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Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 339 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 5

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 339 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 5

Speech: Untitled ['Our house was always a house of music...' Topics: SE's family background; mother sang, father played the pipes, flute, fiddle, tin whistle; pipers visited the house; Pat Ward, piper, who played a double chanter; he was killed by a bus in Drogheda; his daughter was also a good piper; other pipers, including Jim Brogan, Sharkey, Liam Andrew; father played the Highland pipes for visitors; SE played Highland pipes; another visitor, Billy Clarke, from Co Monaghan, took part in the recording 'The Pipes of Three Nations'; Colm O Lochlainn visited the Ennis household every Thursday evening; O Lochlainn learned pipes from SE's father, and in exchange taught the Irish language to SE's father; O Lochlainn took SE with him on holidays in Connemara; SE learned his first song, An Droighnean Donn, in Rosmuc, in Connemara]
Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 339 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 9

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 339 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 9

Speech: Untitled ['I found that Connemara...' Topics: riches of Connemara as a repository of folk traditions; SE enjoyed working in Connemara and hated returning to Dublin city; SE visited the Hebrides for the Irish Folklore Commission and spent 6 months there; the song 'O Son of the Earl of the White Banners']

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 343 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, pipes solo A2–3, 5–11;
singing in Irish A4

Running Order:
1. Tone signal
2. Air: An Droimeann Donn Dilis [Available on RTE CD 199; slightly fuller here]
3. Air: An Cruiscin Lan [Available on RTE CD 199; slightly fuller here]
4. Song: Untitled [Eamonn a' Chnoic; different recording from that available on RTE CD 199?]
5. Airs: Untitled [Version of An Caisideach Ban?], Untitled [An Droighnean Donn] [Not available on RTE CD 199]
6. Reels: Untitled [The First House in Connacht], Untitled [Miss Monaghan], Untitled [The First House in Connacht] [Not available on RTE CD 199]
7. Jigs: Untitled [When the Cock Crows it is Day; Ta an Coileach ag Fogairt an Lae], Untitled [Sixpenny Money] [Not available on RTE CD 199]
8. Reels: The Fair-Haired Girl, The Bucks of Oranmore [Available on RTE CD 199; slightly fuller here]
9. Air, Set Dance: An Droighnean Donn, The Garden of Daisies [Available on RTE CD 199; slightly fuller here]
10. Jig / Single Jig, Slip Jigs: Smash the Windows, The Drops of Brandy, The Tenpenny Piece [Available on RTE CD 199; slightly fuller here]
11. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Bantry Hornpipe], Untitled [The Tailor's Twist] [Track not available on RTE CD 199] [END OF BAND ONE]

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