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Co. Clare, 1992 [sound recording] / Danny Smith

Performers:
Smith, Danny, accordion, speech in English

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about musicians in the locality in 1910, learning music from aunt Nora O'Brien
2. Jig/Speech: Leave it Down Easy [The Killaloe Boatman]
3. Speech: talk about Tommy Ward, Globe single row accordions, house and barn dances, local sets, sets in Philadelphia
4. Jig/Polka: Untitled, The Three Little Drummers, The Three Little Drummers
5. Slides/Speech: Cock of the North, Patsy Gan Naire
6. Reel/Speech: The Cat that Ate the Candle [Johnny when You Die]
7. Highland Fling/Speech: The Cat that Ate the Candle
8. Highland Flings/Speech: The Eel in the Sink, The Blackberry Blossom, talk about local dances
9. Barndances/Speech: Untitled, talk about dancing a barndance
10. Barndances/Speech: Casey Jordan, The Chicken Reel
11. Barndance/Speech: Turkey in the Straw
12. Highland Flings/Speech: Untitled
13. Fling/Speech: The Flanagan's Chase the Banshee, talk about local dances
14. Polka/Speech: All the Way to Galway
15. Polka/Speech: Untitled
16. Polkas/Speech: Untitled, talk about the tunes used for local dances, lilt of 'The Irish Washerwoman'
17. Hornpipes/Speech: The Stack of Barley, The Rights of Man, The Derry Hornpipe
18. Hornpipe/Reel/Speech: The Carabhat (The Stack of Wheat), The Bird in the Tree
19. Polka/Speech: Jenny Lind
20. Waltz/Speech: Pull Down the Blind, Lurgan Stream ?
21. Speech: talk about singers, going to Philadelphia in 1927 (returned 1969), life in America, listening to the Victrola, records available at the time
22. Reels: The Tap Room Reel, The Moving Bog
23. Speech: talk about PJ Conlon, John Kimmel, accordion maker Frank Walters, description of his accordion
24. Reel/Speech: The Graff-Spey
25. Reel/Speech: Miss McLeod's Reel, talk about the style of American musicians
26. Speech: talk about playing in Ceili Bands for dances, description of sets danced in Philadelphia, highland flings, lilt of 'Shoe the Donkey', one steps
27. Katie Conors (medley)/Barndance/Speech: Katie Conor, The Arkansas Traveller, talk about the tunes used for the 'Katie Conors', examples of reels played as highland flings
28. Flings/Speech: Jenny Tie your Bonnet, Upstairs in a Tent [The Devil in the Kitchen or The Ivy Leaf]
29. Highland Flings/Speech: The Eel in the Sink, The Blackberry Blossom
30. Highland Flings/Speech: Handy Andy, Untitled, talk about musicians
31. Flings/Speech: The Moneymusk

Dónal Ward Collection. Reel-to-Reel 1 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, accordion solo A1-8;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A9 (off-air dub);
Unidentified performer, accordion solo A9-10 (off-air dub);
Unidentified performer, speech in English A9, 14;
O'Dwyer, Finbar, accordion in duet A11-12;
Breslin, Gerry, Donegal, fiddle in duet A11-12;
Ceoltoiri Coolin (off-air dub) A13;
Burke, Joe, Galway, accordion solo A14-26;
Unidentified performer(s), fiddle in duet B1-2, 4, 9, 11, 13, 15, fiddle solo B4, fiddle in trio B14 (off-disc dubs);
Unidentified performer(s), accordion in duet B1, 3, 5-8, 10, 12, accordion in trio B14 (off-disc dubs);
Unidentified performer(s), speech in English B16-17;
Bow, John, accordion solo B17;
Unidentified performers, fiddle, accordion, whistle B18;
Unidentified performer, accordion solo B19-26

