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Performers:
Cassidy, Johnny, storytelling in English A1;
Unidentified performers (male), singing in English A2-4, 8-10;
Unidentified performer [female fortune teller], singing in English A6;
speech in English A5;
Unidentified performers (female), singing in English A7, 11

Running Order:
1. Story: Jack the Giant Killer
2. Song: The Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe
3. Song: Galway Bay (satirical)
4. Song: The Boys of the County Armagh (satirical)[END OF BAND ONE]
5. Speech: Artelia's hand being read by a tinker woman
6. Song: A Home down in Texas
7. Song: Goodbye Romance (unfinished)
8. Song: The Old County Down (interrupted)
9. Song: Untitled [I Won't Get Drunk Again ?]
10. Song: Untitled [The Labouring Man's Daughter ?]
11. Song: Skibbereen (unfinished) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, singing in English A1-7, 10, 12;
Murphy, Mick, singing in English A8-9, 11, 13-14

Running Order:
1. Song: I Wished I Was in Banahoe
2. Song: Untitled [My Only Son Was Shot in Dublin]
3. Song: The Boston Burglar
4. Song: Every Road that You Go
5. Song: Down by the Strand
6. Song: Higgins and Carr
7. Song: The Braes of Strablane
8. Song: The Month of May (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]
9. Song: As I Roved out One Morning
10. Song: The Butcher Boy
11. Song: My Mary Dear
12. Song: Long Time a-Growing [My Bonny Boy]
13. Song: Ballinglen
14. Song: Song about Dolly Murphy composed and sung by Mick Murphy [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
?, Paddy, singing in English A2;
Unidentified performer[s], singing in English A3-6;
?, Martin, lilting A7

Running Order:
1. Sound Effects: Blacksmith in Galway at his forge [END OF BAND ONE]
2. Song: William Scanlon
3. Song: Pat from Bowlanier
4. Song: The Bold Connacht Ranger Boy
5. Song: Grand Bungle Rye
6. Song: Don't Laugh at Me Because I'm a Fool
7. Set Dance: Untitled [The Blackbird] [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:
Brid a' 'Ghabh' [Brid an Ghabha], Galway, speech in Irish A1;
singing in Irish A1, 4;
Unidentified performer [Bourke, Angela / Partridge, Angela / De Burca, Aingeal], speech in Irish throughout;
'Ghabh', Maire [Ui Cheannabhain, Maire Ghabha], Galway, speech in Irish A2–3;
singing in Irish A2–3

Running Order:
1. Speech, Song: Untitled, Beannacht Leat a Thir Mo Ghra
2. Speech, Song, Speech: Untitled, Dearthairin O Mo Chroi, Untitled
3. Song, Speech: Mainistir na Buaile, Untitled
4. Song: A' bhFaca Tu Mo Sheamaisin [With lilting] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Unidentified performer [Duignan, Packie, Leitrim?], flute solo A1, 3, 5;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A2, 4;
Unidentified performer [McDonagh, Laurence / Larry, Sligo], flute solo A6–11, 31;
speech in English A6–11 and following;
flute in duet A12–28, 30;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Unidentified performer [McDonagh, Michael, Sligo], fiddle in duet A12–28, 30;
speech in English intermittently throughout;
McDonagh, Laurence / Larry, Sligo, flute in duet A32–38, 40–43, 45–53;
speech in English intermittently throughout;
flute solo A44;
McDonagh, Michael, Sligo, fiddle in duet A32–38, 40–43, 45–53;
speech in English intermittently throughout;
fiddle solo A39;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group A54;
Redican, Larry, New York, fiddle in trio A55, 57;
McGann, Andy, New York, fiddle in trio A55, 57;
Coen, Jack, Galway / New York, flute in trio A55, 57;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English A56, 58;
Cronin, Paddy, Kerry / Boston, fiddle in duet A56, 58

