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Performers:
Desmond Ceili Band, The, Kerry, instrumental group A1, 3;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English and Irish A2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16;
O'Brien, Jimmy, Kerry, singing in English A5, 15;
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, speech in English and Irish A6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16;
pipes solo A7, 9, 11, 17;
singing in Irish A8;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle solo A13

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [O'Keeffe's Plough / O'Keeffe's Speed the Plough]
2. Speech: Untitled
3. Reels: Lucy Campbell, Toss the Feathers
4. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next song, which was composed by Sigerson Clifford]
5. Song: The Boys of Barr na Sraide
6. Speech: Untitled [Topics: the harvest; milling the grain; tunes associated with milling]
7. Slip Jig: The Dusty Miller [SE's father's version]
8. Speech with Singing: Untitled [Topics: lore about a 'muileann si', a fairy mill; lore from Colm O Caoidheain, Glinsce, including a story that includes a song; story that is the background to the next piece of music]
9. Slip Jig: The Dusty Miller [Colm O Caoidheain's version]
10. Speech: Untitled [Topics: lore connected with St Martin's Eve and the feast of St Martin; introduction to the next tune, learned from Mickeen Conroy, whistle, brother of the piper Andy Conroy]
11. Reel: The Mills Are Grinding / The Dunmore Lasses
12. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next item]
13. Slides: Untitled, Untitled
14. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next item]
15. Song: The Tailor Ban
16. Speech: Untitled [Topics: background to the next selection of tunes]
17. Single Jig, Single Jig / Slide: Smash the Windows [Learned from SE's father], The Dark Girl in Blue [Learned from Denis Murphy and Padraig O'Keeffe; Denis Murphy's Slide] [End of first edition of Ceolta Tire on this tape]

Performers:
Clancy, Willie, Clare, pipes solo A1–9

Running Order:
1. Jigs: Down the Back Lane, Sergeant Early's Jig / An Maidrin Treitheach
2. Air: The Trip over the Mountain [The Trip We Took over the Mountain]
3. Reels: The Steampacket, Rakish Paddy
4. Hornpipe: Faithful Friend [Learned from Leo Rowsome], The Plains of Boyle (faded out)
5. Reels: The Connaught Heifers [The Connacht Heifers / The Connacht Heifer; learned from John Potts], Corney's Coming [Corney is Coming]
6. Jig: The Frieze Breeches
7. Air: M'Uilleagan Dubh O / The Bold Traynor O [The Bold Trainer O / The Green Linnet] (with drop in sound level in mid-tune)
8. Reels: Bean a' Tinceara [An Bhean Tinceara], Kearney's Reel [Recorded on a commercial 78rpm disc for Gael-linn by this performer as 'Ril Mhichil Ui Cheithearnaigh', i.e. 'Michael Carney's Reel'; that recording reissued on the CD publication 'Seoltai Seidte'; The Ravelled Hank of Yarn; recorded by Carney as 'The Peeler's Jacket' (mistitled?)]
