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Performers:
Unidentified performers, singing in English A1, 4, 14;
O'Donoghue, Joe, singing in English A3, 5;
rhythm accompaniment B1-5;
speech in English A2, A6, throughout;
O'Donoghue, Mary, singing in English A3, 5;
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English A7;
Court, Artelia, singing in English B11;
speech in English A7;
Unidentified performer [Martin Donovan?], whistle B1-5, 7-10, 12;
Connors, Toodler, singing in English B6;
Unidentified performer [Martin Donovan?], singing in English B12;
Unidentified performers, singing in English B13-14, 18;
?, Tom, singing in English B15;
Flynn, Paddy, singing in English B16;
Unidentified performers, speaking in English B17

Running Order:
1. Song: The Blackboard of My Heart
2. Speech: Joe O'Donoghue speaking [Introduction to the song on Track A3]
3. Song: Campaign song - bad recording [The Travellers' Campaign, composed by Joe O'Donoghue]
4. Song: Untitled [The Harbour of Love?]
5. Song: Campaign song - second recording - too slow [The Travellers' Campaign, composed by Joe O'Donoghue]
6. Speech: Untitled [Conversation about many topics]
7. Sound Effects and Speech [END OF BAND ONE]
8. Jig / Slide, song air, slip jig: Untitled [The Peeler and the Goat], untitled [The Pride of Petrovore], untitled [The Rocky Road to Dublin]
9. Reel, Hornpipe: Untitled [The Sally Gardens], untitled [Harvest Home]
10. Reel, Hornpipe, Reel: Untitled [Jenny Picking Cockles], untitled [The Boys of Blue Hill], untitled [Down the Broom]
11. Reel: The Sligo Maid
12. Jigs: Untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], The Battering Ram
13. Song: Mother, the Queen of My Heart
14. Jigs: Untitled [The Old Grey Goose], untitled [Haste to the Wedding], untitled [Lanigan's Ball]
15. Reels: Untitled [Rakish Paddy], untitled [The Primrose Lass]
16. Jigs: Untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], untitled [The Battering Ram]
17. Song Air: Untitled [Buttons and Bows]
18. Song: Untitled
19. Air, Song: Untitled [Cod Liver Oil], untitled [Cod Liver Oil]
20. Song: Untitled [The Answer to Everything]
21. Song: Don't Laugh at Me Because I'm a Fool
22. Song: Untitled
23. Song: Father Murphy
24. Speech: Untitled [Conversation]
25. Song: Untitled [The Rocks of Bawn] END OF BAND TWO

Performers:
Kiely [Keilly ?], Mary, singing in English A1-2, A4;
O'Donoghue, Joe, singing in English A3;
speech in English A15;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A5, 7, 9-13;
Weldon, Liam, Dublin, singing in English A6;
Flynn, Paddy, singing in English A8;
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English A15;
O'Donoghue, Pat, whistle A16-23

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled
2. Song: Untitled
3. Song: Lough Sheelin Side
4. Song: Untitled
5. Song: Untitled
6. Song: Untitled [The Lambs on the Green Hills]
7. Song: Untitled
8. Song: Untitled [Skibbereen]
9. Song: Untitled [I'll Tell My Ma]
10. Song: Untitled [Roses Are Red]
11. Song: Untitled [From the Candy Store on the Corner]
12. Song: Untitled [The Wild Side of Life]
13. Song: Untitled [Galway Bay]
14. Sound Effects: [Animal noises]
15. Speech: Interview discontinued [sic] with Joe
16. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Boys of Blue Hill]
17. Song Air: Untitled [Buttons and Bows]
18. Hornpipe: Untitled [Off to California]
19. Song Air: Untitled [Buttons and Bows]
20. Jig: The Connachtman's Rambles
21. Hornpipes: Untitled [Off to California], untitled [The Leitrim Fancy]
22. Hornpipe: Untitled [Harvest Home]
23. Song Air: Untitled [Buttons and Bows] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Donovan, Martin, whistle A1-5, 7, 10, 14, 28;
lilting/jigging A4;
speech in English A13, 17-18, 28;
Court, Artelia, singing in English A6;
O'Donoghue, Olivene, singing in English A8;
Unidentified performer (child), singing in English A9;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A11, 12, 22, 24-25;
?, Mary, singing in English A23;
Unidentified performers, speech in English A15-16;
O'Donoghue, Joe, speech in English A18;
Flynn, Paddy, singing in English A26-27

