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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]

Performers:
Unidentified performer(s), fiddle A1–3, 4, 40–42;
Unidentified performer, accordion A4;
Russell, Micho, flute A5–10, 18–20, whistle A26–27;
White, Aggie, Galway, fiddle A11–17;
Unidentified performer, bones? spoons? A11–13;
Mulqueeny, James (Jim), Clare, fiddle A21–25;
Farrell, Pat, Longford, fiddle, A28–38;
Hanley, Jim, Longford, fiddle, A28–38;
Hanley / Henley, Peter, Longford, pipes A39–42

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; CICD 5695, 5696 (none from this recording?)]
2. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording]
3. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; CICD 4365; CRE 2, # 187 (untitled); recorded by the Castle Ceili Band?]
4. Reel: Untitled [Not in CICD from this recording; The Stony Steps / The Stony Step; CRE, # 149]
5. Reel: Carty's Reel / Cassidy's Reel [CICD 4978.11–.12 (both from this recording); 4684.11–.13, 4978 (none from this recording); partly composed by MR; commonly known as Micho Russell's; CRE 2, # 294 (as Carty's Reel from MR; possibly from this recording)]
6. Jig: The Yellow Wattle [CICD 1828 (from this recording); 1133.11, 1829 (none from this recording)]
7. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5091.11, 5093 (both from this recording?); 5084.11–.14, 5091.12–.13, 5096, (none from this recording); The Green Pigeon (title from CICD 5092, ex Pat Ward ms)]
8. Reel: Untitled [CICD 4347.11, 4348 (both from this recording?); CRE 2, # 269 (from this recording; untitled); Mary McMahon (Bulmer & Sharpley, 'Music from Ireland', vol 2)]
9. Reel: The Fairhaired Boy [CICD 5707.11, 5710 (both from this recording?); CRE 2, # 255 (from this recording)]
10. Jig: Donall na Greine [CICD 756, 757 (both from this recording); 758, 759, 760.11 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 10 (from MR; not from this recording); Ceol III iv, p 99; Donnybrook Fair / The Joy of My Life (version of? DMI, # 79)]
11. Reels: Untitled [CICD 3800, 3801, 3804 (all from this recording); O'Connell's Trip to Parliament {CRE 2, # 217(i)}, probably from this recording (mistake in date reference in CRE 2 notes?)], Maud Miller [CICD 3693 (from this recording); not the tune of that name recorded by James Morrison]
12. Reels: Untitled [CICD 4380 (from this recording); CRE 2, # 186 (from this recording; untitled); Paddy Kelly's (?); composed by Paddy Kelly, fiddle (?)], Miss Thornton's [CICD 3133, 3134 (from this recording); CRE 2, # 172 (from this recording)]
13. Reels: Untitled [CICD 5152 (from this recording); recorded by Hughie Gillespie in 1937 as the first in a selection called 'Master Crowley's Reels'], Summer in Ireland [CICD 3275, 3276 (both from this recording); CRE 2, # 165 (from this recording; title 'Dowd's No. 9' is also given / Dowd's Number Nine)]
