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Breandán Breathnach Collection. Cassette 1 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, singing in English A1;
speech in English A2–4;
fiddle solo A2, 6–10?;
fiddle in duet A5? 14–16?;
Unidentified performers [O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig,, Kerry? Murphy, Denis, Kerry? other?], fiddles in duet? trio? A4;
Unidentified performer [O'Leary, Johnny, Kerry?], accordion in duet A5, 15;
Unidentified performer [Clifford, Julia, Kerry / London?], fiddle solo A11–12;
Unidentified performer [Clifford, Billy, Kerry / London?], flute solo A13;
flute in duet A14?, 16?

Running Order:
1. Song: Down Our Street
2. Speech, Hornpipe: Untitled [Story about Padraig O'Keeffe writing a hornpipe for Denis Murphy on a bank of turf that Denis and his father were working on; the bank of turf was in a bog called 'The Runaway Bog' and was 6 sods high], The Bank of Turf [The Stook of Turf]
3. Speech: Untitled [Story about Padraig O'Keeffe borrowing a new bicycle and selling it for drink; other anecdotes about Padraig O'Keeffe, including how Padraig O'Keeffe spent a weekend drinking during his time as a teacher]
4. Polka, Speech: Untitled [The Groves of Gneevegullia], Untitled [Anecdote about how Padraig O'Keeffe lost his job as a teacher]
5. Slide: Untitled
6. Air: Untitled [Caoine Ui Neill / Caoineadh Ui Neill / The Lament for O'Neill]
7. Slide: Untitled
8. Slide: Untitled [Denis Murphy's Slide; The Dark Girl in Blue]
9. Air: Untitled [Caoine Ui Dhomhnaill / Caoineadh Ui Dhomhnaill / The Lament for O'Donnell; dub from an acetate disc?]
10. Air: Untitled [The Wounded Hussar; The Banks of the Danube]
11. Air: Untitled [An Raibh Tu ag an gCarraig? Dub from the LP 'The Star above the Garter'?]
12. Hornpipe: Untitled [Johnny Cope]
13. Air: Untitled [Caoine Ui Neill / Caoineadh Ui Neill / The Lament for O'Neill]; clipped at end – tape runs out] [END OF BAND ONE]
14. Slide: Untitled [Padraig O'Keeffe's Slide]
15. Slide: Untitled [Mick Mahony's (1)]
16. Polka: Untitled [Jimmy Doyle's Favourite] [END OF BAND TWO]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 295 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Rowsome, Leo, Dublin, pipes solo A1–2, 5–6, 9–16, 19, B1;
pipes in duet A3–4;
pipes in instrumental group A7–8, 17–18;
Beirne, Peter, Birmingham, speech in English throughout;
Unidentified performer, fiddle in duet A3–4;
Unidentified instrumental group [Leo Rowsome's Irish Pipers Band], instrumental group A7–8, 17–18;
Walsh, Liam, Waterford, pipes solo A20, B2–5;
Andrews, Williams, Dublin, pipes solo B6–7

