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Performers:
Duffy, Pádraig, presenter, speech in English;
Rahan Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, instumental;
Hanrahan, Ciarán, interviewer, speech in English;
Cleary, Dan, speech in English;
[unidentified performers]

Running Order:
1. Copper and Brass programme tribute to Dan Cleary / Pádraig Duffy, speech in English
2. RTÉ Céilí House programme tribute to Dan Cleary / unidentified performer, speech in English ; various performers, instrumental music
3. Interview with Dan Cleary / Ciarán Hanrahan, speech in English

Performers:
Unidentified performer [Ronnie Wathen], pipes solo A1-4, 6-8, speech in English A3-4, recitation in English with pipes A5, singing in English A6

Running Order:
1. Jig: Untitled [The Gold Ring]
2. Jigs/Hornpipes: Untitled [The Humours of Ballyloughlin], Untitled [The Frieze Britches], Untitled, Untitled [The Cuckoo's Nest]
3. Reel/Speech: Trim the Velvet, talk about the preceding tune
4. Speech/Slow Air/Reel: talk about the following recording, Untitled [Bean Dubh an Ghleanna], Untitled
5. Recitation: Untitled
6. Song/Jigs: Untitled [The Bonny Bunch of Roses], Untitled
7. Slow Air/Hornpipe/Reel: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
8. Hornpipes/Jig: Untitled [The Derry Hornpipe], Untitled [Murphy's], Untitled [Doctor O'Neill] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
McBride, Jimmy, speech in English A1-2;
Doherty, Liz, Inishowen, Co. Donegal, speech in English A1-2;
The Great Cape Breton Fiddle Company, instrumental A1;
[Hugh Alan] 'Buddy' McMaster, fiddle A1;
Fitzgerald, Renie, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, speech in English A2

Running Order:
1. Speech: Programme 5: 'The fiddle music of Cape Breton - An Irish Perspective'
2. Speech: Programme 6: 'The traditional dance scene'

Performers:
McBride, Jimmy, speech in English A1;
Noel, Denis, Director of the Sound and Moving Images Archive, Fredricton, New Brunswick, speech in English A1-2;
[unidentified performer], fiddle A1;
[unidentified performer], guitar A1;
[unidentified performer], banjo A1;
Redden, Fred, singing in English A1;
[unidentified performer], singing in English A1;
Murdock, Matilda, fiddle A2;
[Yago], Sam, singing in English A2;
Tunney, Paddy, singing in English A2;
McDaid, Corney, singing in English A2;
[unidentified performer], fiddle A2;
[unidentified performer], singing in Irish A2

Running Order:
1. Speech and song: Programme 7: 'The New Brunswick connection'
2. Speech and song: Programme 8: 'The Fredriction song and music archive' (emphasis on the songs archived from material recorded at the Miramichi song gatherings)

Performers:
McBride, Jimmy, speech in English A1-2;
MacMaster, Hugh Alan 'Buddy', fiddle A1;
[McDonnell], Charlie, singing in English A1;
McDonald, Archie, singing in English A1;
Manus Byrne, Packie, singing in English A1;
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English A1;
Fiddlesticks, instrumental A1-2;
MacDonald, Howie A2;
Holland, Gerry A2;
Morin, Mac, piano A2;
Doherty, Liz, speech in English A2

Running Order:
1. Speech and song: Programme 13: 'More Common Songs' (Examination of three songs: 'The black sheep', 'Well sold the cow', and 'The girl I left behind')
2. Speech: Programme 14: The two traditions come together in Ireland at the Ar Ais Arís Music Festival in Buncrana, 2007

Performers:
Farrelly, Sean, London, accordion solo A1–7;
Unidentified performer(s), accordion in duet A8–12, 16–19;
accordion solo A13–15;
Unidentified performers, speech in English A8–12, 15, 17–18;
Unidentified performers, instrumental groups A20–21;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A22;
Unidentified performer, bodhran in duet A8–12, 16–19

