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Performers:
Unidentified orchestra, A1;
Clancy, Willie, Clare, whistle A2, B12;
pipes A31–47, B1–11;
Russell, Micho, Clare, whistle A3–21, 23–28, 30;
lilting A29;
Ward, Jim / Jimmie, whistling A22, 29, B13–15;
O'Loughlin, Peadar / O'Loughlin, Peter, fiddle B16–23, 25–26, 30–32;
flute B27–29, 33–34;
Reid, Sean, Clare, speech in English B24 and throughout on B16–34;
Unidentified performer, whistle B35

Running Order:
1. Orchestral piece: Untitled, short
2. Reel: The Fairy Reel / The Jolly Banger [CICD 4427 (from this recording?); WC's father's version of the tune; CRE 3, # 156 (from WC)]
3. Reel: The Fairhaired Boy [CICD 5707.11, 5710 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 255 (from MR)]
4. Jig: Donall na Greine [CICD 756, 757, 758, 759, 760.11 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 10 (from MR); Ceol III iv, p 99; Donnybrook Fair / The Joy of My Life (version of? DMI, # 79)]
5. Reel: The Rising Sun [CICD 2908 (where this recording is referenced), 2907.11 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 260 (from this recording?); for other versions and titles, see BB index, cards 2983, 2657]
6. Reel: The Ladies Pantalettes [CICD 5637 (from this recording), 5626–.11 (none from this recording)]
7. Reel: Untitled [CICD 3098 (from this recording); 4363.11–.12 (not from this recording); played by Johnny Byrt, a travelling carpenter from Liscannor; CRE 2, # 175 (from this recording)]
8. Reel: Patsy Campbell's Reel [CICD 3779 (where this recording is referenced); 3778.11 (not from this recording)]
9. Reel: Rakish Paddy [CICD 3109 (from this recording); 3108, 3110, 6015.11 (not from this recording); DMI, # 749; CRE, # 145]
10. Reel: Drowsy Maggie (mother's version) [CICD 3896.11 (not from this recording); from MR's mother, who played the concertina; MR also plays a version that he learnt in Donegal (see CICD 3896.12–.13)]
11. Jig: Barr na Feirsde / Barr na Feirisde / The Munster Buttermilk [CICD 825 (from this recording); 818.11–.12, 823 (none from this recording; 823 gives the musician as Mick Hand, in error?)]
12. Reels: An Clochairin Ban / The Collier's Reel [CICD 4514 (from this recording); 4513, 4514.11 (none from this recording)]
13. Jig: An Chailleach is a Ceag ar a Gualainn / An Chailleach is a Ceag ar a Guala / Kitty's Rambles [CICD 1467.11 (from this recording), 1467 (not from this recording); CRE 2, # 36 (from MR - card 1467?)]
14. Reel: Sporting Nellie [CICD 5075.11–.16 (none from this recording); Gorman's (CICD 5075, from Mrs Crotty); Sporting Nell; CRE 3, # 194]
15. Jig: The Geese in the Bog [CICD 1605 (from this recording); 724.11, 1604 (none from this recording); major key; CRE 2, # 53 (from MR; not from this recording); The Lark's March]
16. Jig: The Geese in the Bog [CICD 1809 (from this recording); 1809.11 (not from this recording); minor key, tonic note A; for a version of this tune with tonic note B, see track 18 (CICD 1809.13–.14); not the same tune as that at tracks 15 and 17]
17. Jig: The Geese in the Bog [As at track 15, incomplete]
18. Jig: The Geese in the Bog [CICD 1809.14 (where this recording is referenced); 1809.12–.13 (not from this recording); minor key, tonic note B; for a version of this tune with tonic note A, see track 15 (CICD 1809, 1809.11); not the same tune as that at tracks 15 and 17]
19. Reel: Upstairs in a Tent [CICD 4446 (from this recording); 4444.12, 4445 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 190 (from this recording, obviously from CICD 4446 – notes repeat the information on the card, including the mistranscription of Jimmy Mulqueeny's name as 'Jimmy Mucai')]
20. Jig / Slide: The Clare Jig [CICD 2364.15 (from this recording); 1162.11–.12, 2364.11–.14 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 71 (untitled, from this recording)]
21. Reel: The Boy in the Gap (old version) [CICD 2920 (from this recording); 2920.11, 2921–.11 (none from this recording); distinct from the standard version of this tune, which MR also plays.]
22. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; The Boy in the Gap]
23. Reel: All the Ways to Galway [CICD 3561.11 (from this recording); 3086.11–.12, 3561, 3561.12 (none from this recording); The Kerry Cow; I Wish I Had a Kerry Cow; CRE 2, # 282 (from this recording) and also at CRE 2, # 116; MR also has a version of this tune as a single reel / polka]
24. Jig: Cathaoir an Phiobaire [CICD 1993.11 (from this recording); 1993 (not from this recording); The Piper's Chair; CRE, # 9 (not from MR)]
25. Reel: Is Trua gan Peata 'n Mhaoir Agam / An Peata Beag is a Mhathair [CICD 4008, 5635 (both from this recording); 5634 (where this recording is referenced); 4007.11, 5635.11 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 259 (from this recording); The Mother and Child Reel]
26. Reel: The Blackhaired Lass / The Blackhaired Girl / Cailin na Gruaige Duibhe [CICD 4239 (from this recording), 4230.12–.13, (not from this recording)]
27. Jig: Untitled [CICD 1879 (from this recording); 795.11, 795.13 (not from this recording); as Gillan's Apples in CRE 2, # 7 and DMI, # 287; Apples in Winter]
28. Reel: Untitled [CICD 4006.11 (not from this recording); Connemara Stockings]
29. Song Tune / Dance Tune: Untitled
30. Reels: Sporting Nellie [CICD 5075.11–.16 (none from this recording); Gorman's (CICD 5075, from Mrs Crotty); Sporting Nell; CRE 3, # 194; also at track 14], The Bucks of Oranmore [CICD 5482 (from this recording); 5725, 5726–.14 (none from this recording)]
31. Jig: Petticoat Loose / Donall na Greine [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 76]
32. Piece: The Humours of Glin [Not in CICD; DMWC, # 54]
33. Single Jig: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 70, as Unknown]
34. Jig: The Maiden that Jigs it in Style / Brian O'Lynn [CICD 1886 (from this recording); second part stated to be that of Brian O'Lynn; DMWC, # 66]
35. Single Jig / Dance Tune: Untitled [Not in CICD; stated in the 'Pipes' series documentation to be a single jig; dance tune (in 3/4 time?) stated to have been played by Garrett Barry; not in DMWC?]
