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Performers:
O'Hara, Aidan, speech in English A1, 6;
Dunning, Ina, speech in English A1;
Mulkere, Brendan, fiddle solo A2-3, fiddle in duet A4;
Roland, Raymond, accordion in duet A4, concertina solo A5, speech in English A6

Running Order:
1. Speech [music in Spotted Dog, young people playing music in London, greetings home] / Aidan O’Hara, speech in English ; Ina Dunning, speech in English
2. The steeple chase, Seamus Breathnach's, reels / Brendan Mulkere, fiddle
3. Larry Redigans, The humours of Tulla, reels / Brendan Mulkere, fiddle
4. March/Reel: The Battle Of Aughrim, march, Paddy Cronin's, reel / Brendan Mulkere, fiddle ; Raymond Roland, accordion
5. An cuilfionn, air / Raymond Roland, concertina
6. Speech [greetings home, music scene in London, Le Cheile, recordings] / Aidan O’Hara, speech in English ; Raymond Roland, speech in English [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
O'Hara, Aidan, speech in English throughout;
Nally, James, (aged 15yrs) speech in English A1;
Nally, Kathleen, speech in English A1;
McMenamin, Catriona, singing in English A2;
Jim Power Group, instrumental group A3;
Unidentified performer, banjo in duet A4-5;
Mulynn, Paddy, speech in English A6;
Martin, Tony, speech in English A7

Running Order:
1. Speech [CCE London, winning the All-Ireland, James' interest in music] / Aidan O’Hara, speech in English ; Kathleen Nally, speech in English ; James Nally, speech in English
2. Song: Hello Dolly / [Unidentified speaker] ; Catriona McMenamin, speech in English, singing in English
3. [Untitled], reels (fragment) / Jim Power Group, band
4. [Untitled], reel (fragment) / [Unidentified banjo]
5. [Untitled], reel / [Unidentified banjo]
6. Speech [The Favourite pub, other musicians in London: Raymond Roland, Roger Sherlock, Bobby Casey, Paddy Taylor, learning music] / Paddy Mulynn, speech in English ; Aidan O’Hara, speech in English
7. Speech [how Tony became interested in making fiddles, fiddle construction] / Tony Martin, speech in English [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Powell, Johnny, and his Irish Band of the Year, instrumental group A1-2 (off-disc dubs);
Carton, Mary, singing in English A3-4 (off-disc dubs);
Flaherty, Martin, and his Orchestra, instrumental group A5-6 (off-disc dubs);
Rabbett, Murty and Dan Sullivan's Shamrock Band, singing in English A7 (off-disc dubs);
Larry Griffin and Dan Sullivan's Shamrock Band, singing in English A8 (off-disc dubs);
Foley, Connie, singing in English A9-10 (off-disc dubs);
Mattie Toohey's Irish Minstrels, instrumental group A11-12 (off-disc dubs);
Joseph Maguire, singing in English A13-14 (off-disc dubs);
Christopher Casson, singing in English A15-17 (off-disc dubs);
John McGettigan, singing in English A18-19 (off-disc dubs);
John Sheridan, singing in English A20 (off-disc dubs);
Colin O'More, singing in English A21 (off-disc dubs)

