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Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 277 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 5

Speech, Slides: Untitled [Introduction to the performance that follows], Untitled [If I Had a Wife; 3 parts; not the tune associated with that title that was recorded by the Chieftains], Untitled [For another performance of the music selection played in this track, see track A5]

Doyle, Jimmy / Doyle, Seamus, Kerry - accordion in duet
O'Leary, Johnny, Kerry - accordion in duet

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 336 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 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]
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