36. Jig, Reel: Bimid ag Ol is ag Pogadh na mBan [CICD 2187 (from this recording); Bimid ag Ol; DMWC, # 7; tune related to reel that follows], Sean Reid's Favourite [CICD 5066 (not from this recording; from CRE, # 83, from WC, where its title is given as Gilbert Clancy's Reel); DMWC, # 15, where its title is given as 'Sean Reid's Reel'; tune is related to the first tune in this selection]
37. Fling / Piece, Jig: An Buachaill Dreoite / An Buachaill Breoite [Track contains two versions of the same tune; neither in CICD from WC; DMWC, # 135 & 136; related to the tune at CICD 3208 (not from WC)]
38. Single Jig: The Fowler on the Moor [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 74]
39. Jig: Cailleach, do Mharais Me / A Chailleach, do Mharais Me [CICD 2581 (not from this recording); DMWC, # 49]
40. Reel: The Parson's Son / The Boyne Hunt [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 142; WC has 3 parts (usually 2)]
41. Reel: The Cameronian [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 140; WC has 3 parts (usually 2)]
42. Polka: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 68 as Unknown]
43. 43: Air: Eamon an Chnoic
44. Single Jig: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 85 as Garrai na Saileog; often played as a hornpipe; Mrs Galvin's]
45. Jig: Strop the Razor [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 29; version of The Cook in the Kitchen; Piocfad an Snathaid (alternative name given by WC - might belong to the tune on the next track)]
46. Jig: Gallagher's / Gallagher's Frolics / The Frieze Breeches [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 12 (one of several versions given); pieced together here with difficulty; not the tune commonly known as Gallagher's Frolics]
47. Air: Untitled [Stated to be like 'The Rocks of Bawn'] [END OF BAND ONE]
48. Single Jig: Untitled [CICD 1330 (from this recording); DMWC, # 75, as Willie's Single]
49. Jig: Fasten the Leg in Her [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 73; Garrett Barry's version]
50. Jig: The Lark in the Morning [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 78; stated to be a version from WC's mother, which came from the piper Garrett Barry]
51. Fling / Reel / Single Jig: Willie's Fling [CICD 3297 (from this recording; in reel section, though with BB indication that time signature should be 12/8); DMWC, # 146, in 4/4 time as Fling No. 1]
52. Reel: Down the Broom [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 77; differs from standard version]
53. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 67, as The Dublin Lads (title supplied by Pat Mitchell, editor of DMWC, from WC's words after he plays the tune here)]
54. Reel: The Concertina Reel [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 72; CRE 2, # 220, from Pat Mitchell, as 'Ril Liam' (learnt from WC); also played by Micho Russell, whose title was The Dunagore Reel; WC & PM play it with tonic note G, M R with tonic note D]
55. Single Jig: Kitty Got a Clinking Coming from the Races [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 79, as The Ballintore Fancy (title from commercial recording by Leo Rowsome?); John Fleming's Jig (CRE 2, # 66)]
56. Reel: The Mayo Lasses [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 69; version of The Old Maids of Galway / Johnny When You Die]
57. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5993 (from this recording); tune incomplete; not in DMWC?]
58. Reel, Air: The Green Groves of Erin [Not in CICD from this recording; DMWC, # 71], An Seanduine [The Old Man Rocking the Cradle; DMWC, # 130]
59. Jig: Untitled [CICD 503 (from this recording?); DMWC, # 57, as Unknown]
60. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5711 (from this recording?); as Gerry Commane's Reel in CRE 3, # 203]
61. Jig: Untitled [CICD 564 (from this recording?); version of The Kesh Jig]
62. Jig / Dance Tune: Untitled
63. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; Colonel Fraser]
64. Reel: Mother's Delight [CICD 4467 (from this recording); CRE 2, # 240 (from this recording); played in two different keys, the second as played by Tommy Potts]
65. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; The Star of Munster]
66. Reel: The Bunch of Green Rushes [CICD 5942 (from this recording)]
67. Reel: Bobby Casey's Feathers / Toss the Feathers [CICD 3051 (from this recording?); a version of Toss the Feathers played by Bobby Casey]
68. Reel: Untitled [CICD 4984 (from this recording); CRE 2, # 223 (from this recording); learnt from Bobby Casey; Tuttle's Reel]
69. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; The Chicago Reel]
70. Reel: Major Harrison's Fedora [CICD 4298 (from this recording); CRE 2, # 243 (from this recording)]
71. 24: Speech: Untitled [Tracking down a musician who, according to Willie Clancy's father, had a wonderful tune]
72. Reel: The Collier's Reel [Not in CICD from this recording]
73. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; Rakish Paddy (the version recorded by James Morrison)]
74. Reel: The Flogging Reel [Not in CICD from this recording]
75. Reel: The Pride of Loughrea [CICD 2771.12 (from this recording?); The Humours of Loughrea; Tommy Whelan’s]
76. Jig: The Frieze Breeches [CICD 952, 953 (both from this recording?); I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her]
77. Jig: Untitled [CICD 2229 (from this recording?); CRE, # 34, as The Old Woman's Purse of Money; The Hag's Purse; followed by an unsuccessful attempt to think of another tune: 2nd part is that of 'I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her']
78. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5049.11 (from this recording); CRE 2, # 293, as The Game of Love (from this recording)]
79. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; CRE 2, # 131, as Callaghan's (not from P O'L); Now She's Purring]
80. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; The Flowers of Limerick]
81. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; The Shaskeen Reel; version recorded by the Ballinakill Ceili Band]
82. Air: Untitled [The Old Man Rocking the Cradle]

Performers:
Clancy, Willie, Clare, pipes in duet A1–2[?], 7[?], 9[?], 11[?];
pipes solo A3, 12, 14, 20, 22, 24;
speech in English A7, 10, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23;
whistle solo A16, 18;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Dublin, speech in English A1–3, 5–8, 10–11;
Talty, Tom ('Tom Charlie'), Clare, speech in English A3, 6, 8;
concertina solo A6;
Burke, Joe, Clare, speech in English A5, 10;
Barry, Michael, Clare, speech in English A5;
Rowsome, Leo, Dublin, pipes solo A5;
McGough, Michael, Clare, speech in English A6;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A8;
O Ciobhain, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English A13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23;
O'Donnell, Michael, speech in English B1, 6, 8, 10;
Tubridy, Michael, Clare / Dublin, speech in English B1, 3, 5, 6;
flute solo B2, 11;
whistle solo B4, 9;
concertina solo B5, 7

Running Order:
1. Jig, Speech: Garrett Barry's Favourite, Untitled [Voiceover; introduction to the radio programme; date of Garrett Barry's death; the jig 'Garrett Barry's Favourite']
2. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Garrett Barry's place in the life of west Clare], Colonel Fraser
3. Speech: Untitled [Account and reminiscences of Garrett Barry; Barry's birth; blind from infancy; Tom Talty (interviewee) went with an ass and cart to pick up Barry to play at his parent's home in Tooreen, near Miltown Malbay; Barry 's favourite public house in Miltown Malbay was Patsy Burke's; the names of tunes played by Barry; information about a fling called 'Ennis']
