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Performers:
Mitchell, Pat, Dublin, speech in English A1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17;
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, pipes solo A2;
Touhey, Patsy, Galway / New York, pipes solo A4;
Carney, Michael, Mayo / New York, pipes solo A6;
Gallagher, Michael, New York, pipes in duet A8;
Clancy, Willie, Clare, pipes solo A10, 12, 14, 16;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A18;
Lawson, Brian, speech in English A19, B1;
Unidentified performers, speech in English B1;
Unidentified performer, pipes solo B2–3

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [Lecture segment]
2. Jig: Untitled [Paidin O Raifeartaigh; lecture illustration from sound recording]
3. Speech: Untitled [Lecture segment; Willie Clancy being influenced by recordings made in the USA of pipers living there, including Patsy Touhey]
4. Jigs: Untitled [The Maid on the Green], Untitled (incomplete) [Jackson's Jig]
5. Speech: Untitled [Lecture segment; the influence of Patsy Touhey and Michael Carney on Willie Clancy]
6. Reel: Untitled [The Jolly Tinker]
7. Speech: Untitled [Lecture segment]
8. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Plains of Boyle]
9. Speech: Untitled [Lecture segment]
10. Reels: The Copperplate, Rakish Paddy
11. Speech: Untitled [Lecture segment]
12. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Plains of Boyle]
13. Speech: Untitled [Lecture segment]
14. Reels: The Old Bush, Michael Carney's Reel / The Ravelled Hank of Yarn [Dubbed from a commercial 78rpm disc released by Gael-linn]
15. Speech: Untitled [Lecture segment]
16. Piece: Untitled [Nora Crionna]
17. Speech: Untitled [Lecture segment; conclusion of lecture, followed by applause]
18. Speech: Untitled [Lecture segment; topics: structure of uilleann pipes; examining 19th century chanters; lost skills; good design in old sets]
19. Speech: Untitled [Lecture segment; topics: the ear is the ultimate instrument to judge the quality of sound; sound waves; three aspects of notes: pitch, volume, and quality; the nature of pitch; the influence of the density of the air; details of the characteristics of sound waves; wave formations; etc] [Speed changes in this track were regularised by means of software facilities] [Continued on tracks B] [END OF BAND ONE]
20. Speech: Untitled [Continuation of lecture; lecture segment; topics include: technical aspects of the uilleann pipe chanter; the quality of sound of the note produced; overtones and harmonics; influence of the material from which the chanter is made; relative densities of woods used for chanters; qualities of reeds; general discussion on topics mentioned; importance of how air enters the chanter; factors affecting the regulators; controlling the air pressure for the regulators; the skills of old pipemakers; characteristics of double chanters]
21. Jig: Untitled
22. Reel: Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English and Irish A1, 3, 5–6, 8, 10, 13–14, 16–17, 19, 22, B1, 6, 9, 11–12, 14, 16, 21, 25;
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, speech in Irish A2;
pipes solo A2–5, B7–10;
O'Dowd, Dan, Dublin, pipes A7, B15;
Summers, Rory, Dublin, warpipes solo A9;
Conroy, Andy, Roscommon, pipes A11–12, B13;
Hutton, Joe, Northumbria, Northumbrian pipes solo A14–16, B2–5;
Mitchell, Pat, Dublin, pipes A5–8, B17–20;
O'Flynn, Liam Og, Kildare, pipes A20–21, B22–24

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the concert and to the first performer; the recording on this tape was made at a concert of piping in the Rupert Guinness Hall, Dublin, on 17 March 1974]
2. Speech, Air: Untitled [Remark by the performer], Cuan Bheil Inse / Valencia Harbour
3. Speech, Hornpipes: Untitled [Introduction to the next performance], The Boys of Blue Hill, Ballymanus Fair [Alexander's Hornpipe]
