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Audio originally recorded on reel-to-reel tape of performers including Seamus Ennis, Paddy Canny, P.J. Hayes, Peadar O'Loughlin and Robert (Robbie) McMahon. Piping tracks feature Seamus Ennis playing on his standard set of pipes, except for tracks 12 - 19, where he plays a B flat set described in the accompanying information to the tape as Brother Gildas's set. This B flat pipes section of the tape is recorded at 7 1/2ips; the rest is at 3 3/4ips.

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled [The Banks of the Nile] (beginning clipped)
2. Slow Air: The Wounded Huzzar
3. Story with Singing: Untitled [Man whose hump is cured by fairies]
4. Instrumental Piece: The Fox Chase
5. Reel: The Bucks of Oranmore
6. Slow Air: The Rocks of Bawn [Casadh an tSugain]
7. Slow Air: Slievenamon [Sliabh na mBan]
8. Slow Air: The Fairy Boy
9. Jig: The Gold Ring
10. Reel: Colonel Fraser
11. Reels: The College Groves [The College Grove; not the standard version of this; also related to The New Demesne], Jenny's Welcome to Charlie
12. Slow Air: Jimmy Mo Mhile Stor - Brother Gildas's pipes [Casadh an tSugain / The Turning of the Hayrope; played on B flat pipes - tune is followed by a recording of the pipes being tuned]
13. Jig: The Gander in the Pratie Hole [Played on B flat pipes]
14. Reel: The Repeal of the Union [Toss the Feathers] [Played on B flat pipes]
15. Reel: The Connacht Heifers / The Connacht Heifer [Played on B flat pipes]
16. Reel: Colonel Fraser [Played on B flat pipes]
17. Jig: Cailleach an Tuirne [The Maid of the Spinning Wheel; The Maid at the Churn] [Played on B flat pipes]
18. Reel: The Moving Bog [Played on B flat pipes]
19. Jig: Munster Buttermilk [Played on B flat pipes] [END OF BAND ONE]
20. Speech, Song: Untitled [Topics: father plays him to sleep as a child; Carl Hardebeck composes this song], The Piper that Played before Moses
21. Speech, Jig: Untitled, Munster Buttermilk
22. Song: My Father and Mother Were Irish
23. Speech: Untitled [Topics: Colm O'Lochlainn; introduction to the next piece]
24. Slow Air: Fairhaired Cassidy [An Caisideach Ban]
25. Story: The Bailiff
26. Speech, Slow Air: Untitled, Bean Dubh an Ghleanna
27. Speech, Song: Untitled [The Herring Song / The Song of the Herring; repeated line in chorus: 'Sing aberum fane, sing abero ling']
28. Speech, Song and Jig: Untitled, Cunnla, Frieze Breeches
29. Story with Singing, Reel: The Man and his Three Daughters - Did the Rum Do Da?
30. Story and Song: An Droighnean Donn [Background to song; sung in Irish and English]
31. Slow Air: An Droighnean Donn
32. Speech: Untitled [Remarks about the current state of traditional music and its revival]
33. Reel: The Silver Spear, The Dublin Reel
34. Story and Reel: The Pinch of Snuff
35. Reel: Miss Monaghan
36. Reels: Untitled [St Ruth's Bush], untitled [The Corner House]
37. Jig: The Old Grey Goose [Doctor O'Neill]
38. Reel: Lucy Campbell
39. Reels: The Morning Dew, The Earl's Chair
40. Song: Bold Jack Donoghue
41. Song: O'Brien the Blacksmith
42. Reel: The Mason's Apron [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Sweeney, [?], Jew's harp;
O'Boyle, John, fiddle;
Flaherty, Bartley, singing in English, singing in Irish;
Flaherty, Val, singing in Irish;
Kelly, Tom, singing in English, singing in Irish;
[unidentified performer], concertina;
[unidentified performer], flute;
[unidentified performer], fiddle

Running Order:
1. No track information
2. No track information
3. No track information

Performers:
Keville, Breda, concertina A9;
fiddle A1-6, 8-11, 13-15;
singing in English A7, 12, 16;
Keville, Claire, concertina A9;
fiddle A5;
Lewis, Liam, fiddle A11;
O'Reilly, Terence, guitar A2, 9, 15

Running Order:
1. Jigs: Palm Sunday, An bóithrín cam
2. Reels: The West wind, For the sake of old decency
3. Air: Ros a Mhíl cois cuain