Running Order:
1. Jigs: Untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], untitled [The Battering Ram], untitled [Lanigan's Ball]
2. Hornpipes: Leitrim Concert [The Leitrim Fancy], Boys of the Blue [The Boys of Blue Hill], Me Old Rigadoo [The Jolly Beggarman]
3. Reel: The Sligo Maid, Rakish Paddy
4. Reel: Untitled [Tarbolton]
5. Jigs: Untitled [The Rakes of Clonmel], untitled [Old Man Dillon], untitled [The Frost is All Over]
6. Song: Untitled [The Days of Forty Nine]
7. Hornpipe: The Planes of Boyle [The Plains of Boyle]
8. Song: The Bold Fenian Men
9. Song: Child's song - Billy or Joey [The Harvest of Love ?]
10. Set Dance: The King of the Fairies
11. Song: Untitled [Let's Twist Again]
12. Song: The Little Beggar Man
13. Speech: Stories - priest / tramp
14. Song air: The Boys of the West [The Men of the West]
15. Speech: Story - Irish / Scotchman
16. Speech: Story - Ass / harmless people
17. Speech: Story [END OF BAND ONE]
18. Speech: Story - bad & conversation
19. Song: Candy Store on the Corner
20. Jigs: Untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], untitled [The Battering Ram]
21. Reels: The Stone in the Field, The Star of Munster
22. Song: Untitled [I Am Sighing Tonight for Killarney and You]
23. Song: Hills of Sweet Mayo, The
24. Song: Untitled [The Cliffs of Dooneen] (unfinished)
25. Song: Untitled [Fraulein] (unfinished)
26. Song: Standing at the Corner
27. Song: Gallant Wexford Boys
28. Air, Song: Untitled [Cod Liver Oil] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performer [Martin Donovan?], singing in English A1;
Donovan, Martin, singing in English A3, 5, 16;
whistle A2-4, 16;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A6-9, 21-24;
?, (nephew of Joe O'Donoghue), singing in English A10;
?, Pat, singing in English A11-13;
Flynn, Paddy, singing in English A14;
O'Donoghue, Joe, singing in English A18;
speech in English A15, 17;
O'Donoghue, Mary, singing in English A18;
?, Mick, singing in English A19-20

Running Order:
1. Song: Billy Boy
2. Jigs: Untitled [The Old Grey Goose], untitled [Old Man Dillon], untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], untitled [Lanigan's Ball]
3. Air, Song: Wings of a Swallow [Little Town in the Old County Down], ditto
4. Reels: The Sligo Maid, untitled [The Sally Gardens]
5. Song: Untitled
6. Song: The Wild Side of Life
7. Song: The Wild Side of Life
8. Song: A Mother's Love [A Mother's Love Is a Blessing]
9. Song: Untitled
10. Song: Bold O'Donoghue
11. Song: Paddy Purcell and Wm Scanlon [William Scanlon]
12. Song: Untitled (unfinished)
13. Song: The Green Hills of Kerry
14. Song: Grand Bungle Rye [END OF SIDE ONE]
15. Speech: Proverb
16. Air, Song, Jigs: What Will We Do When We're Sailing - By the Banks of the Lee, ditto, untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], The Battering Ram
17. Speech: [Address to radio listeners]
18. Song: Campaign Song, 3rd recording [The Travellers' Campaign, composed by Joe O'Donoghue]
19. Song: Pat from Bowlanier
20. Song: Bold Connaught Ranger Boy
21. Song: Sent to Charlestown [The Boston Burglar]
22. Song: Untitled [Lovely Derry on the Banks of the Foyle]
23. Song: Master [Master McGrath]
24. Song: Untitled [Kelly the Boy from Killane] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
O'Donoghue, Joe, speech in English A1;
Unidentified performer [Martin Donovan?], whistle A2-5, 15-17;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A6, 8, 18-20;
Unidentified performer, accordion A9, 11-14;
Unidentified performer, lilting A7;
Unidentified performer, whistling A10