9. Slip Jig: Tiocfaidh Tu sios go Luimneach [Kitty Come down to Limerick / Will You Come down to Limerick / The Munster Gimlet] (faded up at the start)

Performers:
Clancy, Willie, Clare, pipes in duet A1–5 [?];
pipes solo A6–7;
whistle solo A8–10

Running Order:
1. Hornpipe / Single Jig: Untitled [Garrai na Saileog / Mrs Galvin's; not reissued on PWC 2; DMWC, # 85 (where it is listed as a single jig but written in 4/4 time); usually regarded as a hornpipe by musicians]
2. Slip Jig: Untitled [An Phis Fhliuch; reissued as PWC 2, track 18; The Choice Wife / O'Farrell's Welcome to Limerick]
3. Jig: Untitled [Garrett Barry's Jig; reissued as PWC 2, track 21]
4. Set Dance: Untitled [The Hunt; The Mount Phoebus Hunt; The Mount Famous Hunt]
5. Reel: Untitled [Colonel Fraser]
6. Jig: Untitled [The Frieze Breeches / I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her; reissued as PWC 2, track 6; DMWC, # 11]
7. Single Jig / Fling: Untitled [Kitty Got a Clinking Coming from the Fair; played by Willie Clancy on track 13 of the CD 'The Pipering of Willie Clancy – Volume 1' (Claddagh Records / RTE; CC32CD); noticed there as a single jig; this is a different performance here; DMWC, # 146, as 'Fling No. 1']
8. Reels: Untitled [McKenna's Reels, two reels consisting of: (a) Colonel Rodger's Favourite; (b) The Happy Days of Yore / The Happy Days of Youth. This selection was reissued as PWC 2, track 3, but this is a different performance here; the selection was recorded in the USA on a commercial 78rpm disc by John McKenna (flute) and Michael Gaffney (banjo) as 'Colonel Roger's Favorite' and 'The Happy Days of Youth']
9. Reel: Untitled [The Concert Reel (DMWC, # 9)]
10. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Galway Hornpipe; not in DMWC], Untitled [McDermott's Hornpipe; CRE 2, # 299] [The performer repeats the selection on the track, i.e. tune order is 1–2–1–2; not reissued on PWC 2] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, pipes solo A1–9;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A10

Running Order:
1. Air: Untitled [The Trip We Took over the Mountain]
2. Air: Untitled [I'll Mend Your Pots and Kettles - O]
3. Air, Slip Jig: Untitled [Lament from 'The Fox Chase'], Untitled [The Foxhunter's Jig]
4. Air: Untitled [Uirchill an Chreagain]
5. Jigs: Untitled [The Pipe on the Hob], Untitled [Down the Back Lane], Untitled [Sixpenny Money], Untitled [Paidin O Raifeartaigh]
6. Hornpipes: Untitled [Ballymanus Fair; The Pleasures of Hope; a version of 'Fisher's Hornpipe'], Untitled [Alexander's Favourite], Untitled [The Londonderry Hornpipe / The Derry Hornpipe]
7. Reels: Untitled [The Silver Spear], Untitled [The Dublin Reel], Untitled [Miss Monaghan]
8. Reels: Untitled [The Salamanca], Untitled (incomplete; tape runs out) [Lord Gordon] [END OF BAND ONE]
9. Reels: Untitled (clipped at start) [Kiss the Maid behind the Barrel]
10. Reels: Untitled [The First House in Connacht], Untitled (clipped at end) [The Skylark; composed by James Morrison] [END OF RELEVANT MATERIAL ON BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified orchestra, A1;
Clancy, Willie, Clare, whistle A2, B12;
pipes A31–47, B1–11;
Russell, Micho, Clare, whistle A3–21, 23–28, 30;
lilting A29;
Ward, Jim / Jimmie, whistling A22, 29, B13–15;
O'Loughlin, Peadar / O'Loughlin, Peter, fiddle B16–23, 25–26, 30–32;
flute B27–29, 33–34;
Reid, Sean, Clare, speech in English B24 and throughout on B16–34;
Unidentified performer, whistle B35

Running Order:
1. Orchestral piece: Untitled, short
2. Reel: The Fairy Reel / The Jolly Banger [CICD 4427 (from this recording?); WC's father's version of the tune; CRE 3, # 156 (from WC)]
3. Reel: The Fairhaired Boy [CICD 5707.11, 5710 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 255 (from MR)]
4. 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)]
5. Reel: The Rising Sun [CICD 2908 (where this recording is referenced), 2907.11 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 260 (from this recording?); for other versions and titles, see BB index, cards 2983, 2657]
6. Reel: The Ladies Pantalettes [CICD 5637 (from this recording), 5626–.11 (none from this recording)]
7. Reel: Untitled [CICD 3098 (from this recording); 4363.11–.12 (not from this recording); played by Johnny Byrt, a travelling carpenter from Liscannor; CRE 2, # 175 (from this recording)]
8. Reel: Patsy Campbell's Reel [CICD 3779 (where this recording is referenced); 3778.11 (not from this recording)]
9. Reel: Rakish Paddy [CICD 3109 (from this recording); 3108, 3110, 6015.11 (not from this recording); DMI, # 749; CRE, # 145]
10. Reel: Drowsy Maggie (mother's version) [CICD 3896.11 (not from this recording); from MR's mother, who played the concertina; MR also plays a version that he learnt in Donegal (see CICD 3896.12–.13)]
11. Jig: Barr na Feirsde / Barr na Feirisde / The Munster Buttermilk [CICD 825 (from this recording); 818.11–.12, 823 (none from this recording; 823 gives the musician as Mick Hand, in error?)]