4. Jig: Untitled [The Gold Ring]
5. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Introduction to the next performance], O'Sullivan's [Tim Moloney], The Dublin Reel
6. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next performer]
7. Airs: Bean Dubh an Ghleanna / The Dark Woman of the Glen, Taimse im Chodhladh
8. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next performer]
9. Marches, Air, Jig, Pipe Tune, Jig: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled; Untitled; Untitled [The Peeler and the Goat]; Untitled [Breton tune? Recorded by Alan Stivell]; Untitled
10. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next performer]
11. Jig / March, Jig: The Butcher's March, Untitled [Jackson's Jig / Jackson's Bottle of Brandy / Pay the Reckoning]
12. Reel: Untitled [The Flogging Reel]
13. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next performer]
14. Speech, Air, Hornpipe, Reel: Untitled [Continuation of introduction to the next performer], Bonny North Tyne, Whinshield's Hornpipe, Hesleyside Reel
15. Hornpipes: The Glen Aln Hornpipe, Barrington Hornpipe, Rowley Burn
16. Speech, Air: Untitled [Introduction to the next performance], The Cheviot Hills
17. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next performer and performance]
18. Piece: The Humours of Glin
19. Jig / March, Piece, Jig: Mairseal Alasdruim, Gol na mBan san Ar, Cnocan an Teampaill / Church Hill
20. Speech: Untitled [Information about the previous piece, and introduction to the next performer]
21. Jigs: A Chailleach do Mharais Me, The Hurler's March / The Humours of Ballyloughlin
22. Reels: Untitled [Kiss the Maid behind the Barrel], Untitled [The Merry Blacksmith]
23. Speech: Untitled [Announcement of interval in concert]
24. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the beginning of the second half of the concert and the next performance; the recording on this tape was made at a concert of piping in the Rupert Guinness Hall, Dublin, on 17 March 1974]
25. Air, March: Sweet Hesleyside, Sidney Smith's March
26. Hornpipes: The Navvy on the Line, The Wonder
27. Tuning: Untitled [Performer tunes his pipes]
28. Air, Hornpipe: Memories, The Champion
29. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next performer]
30. Air: Nora Ni Choncubhair Bhain [White Connor's Daughter Nora]
31. Hornpipe: The Derry Hornpipe [The Londonderry Hornpipe]
32. Speech, Single Jigs, Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next performance], Ask My Father, Pat Ward's Jig, Untitled [Introduction to the next performance] [END OF BAND ONE]
33. Reel: The Flags of Dublin (clipped at start) [The introduction to this piece (on previous track) mentions that the reel 'Jenny's Welcome to Charlie' was played before this tune. For a full version of this track, see the other recording of this concert in the BB collection]
34. Speech, Strathspeys, Reels, Hornpipe, Air, Jigs: Untitled [Introduction to the next performer]; Untitled, Untitled; Untitled, Untitled, Untitled [The High Reel]; Untitled; Untitled; Untitled [Tune related to 'The Geese in the Bog'], Untitled
35. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next performer]
36. Reels: The Morning Star, Miss McLeod's Reel, Untitled [The Strawberry Blossom]
37. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next performer]
38. Air, Jig: An Buachaill Caol Dubh, Paidin O Raifeartaigh
39. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next performer]
40. Speech, Tuning: Untitled [Remark by the performer], Untitled [Tuning of his pipes by the performer]
41. Single Jig: The Old Hag in the Kiln
42. Air: The Churchyard of Creggan / Uirchill an Chreagain
43. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Remark by the performer], The Repeal of the Union
44. Speech: Untitled [Concluding remarks and introduction to the final performer]
45. Jig: The Gold Ring
46. Hornpipe: Johnny Cope
