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Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 36 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
O'Hara, Aidan, speech in English A1-6;
Hammond, Davy, Belfast, speech in English A1-6, singing in English A3, 6

Running Order:
1. Speech [revival folk music in Northern Ireland, its distinctiveness, song themes and language, sparse melodic line] / Davy Hammond, speech in English
2. Speech [talking to Seamus Ennis about music in Northern Ireland, Scottish and English influence on song, example showing the influence of Scotland on Northern Irish song is The Maid of Ballydoo] / Davy Hammond, speech in English
3. The maid of Ballydoo, song ; speech [song origins] / Davy Hammond, singing in English, speech in English
4. Speech [collecting, the poet Jimmy Simmons, Poor Genius record company, John Doherty, Sarah Makem, Geordie Hannah, Ulster heritage, Belfast - 'the Athens of the North', Edward Bunting and collecting harpers, The Country Folk Four, Trevor Stewart] / Davy Hammond, speech in English
5. Speech [young people becoming interested in music and culture in Northern Ireland, ] / Davy Hammond, speech in English
6. The week before Easter (I once loved a lass), song / Davy Hammond, singing in English [END OF STEREO BANDS]

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 21 [sound recording] / Alec Foster

Recorded in his house in Belfast from Alec Foster (aged 87), who learned most of his songs around 1900 in the Birdstown Glen, Inishowen, Co. Donegal, 13 October 1968 [tracks 1–7]

Performer:
Alec Foster (aged 87), singing in English Tracks 1–7

Running Order:
1. Down the moor (‘As I roved out one morn in May, it being fine summer weather...’), song [learnt from his father] / Alec Foster, singing in English
2. I had a wee duck (‘I had a wee duck when I lived in Drummuck...’), song [learnt from his father, sung with MS aid] / Alec Foster, singing in English
3. The town of Anterim (‘It was in the town of Anterim near to the river Bann...’), song [learnt from Artie Gilmour, actor and singer in Belfast around 1918] / Alec Foster, singing in English
4. A nobleman’s fair daughter (‘A nobleman’s fair daughter come walking down yon lane...’), song [learnt from his uncle Andrew Foster in Birdstown, Inishowen] / Alec Foster, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
5. The ‘Saldanha’ (‘Come all you gallant seamen bold and listen to my song...’), song / Alec Foster, singing in English
6. Roll me from the wall (‘When I was young and in my prime...’), song [from Fanad, sung with MS aid] / Alec Foster, singing in English
7. [=The keach in the creel] (‘How can I get to your chamber love? ...’), song [learnt from Dan Harkin, born c. 1890] / Alec Foster, singing in English [END OF BAND TWO]

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 146 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Recorded in Dublin [in Hugh Shields’s house] from Millán Urdiales and his wife Patricia Shaw de Urdiales, [summer 1962]. [tracks 1–12]
Recorded from Mrs Eileen Keaney [at her housein Belfast], November 1964. [tracks 28–31]
Recorded from Robert John Shields and Mrs Nora Shields [at their house in Belfast], November 1964 tracks 32–43]
Recorded in Magilligan, Co. Derry [in Eddie Butcher’s house and elsewhere], November 1964. [tracks 44–54]
Recorded in Dublin [in Hugh Shields’s house] from ‘Aunt Judy’ (elderly Russian refugee), 6 January 1964. [track 55]
Recorded in Dublin [in Hugh Shields’s house] from Katharine and Hilary Simms (young cousins of Lisa Shields), 6 January 1964 [tracks 56–57]

Domestic recordings of BBC 3rd programme broadcasts, various dates 1962–1964:
Venezuelan folk music [tracks 13-23]
Aucassin & Nicolette [track 24]
Rameau's harpsichord music [track 25]
Epic Survivals no 3 (of 5): Africa [track 26]
Early medieval music of church and court Early medieval music of church and court [track 58]
The modern evolution of Southern African music [track 59]
The Welsh triple harp [track 60]
Sixteenth century choral music by Thomas Tallis and William Byrd [track 62]