4. Set dance: Seán Ó Duibhir; Hornpipe: Poll Ha'penny
5. Reels: The new road, My love is in America
6. Reels; The ewe reel, Paddy Fahey's, Paddy Fahey's
7. Song: The cuckoo
8. Reels: The ragged hank of yarn, The hairy chested frog
9. Reels: The ceilier, Ed Reavey's
10. Air: Sail Óg Rua
11. Reels: Paddy Fahey's, Paddy Fahey's, Paddy Fahey's
12. Song: Blackwaterside
13. Reels: Eileen Curran, The rainy day
14. Jigs: The Gallowglass, Kitty's rambles
15. Reels: The morning mist, The Monasterevin fancy
16. Song: Bean an fhir rua
17. Jig: Clancy's jig
18. Fling: Mary Brennan's favourite; Jig: The fowler on the moor
19. Reel: The hop down

Performers:
Unidentified performers, speech in English A1, 25, B1, 14, 27;
Keegan, Joe, Armagh, flute solo A2–29, B2–7, 28;
speech in English B1;
Kilfenora Ceili Band, The, Clare, instrumental group B8, 10;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in Irish and English B9, 11, 13, 19–20, 22, 24, 26;
Owens, Jesse, Dublin, singing in Irish and English in duet to own guitar accompaniment B12;
Byrne, Anne, Dublin, singing in Irish and English in duet to guitar accompaniment B12;
McKenna, Barney, Dublin, banjo in trio B14;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group(s) B15–18;
Staunton, Donal / Standuin, Donal, Galway, banjo in trio B19;
Keane, Sean, Dublin, fiddle in trio B19;
Mulqueen, Ann, Limerick, singing in English B21;
Flynn, Liam / O Floinn, Liam, Kildare, pipes solo B23;
O Se, Sean, Cork, singing in English with instrumental accompaniment B25;
Sean O Riada agus Ceoltoiri Chualann, Dublin, instrumental accompaniment to singing B25;
instrumental group B27

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [Test signals, etc]
2. Jig: Garrett Barry's
3. Reel: The Ewe Reel
4. Reel: Hand Me down the Tackle
5. Reel: The Cup of Tea
6. Reel: Down the Broom
7. Reel: The Milliner's Daughter
8. Reel: Music in the Glen
9. Reel: The Longford Collector
10. Reel: Untitled [Sporting Nell (related tune)]
11. Reel: Dinny O'Brien's [Composed by Paddy O'Brien]
12. Reel: Tom Ward's Downfall
13. Reel: Lucy Campbell
14. Reel: Miss McLeod's Reel
15. Reel: Untitled
16. Reel: The Liffey Banks
17. Reels: The Earl's Chair, Sporting Paddy
18. Reel: The Bunch of Keys
19. Reel: Gold Ring Jig [The Gold Ring]
20. Reel: McDermott's Reel [Master McDermott's Reel; composed by Master McDermott]
21. Jig: The Queen of the Fair
22. Jig: Kitty in the Lane [Kitty's Rambles; The Rambles of Kitty]
23. Reel: The Broken Pledge
24. Reel: Within a Mile of Dublin
25. Reel, Speech: Crowley's No. 1 [First tune in a set of 2 called 'Crowley's Reels' recorded by Michael Coleman, fiddle, on 78rpm disc], Untitled
26. Reel: Roaring Mary
27. Reel: Down the Broom
28. Reel: The Sligo Maid
29. Reel: The Flax in Bloom [END OF BAND ONE]
30. Speech, Speech: Untitled [Test signal], Untitled
31. Jig: Untitled [Happy to Meet and Sorry to Part (related tune)]
32. Jig: Untitled [Connie the Soldier]
33. Jig: Untitled [Do You Want Any More; The Collier's Reel (related tune)]
34. Reel: Untitled [The Liffey Banks]
35. Reel: Untitled [Lucy Campbell]
36. Reel: Untitled [Dicky Sherlock's]
37. Jigs: Untitled [Richard Brennan's Favourite], Untitled [The Idle Road] [Music signalling the start of a radio programme on Radio Eireann / RTE radio]
38. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
39. Reels: Untitled [The Kilmaley Reel], Untitled [The Hunter's House; composed by Ed Reavy; Reavy's Reel], Untitled [The Mountain Road; composed by Michael Gorman], Untitled [Tierney's Reel?], Untitled [Bonnie Kate], Untitled [Sean McGuire; composed by Bert Murray]
40. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
41. Song: Ballinderry
42. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
43. Reels, Speech: Untitled [My Love Is in America], Untitled [The Collier's Reel], Untitled [Radio announcement]