Running Order:
1. Speech: Joe O'Donoghue's speech protest [END OF BAND ONE]
2. Jigs: The Battering Ram, untitled [Lanigan's Ball]
3. Reel, hornpipe: Untitled [Down the Broom], untitled [Harvest Home]
4. Jig: Untitled [Old Man Dillon]
5. Reel: Untitled [Jenny Picking Cockles]
6. Song: Untitled [Boulavogue]
7. Set Dance: Untitled [The Blackbird]
8. Song: Untitled
9. Reel: Untitled [The Star of Munster]
10. Jig: Untitled [Gallagher's Frolics]
11. Reel: Untitled [The Heather Breeze]
12. Hornpipes: Untitled [Dunphy's Hornpipe], untitled [The High Level], untitled [The Rights of Man]
13. Marches: Untitled [Kelly the Boy from Killane], untitled [The Boys of Wexford]
14. Reel: Untitled [The Copperplate]
15. Jig: Untitled [Gallagher's Frolics]
16. Reel: Untitled [The Star of Munster]
17. Reel, hornpipe: Untitled [Tarbolton], untitled [Harvest Home] (speed problem)
18. Song: Untitled
19. Song: Untitled [Galway Bay]
20. Song: Untitled [The Wexford Boys] (unfinished) END OF BAND TWO

Performers:
Toibin, Nioclas, singing in English A1, 2;
singing in Irish A3;
Hanley, Mick, singing in English A3-5;
O'Flynn, Liam, pipes A8, 9

Running Order:
1. Song: The Flying Cloud
2. Songs: Ben Bolt, Ar Eirinn Ni Neosfainn Ce hI (For Ireland I'd Not Tell Her Name)
3. Song: A Kiss in the Morning Early
4. Song: Rosemary Fair
5. Song: Television Song
6. Reels: Matt Molloy's Favourite, Untitled
7. Song: John Barleycorn
8. Reels: The Concert Reel, The Crooked Road to Dublin
9. Jigs: I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her, Sean Bui

Performers:
O'Flynn, Liam, pipes A1-5;
Brady, Paul, singing in English A6-7;
Crehan, Junior, fiddle A8-11;
Crehan, Ita, whistle A8-11;
Burke, Kevin, fiddle A12;
Finn, Fred, fiddle A12;
Horan, Peter, flute

Running Order:
1. Jig: Mairseal Alasdroim ; Air: Lament (Cnoc na nOs)
2. Reels: Untitled, Over the Moor to Maggie
3. Slip jigs: Little Fair Canavans, The First Slip
4. Reels: The Pigeon on the Gate, The West Wind
5. Reels: The Rainy Day, The Pretty Girls of Mayo
6. Song: The Keech in the Creel
7. Song: The Lakes of Pontchartrain
8. Air: A Stor Mo Chroi; Reel: Untitled
9. Jig: Untitled
10. Jig: The Mist Covered Mountain
11. Jig: Casey's Jig
12. Reel: Music in the Glen [unfinished]

Performers:
Moore, Eilish, Kildare/Dublin, singing in English A1, 2;
O'Donoghue, Ambrose, mandolin A3;
Cannon, Sean, lilting A6;
singing in English A4, 5, 7, 8, 9;
Crehan, Junior, fiddle A10-12;
Crehan, Ita, whistle A10-12