Performers:
Urdiales, Millán, recitation in Spanish Tracks 1-9, 12
Shaw de Urdiales, Patricia (English wife of above Spaniard) recitation in Spanish Tracks 10-11
Reina Family (Venezuela), singing in Spanish Tracks 13, 19-23
Reina, Federico, cuatro (guitarra) solo Tracks 14-18
Unidentified performers, speech in English Track 24, singing in French Track 24
Unidentified performer, speech in English Track 25
Kohnen, Robert, harpsichord Track 25
Alarius Ensemble of Brussels Track 25
Wachsmann, K.P, speech in English Track 26
Unidentified performers, singing in African Track 26
Shields, Norah, Belfast, age 58 (Hugh's mother), singing in English Tracks 27, 32, 37, 39, recitation in English Tracks 35-36, 38, 41-42, speech in English Tracks 39, 41-43
Keaney, Mrs. Eileen, Belfast, formerly Glenelly, co. Tyrone (see Ceol 2 no 1 pp 6-10, no 3 pp 62-66), singing in Irish Track 28, speech in English Track 29, singing in English Tracks 29-31,
Shields, Robert John, Belfast, (Hugh's father), singing in English Tracks 33, 40, recitation in English Track 34
Butcher, Eddie Aughil, Magilligan, co. Derry [1900-1980], recitation in English Tracks 44-47, singing in English Tracks 48-53
Gunning, Marion, recitation in English Track 54
'Aunt Judy' (Russian emigre? living in Dublin) Recitations in Russian D29, singing in French Track 55
Simms, Katharine, Dublin, age 15, singing in English Track 56
Simms, Hilary, Dublin, age 11, singing in English Track 57
(John Whitworth, Gerald English, Edgar Fleet, Marylin Wales, Edith Lake, Archy Camden), singing in French, Provencal and Latin, and group instrumentals
'Aunt Judy' (Russian refugee) living in Dublin) Recitations in Russian D29, singing in French Track 58
Unidentified performer, speech in English Track 58
Unidentified performer, speech in English Track 59
Unidentified performers, singing in African language Track 59
Rimmer, Joan, speech in English Track 60
Richards Jones, Nancy, triple harp solo Track 60
Loyd, A.L, speech in English Track 61
Elliot, John, singing in English Track 61
Elliot, Jack, singing in English Track 61
Killen, Lou, singing in English Track 61
Unidentified performers, choral singing Track 62