47. Reel: The Bucks of Oranmore
48. Speech: Untitled [Final announcement by presenter] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Ni Dhonnchadha, Maire Aine / Ni Dhonncha, Maire Aine, singing in Irish A1–6;
'Ac Donncha, Sean / Mac Donncha, Sean / Mac Donnchadha, Sean / Johnny Joe Pheaitsin, singing in Irish A7, 10;
Unidentified performer(s), singing in Irish A8, 9, 11

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled
2. Song: Untitled [Mna Deasa Locha Riabhach]
3. Song: Untitled [Bruach na Carraige Baine]
4. Song: Untitled [Una Bhan]
5. Song: Untitled [Anach Cuain / Eanach Dhuin]
6. Song: Untitled [Donal Og] (unrecorded section during song) [END OF BAND ONE]
7. Song: Untitled [An Bonnan Bui] (overmodulated on original recording)
8. Song: Untitled [An Sgeilpin Droighneach]
9. Song: Untitled [Amhran Mhaighinse]
10. Song: Untitled [Spailpin A Run]
11. Song: Untitled [Liam O Raghallaigh] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Murphy, Mollie / Murphy, Mrs, Cork, fiddle A1–20;
speech in English throughout tracks A1–20;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, speech in English throughout tracks A1–20;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English throughout tracks A1–20;
Moran, Thomas, whistle A21–24;
Unidentified performer [Bill Andrews ?], pipes A25–26;
Clancy, Willie, Clare, pipes A27;
whistle A27–29;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle A30;
Ni Dhonnchadha, Maire Aine, Galway, singing in Irish A31–32;
Mac Donnchadha, Sean / 'ac Dhonncha, Sean / Johnny Joe Pheaitsin / McDonagh, Johnny, Galway, singing in Irish A31;
Unidentified performers, A33;
Killoran, Paddy, USA, fiddle A34;
Unidentified music group, unidentified location B1;
Wathen, Ronnie, speech in English B1, 9, 11;
Unidentified performers, singing in an unidentified language B2–3, 5–6, 9–15;
Unidentified music group, singing in an unidentified language with percussion B4, 7–8;
Unidentified performers, speech in an unidentified language B6, 9–10, 11;
Mitchell, Pat, Dublin, pipes B16–18

Running Order:
1. Jig: The Guy and His Comrade [CICD 1036–1037 (from this recording); Morrison's Jig; track includes discussion about the tune, as do many tracks featuring the performer here]
2. Reel: The Queen of Hearts [Incomplete; first part of the tune only]
3. Jig: The Humours of Ennistymon [CICD 1514.11–1514.12 (from this recording); Coppers and Brass]
4. Jig: Untitled [CICD 2182.11 (from this recording)]
5. Jig: Stick It and Hold Her [CICD 2536.11 (from this recording)]
6. Jig, Speech: Church Hill / Kitty the Rags / I Am in Love with You [The titles 'Kitty the Rags' and 'I Am in Love with You' were supplied by Denis Murphy; Cnocan an Teampaill; this recording is probably the source for CRE 2, # 54, but CICD card is missing; Kitty the Rag, I'm in Love with You], Untitled
7. Jig: Untitled [CICD 667.12 (from this recording)]
8. Jig: Untitled [CICD 2505.11 (from this recording); Fasten the Leg in Her]
9. Jig: The Ballinamuck Jig / Jimmy O'Brien's Jig / The Maid in the Meadow [Indication in the discussion that the player might be referring to a written source]
10. Jig: The Humours of Dingle [CICD 774.11 (from this recording)]
11. Jig: Untitled [CICD 2127.12 (from this recording); Happy to Meet and Sorry to Part]
12. Jig: Untitled [CICD 864 (from this recording); The Boys of the Town]
13. Jig: The Ducks in the Oats [CICD 2483.11 (from this recording)]
14. Jig: Untitled [CICD 1165 (from this recording); Connie the Soldier]
15. Jig: The Humours of Ballinacurtha / The Humours of Ballinacintha [CICD 1626.11 (from this recording; provides both titles given here); playing of the tune is followed by discussion of the spelling of the name Ballinacurtha; however, the title 'The Humours of Ballinacurtha' might not apply to the tune played here but to 'The Maid on the Green' – see BB index PRI, card 847 + ff]
