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Performers:
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Ryan, Paddy, Limerick, fiddle in duet A2, 4, 6, 8;
Supple, Paddy, Limerick, fiddle in duet A2, 4, 6, 8;
Keogh, Dan, Tipperary, concertina solo A10;
Hayes, Matt, Tipperary, singing in English A12;
Rainsford, Mary B, Limerick, fiddle in instrumental group A14;
Walsh, Michael, Tipperary, flute in instrumental group A14;
Ahern, Mrs, Limerick, fiddle in instrumental group A14;
O'Brien, Liam, Limerick, accordion in instrumental group A14;
O'Donnell, Joseph, Limerick, accordion in instrumental group A14;
Dick Ryan 'Larry', Tipperary, fiddle in trio A16–17;
Anthony Ryan 'Donal', Tipperary, accordion in trio A16–17;
Shaw, Pat, Tipperary, fiddle in trio A16–17;
Mulkere, Jack, Clare, fiddle solo A19;
Preston, Michael, Clare, flute in trio A21;
Shaughnessy, Jack, Clare, fiddle in trio A21;
Divinney, Pat, Clare, fiddle in trio A21

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows; the music on tracks A2–8 was recorded in Annacotty, Co Limerick in December 1955]
2. Reel: The Swallow's Tail
3. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows]
4. Hornpipe: The Woods of Kilkenny (fades out)
5. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows]
6. Jig: Old Man Dillon
7. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows]
8. Reel: The Boyne Hunt
9. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows; the performances on tracks A10–12 were recorded in Cappawhite, Co Tipperary in December 1955]
10. Polka: Untitled
11. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows]
12. Song: Hollyford
13. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows]
14. Jigs: The Shandon Bells, Haste to the Wedding
15. Speech: Untitled [About the performances that follow on tracks A16–17]
16. Jig: The Merry Maiden [Related to The Wandering Minstrel?]
17. Reel: Far from Home
18. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows, which was recorded in Crusheen, Co Clare in January 1955]
19. Air: The Dark Woman of the Mountain
20. Speech: Untitled [About the performances that follow]
21. Jigs: Gallagher's Frolics, Paddy's Favourite [Whelan's Jig]
22. Reels: The Wheels of the World [Joe Cooley's version of 'The Morning Dew'], Cooley's Reel [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Hartnett, John Joe, Limerick, flute in instrumental group A2;
flute in duet A4;
Coyne, Michael, Limerick, accordion in instrumental group A2;
accordion in duet A6;
Collins, Sean, Limerick, banjo in instrumental group A2;
banjo in duet A6;
O'Sullivan, Patrick, Limerick, fiddle in instrumental group A2;
fiddle in duet A4;
O'Keeffe, Paid / O'Keefe, Paid, Limerick, singing in English A8, 10;
Clifford, Billy, Limerick, whistle solo A12;
McEnery, James, Limerick, fiddle solo A14–15, 17;
Cussen, Mick / Cussen, Michael, Limerick, fiddle solo A19, 21, 33;
Sullivan, Tom, Limerick, accordion solo A23–24;
Sheehy, Dan, Limerick, accordion solo A26–27;
fiddle solo A32;
Tuohy, Aine, Limerick, singing in Irish A29;
step-dancing A33;
singing in English A35;
McCarthy, Gerry, Kerry / New York, fiddle solo A30;
O'Connor, Vincent, Limerick, banjo mandolin A34;
Unidentified performer, flute solo A36