12. Reels: An Clochairin Ban / The Collier's Reel [CICD 4514 (from this recording); 4513, 4514.11 (none from this recording)]
13. Jig: An Chailleach is a Ceag ar a Gualainn / An Chailleach is a Ceag ar a Guala / Kitty's Rambles [CICD 1467.11 (from this recording), 1467 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 36 (from MR - card 1467?)]
14. Reel: Sporting Nellie [CICD 5075.11–.16 (none from this recording); Gorman's (CICD 5075, from Mrs Crotty); Sporting Nell; CRE 3, # 194]
15. Jig: The Geese in the Bog [CICD 1605 (from this recording); 724.11, 1604 (none from this recording); major key; CRE 2, # 53 (from MR; not from this recording); The Lark's March]
16. Jig: The Geese in the Bog [CICD 1809 (from this recording); 1809.11 (not from this recording); minor key, tonic note A; for a version of this tune with tonic note B, see track 18 (CICD 1809.13–.14); not the same tune as that at tracks 15 and 17]
17. Jig: The Geese in the Bog [As at track 15, incomplete]
18. Jig: The Geese in the Bog [CICD 1809.14 (where this recording is referenced); 1809.12–.13 (not from this recording); minor key, tonic note B; for a version of this tune with tonic note A, see track 15 (CICD 1809, 1809.11); not the same tune as that at tracks 15 and 17]
19. Reel: Upstairs in a Tent [CICD 4446 (from this recording); 4444.12, 4445 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 190 (from this recording, obviously from CICD 4446 – notes repeat the information on the card, including the mistranscription of Jimmy Mulqueeny's name as 'Jimmy Mucai')]
20. Jig / Slide: The Clare Jig [CICD 2364.15 (from this recording); 1162.11–.12, 2364.11–.14 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 71 (untitled, from this recording)]
21. Reel: The Boy in the Gap (old version) [CICD 2920 (from this recording); 2920.11, 2921–.11 (none from this recording); distinct from the standard version of this tune, which MR also plays.]
22. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; The Boy in the Gap]
23. Reel: All the Ways to Galway [CICD 3561.11 (from this recording); 3086.11–.12, 3561, 3561.12 (none from this recording); The Kerry Cow; I Wish I Had a Kerry Cow; CRE 2, # 282 (from this recording) and also at CRE 2, # 116; MR also has a version of this tune as a single reel / polka]
24. Jig: Cathaoir an Phiobaire [CICD 1993.11 (from this recording); 1993 (not from this recording); The Piper's Chair; CRE, # 9 (not from MR)]
25. Reel: Is Trua gan Peata 'n Mhaoir Agam / An Peata Beag is a Mhathair [CICD 4008, 5635 (both from this recording); 5634 (where this recording is referenced); 4007.11, 5635.11 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 259 (from this recording); The Mother and Child Reel]
26. Reel: The Blackhaired Lass / The Blackhaired Girl / Cailin na Gruaige Duibhe [CICD 4239 (from this recording), 4230.12–.13, (not from this recording)]
27. Jig: Untitled [CICD 1879 (from this recording); 795.11, 795.13 (not from this recording); as Gillan's Apples in CRE 2, # 7 and DMI, # 287; Apples in Winter]
28. Reel: Untitled [CICD 4006.11 (not from this recording); Connemara Stockings]
29. Song Tune / Dance Tune: Untitled
30. Reels: Sporting Nellie [CICD 5075.11–.16 (none from this recording); Gorman's (CICD 5075, from Mrs Crotty); Sporting Nell; CRE 3, # 194; also at track 14], The Bucks of Oranmore [CICD 5482 (from this recording); 5725, 5726–.14 (none from this recording)]
31. Jig: Petticoat Loose / Donall na Greine [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 76]
32. Piece: The Humours of Glin [Not in CICD; DMWC, # 54]
33. Single Jig: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 70, as Unknown]
34. Jig: The Maiden that Jigs it in Style / Brian O'Lynn [CICD 1886 (from this recording); second part stated to be that of Brian O'Lynn; DMWC, # 66]
35. Single Jig / Dance Tune: Untitled [Not in CICD; stated in the 'Pipes' series documentation to be a single jig; dance tune (in 3/4 time?) stated to have been played by Garrett Barry; not in DMWC?]
