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Performers:
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, pipes solo A1, 3, 7, 11, 14, 18–19, 23, 25, 35, 39, 37;
speech in Irish and English A2, 4, 6, 10, 12–15, 17, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32–34, 38;
singing in Irish A5, 13, 21, 31, 33;
whistle solo A29;
singing in Scots Gaelic A31;
singing in English A34, 36;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in Irish and English A2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12–13, 15, 17, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32–34, 36, 38;
singing in English A34, 36;
Mulqueen, Ann, Limerick, singing in English A9;
Nic an Bhaird, Maire, Donegal, singing in Irish A16;
Mac Donnchadha, Sean / 'ac Dhonncha, Sean / Johnny Joe Pheaitsin / McDonagh, Johnny, Galway, singing in English A27

Running Order:
1. Reel: Kelly's Reel [Tim Moloney; said in track A2 to be a version of 'The Longford Collector; short version to mark the start of the radio programme; for a full version, see track A3; start of first edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape, broadcast on 1 November 1972]
2. Speech: Untitled [Radio discussion about the previous and next items]
3. Reel: Kelly's Reel / The Longford Collector [Tim Moloney; full version of the tune at track A1]
4. Speech: Untitled [Radio discussion about the next item; topics include Oilean Dairire / Valentia Island, and the background to the song 'Amhran na Leabhar / Cuan Bheil Inse']
5. Song: Amhran na Leabhar / Cuan Bheil Inse
6. Speech: Untitled [Radio discussion about the next item]
7. Air: Amhran na Leabhar / Cuan Bheil Inse
8. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement about the next item, including mention of Denis Ryan, a member of the group 'Ryan's Fancy' in Canada]
9. Song: Dear Old Newport Town
10. Speech: Untitled [Radio discussion about the next item; topics include: Seamus Ennis's home in Jamestown, in Finglas; background to the reel 'Music at the Gate']
11. Reel: Music at the Gate / Phil the Fluter's Ball
12. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement about the previous and next items; topics include: the words of the song 'Phil the Fluter's Ball'; SE's first journey as a child to the Carna area in Connemara in 1927, when he took the train to Galway and from there the train to Maam Cross; SE collected 212 songs from Colm O Caoidheain; the song Nora Ni Choncubhair Bhain; C O C the only person who had the full version of the melody of the song]
13. Song, Speech: Nora Ni Choncubhair Bhain, Untitled [Radio announcement of the next item]
14. Speech, Air: Untitled [SE remark about the tuning of his drones (dosanna)], Nora Ni Choncubhair Bhain
15. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement about the previous and next items]
16. Song: D'Eirigh Me Maidin De Ceadaoin
17. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement about the previous and next items]
18. Jigs: Sliabh Russell, Sixpenny Money [Final piece of music in this radio programme; end of first edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape]
19. Reel: Untitled [The Swallow's Tail; short version to mark the start of the radio programme; start of second edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape, broadcast on 15 November 1972]
20. Speech: Untitled [Radio discussion about the theme of the programme: birds]
21. Song: An Londubh agus an Cheirseach
22. Speech: Untitled [Radio discussion, including quotation from the words of the songs 'An Sgeilpin Droighneach' and 'Coinnleach Glas an Fhomhair']
23. Air: Amhran na n-Ean [An Londubh agus an Cheirseach]
24. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and discussion about the previous and next items, including the background to the reel 'The Morning Thrush', composed by SE's father in 1913]
25. Reel: The Morning Thrush
26. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and discussion about the previous and next items]
27. Song: An Bonnan Bui
28. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and discussion about the previous and next items]
29. Hornpipe: Claisceadal na n-Ean [Recorded by Michael Coleman as 'The Stage Hornpipe'; published under Coleman's title in Seamus Ennis's uilleann pipes tutor 'The Master's Touch']
30. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and discussion about the previous and next items; topics include: the background to the next song, which SE learned from Annie Johnston, from the island of Barra, in Scotland]
31. Song: Amhran na hEala / The Swan Song
32. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and discussion about the previous and next items]
