled
35. Speech/Reel: The Wheels of the World
36. Speech/Reel/Speech: Untitled (beginning clipped)
37. Reel/Speech: Untitled (comp. Martin Mulhere)
38. Speech/Reels: The Mountain Top, The Longford Collector (beginning clipped)
39. Speech/Reels: Music in the Glen, Untitled
40. Speech/Reel: The Maid Behind the Bar (end clipped)
41. Speech/Hornpipe/Speech: Untitled
42. Speech/Jig/Speech: Untitled
43. Speech: general
44. Speech/Piece: Jazz Band (end clipped)
45. Reel Medley/Speech: Untitled (end clipped)
46. Reel/Speech: Untitled (clipped)
47. Reel Medley/Speech: Untitled (beginning clipped)
48. Jig Medley/Speech: Untitled (beginning clipped)
49. Speech/Highland: Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Egan, John, lilting A1, 12, 19, speech in English A1-2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13-14, 19, 21-23, 25, 27, flute solo A3, 5, 7-8, 10, 14-16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28;
O'Shaughnessy, Pearl, speech in English A1-2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13-14, 19, 21, 23, 27

Running Order:
1. Reel: Sonny Brogan's Favourite
2. Speech: fiddler Johnston from Drumfinn, died young, John named the following jig after him
3. Jig: Johnston's Favourite [interrupted mid-way]
4. Speech: sets of jigs
5. Jig: Paddy in London, Butcher's March, Johnston's Favourite [unfinished]
6. Speech: two following polkas, Jimmy Morrison's polkas
7. Polkas: The Mountain Pathways, Flowers of Spring
8. Reels: The Wild Irishman, The Pretty Girls of Mayo
9. Speech: The Wild Irishman
10. Reel: Martin Wynne's Reel
11. Speech: Martin Wynne, broadcasting on Radio Eireann
12. Reel: Untitled [lilt]
13. Speech: preceding tune, learning it from Fred Finn
14. Reel/Speech: Untitled/Paddy Ban, dancing the lancers, the Doyles (flute player)
15. : Untitled
16. Reel: The Corner House
17. Speech: preceding tune, 1926 John went to England, back in 1929, got married, lived in Donegal for six years, Christmas 1937 back to England, back to Dublin Sept 1937, working in Dublin, worked in the railway in Donegal, musicians he played with in Donegal, musicians he met in Dublin, Tubbercurry, meeting Sonny Brogan, broadcasting on radio, Radio Eireann's director not having time for traditional music, the fiddles not being bowed the same... [END OF SIDE A]
18. Reel: Untitled
19. Speech/Lilt: learned the preceding tune from Sonny Brogan, lilts a reel, got it from Mrs Harrington, learning tunes late at night
20. Reel: The New Policeman, Lad Byrne's Reel
21. Speech: getting the last from a Lad Byrne [Lad O Bierne] recording that he heard in Mrs Harrington's
22. Speech/Reels: Farewell to Erin, The Boy on the Hilltop
23. Speech: preceding tune, reels that go well together, learning to play as a boy, no taperecorders, disliking television, left home aged fourteen, went to uncles near the Morrison home-stead, learning music from locals, brought to Ballymoate to John Joe Gardeners in 1924, a great flute player, music session with the Doyles, John Joe Gardeners music, broadcasting with Mrs Harrington etc from 1944-47
24. Polkas: Luby's Polka, Untitled
25. Speech: funny story about train
26. Reel: Sarah Hobbs
27. Speech: preceding tune, Sonny Brogan going to the Church Street Club circa 1955, reel composed by Ned Stapleton called Sonny's Return/Sonny Brogan's Favourite - possibly the following piece
28. Reel: Untitled [see note to track 27] [END OF SIDE B]