Running Order:
1. Coleen bawn, The Galway rogue, polkas / Johnny Powell and his Irish Band of the Year, band
2. Galway Bay, Martha the flower of sweet Strabane, airs / Johnny Powell and his Irish Band of the Year, band
3. How can you buy Killarney?, song / Mary Carton, singing in English
4. Tig-um-tu?, song / Mary Carton, singing in English
5. O'Dwyer’s hornpipe / Martin Flaherty and his Orchestra, band
6. My old skillara hat, If you ever go over to Ireland, jigs / Martin Flaherty and his Orchestra, band
7. The shirt I left behind me, song / Murty Rabbett and Dan Sullivan’s Shamrock Band, singing in English
8. Fare you well sweet Irish town, song / Larry Griffin and Dan Sullivan’s Shamrock Band, singing in English
9. The valley of Knockanure, song / Connie Foley, singing in English
10. Martha the flower of sweet Strabane, song / Connie Foley, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
11. The barren rocks of Arran, All the way to Galway, polkas / Mattie Toohey’s Irish Minstrels, band
12. The maid on the green, The three little drummers, jigs / Mattie Toohey’s Irish Minstrels, band
13. Barney O'Hare, song / Joseph Maguire, singing in English
14. The ould Sunday dinner, song / Joseph Maguire, singing in English
15. Clare's dragoons, song / Christopher Casson, singing in English
16. The old turf fire, song / Christopher Casson, singing in English
17. The Ballymure ballad, song / Christopher Casson, singing in English
18. The Irish jaunting car, song / John McGettigan, singing in English
19. My mother's last goodbye, song / John McGettigan, singing in English
20. My old skillara hat, song / John Sheridan, singing in English
21. Danny boy, song / Colin O’More, singing in English [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Beirne, Josephine, singing in English A1;
Sweetham, George, with Paddy Killoran's Orchestra, singing in English A2-3, singing in duet A4;
Harte, Catherine, singing in duet A4;
Feeney, Jack, singing in English A5-8;
McFarlane, Sandy, singing in English A9-12;
?, Eddie, flute in trio A13-14;
McKenna, John, flute in trio A13-14;
Morrison, Tom, flute in trio A15-18;
Reynolds, John, tambourine [bodhran] in trio A15-18;
McElligott, William, singing in English A19-20;
Smith, Cyril, with Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees, singing in English A21-22

Running Order:
1. Absent, song / Josephine Beirne, singing in English
2. My dear old Galway Bay, song / George Sweetham, singing in English ; Paddy Killoran’s Orchestra, band
3. The ballad of Peter Crowley, song / George Sweetham, singing in English ; Paddy Killoran’s Orchestra, band
4. Molly Bawn and Brian Og, song / George Sweetham, singing in English ; Catherine Harte, singing in English ; Paddy Killoran’s Orchestra, band
5. The green bushes, song / Jack Feeney, singing in English
6. On the banks of my own lovely Lee, song / Jack Feeney, singing in English
7. The shawl of Galway grey, song / Jack Feeney, singing in English
8. When it's moonlight in Mayo [When Irish eyes are smiling], song / Jack Feeney, singing in English
9. The road to the isles, song / Sandy McFarlane, singing in English
10. I'll go in the morning, song / Sandy McFarlane, singing in English
11. McNab's a jolly sailor, song / Sandy McFarlane, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
12. In the morning, song / Sandy McFarlane, singing in English
13. Tripping to the well, The kiss behind the door, polkas / John McKenna, flute ; Eddie [Meehan], flute ; [Frank Fallon, piano]
14. The sandlark, Lawson's favourite, hornpipes / John McKenna, flute ; Eddie [Meehan], flute ; [Frank Fallon, piano]
15. The Roscommon reel / Tom Morrison, flute ; John Reynolds, tambourine [bodhrán]
16. The London clog, hornpipe / Tom Morrison, flute ; John Reynolds, tambourine [bodhrán]
17. The sweet flowers of Milltown, hornpipe / Tom Morrison, flute ; John Reynolds, tambourine [bodhrán]
18. The Dunmore lassies, The mountain reel, The Castlebar traveller, reels / Tom Morrison, flute ; John Reynolds, tambourine [bodhrán]
19. Saint Patrick was a gentleman, song / William McElligott, singing in English
20. Soldiers of '22, song / William McElligott, singing in English
21. The old sow, song / Cyril Smith, singing in English ; Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees, band
22. With her head tucked underneath her arm, song / Cyril Smith, singing in English ; Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees, band [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
The McNulty Family, singing in English with group instrumental A1-2;
John McGettigan and his Irish Minstrels, singing in English with group instrumental A21-22

