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Performers:
Russell, Micho, Clare, whistle solo A1–12, 14–17;
speech in English A13 and throughout;
Breathnach, Breandan, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Jig: The Geese in the Bog [CICD 1604, 1605 (both from this recording?); 724.11 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 53 (from this recording); The Lark's March]
2. Music Demonstration: Untitled [MR demonstrates ornamentation for BB; tune used is that played on track 1]
3. Jig: The Geese in the Bog [CICD 1809.14 (from this recording); 1809.12–.13 (not from this recording); minor key, tonic note B; for MR's version of this tune with tonic note A, see CICD 1809 and 1809.11); not the same tune as that at track 1; this track was originally recorded at half the speed of most other tracks on this tape – perhaps as a demonstration of ornamentation]
4. Jig: Delia McQuane and her Charlemoi / Delia McQuane and her Charlemy / Come Back, Paddy Reilly (P. French) [CICD 2089 (from this recording; where BB suggests that Percy French used this tune for his song Come Back, Paddy Reilly); 2091.11 (not from this recording); Sweet Biddy Daly (DMI, # 278); the original reel-to-reel version of this track has a change of speed in mid-tune – the version here contains a preliminary edit that eliminates the speed change. The original versions of this track played at each of the speeds involved are given at tracks 16 and 17]
5. Jig: Delia McQuane and her Charlemoi / Delia McQuane and her Charlemy / Come Back, Paddy Reilly (P. French) [Repeat of tune on previous track; recorded at standard speed for this tape]
6. Reel: Matt the Thresher [CICD 5359 (from this recording); 5359.11 (not from this recording); The Holly Bush; repeated at track 12]
7. Reel: Untitled [CICD 2923 (from this recording); 2924–.11, 4033.11 (none from this recording)]
8. Jig: Willie Cronin's Jig / Willie Coleman's [CICD 1401 (from this recording; on which title is given as Willie Cronin's – error by MR?); 1406.12 (not from this recording); composed by Martin Wynne?]
9. Jig: The Rakes of Clonmel [CICD 1814 (from this recording); 1814.11–.12 (not from this recording)]
10. Polka / March: The Battle of Aughrim [CICD 6448–.12 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 118 (from MR)]
11. Music Demonstration: Untitled [MR demonstrates ornamentation for BB; tune used is the first part of the following reel: The Maid that Left the County [CICD 4286, 4288.11–.14, 4289 (none from this recording); The Honeymoon (DMI, # 791); Lady O'Brien's Reel (Tunes of the Munster Pipers, # 96)]
12. Reel: Matt the Thresher [CICD 5359 (from this recording); 5359.11 (not from this recording); The Holly Bush; repeat of tune at track 6]
13. Speech: Untitled [The figures that constitute the Plain and Caledonian Sets; the Christmas figure in the Plain Set, for which a jig is played; The Boyne Water played for the last figure of the Plain Set; polka (for example, The White Cockade) played for the last figure of the Plain Set]
14. Polka, Speech: The White Cockade [CICD 6475.11 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 115 (from MR)], Untitled [Polka danced in MR's local area only as part of a set, never as a couple dance; words sung to The White Cockade]
15. Jig / Slide: The Clare Jig [CICD 1162.12 (where this recording is referenced); 1162.11, 2364.11–.15 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 71 (untitled, from MR)]
16. Jig: Delia McQuane and her Charlemoi / Delia McQuane and her Charlemy / Come Back, Paddy Reilly (P. French) [The original reel-to-reel version of this track begins at 1 7/8ips and changes to 3 3/4ips in mid-track. This track reproduces the original tape version played at 1 7/8ips. For a reproduction at 3 3/4ips, see track For an edited version of the track that eliminates the speed change, see track For tune information, see track 4]
17. Jig: Delia McQuane and her Charlemoi / Delia McQuane and her Charlemy / Come Back, Paddy Reilly (P. French) [The original reel-to-reel version of this track begins at 1 7/8ips and changes to 3 3/4ips in mid-track. This track reproduces the original tape version played at 3 3/4ips. For a reproduction in its correct speed of the section at 1 7/8ips, see track For an edited version of the track that eliminates the speed change, see track For tune information, see track 4]

Performers:
Cronin, Patrick / Cronin, Paddy, Kerry, fiddle solo throughout

Running Order:
1. Air: The Lament for O'Donnell [Caoine Ui Dhomhnaill]
2. Set Dance: The Jockey to the Fair [Log contains comment: 'Beginning Faulty. Check disc']
3. Hornpipes: Delahunty's Hornpipe [Byrne's Hornpipe], Byrne's Hornpipe [Names given in incorrect order in log?]
4. Single Jigs / Slides: The Quarry Cross [The Dingle Regatta, in the version played by Sliabh Luachra musicians], Re Bui Frolics [Barrack Hill (DMI, # 410)], The Pocan [The Pucan; The Worn Torn Petticoat; Quarry Cross; The Leprechaun; log contains comment: 'Bad thump on tape at start'] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
McKenna, Francie, Monaghan, speech in English throughout band 1;
fiddle solo A2–8;
20–35?;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Murphy, James, Fermanagh, speech in English A9–14;
fiddle solo A10–14;
Scott, Philip, Fermanagh, speech in English A15–19;
fiddle solo A16–19;
Unidentified performers, speech in English throughout band 1;
Fitzgerald, Jim, Kerry, fiddle solo A36–43;
speech in English intermittently throughout A36–43

Running Order:
1. Speech, Untitled
2. Reels, Speech: Untitled [Jenny's Chickens (related tune)], Untitled [The Wild Irishman], Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
3. Reels: Untitled, Untitled [The Monaghan Twig (related tune)]
4. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Tune-names are given, but it is not clear what tunes they apply to], Untitled [Drowsy Maggie (related tune?)]
5. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled
6. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
7. Reel, Speech: The Emyvale Reel [For other performances of this tune, see tracks A11 & 32a], Untitled
8. Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled
9. Speech: Untitled
10. Reel, Speech: All White, Untitled
11. Reel: The Emyvale Reel [For other performances of this tune, see tracks A7 & 32a]
12. Speech: Untitled [Instructions to the performer]
13. Reel, Speech: The Glass of Beer, Untitled
14. Speech, Jig, Speech: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
15. Speech: Untitled
16. Jig: The Trip to the Cottage [The Connachtman's Rambles (related tune)]
17. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Drowsy Maggie, Untitled [Accompanied by lilting]
18. Reel, Speech: Miss Johnson, Untitled [The tune just played is stated to be like Miss McLeod's Reel]
19. Reel / Hornpipe, Speech: Dwyer's [O'Dwyer's Hornpipe in DMI], Untitled
20. Jig, Speech, Jig, Speech: Untitled [The Setting Sun], Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
21. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Steeplechase], Untitled
22. Reel: Untitled [The Galway Rambler (related tune)]
23. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled [The title 'Tear the Calico' is given, but it is not clear which tune it applies to], McGrath's, Jenny Tie Your Bottom Strings, Untitled
24. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled
25. Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled
26. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Old 'Wheels of the World'], Untitled
27. Reel: Untitled [The Chattering Magpie]
28. Speech: Untitled
29. Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled
30. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Miss Farr's Reel [The Ivy Leaf], Untitled
31. Reel: Untitled [The Swallow's Tail (related tune)]
32. Reels, Speech: Untitled [The Emyvale Reel; for other performances of this tune, see tracks A7 & 11], The Dublin Reel [Local setting of], Untitled
33. Reel: Untitled [Within a Mile of Dublin]
34. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Fermoy Lasses (related tune?)], Untitled
35. Reel: McKenna's [Miss Thornton] (clipped at end) [END OF BAND ONE]
36. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Out in the Rain [CICD 4091.13 (from this recording); The Cabin Hunter (related tune)]
37. Speech, Reel: Untitled, William O'Brien [CICD 5814.11 (from this recording)]
38. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled [About the tune to be played next], Sheehan's / Sheehas ? [CICD 5462.11 (from this recording; gives title 'Sheehas ?')], Untitled [About the tune to be played next; it was learned from a local player, Jack Costello, an ex-RIC man]
39. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Mount Collins Reel [CICD 4406.11 (from this recording); The Mountcollins Reel]
40. Speech, Jig, Speech: Untitled, The Black Stripper [CICD 1176.12 (from this recording; gives the title as 'The Black Slipper', a mistranscription); The Maid at the Well], Untitled
41. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The Merry Man into His Grave / Down the Merry Man into His Grave [CICD 1276.11 (from this recording); Down Goes the Merry Man into His Grave; Connie the Soldier]
42. Jig: Untitled [CICD 1814.13 (from this recording); The Rakes of Clonmel]