Running Order:
1. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Untitled [The Boys of the Lough], Untitled [The Green Mountain; The Maid behind the Bar]
2. Speech, Jigs: Untitled [Information about the next item], Jackson's Morning Brush, The Clare Jig [Delaney's Drummers]
3. Speech, Jigs: Untitled [Information about the next item], Paudeen O'Rafferty [Paidin O Raifeartaigh], The Connaughtman's Rambles [The Connachtman's Rambles]
4. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Information about the next item], The First House in Connaught [The First House in Connacht], The Salamanca
5. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Information about the next item], The Primrose Lass, The Ivy Leaf
6. Speech, Hornpipes: Untitled [Information about the next item], Byrne's, The Kilfinane
7. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Information about the next item], Bonnie Kate, Miss Monaghan, The Blackberry Blossom
8. Speech, Hornpipes: Untitled [Information about the next item], The Liverpool, The Cuckoo's Nest
9. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Information about the next item], The Stone in the Field, The Five Mile Chase
10. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Information about the next item], The Scholar, Peter's Street [Peter Street]
11. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled [Information about the next item], The Collier's, The Sligo Maid
12. Speech, Hornpipes: Untitled [Information about the next item], The Plains of Boyle, The Bantry
13. Speech, Marches: Untitled [Information about the next item], The Fairy Revels, I Won't Be a Nun
14. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Information about the next item], The Cook in the Kitchen, The Rakes of Kildare
15. Speech, Set Dance: Untitled [Information about the next item], The Jockey at the Fair
16. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Information about the next item], The Independent, The Star
17. Speech, Set Dance: Untitled [Information about the next item], The Blackbird
18. Speech, Set Dance: Untitled [Information about the next item], Saint Patrick's Day
19. Speech, Set Dance: Untitled [Information about the next item], The Ace and Deuce of Pipering
20. Reel: Untitled [Sweet Biddy of Ballyvourney; The Pretty Girls of Mayo] (clipped at beginning and end) [END OF BAND ONE]
21. Speech, Hornpipes: Untitled [Information about the next item], The Manchester, The Honeysuckle
22. Speech, Hornpipes: Untitled [Information about the next item], The Stack of Barley [On the 78rpm disc this selection is so titled, and is described as a set dance; the selection consists of two tunes, Dunphy's Hornpipe and Alexander's Hornpipe]
23. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Information about the next item], The New Demesne [The College Groves, version]
24. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Information about the next item], Biddy from Ballyvourney [The Pretty Girls of Mayo], Rolling down the Hill [The Old 'Wheels of the World']
25. Speech, Hornpipes: Untitled [Information about the next item], The Mountain Groves [The Rover through the Bog; The Shaskeen Hornpipe], The Cork Hornpipe [Listed in error as the third tune on the 78 rpm disc; The Harvest Home, version], Hickson's Hornpipe [Title given as in speech introduction; listed (in error?) as Higgin's Hornpipe, the second tune on the 78 rpm disc; Pretty Maggie Morrissey]
26. Speech, Set Dance: Untitled [Information about the next item], Bonaparte's Retreat
27. Speech, Set Dance: Untitled [Information about the next item], The Job of Journeywork [END OF BAND TWO]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 294 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, pipes solo A1–6;
Unidentified performers, speech in English A4, 7, 9, 11, 13;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A7–12, 15;
Murray, John 'Jockaroo', [Dublin?], singing in English A14

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [The Girl Who Broke My Heart; preceded by short snippet of recording of whistle-playing]
2. Reel: Untitled [The Maid in the Cherry Tree]
3. Reel: Untitled [The Heather Breeze (version of)]
4. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Dublin Reel], Untitled
5. Reel: Untitled [The Woman of the House]
6. Jig: Untitled [Banish Misfortune] [END OF BAND ONE]
7. Song, Speech: Untitled [Child singing], Untitled [Children and adult talking, with (possibly) radio or TV on in background]
8. Song: Untitled [Pop song]
9. Speech, Song, Speech: Untitled, Untitled (incomplete) [Pop song], Untitled
10. Song: Untitled (incomplete)
11. Speech, Song, Song, Speech: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, Untitled [This track consists mainly of children talking and singing pop songs]
12. Song: Untitled (incomplete) [This track plays at half the speed of the other tracks on the tape]
13. Speech: Untitled [Includes identification of the child who sings next, followed by a period of silence]
14. Song: Untitled [Child singing pop song, followed by a period of silence with (possibly) radio or TV on in background]
15. Song: Untitled [Pop song by the Beach Boys; poor-quality dubbing from commercial recording, recorded (possibly) from radio or TV] [END OF BAND TWO]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 353 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English throughout;
speech in Irish throughout;
O Cuilleanan, Micheal, Cork, speech in Irish A2–4;
Quill, Ellen Mary / O Duibhir, Eibhlin Bean Ui Dh- / O'Dwyer, Mrs, Limerick, speech in English and Irish A5, 7;
concertina in duet A6, 8;
concertina solo A10, 15;
O Duibhir, Roibeard / O'Dwyer, Robert [Limerick?], speech in English A5, 7;
accordion in duet A6, 8;
speech in Irish A11;
accordion solo A12–14;
O Duibhir, Liam, [Limerick?], speech in English A13