14. Reel: The Daisy Field [CICD 4544 (from this recording); DMI, # 538; recorded by Michael Coleman?]
15. Reel: Lady Gordon [CICD 4302 (from this recording, the source for this tune in CRE 5, # 157)]
16. Jig: Untitled [CICD 1664 (from this recording); Tonra's; name sometimes garbled as Tony Rowe's; composed by Brendan Tonra]
17. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5743; The Green Mountain (version of); tonic note C (usually D); CICD card is written with tonic note D]
18. Reel: The Dunagore Reel / The Concertina Reel [CICD 5610, 5610.12 (both from this recording?); 5610.11, 5769 (none from this recording); MR's mother played it on the concertina; CRE 2, # 210 and 275 (both from MR; 275 is probably from this recording as transcribed on CICD 5610); The Concertina Reel (DMWC, # 72); The Old Concertina Reel]
19. Reel: The Sporting Days of Easter [CICD 3988.14 (from this recording); 3988.13 (also from this recording, but corrected from the version on 137a-ITMA-REEL, track 44); 3989 (where this recording is referenced); 3988.11–.12, (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 281 (from this recording)]
20. Reel: The Dublin Reel [CICD 3101, 3104.11–.12 (all from this recording?); 3103.11, 3103.12, 3103.14 (none from this recording); standard version (tonic note D); MR also plays a local version]
21. Reel: The Peeler's Pocket [CICD 5458 (from this recording?); CRE 2, # 204 (from this recording)]
22. Reel: Untitled [CICD 3841 (from JM but not from this recording); The Tap Room; CRE 2, # 292 (untitled, though with many names supplied in Notai i dTaobh na bhFonn)]
23. Reel: The Rising Sun / Clear the Road [CICD 3443, 3445 (both from this recording); CRE 2, # 214 (ii), from CICD 3445]
24. Reel: The Knotted Chord [CICD 2681 (from this recording); The Knotted Cord; CRE 2, # 229 (from CICD 2681)]
25. Jig: Untitled [CICD 2393 (from this recording); Brosnahin's Frolic (Tunes of the Munster Pipers, # 59); Brosnahan's Frolic]
26. Reel: Untitled [CICD 4772–.11 (both from this recording?); 4772.12–.13 (none from this recording); The Rainy Day]
27. Reel: Jackie Fitzpatrick's Reel / Jacky Fitzpatrick's Reel / Jack Fitz's Reel / Jackie Fitzgerald's Reel [CICD 5018, 5018.11 (both from this recording?); 4995.11–.12, 5016, 5017, 5018.12 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 225 (from this recording); related to Dowd's Favourite / O'Dowd's Favourite as recorded by Michael Coleman?]
28. Reel: Untitled [CICD 4405 (from this recording); Bonnie Ann / Bonny Ann; CRE 3, # 150]
29. Reel: Bonny Ann [CICD 2961 (from this recording)]
30. Reel: The Highland Merritor [CICD 4928 (from this recording)]
31. Reel: Old Girls of Our Town [CICD 5952.11 (from this recording?); The Pretty Girls of Our Town]
32. Reel: The New Line to Loughawn [CICD 2994 (from this recording?); a version of Sporting Paddy]
33. Reel: Untitled [CICD 3876 (from this recording?)]
34. Single Jig / [Reel / Hornpipe]: Stack the Rags [CICD 1834 (from this recording); transcribed by BB in 12/8 time, but played more like a slow reel or a hornpipe or barndance, etc]
35. Reel: Jennie Dang the Weaver / Jinnie Bang the Weaver [CICD 3974 (from this recording?)]
36. Reel: Scotch Willie [CICD 4015 (from this recording?); version of The Mayo Lasses / Johnny When You Die]
37. Reel: The Primrose Girl [CICD 5055 (from this recording); CRE 2, # 150 (ii) (from this recording)]
38. Jig: The Little Boy Fed on the Hill [CICD 2544 (not from this recording); Larry the Beerdrinker]
39. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5036 (from this recording); related to The Irishman's Blackthorn (CRE 2, # 244) and The Hills of Kesh (CRE 3, # 181)
40. Hornpipe: Untitled [not in CICD from this recording; The Groves Hornpipe (DMI, # 843)]
41. Reel: Untitled [not in CICD from this recording; Kitty in the Lane]
42. Reel: Untitled [not in CICD from this recording; The Silver Tip / Joe Mhaire Mhicilin / The Old Silver Spear / The New Mown Meadows; related to The Silver Spear] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English and Irish intermittently throughout;
Keogh, Dan, Tipperary, concertina solo A1;
Scallon? Scully?, Peter, Shetland, fiddle solo A3, 6;
fiddle in duet A4–5;
Scannon? Scully?, Jimmy, Shetland, fiddle in duet A4–5;
Mac Gill-Eain, Calum, Scotland, speech in English A7;
Cronin, Hannah, Kerry, singing in English A8–9;