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled (clipped)
2. Reel: Untitled (clipped)
3. Reels: Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped)
4. Reels: Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped)
5. Reel: Untitled (clipped)
6. Reels: Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped)
7. Hornpipe: Untitled (beginning clipped)
8. Reels: Untitled, Untitled (clipped)
9. Speech/Waltzes: Untitled, Untitled (clipped)
10. Reel: Untitled (clipped)
11. Speech/Reel: Untitled (clipped)
12. Reels: Untitled, Untitled (beginnign clipped)
13. Air/Speech: Untitled
14. Speech/Reels: Untitled
15. Reels: Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped)
16. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled (clipped)
17. Reels: Untitled, Untitled (clipped)
18. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
19. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
20. Reels: Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped)
21. Reel: Untitled (clipped)
22. Reels/Fragment: Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped)
23. Hornpipe: Untitled (beginning clipped)
24. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
25. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
26. Jig: Untitled (clipped) [END OF BAND ONE]
27. Jigs: Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped)
28. Reels: Untitled, Untitled (interrupted)
29. Jigs: Untitled, Untitled
30. Air/Hornpipe: Untitled, Untitled
31. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled
32. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
33. Reels: Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped, speed change)
34. Jigs: Untitled, Untitled
35. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
36. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
37. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled
38. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
39. Jigs: Untitled, Untitled
40. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
41. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
42. Speech: announced names of tunes
43. Speech/Jig/Speech: Untitled
44. Fragments: Untitled
45. Hornpipe: Untitled (beginning clipped)
46. Reels: Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped, interrupted)
47. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
48. Fragment
49. Reels: Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped)
50. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
51. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled (unfinished)
52. Fragment [END OF BAND TWO]

Dónal Ward Collection. Reel-to-Reel 3 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:

Unidentified performer(s), accordion in duet A1-4, 5, 9, 11-14, accordion in trio A10, accordion solo
Unidentified performer, accordion in trio A10
Unidentified performer, accordion A5 (off-air dub)
Unidentified performer, fiddle A5 (off-air dub)
Unidentified performer, pipes A5 (off-air dub)
Unidentified performer, dulcimer A5 (off-air dub)
Shannon, Seamus, accordion solo A6, accordion in duet A7-8
Burke, Joe, Galway, speech in English A13, accordion solo A22, 26, accordion in trio A23-24, 27, 31-32, B2, accordion in duet A29-30,
Doherty, John, Donegal, fiddle in duet A11-14, 20, 28, B1, speech in English A13-14, fiddle solo A15-17, 21, 25, B3-4, singing in English A18, fiddle in trio A23-24, 27, 31-32, B2
Unidentified performer, singing in English A19, singing in Latin B11
Unidentified performer, singing in English with guitar B5
Unidentified performer, singing in English with guitar B6-7
Unidentified performers, accordion B8, accordion in duet B9 (off-air dub)
Unidentified performers, fiddle solo B8, fiddle in duet B9 (off-air dub)
Unidentified performers, instrumental group B10 (off-air dub)