Running Order:
1. Jig: Untitled [The Wandering Minstrel, version of?]
2. Reel: Untitled [Jenny's Welcome to Charlie]
3. Jig: Untitled [The Connachtman's Rambles]
4. Jig: Untitled [Paidin O Raifeartaigh; version of]
5. Jig: Untitled [The Frost is All Over]
6. Reel, Speech: Maggie on the Shore [CICD 2790 (not from this recording)], Untitled
7. Reel, Speech: Untitled [CICD 5691 (where title 'Beal an Atha Fhada' is given on the card but crossed out); CICD 5690; CICD cards are not from this recording)], Untitled
8. Reel, Speech: Handsome Sally, Untitled
9. Reel, Speech: The Cat that Ate the Candle [CICD 3843 (not from this recording); CICD 3844 (not from this recording); Miss Brady; Esther's Reel], Untitled
10. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Ganley's Reel; CICD 5951 (not from this recording); The Curlews Maid (CICD 5950, not from this recording); Last Night's Fun, version of?], Untitled
11. Air, Speech: Untitled, Untitled
12. Jig: Untitled [Reagan's Jig / Regan's Jig]
13. Reel, Speech: Miss Ramsey's Reel [Recorded on 78rpm disc by Michael Coleman with Packie Dolan], Untitled
14. Reel, Speech: Miss Corbett [CICD 3499 (not from this recording)], Untitled
15. Jig: Untitled [The Boys of Tandaragee; The Rollicking Boys around Tandaragee; for a different version of this tune (but played by the same fiddle-player as here?), see CICD 2063.31]
16. Jig, Speech: Untitled [Ganley's Jig (CICD 1335, not from this recording); CICD 1666 (not from this recording)], Untitled
17. Jig, Speech: Untitled (incomplete) [Apples in Winter], Untitled
18. Reel, Speech: The Cup of Coffee [CICD 5890 (untitled; not from this recording; incompletely transcribed); McDonagh's Reel (2), in CRE 2, # 207; The Cup of Tea, version of?], Untitled
19. Reel, Speech: The Pigeon on the Gate [CICD 5230 (not from this recording; noted on card to be a 2nd version; standard version from the same musicians is at CICD 5234); CRE 2, # 250 (ii) (from the performer who plays it here)], Untitled
20. Jig, Speech: Touhey's Jig [CICD 2518 (not from this recording); Mac's Fancy], Untitled
21. Jig, Speech: Cailleach an Airgid [Not the tune generally associated with that title; Sparan Airgid na Cailli (CRE 1, # 34); The Old Woman's Purse of Money], Untitled
22. Jig: Untitled [The Killavill Jig]
23. Reel: Untitled [The Flowing Bowl]
24. Reel, Speech: Donoghue's Favourite [CICD 5429 (not from this recording); The Maid of Laharc (CICD 5424, not from this recording); CRE 2, # 202 (untitled); Hughie Travers' Reel], Untitled
25. Reel, Speech: Ballinafad Fancy [CICD 3104 (not from this recording); The Dublin Reel, version of], Untitled
26. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Dublin Reel; standard version as recorded by Michael Coleman], Untitled
27. Reel, Speech: Parkmore Fancy [CICD 4725 (not from this recording)], Untitled
28. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5740 (not from this recording)]
29. Tone Signal: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
30. Tone Signal, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Ganley's Favourite [CICD 2659 (not from this recording; gives title Jack Fadden's Reel); Sailing into Walpole's Marsh, version of?], Untitled
31. Reel: Untitled [CICD 5226 (not from this recording); The Reel of Bogie]
32. Reel, Speech: Untitled [CICD 3657 (from this recording); said on card to be 'Reddigan's' version (ref to Larry Redican?); The Reel of Bogie], Untitled
33. Reel: The Sporting Shilling [CICD 2917 (from this recording); Tie the Bonnet]
34. Reel: The Steamboat [CICD 3629 (from this recording); The Ivy Leaf, version of?]
35. Reel, Speech: Untitled [CICD 5493 (from this recording); CICD 5492 (not from this recording); Sporting Nell], Untitled
36. Reel: Untitled [CICD 3081 (from this recording)]
37. Reel: Untitled [CICD 3526 (from this recording); The Sailor on the Rock]
38. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, The Boy in the Gap [CICD 3094 (from this recording)], Untitled
39. Reel, Speech: The King of the Pipers [CICD 2779 (from this recording); related to The Mason's Apron?], Untitled
40. Slip Jig, Speech: Judy Brannigan [CICD 460 (from this recording)], Untitled
41. Single Jig, Speech: Untitled [CICD 1419 (from this recording)], Untitled [Information about the tune just played]
42. Slip Jig, Speech: The Dusty Miller [CICD 317 (from this recording)], Untitled
43. Jig, Speech: The Farewell [CICD 2280 (from this recording); John McNiff's Favourite (CICD 2281, not from this recording)], Untitled
44. Single Jig, Speech: Gort na gCeannai / Trip It Downstairs [CICD 1964, from this recording; gives title 'Gort na gCeanni' (sic); speech gives title 'Trip It Downstairs' (not clear if this applies to the tune just played or to the one that follows)], Untitled
45. Reel: Untitled [CICD 4767 (from this recording); The Limestone Rock, version of]
46. Reel: Untitled [CICD 4100 (from this recording); The Red-Haired Lass]
47. Reel, Speech: Nicholson's Favourite [CICD 4000 (from this recording)], Untitled
48. Reel, Speech: The Maid of Lahone / The Maid of Rathowen [CICD 3954–3955 (from this recording)], Untitled
49. Reel, Speech: The Teetotaller / Muldoon's / Muldoon the Solid Man, Untitled
50. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Farewell to Erin], Untitled
51. Reel: Untitled [CICD 4440 (from this recording); CICD 4441 (not from this recording); The New Policeman (CRE, # 99)]
52. Reel, Speech: The Tailor's Thimble [CICD 4106 (from this recording)], Untitled
53. Reel: Untitled [The Kerryman's Daughter; Halligan's Fancy; The Fisherman's Lilt]
54. Reel: Untitled [Walsh's Reel / Ril an Bhreathnaigh (CRE, # 70)]
55. Jig: Untitled [The Nova Scotia; The Pride of Slieve Aughty]
56. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [Rattigan's / Redican's / Tyler's], Untitled (incomplete)
57. Jig: Untitled [The Nova Scotia; The Pride of Slieve Aughty; partial repeat of track A55; on original tape at half the speed of the rest of the tape's contents, perhaps for transcription or learning purposes]
58. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [Rattigan's / Redican's / Tyler's], Untitled (incomplete)] [This track is a partial repeat of track A56; on original tape at half the speed of the rest of the tape's contents, perhaps for transcription or learning purposes] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, lilting A1-2;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A3-4, whistle solo A3, 5, 12, 15;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A6-14, 16-17;
Unidentified performers, lilting A18;
?, Paddy, singing in English A19-20;
Unidentified performer, whistle solo A21;
Mac Donnchadha ['ac Dhonncha], Sean, singing in Irish A22, B1, 7, 12, singing in English B6;
O Cathain, Padraic, singing in Irish B2, 5, 8, 11;
O Neachtain, Tomas, singing in Irish B3, 9;
O Conluain, Feichin [Festy], whistle solo B4, 10;
Unidentified performer, pipes solo B13, 15;
Unidentified performer, whistle solo B14;
Unidentified performer, singing in English B16