O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig,, Kerry, fiddle solo A10, 15–19;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle solo A11–13;
fiddle in duet A14;
O'Leary, Johnny, Kerry, accordion in duet A14;
O'Dwyer, John, fiddle solo A20;
Unidentified performer, accordion solo A21;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group A22;
O Murchu, Sean, Galway / Dublin, speech in English A22, B1;
McGuire, Seamus, Sligo, fiddle in duet B1;
Kelly, John, Clare / Dublin, fiddle in duet B2;
concertina in duet B3;
concertina solo B4;
Ryan, Joe, Clare, fiddle in duet B2–3;
Casey, Bobby, Clare / London, fiddle solo B5–10, 11–13?;
speech in English B5, 7;
Unidentified performer, lilting solo B14;
Russell, Micho, Clare, flute solo B15;
whistle solo B16;
Unidentified performer, concertina solo B17–18

Running Order:
1. Speech, Polka: Untitled [Information about the tune that follows; it was recorded in Cappawhite, Co Tipperary in December 1955], Untitled [Micho Russell used to sing a comic song to this melody]
2. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the music and speech on tracks A3–7, consisting of fiddle music from Shetland and information about it]
3. Dance Tune: Kail and Knockit Corn
4. Speech, Dance Tune: Untitled, The Merry Boys of Greenland
5. Speech, Dance Tune: Untitled, The Mason's Apron
6. Speech, Dance Tune: Untitled, Arrasdale [Stated to be similar to Cornphiopa na Mairnealach (The Sailor's Hornpipe); stated to have been composed by the performer]
7. Speech: Untitled [Information about the Shetland music just played; the performers were father (Jimmy) and son (Peter) Scully; the version of the performers' surname given here does not seem to match with that given in earlier speech links]
8. Speech, Song: Untitled [Information about the next performer and the song she sings], Two and Three Strings to my Bow (incomplete)
9. Song: The Ploughboy (incomplete)
10. Speech, Air: Untitled, The Blackbird
11. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled [Stated to be an old reel that derives from the performer's father; Anything for John Joe?; The Lisheen Reel; Did the Rum Do, Da?]
12. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The Lark in the Bog / The Geese in the Bog [The Lark's March]
13. Speech, Polka: Untitled, The Green Cottage Polka
14. Speech, Slide: Untitled, I'd Rather be Married than Left Alone
15. Speech, Air: Untitled, An Buachaillin Ban [The Dear Irish Boy]
16. Speech, Air: Untitled, O'Rahilly's Grave
17. Speech, Slides: Untitled, Untitled [Mickeen Dawley's], Untitled [If I Had a Wife]
18. Speech, Hornpipe: Untitled, The Woods of Kilkenny
19. Reel: The New-Mown Meadow [Joe Mhaire Mhicilin]
20. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Information about the last tune played and about the tune that follows], Untitled
21. Jig: Untitled
22. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Grandpa Tommy's Ceili Band; composed by Martin Mulhaire], Untitled (incomplete) [Radio announcement] [END OF BAND ONE]
23. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Radio announcement], The First Month of Summer, The Green Banks of Rossbeigh [The Green Fields of Rossbeigh]
24. Set Dances: Bonaparte's Retreat, The Ace and Deuce of Piping
25. Reels: Untitled [Reference given in documentation to this tune's appearance in print (The Smiles and Tears of Erin, in CRE, # 101); The Crooked Road to Dublin], Nellie Donovan [The Ladies Pantalettes] [This selection was recorded by Michael Coleman and J P (Pakie) Dolan, fiddles, on 78rpm commercial disc as 'The Duke of Leinster and His Wife']
26. Hornpipe: Untitled [Fisher's Hornpipe]
27. Reel: Untitled [Sporting Nell; Gorman's Reel; The Long Strand; for other performances of this tune, see tracks B6 &17]
28. Speech, Reels: Untitled, The Long Strand [Sporting Nell; Gorman's Reel; for other performances of this tune, see tracks B5 &17], The Beauty Spot
29. Speech, Hornpipes: Untitled, Scully's Hornpipe, Untitled [Murphy's Hornpipe; for another performance of this tune, see track B11a]
30. Speech, Jig: Untitled, Untitled [Bobby Casey's Jig; Scully Casey's Jig; CRE 3, # 16], Coppers and Brass [The Humours of Ennistymon]
31. Reels: Untitled [Dwyer's Reel; Finbarr Dwyer's Reel; The Holly Bush; Matt the Thresher; composed by Finbarr Dwyer], Untitled [The Dogs among the Bushes]
32. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled [Rakish Paddy; 4-part version as recorded on 78rmp disc by James Morrison, fiddle; for another performance of this version, see track B13a]
33. Hornpipes: Untitled [Murphy's Hornpipe; for another performance of this tune, see track B7b], Untitled [The Derry Hornpipe / The Londonderry Hornpipe; faded out at end]
34. Jigs: Untitled [The Rambling Pitchfork], Untitled [Jimmy O'Brien's Jig]
35. Reels: Untitled [Rakish Paddy; 4-part version as recorded on 78rmp disc by James Morrison, fiddle; for another performance of this version, see track B10], Untitled [The Wheels of the World; faded out]
36. Jig: Untitled [The Piper's Chair]
37. Jig: Untitled [Donal na Greine]
38. Reel: Untitled [Boil the Breakfast Early]
39. Reel: Untitled [Gorman's; Sporting Nell; The Long Strand; for other performances of this tune, see tracks B5 & 6]
40. Jig: Untitled (tape runs out) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English A1–4, 9–11, 13, 17, 19, 21, B3, 15;
speech in Irish A25;
Clancy, Willie, Clare, pipes solo A1–4, B3–4, 8–10, 15–17, B3–4, 8–10, 15–19;
speech in English B15;
Rowsome, Leo, Dublin, pipes solo A5–8, 22–24, B5–7;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English A9;
Doran, Felix, Wicklow / Manchester, speech in English A9–10, 17, 19;
pipes solo A9–11, 18, 20–21;
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, speech in Irish and English A12–13, 15;
pipes solo A12, 14–16;
Moloney, Paddy, Dublin, pipes solo A26–27, B1;
Touhey, Patsy, Galway / New York, pipes solo B2;
O Murchu, Sean, Galway / Dublin, speech in English B5, 7;
O'Loughlin, Peter, Clare, pipes solo B11–14;
Mac Donnchadha, Sean / 'ac Dhonncha, Sean / Johnny Joe Pheaitsin / McDonagh, Johnny, Galway, singing in Irish B20;
O hEanai, Seosamh / Einiu, Joe / Heaney, Joe, Galway, singing in Irish B21

Running Order:
1. Speech, Air: Untitled, The Rocks of Bawn [Stated to be a version of the melody of the song generally known by this title]
2. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Information about the date of recording], The Old Bush
3. Speech, Reels: Untitled, The West Wind, Sean Reid's Fancy [Sean Reid's Favourite; Gilbert Clancy's]
4. Speech, Slip Jig: Untitled, An dTiocfaidh Tu sios go Luimneach / Kitty Come down to Limerick / The Munster Gimlet
5. Air: An Chuileann [The Coolin]
6. Reels: The Bag of Potatoes, Untitled [Dillon's Fancy], Untitled [The Moving Cloud], The Maid behind the Bar [Kiss the Maid behind the Barrel]
7. Airs: An Raibh Tu ag an gCarraig, The Castle of Dromore [For a different performance of this piece by the same performer, see track B6]
8. Reels: The Sligo Maid, The First House in Connacht
9. Speech, Speech, Reel: Untitled [Information that the performance that follows was recorded at a Fleadh Ceoil in Mullingar, Co Westmeath in 1963; further detail in documentation], Untitled, The Maid in the Cherry Tree
10. Speech, Reel: Untitled [How Felix Doran began playing the pipes; his family background in piping], Untitled [The Pigeon on the Gate]
11. Speech, Jig: Untitled, Untitled [The Newport Lass; The Newport Lasses; The Trip to Athlone], Garrett Barry's Jig
12. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Story about the scolaire bocht, the poor scholar], An Scolaire Bocht / The Scholar [The Poor Scholar]
13. Speech: Untitled [Topics: about Seamus Ennis's pipes; story about a headstrong woman]
14. Reel: The Woman of the House [The Mistress of the House]
15. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The Gold Ring
16. Air: Untitled (clipped at start) [Tiarna Mhaigh Eo / Lord Mayo; in a version deriving from Frank Cassidy, fiddle, Donegal]
17. Speech: Untitled [Topics: Felix Doran's new set of pipes, made by Leo Rowsome; how Irish traditional music is faring in Manchester]
18. Reel: The Mayo Lasses [Mistitled? George White's Favourite]
19. Speech: Untitled [Topics include: Felix Doran had just acquired a new set of pipes at the time of this recording; his first experience of learning the pipes, in 1932; his family background in piping; his father was a good player; his grandfather Cash; other piping members of his family; he travelled a lot in counties Galway and Clare, and played especially with musicians Paddy Fahy, Paddy Kelly, Willie Clancy and Joe Leary; how the chanter of his pipes got broken in a traffic accident in Laytown, Co Meath; buying his first set of pipes, a practice set, in 1932 in Capel St in Dublin]