43. Reels, Speech: Untitled [CICD 3901.11 (from this recording); Drowsy Maggie (related tune); Toss the Feathers (related tune)], Untitled [CICD 4985.11 (from this recording); The Templeglantine Reel], Untitled [Where the performer comes from: Dromtrasna / Drom Treasna, Abbeyfeale, in west Limerick] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Digitised and catalogue updated by Jackie Small, February 2008. Report year 2008The title of the DAT(s) was altered from the old title (DCS) to the new title (ITMA-REEL/DAT) using different numbers in order to establish consistency in the titling of DAT copies of reel-to-reel tapes, Niall Hackett, 2010DAT transferred digitally to hard drive and saved as 24 bit BWF using the DATs original sample rate. Files are stored on ITMA server. The WAV titles follow the convention of their relevant DAT copies.Imported from Reeldubs July 2013ARDI: Tracks A19–B9: see documentation for 4145-LP in CSRECS databaseTracks A19–B9 have the same contents as the commercial recording \'The Humours of Lisheen\', released by Topic Records in their LP series \'Music from Sliabh Luachra\'. That recording was later re-released on cassette by Ossian

Running Order:
1. Reels: Untitled [Dublin Porter], Untitled [The Old 'Wheels of the World'] [Several breaks in the recording]
2. Jig: Untitled [The Geese in the Bog; The Lark's March] [Several breaks in the recording]
3. Reels: Untitled [The Mountain Road], Untitled
4. Polkas: Untitled [The Knocknaboul Polka], Untitled [The Ballydesmond Polka]
5. Reels: Untitled [Boil the Breakfast Early], Untitled [Bunker Hill]
6. Air: Untitled [An Buachaill Caol Dubh / The Dark Slender Boy]
7. Reels: Untitled [The Crooked Road to Dublin], Untitled
8. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled
9. Jigs: Untitled [Port Sheain tSeosaimh; Old Joe's Jig], Untitled [The Leitrim Jig]
10. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled
11. Reel: Untitled [The Chicago Reel]
12. Set Dance: Untitled [Bonaparte's Retreat]
13. Jigs: Untitled [Connie the Soldier], Untitled [Port Chuilinn Ui Chaoimh / The Cullen Jig; The Humours of Glin (related tune)]
14. Song Air / Set Dance[?]: Untitled [The Palatine's Daughter / The Garden of Daisies]
15. Hornpipe: Untitled [Flee as a Bird (as recorded on commercial 78rpm disc by James Morrison, fiddle)]
16. Jig: Untitled [Cherish the Ladies]
17. Hornpipe: Untitled [Father Dollard's Hornpipe]
18. Reels: Untitled [The Old Bush], Untitled [Within a Mile of Dublin]
19. Jigs: Untitled [The Humours of Lisheen; The Thrush in the Straw], Untitled [Art O'Keefe's / Art O'Keeffe's] [HL / MSL, side A, track 1]
20. Reels: Untitled [Tap the Barrel], Untitled [Jenny Tie the Bonnet / Jenny Tie Your Bonnet / Tie the Bonnet] [HL / MSL, side A, track 2]
21. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Frisco Hornpipe] [HL / MSL, side A, track 3]
22. Jig / Slide: Untitled [Biddy Crowley's Ball; Mo Ghrasa ar Maidin / My Love in the Morning] [HL / MSL, side A, track 4]
23. Air, Slide: Untitled [The Bold Trainor O / The Bold Trainer O; The Green Linnet], Untitled [Denis Murphy's Slide; Padraig O'Keeffe's Slide] [HL / MSL, side A, track 5]
24. Polkas: Untitled [The Blue Riband], Untitled [Up and Away] [HL / MSL, side A, track 6]
25. Jig: Untitled [Cailin an Ti Mhoir; The Housekeeper] [HL / MSL, side A, track 7]
26. Polka: Untitled [Tom Sullivan's Polka] [HL / MSL, side A, track 8]
27. Hornpipes: Untitled [Freddy Kimmel's Hornpipe], Untitled [The Home Brew; The Wicklow Hornpipe] [HL / MSL, side A, track 9]
28. Polka: Untitled [Padraig O'Keefe's / Padraig O'Keeffe's] [HL / MSL, side B, track 1]
29. Hornpipe: Untitled [Poll Ha'penny / Poll Ha'penny] [HL / MSL, side B, track 2]
30. Jigs: Untitled [John Mahinney's No 2], Untitled [The Ducks and the Oats; The Tenpenny Bit (related tune?)] [HL / MSL, side B, track 3]
31. Polka: Untitled [I Looked East and I Looked West] [Continued on tracks B] [HL / MSL, side B, track 4]
32. Slides: Untitled, Untitled [The Worn Torn Petticoat] [Continued from tracks A] [HL / MSL, side B, track 5]
33. Air: Untitled [Taimse im' Chodhladh / Taimse im Chodladh] [HL / MSL, side B, track 6]
34. Slide: Untitled [Going to the Well for Water; The Kaiser] [HL / MSL, side B, track 7]
35. Polkas: Untitled [Julia Clifford's; Tarrant's], Untitled [Bill the Waiver's / Bill the Weaver's; Din Tarrant's] [HL / MSL, side B, track 8]
36. Jig / Slide / March: Untitled [Maguire's Kick] [HL / MSL, side B, track 9]
37. Hornpipe: Untitled [Johnny Cope] [HL / MSL, side B, track 10]
38. Speech, Polka: Untitled [Introduction to a polka set; identifies the musicians about to play], Untitled [John Clifford's] [HL / MSL, side B, track 11a]
39. Speech, Jig / Slide: Untitled, Behind the Bush in the Garden [Billy O'Rourke Is the Boy] [HL / MSL, side B, track 11b]
40. 9: Slide: Untitled [Going for Water (title given on commercial release); Going to the Well for Water; Scattery Island] [HL / MSL, side B, track 11c] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Casey, Bobby, Clare / London, fiddle A1–2, 6–8;
Droney, Chris, Clare, concertina A3–4;
Brady, John, flute A5;
Unidentified performer [John Brennan, Sligo / Dublin?], speech in English A8;
Bergin, Mary, Dublin / Galway, whistle A9;
Russell, Micho, Clare, whistle A10–17, 19–20, 22–32, 34–38, 40–46;
speech in English A18, 21, 26, 30–31, 39 and throughout A10–46;
speech in Irish A33;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English throughout from A10

Running Order:
1. Reel: Unidentified [Paddy Fahy's; composed by Paddy Fahy]
2. Jig: Untitled [CICD 1668 (from this performer); The Gallowglass]
3. Jig: Untitled [Willie Coleman's Jig]
4. Reel: Untitled [Lord McDonald; incomplete]
5. Jig: Untitled
6. Jig: Untitled [CRE 3, # 16 (untitled but with name 'Bobby / Scully Casey's Jig' supplied); The Vaxhall Jig (CICD 1475–6; not from the performer here)]
