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Performers:
Myles O'Malley and his Orchestra, group instrumental A1-4,;
O'Malley, Myles, solo whistle A5-8;
The McNulty Family, singing in English with group instrumental A9-20

Running Order:
1. Shannon bells, The joy of life, jigs / Myles O’Malley and his Orchestra, band
2. The Kildare fancy, The boys of Bluehill, hornpipes / Myles O’Malley and his Orchestra, band
3. Off she goes, Fire on the mountain, jigs / Myles O’Malley and his Orchestra, band
4. The morning star, The ships are sailing, reels / Myles O’Malley and his Orchestra, band
5. The quarrelsome piper, Harvest home, hornpipes / Myles O’Malley, tin whistle
6. The four hand reel, The ivy leaf, reels / Myles O’Malley, tin whistle
7. Sweeney's, hornpipe / Myles O’Malley, tin whistle
8. The swallows tail, The heathery breeze, reels / Myles O’Malley, tin whistle
9. We'd take you back to Ireland, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
10. The maid of sweet brown Knowe, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
11. The thirty two counties Ireland, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
12. A mothers lament, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
13. The rose of Aranmore, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
14. The Limerick races, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
15. In Kerry long ago, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
16. Grandfather Brian, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
17. The old potato cake, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
18. Ye all be Irish tonight, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
19. The half door, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
20. The stone outside Dan Murphy's door, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Clingan, James 'Jimmy', Donegal, singing in English A1, 3, 5;
speech in English throughout A1–5;
fiddle solo A4–5;
O'Hara, Aidan, Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Clancy, John, Cavan, speech in English A6;
Clancy, Angela, Cavan, speech in English A6

Running Order:
1. The shores of Americay, song / Jimmy Clingan, singing in English
2. Speech [Talk about learning songs off records, people selling ballad sheets; Jimmy talks about his love of Gilbert and Sullivan songs which he learned from a recording of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company; he saw ballad song sellers at markets and fairs in Carndonagh the last thirty years ago; tinkers, men and women sold the songs which they had printed up, songs by Thomas Moore and the like. Sheets would be three pence or four pence each; how they know what air to sing the song to; He showed me a song called 'The Bonnie Wee Lass o' the Glen', written out for him 30 or 40 years earlier by a man from Balleighan, Malin, his name, John White Paddy, a Doherty or a McLaughlin man. Jimmy said the man had a lovely voice and he liked the song; talks about the 'timbre' in a good singer's voice. "I haven't that," he said.' (description provided by AOH)] / Jimmy Clingan, speech in English ; Aidan O’Hara, speech in English]
3. Speech [Information from A O'H: 'Starts off talking about an RIC man who wrote a song about a woman he liked in Clonmany and he quotes lines from it. Sings a verse and says, "That's a good song and nobody in Inishowen hardly knows it either." He got it from hearing it sung by others. On line the song is called Dark Iniseoghain: http://celtic-lyrics.com/lyrics/566.html and http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/deante/dark_iniseoghain-lyrics-1155631.html , also http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=13326, etc.; I asked him for The Star of Inishowen but he didn't know the air of it. He said he worked as a carpenter all his life and was in the Irish Army during the Emergency. He was 71 when I recorded this] ; Dark Iniseoghain, song / Jimmy Clingan, speech in English, singing in English
4. An Chúilfhionn [An Chuileann / The Coolin], air ; Speech [Information from A O'H: 'I asked him about a song called 'Came whistling o'er the hill' (same air as 'Sullivan's John'). Jimmy said it was well known locally'] / Jimmy Clingan, fiddle
5. Came whistling o'er the hill, air ; Speech [Information from A O'H: 'Talks about a song he heard only once sung by a man from Glengad. It took his fancy because it was so pleasing and he was sorry he didn't get it off him. Sings a few lines of it']; [untitled], song / Jimmy Clingan, fiddle, speech in English
6. Speech: [Information from A O'H: 'This recording was made after interview with Jimmy Clingan in 19AOH begins by reciting a few lines from verses written about the Derragarra Inn, Butler's Bridge. With him are the owners, John and Angela Clancy to whom he talks about their establishment: a recorded interview for Aidan's programme, 'Fáilte Isteach' on RTÉ Radio 1] / Aidan O’Hara, speech in English ; John Clancy, speech in English ; Angela Clancy, speech in English

Performers:
Furey, Finbar, Dublin, pipes A1-5;
Furey, Edward, Dublin, guitar A1-5;
Donaghue, Pat, speech in English B1;
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English B1