20. Reel: The Mountain Lark [The Steampacket]
21. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Toss the Feathers
22. Descriptive Piece: The Fox Chase
23. Reels: Untitled [Johnny When You Die], The Woman of the House
24. Reel: The Star of Munster, The Copperplate
25. Speech: Untitled [Stage announcement]
26. Hornpipe: Untitled [Pretty Maggie Morrissey]
27. Air: A Spailpin a Run [END OF BAND ONE]
28. Reel: Trim the Velvet
29. Reel: The Mountain Lark [The Steampacket], The Morning Star, Miss McLeod's Reel [Dubbing from a 78 rpm commercial disc]
30. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Star of Munster
31. Jigs: The Frieze Breeches [Version of; I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her], Old Tipperary
32. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Radio announcement], The Scholar, The Primrose Lass
33. Air, Jig: The Castle of Dromore [For a different performance of this piece by the same performer, see track A7], Untitled [Malowney's Wife]
34. Speech, Set Dance: Untitled [Radio announcement], Bonaparte's Retreat
35. Reels: The Copperplate, Rakish Paddy
36. Hornpipe: The Plains of Boyle
37. Jig: Garrett Barry's Jig
38. Set Dance: The Blackbird
39. Jigs: The Butcher's March, Down the Back Lane
40. Hornpipes: The Leitrim Fancy, Untitled [Byrne's]
41. Speech, Air, Reel: Untitled, Sliabh na mBan, Gilbert Clancy [Sean Reid's Favourite]
42. Speech, Jig: Untitled, Down the Back Lane
43. Jig: Paidin O Raifeartaigh
44. Air: The Trip We Took over the Mountains
45. Reel: The Connacht Heifer
46. Reels: The Old Bush, The Ravelled Hank of Yarn [Dub from a 78 rpm Gael-Linn commercial disc]
47. Song: Ta na Paipeir Da Saighneail
48. Song: Ta na Paipeir Da Saighneail [Mistitled?] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performer [McConnell, Cathal, Fermanagh?], speech in English A1;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A2a;
Byrne, Anne, Dublin, singing in English with instrumental accompaniment A2b;
Bennett, John, speech in English A2c?, 2f?, 2i?, 2k?, 2m?;
Unidentified performers, singing in English with instrumental accompaniment A2d–e, 2h, 2l, 3–6;
McGuigan, Pat, harmonica in trio A2g;
McConnell, Cathal, Fermanagh, whistle in trio A2g;
Healy, James N, Cork, speech in English A2i, 2m;
singing in English with instrumental accompaniment A2j;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A7;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group A8;
Unidentified performer [Furey, Finbar, Dublin / Waterford?], pipes in duet A9;
Unidentified performer, whistle in duet A10–12;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle in duet B1, 3;
fiddle solo B2, 4–9;
speech in English A7;
Unidentified performer [O'Keeffe, Art / O'Keefe, Art, Kerry], whistle in duet B1, 3,;
Russell, Micho, Clare, whistle solo B10–18;
speech in English B10–16;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English intermittently throughout tracks B;
Doherty, John, Donegal, fiddle solo B19–30;
speech in English intermittently throughout tracks B19–30;
Unidentified performer [Kelly, John, Clare / Dublin?], speech in English and Irish B24;
Unidentified performers, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [Information about the contents of track A2]
2. a) Speech, b) Song, c) Speech, d) Song, e) Song, f) Speech, g) Instrumental Piece, h) Song, i) Speech, j) Song, k) Speech, l) Song, m) Speech: a) Untitled [Radio announcement], b) Can You Dance the Polka?, c) Untitled [Radio announcement], d) Farewell to Tarwathie, e) Untitled [Brief; one verse only], f) Untitled [Information about the song just song and the tune to be played next; gives the title of the tune], g) ? the Forty Second [Tune has the same melody as that of the song sung before it here], h) Untitled, i) Untitled [Interview; topic: sea songs and shanties], j) The Bug-A-Boo, k) Untitled, l) Untitled [All for Me Grog], m) Untitled [Radio announcement & interview] [This track is a poor-quality off-air dubbing of a (radio or TV) programme titled 'The Sea Folk', broadcast on BBC Northern Ireland]
3. Song: Untitled [Track A5 contains another copy of the recording on this track]
4. Song: Untitled [The Sisters of Mercy, composed by Leonard Cohen]