Running Order:
1. El Conde Arnaldos, romance [old ballad] / Millán Urdiales, speech in Spanish
2. Romance del prisionero, romance [old ballad] / Millán Urdiales, speech in Spanish
3. Fonte frida, romance [old ballad] / Millán Urdiales, speech in Spanish
4. La batalla de Roncesvalles (‘Mala la vistes, franceses, la caza de Roncesvalles...’), romance [old ballad] / Millán Urdiales, speech in Spanish
5. La batalla de Roncesvalles (‘En París esta Dona Alda...’), romance [old ballad] / Millán Urdiales, speech in Spanish
6. Ayer vite en la fonte, poem [from [Maud] Karpeles, folk songs of Europe / Millán Urdiales, speech in Spanish
7. Romance de la luna, luna, poem [by Federico García Lorca] / Millán Urdiales, speech in Spanish
8. La casada infiel, poem [by Lorca / Millán Urdiales, speech in Spanish
9. A Don Francisco Giner de los Ríos [by Antonio Machado] / Millán Urdiales, speech in Spanish
10. Que no quiero amores en Inglaterra, poem / Patricia Shaw de Urdiales, speech in Spanish
11. Miraba la mar la malcasada, poem / Patricia Shaw de Urdiales, speech in Spanish
12. Os Lusiadas, poem [by Luís de Camões, extract] / Millán Urdiales, speech in Portuguese
13. Mampolorio, song [sung at the death of a child: first track from radio programme: on Venezuelan folk music, presented by A.L. Lloyd, and sung by the Reina family. BBC 3rd programme, 2 September 1962 [tracks 13-23, recorded off air] / Reina family member, singing in Spanish, guitar
14. Tune: Whip-tune, tune / Federico Reina, ‘cuatro’ [4-stringed guitar]
15. Tune: Caricario, classical dance tune ‘folklorized; / Reina family member, ‘cuatro’ [4-stringed guitar]
16. Tune: Uno y catorce, tune / Reina family, ‘cuatro’ guitar ; percussion [maramba?]
17. Tune: Joropo - El gavilan (pasaje), tune / Reina family, 2 ‘cuatro’ guitars ; moraja?
18. Tune: Joropo, tune / Reina family, 2 ‘cuatro’ guitars ; moraja?
19. A mi negra la quiero, song / Reina family, singing in Spanish ; ‘cuatro’ guitar
20. Velada de la cruz; Todas las floren se fueron, songs [quasi-religious] / female Reina family member [child?] performer), song / Reina family, singing in Spanish to guitars
21. Corrido - A la una, song, / Reina family, guitar
22. Songs: Aguinaldo tun-tun?, song / female Reina family member, singing in Spanish to guitar
23. Quién es? Gente de paz, song [Christmas carol], / Reina family, guitars
24. Aucassin & Nicolette, radio programme [English adaptation of the medieval French chantefable, incomplete, recorded off air, BBC 3rd programme, 1962 or 1963] [end of band one]
25. Rameau’s harpsichord music, radio programme [recorded off air from BBC third programme], speech ; baroque music / unidentified presenter, speech in English ; Robert Kohnen, harpsichord solo ; Alarius ensemble of Brussels, various instruments
26. [Domestic recording of a BBC 3rd programme radio rebroadcast [of 31 January 1965] Epic Survivals no 3 (of 5) ‘Traces of the epic in Africa’, by K.P. Wachsmann, presented by K.P Wachsmann, reader Denys Hawthorne, 25 May 1963] / K.P Wachsmann, speech in English ; Denys Hawthorne, speech in English ; various performers singing in African dialects, various native instruments. [The series editor was A.L. Lloyd. Nos 1, 2 and 5 are on 6108 (CID239818) No 3 is on 6106 (CID 55169), no 4 on 6113 (CID 239880)]
27. My aunt Jane, song / Mrs Norah Shields, singing in English
28. Thíos ag teach an torraimh, song, / Mrs Eileen Keaney, singing in Irish
29. Poor Toby is dead, talk about the following ; song / Mrs Eileen Keaney, speech in English, singing in English
30. Here are the robbers coming through, song / Mrs Eileen Keaney, singing in English
31. Henry Joy McCracken, song / Mrs Eileen Keaney, singing in English
32. Green gravel (‘Dear Dolly dear Dolly...’), song [3 lines only] / Mrs Norah Shields, singing in English
33. Our queen up the river, song / Robert John Shields, singing in English
34. Granma granma Gray, rhyme / Robert John Shields, speech in English
35. Granma granma Gray, rhyme / Mrs Norah Shields, speech in English
36. Eettle attle blue bottle, rhyme / Mrs Norah Shields, speech in English
37. One two three alery, song / Mrs Norah Shields, singing in English
38. A rah chickapa, rhyme [‘counting out for tig’] / Mrs Norah Shields, speech in English
39. Here are the robbers, talk about the following ; song / Mrs Norah Shields, speech in English, singing in English
40. Our queen can burl her leg / Robert John Shields, singing in English
41. One potato, two potato, talk about the following ; rhyme / Mrs Norah Shields, speech in English
42. As I went over Corney hill, talk about the following ; rhyme / Mrs Norah Shields, speech in English
43. In mud eels is, talk about the following ; rhyme / Mrs Norah Shields, speech in English
44. As I went over Corney hill, rhyme / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
45. As I was going to St. Ives, rhyme / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
46. How many feet has forty sheep, rhyme / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
47. Twenty six sheep, rhyme / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
48. My aunt Jane, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
49. When a man’s in love, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
50. The old plaid shawl (‘Not far from Conamara when the merry month of May...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
51. The croppy boy (‘Good men and true in this house who dwell...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
52. Longfield bank (‘On a dull October morning...’), song [words by Eddie Butcher] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
53. Anglers on the Roe(‘ Come gather round you fishermen...’), song [words by Eddie Butcher] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
54. In and out go the dusty bluebells, rhyme / Marion Cunning, speech in English [end of band two]
55. Babushki ladushki, song [for children] ; Do do, l’enfant do, lullaby.; Morozh i solntse, den’ chudesny, poem [by Alexandr Pushkin] ; rhymes [snatches] / ‘Aunt Judy’ [elderly Russian refugee living in Dublin], singing in Russian, singing in French, speech in Russian
56. Master McGrath, song [fragment] / Katharine Simms (15), singing in English
57. The Kerry recruit (‘Mrs McGee the sergeant said...’) / Hilary Simms (11), singing in English
58. Early medieval music of church and court, radio programme [recorded off air from BBC 3rd programme, 6 January 1964], songs ; medieval instrumental music / Martindale Sidwell choir and various soloists, singing in Provençal, various instruments [including hurdy-gurdy, Gothic harp, crwth]
59. Chaka to King Kong: the modern evolution of Southern African music, radio programme [recorded off air from BBC third programme, 13 January 1964] / Percival R. Kirby, speech in English ; various performers singing in African dialects ; various musicians
60. The triple harp, radio programme [recorded off air from BBC 3rd programme presented by Joan Rimmer, 13 January 1964] , traditional Welsh and baroque music / Joan Rimmer, speech in English ; Nancy Richards Jones, Welsh triple harp [end of band three]
61. The songs of the Durham miners, radio programmes [recorded off air from BBC third programme, presented by A.L. LLoyd: part 1 ‘The older stratum’ 27 January 1964 ; part 2 ‘The newer seam’ 3 February 1964] / A.L. Lloyd, speech in English ; Jack Elliot, singing in English, John Elliot ; singing in English ; various performers, singing in English
62. Sixteenth century choral music by Thomas Tallis and William Byrd (including Byrd’s Cantiones Sacrae, 1575), radio programme [recorded off air from BBC 3rd programme] / Cantores in Ecelesia (conductor Michael Howard), singing in Latin [end of band four]