4. Single Jig / Jig / [Fling?]: Untitled [DMWC, # 70 (untitled); Clancy's Jig (commercial sound recording 'The Pipering of Willie Clancy', vol 1; noticed wrongly as a slip jig); this might be the fling referred to by the speaker in the previous track]
5. Speech, Piece, Speech: Untitled [Further reminiscences of Garrett Barry; Barry coming to stay at Patsy Burke's public house in Miltown Malbay; Barry's physical appearance; Barry plays for benefits – music events to aid an unfortunate person in the locality; story about Garrett Barry meeting and playing with a piper named Stephenson, identified as Dick Stephenson, with whom 'The Fox Chase' was associated], The Fox Chase, Untitled [Story about Barry learning 'The Fox Chase' after hearing it only twice]
6. Speech, Jig: [Further reminiscences of Garrett Barry; Barry's fondness for whiskey], Untitled (incomplete)
7. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Introduction to story; story about Garrett Barry wanting to turn water into wine on the feast of the Epiphany; Barry playing slow tunes like 'The Gold Ring' and 'A Chailleach do Mhairis Me'], Untitled [The Gold Ring]
8. Speech: Untitled [Garrett Barry and the legend of the changeling; Barry regarded as a fine singer both in English and in Irish; Barry's republicanism; quotes words of republican song sung by Barry]
9. Reel: Untitled [The Steampacket]
10. Speech: Untitled [Garrett Barry had a keen ear; story about him recognising that a pot was cracked from the sound it made; Barry's death; speaker collects Barry's pipes after his death; speaker's mother sells pipes]
11. Reel: Untitled [Jenny's Welcome to Charlie] [End of the Radio Eireann documentary, 'The Blind Piper from Inagh']
12. Air, Reel: Bean Dubh an Ghleanna, The Copperplate Reel
13. Speech: Untitled [Willie Clancy's background as a piper; music tradition in Clancy's family; Clancy's first set of pipes, obtained from Felix Doran]
14. Slip Jig: Will You Come down to Limerick? [Kitty Come down to Limerick / The Munster Gimlet]
15. Speech: Untitled [The attractiveness of the previous tune for Clancy; Clancy's lack of formal musical training; Clancy describes the uilleann pipes and the activities needed to play them; Clancy describes his pipes, which were made by Taylor in the USA; Clancy begins learning the whistle at the age of five]
16. Jig: The Legacy
17. Speech: Untitled [Clancy's advice to those learning the tin whistle: 'Take it easy and break the lumps']
18. Air: An Binnsin Luachra
19. Speech: Untitled [Defining the art of piping; different styles of piping; Clancy's own styles, which varies from staccato to legato as the mood takes him; Clancy feels that he cannot do justice to slow airs because of his lack of knowledge of Irish; musicians who had most influence on Clancy – his father; Johnny and Felix Doran; Leo Rowsome; Tommy Reck; Peadar Broe; and Seamus Ennis; difficulties of maintaining the pipes and of finding suitable reeds]
20. Hornpipe: Untitled [Chief O'Neill's Favourite]
21. Speech: Untitled [Potential for further development for the uilleann pipes; Irish spoken in Clancy's area; playing of airs on the pipes; Clancy's regret at not being able to speak Irish]
22. Air: Casadh an tSugain
23. Speech: Untitled [Poverty as an influence on music; what music means to Clancy; the current situation – is tradition weakening?]
24. Reel: Rakish Paddy
25. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the performer; Michael Tubridy's background in traditional music]
26. Reels: Ships Are Sailing, The Green Groves of Erin, The Mountain Top
27. Speech: Untitled [clipped at start; mid-section missing]
28. Jigs: The Geese in the Bog, Sweet Biddy Daly [Mistitled? The Boys of the Town], The Killaloe Boat
29. Speech, Air: Untitled, An Droighnean Donn
30. Speech: Untitled (clipped at end)
31. Hornpipes: The Stack of Barley, The Stack of Wheat
32. Speech: Untitled (clipped at end)
33. Reels: Untitled [The Reel of Mullinavat], Untitled [Tommy Whelan's Reel], Untitled [Touch me if you Dare]
34. Speech: Untitled (clipped at end)
35. Jigs: Untitled [Garrett Barry's Jig], Untitled [Castlebar Races], Untitled [Delaney's Drummers] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Clancy, Willie, Clare, pipes solo A1, 3, 5, 7, 13;
speech in English A2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12;
whistle solo A9, 11;
O'Donnell, Michael, speech in English A2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12

Running Order:
1. Reels: The Connacht Heifers / The Connacht Heifer, Jenny Picking Cockles
2. Speech with Music: Untitled [Willie Clancy's background in music; mother played concertina; began playing the whistle at the age of five; was over 20 when he began to play the pipes; got first set of pipes from Felix Doran; the Moloney brothers, pipemakers in Co Clare; Garrett Barry used to send to a place called Toin an Bhothair, in Co Clare, to get reeds made; Clancy was helped in learning the pipes by a local musician, Hugh Curtin; the components of a practice set; fingering technique on the chanter versus that on the whistle; is it an advantage in learning the pipes to have played the whistle?; the difficulty of unlearning bad habits; demonstration of the range of the chanter – two full octaves; adapting tunes to suit the pipes
3. Jigs: Untitled [The Gander in the Pratie Hole], Untitled [Bimid ag Ol is ag Pogadh na mBan]
4. Speech: Untitled [The reason for the strong music tradition in Clare; Clancy's opinion of musicians in Sligo; young people in Clare taking an interest in traditional music; the accordion: a problem instrument; the difficulty of acquiring and maintaining the pipes and of learning to play them; Clancy's advice to learners on the pipes; it is best to learn when young; the slow air is the cream of the music]
5. Air: An Binsin Luachra
6. Speech: Untitled [Dance tunes possibly being derived from slow airs; for example, the reel 'The Green Fields of America' is possibly derived from the air 'Pretty Molly Brannigan']
7. Air, Reel: Pretty Molly Brannigan, The Green Fields of America
8. Speech: Untitled [The first tune that Clancy played on the whistle, the jig 'Father O'Flynn']
9. Jig: Father O'Flynn
10. Speech: Untitled [The first reel that Clancy played on the whistle, which is the first tune in the next selection]
11. Reels: Untitled [The Ladies Pantalettes], Untitled [The Crooked Road to Dublin], Untitled [The Ravelled Hank of Yarn]
12. Speech: Untitled [Sean O Riada, whose funeral had just taken place; Clancy's acquaintance and musical rapport with O Riada; the lament 'The Bright Lady', which Clancy played at O Riada's funeral]
13. Air: The Bright Lady

Performers:
Unidentified performers, pipes in duet, A1;
O'Donnell, Michael, Dublin, speech in English A1–5, 7, 9, 12;
speech in Irish A4;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English A1, 5;
O'Dowd, Dan, Dublin, speech in English A2;
Wathen, Ronnie, Wales, pipes solo A3;
speech in English A3;
Standeven, Thomas, USA, speech in English and Irish A4;
Conroy, Andy, Roscommon, pipes solo A6, 8, 10–11, 13;
speech in English A7, 9, 12

Running Order:
1. Slip Jig, Speech, Slip Jig, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [Radio interview; topics: progress that the organisation Na Piobairi Uillean has made; the acquisition of premises for the organisation; its membership; the status of pipemaking; the age profile of members; representation of women], Untitled, Untitled [Radio announcement]