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled [The Verdant Braes of Skreen]
2. Jig / Slide: Untitled [Dingle Regatta]
3. Air: Roisin Dubh
4. Jig: Untitled [The Lark in the Morning]
5. Song: Pretty Saro (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]
6. Interview with Pat Donaghue about the countryside and catching birds, about Joe and police, etc [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, singing in English A1-2, 4-6,;
Court, Artelia, singing in English A3;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A7;
Syke, lilting A10;
lilting with drum A11-12;
singing in English A8-9;
yodelling A9;
Unidentified performer, lilting with drum A9-10

Running Order:
1. Song: Hills of Mayo [The Hills of Sweet Mayo]
2. Song: The Black Velvet Band
3. Song: Untitled
4. Song: Untitled [Erin's Lovely Lee]
5. Song: Long Time A'Growing [My Bonny Boy]
6. Song: Untitled [Green Grows the Laurel]
7. Song: Untitled [Goodbye, Johnny Dear]
8. Song: By the Lee [Mary on the Banks of the Lee]
9. Song: My Blue Eyes [I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes]
10. Jig: Jigging [The Irish Washerwoman]
11. Set Dance: Jigging with Drum [The Blackbird]
12. Song Air: Jigging with Drum [The Rising of the Moon]
13. Song: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, singing in English A1, 4, 9-11, 17-19;
O'Donoghue, Mary, singing in English A2-3;
O'Donoghue, Joe, singing in English A3;
D. [O'Donoghue?], Pat, whistle A5-8[?];
Donovan, Martin, whistle A15-16, 22;
lilting A14;
whistling A12;
singing in English A13, 22-23;
Weldon, Nellie, Dublin, singing in English A20;
Weldon, Liam, Dublin, singing in English A21

Running Order:
1. Song: Her Hair Hung Down in Ringlets
2. Song: The Patriot Game
3. Song: Untitled [The Travellers' Campaign, composed by Joe O'Donoghue]
4. Song: The Shoemaker
5. Song Air: Untitled [Buttons and Bows]
6. Jig: Untitled [The Connachtman's Rambles]
7. Reel: Untitled (unfinished) [The First House in Connacht]
8. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Leitrim Fancy]
9. Song: Untitled [In My Own Peculiar Way] [END OF BAND ONE]
10. Song: Untitled [The Old Triangle]
11. Song: Untitled [James Connolly]
12. Reel: Delvin Lasses [Fermoy Lasses]
13. Song: Luck in the House, whistling and jigging [Around the House There Is No Luck]
14. Reel, Jig: Untitled (unfinished) [Down the Broom], untitled [Gallagher's Frolics]
15. Jigs: Untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], untitled [The Battering Ram]
16. Hornpipes, Reel, Song Air: Untitled [The Stack of Wheat], untitled [Harvest Home], untitled [Jenny Picking Cockles], untitled [Buttons and Bows]
17. Song: Untitled [From the Candy Store on the Corner]
18. Song: Untitled [Are You Lonesome Tonight]
19. Song: Untitled [Every Step of the Way]
20. Song: I Wished I Lived in Carrickfergus [Carrickfergus]
21. Song: The Blue Tarred Road [The Blue Tar Road]
22. Air, Song, Air: Untitled [The Banks of the Lee], untitled [The Banks of the Lee], The Boys of the West [The Men of the West]
23. Reel: Untitled (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, [Jack?], whistle A1-5;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A6-17;
O'Donoghue, Joe, singing in English A18-19

Running Order:
1. Barndance / Reel, Reel, Jig: Untitled, untitled [Tom Ward's Downfall], untitled [The Walls of Liscarroll]
2. Reel: Untitled [The Jolly Tinker]
3. Reels: The Duke of Leinster, untitled [The Duke of Leinster's Wife], untitled [London Lasses], untitled [The Sligo Maid]
4. Jigs: Untitled [The Battering Ram], untitled [The Maid on the Green], untitled [The Priest's Leap]
5. Jig: Untitled [Scatter the Mud]
6. Song: Untitled [Every Step of the Way]
7. Song: Untitled [The Nightingale]
8. Song: Untitled [Will You Go Lassie Go]
9. Song: Untitled
10. Song: Untitled [I'll Tell My Ma]
11. Song: Untitled (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]
12. Song: Untitled [From the Candy Store on the Corner]
13. Song: Untitled [The Old Woman from Wexford]
14. Song: Untitled [Liverpool Lou]
15. Song: Untitled [Are You Lonesome Tonight]
16. Song: Untitled [He'll Have To Go]
17. Song: Untitled [Theme song from the film Around the World in Eighty Days]
18. Song: Untitled [The Jolly Beggarman]
19. Song: Untitled [Down By the Green Bushes] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Cassidy, Jimmy, storytelling in English A1-3;
Cassidy, Bill, singing in English A4-5;
Cassidy, Tom, singing in English A6-8;
Cassidy, Billy, singing in English A9-10;
Cassidy, Kate, singing in English A11;
Cassidy, Nan, singing in English A12;
Furey, Mrs Nora, speech in English A13