Running Order:
1. When it's teatime in the meadow, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
2. Irish soldier boy, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
3. O'Bryson has no place to go, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
4. Kelly the boy from Killane, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
5. Barney Brannigan, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
6. Erin's green shore, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
7. O'son remember my love today, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
8. If you ever go over to Ireland, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
9. The reel and mountain dew, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
10. My beauty of Limerick, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
11. Moriarty the happy cop, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
12. The old house far away, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
13. When Rafferty brought the rhumba to the town of Aughnacloy, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
14. The Galway rogue, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
15. Susie O'Malley, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
16. Far away in Australia [The girl I left behind], song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
17. Mother Malone, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
18. Haste to the wedding, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
19. The little house under the hill, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
20. They sailed away from Dublin Bay, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
21. Martha the flower of sweet Strabane, song / John McGettigan and his Irish Minstrels, singing in English
22. Untitled (skipping), hornpipes / John McGettigan and his Irish Minstrels [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Myles O'Malley and his Orchestra, group instrumental A1-4,;
O'Malley, Myles, solo whistle A5-8;
The McNulty Family, singing in English with group instrumental A9-20

Running Order:
1. Shannon bells, The joy of life, jigs / Myles O’Malley and his Orchestra, band
2. The Kildare fancy, The boys of Bluehill, hornpipes / Myles O’Malley and his Orchestra, band
3. Off she goes, Fire on the mountain, jigs / Myles O’Malley and his Orchestra, band
4. The morning star, The ships are sailing, reels / Myles O’Malley and his Orchestra, band
5. The quarrelsome piper, Harvest home, hornpipes / Myles O’Malley, tin whistle
6. The four hand reel, The ivy leaf, reels / Myles O’Malley, tin whistle
7. Sweeney's, hornpipe / Myles O’Malley, tin whistle
8. The swallows tail, The heathery breeze, reels / Myles O’Malley, tin whistle
9. We'd take you back to Ireland, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
10. The maid of sweet brown Knowe, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
11. The thirty two counties Ireland, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
12. A mothers lament, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
13. The rose of Aranmore, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
14. The Limerick races, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
15. In Kerry long ago, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
16. Grandfather Brian, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
17. The old potato cake, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
18. Ye all be Irish tonight, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
19. The half door, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English
20. The stone outside Dan Murphy's door, song / The McNulty Family, singing in English [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Clingan, James 'Jimmy', Donegal, singing in English A1, 3, 5;
speech in English throughout A1–5;
fiddle solo A4–5;
O'Hara, Aidan, Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Clancy, John, Cavan, speech in English A6;
Clancy, Angela, Cavan, speech in English A6