36. Jig, Reel: Bimid ag Ol is ag Pogadh na mBan [CICD 2187 (from this recording); Bimid ag Ol; DMWC, # 7; tune related to reel that follows], Sean Reid's Favourite [CICD 5066 (not from this recording; from CRE, # 83, from WC, where its title is given as Gilbert Clancy's Reel); DMWC, # 15, where its title is given as 'Sean Reid's Reel'; tune is related to the first tune in this selection]
37. Fling / Piece, Jig: An Buachaill Dreoite / An Buachaill Breoite [Track contains two versions of the same tune; neither in CICD from WC; DMWC, # 135 & 136; related to the tune at CICD 3208 (not from WC)]
38. Single Jig: The Fowler on the Moor [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 74]
39. Jig: Cailleach, do Mharais Me / A Chailleach, do Mharais Me [CICD 2581 (not from this recording); DMWC, # 49]
40. Reel: The Parson's Son / The Boyne Hunt [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 142; WC has 3 parts (usually 2)]
41. Reel: The Cameronian [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 140; WC has 3 parts (usually 2)]
42. Polka: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 68 as Unknown]
43. 43: Air: Eamon an Chnoic
44. Single Jig: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 85 as Garrai na Saileog; often played as a hornpipe; Mrs Galvin's]
45. Jig: Strop the Razor [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 29; version of The Cook in the Kitchen; Piocfad an Snathaid (alternative name given by WC - might belong to the tune on the next track)]
46. Jig: Gallagher's / Gallagher's Frolics / The Frieze Breeches [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 12 (one of several versions given); pieced together here with difficulty; not the tune commonly known as Gallagher's Frolics]
47. Air: Untitled [Stated to be like 'The Rocks of Bawn'] [END OF BAND ONE]
48. Single Jig: Untitled [CICD 1330 (from this recording); DMWC, # 75, as Willie's Single]
49. Jig: Fasten the Leg in Her [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 73; Garrett Barry's version]
50. Jig: The Lark in the Morning [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 78; stated to be a version from WC's mother, which came from the piper Garrett Barry]
51. Fling / Reel / Single Jig: Willie's Fling [CICD 3297 (from this recording; in reel section, though with BB indication that time signature should be 12/8); DMWC, # 146, in 4/4 time as Fling No. 1]
52. Reel: Down the Broom [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 77; differs from standard version]
53. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 67, as The Dublin Lads (title supplied by Pat Mitchell, editor of DMWC, from WC's words after he plays the tune here)]
54. Reel: The Concertina Reel [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 72; CRE 2, # 220, from Pat Mitchell, as 'Ril Liam' (learnt from WC); also played by Micho Russell, whose title was The Dunagore Reel; WC & PM play it with tonic note G, M R with tonic note D]
55. Single Jig: Kitty Got a Clinking Coming from the Races [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 79, as The Ballintore Fancy (title from commercial recording by Leo Rowsome?); John Fleming's Jig (CRE 2, # 66)]
56. Reel: The Mayo Lasses [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 69; version of The Old Maids of Galway / Johnny When You Die]
57. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5993 (from this recording); tune incomplete; not in DMWC?]