7. Reel: Untitled [Version of a reel composed by Tommy Coen?]
8. Hornpipe: Untitled [Poll Ha'penny (related tune?)]
9. Reels: Untitled, Untitled [Gilbert Clancy's / Sean Reid's Favourite]
10. Slip Jig: Bimid ag Ol go dti Maidin [CICD 252–252.14 (none from this recording); this tune is played by MR in two different registers, of which the higher one is here]
11. Reel: Untitled [CICD 4137.11, 5456.11–.15 (none from this recording)]
12. Reel: The Chicago Reel [CICD 4599.11 (not from this recording)]
13. Jig / Slide: The Clare Jig [CICD 1162.11–.12, 2364.11–.15 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 71 (untitled, from MR); the tune is played as a demonstration of technique; played in full at track 29]
14. Reel: The Top of the Morning [CICD 5278 (from this recording?); 5276.11, 5277–.12 (none from this recording); CRE 5, # 181 (from MR)]
15. Hornpipe: The Rights of Man [CICD 6248.11 (not from this recording)]
16. Set Dance: The Retreat [CICD 6528, 6529, 6530, 6531, 6532 (none from this recording); Bonaparte's Retreat]
17. Set Dance: Rodney's Glory [CICD 6527 (not from this recording)]
18. Speech: Untitled [Man sent from home; the high road and the wattle; The Yellow Wattle, story and tune; BB collects the tune in Kerry; it appears frequently in Kerry mss; the phrase 'half the cup of it'; Ceol na Ceartan / The Music of the Forge]
19. Jig: The Butcher's March / Hurrah for the Gallant Tipperary Boys / Lonely Old Hag Is It Tae You Want? / Hello You Old Hag Is It Tea You Want? / When Sick Is It Tea You Want? [CICD 2224 (from this recording); 2200.11–.12, 2381.12–.14 (none from this recording)]
20. Jig / Single Jig / Slide: Mickey Callaghan's Slide [CICD 2323.11 (from this recording), 2325.11 (not from this recording)]
21. Speech: Untitled [The Plain and Caledonian Sets; MR plays mainly jigs for the Plain Set; the Christmas figure and the Balance figure in the Plain Set]
22. Polka / Single Reel: Untitled [CICD 6511 (from this recording); 6511.11–.12 (not from this recording); only one part of the tune is played]
23. Polka: Rise Your Legs, Says Maire [CICD 6346 (from this recording), 6346.11 (not from this recording); The Rose Tree in Full Bearing; Bhios-sa La i bPort Lairge]
24. Polka: The Bog Down in the Valley [CICD 6285 (from this recording), 6283.11 (not from this recording); played for the last figure of the Plain Set (says MR here); The British Grenadiers (title supplied by Breandan Breathnach)] [END OF BAND ONE]
25. Reel: The Heights of Alma / The Rakes of Mallow [CICD 2692.11 (not from this recording)]
26. Polka / March, Speech: The Battle of Aughrim [CICD 6448 (from this recording); 6448.11–.12 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 118 (from MR)], Untitled [Origin of this tune; dancing customs related to it and to other tunes]
27. Carty's Reel / Cassidy's Reel [CICD 4684.11–.13, 4978–.12 (none from this recording); partly composed by MR; commonly known as Micho Russell's; CRE 2, # 294 (as Carty's Reel from MR); unfinished on this recording]
28. Reel: Fair of Ballinasloe [CICD 2812.11 (not from this recording); Ballinasloe Fair; recorded on commercial 78rpm disc by Michael Coleman]
29. Jig / Slide: The Clare Jig [The same tune as at track 13, q.v.; played here in full]
30. Speech, Fling / Barn Dance: Untitled [Musician from whom this tune was learned, Martin Killourhy], Moneymusk / The Barn Dance [CICD 6538 (from this recording); 6539, 6540 (none from this recording)]
31. Reel, Speech: Kitty Jones' Reel / Kitty Jones's Reel [CICD 4275.11–.12, 4276, 4277 (none from this recording); tune of song 'The Bridal Path'], Untitled [How long does it take MR to pick up a tune?]