Running Order:
1. Hornpipe: Untitled [Caroline O'Neill's hornpipe]
2. Reels: Untitled [Bonnie Kate], Untitled [Jenny's chickens]
3. Reel: Untitled [The Sligo maid]
4. Reels: Untitled [O'Rourke's], Untitled [The high reel]
5. Reels: Untitled [Bonnie Kate], Untitled [Jenny's chickens]
6. Waltz: Untitled [The bonnie boy is young]
7. March: Untitled [The boys of Wexford]
8. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [The hare's foot / the hare's paw], Untitled
9. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Bunker Hill], Untitled
10. Speech, Reels: Untitled, The yellow tinker, Untitled [The sally gardens; incomplete] [END OF BAND ONE]
11. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [I'm waiting for you], Untitled [The steeplechase], Untitled
12. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [The bag of potatoes], Untitled
13. Jigs: Untitled [The frieze breeches], Untitled [Fasten the leg in her]
14. Jigs: Untitled [The Irish washerwoman], Untitled [The luckpenny]
15. Hornpipe, Speech: Untitled [The boys of Bluehill], Untitled
16. Reel: Untitled [The happy days of youth; McKenna's], Untitled [The Dublin reel]
17. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [Andy McGann's reel], Untitled [The humours of Scarriff], Untitled
18. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled, Dinny O'Brien's [Composed by Paddy O'Brien], Farewell to Connacht, Untitled
19. Reel: Untitled [The merry harriers]
20. Reel: Untitled [The Kilmaley reel]
21. Jig: Untitled [Mac's fancy]
22. Jig: Untitled (incomplete) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performer(s), fiddle in duet A1, 7–8;
fiddle solo B10;
Collins, Kieran, Galway / London, whistle in duet A2;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English A2, 23;
Unidentified performer(s), pipes solo A3;
pipes in duet A7–8;
Ryan, Sean, Tipperary, fiddle in duet A4;
Moloney, P. J. / Maloney, P. J., Tipperary, flute in duet A4;
Unidentified performer [O Conluain, Proinsias, Dublin?], speech in English A4;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group(s) A5, 9, 22–24, B3, 5, 24, 26;
Unidentified performer(s), accordion solo A6, B1–2, 6–9, 11–23, 25, 27–29;
accordion in duet B4;
Tansey, Seamus, Sligo, flute solo A10–11, 15;
Coleman Country Ceili Band, The, Sligo, instrumental group A12, 17, 19;
Unidentified performer [O Murchu, Sean, Galway / Dublin], speech in English A12, 16, 18, 29;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A13–14, 20–21;
Cooley, Joe, Galway / USA, accordion in instrumental group A22–24;
Farrelly, Sean, London, accordion, tracks B (unspecified);
Unidentified performer [de Buitlear, Eamon, Wicklow], speech in English and Irish B26;
Reck, Tommy, Dublin, pipes solo B26;
Unidentified performers, speech in English B30;
Unidentified performer, guitar in duet A1;
Teague, Frank, London, guitar in duet A2;
Unidentified performer, percussion in duet B4

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [The maids of Castlebar]
2. Reels, Speech: Untitled [Miss McLeod's reel], Untitled [The copperplate], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over]
3. Reel: Untitled [The maid behind the bar; Kiss the maid behind the barrel]
4. Reels, Speech: Untitled [Fahy's favourite / Fahey's favourite; The Galway reel (CICD 2861, from Julia Clifford)], Untitled [Down the broom], Untitled [The first house in Connacht / Connaught], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over]
5. Jigs: Untitled [Paddy Fahey's jig / Paddy Fahy's jig; composed by Paddy Fahey / Paddy Fahy], Untitled [Related to 'The Killaloe boat'?], Untitled [Tonra's jig; composed by Brendan Tonra]
6. Reel: Untitled [Rossmore Jetty; Father Kelly's no. 2 / Father Kelly's number two; composed by Father P. J. Kelly]
7. Reels: Untitled [The old bush], Untitled [The Sligo maid]
8. Hornpipe: Untitled [The harvest home]
9. Jig: Untitled [Bill Harte's jig; The rookery]
10. Jigs: Untitled, Untitled [Strike the gay harp]
11. Reels: Untitled [Lad O'Beirne's favourite], Untitled [Never was piping so gay; composed by Ed Reavy]
12. Jigs, Speech: Untitled [The first night in America], Untitled [Saddle the pony], Untitled [Radio announcement]
13. Song: Untitled
14. Song: Untitled [Old McDonald had a farm]
15. Hornpipe: Untitled [The western]
16. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; information about the tune selection that follows; four titles are supplied but only three tunes are played]
17. Reels: The first house in Connacht [The first house in Connaught], The London lassies [Supplied title is incorrect?; Geoghegan's], The traveller
18. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
19. Jig: Untitled [Paddy Clancy's]
20. Song: Untitled (incomplete)
21. Song: Untitled [The boys of the county Armagh]
22. Jigs: Untitled [The queen of the fair], Untitled [Out on the ocean]
23. Jigs, Speech: Untitled [The queen of the fair], Untitled [The rambling pitchfork], Untitled [Radio announcement]
24. Reel: Untitled [Dowd's number nine / Dowd's no. 9] [END OF BAND ONE]
25. Reels: Untitled [The shaskeen reel], Untitled [Buckley's fancy]
26. Jigs: Untitled [The Lough Derg jig; composed by Father P. J. Kelly], Untitled [The Nova Scotia]
27. Reels: Untitled [The old bush], Untitled [The high reel]
28. Reel: Untitled [The bag of potatoes / The bag of spuds]
29. Reel: Untitled [The humours of Lissadell]
30. Jig: Untitled [Richard Brennan's favourite]
31. Hornpipe: Untitled [Lad O'Beirne's; composed by Ed Reavy]
32. Jigs: Untitled [Jack Coen's jig; The Dundalk jig], Untitled [Katie's Fancy]
33. Jig: Untitled [The frieze breeches; incomplete]
34. Reel: Untitled [Paddy Fahy's reel / Paddy Fahey's reel; composed by Paddy Fahy / Fahey]
35. Jigs: Untitled [Andy McGann's], Untitled [Tonra's jig; composed by Brendan Tonra]
36. Reel: Untitled [The green groves of Erin]
37. Reel: Untitled [The copperplate (2)]
38. Hornpipe: Untitled [Cooley's hornpipe; composed by Paddy O'Brien]
39. Reels: Untitled [The boys of Ballisodare], Untitled [The five mile chase]
40. Reel: Untitled [The first house in Connacht / Connaught]
41. Reels: Untitled [Paddy Kelly's reel; composed by Paddy Kelly], Untitled [The sally gardens]
42. Hornpipe: Untitled [The cuckoo]
43. Reel: Untitled [Tear the calico]
44. Waltz: Untitled (incomplete)
45. Reel: Untitled [The morning mist; composed by Joe Burke]
46. Reels: Untitled [Ben Hill reel], Untitled [Rossmore Jetty; Father Kelly's no. 2, Father Kelly's number two] [Both tunes in this selection were composed by Father P. J. Kelly]
47. Jig: Untitled (incomplete)
48. Reel: Untitled [The Kilmaley]
49. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Ballyoran; composed by Sean Ryan]
50. Jig, Speech, Reels: Untitled [The coach road to Sligo], Untitled [Radio announcement], Bonnie Kate, Miss McLeod, Fermoy Lasses [This track contains a dubbing from an RTE radio programme]
51. Reels: Untitled [Castle Kelly], Untitled [Within a mile of Dublin]
52. Fling / Hornpipe, Hornpipe: Untitled [Mrs Galvin], Untitled [The western]
53. Speech, Jigs: Untitled [Radio announcement], The shady groves of Piedmont [Port an bhrathar / the Reverend Brother's jig], Sonny Brogan's jig [Bill Harte's jig; The rookery] [This track contains a dubbing from an RTE radio programme]
54. Speech: Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]