58. Reel, Air: The Green Groves of Erin [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 71], An Seanduine [The Old Man Rocking the Cradle; DMWC, # 130]
59. Jig: Untitled [CICD 503 (from this recording?); DMWC, # 57, as Unknown]
60. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5711 (from this recording?); as Gerry Commane's Reel in CRE 3, # 203]
61. Jig: Untitled [CICD 564 (from this recording?); version of The Kesh Jig]
62. Jig / Dance Tune: Untitled
63. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; Colonel Fraser]
64. Reel: Mother's Delight [CICD 4467 (from this recording); CRE 2, # 240 (from this recording); played in two different keys, the second as played by Tommy Potts]
65. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; The Star of Munster]
66. Reel: The Bunch of Green Rushes [CICD 5942 (from this recording)]
67. Reel: Bobby Casey's Feathers / Toss the Feathers [CICD 3051 (from this recording?); a version of Toss the Feathers played by Bobby Casey]
68. Reel: Untitled [CICD 4984 (from this recording); CRE 2, # 223 (from this recording); learnt from Bobby Casey; Tuttle's Reel]
69. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; The Chicago Reel]
70. Reel: Major Harrison's Fedora [CICD 4298 (from this recording); CRE 2, # 243 (from this recording)]
71. 24: Speech: Untitled [Tracking down a musician who, according to Willie Clancy's father, had a wonderful tune]
72. Reel: The Collier's Reel [Not in CICD from this recording]
73. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; Rakish Paddy (the version recorded by James Morrison)]
74. Reel: The Flogging Reel [Not in CICD from this recording]
75. Reel: The Pride of Loughrea [CICD 2771.12 (from this recording?); The Humours of Loughrea; Tommy Whelan’s]
76. Jig: The Frieze Breeches [CICD 952, 953 (both from this recording?); I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her]
77. Jig: Untitled [CICD 2229 (from this recording?); CRE, # 34, as The Old Woman's Purse of Money; The Hag's Purse; followed by an unsuccessful attempt to think of another tune: 2nd part is that of 'I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her']
78. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5049.11 (from this recording); CRE 2, # 293, as The Game of Love (from this recording)]
79. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; CRE 2, # 131, as Callaghan's (not from P O'L); Now She's Purring]
80. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; The Flowers of Limerick]
81. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; The Shaskeen Reel; version recorded by the Ballinakill Ceili Band]
82. Air: Untitled [The Old Man Rocking the Cradle]

Performers:
Clancy, Willie, Clare, pipes in duet A1–2[?], 7[?], 9[?], 11[?];
pipes solo A3, 12, 14, 20, 22, 24;
speech in English A7, 10, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23;
whistle solo A16, 18;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Dublin, speech in English A1–3, 5–8, 10–11;
Talty, Tom ('Tom Charlie'), Clare, speech in English A3, 6, 8;
concertina solo A6;
Burke, Joe, Clare, speech in English A5, 10;
Barry, Michael, Clare, speech in English A5;
Rowsome, Leo, Dublin, pipes solo A5;
McGough, Michael, Clare, speech in English A6;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A8;
O Ciobhain, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English A13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23;
O'Donnell, Michael, speech in English B1, 6, 8, 10;
Tubridy, Michael, Clare / Dublin, speech in English B1, 3, 5, 6;
flute solo B2, 11;
whistle solo B4, 9;
concertina solo B5, 7

Running Order:
1. Jig, Speech: Garrett Barry's Favourite, Untitled [Voiceover; introduction to the radio programme; date of Garrett Barry's death; the jig 'Garrett Barry's Favourite']
2. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Garrett Barry's place in the life of west Clare], Colonel Fraser
3. Speech: Untitled [Account and reminiscences of Garrett Barry; Barry's birth; blind from infancy; Tom Talty (interviewee) went with an ass and cart to pick up Barry to play at his parent's home in Tooreen, near Miltown Malbay; Barry 's favourite public house in Miltown Malbay was Patsy Burke's; the names of tunes played by Barry; information about a fling called 'Ennis']
4. Single Jig / Jig / [Fling?]: Untitled [DMWC, # 70 (untitled); Clancy's Jig (commercial sound recording 'The Pipering of Willie Clancy', vol 1; noticed wrongly as a slip jig); this might be the fling referred to by the speaker in the previous track]