33. Song, Speech with Singing: Untitled [Learned from Elizabeth Cronin; the song is a conversation between two cuckoos], Untitled [Information about a version of the song in Welsh, with singing]
34. Speech with Singing: Untitled [Radio announcement and discussion about the next item, including sung verse of the song 'The Magpie's Nest', which was sung by Sarah Makem]
35. Hornpipe: Nead na Cuaiche / The Cuckoo's Nest
36. Speech with Singing: Untitled [Radio announcement and discussion about the previous and next items, including sung versions of the next tune to be played]
37. Jig: Ta an Coileach ag Fogairt an Lae / When the Cock Crows It Is Day
38. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and discussion about the previous and next items; topic: story that is the background to the next tune]
39. Jig: Mairseal na Fuiseoige / The Lark's March / The Lark in the Morning / The Geese in the Bog [Final piece of music in this radio programme; end of second edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Ni Dhonnchadha, Maire Aine / Ni Dhonncha, Maire Aine, singing in Irish A1–6;
'Ac Donncha, Sean / Mac Donncha, Sean / Mac Donnchadha, Sean / Johnny Joe Pheaitsin, singing in Irish A7, 10;
Unidentified performer(s), singing in Irish A8, 9, 11

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled
2. Song: Untitled [Mna Deasa Locha Riabhach]
3. Song: Untitled [Bruach na Carraige Baine]
4. Song: Untitled [Una Bhan]
5. Song: Untitled [Anach Cuain / Eanach Dhuin]
6. Song: Untitled [Donal Og] (unrecorded section during song) [END OF BAND ONE]
7. Song: Untitled [An Bonnan Bui] (overmodulated on original recording)
8. Song: Untitled [An Sgeilpin Droighneach]
9. Song: Untitled [Amhran Mhaighinse]
10. Song: Untitled [Spailpin A Run]
11. Song: Untitled [Liam O Raghallaigh] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English and Irish A1, 3, 5–6, 8, 10, 13–14, 16–17, 19, 22, B1, 6, 9, 11–12, 14, 16, 21, 25;
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, speech in Irish A2;
pipes solo A2–5, B7–10;
O'Dowd, Dan, Dublin, pipes A7, B15;
Summers, Rory, Dublin, warpipes solo A9;
Conroy, Andy, Roscommon, pipes A11–12, B13;
Hutton, Joe, Northumbria, Northumbrian pipes solo A14–16, B2–5;
Mitchell, Pat, Dublin, pipes A5–8, B17–20;
O'Flynn, Liam Og, Kildare, pipes A20–21, B22–24

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the concert and to the first performer; the recording on this tape was made at a concert of piping in the Rupert Guinness Hall, Dublin, on 17 March 1974]
2. Speech, Air: Untitled [Remark by the performer], Cuan Bheil Inse / Valencia Harbour
3. Speech, Hornpipes: Untitled [Introduction to the next performance], The Boys of Blue Hill, Ballymanus Fair [Alexander's Hornpipe]
4. Jig: Untitled [The Gold Ring]
5. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Introduction to the next performance], O'Sullivan's [Tim Moloney], The Dublin Reel
6. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next performer]
7. Airs: Bean Dubh an Ghleanna / The Dark Woman of the Glen, Taimse im Chodhladh
8. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next performer]
9. Marches, Air, Jig, Pipe Tune, Jig: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled; Untitled; Untitled [The Peeler and the Goat]; Untitled [Breton tune? Recorded by Alan Stivell]; Untitled
10. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next performer]
11. Jig / March, Jig: The Butcher's March, Untitled [Jackson's Jig / Jackson's Bottle of Brandy / Pay the Reckoning]
12. Reel: Untitled [The Flogging Reel]
13. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next performer]
14. Speech, Air, Hornpipe, Reel: Untitled [Continuation of introduction to the next performer], Bonny North Tyne, Whinshield's Hornpipe, Hesleyside Reel
15. Hornpipes: The Glen Aln Hornpipe, Barrington Hornpipe, Rowley Burn
16. Speech, Air: Untitled [Introduction to the next performance], The Cheviot Hills
17. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next performer and performance]
18. Piece: The Humours of Glin
19. Jig / March, Piece, Jig: Mairseal Alasdruim, Gol na mBan san Ar, Cnocan an Teampaill / Church Hill
20. Speech: Untitled [Information about the previous piece, and introduction to the next performer]
21. Jigs: A Chailleach do Mharais Me, The Hurler's March / The Humours of Ballyloughlin
22. Reels: Untitled [Kiss the Maid behind the Barrel], Untitled [The Merry Blacksmith]
23. Speech: Untitled [Announcement of interval in concert]
24. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the beginning of the second half of the concert and the next performance; the recording on this tape was made at a concert of piping in the Rupert Guinness Hall, Dublin, on 17 March 1974]
25. Air, March: Sweet Hesleyside, Sidney Smith's March
26. Hornpipes: The Navvy on the Line, The Wonder
