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Performers:
Ni Cheileachair, Nora Ban, speech in Irish, track 1
Ni Cheileachair, Maire, interviewer, track 1

Running Order:
1. Speech: Schooldays; newspapers; War of Independence; change-over from English to Irish money in 1928; the pension; the Irish language; summer courses; collecting folklore and songs; her father wrote by candlelight; the barracks in Ballyvourney, the RIC and British soldiers; no cars in the area but the military had lorries and armoured cars (1921); bomb factories; hiding guns; the IRA and the Provisional government; incident with the army; bowling; her brother Sean moved to her Auntie's; Donncha and Padraig; throwing ink in school; clothes line in front of fire; wellingtons and shoes; men's work and pastimes; women's work and pastimes; rinci gallda

Performers:
Ni Cheilleachair, Maire, interviewer
O Duinnin, Sean, speech in Irish; singing in English, track 2, 5, 14

Running Order:
1. Speech: Johnny Nora Aodha
2. Song: One Saturday Evening
3. Speech: Muintir Chroinin
4. Speech: Introduction to Mary She Went to Bunnan
5. Song: Mary She Went to Bunnan
6. Speech: Johnny Nora Aodha's brother
7. Speech: Scotsman learning Irish
8. Speech: First attempt at storytelling
9. Speech: Spell in hospital which lead him to lose his Irish
10. Speech: Storytelling at the feiseanna
11. Speech: Johnny Nora Aodha and drink
12. Speech: Sean's writing
13. Song: Our Once Happy Home by the Lee [air: Ar Eirinn Ni Neosfainn Ce hI]

Performers:
Ní Chéilleachair, Máire, interviewer
Ó Duinnín, Seán, singing in Irish, track 1; speech in Irish

Running Order:
1. Speech: An Spiaireacht
2. Song: An Gandal
3. Speech: Introduction; Song: An Seanduine i gCill Chocain

Joan McDermott, standing in crowd
Maeve Gebruers, standing in crowd
Unidentified men and women, standing

Creation Location:
Launch of `The Songs of Bess Cronin', White Room, Chief O'Neill's Hotel, Smithfield, Dublin 7

John Lyons, singing

Creation Location:
Féile na Bóinne, Drogheda

John Lyons, singing

Creation Location:
Féile na Bóinne, Drogheda