5. Speech, Piece, Speech: Untitled [Further reminiscences of Garrett Barry; Barry coming to stay at Patsy Burke's public house in Miltown Malbay; Barry's physical appearance; Barry plays for benefits – music events to aid an unfortunate person in the locality; story about Garrett Barry meeting and playing with a piper named Stephenson, identified as Dick Stephenson, with whom 'The Fox Chase' was associated], The Fox Chase, Untitled [Story about Barry learning 'The Fox Chase' after hearing it only twice]
6. Speech, Jig: [Further reminiscences of Garrett Barry; Barry's fondness for whiskey], Untitled (incomplete)
7. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Introduction to story; story about Garrett Barry wanting to turn water into wine on the feast of the Epiphany; Barry playing slow tunes like 'The Gold Ring' and 'A Chailleach do Mhairis Me'], Untitled [The Gold Ring]
8. Speech: Untitled [Garrett Barry and the legend of the changeling; Barry regarded as a fine singer both in English and in Irish; Barry's republicanism; quotes words of republican song sung by Barry]
9. Reel: Untitled [The Steampacket]
10. Speech: Untitled [Garrett Barry had a keen ear; story about him recognising that a pot was cracked from the sound it made; Barry's death; speaker collects Barry's pipes after his death; speaker's mother sells pipes]
11. Reel: Untitled [Jenny's Welcome to Charlie] [End of the Radio Eireann documentary, 'The Blind Piper from Inagh']
12. Air, Reel: Bean Dubh an Ghleanna, The Copperplate Reel
13. Speech: Untitled [Willie Clancy's background as a piper; music tradition in Clancy's family; Clancy's first set of pipes, obtained from Felix Doran]
14. Slip Jig: Will You Come down to Limerick? [Kitty Come down to Limerick / The Munster Gimlet]
15. Speech: Untitled [The attractiveness of the previous tune for Clancy; Clancy's lack of formal musical training; Clancy describes the uilleann pipes and the activities needed to play them; Clancy describes his pipes, which were made by Taylor in the USA; Clancy begins learning the whistle at the age of five]
16. Jig: The Legacy
17. Speech: Untitled [Clancy's advice to those learning the tin whistle: 'Take it easy and break the lumps']
18. Air: An Binnsin Luachra
19. Speech: Untitled [Defining the art of piping; different styles of piping; Clancy's own styles, which varies from staccato to legato as the mood takes him; Clancy feels that he cannot do justice to slow airs because of his lack of knowledge of Irish; musicians who had most influence on Clancy – his father; Johnny and Felix Doran; Leo Rowsome; Tommy Reck; Peadar Broe; and Seamus Ennis; difficulties of maintaining the pipes and of finding suitable reeds]
20. Hornpipe: Untitled [Chief O'Neill's Favourite]
21. Speech: Untitled [Potential for further development for the uilleann pipes; Irish spoken in Clancy's area; playing of airs on the pipes; Clancy's regret at not being able to speak Irish]
22. Air: Casadh an tSugain
23. Speech: Untitled [Poverty as an influence on music; what music means to Clancy; the current situation – is tradition weakening?]
24. Reel: Rakish Paddy
25. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the performer; Michael Tubridy's background in traditional music]
26. Reels: Ships Are Sailing, The Green Groves of Erin, The Mountain Top
27. Speech: Untitled [clipped at start; mid-section missing]
28. Jigs: The Geese in the Bog, Sweet Biddy Daly [Mistitled? The Boys of the Town], The Killaloe Boat
29. Speech, Air: Untitled, An Droighnean Donn
30. Speech: Untitled (clipped at end)
31. Hornpipes: The Stack of Barley, The Stack of Wheat
32. Speech: Untitled (clipped at end)
33. Reels: Untitled [The Reel of Mullinavat], Untitled [Tommy Whelan's Reel], Untitled [Touch me if you Dare]
34. Speech: Untitled (clipped at end)
35. Jigs: Untitled [Garrett Barry's Jig], Untitled [Castlebar Races], Untitled [Delaney's Drummers] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Clancy, Willie, Clare, pipes solo A1, 3, 5, 7, 13;
speech in English A2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12;
whistle solo A9, 11;
O'Donnell, Michael, speech in English A2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12

Running Order:
1. Reels: The Connacht Heifers / The Connacht Heifer, Jenny Picking Cockles