2. Speech: Untitled [Radio interview; topics: reedmaking; cane plantations in Spain; 40 candidates in the reedmaking workshop; the standard of piping among young people, who are learning from tapes; acquiring a practice set of pipes, price: £14–15; a full set costs £60]
3. Air, Speech, Air: A Spailpin A Run, Untitled [Radio interview; topics: description of Ronnie Wathen's pipes, which he partly made himself], A Spailpin A Run
4. Speech: Untitled [Radio interview; topics: piping in the USA; how the interviewee learnt Irish]
5. Speech: Untitled [Radio interview; topics: the future prospects for piping; the availability of historic recordings; the willingness of present-day players to pass on their knowledge, a contrast to the secretiveness of an earlier generation]
6. Jigs, Slip Jig: The Maid on the Green, Untitled [Jackson's Jig], Give Us a Drink of Water [A Drink of Water] [This selection was recorded on a commercial 78rpm disc by piper Patsy Touhey]
7. Speech: Untitled [Radio interview; topics: Andy Conroy's home area in Loughlynn, Co Roscommon; other musicians in the area; AC began playing the pipes in England; studying the pipes in Dublin with Leo Rowsome; what impressed AC about Rowsome; AC played the tin whistle before playing the pipes]
8. Hornpipes: The Plains of Boyle, The Leitrim Fancy [This selection was recorded on commercial 78rpm discs by pipers Michael Gallagher and Willie Clancy]
9. Speech: Untitled [Interview; topics: Andy Conroy's style of piping; was influenced by fiddlers as well as pipers; describes his style as 'staccato'; rolls up his trouser leg while playing in order to 'surround the chanter with flesh'; played in Carnegie Hall; worked as a bricklayer; went to the USA in 1952; doesn't speak with an American accent; traditional music in the USA; AC keeps in practice; problems with neighbours when practicing the pipes; introduction to next piece of music]
10. Reels: Lucy Campbell, The Cup of Tea (clipped at end; tape runs out) [This selection was recorded on a commercial 78rpm disc by piper Michael Gallagher] [END OF BAND ONE]
11. Reels: Lucy Campbell, The Cup of Tea (full version of selection at track A10?; sound fade-out during 2nd tune, then the tune is repeated)
12. Speech: Untitled [Interview; topics: the number of pipers in the USA; Thomas Standeven, who speaks several languages; Andy Conroy intends to return to Ireland; may get married; was crossed in love as a young man; introduction to the next tune]
13. Jig: The Geese in the Bog [Influenced by the version recorded by Michael Carney, pipes] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Partridge, Karl, speech in English throughout;
concertina solo A25;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Touhey, Patsy, Galway / New York, speech in English A1, 5–6;
pipes solo A1–8, 10, 12, 14–15;
Busby, Tom, Fermanagh / New York, speech in English A9–12, 15–16, 20;
Carney, Michael, Mayo / New York, pipes solo A9, 11, 13;
speech in English A13;
Redican, Larry, New York, fiddle solo A17–19;
Reilly, Martin, Galway, pipes solo A20;
Peoples, Tommy, Donegal, fiddle solo A21–26

Running Order:
1. Speech, Jig, Reel: Untitled [Announcement on the original cylinder recording], Untitled [Three Little Drummers], Untitled [The Ivy Leaf]
2. Reel: Untitled [The Fermoy Lasses]
3. Reel: Untitled [The Maid that Dare not Tell]
4. Jig: Untitled [Tell Her I Am]
5. Speech, Air: Untitled [Announcement on the original cylinder recording], The Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow [Cailin Deas Cruidte na mBo]
6. Speech, Jig, Reel: Untitled [Announcement on the original cylinder recording], Untitled [The Humours of Glin], The Maid behind the Bar
7. Jig, Reels, Slip Jig, Jig, Reels: Untitled [The Rakes of Clonmel], Untitled [Toss the Feathers], Untitled [The Boyne Hunt], Untitled [The Honeymoon], Untitled [The Humours of Whiskey], Untitled [The Geese in the Bog], Untitled [The Beauty Spot], Untitled [The Boys of the Lough]
8. Jig: Untitled [Jackson's Morning Brush]
9. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Information about the items that follow], The Shaskeen Reel
10. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Information about the next music item], Untitled [Bonnie Kate]
11. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Information about the next music item], Lord Gordon's Reel
12. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Information about the next music item], Untitled [My Former Wife / An Bhean do Bhi Cheana Agam]
13. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled [The Budgeen on the Griddle / The Boys on the Hilltop / The Boy on the Hilltop]
14. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Harvest Home]
15. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Information about the next music item], The Miners of Wicklow
16. Speech: Untitled [Information about the next items on the tape; Larry Redican]
17. Reel: The Grand Spy [Also known as The Graf Spee] [END OF BAND ONE]
18. Reel: Untitled [The Star of Munster]
19. Reel: Untitled [The Pigeon on the Gate]
20. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Final remarks on the original Tom Busby tape], Untitled [The O'Connor Don Reel; from a cylinder recording made by Feis Ceoil officials]
21. Reels: Untitled [The Merry Sisters], Untitled [Composed by Ed Reavy] [According to Karl Partridge, tracks A21–26 were recorded at a concert in Limerick]
22. Jig, Slide: Untitled [Out on the Ocean], Untitled [From the repertoire of Denis Murphy]
23. Reels: Untitled [Early Breakfast], Untitled [The Drunken Landlady]
24. Air, Jig: Untitled, Untitled
25. Mazurkas: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled [Composed by the player] [Music is overlaid by tentative playing on a concertina, as well as by the conversation that is on all of this tape]
26. Hornpipe: Untitled [Kitty O'Neill (Ryan's Mammoth Collection); Kitty O'Shea (the title used by the player on a commercial recording)] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
O'Keeffe, Maurice / O'Keefe, Maurice,, Kerry, fiddle solo A1, 2?;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, speech in English throughout;
fiddle in duet A24–27;
Murphy, Mollie / Murphy, Mrs, Cork, fiddle solo A3?, 4–23;
speech in English throughout A4–27;
fiddle in duet A24–27;
Moynihan, Pat, Kerry, whistle solo A28–31;
speech in English A29;
Murphy, Mike, Cork, fiddle solo A32–37;
speech in English A32–37;
Unidentified performer, accordion solo A38–41;
speech in English A38–41;
Kelly, Patrick, Clare, fiddle solo A42–46, 48;
speech in English A42–48;
whistle solo A47?;
Unidentified performer [Mac Mathuna, Seamus, Clare / Dublin?], speech in English A42–48

Running Order:
1. Jig: Tatter Jack Walsh [CICD 1397–1398 (from this recording)]
2. Jig, Speech: Arise Bonnie Lassie and Bundle and Go / Larry O'Gaff [CICD 873 (from this recording); discussion on CICD card as to who the performer is; from the evidence on the tape, seems most likely to be Maurice O'Keeffe], Untitled [Information about the tune just played]
3. Speech, Polka: Untitled, Untitled [CICD 6515 (from this recording); discussion on CICD card as to who the performer is; CRE 5, # 106]
4. Speech, Reel, Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled (incomplete), Untitled, The Morning Star (incomplete)
5. Reel, Speech: The Maids of Erin [CICD 5522 (from this recording)], Untitled
6. Reel: Evening Bells [CICD 4312 (from track A27 on this recording); The Game Cock (CRE 5, # 158, as reel; CRE 4, # 62, as slide; see notes for more information); The Bog Carrot]