Running Order:
1. Song: The Banks of the Lee
2. Song: The Work Song
3. Reel: Untitled
4. Song: The Banks of the Bann
5. Song: The Plains of Waterloo
6. Jig [lilt]: The Pipe on the Hob
7. Song: The Shores of Amerikay
8. Song: Pat Cooksey's Verses
9. Song: An Bonnan Bui
10. Air: Caoineadh an tSagairt (The Priest's Lament); Reel: Caislean an Oir
11. Jigs: The South West Wind, My Love You Are
12. Set dances: The Drunken Gauger, The Humours of Bandon

Performers:
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Donnelly, Maeve, Galway, speech in English throughout;
fiddle solo throughout;
Unidentified performer [Kelly, John (senior), Clare / Dublin?], speech in English intermittently

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [The date of recording; where the performer comes from – near Kylemore Abbey, which is near Loughrea, Co Galway]
2. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Belles of Tipperary], Untitled
3. Reels: Colonel Fraser, Untitled [The Floating Crowbar; The Rathcroghan Reel]
4. Speech: Untitled [The performer's version of Colonel Fraser was derived from Sean Keane, fiddle; how the performer acquired her music; she associates the second reel with Brendan McGlinchey, fiddle]
5. Jig: The Gold Ring [Version associated originally with Willie Clancy; popularised by Sean Keane, fiddle]
6. Speech, Jig: Untitled [About the tune to be played next], The Gold Ring
7. Speech: Untitled [Tune played in previous track is not related to that played in track before that]
8. Single Jig: Untitled
9. Speech: Untitled [About the tune just played]
10. Reel: Untitled [Lord Gordon]
11. Jig: Untitled [The Castle Jig; composed by Sean Ryan] [END OF BAND ONE]
12. Reels, Speech: The Mooncoin Reel (clipped at start), Untitled [Related to 'Mrs Crotty's' ?], Untitled [Related to 'The Monsignor's Blessing' ?], Untitled [About the tunes just played; the performer learned the tunes from Denis Murphy (fiddle)]
13. Jigs, Speech: The Trip to Athlone, The Pipe on the Hob [Tonic note: D], Untitled [About the tunes just played]
14. Reel: Farewell to Ireland
15. Speech: Untitled [The performer favours Sean Keane's style of playing; about the tune to be played next]
16. Reel, Speech: The Bucks of Oranmore, Untitled
17. Reels, Speech: The Wheels of the World, The Chicago Reel, Untitled [About the tunes just played]
18. Hornpipe: Untitled [Brigid of Knock; composed by Ed Reavy]
19. Speech: Untitled [The performer's sources for the pieces played in the last two tracks – Seamus Connolly (fiddle) for the hornpipe in track A18; Tommy Peoples (fiddle) for the reels in track A17] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
White, Aggie, Galway, fiddle in duet A1;
O'Loughlin, Peadar / O'Loughlin, Peter, flute in duet A1;
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, pipes solo A2;
Kelly, John, Clare and Dublin, fiddle solo A3;
Russell, Micho, Clare, whistle solo A4, 6;
Clancy, Willie, Clare, pipes solo A5;
Doran, Johnny, Wicklow, pipes solo A7;
Moloney, Eddie, Galway, flute solo A8

Running Order:
1. Jig: Untitled [Cathaoir an Phiobaire], Untitled [Whelan's Jig]
2. Jigs: Untitled [The Pipe on the Hob], Untitled [Down the Back Lane], Untitled [Sixpenny Money], Untitled [Paidin O Raifeartaigh]
3. Reel: Untitled
4. Reel: The Boy in the Gap [CICD 3096.11–.16, 3097 (none from this recording); standard version of this tune; MR also plays an 'old' version]
5. Slow Air: Untitled [The Green Linnet]
6. Jig: Donall na Greine [CICD 756, 757, 758, 759, 760.11 (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)]
7. Reels: Untitled [Colonel Fraser], Untitled [My Love is in America], Untitled [Rakish Paddy] (incomplete)
8. Reels: Untitled [Tommy Whelan's Reel], Untitled [The Sailor on the Rock] [END]