The following recordings from 00:00:15 - 00:23:00 were dubbed from a recording of John Doherty made by Len Graham in 1967:
00:00:15 - 00:02:34 | The harvest morning, air / John Doherty, fiddle
00:03:26 - 00:04:59 | The Lord Gordon, reel [two-part version] / John Doherty, fiddle
00:05:43 - 00:06:53 | The Saint John's Point reel [two-part version of The gravel walks to Granny] / John Doherty, fiddle
00:07:13 - 00:08:58 | The foxhunt, [descriptive piece] / John Doherty, fiddle
00:09:27 - 00:12:36 | The miller o'hirn, [strathspey] ; Stirling Castle, [strathspey] ; The spey in spate, [comp. James Scott Skinner], reel / John Doherty, fiddle
00:12:55 - 00:14:37 | Bonnie Kate, reel / John Doherty, fiddle
00:15:02 - 00:16:59 | Rocking the cradle, song / John Doherty, singing in English
00:17:43 - 00:19:52 | The speaking waltz [version of Mrs Kenny's, waltz] / John Doherty, fiddle
00:20:08 - 00:21:35 | The white cockade, [polka] / John Doherty, fiddle
00:21:58 - 00:23:00 | The golden slipper, slip jig [hop jig] / John Doherty, fiddle

The following material from 00:24:48 - 00:47:37 was recorded in The Golden Gate Bar, Carrick, Co. Donegal in 1974 and features the playing of John Doherty, fiddle ; Cathal McConnell, flute ; Unidentified, guitar:
00:24:48 - 00:25:57 | O'Donnell's return, march / Various performers, instrumental music
00:26:11 - 00:27:16 | Collier's, reel / Various performers, instrumental music
00:27:29 - 00:28:45 | [Stirling Castle, strathspey] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:28:46 - 00:30:23 | The golden slipper, [hop jig] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:31:12 - 00:32:03 | Muineál a'bhardail = [The drake's neck, reel] / John Doherty, fiddle
00:32:09 - 00:33:14 | The granny in the corner [?] [The Westport chorus] [The green pigeon], reel / John Doherty, fiddle ; Unidentified, guitar
00:33:19 - 00:34:10 | John's brother Simon the source for the last tune, speech / John Doherty, speech in English ; Cathal McConnell, speech in English
00:34:30 - 00:36:06 | Muileann na maidí = [Crushing of the twigs, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:36:36 - 00:37:43 | [Tommy Gunn's, reel] / Cathal McConnell, flute ; Unidentified, guitar
00:37:51 - 00:39:36 | The pigeon on the gate, reel / Various performers, instrumental music
00:40:13 - 00:42:51 | Cradle song [Our highland queen] [comp. James Scott Skinner], waltz [originally composed as a strathspey] ; [The miller o'dervil] [comp. James Scott Skinner], strathspey ; Untitled, reel / John Doherty, fiddle
00:43:02 - 00:44:07 | The wise maid, [reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:44:57 - 00:45:43 | Máire na Sop, [reel] = [Scotch Mary, reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:45:46 - 00:46:51 | The morning star, [reel] / Various performers, instrumental music
00:47:06 - 00:47:37 | Lord MacDonald, reel / Various performers, instrumental music