Josephine Keegan Collection. Reel-to-Reel 1 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, speech in English A1, B27;
O Murchu, Sean, Galway / Dublin, speech in Irish and English A2–3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21–23, 25, 27–29, 31, B1–2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18–20, 22, 24–25, C4–5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 33, 36;
Johnny Pickering Ceili Band, The, Tyrone, instrumental group A2, 4, 8, 10, 14, 16, 20, B33, 37;
Moriarty, Patrick, Kerry, mouth organ / harmonica solo A6, 12, 18;
Dermot O'Brien Ceili Band, The, Louth, instrumental group A22, 24;
O'Brien, Dermot, Louth, speech in English A25;
singing in English with instrumental accompaniment A26;
O Se, Sean, Cork, singing in Irish with instrumental accompaniment A27;
Ceoltoiri Chualann, Dublin, instrumental group A27;
Dempsey, Martin, Dublin, singing in English with instrumental accompaniment A28;
speech in English A29;
Maguire, Sean / McGuire, Sean, Belfast, fiddle in duet A30;
Unidentified performers, speech in English and Irish A32, B28, 31–32, 34, 36, 38, C1–3, 24;
McPeake Trio, The, Belfast, instrumental group A32–33;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English and Irish A32–33, B28–30, C24, 26–28, 30;
O Lochlainn, Colm, Dublin, speech in English A33;
Bunclody Ceili Band, The, Wexford, instrumental group B1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 15, 17;
Egan, Cathleen, Tipperary, singing in English B7, 13;
Birmingham Comhaltas Ceili Band, The, Birmingham, instrumental group B19, 21, 23, 26;
Hipkiss, Michael, Birmingham singing in English B25;
Unidentified performer [McGann, Andy, New York?], fiddle in trio B28, C24;
Unidentified performer [Redican, Larry, New York?], fiddle in trio B28, C24;
Concannon, Tom / O Coinceanainn, Tomas, Galway / Boston, speech in Irish B28;
Connolly, Mickey, Galway / Boston, speech in English B29;
Mellott, Tommy / O Mealoid, Tomas, Galway / Boston, accordion in instrumental group B28, 30;
speech in Irish B29;
O'Malley, Joe, Galway / Boston, accordion in instrumental group B28, 30;
Tonra, Brendan, Mayo / Boston, fiddle in instrumental group B28, 30;
Sturr [?], Frank, Boston, piano accordion in instrumental group B28, 30;
Kelly, Jimmy, Boston, banjo in instrumental group B28, 30;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo B31;
McCusker Brothers Ceili Band, The, Armagh, instrumental group B35, 39;
Reynolds, William [Reynolds, Willie], Westmeath, pipes in duet C1–3;
Healion, Sean, Westmeath, fiddle in duet C1–3;
Malachy Doris Ceili Band, The, Tyrone, instrumental group C4, 6, 10, 12, 16, 18, 22;
Rowsome, Leon, Dublin, pipes solo C8, 14, 20;
Redican, Larry, New York, fiddle in duet C25;
speech in English C26;
McKenna, John, Leitrim / New York, flute in duet C26;
Morrison, Tom, Galway / New York, flute in duet C27;
Morrison, Jimmy / Morrison, James, Sligo / New York, fiddle in trio C27;
Coleman, Michael, Sligo / New York, fiddle in duet C29, 31;
Pride of Erin Ceili Band, The, instrumental group C32, 34–35