Running Order:
1. The shores of Americay, song / Jimmy Clingan, singing in English
2. Speech [Talk about learning songs off records, people selling ballad sheets; Jimmy talks about his love of Gilbert and Sullivan songs which he learned from a recording of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company; he saw ballad song sellers at markets and fairs in Carndonagh the last thirty years ago; tinkers, men and women sold the songs which they had printed up, songs by Thomas Moore and the like. Sheets would be three pence or four pence each; how they know what air to sing the song to; He showed me a song called 'The Bonnie Wee Lass o' the Glen', written out for him 30 or 40 years earlier by a man from Balleighan, Malin, his name, John White Paddy, a Doherty or a McLaughlin man. Jimmy said the man had a lovely voice and he liked the song; talks about the 'timbre' in a good singer's voice. "I haven't that," he said.' (description provided by AOH)] / Jimmy Clingan, speech in English ; Aidan O’Hara, speech in English]
3. Speech [Information from A O'H: 'Starts off talking about an RIC man who wrote a song about a woman he liked in Clonmany and he quotes lines from it. Sings a verse and says, "That's a good song and nobody in Inishowen hardly knows it either." He got it from hearing it sung by others. On line the song is called Dark Iniseoghain: http://celtic-lyrics.com/lyrics/566.html and http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/deante/dark_iniseoghain-lyrics-1155631.html , also http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=13326, etc.; I asked him for The Star of Inishowen but he didn't know the air of it. He said he worked as a carpenter all his life and was in the Irish Army during the Emergency. He was 71 when I recorded this] ; Dark Iniseoghain, song / Jimmy Clingan, speech in English, singing in English
4. An Chúilfhionn [An Chuileann / The Coolin], air ; Speech [Information from A O'H: 'I asked him about a song called 'Came whistling o'er the hill' (same air as 'Sullivan's John'). Jimmy said it was well known locally'] / Jimmy Clingan, fiddle
5. Came whistling o'er the hill, air ; Speech [Information from A O'H: 'Talks about a song he heard only once sung by a man from Glengad. It took his fancy because it was so pleasing and he was sorry he didn't get it off him. Sings a few lines of it']; [untitled], song / Jimmy Clingan, fiddle, speech in English
6. Speech: [Information from A O'H: 'This recording was made after interview with Jimmy Clingan in 19AOH begins by reciting a few lines from verses written about the Derragarra Inn, Butler's Bridge. With him are the owners, John and Angela Clancy to whom he talks about their establishment: a recorded interview for Aidan's programme, 'Fáilte Isteach' on RTÉ Radio 1] / Aidan O’Hara, speech in English ; John Clancy, speech in English ; Angela Clancy, speech in English

Performers:
Toibin, Nioclas, singing in English A1, 2;
singing in Irish A3;
Hanley, Mick, singing in English A3-5;
O'Flynn, Liam, pipes A8, 9

Running Order:
1. Song: The Flying Cloud
2. Songs: Ben Bolt, Ar Eirinn Ni Neosfainn Ce hI (For Ireland I'd Not Tell Her Name)
3. Song: A Kiss in the Morning Early
4. Song: Rosemary Fair
5. Song: Television Song
6. Reels: Matt Molloy's Favourite, Untitled
7. Song: John Barleycorn
8. Reels: The Concert Reel, The Crooked Road to Dublin
9. Jigs: I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her, Sean Bui

Performers:
O'Flynn, Liam, pipes A1-5;
Brady, Paul, singing in English A6-7;
Crehan, Junior, fiddle A8-11;
Crehan, Ita, whistle A8-11;
Burke, Kevin, fiddle A12;
Finn, Fred, fiddle A12;
Horan, Peter, flute

Running Order:
1. Jig: Mairseal Alasdroim ; Air: Lament (Cnoc na nOs)
2. Reels: Untitled, Over the Moor to Maggie
3. Slip jigs: Little Fair Canavans, The First Slip
4. Reels: The Pigeon on the Gate, The West Wind
5. Reels: The Rainy Day, The Pretty Girls of Mayo
6. Song: The Keech in the Creel
7. Song: The Lakes of Pontchartrain
8. Air: A Stor Mo Chroi; Reel: Untitled
9. Jig: Untitled
10. Jig: The Mist Covered Mountain
11. Jig: Casey's Jig
12. Reel: Music in the Glen [unfinished]

Performers:
Moore, Eilish, Kildare/Dublin, singing in English A1, 2;
O'Donoghue, Ambrose, mandolin A3;
Cannon, Sean, lilting A6;
singing in English A4, 5, 7, 8, 9;
Crehan, Junior, fiddle A10-12;
Crehan, Ita, whistle A10-12

Running Order:
1. Song: The Banks of the Lee
2. Song: The Work Song
3. Reel: Untitled
4. Song: The Banks of the Bann
5. Song: The Plains of Waterloo
6. Jig [lilt]: The Pipe on the Hob
7. Song: The Shores of Amerikay
8. Song: Pat Cooksey's Verses
9. Song: An Bonnan Bui
10. Air: Caoineadh an tSagairt (The Priest's Lament); Reel: Caislean an Oir
11. Jigs: The South West Wind, My Love You Are
12. Set dances: The Drunken Gauger, The Humours of Bandon