7. Reel: Untitled [CICD 3052 (from this recording); related to The Green Groves of Erin?]
8. Slip Jig: The Cuckold Old Man [CICD 197 (untitled; from this recording)]
9. Reel, Speech: The Boyne Hunt, Untitled
10. Reel: The Five Mile Chase [CICD 3555 (from this recording; untitled)]
11. Reel, Speech: Untitled [CICD 5309–5310 (from this recording); The Mourne Mountains (DMI, # 477); related to Tom Ward's Downfall], Untitled [Information about the tune just played]
12. Reel, Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled, The Silver Tip / The Flowing Bowl [CICD 4404 (from this recording; untitled); title 'The Silver Tip' is supplied by the collector and performer (from a written source being consulted during this recording session?); title 'The Flowing Bowl' is supplied by Denis Murphy], Untitled [Information about the tune just played]
13. Reel, Speech: Boil the Kettle Early [CICD 2868 (from this recording)], Untitled
14. Reel, Speech, Reel, Speech, Reel: Ships Are Sailing [Tentative; incomplete], Untitled, Untitled [Tentative; incomplete; second part is that of The Hunter's Purse?], Untitled, The Maid behind the Bar (incomplete)
15. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [CICD 2844.11 (from this recording); CRE 2, # 290 (from this recording); The Pride of Rathmore; 2 parts here; this tune is often heard with 3 parts], Untitled
16. Slip Jig, Speech: Untitled [CICD 146 (from this recording)], Untitled
17. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Drowsy Maggie [CICD 2999 (from this recording)]
18. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, The Piper's Despair [CICD 5931 (from this recording; untitled)], Untitled
19. Reel, Jig, Speech, Reel, Speech, Reel, Speech, Reel: Untitled [The Peeler's Jacket], The Butcher's March, Untitled, Kitty's Wedding (incomplete), Untitled, Untitled [CICD 2863 (from this recording); related to The Galway Rambler?], Untitled, My Love is in America (incomplete)
20. Speech, Slides: Untitled, Untitled [CICD 551.11 (from this recording)], Untitled [CICD 2295.11 (from this recording); Tom Connors' Jig (CRE 2, # 57); Put on the Chain on the Pony (CRE 5, # 73)], Untitled [CICD 2275.13 (from this recording)], Untitled [CICD 2131.11 (from this recording)], Untitled (incomplete) [The first part of the first tune in this selection of slides]
21. Speech, Slide: Untitled, Untitled [CICD 1559.12 (from this recording); related to Pete Sullivan's Fancy / The Whistling Thief Jig / She Didn't Dance and Dance?]
22. Reel, Speech: Jenny Picking Cockles / The Old Slipper Shoe [CICD 5186 (from this recording; gives title 'The Old Slipper Shoe')], Untitled [Information about the tune just played, including further title]
23. Polka: Untitled [CICD 6435 (from this recording); Din Tarrant's (1); The Cobbler]
24. Jig: Three Little Drummers [Delaney's Drummers]
25. Polka: Untitled [CICD 6336 (from this recording); played by duet, but CICD card gives only one performer, Mrs Murphy]
26. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Lisheen Reel (CRE 2, # 19)], Untitled
27. Reel: Evening Bells [CICD 4312 (from this track on this recording; untitled); also on track A6 on this recording; The Game Cock (CRE 5, # 158, as reel, from this recording; CRE 4, # 62, as slide; see notes for more information); The Bog Carrot]
28. Jig: Untitled [CICD 1673 (from this recording); The Castlebar Races; The Races of Castlebar; performer on tracks A28–31 is playing a wooden whistle (information source: CICD 666)]
29. Jig, Speech: I Will if I Can [CICD 666 (from this recording)], Untitled
30. Jig: Jackson's Morning Brush [CICD 2087 (from this recording)]
31. Hornpipe: Callaghan's Hornpipe [END OF BAND ONE]
32. Jig, Speech: There's a Hole in the Bucket / Thane Buckley [?] [CICD 1793 (from this recording; untitled)], Untitled [Denis Murphy suggests a name (Thane Buckley [?]) for the jig just played]
33. Speech, Jig, Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune to be played], The Tuirin Garbh Jig, Untitled [About John Quinn, the local flute-player from whom the performer learned music that he plays]
34. Speech, Jig, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [CICD 2454 (from this recording)], Speech
35. Jig, Speech: Leahy's Jig [CICD 2469 (from this recording)], Untitled [Information about Leahy, fiddler and dancing master]
36. Jig, Speech, Jig: The Leg of the Duck [CICD 1435 (from this recording)], Untitled [Words sung to the tune just played]
37. Jig, Speech: Untitled [CICD 1934 (from this recording)], Untitled
38. Jig: Untitled [Haste to the Wedding]
39. Set Dance / Jig: Untitled [The Sweets of May; related to the melody of the song Follow me up to Carlow]
40. Jig, Speech: Untitled [Kenmure's On and Awa'], Untitled
41. Polka: Untitled [Melody of song Muirsheen Durkin; played in two different registers]
42. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Bucks of Oranmore], Untitled
43. Reel: The Foxhunter's Reel
44. Jig: Untitled [Mo Ghrasa ar Maidin / My Love in the Morning (CRE, # 57)]
45. Reel: Untitled [My Love is in America]
46. Jig: Untitled [Anthony Frawley's Jig (CRE 2, # 9)]
47. Reel: Untitled [A Fair Wind]
48. Reel, Speech: Untitled [A Fair Wind], Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Redican, Larry, New York, speech in English A1;
fiddle in duet A1;
McGann, Andy, New York, fiddle in duet A1;
Field, Paddy, Tipperary, concertina solo A2–6;
speech in English A3;
Keane, James, Dublin / New York, accordion in duet A7–11;
speech in English A9–11;
McKiernan, Jim, Leitrim, speech in English A12;
fiddle solo A12, 16;
fiddle in duet A15;
McHugh, Bernie, Leitrim, speech in English A13;
mouth organ solo A13;
Rahill, Jim, Leitrim, fiddle solo A14;
speech in English A15?;
fiddle in duet A15;
Partially identified performer [Fitzgerald, P, Leitrim?], fiddle in instrumental group A17;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group A17;
Strange, N, speech in English A18;
banjo mandolin solo A18;
Reilly, Frank, speech in English A19;
fiddle solo A19;
Reilly, Michael, accordion in duet A20;
Unidentified performer(s), fiddle in duet A20, B9;
Mulkere, Jack, Clare, fiddle in duet A21;
Preston, Michael, Clare, flute in duet A21;
Canny, Paddy, Clare, fiddle solo A22–24;
Shannon Star Ceili Band, The, instrumental group A25;
McCarthy, Gerry, Kerry / Manchester / New York, fiddle in duet A26;
fiddle solo B10–12;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle in duet A27–28, B20;
fiddle solo A31, B13–18, 21;
speech in English throughout B13–20;
Cooley, Seamus, Galway, flute solo A29–30, 32;
speech in English A30;
McMahon, Bobbie / Robbie, Clare, lilting solo A33;
O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig, Kerry, fiddle solo B1–8;
Ray, J, accordion solo B9;
Unidentified performer, mouth organ in duet B20

Running Order:
1. Speech, Reels: Untitled, The Providence [CICD 4023 (from this recording)], The Belles of Tipperary [CICD 3599 (from this recording)] [This track was recorded on 30 April 1962]