16. Reel: Untitled
17. Reel: The Top Room / The Tap Room
18. Reel, Jig: The Moving Bog (brief; incomplete), The Walls of Liscarroll / The Feather Bed Jig
19. Jig: Untitled [The Ship in Full Sail]
20. Slip Jig: The Cock in the Heath [CICD 49 (from this recording)]
21. Reel: Untitled [The Sally Gardens]
22. Hornpipe: Untitled [Chief O'Neill's Favourite]
23. Hornpipe: Untitled [Off to California]
24. Polka: Sweeney's Polka
25. Reels: Untitled [Jenny's Wedding], Untitled [Jenny Tie the Bonnet] [Dubbing from commercial 78rpm disc?]
26. Reel: Untitled [Kiss the Maid behind the Barrel; dubbing from commercial 78rpm disc?]
27. Hornpipe, Reel: Untitled (brief; incomplete) [The Sweeps], Untitled [The Shaskeen Reel] [Dubbings from commercial LPs?]
28. Jig: Untitled [The Maid on the Green; dubbing from commercial LP]
29. Reel: Untitled [The Mountain Road; dubbing from commercial LP]
30. Song, Song: Untitled ['S Ambo Eara], Untitled (brief; incomplete) [A Stor Mo Chroi] [Dubbing from commercial LP]
31. Song: Untitled [Is Deas an Buachaillin / Is Deas an Sagairtin; dubbing from commercial LP]
32. Song: Untitled [Una Bhan; dubbing from commercial LP]
33. Jigs: Untitled [The Banks of Lough Gowna; played for a short time at half speed], The Banks of Newfoundland [Dubbing from commercial recording]
34. Reel: The First Month of Spring [Dubbing from commercial recording]
35. Jigs: The Noonday Feast / John McMahon's Fancy [Dubbing from commercial recording]
36. Jigs: Untitled (brief; incomplete), The Sunny Banks [The Humours of Kesh (clipped at end)] [Dubbing from commercial recording] [END OF BAND ONE]
37. Piece with spoken commentary: Untitled [Music performance recorded at a ritual ceremony, with spoken commentary]
38. Song: Untitled
39. Song: Untitled
40. Song: Untitled
41. Song: Untitled
42. Song, Song, Speech: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
43. Songs: Untitled
44. Song: Untitled
45. Speech, Song: Untitled, Untitled
46. Song: Untitled
47. Speech, Song: Untitled, Untitled
48. Song: Untitled
49. Song: Untitled [Speed problem at end of track]
50. Song: Untitled
51. Song: Untitled
52. Reel: Untitled [The Merry Blacksmith]
53. Reels, Jig: Untitled [The Old Bush], Untitled [The Ravelled Hank of Yarn], Untitled (brief; incomplete) [Tumble the Tinker]
54. Jig: Untitled [Tumble the Tinker] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, speech in English A1;
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, pipes solo A2, 4, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46–47, 49, 51, 53;
speech in English A3, 5, 7, 9–13, 15, 17, 19, 21–23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47–48, 50, 52;
singing in Irish A6;
singing in Irish and English A8;
singingin Scots Gaelic A10;
singing in English A12, 14, 16, 18;
whistle solo A20, 28, 30;
whistle in duet A32;
pipes in instrumental group A34;
pipes in duet A36–37;
Folan, Stephen / O Cualain, Stiofain, Galway, dancing A20;
Mac Donnchadha, Sean / 'ac Dhonncha, Sean / Johnny Joe Pheaitsin / McDonagh, Johnny, Galway, singing in English A22;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle solo A24, 26;
fiddle in duet A32, 36–37;
Clifford Family, Kerry, instrumental group A34

Running Order:
1. Speech, Tone Signal: Untitled, Untitled
2. Air: Untitled [Uirchill an Chreagain]
3. Speech: Untitled ['I know that music...' Topics: SE's father, regarded as the best piper in Ireland; a tune played for SE in his cradle, The Munster Buttermilk]
4. Jig: The Munster Buttermilk