2. Speech with Music: Untitled [Willie Clancy's background in music; mother played concertina; began playing the whistle at the age of five; was over 20 when he began to play the pipes; got first set of pipes from Felix Doran; the Moloney brothers, pipemakers in Co Clare; Garrett Barry used to send to a place called Toin an Bhothair, in Co Clare, to get reeds made; Clancy was helped in learning the pipes by a local musician, Hugh Curtin; the components of a practice set; fingering technique on the chanter versus that on the whistle; is it an advantage in learning the pipes to have played the whistle?; the difficulty of unlearning bad habits; demonstration of the range of the chanter – two full octaves; adapting tunes to suit the pipes
3. Jigs: Untitled [The Gander in the Pratie Hole], Untitled [Bimid ag Ol is ag Pogadh na mBan]
4. Speech: Untitled [The reason for the strong music tradition in Clare; Clancy's opinion of musicians in Sligo; young people in Clare taking an interest in traditional music; the accordion: a problem instrument; the difficulty of acquiring and maintaining the pipes and of learning to play them; Clancy's advice to learners on the pipes; it is best to learn when young; the slow air is the cream of the music]
5. Air: An Binsin Luachra
6. Speech: Untitled [Dance tunes possibly being derived from slow airs; for example, the reel 'The Green Fields of America' is possibly derived from the air 'Pretty Molly Brannigan']
7. Air, Reel: Pretty Molly Brannigan, The Green Fields of America
8. Speech: Untitled [The first tune that Clancy played on the whistle, the jig 'Father O'Flynn']
9. Jig: Father O'Flynn
10. Speech: Untitled [The first reel that Clancy played on the whistle, which is the first tune in the next selection]
11. Reels: Untitled [The Ladies Pantalettes], Untitled [The Crooked Road to Dublin], Untitled [The Ravelled Hank of Yarn]
12. Speech: Untitled [Sean O Riada, whose funeral had just taken place; Clancy's acquaintance and musical rapport with O Riada; the lament 'The Bright Lady', which Clancy played at O Riada's funeral]
13. Air: The Bright Lady

Performers:
Unidentified performers, pipes in duet, A1;
O'Donnell, Michael, Dublin, speech in English A1–5, 7, 9, 12;
speech in Irish A4;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English A1, 5;
O'Dowd, Dan, Dublin, speech in English A2;
Wathen, Ronnie, Wales, pipes solo A3;
speech in English A3;
Standeven, Thomas, USA, speech in English and Irish A4;
Conroy, Andy, Roscommon, pipes solo A6, 8, 10–11, 13;
speech in English A7, 9, 12

Running Order:
1. Slip Jig, Speech, Slip Jig, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [Radio interview; topics: progress that the organisation Na Piobairi Uillean has made; the acquisition of premises for the organisation; its membership; the status of pipemaking; the age profile of members; representation of women], Untitled, Untitled [Radio announcement]
2. Speech: Untitled [Radio interview; topics: reedmaking; cane plantations in Spain; 40 candidates in the reedmaking workshop; the standard of piping among young people, who are learning from tapes; acquiring a practice set of pipes, price: £14–15; a full set costs £60]
3. Air, Speech, Air: A Spailpin A Run, Untitled [Radio interview; topics: description of Ronnie Wathen's pipes, which he partly made himself], A Spailpin A Run
4. Speech: Untitled [Radio interview; topics: piping in the USA; how the interviewee learnt Irish]
5. Speech: Untitled [Radio interview; topics: the future prospects for piping; the availability of historic recordings; the willingness of present-day players to pass on their knowledge, a contrast to the secretiveness of an earlier generation]
6. Jigs, Slip Jig: The Maid on the Green, Untitled [Jackson's Jig], Give Us a Drink of Water [A Drink of Water] [This selection was recorded on a commercial 78rpm disc by piper Patsy Touhey]
7. Speech: Untitled [Radio interview; topics: Andy Conroy's home area in Loughlynn, Co Roscommon; other musicians in the area; AC began playing the pipes in England; studying the pipes in Dublin with Leo Rowsome; what impressed AC about Rowsome; AC played the tin whistle before playing the pipes]
8. Hornpipes: The Plains of Boyle, The Leitrim Fancy [This selection was recorded on commercial 78rpm discs by pipers Michael Gallagher and Willie Clancy]