2. Polka: Untitled [CICD 6341 (from this recording?)]
3. Speech, Polka: Untitled, Untitled [CICD 6441 (from this recording)]
4. Polka: The Humours of Whiskey [CICD 6473 (from this recording); My Love Is but a Lassie]
5. Jig: Rory O'Moore
6. Reel: The Dublin Reel
7. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Untitled [Thady Casey's Fancy], Untitled [Lady Gordon], Untitled [Mary MacMahon]
8. Reel: The Limestone Rock, Untitled [The Humours of Loughrea]
9. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Spike Island Lasses, The Sailor on the Rock
10. Speech, Jigs: Untitled, Untitled [Father Tom's Wager], The Frieze Breeches [Do You Want Any More?; same melody as The Collier's Reel]
11. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Untitled [The Roscommon Reel], The College Grove [Sudden dip in sound level during this tune]
12. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Hobble the Botches, Peeping through the Keyhole / Faral O'Gara
13. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Plough and the Stars
14. Reel: The Reconciliation Reel [CICD 3506 (from this recording); 3433 (from ms possibly transcribed from this recording)]
15. Speech, Reels: Untitled, The Cloone Reel [The Humours of Toonagh], The Aughavas Reel [CICD 5530 (for which this recording is a partial source); CRE 5, # 145]
16. Speech, Reels: Drowsy Maggie, The Ranting Widow [The Tap Room]
17. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Untitled [The Morning Mist; composed by Paddy Kelly's?], Untitled [I'm Waiting for You] [Performers on this track are listed by BB as 'Fitz et al']
18. Speech, Reels: Eleanor Kane's Reel [The Providence], The Leinster Ladies [Anderson's Reel]
19. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Gregg's Pipes [The Leitrim version of The Bucks of Oranmore; performer is identified by BB as a blacksmith]
20. Speech, Jigs: Untitled, The House in the Glen [CICD 1352, 1353 & 1354 (none from this recording; 1352 provides title)], Untitled (incomplete)
21. Speech, Polka: Untitled [Information about this track; recording was made in Crusheen, Co Clare in 1955], The Mountain Pathway
22. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Information about the next 3 tracks; they were recorded in Crusheen, Co Clare, January 1955], Sporting Nell, Ballinasloe Fair
23. Jigs: The Luckpenny, The Cherry Tree [The Humours of Ennistymon; Coppers and Brass]
24. Hornpipe: The Cuckoo Hornpipe
25. Jig: Father Hanley's Jig [CICD 2499 (partly from this recording); The Rambler]
26. Jigs: The Housekeeper [For another version, see track B4], Cailleach an Airgid [The Hag with the Money]
27. Reels: Untitled [CICD 3036 (from this recording); Tom Billy's; The New Post Office (CRE 5, # 146); The Gleanntan Reel], The Cameronian [CICD 5372 (from this recording)] [This track was recorded on 11 June 1957]
28. Jigs: The Unfortunate Rake [Apples in Winter], Untitled [CICD 749 (from this recording); The Munster Jig]
29. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Earl's Chair
30. Speech, Jigs: Untitled, The Cockadoon Man, Sean Ryan's [The Killimor; composed by Sean Ryan]
31. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Shaskeen Reel
32. Hornpipes: Untitled [CICD 6057 (from this recording); Joe Cooley's Hornpipe; composed by Paddy O'Brien], The Friendly Visit [CICD 6126 (from this recording)
33. Reel: The Mason's Apron [END OF BAND ONE]
34. Hornpipe: Fisher's Hornpipe [CICD 6092–6093 (from this recording); 6092 gives date of recording as 3 November 1960; for another version, see track B14]
35. Air: Cath Cheim an Fhia
36. Reels: Untitled [The Game of Love; The Girls of Farranfore], The Bucks of Oranmore
37. Jigs: Untitled [The Housekeeper; for another version, see track A26], The Rambling Pitchfork
38. Slides: Untitled [Merrily Kiss the Quaker], Mickeen Dawley's [CICD 2169 (not from this recording)], Untitled [The Dark Girl in Blue; Denis Murphy's Slide], Mickeen Dawley's [Repeat of the second tune in this selection]
39. Reel: The New-Mown Meadows [CICD 2725–2726 (not from this recording?); Joe Mhaire Mhicilin], The Flowing Bowl [CICD 5748 (not from this recording); The Piper's Despair, version of]
40. Jig: Tell Her I Am
41. Air: Untitled [The Wounded Hussar]
42. Reels: The Road to Poulaphouca / Mulhaire's no. 4 [CICD 3334 (partly from this recording); Grandpa Tommy's Ceili Band; composed by Martin Mulhaire; CRE 5, # 129], The Copperplate
43. Polkas: Untitled [Egan's; Peg Ryan's], Untitled [Peggy Ryan's Fancy; The Murroe], Untitled [CICD 6353 (from this recording); Denis Doody's], Untitled [CICD 6286 & 6287 (both from this recording); The Knocknaboul Polka] [Order of the tunes in this selection is 1,2,1,2,3,4]
44. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Lad among the Spriggers / The Steeplechase [CICD 5045 (from ms; transcribed possibly from this recording; gives reference to secondary source where Denis Murphy is the performer) and 5313 (not from this recording)]
45. March / Jig: O'Sullivan's March / Painneach na nUbh
46. Speech, Jigs: Untitled, The Munster Buttermilk / The Sports of Multyfarnham, The Munster Jig
47. Speech, Hornpipe: Untitled, The Fisherman's Hornpipe [CICD 6091 (not from this recording); Fisher's Hornpipe; for another version, see track B1]
48. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Sheila's Fancy [CICD 4460 (not from this recording); The Monsignor's Blessing (related tune)]
49. Speech, Hornpipe: Untitled, Walsh's Hornpipe [CICD 6119 (from this recording; recording date given as August 1966) and 6120 (where this recording is given as a secondary source)]
50. Air: Untitled [Sweet Kingwilliamstown]
51. Air: Staker Wallace [Caoine Ui Dhomhnaill / The Lament for O'Donnell]
52. Slides, Speech: The Rathawaun [CICD 1743 (not from this recording], The Hare in the Corn [CICD 1450 (not from this recording], Untitled
53. Speech, Polkas: Untitled, Untitled [The Knocknaboul Polka # 2], Untitled [The Knocknaboul Polka # 1]
54. Slide: Untitled [Danny Ab's; played for dancing] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig, Kerry, fiddle solo A1–5;
Cronin, Paddy, Kerry, fiddle solo A6–18;
O'Loughlin, Peadar, Clare, flute solo A19–20;