32. Hornpipe: The Home Brew [CICD 6257 (from this recording); 6257.11–.12 (not from this recording); version of The Road to Boyle (CRE 3, # 227)]
33. Speech: Untitled [MR recites verse in Irish]
34. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5703.12–.13 (from this recording), 5703.11 (not from this recording)]
35. Reel: The Sporting Days of Easter [CICD 3988.11–.14, 3989 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 281 (from MR)]
36. Hornpipe: The First of May [CICD 6222.11 (not from this recording); The Sweets of May; tune of the song The Skillet Pot]
37. Hornpipe: Fisher's Hornpipe [CICD 6089.11 (from this recording); 6090, 6090a (not from this recording)]
38. Jig: The Frieze Breeches [CICD 1490 (from this recording); 1486, 1487, 14881492.11–.13 (none from this recording); 'standard' version of the tune, but with 2 parts only; for MR's 'old' version, see CICD 954.11]
39. Speech: Untitled [Conversation between MR and other person present in the room (not BB)]
40. Reels: All the Ways to Galway [CICD 3086.11–.12, 3561–.12 (none from this recording); The Kerry Cow; I Wish I Had a Kerry Cow; CRE 2, # 282 (from MR) and also at CRE 2, # 116; for MR's version of this tune as single reel / polka, see CICD 6496], Miss Thornton's Reel [CICD 3099.11 (not from this recording)]
41. Jig: My Darling Asleep [CICD 1822, 1822.11 (where title 'The Miners of Wicklow' is given - in error?), 1822.12–.13 (none from this recording); DMI, # 159]
42. Jig: Sixpenny Money [CICD 1573.11 (not from this recording)]
43. Reel: The Foxhunter's Reel [Not in CICD from MR?]
44. Reel: Rakish Paddy [CICD 3108, 3110 (from this recording); 3109, 6015.11 (not from this recording); DMI, # 749; CRE, # 145]
45. Jigs: The Guinea Gold Ring [CICD 1012 (from this recording), 1012–.12 (none from this recording); The Gold Ring (CRE, # 47)], The Castlebar Races [CICD 1672 (from this recording); 795.12 (not from this recording); Morrison's Fancy (WSGM, # 197)]
46. Jig: The Cliffs of Moher [CICD 784.11–.12, 784.14 (none from this recording); MR plays this tune in 2 versions, one with G as the tonic note (as here); for his version with A as the tonic note, see CICD 784.13, 784.15, 2113.11] [END OF BANDS THREE AND FOUR]

Performers:
Leahy, Tim, Kerry, speech in English A1, 45, 47, and intermittently throughout;
concertina solo A2–24, 41–46, 49;
singing in English A5, 7, 33, 39;
whistling solo A28, 31, 33;
;
Burke, Mick, Kerry, fiddle solo A25–26, 34–36, 38–40;
speech in English A35, 38;
singing in English A39;
Reagan, Mick / Regan, Mick, Kerry, fiddle solo A27, 29–30;
32, 37, 47?;
48;
speech in English 48?;
Unidentified performers, speech in English A47;
Unidentified performer ('man in black shirt'), speech in English A48

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [Information about Jimmy O'Brien]
2. Reel, Speech: Jimmy O'Brien's Reel [CICD 2703 (from this recording)], Untitled [Information about the tune just played]
3. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Three Leaved Clover [CICD 5974 (from this recording); version of The Hunter's Purse]
4. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Bag of Potatoes [CICD 5072 (from this recording); Sporting Paddy (related tune)]
5. Speech, Song / Reel: Untitled, The Bag of Potatoes [Song sung to the tune in the previous track]
6. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Smash the Windows [CICD 5109 (from this recording)]
7. Speech, Polka / Single Reel, Speech, Song: Untitled, Biddy Martin [CICD 6437 (from this recording); described by player as a reel, but now commonly played as a polka. Written as polka in CICD; CRE 2, # 111 (from this recording); words sung to this tune are given on CICD 6437 and in CRE 2], Untitled, Biddy Martin [The song sung to the tune just played]
8. Speech: Untitled [Story about the dancing master Gerry Molyneux, Castleisland]
9. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, The Girl in Blue [Not in CICD from this recording], Untitled
10. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Scolding Wife [CICD 5040 (from this recording); The Eel in the Sink]
11. Reel: The Tinker's Reel [Not in CICD from this recording; An Bhean Tinceara]
12. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Down by the Banks of the River [CICD 5311 (from this recording)]
13. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Old Torn Petticoat that I Bought in Mullingar [Not in CICD from this recording; beginning of title clipped on recording]
14. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Parson's Daughter / The Maids of Mitchelstown [Not in CICD from this recording]