5. Speech: Untitled ['Our house was always a house of music...' Topics: SE's family background; mother sang, father played the pipes, fiddle, tin whistle; pipers visited the house; Pat Ward, piper, whose daughter was also a good piper; other pipers; father played the Highland pipes for visitors; SE played Highland pipes; Billy Clarke takes part in the recording 'The Pipes of Three Nations'; Colm O Lochlainn visited the Ennis household every Thursday evening; SE learned his first song, An Droighnean Donn, in Rosmuc, in Connemara]
6. Song: An Droighnean Donn
7. Speech: Untitled ['Now, I can never thank Colm O Lochlainn enough...' Topics: SE's gratitude to Colm O Lochlainn; SE roamed Ireland on a bicycle to collect music; introduction to the next song]
8. Song: Untitled [Siuil A Ruin]
9. Speech: Untitled ['I found that Connemara...' Topics: riches of Connemara as a repository of folk traditions; SE enjoyed working in Connemara and hated returning to the city; SE visited the Hebrides for the Irish Folklore Commission and spent 6 months there; the song 'O Son of the Earl of the White Banners']
10. Song, Speech: O Son of the Earl of the White Banners, Untitled
11. Speech: Untitled ['Since then, though, I've been to Scotland several times...' Topics: SE visited the north-east of Scotland, Aberdeenshire and Banffshire; introduction to the next song]
12. Song, Speech: The Barnyards of Delgaty, Untitled
13. Speech: Untitled ['That's one my favourites...' Topic: SE visited Winslow, in Buckinghamshire, where he collected songs from Amos Beckett]
14. Song: Untitled [I Am a Wild and Wicked Youth]
15. Speech: Untitled ['Well, I suppose all of you heard of The Croppy Boy...' Topic: the source of the next song]
16. Song: Untitled [The Herring Song / The Song of the Herring; repeated line in chorus: 'Sing aberum fane, sing abero ling']
17. Speech: Untitled ['Now, I want to let you hear something from Wales...' Topics: SE visits Wales; introduction to the next song, which SE heard in Fishguard]
18. Song: Untitled ['My name is Billy Williams...']
19. Speech: Untitled ['Now, all these songs remind me forcibly...' Topic: music nights in Connemara]
20. Reel with Dancing: The Copperplate Reel
21. Speech: Untitled ['I've seen some old people dancing...' Topic: information about the previous item and the next item]
22. Song, Speech: Morrissey and the Russian Sailor, Untitled ['And on this merry note...' Closing remarks at end of radio programme]
23. Speech: Untitled ['When I was in Cork the other day...' Topic: a meeting with Denis Murphy and Padraig O'Keeffe]
24. Reel: The Flowing Bowl [The Piper's Despair]
25. Speech: Untitled ['The best of Padraig's pupils...']
26. Reel: Turkey in the Straw
27. Speech: Untitled ['Thank you, Denis...' Topic: the tune 'The Mountain Road'; Julia and Billy Clifford]
28. Reel: Kitty Gone A-Milking [Mistitled?; The Old Bush]
29. Speech: Untitled ['That's the tune he was playing...' Topic: SE teaches 'The Mountain Road' to Denis Murphy]
30. Reel: The Mountain Road
31. Speech: Untitled ['I put on the drones at the end of it...']
32. Reel: The Mountain Road
33. Speech: Untitled ['Thank you, Denis. I could see young Billy Clifford's eyes...' Topics: 'The Mountain Road' and the Clifford family]
34. Reel: The Mountain Road
35. Speech: Untitled ['It was a long road home...' Topics: going home after a long session of music with the Clifford family; setting a clutch of eggs under a turkey; introduction to the next piece of music]
