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Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 310 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 4

Speech: Untitled [Radio discussion about Labhras O Cadhlaigh, Co Waterford; repeat of some of the material that SE presented in a recent (at that time) appearance by SE on the TV programme 'Rogha', in which SE spoke about O Cadhlaigh; background to the next song]

Ennis, Seamus
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 310 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 8

Speech: Untitled [Topic: A song to the air of 'Sliabh Geal gCua na Feile' that was sung by Eilis Bean Ui Chroinin / Elizabeth Cronin, Baile Mhic Ire, Co Cork; song was about a local character, Pead Bui O Loinsigh, singer, piper and fife-player, who had a dispute with the local clergy because of his heavy drinking]

Ennis, Seamus
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 312 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, speech in English A1, 3, 5;
Mac Donnchadha, Sean / 'ac Dhonncha, Sean / Johnny Joe Pheaitsin / McDonagh, Johnny, Galway, singing in Irish A2;
Ni Gallchobhair, Cait, Donegal, singing in Irish A4;
Ni Mhuimhneachain, Cait, Cork, singing in Irish A6;
Reck, Tommy, Dublin, pipes solo A7–9;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A10–11;
Unidentified performer [Paddy Killoran?], fiddle solo A12–15

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [Topics: Seamus Ennis's work as a collector with the Irish Folklore Commission; transcribing music from collections made by James Delargy and Luke Donnellan; collecting in the field; travelling by bicycle to Connemara; riches of music in Connemara; SE's collecting method; visiting an informant's home; how SE wrote music from informants; SE working at hay or at turf; sailing and fishing; singing style in Connemara; introduction to the next item]
2. Song: Bean an Fhir Rua / The Red-Haired Man's Wife
3. Speech: Untitled [Topics: SE's work as a collector, continued; style of folktale and of music is simpler in the north of Ireland than in the west and south; introduction to the next item]
4. Song: The Mermaid Song / An Mhaighdean Mhara
5. Speech: Untitled [Complexity in singing style in Connemara; singing style in Munster; introduction to the next item]
6. Song: A Mhaire Ni Laoghaire
7. Hornpipe: Untitled [Alexander's Hornpipe]
8. Jig: Untitled [Kitty's Rambles / The Rambles of Kitty]
9. Reel: Untitled [The Scholar] (fades out)
10. Hornpipe: Untitled (short, incomplete)
11. Set Dance: Untitled [The Job of Journeywork]
12. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Bashful Bachelor], Untitled [The Flowers of Ballymote]
13. Reels: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled [Sweeney's Dream]
14. Jigs: Untitled [The Hut on the Hill (CICD 1023); Paddy Killoran's; Andy McGann's], Untitled [The Rambler], Untitled [The Humours of Bantry]
15. Reels: Untitled [The Master's Return], Untitled, Untitled [Dillon Brown] [END OF BAND ONE]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 312 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 1

Speech: Untitled [Topics: Seamus Ennis's work as a collector with the Irish Folklore Commission; transcribing music from collections made by James Delargy and Luke Donnellan; collecting in the field; travelling by bicycle to Connemara; riches of music in Connemara; SE's collecting method; visiting an informant's home; how SE wrote music from informants; SE working at hay or at turf; sailing and fishing; singing style in Connemara; introduction to the next item]

Ennis, Seamus, Dublin - speech in English

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