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [Initial test message]
2. Speech, March: Untitled [Radio announcement, signalling the start of an edition of the radio programme 'Ceili House' on Radio Eireann], Untitled [Shane O'Neill's March (first part only)]
3. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; followed by test signal]
4. Reels: Untitled [The Green Mountain], Untitled, Untitled
5. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
6. Marches: Clare's Dragoons, Ninety-Eight [Who Fears to Speak of '98?]
7. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
8. Jigs: The Gold Ring, Father O'Carroll, The Irish Jig [Extraneous noise on this track]
9. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; the personnel of the Johnny Pickering Ceili Band]
10. Hornpipes: Tim the Turncoat [Mistitled?; The Friendly Visit], The Fiddler's Contest
11. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
12. Set Dance: Madame Bonaparte
13. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
14. Marches: The Milkmaid, Ireland Abu [The Ballydesmond]
15. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
16. Waltzes: The Blue Ribbon, The Listener
17. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
18. Jigs: Paddy's Return, The Chorus Jig [The Queen of the Rushes]
19. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
20. Reels: The Corner House, The Mountain Road [Composed by Michael Gorman], Untitled [Geoghegan's]
21. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement, signalling the end of the edition of the 'Ceili House' radio programme that began in track 2]
22. Polka, Speech: Untitled [The Rakes of Mallow], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over, signalling the start of an edition of the radio programme 'Ceili Time' on Radio Eireann]
23. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
24. Reels: Untitled [Staten Island], Untitled
25. Speech: Untitled [Radio interview with Dermot O'Brien; topics include: the reasons why O'Brien stopped playing ceili music; strict tempo in ceili music; response to criticisms of his music as 'non-traditional'; Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann]
26. Song: The Merry Ploughboy / The Jolly Ploughboy
27. Speech, Song, Jig: Untitled [Radio interview], Untitled [Ta Mo Mhadra; "Ta mo mhadra, nil mo mhadra, ta mo mhadra scaoilte" (etc)], Untitled [The Maid of the Spinning Wheel / Cailleach an Tuirne; first part only; played between verses of the song performed in this track]
28. Speech, Song: Untitled [Radio announcement], Deep in Canadian Woods
29. Speech: Untitled [Radio interview with Martin Dempsey; topics include: the recent controversy about the teaching of Irish; Dempsey's career as a performer; the recent ballad boom]
30. Reels: Untitled [Lucy Campbell], Untitled (incomplete)
31. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
32. Speech, Hornpipe, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement signalling the start of a radio programme on Radio Eireann], Untitled [The Derry Hornpipe / The Londonderry Hornpipe], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over]
33. Speech, Air: Untitled [Radio announcement; topic: Francie McPeake telling of Irish music evenings at the house of Francis Joseph Biggar in Belfast 60 years previously; interview with Colm O Lochlainn; topics include: Biggar's role as antiquarian and as sponsor of pipe bands all over Ireland; Biggar's role in starting the Black Black Raven Pipe Band in Lusk, Co. Dublin; after the banner of the Lusk band was destroyed by the Black and Tans, O Lochlainn replaced the banner; O Lochlainn met Roger Casement at one of Biggar's music evenings; Francie McPeake used to perform 'In Bodenstown Churchyard' in Biggar's house; O Lochlainn performed William Rooney's poem "Dear Dark Head" and was congratulated for it by Casement; O Lochlainn had lunch with Biggar and Casement in Dublin], Eamon an Chnoic
34. Speech, March: Untitled [Radio announcement, signalling the start of an edition of the radio programme 'Ceili House' on Radio Eireann], Untitled [Kelly, the Boy from Killane]
35. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
36. Reels: The Bunch of Keys, Rakish Paddy, The Copperplate
37. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; topic: the buck dance – a virility dance performed in Clare]
38. Jigs: The Barber's Jig [Molloy's Favourite], Green's Jig [Malowney's Wife], The Idle Road
39. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
40. Song: The Cliffs of Dooneen
41. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
42. Set Dances: The Jockey to the Fair, The Three Sea Captains
43. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
44. Marches: Erin go Bragh, Ar Son Eireann, The Centenary March
45. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
46. Song: Noreen Bawn / Noirin Ban (incomplete)
47. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
48. Jigs: The Wandering Minstrel, O'Brien's Fancy [Katie's Fancy]
49. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement: the personnel of the Bunclody Ceili Band]
50. Reels: The Kilmaley Reel, The High Reel, Father Kelly's [Rossmore Jetty; composed by Father Kelly; for another performance of this tune, see track C14]
51. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; signalling the end of an edition of 'Ceili House']
52. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Radio announcement, signalling the start of an edition of 'Ceili House'], Untitled [The Red-Haired Lass]
53. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
54. Reels: Larry Redican's [The Culfada; composed by Larry Redican], Dick Sherlock's [Dicky Sherlock's], Lord McDonagh's [Geoghegan's], Untitled [The Ewe Reel]
55. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
56. Jigs: Untitled, Untitled [The First Night in America], Untitled [Andy McGann's]
57. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
58. Song, Speech: The Flower of Sweet Strabane (imcomplete), Untitled [Radio announcement]
59. Hornpipes: Anne Sheehy's Hornpipe [The Flowing Tide], Chief O'Neill's (incomplete; clipped at end) [END OF BAND ONE]
60. Speech: Untitled [Initial test message at start of tape band]
61. Reel, Speech, Speech, Reel, Speech, Reel: 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 coming from Tom Concannon's saloon in Norwood, near Boston, USA], Untitled [Down the Broom], Untitled [Radio interviews], Untitled [The Corner House]
62. Speech: Untitled [Radio interview]
63. Reels, Speech: Untitled [The Boys of Ballisodare / The Boys of Ballysadare], Untitled [Gregg's Pipes], Untitled [The Mason's Apron], Untitled [Radio announcement (short; incomplete)]
64. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Bonnie Kate], Untitled [Radio announcement (short; incomplete), signalling the end of a Radio Eireann programme, probably the 'American Journeywork' edition beginning on track B28]
65. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement signalling the start of a Radio Eireann programme of Irish dance music]
66. Reels: Dinny O'Brien's Reel [Composed by Paddy O'Brien], The Sally Gardens, St Anne's Reel / Saint Anne's Reel
67. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
68. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Tailor's Twist], Untitled
69. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
70. Jigs: Jackson's Morning Brush, Paddy on the Mountain [Delaney's Drummers], Kinnegad Slashers
71. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
72. Reels, Speech: Untitled [George White's Favourite], Untitled [The Bag of Potatoes / The Bag of Spuds], Untitled [The Silver Spear], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over, signalling the end of the radio programme beginning on track B32]
73. Speech, March: Untitled [Radio announcement signalling the start of a Radio Eireann radio programme], Sean O'Neill [Shane O'Neill's March]
74. Speech, Jigs: Untitled [Radio announcement], Whelan's, Bill Harte's
75. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Radio announcement], The Donegal, The Leitrim [Rakish Paddy]
76. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Radio announcement, signalling the start of an edition of 'Ceili House'], Untitled [The Boys of the Lough]
77. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
78. Jigs: The Rakes of Kildare, The Fisherman's Widow [The Rambling Pitchfork], The Blackthorn Stick [The Humours of Bantry]
79. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; topics include: the use of a casadoir / twister in the making of ropes of hay or straw]
80. Air: Casadh an tSugain
81. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
82. Hornpipes: The Galway Hornpipe, The Golden Eagle, The Locomotive [Composed by James Hill of Tyneside]
83. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
84. Jigs: The Lilting Fisherman, The Humours of Ballycastle, I Will if I Can
85. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; topics include: a tongue-twister in Irish]
86. Reels: Father Kelly's [Father Kelly's Reel; Rossmore Jetty; composed by Father Kelly; for another performance of this tune, see track B17], The Green Mountain, Whelan's Reel [The Hare's Foot]
87. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
88. Marches: Captain Dunne's, Slattery's Mounted Foot, The Merry Ploughboy
89. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
90. Waltzes: The Green Glens of Antrim, The Castle of Dromore, Lovely Leitrim
91. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
92. Jig: Gillan's Apples
93. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement: the personnel of the Malachy Doris Ceili Band]
94. Reels: The Morning Mist, Peter Street, The Plough and the Stars
95. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement, signalling the end of the edition of 'Ceili House' that began in track C4]
96. 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, as voice-over]
97. Reels: Untitled [Father Kelly's], Untitled [Trim the Velvet]
98. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Radio interview with Larry Redican; topics include: Redican made 78rpm records with Eddie Meehan's Rosaleen Quartet; the personnel of the quartet; John McKenna], The Lady of the House
99. Speech, Reels, Speech, Reels: Untitled [Radio interview with Larry Redican; topics include: older musicians in New York, including Tom Morrison (flute), who used to wake Redican up at 2.30am to hear Redican play a tune], The Dunmore Lasses, The Manchester Reel, The Castlebar Traveller, Untitled [Radio interview, continued], Miss Langford's Reel, The Milestone at the Garden [The Humours of Westport]
100. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
101. Reels: Untitled [O'Rourke's], Untitled [The Wild Irishman]
102. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
103. Reels: The Liffey Banks, The Shaskeen
104. Reels: Untitled [The Crooked Road to Dublin], Untitled [The Ivy Leaf], Untitled [Ceol na Ceartan / Music of the Forge; The Pretty Girls of Mayo]
105. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
106. Jigs: Jim Fahy's Jig [The New House; composed by Paddy O'Brien], The Mooncoin (incomplete)
107. Reel: Untitled [A combination of the first part of 'Coen's Memories' (composed by Tommy Coen) with the second part of 'The Corner House'], Untitled, Untitled [The Reel of Bogie]
108. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement] [END OF BAND TWO]