Running Order:
1. Tone Signal: Untitled
2. Speech: Untitled [About Seamus Goodman (the collector James Goodman); as a child, the present speaker saw G; G used to repair pipes for many pipers, who would visit him for that purpose; G spoke Irish very well; one piper who visited G was unable to walk and travelled on a donkey; G used play the pipes with the pipers who visited him; memorial to G; G lived in the glebe; G's appearance; G was a good neighbour; G's family, including Godfrey, a doctor, who would treat poor people despite their being unable to pay him; Irish in the local area (Skibbereen)]
3. Speech: Untitled [Irish in the local area (Skibbereen); people who spoke Irish; street-sweepers spoke Irish during their work; present speaker used follow the street-sweepers around the town to listen to their Irish; songs sung in the area; Sean O Duibhir an Ghleanna; Seoladh na nGamhna sa bhFasach; Ceo Draiochta; Liam O Raghallaigh; discussion of song lyrics, with examples]
4. Speech: Untitled [Damhscoil Mhuscrai; activities and meetings connected with the revival of Irish in the Skibbereen area; the first branch of Connradh na Gaeilge there; present speaker heard an tAthair Peadar O Laoghaire speak at the Munster Feis in Cork; how Damhscoil Mhuscrai was founded; An Suibhneach Meann; verses composed by the present speaker (recited); account of an tAthair Sean de Paor, including verses written about him and miracles were effected by him, even after his death; an 'aisling' poem/song written by the local poet Micheal O Suilleabhain; Sean O Coileain]
5. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows]
6. Reels: Nelly's Reel [The Collier's Reel], The Woman of the House
7. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows]
8. Jig: Paddy's Return
9. Speech: Untitled [About the tune that follows, which was played for the last figure of a set]
10. Barn Dance / Hornpipe: Untitled
11. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows]
12. Hornpipes: Sean Ryan's [McMahon's; composed by Sean Ryan], The Echo, Untitled [Slievenamon]
13. Speech with Music, Reel, Speech: Untitled [Story about the tune that follows; with music illustration], Donal an Choill's Reel [?], Untitled
14. Reels: George White's Fancy / George White's Favourite, The Bag of Potatoes / An Mala Fatai / An Mala Pratai
15. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Toss the Feathers [END OF BAND ONE]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 352 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English throughout;
speech in Irish throughout;
Harrington, Mrs, Sligo / Dublin, fiddle in instrumental group A2, 4;
Gardiner, John [Gardiner, John Joe], Sligo / Louth, flute in instrumental group A2, 4;
Gardiner, Pauline, Louth, flute in instrumental group A2, 4;
Gardiner, Pat, Louth, flute in instrumental group A2, 4;
Toibin, Padraig, Waterford, singing in Irish A6–8;
speech in Irish A6, 8;
Liddy, Joe, Dublin, speech in English A9;
O Droma, Tomas, Waterford, speech in Irish A9;
singing in Irish A9;
White, James, Wexford, speech in English A10;
singing in English A10

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows; Mrs Harrington and John (= John Joe?) Gardiner are sister and brother; Pauline and Pat Gardiner are John's daughters]
2. Reel: The Mountain Top
3. Speech: Untitled
4. Jig: The Frost Is All Over
5. Speech: Untitled [Preceded by a short and incomplete recording of music]
6. Song, Speech: Inion an Fhaoit on nGleann, Untitled
7. Song: Na Connerys
8. Speech, Song: Untitled, Idir Aird Mhor is Eochaill
9. Speech, Song: Untitled, Bean Dubh an Ghleanna
10. Speech, Song: Untitled, Carroll Ban [Followed by a short and incomplete recording of singing] [END OF BAND ONE]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 335 [sound recording] / [various performers]

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]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 334 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Casey, Bobby, Clare, fiddle solo A1–3;
Clancy, Willie, Clare, pipes solo A4–6;
pipes in instrumental group A7?;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group A7;
Russell, Micho, Clare, flute in duet A8?;
flute solo A10;
whistle solo A11;
whistle in duet A14;
Unidentified performer, lilting in duet A8;
lilting solo A9;
Unidentified performer, concertina solo A12–13, 15;
concertina in duet A14;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A16–17;
Unidentified performer, singing in Irish with lilting A18;
speech in English A18;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A18;
Unidentified performer, flute solo A19