Unidentified performer [O'Loughlin, Peadar, Clare? White, Aggie, Galway (suggested by BB)?], fiddle solo A21

Running Order:
1. Air: O'Rahilly's Grave [Available on RTE CD 174, track 10]
2. Jigs: Coppers and Brass / The Humours of Ennistymon [CICD 1521–1522 (from this recording?); Larry Grogan is a related tune], I Will if I Can / Up and Away [CICD 696 (from this recording?); DMI, # 207] [Available on RTE CD 174, track 11]
3. Hornpipes: John Quinn's Favourites # 1 / The Home Brew [The Wicklow Hornpipe (DMI, # 828); The Road to Boyle (CRE 3, # 227)], John Quinn's Favourites # 2 / The Sands [Stated in notes to RTE CD 174 to be a variant of Miss McLeod's Reel; An Tri is a Rian] [Available on RTE CD 174, track 11]
4. Single Jigs / Slides: The Kilcummin / Dingle Regatta / Tarrant's Slide [In notes to RTE CD 174, it is pointed out that this tune is related to the popular version of The Dingle Regatta; CICD 1075.12 (not from this recording; provides title 'Tarrant's Slide')], If I Had a Wife [(JOLSL, # 90, which also gives the title Mick Mahony's (1); CRE 3, # 41; Johnny Leary's], The Worn Torn Petticoat / Quarry Cross / The Leprechaun [CICD 1415 (untitled; from this recording?); Pucan; for another performance of this tune, see track A18] [Available on RTE CD 174, track 15]
5. Reels: Rolling in the Ryegrass [CICD 5678 (from this recording?)], The Heather Breeze, Rolling in the Ryegrass [Repeat of first tune in this selection], The Heather Breeze [Repeat of second tune in this selection]
6. Jigs: The Munster Jig [CICD 735 (not from this recording)], Tell Her I Am [For another performance of this tune, see track A12]
7. Reels: Duggan's Fancy [CICD 4744 (from this recording?); recorded on 78 rpm commercial disc by Michael Coleman, fiddle, as O'Rourke's (the first tune in a selection); The Wild Irishman (title used by Coleman for the second tune in the selection; often used for this tune and possibly Coleman's intended title for this tune)], The Galtee [The Galtee Ranger / The Galtee Rangers], Bean a' Ti ar Lar [The Woman of the House]
8. Single Jigs / Slides, Jig: Tom Billy's Fancy [Johnny Mick Dinny's (JOLSL, # 95)], Cailleach an Airgid (mi-cheart) [CICD 1775 (from this recording?); The Cat in the Corner (JOLSL, # 348)], The Humours of Kilkenny / Cailleach an Airgid [CICD 4744 (from this recording?); The Hag with the Money]
9. Single Jigs / Slides: The Dark Girl in Blue [Denis Murphy's Slide], Across the Road [Paddy Cronin's (JOLSL, # 75)]
10. Reel: The Doon Reel [The Chorus Reel], Pepper and Salt [Tansey's Favourite; CRE 3, # 136]
11. Hornpipes: Cronin's Hornpipe [JOLSL, # 171], The Brittania Hornpipe [CICD 6077 (not from this recording)], The Fisherman [Fisher's Hornpipe]
12. Jig: Down the Meadows [Related to Malowney's Wife (DMI, # 11)], Tell Her I Am [For another performance of this tune, see track A6]
13. Reels: The Dairy Maid, The Morning Star
14. Reels: The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Untitled [In BB's short-list titled 'Broom (wrongly); Wellington's Reel (CRE 3, # 110); closely related to Sheehan's Reel (DMI)]
15. Air: The Lament for O'Donnell
16. Set Dance: The Jockey to the Fair
17. Hornpipes: Byrne's Hornpipe, Untitled
18. Single Jigs, Slides: The Quarry Cross [The Dingle Regatta, in the version played by Sliabh Luachra musicians], Untitled [Barrack Hill (DMI, # 410)], Pucan [CICD 1415 (untitled; not from this track on this recording); The Worn Torn Petticoat; Quarry Cross; The Leprechaun; for another performance of this tune, see track A4]
19. Reels: The Boyne Hunt, The Flogging Reel
20. Jigs: The Maid of the Rushes [The Queen of the Rushes], Nora Crionna [Stated to be (Patsy) Touhey's version; DMWC, # 152]
21. Reel: My Love is in America [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Unidentified performer(s), accordion solo A1–2, B10, 12;
accordion in duet A5–6, 31, B11–12, 18;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English and Irish intermittently throughout;
Lyons, Paddy, Tipperary, mouth organ solo A3–4;
Ardellis Ceili Band, The, instrumental group A7–8;
Doherty, John, Donegal, fiddle solo A9–11, 12?;
Unidentified performer, concertina solo A13;
Unidentified performer(s), fiddle solo A14–15, 17, 23, 35–36, B8, 14;
fiddles in duet B9;
fiddle in duet B11–12;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle in duet A16, 30, B1?;
fiddle solo A26;
fiddle in trio A28–29, 38?;
Unidentified performer [O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig, Kerry?], fiddle in duet A16;
McHugh, Frances, Galway / Donegal, singing in English A18;
Unidentified performer, singing in Irish A19;
Unidentified performer [Droney, Jim, Clare], concertina in duet A20–21;
Unidentified performer [Droney, Chris, Clare], concertina in duet A20–21;
Unidentified performer(s), concertina solo A24, 37;
Foley, Paddy Willie, whistle solo A22;
McGann, Andy, New York, fiddle in trio A25;
Reynolds, Paddy, Longford / New York, fiddle in trio A25;
O'Sullivan, Con, Kerry, fiddle in trio A28, 38?;
Cronin, Dan, Kerry, recorder in trio A28–29, 38?;
O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig, Kerry, fiddle in trio A29;
fiddle in duet A30?, B1?;
Burke, Joe, Galway, accordion in trio A32, 34;
Collins, Kathleen, New York / Galway, fiddle in trio A32, 34;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group [Kilfenora Ceili Band, The, Clare?], B2–4, 6–7;
Tierney, Gus, Clare, fiddle in duet B5;
Unidentified performer, speech in English B15–16;
Moloney, flute solo B15, 16?;
Unidentified performer, speech in English B17;
whistle solo B17;
Unidentified performer, flute in duet B18;
Canny, Paddy, Clare, fiddle solo B19–21;
Maguire, Johnny, Cavan, speech in English intermittently throughout B23–35;
whistle solo B23, 25–30, 32–35;
Unidentified performers, speech in English intermittently throughout B23–35;
Unidentified performer, speech in English B36

Running Order:
1. Reel: O'Mahony's Fancy [Carmel Mahoney Mulhaire; composed by Martin Mulhaire]
2. Reel: Coloney Rodney
3. Speech, Polka: Untitled [Information about the performance that follows], Finnegan's Wake
4. Speech, Polka: Untitled, Untitled [Maggie in the Wood]
