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Slide, Speech: The Eternal Slide [Dingle Regatta], Untitled

Ennis, Seamus, Dublin

Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the song that follows, which was learnt from Mrs Cronin of Ballyvourney and her son Michael; song is about the treaty of Limerick, Sarsfield and the flight of the Wild Geese]

Ennis, Seamus
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin

Speech: Untitled [Topics include: the dialect of Irish in Waterford; Labhras O Cadhlaigh; faction fighting; introduction to the next item]

Ennis, Seamus
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin

Song: Untitled [Is Buachaill o Chluain Meala Me; song used to start a faction fight]

Ennis, Seamus - singing in Irish

Speech: Untitled [Topics including: SE plays many instrument, including the fiddle and the Jew's Harp; SE does not play a melodeon or accordion, because the notes are 'ready made'; John Clarke of the Pipers' Club said that accordions were not allowed in the club; story about a changeling who plays the fiddle and later plays the melodeon after being thrown in the river; story about the blacksmith and the Scolaire Bocht – 'se buile moch an Luain agus buile deanach an tSathairn ata dod mhilleadh']

Ennis, Seamus
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin

Speech: Untitled [Lore about blacksmiths, including: blacksmiths are never tired; the tiredness of the blacksmith is put over on the tinker; story about holy person who wants to get a pin made for a cloak – the tinker refuses to do it, but the blacksmith agrees, and for this reason tinkers are cursed; a poet or musician should never be refused in a forge; introduction to the song that follows]

Ennis, Seamus
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin

Reel: The Drunken Landlady

Ennis, Seamus

Speech: Untitled [Topics: Seamus Ennis's work as a collector with the Irish Folklore Commission; transcribing music from collections made by James Delargy and Luke Donnellan; collecting in the field; travelling by bicycle to Connemara; riches of music in Connemara; SE's collecting method; visiting an informant's home; how SE wrote music from informants; SE working at hay or at turf; sailing and fishing; singing style in Connemara; introduction to the next item]

Ennis, Seamus, Dublin - speech in English

Song: The Mermaid Song / An Mhaighdean Mhara

Ni Gallchobhair, Cait, Donegal - singing in Irish

Song: A Mhaire Ni Laoghaire

Ni Mhuimhneachain, Cait, Cork - singing in Irish