Running Order:
1. Reels: Untitled, Untitled (clipped)
2. Reel: Untitled (clipped)
3. Reels: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped)
4. Reel: Untitled (clipped)
5. Reel/Fragment of previous track: Untitled (clipped)
6. Waltz: Untitled (beginning clipped)
7. Waltz: Untitled (beginning clipped)
8. Song Air: Untitled
9. Reel Medley: Untitled (beginning clipped)
10. Piece: Untitled (beginning clipped)
11. Hornpipe: Untitled (beginning clipped)
12. Hornpipe: Untitled (beginning clipped)
13. Speech/Hornpipe: Untitled (beginning clipped)
14. Speech/Hornpipes: The Loughside Hornpipe, Untitled
15. Piece/Fragment: The President (beginning clipped)
16. Piping Jig/Reel: Untitled, Untitled [Nora Crionna, Piobaire an Cheideadh] (beginning clipped)
17. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
18. Song: Untitled [I Wonder What's Keeping My True Love Tonight] (beginning clipped)
19. Song: Untitled (beginning clipped)
20. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
21. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
22. Hornpipe: Untitled (beginning clipped)
23. Reels: Untitled, Untitled (beginnign clipped)
24. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled (clipped)
25. Reel: Untitled [The Old Oak Tree] (clipped)
26. Reels: Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped)
27. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
28. Reel: Untitled [The Gravel Walks] (beginning clipped)
29. Reel: Untitled (clipped)
30. Reels: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled (clipped)
31. Jig: Untitled (beginning clipped)
32. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped) [band one continued on CDR b]
33. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
34. Jig: Untitled (clipped)
35. Air: Untitled (beginning clipped)
36. Air: Untitled (beginning clipped)
37. Song: Untitled
38. Song: Untitled
39. Song: Danny Boy
40. Fragment/Reels: Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped)
41. Reels: Untitled (clipped)
42. Reel: Untitled (clipped)
43. Song: Sancta Maria (beginning clipped) [END OF BAND ONE]
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Dónal Ward Collection. Reel-to-Reel 4 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Shannon, Sharon, Clare, accordion in duet A1-3, 4-5, accordion solo A4 (off-air dubs);
Small, Jackie, Galway, speech in English A1-5 (off-air dubs);
Byrne, James, Donegal, fiddle solo A6-10, speech in English A7;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group A11-18;
Unidentified performer, accordion solo B1-11;
Unidentified performer, fiddle in trio B12-14;
Unidentified performer, accordion in trio B12-14;
Unidentified performer, speech in English B15;
Brennan-Grant, Katherine, fiddle in duet B15;
Unidentified performer, accordion in duet B16-23

Running Order:
1. Reels/Speech: Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped)
2. Jigs/Speech: Untitled, Untitled
3. Speech/Reels: Untitled, The Bird in the Bush, Dublin Porter
4. Speech/Hornpipes/Speech: Untitled, Untitled
5. Speech/Reels/Speech: Untitled, Jean's Reel, The Moving Cloud
6. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
7. Speech/Jig: Con Cassidy's
8. Highland: Untitled [Jimmy Lyon's]
9. Highland: Untitled
10. Reel: Untitled
11. Reel Fragment: Untitled (beginning clipped)
12. Reels: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
13. Reels: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
14. Reels: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
15. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled
16. Jig: Untitled
17. Jigs: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, Untitled (beginning clipped)
18. Jig Fragment: Untitled (end clipped) [END OF BAND ONE]
19. Fragments/Waltz: Untitled
20. Waltz: Untitled
21. Waltz: Untitled
22. Waltz: Untitled
23. Waltzes: Untitled, Untitled
24. Waltz: Untitled
25. Waltz: Untitled
26. Waltz: Untitled
27. Waltz: Untitled
28. Waltz: Untitled (unfinished)
29. Fragments/Reel: Untitled (interrupted)
30. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
31. Reel: Untitled
32. Reel: Untitled
33. Speech/Reel: Untitled (interrupted, end clipped)
34. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
35. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
36. Reel: Untitled (interrupted)
37. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
38. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
39. Reel: Untitled
40. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
41. Reel/Fragment: Untitled, Untitled (interrupted) [END OF BAND TWO]

Emer Lee Collection. Reel-to-Reel 2 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, instrumental group(s) A1, 3–4, 6–7;
Unidentified performer [O Murchu, Sean, Galway / Dublin], speech in English and Irish throughout;
O'Brien, Michael, Roscommon, fiddle solo A2, 5