27. Tuning: Untitled [Performer tunes his pipes]
28. Air, Hornpipe: Memories, The Champion
29. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next performer]
30. Air: Nora Ni Choncubhair Bhain [White Connor's Daughter Nora]
31. Hornpipe: The Derry Hornpipe [The Londonderry Hornpipe]
32. Speech, Single Jigs, Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next performance], Ask My Father, Pat Ward's Jig, Untitled [Introduction to the next performance] [END OF BAND ONE]
33. Reel: The Flags of Dublin (clipped at start) [The introduction to this piece (on previous track) mentions that the reel 'Jenny's Welcome to Charlie' was played before this tune. For a full version of this track, see the other recording of this concert in the BB collection]
34. Speech, Strathspeys, Reels, Hornpipe, Air, Jigs: Untitled [Introduction to the next performer]; Untitled, Untitled; Untitled, Untitled, Untitled [The High Reel]; Untitled; Untitled; Untitled [Tune related to 'The Geese in the Bog'], Untitled
35. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next performer]
36. Reels: The Morning Star, Miss McLeod's Reel, Untitled [The Strawberry Blossom]
37. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next performer]
38. Air, Jig: An Buachaill Caol Dubh, Paidin O Raifeartaigh
39. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next performer]
40. Speech, Tuning: Untitled [Remark by the performer], Untitled [Tuning of his pipes by the performer]
41. Single Jig: The Old Hag in the Kiln
42. Air: The Churchyard of Creggan / Uirchill an Chreagain
43. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Remark by the performer], The Repeal of the Union
44. Speech: Untitled [Concluding remarks and introduction to the final performer]
45. Jig: The Gold Ring
46. Hornpipe: Johnny Cope
47. Reel: The Bucks of Oranmore
48. Speech: Untitled [Final announcement by presenter] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Russell, Micho, Clare, whistle A1–5;
Breathnach, Breandan, speech in English A1–5;
Unidentified performer, harp solo A6;
Unidentified performer, fiddle in trio A7;
Unidentified performer, singing in Irish in trio A7;
Unidentified performer, whistle in trio A7;
Unidentified performer, singing in Irish [solo] A8

Running Order:
1. Jig, Jig / Slide: Donall na Greine [CICD 760.11 (both from this recording); 756, 757, 758, 759 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 10 (from MR); Ceol III iv, p 99; Donnybrook Fair / The Joy of My Life (version of? DMI, # 79)], The Clare Jig [CICD 1162.12 (from this recording); 1162.11, 2364.11–.15 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 71 (untitled, from MR)]
2. Jig / Cudreel / Cudril / Quadrille Tune / [Slide], Jig / Slide: Off She Goes [So named by MR on the tape – misnamed? The Cumann na mBan Are Dead and Gone [CICD 1968.13 (where this recording is referenced); 1968.11–.12 (none from this recording); one of 2 tunes to which MR assigns the name The Cumann na mBan Are Dead and Gone], Mickey Callaghan's Slide [So named by MR on the tape – misnamed? Same tune as at track Ib, The Clare Jig, q.v.]
3. Speech, Polkas / Marches / Quadrille tunes, Speech: Untitled [BB recites words sung to The Boyne Water], The Battle of Aughrim (incomplete)], The Boyne Water [CICD 6508.14 (from this recording), 6508.11–.13 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 124], Untitled [Conversation about the event (at the Tailor's Hall, Dublin?) for which the content on this tape is a rehearsal]
4. Jig / Slide: The Clare Jig [As at track 1b, q.v.] (incomplete)
5. Jig / Cudreel / Cudril / Quadrille Tune / [Slide], Jig / Slide: Off She Goes, Mickey Callaghan's Slide [As at track 2, q.v.] [END OF BAND ONE]
6. Harp Tune: Untitled [Arethusa / The Princess Royal; ascribed to Carolan]
7. Song: Untitled [Eamon an Chnoic]
8. Song: Untitled (incomplete) [An Spailpin Fanach] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
McKenna, Francie, Monaghan, speech in English throughout band 1;
fiddle solo A2–8;
20–35?;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Murphy, James, Fermanagh, speech in English A9–14;
fiddle solo A10–14;
Scott, Philip, Fermanagh, speech in English A15–19;
fiddle solo A16–19;
Unidentified performers, speech in English throughout band 1;
Fitzgerald, Jim, Kerry, fiddle solo A36–43;
speech in English intermittently throughout A36–43

Running Order:
1. Speech, Untitled
2. Reels, Speech: Untitled [Jenny's Chickens (related tune)], Untitled [The Wild Irishman], Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
3. Reels: Untitled, Untitled [The Monaghan Twig (related tune)]
4. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Tune-names are given, but it is not clear what tunes they apply to], Untitled [Drowsy Maggie (related tune?)]
5. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled
6. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
7. Reel, Speech: The Emyvale Reel [For other performances of this tune, see tracks A11 & 32a], Untitled
8. Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled
9. Speech: Untitled
10. Reel, Speech: All White, Untitled
11. Reel: The Emyvale Reel [For other performances of this tune, see tracks A7 & 32a]
12. Speech: Untitled [Instructions to the performer]
13. Reel, Speech: The Glass of Beer, Untitled
14. Speech, Jig, Speech: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
15. Speech: Untitled
16. Jig: The Trip to the Cottage [The Connachtman's Rambles (related tune)]
17. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Drowsy Maggie, Untitled [Accompanied by lilting]
18. Reel, Speech: Miss Johnson, Untitled [The tune just played is stated to be like Miss McLeod's Reel]
19. Reel / Hornpipe, Speech: Dwyer's [O'Dwyer's Hornpipe in DMI], Untitled
20. Jig, Speech, Jig, Speech: Untitled [The Setting Sun], Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
21. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Steeplechase], Untitled
22. Reel: Untitled [The Galway Rambler (related tune)]
23. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled [The title 'Tear the Calico' is given, but it is not clear which tune it applies to], McGrath's, Jenny Tie Your Bottom Strings, Untitled
24. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled
25. Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled
26. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Old 'Wheels of the World'], Untitled
27. Reel: Untitled [The Chattering Magpie]
28. Speech: Untitled
29. Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled
30. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Miss Farr's Reel [The Ivy Leaf], Untitled
31. Reel: Untitled [The Swallow's Tail (related tune)]
32. Reels, Speech: Untitled [The Emyvale Reel; for other performances of this tune, see tracks A7 & 11], The Dublin Reel [Local setting of], Untitled
33. Reel: Untitled [Within a Mile of Dublin]
34. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Fermoy Lasses (related tune?)], Untitled
35. Reel: McKenna's [Miss Thornton] (clipped at end) [END OF BAND ONE]
36. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Out in the Rain [CICD 4091.13 (from this recording); The Cabin Hunter (related tune)]
37. Speech, Reel: Untitled, William O'Brien [CICD 5814.11 (from this recording)]
38. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled [About the tune to be played next], Sheehan's / Sheehas ? [CICD 5462.11 (from this recording; gives title 'Sheehas ?')], Untitled [About the tune to be played next; it was learned from a local player, Jack Costello, an ex-RIC man]
39. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Mount Collins Reel [CICD 4406.11 (from this recording); The Mountcollins Reel]
40. Speech, Jig, Speech: Untitled, The Black Stripper [CICD 1176.12 (from this recording; gives the title as 'The Black Slipper', a mistranscription); The Maid at the Well], Untitled
41. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The Merry Man into His Grave / Down the Merry Man into His Grave [CICD 1276.11 (from this recording); Down Goes the Merry Man into His Grave; Connie the Soldier]
42. Jig: Untitled [CICD 1814.13 (from this recording); The Rakes of Clonmel]
43. Reels, Speech: Untitled [CICD 3901.11 (from this recording); Drowsy Maggie (related tune); Toss the Feathers (related tune)], Untitled [CICD 4985.11 (from this recording); The Templeglantine Reel], Untitled [Where the performer comes from: Dromtrasna / Drom Treasna, Abbeyfeale, in west Limerick] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, accordion A1–6, 27–29, 34;
Unidentified performer, flute A1–2, 4–6;
Unidentified performer [Pakie Russell?], concertina A7–10, 30;
Unidentified performer, whistle A7–10;
Unidentified performers [The Kilfenora Ceili Band?], instrumental group A11, 15–16;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A12–13;
Russell, Micho, Clare, whistle A14, 17–21, 39–40;
flute A22–24, 35–38;
Unidentified performer, bodhran A21;
Unidentified performer, piano A24–26;
Unidentified group (accordion, concertina, flute), A31–33

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [The Dairy Maid]
2. Reels: Untitled [The Sligo Maid], Untitled [The Gatehouse Maid (CRE 2, # 233)]
3. Reel: Untitled [Recorded by the Kilfenora Ceili Band as one of the Kilrush Polkas (?)]
4. Reel: Untitled [The Humours of Ballyconnell]
5. Reel: Untitled [The Bunch of Keys]
6. Jig: Untitled (incomplete)
7. Reel: Untitled [The Traveller (DMI, # 719)]
8. Reel: Untitled [Miss Thornton's Reel (DMI, # 534)]
9. Reel: Untitled [The Heather Breeze]
10. Reel: Untitled [An Bhean Tinceara]
11. Jig: Untitled [Dubbed from a ceili band record? Incomplete; Sacko's Jig / Tripping up the Stairs]
12. Song: Untitled [Blackwater Side (barely audible in parts)]
13. Song: Untitled [Hardly audible; preceded by short section of a ceili band dubbing]
14. Jig: Banish Misfortune / The Irishman's Misfortune / The Shady Groves of Peamount [CICD 1367.11–.12 (not from this recording)]