15. Reel: Untitled [CICD 3472 (from this recording)]
16. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Peter Street [Not in CICD from this recording; The Red-Haired Lass (related tune?); not the tune generally known by the name Peter Street]
17. Jig: Connie the Soldier [Not in CICD from this recording]
18. Jig: Paudeen Rafferty [Not in CICD from this recording; Paidin O Raifeartaigh]
19. Reel / Polka: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording]
20. Speech, Jig / Slide, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [CICD 2644.11 (from this recording); referred to as a polka by the player], Untitled
21. Polka, Speech: Untitled [CICD 6315 (from this recording)], Untitled [Information about the tune that follows]
22. Speech, Jig / Slide: Untitled, Tidy Womaneen [Not in CICD from this recording; title from end of previous track; Tidy Womaneen Saucepan / Tidy Womaneen Sasta; same tune appears on track A39; referred to as a slip jig by the player]
23. Polka: The White Cockade [Not in CICD from this recording]
24. Hornpipe, Speech: Poll Ha'penny [Not in CICD from this recording; Poll Halfpenny], Untitled
25. Jig: Callaghan's Jig / Allisdrum's March [CICD 2383 (from this recording); Mairseail Alasdruim / Ollistrum Jig] [END OF BAND ONE]
26. Reel: The Rising Sun [CICD 3444 (from this recording)]
27. Reel: The Pigeon on the Gate [Not in CICD from this recording]
28. Polka / Single Reel, Speech: Untitled [CICD 6343 (from this track on this recording; whistled); 6344 (from track A42 on this recording; played on the concertina); The Dancing Master's], Untitled
29. Polka: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording]
30. Polka / March: Untitled [CICD 6450 (from this recording); The Battle of Aughrim]
31. Jig / Slide: Untitled [CICD 1050 (from this recording)]
32. Jig: The Frieze Breeches [CICD 1369.11 (from this recording; partial transcription only)]
33. Slip Jig, Song: Why Didn't I Love Maire? [CICD 66 (from this recording; untitled); CRE 2, # 96 (which provides the title); both the CICD card and the entry in CRE 2 credit the performer as Mick Burke (in CRE 2 as a fiddle player, although the performance here is whistling); the performer is, in all likelihood, Tim Leahy], Why Didn't I Love Maire? [Song sung to the tune just played; words are given in CRE 2]
34. Reel: Untitled [CICD 3375 (from this recording); The Milliner's Daughter]
35. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; related to The Broomstick (CICD 4800) and many other reels based on A, e.g. Down the Broom, The Corner House, etc]
36. Reel: The Mountain Lark [Not in CICD from this recording; The Steampacket]
37. Jig / Slide, Speech: Untitled [CICD 806.11 (from this recording)], Untitled [Information about the tune just played; the performer refers to it as a slip jig]
38. Speech, Reel: Untitled, In and out the Harbour and down with the Tide / The Boyne Hunt [Not in CICD from this recording]
39. Jig / Slide, Song with Speech: Oh My Catherine / Katherine Hogan / Tidy Womaneen Saucepan / Tidy Womaneen Sasta [CICD 1326 (from this recording; untitled); Catherine Hogan], Oh My Catherine [Words sung to the tune just played; reminiscent of the words on a Frank Quinn recording of a song to the same melody on a 78 rpm disc; interspersed with discussion of the song just sung]
40. Polka: Untitled [CICD 6362 (from this recording); CRE 4, # 81 from CICD 6364–6365]
41. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The Kilmeedy Jig / Kilmeady Jig [CICD 2263 (from this recording)]
42. Speech, Polka / Single Reel: Untitled, The Dancing Master's [CICD 6344 (from this track on this recording; played on the concertina); 6343 (from track A28 on this recording; whistled); CRE 2, # 126 as The Dancing Master's Reel]
43. Hop Jig / Slip Jig: Mrs Dalton's [Not in CICD from this recording]
44. Hop Jig / Slip Jig: The Old Brown Slipper [CICD 257 (from this recording; untitled); CRE 2, # 99 (which provides the title)]
45. Speech, Fling: Untitled [Discussion about the difference between a hop and a fling], When Kitty Is Convenient [Not in CICD from this recording; Love Will You Marry Me? / Some Say the Devil is Dead (songs sung to this melody)]
46. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Bass Reel [CICD 5090 (from this recording)]
47. Speech, Jig / Slide: Untitled [Information about local musicians, with fiddle playing in the background (in Lynch's pub, Listowel, 11 December 1968?)], Untitled [The Game Cock; CRE 4, # 62 (not from this recording); The Bog Carrot (popular current name for this tune when played as a reel); played in the background during the conversation just listed]