36. Jig: The Humours of Lisheen
37. Speech, Reel: Untitled ['All I can say is...'], The Woman of the House [End of a programme?]
38. Jig: The Munster Buttermilk [Short; introductory music for the start of a programme?]
39. Speech: Untitled ['When I was a very young lad...' Topics: father plays SE to sleep in his cradle as a child; child asks father to play 'The Munster Buttermilk']
40. Jig: The Munster Buttermilk
41. Speech: Untitled ['Now, as I grew up, I remember...' Topics: musicians visiting the Ennis house; Pat Ward of Drogheda, who played on a double chanter]
42. Single Jig: Pat Ward's Jig
43. Speech: Untitled ['Another man I remember coming to our house...' Topics: John Cawley, a flute-player from Co Sligo; story about bees swarming; reel learned from John Cawley]
44. Reel: Cawley's Reel [The Dairy Maid]
45. Speech: Untitled ['There was another man I remember...' Topics: Frank O'Higgins, fiddle-player, who played in the Fingal Trio, as did John Cawley; reel 'The Cuiseog / The Cushogue'; a 'cuiseog / cushogue' is a wisp of grass or a blade of straw or a rush; the reel 'The Cup of Tea' and its title in Irish, An Cupan Sutramain]
46. Reel: The Cuiseog / The Cushogue [The Stony Step], The Cup of Tea / An Cupan Sutramain
47. Speech, Air: Untitled (short; clipped at end), Untitled [The Bard of Armagh]
48. Speech: Untitled ['And shortly after that...']
49. Hornpipe: Byrne's Hornpipe / Cornphiopa Ui Bhroinn
50. Speech: Untitled (clipped at start) ['And when I was a young lad...' Topic: the word 'broom'; the reel 'Down the Broom', played by Billy Clarke of Ballybay, Co Monaghan]
51. Reel: Down the Broom
52. Speech: Untitled ['When sick is it tea you want...' Topic: background to the tune 'When Sick Is It Tea You Want']
53. Jig: When Sick Is It Tea You Want [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, pipes solo A1, 3, 7, 11, 14, 18–19, 23, 25, 35, 39, 37;
speech in Irish and English A2, 4, 6, 10, 12–15, 17, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32–34, 38;
singing in Irish A5, 13, 21, 31, 33;
whistle solo A29;
singing in Scots Gaelic A31;
singing in English A34, 36;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in Irish and English A2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12–13, 15, 17, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32–34, 36, 38;
singing in English A34, 36;
Mulqueen, Ann, Limerick, singing in English A9;
Nic an Bhaird, Maire, Donegal, singing in Irish A16;
Mac Donnchadha, Sean / 'ac Dhonncha, Sean / Johnny Joe Pheaitsin / McDonagh, Johnny, Galway, singing in English A27

Running Order:
1. Reel: Kelly's Reel [Tim Moloney; said in track A2 to be a version of 'The Longford Collector; short version to mark the start of the radio programme; for a full version, see track A3; start of first edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape, broadcast on 1 November 1972]
2. Speech: Untitled [Radio discussion about the previous and next items]
3. Reel: Kelly's Reel / The Longford Collector [Tim Moloney; full version of the tune at track A1]
4. Speech: Untitled [Radio discussion about the next item; topics include Oilean Dairire / Valentia Island, and the background to the song 'Amhran na Leabhar / Cuan Bheil Inse']
5. Song: Amhran na Leabhar / Cuan Bheil Inse
6. Speech: Untitled [Radio discussion about the next item]
7. Air: Amhran na Leabhar / Cuan Bheil Inse
8. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement about the next item, including mention of Denis Ryan, a member of the group 'Ryan's Fancy' in Canada]
9. Song: Dear Old Newport Town
10. Speech: Untitled [Radio discussion about the next item; topics include: Seamus Ennis's home in Jamestown, in Finglas; background to the reel 'Music at the Gate']
11. Reel: Music at the Gate / Phil the Fluter's Ball
12. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement about the previous and next items; topics include: the words of the song 'Phil the Fluter's Ball'; SE's first journey as a child to the Carna area in Connemara in 1927, when he took the train to Galway and from there the train to Maam Cross; SE collected 212 songs from Colm O Caoidheain; the song Nora Ni Choncubhair Bhain; C O C the only person who had the full version of the melody of the song]
13. Song, Speech: Nora Ni Choncubhair Bhain, Untitled [Radio announcement of the next item]
14. Speech, Air: Untitled [SE remark about the tuning of his drones (dosanna)], Nora Ni Choncubhair Bhain
15. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement about the previous and next items]