Running Order:
1. Hornpipes: Untitled [Murphy's Hornpipe], Untitled [The Derry Hornpipe / The Londonderry Hornpipe]
2. Jigs: Untitled [The Rambling Pitchfork], Untitled [The Mist in the Meadow; Jimmy O'Brien's Jig]
3. Reels: Untitled [Rakish Paddy; 4-part version recorded on 78rpm disc by James Morrison, fiddle], Untitled [The Wheels of the World] [This selection was recorded by James Morrison]
4. Reels: Untitled [The Copperplate], Untitled [Rakish Paddy]
5. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Plains of Boyle]
6. Jig: Untitled [Garrett Barry's Jig]
7. Reel: Untitled [The Heather Breeze], Untitled [Miss McLeod's Reel]
8. Jig: Untitled [The Piper's Chair]
9. Jig: Untitled [The Piper's Chair]
10. Jig: Donall na Greine [CICD 756, 757, 758, 759, 760.11 (none from this recording); CRE 2, # 10 (from MR); Ceol III iv, p 99; Donnybrook Fair / The Joy of My Life (version of? DMI, # 79)]
11. Reel: Untitled [Boil the Breakfast Early]
12. Reel: Untitled [Gorman's Reel]
13. Jig: Untitled [Version of Kitty's Rambles / The Rambles of Kitty]
14. Reel: Untitled [The Heather Breeze]
15. Reel: Untitled [The Peeler's Jacket]
16. Reel: Untitled [The Bag of Potatoes; The Bag of Spuds (version of)]
17. Jig: Untitled
18. Song, Speech: Untitled [A mixture of singing and lilting], Untitled
19. Reels: Untitled [The Maids of Mount Cisco], Untitled [The Hunter's Purse] [END OF BAND ONE]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 325 [sound recording] / [various performers]

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]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 297 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Speech: Untitled [Reminiscences of piper and pipemaker Dan O'Dowd. Topics include: where and when (1903) D O'D was born; the Easter Rising 1916 and the surrender that followed it; story about drunken soldier who ignores warning and is shot; account of courageous sisters Ann and Eileen Cooney; D O'D joins the Fianna and then the Volunteers; the Battalion in which he served; activities during the Civil War; D O'D is captured & plays the warpipes in captivity, first in Dublin (in Mountjoy Jail), later in the Curragh; how D O'D started playing warpipes; with other formed the Connolly Band of warpipers about 1922; band is ambushed; band members; D O'D meets Leo Rowsome where LR was teaching in Chatham Row; D O'D goes to Billy Andrews for lessons on the uilleann pipes; other uilleann pipers at the time – Nugent, John Fleming, Sean Doran (an assistant in Billy Andrews's shop); Martin Burke; D O'D buys practice set from Willie Rowsome; D O'D joined Fire Brigade in 1928; had motorbike with sidecar, on which he used to carry Billy Andrews to classes that Andrews gave; D O'D married in 1933; other students of the uilleann pipes at the time; Breandan Breathnach went to Billy Andrews for piping classes in 1928; Andrews's method of teaching; Andrews very fond of slip jigs; Andrews broadcasting on the radio station 2RN – he was a very nervous performer; D O'D sells a reed for Andrews, price half-a-crown; D O'D met Seamus Ennis for the first time in the house of the pipemaker McCrone (who came from Mullingar); D O'D competed at the Mansion House with Seamus Ennis's father as adjudicator; Eddie Potts competing as an uilleann piper; D O'D sold pipes that McCrone had made for him to Johnny Doran for £5; John Clarke made a new set for D O'D; D O'D competing in pipe band competitions in Scotland; warpiping teachers, competitions and bands in Dublin; the Fintan Lalor pipe band; D O'D's friendship with members of the Potts family; other memories of Dublin and acquaintances that he and Breandan Breathnach had in common]

Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin - speech in English throughout
O'Dowd, Dan, Dublin - speech in English throughout

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