Running Order:
1. Set Dance: Untitled [The Blackbird]
2. March: Untitled
3. Song/Air: Untitled [Dear Doctor John], Untitled [Dear Doctor John]
4. Song: Untitled [The Cliffs of Doneen]
5. Hornpipes: Untitled [Down the Broom], Untitled [The Boys of Blue Hill], Untitled [Down the Broom]
6. Song: Untitled
7. Song: Untitled
8. Song: Untitled
9. Song: Untitled
10. Song: Untitled [The Bold Fenian Men]
11. Song: Untitled
12. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Leitrim Fancy], Untitled [The Boys of Bluehill]
13. Song: Untitled [The Patriot Game]
14. Song: Untitled
15. Hornpipe: Untitled
16. Song: Untitled
17. Song: Untitled
18. Set Dance: Untitled [The Blackbird]
19. Song: Untitled (clipped)
20. Song: Untitled (the preceding song in full)
21. Jigs: Untitled
22. Song: Boyle [Mainistir na Buille] (clipped) [END OF BAND ONE]
23. Song: Boyle [Mainistir na Buille] (preceding song in full)
24. Song: Fair Cassidy [An Caiseadach Ban]
25. Song: Big Andy's Pipe [Piopa Andy Mhor]
26. Slow Air: Fair Una [Una Bhan]
27. Song: The Red Haired Man's Wife [Bean an Fhir Rua]
28. Song: Treasure of My Heart [A Stor Mo Chroi]
29. Song: Noreen My Love [Noirin Mo Mhian]
30. Song: O Girl, Flower of the Rushes
31. Song: Peggy Mitchell
32. Slow Air: The Little Barley Field
33. Song: The Little Cuckoo of Glen Nephin
34. Song: The Rambling Labourer [An Spailpin Fanach]
35. Jigs: Untitled [The Langstern Pony]
36. Reels: Untitled
37. Slow Air: Untitled [A Stor Mo Chroi]
38. Song: Untitled (fragment) (clipped) [END OF BAND TWO]