9. Speech: Untitled [Interview; topics: Andy Conroy's style of piping; was influenced by fiddlers as well as pipers; describes his style as 'staccato'; rolls up his trouser leg while playing in order to 'surround the chanter with flesh'; played in Carnegie Hall; worked as a bricklayer; went to the USA in 1952; doesn't speak with an American accent; traditional music in the USA; AC keeps in practice; problems with neighbours when practicing the pipes; introduction to next piece of music]
10. Reels: Lucy Campbell, The Cup of Tea (clipped at end; tape runs out) [This selection was recorded on a commercial 78rpm disc by piper Michael Gallagher] [END OF BAND ONE]
11. Reels: Lucy Campbell, The Cup of Tea (full version of selection at track A10?; sound fade-out during 2nd tune, then the tune is repeated)
12. Speech: Untitled [Interview; topics: the number of pipers in the USA; Thomas Standeven, who speaks several languages; Andy Conroy intends to return to Ireland; may get married; was crossed in love as a young man; introduction to the next tune]
13. Jig: The Geese in the Bog [Influenced by the version recorded by Michael Carney, pipes] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Partridge, Karl, speech in English throughout;
concertina solo A25;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Touhey, Patsy, Galway / New York, speech in English A1, 5–6;
pipes solo A1–8, 10, 12, 14–15;
Busby, Tom, Fermanagh / New York, speech in English A9–12, 15–16, 20;
Carney, Michael, Mayo / New York, pipes solo A9, 11, 13;
speech in English A13;
Redican, Larry, New York, fiddle solo A17–19;
Reilly, Martin, Galway, pipes solo A20;
Peoples, Tommy, Donegal, fiddle solo A21–26

Running Order:
1. Speech, Jig, Reel: Untitled [Announcement on the original cylinder recording], Untitled [Three Little Drummers], Untitled [The Ivy Leaf]
2. Reel: Untitled [The Fermoy Lasses]
3. Reel: Untitled [The Maid that Dare not Tell]
4. Jig: Untitled [Tell Her I Am]
5. Speech, Air: Untitled [Announcement on the original cylinder recording], The Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow [Cailin Deas Cruidte na mBo]
6. Speech, Jig, Reel: Untitled [Announcement on the original cylinder recording], Untitled [The Humours of Glin], The Maid behind the Bar
7. Jig, Reels, Slip Jig, Jig, Reels: Untitled [The Rakes of Clonmel], Untitled [Toss the Feathers], Untitled [The Boyne Hunt], Untitled [The Honeymoon], Untitled [The Humours of Whiskey], Untitled [The Geese in the Bog], Untitled [The Beauty Spot], Untitled [The Boys of the Lough]
8. Jig: Untitled [Jackson's Morning Brush]
9. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Information about the items that follow], The Shaskeen Reel
10. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Information about the next music item], Untitled [Bonnie Kate]
11. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Information about the next music item], Lord Gordon's Reel
12. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Information about the next music item], Untitled [My Former Wife / An Bhean do Bhi Cheana Agam]
13. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled [The Budgeen on the Griddle / The Boys on the Hilltop / The Boy on the Hilltop]
14. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Harvest Home]
15. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Information about the next music item], The Miners of Wicklow
16. Speech: Untitled [Information about the next items on the tape; Larry Redican]
17. Reel: The Grand Spy [Also known as The Graf Spee] [END OF BAND ONE]
18. Reel: Untitled [The Star of Munster]
19. Reel: Untitled [The Pigeon on the Gate]
20. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Final remarks on the original Tom Busby tape], Untitled [The O'Connor Don Reel; from a cylinder recording made by Feis Ceoil officials]
21. Reels: Untitled [The Merry Sisters], Untitled [Composed by Ed Reavy] [According to Karl Partridge, tracks A21–26 were recorded at a concert in Limerick]
22. Jig, Slide: Untitled [Out on the Ocean], Untitled [From the repertoire of Denis Murphy]
23. Reels: Untitled [Early Breakfast], Untitled [The Drunken Landlady]
24. Air, Jig: Untitled, Untitled
25. Mazurkas: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled [Composed by the player] [Music is overlaid by tentative playing on a concertina, as well as by the conversation that is on all of this tape]
26. Hornpipe: Untitled [Kitty O'Neill (Ryan's Mammoth Collection); Kitty O'Shea (the title used by the player on a commercial recording)] [END OF BAND TWO]