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Performers:
Gunn, Tommy, speech in English throughout;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about Christmas, early service, dinner, poitin, music, dancing on Boxing night, presents and Santa Claus, hunt on Boxing day
2. Speech: story about 'The Flood', Robbie Doonan, Derravan river, rucks of hay
3. Speech: story about 'The Heifer'
4. Speech: talk about bringing in the hay, rucks of hay, ruck shifter, stack of hay, haggart, food and drink after the work, music and dance, story about a house dance
5. Speech: talk about cutting the last sheaf of corn
6. Speech: talk about ways to ensure a good crop for the coming year (surperstitions)
7. Speech: talk about Easter, Easter eggs
8. Speech: talk about St.Patrick's Day, marching bands, shamrock
9. Speech: talk about Halloween, practical jokes
10. Speech: talk about drowning the shamrock on St Patricks Day, taking the pledge not to drink
11. Speech: talk about Easter Sunday, the sun dancing on the bog hole, cutting your hair on Good Friday and Holy Thursday, spreading holy water on crops for good luck
12. Speech: talk about Easter, no fishing on Easter Sunday, women wearing Easter bonnets, no drinking during lent, no meat on Wedensday or Friday during lent, stations of the cross on Good Friday
13. Speech: talk about people buying new suits for special occasions, not working over Easter
14. Speecg: talk about St Bridgets Day, May Day [END OF BAND ONE]
15. Speech: talk about superstitions regarding being born on Easter Sunday
16. Speech: talk about football matches ,the fight at the Fermanagh county final (O'Connell's vs Lisnaskee), Johnny McCruden
17. Speech: story about a married couple
18. Speech: talk about the reasons for getting married
19. Speech: talk about match-makers
20. Speech: talk about the dowry, matches were not compulsory, bad matches
21. Speech: talk about match makers, men marrying late in life
22. Speech: talk about farms being handed down from father to son
23. Speech: talk about middle aged men marrying late in life
24. Speech: talk about priests monitoring the dances, monitoring dancing couples
25. Speech: talk about parents disapproving of courting couples, story about a courting couple
26. Speech: talk about men leaving their wives, the song 'Praise of John Magee', Edddie Corrigan [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Gunn, Tommy, speech in English throughout;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about hunting, The Co Down Harriers, pot-hunters, hunting for hare, snaring, 'hare's run'
2. Speech: talk about poaching for trout, 'the turn hole'
3. Speech: talk about poaching for salmon, gaffing salmon with a spear, netting salmon,
4. Speech: talk about fishing with Master Camel, perch and roach
5. Speech: talk about poaching for duck, John Maguire
6. Speech: talk about poaching pheasant, the 'poke'
7. Speech: talk about poaching goldfinch, homemade cages
8. Speech: talk about poaching bream, 'bird lime', catching school's of bream
9. Speech: talk about poaching in general, hare soup, being caught poaching, 'stredilies', worm bait, live bait, 'fry',
10. Speech: talk about poaching for eel, setting an eel line, uses for eel skin, cooking and eating eel [END OF BAND ONE]
11. Speech: talk about eating eel, Johnny Fair from Inis Coarkish (well known Lough Erne fisherman), washing a net, fifty-six pound pike
12. Speech: talk about pike, eating pike, fishing for pike using perch as live bait
13. Speech: talk about the pike that escaped from the onion bag, Vincie and Brendan Martin, pike being a dirty fish
14. Speech: talk of stories about pike, the pike that ate the dog
15. Speech: talk of stories about hares, the hare that suckled milk from a cow, Mullneney, Johnny Colm, the hare the fooled the dogs, boxing hares, dogs mating with hares, cats mating with rabbits
16. Speech: talk about hunting foxes, Jimmmy Donaghey, traping & snaring foxes, one pound bounty for foxes, Liam Hare, the fox hunting for pigeon
17. Speech: talk about old local poachers in the area, John and Catherine Maguire, Joe Holmes, snaring rats with 'creel rods', 'cutting the bears mouth in a stick' [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Gunn, Tommy, speech throughout, fiddle solo A1-5, 7-16, singing in English A6, lilting A17;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Reel/Speech: The Boys of Ballisadare, The Hare's Paw
2. Reel: The Dublin Reel, The Tulla Reel
3. Reel: The Floggin Reel, The Kilfenora Reel, The Liffey Banks
4. Jigs/Speech: Untitled
5. Speech/Air: talk about the song 'Lovely Jane' sung by Mrs Gunn, Lovely Jane
6. Song/Speech: Lovely Jane (incomplete)
7. Reel: Lucy Cambell
8. Hornpipe: The Cork Hornpipe
9. Reel/Speeech: McCoys Measure (composed by performer)
10. Speech/Reel: talk about the names of tunes composed by the performer, The Miller of Drone (composed by performer)
11. Speech/Reel: The Swallow's Tail
12. Speech/Reel: Murphy's Reel, Untitled
13. Speech/Reel: The Black Haired Lass
14. Speech/Jig: The Galway Jig
15. Speech/Hornpipe: The Derrylinn Hornpipe (composed by performer)
16. Speech/Jig: The Cloghen Jig [?] (composed by performer)
17. Speech/Lilt: talk about composing tunes, Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Maguire, John, singing in English A1-4, lilting A1-2

Running Order:
1. Song: In Praise of John Magee
2. Song: Joe Higgins
3. Song: The Bonnie Wee Lassie that Never Said No
4. Song: Jane From Iniskee [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Maguire, John, Tonaydrumallard, Co Fermanagh, singing in English A1-4