5. Song: Untitled [Preceded by short recording of piano-playing; track A3 contains another copy of the recording on this track]
6. Song: Untitled
7. Song: Untitled [William Hollander]
8. Reel: Untitled
9. Air: Untitled
10. Reel: Untitled [The Stony Step]
11. Reel: Untitled [The Belles of Tipperary]
12. Reel: Untitled (incomplete) [The Skylark] [END OF BAND ONE]
13. Reel: Untitled [Donall a' Phumpa; CRE 5, # 147; Molly on the Shore]
14. Reel: Untitled [Donal a' Clumper's Reel; CRE 2, # 295 (where it is untitled)]
15. Reels: Untitled [The Morning Star], Untitled [Rolling in the Ryegrass]
16. Reel: Untitled [Callaghan's Reel / O'Callaghan's Reel; CRE 2, # 131]
17. Reel: Untitled [Quinn's Reel; CRE 2, # 171]
18. Reels: Untitled [The Mountain Road; composed by Michael Gorman], Untitled [The Doon Reel (JOLSL, ed. Moylan, # 94); Pat Ward's Jig (a version of this tune played as a single jig by Seamus Ennis)]
19. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Glountane Reel (CICD 3453)], Untitled
20. Jig: Untitled [Cailin a' Ti Mhoir / Cailin an Ti Mhoir (CRE 2, # 40); The Housekeeper; The House Maid; The Girl from the Big House]
21. Reel: Untitled [Callaghan's; The Doon Reel; Nellie Donovan; CRE 2, # 270]
22. Reel, Speech: The Boy in the Gap, Untitled
23. Reel, Speech: The Fair-Haired Boy, Untitled
24. Reel, Speech: Patsy Campbell's Reel, Untitled
25. Reel, Speech: Upstairs in a Tent [CRE 2, 190], Untitled
26. Reel, Speech: Tadhg a Run / A Thaidhg, a Run [CRE 2, 150 (i)], Untitled
27. Reel, Speech: The Rose in the Garden [Divide the Cally Fair; Kennaw's Reel (WSGM, # 326, related tune)], Untitled
28. Jig / Slide, Speech: Untitled [The Clare Jig; CRE 2, 71], Untitled [Tune just played was used for the fifth figure of a set]
29. Jig: Untitled [The Frieze Breeches]
30. Jig: Untitled [Tatter Jack Walsh]
31. Reel: Untitled [The Dispute at the Crossroads; a version of Doctor Gilbert]
32. Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled
33. Reel, Speech: Miss Ramsey, Untitled
34. Reel, Speech: Untitled [McFarley's; a version of 'The Maids of Castlebar'], Untitled
35. Reel: The Moving Bogs of Allen [The Moving Bogs (CRE 2, # 174)]
36. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Caher Rua, Untitled
37. Slip Jig: Untitled [Hardiman the Fiddler, version of]
38. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The Old Hag at the Churn [Related to Garrett Barrett's Jig]
39. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The King of the Pipers [CRE 2, # 45]
40. Jig, Speech: Untitled [The King of the Pipers; not the same tune as in the previous track], Untitled
41. Jig: Untitled [The Rambling Pitchfork, version of]
42. Reel: Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, whistle solo A2, 4, 8;
speech in English and Irish throughout;
singing in Irish A6, 13;
pipes solo A10, 12, 14, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 32;
singing in English A16–17;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English and Irish throughout

Running Order:
1. Tone Signal: Untitled
2. Reel: The Sack of Potatoes / An Mala Fatai / The Bag of Spuds [The Bag of Potatoes; short version to begin the 1st edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape; full version at track A4]
3. Speech: Untitled [Topics include: the tune at tracks A2 and A4 was learned by SE in 1941 from a man named Geoghegan, a member of the Gardai Siochana in Salthill, Galway; superstition about sowing potatoes on Good Friday; the reel just played was a favourite of the Ballinakill Ceili Band; dependency on potatoes in Connemara; fairy story relating to the potato crop during the famine, told to SE by Colm O Caoidheain, Glinsce, Connemara; story includes mention of Fionnbhara, the king of the good fairies, and the Siafra, the queen of the bad fairies]
4. Reel: The Sack of Potatoes / An Mala Fatai / The Bag of Spuds [The Bag of Potatoes; short version at track A2]
5. Speech: Untitled [Topics include: the background to the song that follows; stories about the fairy folk spiriting away cows or newly-wed women to serve their need for milk]
6. Song with Speech: Amhran na Bo Baine [Song about the spiriting away of a white cow by the fairies, with explanatory speech interjections by SE; includes mention of a 'snaidhm bua' (a charmed knot)]
7. Speech: Untitled [Topics include: snuff and its healing properties; story that is the background to the next tune]