48. Jig / Slide, Speech: Rural Velocity / Rural Felicity [CICD 788 (from this recording); recorded in Lynch's pub, Listowel, 11 December 1968], Untitled
49. Reel: Toss the Feathers [Not in CICD from this recording] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performer [Russell, Micho, Clare?], whistle in duet A1;
Unidentified performer [Russell, Pakie, Clare?], concertina in duet A1;
concertina solo A2;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A3–4;
Unidentified performer, Clare, speech in Irish A5–6;
Unidentified performer [Ennis, Seamus, Dublin], speech in Irish A5–7, 9;
speech in Irish and English A10;
speech in English A11;
Unidentified performer, Clare, speech in Irish A7;
Unidentified performer, Clare, singing in English A8;
Unidentified performer, Clare, speech in Irish A9;
singing in Irish A9;
Conlon, John 'Baser', Clare, speech in Irish and English A10;
speech in English A11;
lilting solo A12;
singing in Irish A12;
whistling solo A12;
singing in English A12;
Unidentified performer, flute solo A13

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [The Heather Breeze]
2. Reel: Untitled [The Peeler's Jacket]
3. Reel: Untitled [The Bag of Potatoes]
4. Jig: Untitled
5. Speech: Untitled [Includes a story about Diarmaid and Grainne at Ceann Leime / Loophead]
6. Speech: Untitled
7. Speech: Untitled [Includes discussion about blindness & reading by means of Braille]
8. Song: Untitled
9. Speech, Song: Untitled, Taimse im Chodladh is na Duisigh Me
10. Speech: Untitled [Entertaining tourists with fiddle-playing (mainly in Irish)]
11. Speech: Untitled [Entertaining tourists with fiddle-playing; how the speaker got the nickname 'Baser' (in English)]
12. Jig / Song, Speech, Jig / Song: Untitled [Jig lilted and words to it sung], Untitled, Untitled [Jig whistled and lilted and words to it sung; The Dark-Eyed Gypsy]
13. Reels: Untitled [The Maid of Mount Cisco], Untitled [The Hunter's Purse] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Unidentified performer [Casey, Bobby, Clare / London], fiddle solo A1–3;
Unidentified performer [Clancy, Willie, Clare], pipes solo A4–6;
pipes in instrumental group A8;
Unidentified performer [Ennis, Seamus, Dublin], speech in Irish A7, 9;
speech in English A10;
Partially identified performer [Peadar], speech in Irish A7;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group A8;
Partially identified performer [O'Brien, Pat 'Cuckoo', Clare], speech in Irish A9;
speech in English A10;
Unidentified performer [Russell, Micho, Clare], flute in duet A11;
flute solo A13;
whistle solo A14;
Unidentified performer, lilting in duet A11;
lilting solo A12;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A15;
Unidentified performer, concertina solo A16–17

Running Order:
1. Hornpipes: Untitled [Murphy's Hornpipe; preceded by brief tone signal], Untitled [The Derry Hornpipe / The Londonderry Hornpipe; faded out]
2. Jigs: Untitled [The Rambling Pitchfork], Untitled [Jimmy O'Brien's Jig]
3. Reels: Untitled [Rakish Paddy; 4-part version as recorded on 78rpm disc by James Morrison, fiddle], Untitled [The Wheels of the World; faded out]
4. Reels: Untitled [The Copperplate], Untitled [Rakish Paddy]
5. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Plains of Boyle]
6. Jig: Untitled [Garrett Barry's Jig]
7. Speech: Untitled [Interview for radio; topics include: origins of the name of the town Ballyvaughan; why Connemara people no longer bring turf to Clare in boats; at one time there was heavy traffic in turf on the sea between Clare and Connemara; origin of the name Ceann Boirne; the landlords in north Clare; An Craoibhin Aoibhinn / Douglas Hyde had high praise for the dialect of Irish spoken in north Clare; the characteristics of the Irish spoken in north Clare; the prospects for the Irish language in the area]
8. Reels: Untitled [The Heather Breeze], Untitled [Miss McLeod's Reel]
9. Speech: Untitled [Interview for radio; topics include: looking after tourists in north Clare; high seas off north Clare; how the speaker and interviewer searched unsuccessfully for bales of rubber on Oilean na bPortan / Crab Island, off Doolin, Co Clare; how the speaker acquired the nickname 'Cuckoo']
10. Speech: Untitled [How the speaker acquired the nickname 'Cuckoo'; working as a lifeguard for the beach in Doolin, Co Clare; how the speaker and interviewer searched unsuccessfully for bales of rubber on Oilean na bPortan / Crab Island, off Doolin; travelling from Doolin to Inis Oirr by currach; the dangers of that crossing; drinking poteen]
