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Performers:
Tom Munnelly, Dublin/Clare, lecture in English
Kirsty Potts, Scotland, singing in English
Dr Ian Russell, England, lecture in English

Running Order:
1. Lecture: Come All Ye Worthy Christians
2. Presentation: Religion and Repertoire
3. Lecture: Singing in the Spirit - the tradition of English venacular Carolling from the Southern Pennines

Performers:
O'Donoghue, Paddy, Clare, flute (metal Boehm) solo throughout, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about music at home and in the area, local musicians Paddy Mac, Patrick Moloney, learning music, making a set of pipes, Martin Rochford, the following reel
2. Reel: Johnny Allen's Reel
3. Speech: talk about his father's playing style, East Clare style with tunes in awkward keys, gramophone used for house dances, Paddy Canny playing in house sessions in 1930's, brothers and sisters musicians, local musicians, concertina player Delia Mac Namara, Sean Reid bringing Clare musicians together, Mrs Galvin, Patrick Kelly, Mickey Cooleen and the following tune
4. Reel: Mickey Cooleen's Reel
5. Speech: talk about the following tune
6. Hornpipe: The Stage
7. Speech: talk about the previous tune, Paddy Moloney, concertina players Mrs Dinan and Mrs Dooley
8. Reel: The Star of Munster
9. Speech: talk about the previous tune, ornamentation used by the older musicians, schottisches and barndances, step dance 'The Britches'
10. March: Napoleon Crossing the Rhine
11. Speech: talk about the previous tune, playing for dancers, contrast between older and modern styles of dancing, clergy opposition to house dances, crossroad dances, gambling in houses, prosecutions for gambling, police informers

Performers:
Bane, Joe, tin whistle, speech in English
Unidentified performers, speech in English

Running Order:
1. Speech/Reel: The Bush in Bloom
2. Reel: The Old Maids of Galway
3. Speech: talk about learning and playing music, Paddy Canny, Pat Canny, Paddy Mac the blind fiddler, Johnny Allen, concertina players in the area, Sandy Carty, Bill Maher, John Downes (Sacho), pipers in the area, Felix Doran, Tom Joe Donoghue, Kitchen dances, set dances
4. Polka/Speech: Bonny Crosses the Alps, talk about the tune
5. Reel/Speech: Joe Bane's Reel [Nelly Donovan], talk about the tune
6. Reel/Speech: Sandy Carty's Reel, talk about the tune
7. Reel/speech: The Green-Gowned Lass, talk about the tune
8. Polka/Speech: Farewell to Whiskey [My Love is but a Lassie], talk about tunes used for set dancing, the whisper set
9. Jig: The Hundred Pipers, talk about the tunes used for the sets
10. Hornpipe/Speech: Off to California, talk about the tune
11. Fling: Some Say the Devil is Dead [Love will you Marry Me], talk about concertina players in the area
12. Jigs: Castle Dunavan, Have a Drink with Me, talk about the tunes, learning tunes from 78s
13. Reels: Down the Broom, The Gatehouse Maid, talk about 78s,
14. Fling/Speech: Johnny When You Die [The Keel Row], talk about the tune and the dance
15. Hornpipe/Speech: The Stack of Wheat, talk about Irish language in the area
16. Reel/Speech: The Blackberry Blossom, talk about the tune
17. March/Speech: O'Neill's March, talk about the tune
18. Polka/Speech: The Britches [can be heard nowadays played as a reel], talk about the tune
19. Fling/Speech: Untitled, talk about the tune
20. Set Dance: The Job of Journeywork, talk about the tune and dancing
21. Reel/Speech: Big Pat, talk about the tune
22. Reel/Speech: Paddy Murphy's Wife, talk about the tune, Jim Donoghue, Martin Nugent
23. Reel/Speech: Untitled, talk about the tune
24. Reel/Speech: The Leac Rua, talk about the tune
25. Reel/Speech: The Mountain Top, talk about learning music from Pat Canny
26. Reel/Speech: The Strawberry Blossom, talk about the tune
27. Reel/Speech: Rattigan's, talk about the tune and Martin Rocheford
28. Jig/Speech: The Hag with the Money [Cailleach an Airgead]
29. Reel/Speech: Come West Along the Road, talk about the tune and the East Clare style
30. Jig/Speech: The Boy in the Wood [Sweet Biddy Daly], talk about the East Clare style, playing tunes in different keys
31. Jigs/Speech: Untitled [Brian O'Lynn], The Lough Mountain Jig, talk about the East Clare style, playing tunes in different keys
32. Schottische/Speech: Untitled, talk about dancing the scottische, Bill Mailey, Paddy Flapper
33. Reels/Speech: Boil the Kettle Early, The Morning Star, talk about Paddy Flapper (William O Meehan) (The Flappers), Bill Mailey, talk about dancing, description of the plain set
34. Reel/Speech: Untitled, talk about the tune, dancing
35. Schottische/Speech: Untitled
36. Jig/Speech: The Carraroe Jig, The Rambling Pitchfork, talk about learning music and ornamentation, styles of music and dancing
37. Reel/Speech: The Boys of the Lough
38. Jig/Speech: The Campbells are Coming , talk about local instrument makers, Tommy Dynan, local singers
39. Reel/Speech: Paddy Finlay's Fancy [The Galway Rambler], The Boys of Ballisodare

Performers:
O'Donoghue, Paddy, Clare, flute (metal Boehm) solo, track 1, 3, fiddle 4solo, track 5, 7, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Air: Peace in the 90's
2. Speech: talk about the previous tune
3. Hornpipes: The Trip to Fanore, The Arrival of the Swallows
4. Speech: talk about the previous tunes
5. Reels: The Three-in-a-row
6. Speech: talk about the previous set of tunes
7. Jigs: The Stray Cat, A Night to Remember
8. Speech: talk about the previous tunes