16. Song: D'Eirigh Me Maidin De Ceadaoin
17. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement about the previous and next items]
18. Jigs: Sliabh Russell, Sixpenny Money [Final piece of music in this radio programme; end of first edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape]
19. Reel: Untitled [The Swallow's Tail; short version to mark the start of the radio programme; start of second edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape, broadcast on 15 November 1972]
20. Speech: Untitled [Radio discussion about the theme of the programme: birds]
21. Song: An Londubh agus an Cheirseach
22. Speech: Untitled [Radio discussion, including quotation from the words of the songs 'An Sgeilpin Droighneach' and 'Coinnleach Glas an Fhomhair']
23. Air: Amhran na n-Ean [An Londubh agus an Cheirseach]
24. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and discussion about the previous and next items, including the background to the reel 'The Morning Thrush', composed by SE's father in 1913]
25. Reel: The Morning Thrush
26. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and discussion about the previous and next items]
27. Song: An Bonnan Bui
28. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and discussion about the previous and next items]
29. Hornpipe: Claisceadal na n-Ean [Recorded by Michael Coleman as 'The Stage Hornpipe'; published under Coleman's title in Seamus Ennis's uilleann pipes tutor 'The Master's Touch']
30. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and discussion about the previous and next items; topics include: the background to the next song, which SE learned from Annie Johnston, from the island of Barra, in Scotland]
31. Song: Amhran na hEala / The Swan Song
32. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and discussion about the previous and next items]
33. Song, Speech with Singing: Untitled [Learned from Elizabeth Cronin; the song is a conversation between two cuckoos], Untitled [Information about a version of the song in Welsh, with singing]
34. Speech with Singing: Untitled [Radio announcement and discussion about the next item, including sung verse of the song 'The Magpie's Nest', which was sung by Sarah Makem]
35. Hornpipe: Nead na Cuaiche / The Cuckoo's Nest
36. Speech with Singing: Untitled [Radio announcement and discussion about the previous and next items, including sung versions of the next tune to be played]
37. Jig: Ta an Coileach ag Fogairt an Lae / When the Cock Crows It Is Day
38. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and discussion about the previous and next items; topic: story that is the background to the next tune]
39. Jig: Mairseal na Fuiseoige / The Lark's March / The Lark in the Morning / The Geese in the Bog [Final piece of music in this radio programme; end of second edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, pipes solo A1, 3, 7, 11, 13;
speech in Irish and English A2, 4, 6, 8–10, 12;
singing in Irish A5, 9;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in Irish and English A2, 4, 6, 8–10, 12, 14;
MacMahon, Tony, Clare / Dublin, accordion solo A15

Running Order:
1. Jig: Sixpenny Money / Airgead Realach [Short version to mark the start of the radio programme; for a full version, see track A3; start of the edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape]
2. Speech: Untitled [Radio discussion about the previous and next items; SE talks about a dream he had that featured his father]
3. Jig: Sixpenny Money / Airgead Realach [Full version of the tune at track A1]
4. Speech: Untitled [Radio discussion about Labhras O Cadhlaigh, Co Waterford; repeat of some of the material that SE presented in a recent (at that time) appearance by SE on the TV programme 'Rogha', in which SE spoke about O Cadhlaigh; background to the next song]
5. Song: Untitled [Part of a religious song sung by a woman while she did the Stations of the Cross, as remembered by Labhras O Cadhlaigh]
6. Speech: Untitled [More information about Labhras O Cadhlaigh, Co Waterford]
7. Air: Sliabh Geal gCua na Feile
8. Speech: Untitled [Topic: A song to the air of 'Sliabh Geal gCua na Feile' that was sung by Eilis Bean Ui Chroinin / Elizabeth Cronin, Baile Mhic Ire, Co Cork; song was about a local character, Pead Bui O Loinsigh, singer, piper and fife-player, who had a dispute with the local clergy because of his heavy drinking]
9. Song, Speech: Amhran Pheaid Bhui Ui Loinsigh ar an Ol, Untitled [Remarks about the song just sung]
