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Performers:
Cassidy, Johnny, storytelling in English A1-2

Running Order:
1. Story: The Two Lunatics and the Bike
2. Story: The Soldier Seeking Lenity for his Regiment - small portion of this story is continued on tape 45B-1 [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
MacWeeney, Alen, speech in English A1, 4, B1-2, B3/C1;
Unidentified performer [member of Furey family?], singing in English A2-3;
guitar A2-3;
Unidentified performer [member of Furey family?], whistle A2-3;
Unidentified performer [Stokes, P?], speech in English A1, 4, B1-2, B3/C1

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [Conversation about many topics, including: people, among them Mick Murphy; animals; travelling to New Ross; child abandoned by its mother; a traveller funeral; Mrs Furey and her problems with rent collectors, etc]
2. Song: Untitled [Sally Free and Easy]
3. Song: Untitled [Pretty Saro]
4. Speech: Untitled [Conversation about many topics, including: tinsmithing; ordering tin utensils; learning tinsmithing; types of utensils made; personal background; discussion about people in Athlone, Coosan, Loughrea, etc; tin utensils superceded by plastic; dealing in feathers] [END OF BAND ONE]
5. Speech: Untitled [Continuation of track A4]
6. Speech: Untitled [Conversation continued from track B1 about many topics, including: dealing in mattresses; finding money in a feather bed; living conditions now relative to earlier; being evicted by Corporation officials; life philosophy; death of a child due to a fire in a tent; fires in tents and their consequences; other family members; living in houses versus living on the road; wedding ring made from the handle of a spoon; horses and rich horsedealers; Ballinasloe Horse Fair; wrestling matches between women and other sporting activities at Ballinasloe; the king and the queen; improving the lives of the travellers; disunity among travellers]
7. Speech: Untitled [Conversation continued from track B2 about many topics, including: ordering tin utensils; shoeing horses; buying tin; ghost story (repeated); story; child recites rhyme; trapping birds] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Kinvara;
Keane, Dolores;
Faulkner, John;
Daly, Jackie;
Kelly, James

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Performers:
Campbell, Vincent, fiddle;
speech in English;
[unidentified performer];
speech in English

Running Order:
1. Reel: The wild Irishman
2. Reel: The pigeon on the gate
3. Reel: Bean a' tí
4. Reel: Farrell O'Gara
5. Speech: Speech about Michael Coleman
6. Mazurka: [unidentified]
7. Mazurka: [unidentified]
8. [The Lancers]
9. Speech; Instrumental piece: Story about Tuam na farraige; Tuam na Farraige
10. Reel: The gravel walks
11. Reel: Jackson' reel
12. Reel: Gweebara Bridge
13. Reel: Stormy weather
14. Reel: The merry sisters
15. Reel: The nine points of rougery [Tin fiddle made by Mickey Simie Doherty]
16. Speech; Instrumental piece: [unidentified]
17. Instrumental piece: [previous unidentified tune repeated]
18. [Instrumental piece: Seán McLaughlan's]
19. Speech; Hornpipe: Introduction to John Mosie's hornpipe; John Mosie's hornpipe
20. Speech; Hornpipe: Introduction to The harvest home; The harvest home
21. Slip jig: Mickey Doherty's
22. [Merrily kiss the quaker's wife]
23. Introduction; Reel: Introduction to The silver spire; The silver spire
24. Introduction; Reel: Introduction to The glen road to Carrick; The glen road to Carrick
25. Enniskillen dragoons [bagpipes]
26. The wind that shakes the barley [bagpipes]
27. Highland: The cat that kittled in Jamie's wig
28. Speech; Reel: Introduction; Cathal Rua
29. Speech; Reel: Introduction; Moll an Tiarna
30. Lament: [Caoineadh ?]
31. Reel: The ship that leaves the harbour tomorrow
32. Jig: Paddy Owen's jig
33. Jig: The shores of the lake
34. Speech; Hornpipe: Vincent Campbell gives an ntroduction to his own composition; The purple heather
35. Speech; Highland: Introduction; The Irish highland
36. Reel: The flowers of Edinburgh
37. Reel: The green mountain
38. Speech: John Doherty's tool kit
39. Reel: My love is in America

Performers:
O'Donnell, PV, speech in English;
Milner, Dan, speech in English

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Performers:
Mac Gabhann, Antóin, fiddle A2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 19, 22, 24, 26;
speech in English A3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25;
[unidentified performer], speech in English A1

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Performers:
Mac Mathúna, Séamus, lilting A1-3;
singing in English A2;
Gardiner, Bobby, lilting A4-6, 8-10;
speech in English A9;
Kjeldsen, Svend, lilting A7;
Clancy, Willie, lilting A11;
Barry, Margaret, lilting A12-13;
banjo A12;
speech in English A13;
Gorman, Michael, fiddle A14;
Coisdealtha, Tomás, [Tom Phairdín Tom], lilting A15;
Graham, Len, singing in English A16;
lilting A16;
Holmes, Joe, singing in English A16;
lilting A16;
McGuire, Tommy, lilting A17;
[unidentified Performers:
Tommy McGuire's children], tin whistle;
accordion A17;
Russell, Micho, lilting A18;
Linihan, Tom, Miltown Malbay, lilting A19;
McDermott, Josie, Ballyfarnan, Co. Roscommon, lilting A20;
Ryan, Ms., lilting A21;
Kilduff, Pat, lilting A22;
Rafferty, Paddy, lilting A23--27;
Clifford, Billy, Co. Tipeprary, flute A21;
Rafferty, Mike, flute A24--27

Running Order:
1. Double jig: Jimmy Ward's jig
2. Song: Bryan O'Lynn
3. Reel: Callaghan's reel
4. Double jig: Cathaoir an phíobaire = The piper's chair
5. Slide: Ankhisere slide
6. Slow air: Fáth mo bhuartha
7. Reel: The merry blacksmith
8. Polka: The Kerry cow
9. Slide: Kerry slide
10. Reel: The new moon meadows
11. Reel: Shaskeen reel
12. Song; Reel: Green groves the rushes; Eileen MacMahon
13. Speech; Double jig: The strawaway child
14. Double jig: The strawaway child
15. Reel: The girl that broke my heart
16. Single jig: Merrily dance the quaker
17. Reel: [Two reels from Co. Leitrim]
18. Hornpipe: The harvest home
19. Jig: Hurry the jug
20. Reel: Pigeon on the gate
21. Polka: Kerry polka 3
22. Reel: Boys of the lough
23. Jig: The Leitrim jig
24. Hornpipe: The stack of wheat
25. Jig: Delaney's
26. Reel: The new moon meadows
27. Double jig: Father's jig