Running Order:
1. Song: Thousands Are Sailing to America
2. Song: John and Mary
3. Song: The Woman From Carlow
4. Song: Mollie Bawn Lowry [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Morton, Robin, speech in English A3, 6-7;
Maguire, Biddy, singing in English A1;
Mullarky, Peter, singing in English in Duet A2, 8-9, speech in English A3, 7, singing in English A4;
Mullarky, Nelly, singing in English in duet A2, 8-9, speech in English A5, 7, singing in English A6,

Running Order:
1. Song: The Hiring Fair
2. Song: The Maid of Magheracloon (unfinished)
3. Speech: talk about singing
4. Song: Lovely Johnny
5. Speech: talk about singing
6. Song: Untitled [The Lilly of the West]
7. Speech: talk about singing in duet
8. Song: The Shady Woods of Trugh
9. Song: The Maid of Magheracloon [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, singing in English A1-3;
Unidentified performer [Nelly Mullarky], singing in English A4;
Maguire, John, Tonaydrumallard, Co Fermanagh, singing in English A5

Running Order:
1. Song: The Granemore Hare
2. Song: Roll Me From the Wall
3. Song: Untitled
4. Song: Erin the Green
5. Song: The Wee Croppy Tailor [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Gunn, Tommy, speech in English throughout, fiddle solo A1, 3-5, lilting A1, lilting with fiddle in duet A6

Running Order:
1. Speech/Reel: talk about the technique of writing tunes, Untitled
2. Speech: talk about Tommy Gunn's compositions
3. Speech/Reel: The Mossy Banks (composed by performer)
4. Speech/Reel: talk about the fiddler Willie Jones, Willie Jones' Reel
5. Speech/Reel: The Cottage in the Grove (The Teetotaler)
6. Speech/Jig: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout, singing in English A5, 10, 22, 33-35, accordion solo A9, 12;
Crayton, John , singing in English A1-2, speech in English A1-2;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A3, 15, 36;
Reynolds, Mary, singing in English A4, 6;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A8, 11, 14, 16 (off -air/disc dubs);
Unidentified performer, instrumental group A13;
Unidentified performers, speech in English A18, 32;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A17-21, speech in English18-2;
[Doherty, Mickey], fiddle solo A23, speech in English A23;
McGuire, John, whistle solo A24, singing in English A24;
Chambers, Maggy, singing in English in duet A26;
Chambers, Sarah, singing in English in duet A26;
McConnell, Cathal, whistle solo A27;
Unidentified performer, fiddle in duet with mandolin A28, 30;
Unidentified performer, mandolin in duet with fiddle A28, 30, mandolin solo A29, 31

Running Order:
1. Song: Slieve Gallion Braes
2. Speech/Song: talk about different versions of Slieve Gallion Braes, the singers life, Slieve Gallion Braes
3. Song: Untitled
4. Song: The Lakes of Shallin
5. Song: The Lakes of Shallin
6. Song: The Lakes of Shallin
7. Speech: talk about the last song
8. Song: Untitled
9. Polka: Untitled
10. Song: Untitled
11. Song: Untitled
12. Piece: Untitled
13. Piece: Untitled
14. Song: Untitled
15. Song: Untitled
16. Song: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
17. Air: Untitled
18. Reels: Untitled
19. Jigs/Speech: Untitled
20. Hornpipe/Speech: Untitled
21. Reel: Tommy Coen's
22. Song: Skibereen
23. Speech/Reel: The Girl was Smart for the Fiddler
24. Hornpipe: The Cuckoo's Nest
25. Speech: talk about the song 'The Auld Beggerman'
26. Song: The Auld Beggerman
27. Air: Untitled (unfinished)
28. Jig/Reel: The Lark in the Morning, Untitled
29. March?: Untitled
30. Reels: Untitled
31. Air/March?: Untitled
32. Speech: speech bringing the night of music to a close
33. Song: Untitled (unfinished)
34. Song: Untitled (unfinished)
35. Song: Untitled (unfinished)
36. Song: Untitled (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, speech in English throughout band one, B17-18;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A2-3, B16, B18, singing in English with guitar A9, singing in English in chorus A6;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group A4-5, 7;
Unidentified performers, fiddle solo A8, A11-12;
Unidentified performer, lilting A10;
Unidentified performer [Cathal McConnell], whistle solo B1-4, 7-11, speech in English throughout band two, singing in English B14, flute solo B14;
Morton, Robin, singing in English with whistle/flute B5-6, 12-13, 15, speech in English throughout band two

Running Order:
1. Speech: background speech
2. Song/Speech: Untitled
3. Song/Speech: The Dream
4. Marches: Untitled
5. Jigs/Speech: Untitled
6. Song: Untitled
7. Jigs: Untitled
8. Reels: Untitled
9. Song: Untitled [Peggy Gordon] (unfinished)
10. Reel: Untitled
11. Reel: Untitled
12. Reel: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
13. Jigs: The Mouse in the Cupboard, The Black Rouge
14. Jigs: The Little Boy Tithing? the Hay
15. Jigs: The Life of St Patrick
16. Jigs: Maloney's
17. Song: Untitled
18. Song: Untitled
19. Speech/Reel: Miss McLeod's
20. Speech/Reel: The Wind that Shakes the Barley
21. Speech/Jig: Haste to the Wedding
22. Speech/Reel: The Boys of the Lough
23. Speech/Hornpipe: Londonderry Hornpipe
24. Song: She Moved Through the Fair
25. Song: She Moved Through the Fair (speed variations)
26. Song/Air: Untitled
27. Speech/Song: talk about the history of the song, She Moved Through the Fair
28. Speech/Song: The Dream
29. Speech: background speech
30. Song/Speech: Untitled, talk about folk songs (poor audio quality) [END OF BAND TWO]