15. Jigs: Untitled [Father Kelly's Jig], Untitled [When Sick Is it Tea You Want? Dubbed from a ceili band record?]
16. Reels: Untitled [I'm Waiting for You; dubbed from a ceili band record? needle gets stuck in a groove], Untitled [The Humours of Lissadell], Untitled [The Doon Reel] [END OF BAND ONE]
17. Reel: The Wind that Shakes the Barley [CICD 5743.11, 5757.11–.14 (none from this recording); DMI, # 737]
18. Reel: Untitled [CICD 3912 (from this recording); Kitty in the Lane (DMI, # 796)]
19. Reel: London Bridge [CICD 2888, 5480 (both from this recording); 2884.11, 2888 (none from this recording)]
20. Jig: My Darling Asleep [CICD 1822 (from this recording); 1822.11 (where title 'The Miners of Wicklow' is given - in error?), 1822.12–.13 (none from this recording); DMI, # 159]
21. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; Boil the Breakfast Early (DMI, # 789)]
22. Jig: An Rogaire Dubh [CICD 1858 (where this recording is referenced); 2620.11–.12 (none from this recording); The Black Rogue]
23. Reel: Kitty's Gone a-Milking / The Dublin Reel [CICD 5211.11 (not from this recording); not the tune generally called The Dublin Reel; DMWC, # 31]
24. Reel: The Heights of Alma / The Rakes of Mallow [CICD 2692.11 (not from this recording)]
25. Reel: Untitled [The Heights of Alma / The Rakes of Mallow]
26. Airs: Untitled, Untitled [Believe Me if All Those Endearing Young Charms]
27. Reels: Untitled [The Green Groves of Erin], Untitled [Toss the Feathers (with tonic note D)]
28. Jig: Untitled [The Frost is All Over]
29. Jig: Untitled [The Frieze Breeches]
30. Reels: Untitled [The Star of Munster], Untitled [The Swallow's Tail]
31. Jig: Untitled [Mac's Fancy?]
32. Reels: Untitled [Sporting Nellie], Untitled [Gregg's Pipes]
33. Reels: Untitled [The Humours of Ballyconnell], Untitled [Toss the Feathers (tonic note E)], Untitled [Joe Cooley's Reel]
34. Waltz: Untitled [Gentle Mother; incomplete]
35. Jigs: Cathaoir an Phiobaire [CICD 1993–.11 (none from this recording); The Piper's Chair; CRE 1, # 9 (not from MR)], The Yellow Wattle [CICD 1133.11, 1828, 1829 (none from this recording)]
36. Reel: The Dublin Reel [CICD 3101, 3103.11, 3103.12, 3103.14, 3104.11–3104.12 (none from this recording); standard version (tonic note D)]
37. Jig: The Battering Ram [CICD 2195.12–.15 (none from this recording)]
38. Set Dance: The Retreat [CICD 6528, 6529, 6530, 6531, 6532 (none from this recording); Bonaparte's Retreat]
39. Reel: The Silver Spear [CICD 5768.11 (not from this recording); CRE, # 141]
40. Reels: Miss Monaghan [CICD 3179.12 (not from this recording); DMI, # 575], Untitled [CICD 5399 (from this recording); 5399.11 (not from this recording); version of Lord McDonald?], Come West along the Road [CICD 5502 (from this recording); 5502.11, 5505 {with tonic note D} (none from this recording); DMI, # 793] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Russell, Micho, Clare, flute A1–2, 6–8, 11–12, 20–24, 27–28, 32–38;
whistle A3–5, 9–10, 13, 25–26, 29–31;
speech in English A11;
Unidentified performer (female), Clare, speech in English A13–14,17, 19, 27, 31–34, 36–37;
Russell, Gussie, Clare, flute A14–18;
Russell, Packie, Clare, concertina A17–19, speech in English A18;
O'Connor, Davy, Clare, speech in Irish A25–26

Running Order:
1. Jig / Slide: Untitled [CICD 1559.13, 1559.15 (both from this recording); 1559.14 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 67 from this recording by MR; often played as a slide]
2. Reel: The Heather Breeze / The Heathery Breeze [CICD 2856.11 (from this recording); 2857 (where this recording is referenced); 3415.11–.14 (none from this recording)]
3. Reels: Sean sa Cheo [CICD 3976.11–.12, 5649 (all from this recording), 3976.13–.14 (none from this recording)], The Boy in the Gap [CICD 3096.11, 3096.16 (both from this recording); 3096.12–.15, 3097 (none from this recording); standard version of this tune; MR also plays an 'old' version.]
4. Reel: An Clochairin Ban [CICD 4513 (from this recording); 4514, 4514.11 (none from this recording); The Collier's Reel; also at track 27.]