Running Order:
1. Jigs, Speech: Untitled [Sweet Biddy Daly], Untitled [Lannigan's Ball], Untitled [The Old Horned Sheep], Untitled [Radio announcement]
2. Reels, Speech: The Pigeon on the Gate, Miss Monaghan, Untitled [Radio announcement, followed by brief snatch of song]
3. Hornpipes, Speech: Untitled [The Lass on the Strand], Untitled [The High Level Hornpipe; composed by James Hill], Untitled [Radio announcement]
4. Jigs, Speech: The Frost Is All Over, The Maid on the Green, Untitled [Radio announcement]
5. Reels, Speech: The Boys of the Lough, The Peeler's Jacket [Mistitled? The Devil in Dublin; related to The Merry Blacksmith], Untitled [Radio announcement, followed by brief snatch of song]
6. Song Airs, Speech: Untitled [The Moon behind the Hill], Untitled [The Castle of Dromore], Untitled [The Green Glens of Antrim], Untitled [Radio announcement]
7. Reels: The Mason's Apron, Saint Anne's Reel (clipped at end) [END OF BAND TWO]

Emer Lee Collection. Reel-to-Reel 3 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, speech in English A1;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A2–7, 9–18;
Unidentified performer, lilting solo A8

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled
2. Song: Untitled [The Rose of Tralee]
3. Song: Untitled [The Scottish Soldier; followed by dubbing of commercial recording (not digitised)]
4. Song: Untitled [Willy Reilly and His Dear Colleen Bawn]
5. Song: Untitled (clipped at start)
6. Song: Untitled (clipped at start)
7. Song: Untitled [Unfinished; abandoned; clipped at start]
8. Reel, Jig: Untitled [Drowsy Maggie], Untitled [The Geese in the Bog]
9. Song: Untitled [The Real Old Mountain Dew]
10. Song: Untitled [My Wild Irish Rose]
11. Song: Untitled [Where Did You Get that Hat?; incomplete; tape runs out] [END OF BAND ONE]
12. Song: Untitled [Where Did You Get that Hat?; continuation of last song on Band 1]
13. Song: Untitled
14. Song: Untitled [The Nobleman's Wedding]
15. Song: Untitled [Liverpool Lou]
16. Song: Untitled [My Bonny Labouring Boy]
17. Song: Untitled [Moonlight in Mayo; followed by blank section on the tape]
18. Song: Untitled [There's a Heartache Following Me] [END OF BAND TWO]

Emer Lee Collection. Reel-to-Reel 4 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, speech in English A1;
Unidentified performer, accordion solo A2–5;
Crehan, Michael, Kildare, whistle in duet A6;
Unidentified performer [Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin], speech in English A6, 8;
Keane, Sean, Dublin, fiddle in duet A7;
Standuin, Donal, Galway, banjo in duet A7;
Mulqueen, Anne, Limerick, singing in English A8

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [This is followed by dubbings from popular commercial records (not digitised)]
2. Reel: Untitled [Miss McLeod's Reel]
3. Jig: Untitled [The Connachtman's Rambles]
4. Song Airs: Untitled [Lovely Leitrim], Untitled [You'll Never Miss Your Mother]
5. Song Air: Untitled [I Love You Because]
6. Reels, Speech: The Dublin Reel, The Sunny Banks, Maud Miller, Untitled [Radio announcement]
7. Jigs: Down the Back Lane, The Rambles of Kitty
8. Speech, Song: Untitled [Radio announcement], On the Banks of the Lee (clipped at end) [END OF BAND TWO]

Emer Lee Collection. Reel-to-Reel 5 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, speech in English A1;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group A1, 7;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A2–4, 6, 8;
Unidentified performer, lilting solo A5

Running Order:
1. Speech, Jig: Untitled, Untitled [The Lark in the Morning] [This is followed by dubbings of popular music (not digitised)]
2. Song: Untitled [The Faithful Sailor Boy]
3. Song: Untitled
4. Song: Untitled
5. Hornpipe: Untitled
6. Song: Untitled [Kevin Barry] [END OF BAND ONE]
7. Jig: Untitled [The Lark in the Morning] [This is followed by a long period of silence on the tape]
8. Song: Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]

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