44. Jigs: Untitled [Andy McGann's], Untitled [The Castle Jig; composed by Sean Ryan], Untitled [Sacco's Jig; Tripping up the Stairs]
45. Reels: Untitled [Rattigan's], Untitled [Carmel Mahoney Mulhaire; composed by Martin Mulhaire], Untitled [The Hare's Foot]
46. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Fairy Queen], Untitled [The Ballyoran; composed by Sean Ryan]
47. Jigs: Untitled [The Lilting Fisherman], Untitled [Father Kelly's; Lough Derg Jig; composed by Father Kelly]
48. Reels, Speech: The Moving Bog, Miko Russell's / Micho Russell's, Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over]
49. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
50. Song: The Blackbird of Sweet Avondale
51. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
52. Reels: The Boy in the Gap, The Mistress [Maistreas an Ti / The Mistress of the House], The Cup of Tea
53. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
54. Song: The Boys of Kilmichael
55. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
56. Reels, Speech: Ril Mor Bhaile an Chalaidh, Untitled [Nelly Donovan], Untitled [The Shaskeen Reel], Untitled [Radio announcement; short; incomplete]
57. Reel: Untitled [The Milliner's Daughter] (clipped at end) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Keegan, Joe, Armagh, flute solo A1–25, B12–13;
speech in English B13;
flute in duet C26?;
Unidentified performers, speech in English and Irish A25, 47, B11, 17, 35, C21, 23;
O Suilleabhain, Eoin, Dublin, speech in Irish and English A26–27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, B1–3, 5, 8–9, C33, 35;
Kiltormer Ceili Band, The, Galway, instrumental group A26, 28, 30, 34, 38, 40, 44;
Fallon, Joe, Galway, fiddle solo A32, 36, 42;
Unidentified performer [McGann, Andy, New York], fiddle in trio A46, B17?;
Unidentified performer [Burke, Joe, Galway], accordion in trio A46;
accordion in duet A48;
Ardellis Ceili and Old-Time Band, The, instrumental group A48;
Gardiner, Bobby, Clare / USA / Tipperary, accordion in duet A48, B26;
Eugene Leddy's Ceili Band, Cavan, instrumental group A48;
O Se, Sean, Cork, singing in Irish and English with instrumental accompaniment B1;
singing in Irish with instrumental accompaniment B4, 8, C34;
Sean O Riada agus Ceoltoiri Chualann, Dublin, instrumental accompaniment to singing B1, 4, 8, C34;
instrumental group B1–2, 8, 10, C32;
Keane, Eamon, Dublin, speech in English B3, C33;
Sheehy, Anne, Kerry, accordion solo B6–7;
Unidentified performer [Redican, Larry, New York?], fiddle in trio B17;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English B17, 19, 23, 25, 27, 30, 32, 34;
McGann, Andy, New York, fiddle in trio B18;
Reynolds, Paddy, Longford / New York, fiddle in trio B18;
Brennan Grant, Katherine, New York, fiddle in duet B20–22;
Fishman, Dina, New York, singing in English to own guitar accompaniment B24;
Redican, Larry, New York, fiddle in duet B28–29;
Fahy, Jimmy / Fahy, Joe, Mayo / Chicago, singing in English B31;
Mulvihill, Charlie, New York, accordion in trio B33;
Mulvihill, Tom, New York, fiddle in trio B33;
Cronin, Paddy, Kerry / Boston, fiddle in duet B35;
O Murchu, Sean, Galway / Dublin, speech in Irish and English C1–2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18;
Killina Ceili Band, The, Roscommon, instrumental group C1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 15, 19;
Connolly, Seamus, Clare / Boston, fiddle solo C7, 13, 17;
Partly identified performer (John Joe), accordion solo C22;
Rowsome, Liam, Dublin, fiddle solo C23;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group(s) C24, 27–31;
Unidentified performer, accordion in duet C25;
Keane, James, Dublin / USA, accordion solo C36–37

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [Sporting Nell (related tune); for another performance of this tune from this performer, see track B13]