5. Reels: Miss Patterson [Master Crowley's], Paddy Fahy's Reel [Composed by Paddy Fahy (information supplied by music scribe)]
6. Reels: Untitled [Mary O'Neill's Fancy], Sporting Nell, Untitled (incomplete)
7. Jig: Untitled
8. Jig: Hinchy's Delight
9. Reels: The Salamanca, Rakish Paddy
10. Jig: The Frieze Breeches
11. Hornpipe: Untitled
12. Jig: The Gold Ring
13. Reel: The Fair of Ballinasloe [Ballinasloe Fair], The Chicago Reel
14. Jig: Untitled (incomplete)
15. Reel: Untitled [The Foxhunter's Reel]
16. Slip Jig: Untitled [Ride a Mile]
17. Reel: The Enchanted Lady, The Maids of Castlebar (incomplete)
18. Speech, Song: Untitled [Information that the song sung next was composed by the performer's father], Louis Darcy
19. Speech, Song: Untitled, An Carabhat
20. Jig: Untitled [The Rambles of Kitty (not the tune commonly known by this name)]
21. Jig: Untitled [Paidin O Raifeartaigh, version of]
22. Speech, Single Jig / Slide: Untitled, Untitled
23. Speech, Polka / Hornpipe: Untitled, Untitled [Described by music scribe as 'Scotch Polka'; Staten Island (hornpipe)]
24. Jig: Untitled [The Bohola Jig; Joe Cooley's Jig]
25. Reel, Speech: The Belles of Tipperary, Untitled [Information about the performers of the tune just played]
26. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Information about the next music item, including that it was recorded in June 1955], The Morning Star, Durang's [Usually played as a hornpipe (information supplied by music scribe)]
27. Speech: Untitled [Information about the next music item]
28. Single Jigs / Slides: Cucanandy [The Whistling Thief Jig; Pete Sullivan's Fancy], Mount Collins [If I Had a Wife]
29. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Information about the next music item, including that it was recorded in June 1955], The Humours of Dingle
30. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Sporting Paddy
31. Reels: The Donegal Traveller, Miss Montgomery, The Donegal Traveller
32. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Lad O'Beirne's [The Coalminer], Finbarr Dwyer's Reel [Dwyer's Reel; The Holly Bush; Matt the Thresher; composed by Finbarr Dwyer]
33. Speech: Untitled [Information about the performers in the Joe Burke Trio]
34. Jigs: Untitled [The Humours of Kesh], Races at Carrick? [Title supplied by music scribe; The Coach Road to Sligo; CRE, # 33]
35. Reel: Shaney Mulhern? [Title supplied by music scribe; Never Was Piping so Gay, composed by Ed Reavy]
36. Jig: Untitled [The Rambler]
37. Reel: Untitled
38. Single Jigs / Slides: Untitled [Merrily Kiss the Quaker], Untitled [Dingle Regatta, in the version played by Sliabh Luachra musicians] [END OF BAND ONE]
39. Jig: When the Cock Crows it is Day [Ta an Coileach ag Fogairt an Lae]
40. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Mullin's Favourite [The Green Mountain]
41. Reel: The Reel of Rio [Composed by Sean Ryan]
42. Single Jigs / Slides, Jigs: Untitled [The Clare Jig; Old Kilfenora Jig], Untitled [Dinny Mescal's], Untitled [The Kesh Jig, version of], Untitled [Gillan's Apples]
43. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Paddy Fahy's Reel [Composed by Paddy Fahy; in ray mode (information supplied by music scribe)], Never was Piping so Gay [Composed by Ed Reavy]
44. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The Gold Ring
45. Reel: The Rainy Day
46. Reel: The Spey in Spate
47. Speech, Single Jig / Jig, Polka, Set Tune / Single Jig / Slide, Polka, Single Jigs / Slides: Untitled [Brief; describing the music selection that follows as one for a quadrille], Untitled, Untitled [Related to melody 'The Bog down in the Valley'], Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, Untitled [Comin' Thro' the Rye]
48. Jig: Untitled [The Boys of Lough Gowna; composed by Paddy O'Brien]
49. Reel: The Musical Priest
50. Reel: Devanney's Goat
51. Reel: The Sailor's Cravat
52. Reel: Lord McDonald
53. Speech, Hornpipes: Untitled, Tuamgraney Castle, Ann Sheehy's / The Bunch of Ferns [The Flowing Tide]
54. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Sean Ryan's Reel [The Reel of Rio; composed by Sean Ryan], Ganley's [Coen's Memories; composed by Tommy Coen]
55. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Fahy's
56. Jig: Untitled [Composed by Sean Ryan (information supplied by music scribe); The Hidden Ireland]
57. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Andy McGann's Reel
58. Reel: The Grand Spy [The Graf Spee]
59. Jigs: Apples in Winter, The Lark in the Morning [Dougherty's; Up Sligo]
60. Speech, Hornpipe: Untitled, The Cuckoo Hornpipe (incomplete)
61. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Reynold's Reel [The Sailor's Farewell; The Belharbour Reel; stated by the music scribe to have been composed by Martin Mulhaire, but this is questionable; Reynolds' Reel]
62. Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune that follows]
63. Reel: The Mount Nugent Reel [CICD 4609 (not from this recording); Miss Langford]
64. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Information about the tune that follows], The Boys of Twenty-Five [CICD 4895 (not from this recording); Ah Surely]
65. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Information about the tune that follows], The Maid of the House [CICD 5151 (not from this recording); published in Ceol, vol III, I]
66. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Gatehouse Maid [CICD 4541 (not from this recording); stated by the music scribe to be mistitled; The Baltimore Reel; Hickey's]
67. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Golden Keyboard [Composed by Martin Mulhaire]
68. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Jack Roe [CICD 4024 (not from this recording)]
69. Speech: Untitled [Information about the musician from whom the performer got the tune that follows]
70. Reel: The Crib of Perches [CICD 3124 (not from this recording)]
71. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled [Related to The Ewe Reel?]
72. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled
73. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Morning Star (incomplete)
74. Speech: Untitled (clipped at end) [Information about placenames] [END OF BAND TWO]