5. Reel: Fochairi Beaga na Foraoire [CICD 5947.11 (from this recording); 5943 (where this recording is referenced); 4725.11, 5943.11 (none from this recording); Spike Island Lasses (here with only two parts)]
6. Reels: Down the Broom [CICD 4807.11 (from this recording); 4808.11 (not from this recording)], The Gatehouse Maid [CICD 3062, 3068.11 (both from this recording); 3051.11 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 233 (not from MR)]
7. Jig: Cathaoir an Phiobaire [CICD 1993 (where this recording is referenced); 1993.11 (not from this recording); The Piper's Chair; CRE 1, # 9 (not from MR)]
8. Reel: Knocknagow [CICD 4590, 4593.11 (both from this recording); 4593.12 (not from this recording); Scotch Mary; DMI, # 729]
9. Jig: Untitled [CICD 1497.12 (from this recording); 1496 (where this recording is referenced); 1497.13 (not from this recording); Kitty Come Over (DMI, # 55); The Cow that Ate the Blanket]
10. Reels: Over the Moor to Maggie / Over the Meadows / Down the Meadows / Kitty's Wedding / The Dublin Reel [CICD 2804.12, 2805 (from this recording); 2804.11 (not from this recording)], The Star of Munster (standard version) [CICD 4162.11, 4163, 4164 (all from this recording); 4162.12 (not from this recording); MR also plays a concertina version of this tune.]
11. Reel: Jackie Fitzpatrick's Reel / Jacky Fitzpatrick's Reel / Jack Fitz's Reel / Jackie Fitzgerald's Reel [CICD 5016 (from this recording); 4995.11–.12, 5017, 5018–5018.12 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 225 (from MR); related to Dowd's Favourite / O'Dowd's Favourite as recorded by Michael Coleman?]
12. Reels: Kitty Jones' Reel / Kitty Jones's Reel [CICD 4275.11, 4276 (both from this recording); 4275.12, 4277 (none from this recording)], The Maid that Left the County [CICD 4286, 4288.11, 4289 (all from this recording?); 4288.12–.14 (none from this recording); The Honeymoon (DMI, # 791); Lady O'Brien's Reel (Tunes of the Munster Pipers, # 96)]
13. Reels: The Wind that Shakes the Barley [CICD 5743.11 (from this recording); 5757.11–.14 (none from this recording)], The Lady on the Island [CICD 5853.11 (from this recording); 5853.12–.13 (not from this recording)]
14. Reel: The Five Mile Chase [Not in CICD from this recording]
15. Reel: The Hunter's Purse / An Sceach / Maire Ni Dhonaill [Not in CICD from this recording]
16. Reel: The Five Mile Chase [Not in CICD from this recording; see track 14]
17. Reels: The Heather Breeze, Sporting Nellie [Not in CICD from this recording]
18. Jigs: The Walls of Liscarroll [Title from typed contents list - misnamed? Not in CICD from this recording; The Mouse in the Cupboard], An Bainbhin Dubh [Not in CICD from this recording; recorded also from MR, qv]
19. Speech, Reels: Untitled [The name of the player from whom Pakie Russell learned these tunes (Martin Killoughrey, Liscannor)], Fermoy Lasses [Not in CICD from this recording], Connemara Stockings] [Not in CICD from this recording] [END OF BAND ONE]
20. Jig: The Battering Ram [CICD 2195.12–.13 (from this recording); 2195.14–.15 (not from this recording)]
21. Reel: Sporting Nellie [CICD 5075.15 (from this recording); 5075.11–.14, 5075.16 (none from this recording); Gorman's (CICD 5075, from Mrs Crotty); Sporting Nell]
22. Reel: The Bucks of Oranmore [CICD 5725, 5726–.12 (all from this recording?); 5482, 5726.13–.14 (none from this recording)]
23. Jigs: An Rogaire Dubh [CICD 1858, 2620.12 (from this recording); 2620.11 (none from this recording); The Black Rogue], The Irish Washerwoman / The Big Jig / Paddy McGinty's Goat [CICD 1678.11, 1679 (from this recording); 1686 (where this recording is referenced); 1678.12–.13 (none from this recording)]
24. Reel: Farewell to Connacht [CICD 3041.11 (from this recording); 3041.12 (not from this recording)]
25. Speech, Slip Jig: Untitled [Words in Irish to the tune on this track], The Rocky Road to Dublin / Slainte an Bristin Leathair [CICD 440.11–.12, 436 (all from this recording?); 435 (not from this recording)]
26. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Words in Irish to the tune on this track], The Connachtman's Rambles / Bean an Brown Dilisc / Bean ag Baint Dilisc [CICD 2136.12, 2138 (from this recording); 2133 (where this recording is referenced); 2136.11 (none from this recording)]
27. Reels: An Clochairin Ban [CICD 4513 (from this recording); 4514, 4514.11 (none from this recording); The Collier's Reel; also at track 4], An Bhean Tinceara [CICD 4030 (from this recording); 2686.11, 4028, 4029, 5750.11–.12 (none from this recording)]
28. Reel: Carty's Reel / Cassidy's Reel [CICD 4978 (from this recording); 4978.11–.12 (where this recording is referenced); 4684.11–.12, 4684.13 (none from this recording); partly composed by MR; commonly known as Micho Russell's; as Carty's Reel from MR in CRE 2, # 294]
29. Jigs: The Humours of Bantry [CICD 1194.11 (not from this recording); DMI, # 13)], Jimmy O'Brien's Jig / The Maid in the Meadows [CICD 1866, 1867 (both from this recording); 1860.11 (not from this recording)]
30. Jigs: The Frieze Breeches / La Sin' Seain / Trom La [CICD 1486, 1487, 1488, 1490, 1492.11–.13 (none from this recording); standard version of the tune; MR also plays an 'old' version.], The Chorus Jig / The Kilfenora Jig [CICD 2218.11–.12 (from this recording)]
31. Speech, Cudreels / Cudrils / Quadrille Tunes / [Jigs / Slides]: Untitled [Introduction to this set of tunes: these tunes are cudreels, which used to be played at country dances for people dancing the plain set], She Hadn't the Knack She Thought She Had [CICD 1470.11 (from this recording); 1470.12 (not from this recording)], The Cumann na mBan Are Dead and Gone [CICD 1968.11 (from this recording); 1968.12–.13 (none from this recording); one of 2 tunes that MR assigns this name to.]
32. Speech, Set Dance: Untitled [Patrick Killoughrey, dancer; confusion about parts of the tune that follows], The Retreat [CICD 6531, 6532 (all from this recording); 6528, 6529, 6530 (none from this recording); Bonaparte's Retreat]
33. Speech, Air: Untitled [Introduction to this tune: it was learned from Patrick ?, Liscannor, Co Clare], An Drucht Geal Ceo / The Foggy Dew [Not in CICD]
34. Reels: The Green Fields of America / Molly Branagan (Molly Brannigan?) [CICD 4749 (from this recording); 4754.11 (not from this recording); DMI, # 523], Rakish Paddy [CICD 3109 (where this recording is referenced); 3108, 3110, 6015.11 (not from this recording); DMI, # 749; CRE, # 145]
35. Reel: The Blackhaired Lass / The Blackhaired Girl / Cailin na Gruaige Duibhe [CICD 4239 (where this recording is referenced); 4230.12–.13 (none from this recording)]
36. Reel: The Flogging Reel [Not in CICD from this recording]
37. Jig: Ti-teen Girleen / Tidy Girlyeen [CICD 1325, 1326.13 (none from this recording); Behind the Bush in the Garden (DMI, # 398)] (cut short)
38. Reel: The Boy in the Gap [CICD 3097 (from this recording); 3096.11–.16 (none from this recording); standard version of this tune; MR also plays an 'old' version] [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:
[unidentified performers], concertina solo A1–10, 22–23;
speech in English throughout A1–10, 22–23;
Breathnach, Breandán, Dublin, speech in English throughout;
[unidentified performer], fiddle solo A11–20;
speech in English throughout A11–21;
[unidentified performers], speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Jig: Untitled [Out on the Ocean]
2. Polka: Untitled
3. Reel: Untitled
4. Reel, Speech: The Kilfenora Fancy [Tear the Calico], Untitled [Information about the tune just played]
5. Polka: Untitled [Over the Hills and Far Away]
6. Jig: Untitled
7. Reel, Speech: The Silver Spear [The New Mown Meadow; Joe Mhaire Mhicilin], Untitled
8. Polka, Speech: My Darling I'm Fond of You [Bhios-sa La i bPort Lairge; The Rose Tree in Full Bearing], Untitled [Information about the tune just played]
9. Speech, Dance Tune / Hornpipe: Untitled, Untitled [The Stack of Barley]
10. Speech, Polka: Untitled, The Gabhairin Bui / The Hieland Laddie
11. Jig, Speech: Montoe's Jig [The Rakes of Clonmel], Untitled [Information about the tune just played and the musician from whom it came, John Moriarty, a local fiddle-player]