8. Reel: The Pinch of Snuff / An Pinsin Snaoisin [End of 1st edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape]
9. Tone signal
10. Reel: Ceol na Ceartan / The Music of the Forge [The Pretty Girls of Mayo; short version to begin the 2nd edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape; full version at A12; clipped at start]
11. Speech: Untitled
12. Reel: Ceol na Ceartan / The Music of the Forge [The Pretty Girls of Mayo; short version at track A10]
13. Speech with Singing: Untitled [A poet asks a blacksmith for the loan of a spade and is refused; he responds by writing a song cursing all blacksmiths and then gets the loan of the spade; SE first heard the reel The Merry Blacksmith in 1925]
14. Speech, Reel: Untitled, An Gabha Aerach / The Merry Blacksmith
15. Speech: Untitled [About SE's home place, Baile Sheamais / Jamestown; his father and forebears lived in the Naul; ancestors came originally from Scotland; an ancestor had been a stable-boy in Scotland and had eloped with the daughter of his master and with her jewels; with those riches they bought a farm in the Naul; introduction to the next song, one that was sung by SE's grandfather only after dinner on Christmas Day]
16. Song, Speech: Untitled [First line: 'My name is McCarty, I'm a native of Trim'], Untitled [Introduction to the next song, which also was sung by SE's grandfather]
17. Song: Untitled ['Bonnie bonnie bairn']
18. Speech, Air: Untitled, Untitled [Melody of the song fragment just sung, 'Bonnie bonnie bairn']
19. Speech: Untitled [The tune that follows was learned from the Drogheda piper Pat Ward, who played a double chanter]
20. Reel: Diuc Goran / Lord Gordon [End of 2nd edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape]
21. Tone signal
22. Air: Mo Ghra-Sa an Jug Mor is e Lan / Cailin Deas Cruite na mBo [Short version to begin the 3rd and last edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape; full version at track A24]
23. Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune just played; in the old days it was banned by the clergy because a priest was delayed through listening to the song while on his way to a sick call; the song was performed by the devil in the form of a young woman milking a cow; story about Saint Patrick and the devil; the tune just played is the melody of a song sung by Cait Ni Mhuimhneachain of Beal Atha an Ghaorthaigh / Ballingeary, Co Cork; some of the words of that song]
24. Air: Mo Ghra-Sa an Jug Mor is e Lan / Cailin Deas Cruite na mBo [Short version at track A22]
25. Speech: Untitled [SE met a spalpeen / spailpin recently; introduction to the air to be played next]
26. Air: The Maid from Ballingarry / An Spailpin Fanach [The Maid of Ballingarry; said by SE to be a version of An Spailpin Fanach; the melody of a ballad in English, learned from the singing of John Connell of Baile Mhuirne]
27. Speech: Untitled [Hiring fairs in Athenry and Ballinasloe, Co Galway]
28. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The Rambling Pitchfork
29. Speech: Untitled [Seanchas / folklore from Colm O Caoidheain, Connemara; any poet or musician who wants anything from a blacksmith should get it without payment; story that is the background to that belief, connected with the song that follows]
30. Song: Untitled [About a poet who was refused a request by a blacksmith]
31. Speech: Untitled [Music connected with the forge]
32. Reel: Ceol na Ceartan / The Music of the Forge [End of 3rd edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, whistle solo A2, 8–9, 17, 19, 23, 33;
speech in English and Irish throughout;
pipes solo A4, 6, 15, 25, 27, 31;
singing in English A11;
singing in Irish A13;
singing in Irish and English A21, 29;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English and Irish throughout;
lilting in duet A9

Running Order:
1. Tone Signal: Untitled
2. Slide: Untitled [The Dark Girl in Blue (CRE 3, # 50); Denis Murphy's Slide; short version to begin the 1st edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape; full version at track A9]
3. Speech: Untitled [Topics include: how long does it take to make a piper? Time required: 7 years learning, 7 years practising, 7 years playing; story about 3 squabbling brothers; introduction to the tune that follows, a test piece for pipers; SE plays his father's version]