2. Reel: Untitled [Rattigan's Reel; for another performance of this tune from this performer, see track B14]
3. Reel: Untitled [The Cup of Tea]
4. Reel: Untitled [The Ewe Reel]
5. Reel: Untitled [Master McDermott's Reel; composed by Master McDermott]
6. Reel: Untitled [The Star of Munster]
7. Reel: Untitled [The Blackberry Blossom]
8. Reel: Untitled [Sporting Paddy]
9. Reel: Untitled [The Sailor on the Rock; sound level very low on original tape]
10. Reel: Untitled [The Beauty Spot]
11. Reel: Untitled [Miss Monaghan; sound level low]
12. Reel: Untitled [The Plough and the Stars]
13. Reel: Untitled [The Collier's Reel]
14. Jigs: Untitled [Do You Want Any More; The Collier's Reel (related tune)], Untitled (incomplete)
15. Jig: Untitled [Garrett Barry's Jig]
16. Reel: Untitled [The Mountain Road; composed by Michael Gorman]
17. Reel: Untitled [Paddy Taylor's Reel (related tune?)]
18. Reel: Untitled
19. Reels: Untitled [Dinny O'Brien's Reel; composed by Paddy O'Brien], Untitled [Farewell to Connacht]
20. Reel: Untitled [Tim Moloney]
21. Reel: Untitled [Down the Broom]
22. Reel: Untitled [The Old Torn Petticoat]
23. Reel: Untitled [Tory Island; Murphy's Greyhound]
24. Reel: Untitled [The Steampacket]
25. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Earl's Chair], Untitled [Radio announcement
26. Speech, March / Jig: Untitled [Radio announcement, signalling the start of an edition of the radio programme 'Ceili House' on Radio Eireann], Untitled [The Men of the West]
27. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
28. Reels: The Piper's Dream [The Red-Haired Lass], Buckley's Reel, Father Kelly's [Ben Hill Reel; composed by Father Kelly]
29. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; the personnel of the Kiltormer Ceili Band]
30. Jigs: The Liverpool Jig [Tonra's Jig; composed by Brendan Tonra], The Chestnut Grove [Ellis' Jig], The Tulla Jig [Ceol a' Mala / Ceol an Mhala]
31. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
32. Hornpipe: Sean Ryan Number Four [Sean Ryan's No. 4; The Ballyoran; composed by Sean Ryan]
33. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
34. Marches: The Minstrel Boy, My Singing Bird, God Save Ireland
35. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
36. Jigs: The Idle Road, Trip to Belfast [The First Night in America]
37. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
38. Hornpipes: Andy McGann's [Flaherty's], O'Brien's [The Humours of Tuamgraney]
39. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
40. Polkas: My Aunt Jane, Gurteen March, The Road to Blarney [St. Mary's Polka / Saint Mary's Polka]
41. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
42. Reels: Killabeg House [Ah Surely], Joe Fallon's Number Three / Joe Fallon's No. 3
43. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
44. Jigs: The Kilfenora (clipped at end)
45. Test Signal: Untitled
46. Reels: Untitled [The Girl Who Broke My Heart / The Girl That Broke My Heart], Untitled [Sean sa Cheo; Sean sa Cheo]
47. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
48. March, Reels, Speech, Set Dance: Untitled (short; incomplete), Untitled [The Sally Gardens], Untitled [The Bucks of Oranmore], Untitled [Radio announcement], The King of the Fairies (short; incomplete)
49. Speech, Song, Reel: Untitled [Radio announcement, signalling the start of an edition of the radio programme 'Flea Cheoil an Raidio' on Radio Eireann], An Spailpin Fanach [Sung with verses in Irish and English], Untitled [The Traveller; played between verses of the song sung in this track]
50. Speech, Carolan Piece: Untitled [Radio announcement], Planxty Drury
51. Speech, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled (short; incomplete)
52. Song: Untitled
53. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
54. Reels: Paddy Fahy's, Farrell's [The Killavil Fancy]
55. Hornpipe: Burke's
56. Speech, Song, Jig: Untitled [Radio announcement], Torramh an Bhairille, Untitled [The Humours of Ennistymon; played between verses of the song sung in this track]
57. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
58. Carolan Piece: Planxty Maguire [Faded out; end of the edition of 'Flea Cheoil an Raidio' that began in track B1]
59. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
60. Reel: Untitled [The Liffey Banks]
61. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Sporting Nell (related tune); for another performance of this tune from this performer, see track A1], Untitled
62. Reel: Untitled [Rattigan's Reel; for another performance of this tune from this performer, see track A2]
63. Jig: Untitled (incomplete; tape runs out) [END OF BAND ONE]