10. Speech: Untitled [Topics: the fiddle-player Frank Cassidy, Teelin, Co Donegal; background to the next piece of music, which was played by Frank Cassidy]
11. Air: The Mother's Croon / Cronan na Mathar
12. Speech: Untitled [Radio discussion about the previous and next items; SE associates the next tune with step-dancer Helen McAllister]
13. Reel: The Donegal Reel
14. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement about an event in Dublin]
15. Reels: The Bank of Ireland, Cawley's Reel [The Dairy Maid] [This selection is a track from Tony MacMahon's solo Gael-linn LP, titled 'Tony MacMahon'] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, pipes solo A1–5

Running Order:
1. Airs: Untitled [Version of An Caisideach Ban?], Untitled [An Droighnean Donn]
2. Reels: Untitled [The First House in Connacht], Untitled [Miss Monaghan], Untitled [The First House in Connacht]
3. Jig: When the Cock Crows it is Day [Ta an Coileach ag Fogairt an Lae], Sixpenny Money [Airgead Realach]
4. Jig / Single Jig, Slip Jigs: Smash the Windows, The Drops of Brandy, The Tenpenny Piece
5. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Bantry Hornpipe], Untitled [The Tailor's Twist] [END OF BAND ONE]

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

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

Performers:
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, whistle A1, 7–8, 22;
speech in English and Irish A2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21;
pipes solo A3, 5, 14, 16, 20;
singing in English A10;
singing in Irish A12, 18;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English and Irish A2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21;
lilting A8

Running Order:
1. Slide: Untitled [Denis Murphy's Slide]
2. Speech: Untitled [Topics include: how long does it take to make a piper? 7 years learning, 7 years practising, 7 years playing to become a piper; story about squabbling brothers; the test piece for pipers (the tune that follows); introduction to the next piece of music, which SE learned from his father]
3. 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]
4. 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]
5. Reel: The Shaskeen Reel
6. 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']
7. Slide, Speech: The Eternal Slide [Dingle Regatta], Untitled
8. Slide: Untitled [Denis Murphy's Slide] with lilting by C Mac M
9. 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]
10. Song: Untitled [The Charming Colleen Rua]
11. Speech: Untitled [Topics include: the dialect of Irish in Waterford; Labhras O Cadhlaigh; faction fighting; introduction to the next item]
12. Song: Untitled [Is Buachaill o Chluain Meala Me; song used to start a faction fight]
13. Speech: Untitled [Discussion of topics related to the previous song, 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]
14. Reel: An Lin faoi Bhlath / The Flax in Bloom
15. Speech: Untitled [Topics including: SE plays many instrument, including the fiddle and the Jew's Harp; SE does not play a melodeon or accordion, because the notes are 'ready made'; John Clarke of the Pipers' Club said that accordions were not allowed in the club; story about a changeling who plays the fiddle and later plays the melodeon after being thrown in the river; story about the blacksmith and the Scolaire Bocht – 'se buile moch an Luain agus buile deanach an tSathairn ata dod mhilleadh']
16. Reel: The Merry Blacksmith
17. Speech: Untitled [Lore about blacksmiths, including: blacksmiths are never tired; the tiredness of the blacksmith is put over on the tinker; story about holy person who wants to get a pin made for a cloak – the tinker refuses to do it, but the blacksmith agrees, and for this reason tinkers are cursed; a poet or musician should never be refused in a forge; introduction to the song that follows]
18. Song: Amhran na nGaibhne [About a musician who went to a forge to borrow a spade]
19. Speech: Untitled [The richness of folklore in the Carna area in Connemara; introduction to the reel The Drunken Landlady, which SE learnt in Inis Ni, near Cloch na Ron [Roundstone], in Connemara; SE found the name for the tune in Co Cavan]
20. Reel: The Drunken Landlady
21. Speech: Untitled [Lore about competitions between musicians, which were based on repertoire; story about Henry Bohannon, who got the gift of music from the fairies – competition between him and another piper – wins the competition with The Lark's March / Mairseail na Fuiseoige]
22. Jig: The Lark's March / Mairseail na Fuiseoige / The Lark in the Morning (incomplete; fades out) [END OF BAND ONE]