4. Set Dance: A hAon is a Do na Piobaireachta / The Ace and Deuce of Piping [One of two versions of this tune that SE played; tonic note A]
5. Speech: Untitled [About the title of the piece of music that follows, The Shaskeen Reel; bo sheasc is a cow that is not giving milk, perhaps a barren cow; the word 'seaiscin' is the affectionate diminutive of the word 'seasc', referring to such a cow that is kept as a pet]
6. Reel: The Shaskeen Reel
7. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the theme of the story that follows; story about the hiring fairs, 'Don Nippery Septo'; story about the king of Greece who wanted to give his daughter's hand in marriage to the man who could tell the longest story – the story without end; Ennis refers to the tune that follows as 'The Eternal Slide']
8. Slide, Speech: The Eternal Slide [Dingle Regatta (Sliabh Luachra version)], Untitled
9. Slide: Untitled [The Dark Girl in Blue (CRE 3, # 50); Denis Murphy's Slide; with lilting; full version; short version at track A2]
10. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the song that follows, which was learnt from Mrs Cronin of Ballyvourney and her son Michael; song is about the treaty of Limerick, Sarsfield and the flight of the Wild Geese]
11. Song: Untitled [The Charming Colleen Rua]
12. Speech: Untitled [Topics include: the dialect of Irish in Waterford; Labhras O Cadhlaigh; faction fighting; factions Carabhat & Seana-Bheist; introduction to the next item]
13. Song: Untitled [Is Buachaill o Chluain Meala Me; song used to start a faction fight]
14. Speech: Untitled [Discussion of topics related to the song just sung, including: faction fighting; dragging one's coat to start a fight; fair days and faction fights; '12 o'clock in the day and not a blow struck'; Labhras O Cadhlaigh interested in piping; An Lin faoi Bhlath / The Flax in Bloom, reel popular in Ring, Co Waterford]
15. Reel: An Lin faoi Bhlath / The Flax in Bloom [End of the first edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape]
16. Tone signal
17. Polka: Untitled [The Dark Girl Dressed in Blue; not the tune with a similar title in tracks A2 & 9; short version to begin the second edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape; a full version of the tune is at track A19(a)]
18. Speech: Untitled [Topics include: the tune at tracks A1 and 3 was learned by SE from Padraig O'Keeffe and Denis Murphy in Sliabh Luachra; polkas seldom have names]
19. Polkas: Untitled [The Dark Girl Dressed in Blue; not the tune with a similar titled in tracks A2 & 9; full version of tune played in track 17], Untitled [The Knocknaboul Polka # 2]
20. Speech: Untitled [Topics include: travels in the Sliabh Luachra area, including Gneeveguillia; introduction to the next song, about a pup that strays and later returns to its owner, Con Carthy of Claedeach; the song has alternate verses in Irish and English]
21. Song: The Pup Came Home from Claedeach
22. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to next piece of music, which SE learned from his father]
23. Air: The Trip We Took over the Mountain
24. Speech: Untitled [Flag floors in country houses; the dancer's flagstone, which had an inverted cauldron under the flag, to resonate under the dancer's feet; introduction to next piece of music]
25. Reel: The Flags of Dublin
26. Speech: Untitled [Topics: Quote from Raftery's poem 'Anois Teacht an Earraigh'; introduction to next piece of music, which SE plays in a version learned from his father]
27. Slip Jig: The Kid on the Mountain
28. Speech: Untitled [Topics: SE working at translating Irish songs into English; SE's translation of Peig Sayers's book 'Machnamh Sean-Mhna / Reflections of an Old Woman' for Oxford University Press; memorial to Peig Sayers being prepared in Dunquin; introduction to the song that follows]
29. Song with Speech: Sliabh na mBan [With each verse sung in both Irish and English; English translations by SE; with spoken interjection]
30. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to next piece of music]
31. Reel: Nil Aon Airgead Agam / I Have No Money
32. Speech: Untitled
33. Polka: Untitled [The Dark Girl Dressed in Blue; the tune played already at tracks A17 & 19; end of second edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape; faded out] [END OF BAND ONE]