Running Order:
1. Story: Repeat of the end of The Grey-haired Norese's Skull, folktale [The Grey-haired Norrissey's Skull]
2. Speech: Football match and imaginary commentary (Kilkenny v. Tipperary)
3. Speech: Football match and imaginary commentary (Wexford v. Kilkenny)
4. Song: Can't Stay in This World Any More, recorded on his wedding day at Saggart
5. Song: Fife and Drum [END OF BAND ONE]
6. Song: The Black and Tan Gun
7. Song: The Cowboy's Dream (unfinished)
8. Song: My Gentle Mother's Grave
9. Song: My Father's Serving Boy
10. Song: The Old Widow's Song
11. Song: Green Grow the Rushes
12. Song: W. Scandlon [William Scanlon]
13. Speech: Talk with Mrs Furey [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English A1, 4, B1-2, B3/C1;
Unidentified performer [member of Furey family?], singing in English A2-3;
guitar A2-3;
Unidentified performer [member of Furey family?], whistle A2-3;
Unidentified performer [Stokes, P?], speech in English A1, 4, B1-2, B3/C1

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [Conversation about many topics, including: people, among them Mick Murphy; animals; travelling to New Ross; child abandoned by its mother; a traveller funeral; Mrs Furey and her problems with rent collectors, etc]
2. Song: Untitled [Sally Free and Easy]
3. Song: Untitled [Pretty Saro]
4. Speech: Untitled [Conversation about many topics, including: tinsmithing; ordering tin utensils; learning tinsmithing; types of utensils made; personal background; discussion about people in Athlone, Coosan, Loughrea, etc; tin utensils superceded by plastic; dealing in feathers] [END OF BAND ONE]
5. Speech: Untitled [Continuation of track A4]
6. Speech: Untitled [Conversation continued from track B1 about many topics, including: dealing in mattresses; finding money in a feather bed; living conditions now relative to earlier; being evicted by Corporation officials; life philosophy; death of a child due to a fire in a tent; fires in tents and their consequences; other family members; living in houses versus living on the road; wedding ring made from the handle of a spoon; horses and rich horsedealers; Ballinasloe Horse Fair; wrestling matches between women and other sporting activities at Ballinasloe; the king and the queen; improving the lives of the travellers; disunity among travellers]
7. Speech: Untitled [Conversation continued from track B2 about many topics, including: ordering tin utensils; shoeing horses; buying tin; ghost story (repeated); story; child recites rhyme; trapping birds] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Furey Family, The, instrumental group, Dublin A1, 6-11, 14;
Furey, Finbar, Dublin, pipes solo A2-5, 12-13

Running Order:
1. Reels: Untitled [The Sligo Maid], untitled [Down the Broom]
2. Jig: Untitled [Cailleach an Airgid / The Hag with the Money]
3. Jig: Untitled [The Mouse in the Cupboard?]
4. Reel: Untitled [The Star of Munster]
5. Air: Long Time A'Growing [My Bonny Boy]
6. Reels: Untitled [The Flogging Reel], untitled [Miss McLeod]
7. Jig: Untitled (unfinished) [The Irish Washerwoman] [END OF BAND ONE]
8. Reels: The Sligo Maid, Rakish Paddy
9. Jigs: Father Kelly's Jig / The Killimor, The Battering Ram
10. Reel: The Bucks of Oranmore
11. Slip Jigs: Kitty Come Down from Limerick, The Kid on the Mountain
12. Air: Roisin Dubh
13. Set Dance: The Blackbird
14. Reel: The Woman of the House (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Furey Family, The, instrumental group A1, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14;
O Conaire, Sean, singing in English A2, 4;
Unidentified performer [Joe Walsh?], singing in English A3;
Unidentified performer [Des O'Connor?], whistle A5-6;
Furey, Ted, fiddle A9-10;
Furey, Finbar, pipes A13

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [The Flogging Reel]
2. Song: Once There Lived a Captain
3. Song: Untitled [By the Pleasant Slaney Side ?]
4. Song: Untitled [She Lived beside the Anner]
5. Jig: Untitled [The Gold Ring, Willie Clancy version]
6. Reel: Untitled [The Ravelled Hank of Yarn] [END OF BAND ONE]
7. Reels: The Woman of the House, The Earl's Chair
8. Hornpipe: Cooley's Hornpipe
9. Jig: The Cliffs of Moher
10. Air: Na Connerys
11. Reels: The Mountain Lark [The Steampacket], The Morning Star, Miss McLeod]
12. Set Dance: The Three Sea Captains
13. Set Dance: The Job of Journeywork, Johnny Doran setting
14. Reels: Scotch Mary, The Flogging Reel (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]