64. Test Signal: Untitled
65. Reel, Speech, Speech: Untitled [McFadden's Favourite; signature tune signalling the start of an edition of the Radio Eireann programme 'American Journeywork'], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over], Untitled [Radio announcement; topic: this programme is the last of the current series of music from the USA]
66. Reel: Paddy Fahy's Reel
67. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
68. Air: Jimmy Mo Mhile Stor
69. Jig: Paddy Fahy's Jig [Composed by Paddy Fahy]
70. Reel: Farewell to Ireland [Mistitled?; Faral Gara]
71. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
72. Song: As I Roved out through Galway City
73. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
74. Reels: Untitled [Music in the Glen], Untitled [The Donegal Traveller]
75. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
76. Set Dance: Peggy O'Neill
77. Reels: Untitled [Father Kelly's], Untitled [Trim the Velvet]
78. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
79. Song: The Colleen Bawn
80. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
81. Reel: Untitled [Stated in track B32 to have been composed by Charlie Mulvihill; is included in book of Father Kelly's compositions with the titles 'Derrycrag Reel' and 'Fr Kelly's No. 1']
82. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
83. Reel, Speech: The Humours of Westport, Untitled [Radio announcement signalling the end of the edition of 'American Journeywork' that began in track B17]
84. Speech, Hornpipe: Untitled [Radio announcement signalling the start of an edition of the programme 'Ceili House' on Radio Eireann], Untitled [The Plains of Boyle]
85. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
86. Reels: The Dublin Reel, Jackie Coleman's Reel, Miss McDonald
87. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
88. Jigs: Doctor O'Neill's, Strike the Gay Harp
89. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
90. Reel: Lord Gordon
91. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
92. Hornpipes: The Plains of Kilcorkery [The Home Brew], The Harristown Hornpipe [The Ballyoran; composed by Sean Ryan]
93. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
94. Marches: The Farmer's March, Sarsfield's March
95. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
96. Reels: Tom Ward's Downfall, The Mullinavat Reel [The Reel of Mullinavat]
97. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
98. Jigs: The Maid at the Spinning Wheel, The Lad from Briarfield [Langstern Pony / Langstrom Pony]
99. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
100. Hornpipe, Jig: Cooley's Hornpipe [Composed by Paddy O'Brien], Paddy Canny's Jig [Dougherty's; The Lark in the Morning (DMI, # 240)]
101. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement: the personnel of the Killina Ceili Band]
102. Reels: The Humours of Ballyconnell [Mistitled?; Lucky in Love; The Bloom of Youth], Postman's Knock [The Cameronian], The Woods of Clohanyquinn [?] [The Green Mountain], The Four Mile House [Boil the Breakfast Early]
103. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement signalling the end of the edition of 'Ceili House' that began in track C1]
104. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
105. Reels: Pride of Erin [The Green Groves of Erin], Congress [The Abbey Reel]
106. Speech, Air, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], Se Fath Mo Bhuartha (short; incomplete), Untitled [Radio announcement]
107. Reels: Untitled [The Sally Gardens], Untitled [The Mountain Road; composed by Michael Gorman], Untitled [Christmas Eve; composed by Tommy Coen]
108. Carolan Piece: Untitled [Planxty Drury]
109. Jig: Untitled [The Lark in the Morning]
110. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Sunshine Hornpipe], Untitled [The Standing Abbey]
111. Reels: Untitled [Martin Mulhaire's Number 9; composed by Martin Mulhaire], Untitled [The Steampacket]
112. Jigs: Untitled [Andy McGann's], Untitled [The Castle Jig; composed by Sean Ryan], Untitled [Sacco's Jig; Tripping up the Stairs]
113. Reels: Untitled [Rattigan's], Untitled [Carmel Mahoney Mulhaire; composed by Martin Mulhaire], Untitled [The Hare's Foot]
114. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Fairy Queen], Untitled [The Ballyoran; composed by Sean Ryan]
115. Reel: Untitled [The Ewe Reel]
116. Speech, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled (short; incomplete)
117. Song: Untitled
118. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
119. Jig: Langstrom Pony [Langstern Pony]
120. Reels: The Graf Spee [The Grand Spy], Mother's Delight (clipped at end) [END OF BAND TWO]