Josephine Keegan Collection. Reel-to-Reel 4 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Maguire, Sean / McGuire, Sean, Belfast, fiddle in instrumental group throughout;
fiddle in duet A6–9, B4, 17–19;
speech in English A8;
Roland, Raymond, Galway / London, accordion in instrumental group throughout;
accordion in duet B5–6, 13–16;
Keegan, Josephine, Armagh, piano accompaniment throughout;
piano solo B11–12;
Unidentified performer(s), accordion solo A3;
accordion in duet A11;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A10;
singing in English with instrumental accompaniment A10;
Mahony, Frank, Clare / London, fiddle in duet B7–10;
Unidentified performer, speech in English B20

Running Order:
1. Jigs: Untitled [The Humours of Glendart], Untitled [The Swallow's Nest], Untitled [Paddy's Return]
2. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Galway Hornpipe; McDermott's], Untitled [Swinging around the Circle], Untitled (short; incomplete)
3. Reel: Untitled [Father Kelly's]
4. Marches: Untitled [Shane O'Neill's March], Untitled [The Battle of Aughrim], Untitled [Kelly, the Boy from Killane], Untitled [Roddy McCorley] [Sound problems on this track due to problems on the original tape]
5. Reels: Untitled [The Templehouse], Untitled [Drowsy Maggie], Untitled [Mullingar Races]
6. Reels: Untitled [Miss Johnson]
7. Reels: Untitled [The Shaskeen Reel], Untitled [Master McDermott's Reel; composed by Master McDermott], Untitled [Faral Gara; played 7 times]
8. Speech, Air: Untitled, Roisin Dubh
9. Air: Untitled [Boolavogue]
10. Speech, Song: Untitled, Untitled [Six Miles From Bangor To Donaghadee]
11. Waltz: Untitled (short; incomplete; tape runs out) [END OF BAND ONE]
12. Reel: Untitled [The Providence]
13. Reels: Untitled [Eileen Curran], Untitled [The Sandmount; Mick Hand's]
14. Reels: Untitled [The Yellow Tinker], Untitled [The Sally Gardens], Untitled [The Yellow Tinker], Untitled [The Bunch of Keys]
15. Reels: Untitled [The Sligo Maid], Untitled [Molloy's Favourite]
16. Reel: Untitled [Paddy Kelly's; composed by Paddy Kelly]
17. Reels: Untitled [Composed by Paddy Fahy], Untitled [Kitty in the Lane], Untitled [Toss the Feathers]
18. Reels: Untitled [For the Sake of Old Decency], Untitled [The Ballykett Courthouse]
19. Reel: Untitled [Kilbaha]
20. Reel: Untitled [Tansey's Favourite]
21. Reel: Untitled [Corney Is Coming]
22. Reel: Untitled
23. Hornpipe: Untitled [Beeswing; composed by James Hill] (clipped at end)
24. Reels: Untitled [The Little Thatched Cabin; The Log Cabin], Untitled [Master Crowley's]
25. Reel: Untitled [Composed by Paddy Fahy]
26. Reels: Untitled [Paddy Cronin's No. 2]
27. Reels: Untitled [Music in the Glen], Untitled [Rakish Paddy], Untitled [Maude Miller (DMI, # 480)] [Sound problems on this track due to problems on the original tape]
28. Reels: Untitled [Bonnie Kate], Untitled [Jenny's Chickens]
29. Reels: Untitled [The Providence], Untitled [Geoghegan's]
30. Air: Untitled [Amhran na bhFiann; the Irish national anthem]
31. Speech: Untitled [Test message] [END OF BAND TWO]