11. Jig: Untitled [The Piper's Chair]
12. Jig: Untitled [The Piper's Chair]
13. Jig: Untitled [Donal na Greine]
14. Reel: Untitled [Boil the Breakfast Early]
15. Song: Untitled [Chorus begins 'My name is Mickey Moloney'; about Miltown Malbay, Co Clare]
16. Reel: Untitled [Gorman's Reel; related to Sporting Nell]
17. Jig: Untitled [Version of Kitty's Rambles / The Rambles of Kitty] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Quill, Ellen Mary / O Duibhir, Eibhlin Bean Ui Dh- / O'Dwyer, Mrs, Limerick, concertina solo A1;
speech in English A1;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English throughout;
speech in Irish throughout;
Unidentified performers, speech in English and Irish throughout;
O Duibhir, Roibeard / O'Dwyer, Robert [Limerick?], accordion solo A2–3;
O hUardaill, Padraig, Waterford [?], speech in Irish A4;
singing in Irish A5;
O Suilleabhain, Criostoir, Waterford [?], speech in Irish A5;
singing in Irish A6–7

Running Order:
1. Reel, Speech: Toss the Feathers (clipped at start) [Part overlap and continuation of the last track on BB_RR_353], Untitled
2. Jigs, Speech: Garrett Barry's Favourite, The Leitrim Double Jig [The Leitrim Jig], Garrett Barry's Favourite, Untitled
3. Country Dance Tunes [Polkas]: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, Untitled [The Croppies' March], Untitled [Repeat of first tune in this selection]
4. Speech: Untitled
5. Song, Speech: Bruach na Carraige Baine [With alternate verses in Irish and English], Untitled
6. Song: Untitled [Sliabh na mBan]
7. Speech, Song: Untitled, Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English throughout;
speech in Irish throughout;
O Cuilleanan, Micheal, Cork, speech in Irish A2–4;
Quill, Ellen Mary / O Duibhir, Eibhlin Bean Ui Dh- / O'Dwyer, Mrs, Limerick, speech in English and Irish A5, 7;
concertina in duet A6, 8;
concertina solo A10, 15;
O Duibhir, Roibeard / O'Dwyer, Robert [Limerick?], speech in English A5, 7;
accordion in duet A6, 8;
speech in Irish A11;
accordion solo A12–14;
O Duibhir, Liam, [Limerick?], speech in English A13

Running Order:
1. Tone Signal: Untitled
2. Speech: Untitled [About Seamus Goodman (the collector James Goodman); as a child, the present speaker saw G; G used to repair pipes for many pipers, who would visit him for that purpose; G spoke Irish very well; one piper who visited G was unable to walk and travelled on a donkey; G used play the pipes with the pipers who visited him; memorial to G; G lived in the glebe; G's appearance; G was a good neighbour; G's family, including Godfrey, a doctor, who would treat poor people despite their being unable to pay him; Irish in the local area (Skibbereen)]
3. Speech: Untitled [Irish in the local area (Skibbereen); people who spoke Irish; street-sweepers spoke Irish during their work; present speaker used follow the street-sweepers around the town to listen to their Irish; songs sung in the area; Sean O Duibhir an Ghleanna; Seoladh na nGamhna sa bhFasach; Ceo Draiochta; Liam O Raghallaigh; discussion of song lyrics, with examples]
4. Speech: Untitled [Damhscoil Mhuscrai; activities and meetings connected with the revival of Irish in the Skibbereen area; the first branch of Connradh na Gaeilge there; present speaker heard an tAthair Peadar O Laoghaire speak at the Munster Feis in Cork; how Damhscoil Mhuscrai was founded; An Suibhneach Meann; verses composed by the present speaker (recited); account of an tAthair Sean de Paor, including verses written about him and miracles were effected by him, even after his death; an 'aisling' poem/song written by the local poet Micheal O Suilleabhain; Sean O Coileain]
5. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows]
6. Reels: Nelly's Reel [The Collier's Reel], The Woman of the House
7. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows]
8. Jig: Paddy's Return
9. Speech: Untitled [About the tune that follows, which was played for the last figure of a set]
10. Barn Dance / Hornpipe: Untitled
11. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows]
12. Hornpipes: Sean Ryan's [McMahon's; composed by Sean Ryan], The Echo, Untitled [Slievenamon]
13. Speech with Music, Reel, Speech: Untitled [Story about the tune that follows; with music illustration], Donal an Choill's Reel [?], Untitled
14. Reels: George White's Fancy / George White's Favourite, The Bag of Potatoes / An Mala Fatai / An Mala Pratai
15. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Toss the Feathers [END OF BAND ONE]