12. Reel: Untitled [Related to 'The Beauty Spot']
13. Reel: Drowsy Maggie [Usually played with two parts; with three parts here]
14. Jig: Untitled [Bryan O'Lynn; usually played with two parts; with three parts here]
15. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled
16. Speech, Set Dance / Hornpipe: Untitled, Mrs Crotty's / The Wanderer [The Stranger]
17. Jig: Untitled [Connie the Soldier]
18. Jig: Untitled [Paddy Fahy's Jig; composed by Paddy Fahy]
19. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [Miss McLeod's Reel; to illustrate the first steps that dancing beginners learn?], Untitled
20. Reel: Untitled
21. Speech: Untitled [Story about 'The Ruffian's Reel']
22. Polka: Untitled
23. Speech, Highland Fling: Untitled, Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Russell, Micho, Clare, whistle A1, 3, 6, 10, 19;
singing in Irish A7;
Unidentified performers, fiddle A2, 11, 17–18;
Curtin, Hugh, Clare, whistle A4, 8;
O Rochain, Muiris, Clare, speech in English throughout;
Crehan, Junior, Clare, fiddle A5, 20, 28;
singing in English A9;
Unidentified performer(s), whistle A11, 21;
Kelly, John sr., Clare and Dublin, fiddle A12–14;
concertina A22–23;
Kelly, James, Clare and Dublin, fiddle A12–14, 24, 27 (?);
Mitchell, Pat, Dublin, pipes A15–16, 25–26

Running Order:
1. Reels: Sean sa Cheo [CICD 3976.11–.14, 5649 (none from this recording)], The Boy in the Gap [CICD 3096.11–.16, 3097 (none from this recording); standard version of this tune; with 3 parts, the third newly-composed; MR also plays an 'old' version]
2. Reels: Untitled [The Pigeon on the Gate], Untitled [Toss the Feathers; tonic note E]
3. Jigs: Untitled [Not in CICD from MR; the first part is that of 'Port Liadroma' (CRE, # 12) and the second is that of 'Old Tipperary' (CRE, # 16)], Barr na Feirsde / Barr na Feirisde / The Munster Buttermilk [CICD 818.11–.12, 823 (where card gives the musician as Mick Hand, in error? Should be Micho Russell?), 825 (none from this recording)]
4. Reels: Untitled [Lucy Campbell], Untitled [Reel of Rio, composed by Sean Ryan]
5. Air: A Stor mo Chroi
6. Air: Untitled [An Paistin Fionn]
7. Song: An Paistin Fionn
8. Jig: Untitled [The Lark on the Strand; CRE, # 7]
9. Song: Untitled [Lament for Willie Clancy; composed by the singer?]
10. Reel: Untitled [CICD 4347.11, 4348 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 269 (untitled); Mary McMahon (Bulmer & Sharpley, 'Music from Ireland', vol 2)]
11. Reel: Untitled [Ships Are Sailing]
12. Reel: Untitled
13. Reel: The Dublin Lassies (variant) [First part is that of 'The Boys of Ballisodare / The Dublin Lasses', second differs]
14. Air, Hornpipe / Set Dance: Untitled [The Blackbird; played solo by John Kelly sr], Untitled [The Blackbird; duet]
15. Jig: Untitled [The Old Hag in the Kiln]
16. Jig / March, Piece: Untitled [Painneach na nUbh / O'Sullivan's March], Untitled [Gol na mBan san Ar; as recorded on cylinder by Feis Ceoil officials from Mici Cumba O Sullivan, Kerry] (incomplete) [END OF BAND ONE]
17. Air: Untitled
18. Jig: Untitled [The Pipe on the Hob; The Lovely Lad (DMI, # 406)]
19. Reels: An Clochairin Ban [CICD 4513, 4514, 4514.11 (none from this recording); The Collier's Reel], Drowsy Maggie (mother's version) [CICD 3896.11 (not from this recording); from MR's mother, who played the concertina; The Reel with the Beryl; MR plays another version, which he learned in Donegal]
20. Air, Set Dance: Untitled [Casadh an tSugain], Untitled [An Suisin Ban]
21. Jig / Slide: Untitled
22. Jig / Slide: Untitled [Clancy's Dream]
23. Reels: Untitled [Tom Keane's Reel], Untitled [The Flogging Reel]
24. Reels: Untitled [The Kerry Reel / The Green Fields of Rossbeigh], Untitled [The Boyne Hunt]
25. Hornpipe: Untitled [Chuir Me Feisteas ar mo Theachsa / The Humours of Tullycreen (CRE, # 205); The Humours of Tullycrine]
26. Jig: Untitled [The Frieze Breeches (one of the versions played by Willie Clancy)]
27. Reels: Untitled [The Leitrim Bucks], Untitled
28. Air, Jig: Untitled [Anach Cuain / Eanach Dhuin], Untitled [Anach Cuain / Eanach Dhuin played as jig] [END OF BAND TWO]