Louis Quinn Collection. Reel-to-Reel 05 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Quinn, Louis, Armagh/New York, incidental speech throughout;
Unidentified performers, speech in English throughout;
Maguire, Sean, Belfast, fiddle in duet A1-5 [possibly off-disc dubs], B15-17, 19-21;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A6;
Doherty, John, Donegal, fiddle solo A7-13 [possibly off-disc dubs - check against 'Pedlar's Pack'];
Carberry Brothers, Longford, pipes & mandolin (possibly banjo) A14-15;
Byrne, Michael J, Leitrim, speech in English A16, fiddle solo A17-19;
McNiffe, Michael, Longford, fiddle solo A20;
Clarke, Pat, Knockbride, speech in English A21, fiddle solo A21-22;
McCusker Brothers, Armagh, larger instrumental group A23, 26-27;
O'Hare, Kay, singing in English A24;
Unidentified performer, piano solo A25;
Seary, Sean, pipes solo B1-2, speech in English B3;
McAloon, John=;
McAloon, Sean, Fermanagh/Belfast, pipes solo B4-5, fiddle solo B12, pipes in duet B13-14;
Rooney, James, Fermanagh, fiddle in duet B6, 9? [either James or his brother], 10, fiddle solo B7, 11, speech in English B8;
McQuillan, Peter, Monaghan, banjo in duet B6, 9-10;
Rooney, ? [James' brother], Fermanagh, fiddle?;
Rooney, Seamus, fiddle in duet B13-14;
Unidentified performer, whistle in duet B18

Running Order:
1. Hornpipe: Untitled
2. Hornpipe: Untitled
3. Reel: Untitled
4. Reel: Untitled
5. Reel: Untitled
6. Reel: Untitled [unfinished]
7. Reel: Untitled
8. Reel: Untitled [unfinished]
9. Piece: The Fox Chase
10. Hornpipe: Untitled
11. Jig: Untitled
12. Hornpipe: Untitled
13. Hornpipe: Untitled
14. Reel: Untitled
15. Jig: Untitled
16. Speech: a few words to his brother in New York
17. Reels: Untitled
18. Jig: Untitled
19. Hornpipe: Untitled
20. Hornpipe: Untitled
21. Speech/Reel: Untitled
22. Jig: Untitled
23. Reels: Untitled
24. Song: Untitled
25. Hornpipe: Untitled
26. Reels: Untitled
27. Jigs: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
28. Jigs/Reels: Untitled
29. Hornpipes: Untitled
30. Speech: greetings to friends Eileen and Paddy in America
31. Jigs: Untitled
32. Reels: Untitled
33. Jigs: Untitled
34. Reel: The Chattering Magpie
35. Speech: greetings to a sister Eileen in America
36. Reels: Untitled
37. Speech/Hornpipe: The Gypsy
38. Speech/Reel: McKenna's Reel
39. Speech/Reel: Untitled
40. Speech/Jigs: The Setting Sun, The Lark in the Morning
41. Speech/Jigs: Lannigan's Hornpipe, The Kildare Fancy
42. Hornpipe: Untitled
43. Hornpipe: Untitled
44. Reel: Untitled
45. Reel: Untitled
46. Reel: Untitled
47. Reel: Untitled [Missing track - see 'Notes' field]
48. Hornpipe: Untitled [END OF BAND TWO] [Missing track - see 'Notes' field]