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [Preceded by a short recording of music]
2. Jigs: The Cook in the Kitchen, Tell Her I Am
3. Speech: Untitled
4. Hornpipes: O'Dwyer's, The Plains of Boyle
5. Speech: Untitled
6. Hornpipe: The Echo
7. Speech: Untitled
8. Song, Speech: The Tinker, Untitled
9. Speech: Untitled
10. Song, Speech: Untitled [The Bandy-Legged Mule], Untitled
11. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows; performer is aged 13]
12. Reels: Untitled [The Flowing Bowl], Untitled [The Cup of Tea]
13. Speech: Untitled
14. Air: An Raibh Tu ag an gCarraig
15. Air: Untitled [The Palatine's Daughter]
16. Speech: Untitled
17. Reels: The Boys of the Lough, Johnny Allen
18. Speech: Untitled
19. Air: The Coolin [An Chuileann]
20. Speech: Untitled
21. Air: Untitled [Jimmy Mo Mhile Stor]
22. Speech: Untitled
23. Jig: Untitled [The Idle Road]
24. Reel: Untitled [Miss McLeod's Reel]
25. Speech: Untitled
26. Jig: Untitled [The Luckpenny]
27. Hornpipe, Strathspey, Speech: Untitled [Lad O'Beirne's; composed by Ed Reavy], Untitled [The Laird of Drumblair], Untitled
28. Speech: Untitled
29. Song: An Binsin Luachra
30. Speech, Jigs, Speech: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled [Painneach na nUbh; version of], Untitled
31. Reel: The Kerry Reel [Quinn's Reel]
32. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [Bonnie Kate], The Contradiction, Untitled
33. Hornpipe: Untitled [McMahon's; composed by Sean Ryan; with step-dancing]
34. Speech, Airs: Untitled, Untitled [The Meeting of the Waters], Untitled [The Moon behind the Hill]
35. Speech, Song: Untitled, The Old Fenian Gun (sound drop-out in mid-song)
36. Jig: Untitled [Contentment Is Wealth]
37. Speech: Untitled (incomplete; tape runs out) [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, concertina in duet A2–5;
Unidentified performer, flute in duet A2–5;
Kilfenora Ceili Band, The, Clare, instrumental group A6–11;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Hayes, P.J., Clare, fiddle solo A13;
Tulla Ceili Band, The, Clare, instrumental group A14–16;
Preston, Michael, Clare, flute solo A18–19;
Griffin, Vincent, Clare, fiddle solo A21;
Malley, Bill, Clare, fiddle in duet A22;
Houlihan, Pat, Clare, whistle in duet A22;
Canny, Paddy, Clare, fiddle in duet A25–26;
Bane, Joe, Clare, whistle in duet A25–26;
whistle solo A28;
McMahon, Robert [McMahon, Robbie], Clare, singing in English A30;
Ryan, Paddy, Limerick, fiddle in duet A32;
Supple, Paddy, Limerick, fiddle in duet A32

Running Order:
1. Tone Signal: Untitled
2. Reels: Untitled [The Wind that Shakes the Barley], Untitled [Music in the Glen]
3. Reels: Untitled [The Sally Gardens], Untitled [Dillon's Fancy]
4. Reels: Untitled [The Rainy Day], Untitled
5. Jigs: Untitled [The Angry Peeler], Untitled [Shares first part with The Ship in Full Sail – second differs]
6. Reels: Untitled, Untitled [The Limerick Lasses], Untitled
7. Jigs: Untitled [Cherish the Ladies], Untitled [Gallagher's Frolics]
8. Reels: Untitled [The Boyne Hunt], Untitled [The Fermoy Lasses]
9. Jigs: Untitled [Paddy's Return; What Would You Do if the Kettle Boiled over], Untitled [The Kilfenora Jig]
10. Hornpipes: Untitled [Kitty's Wedding], Untitled [Fisher's Hornpipe]
11. Reels: Untitled [The Doon Reel], Untitled [The Bucks of Oranmore; not the standard version]
12. Speech: Untitled [About the performers and date of recording of the music on this tape]
13. Jigs: John Ryan's Jig [Sean Ryan's Jig; The Castle Jig; composed by Sean Ryan], Untitled [The Nightingale; composed by Sean Ryan]
14. Reels: Untitled [The Sally Gardens], Untitled [The Bag of Potatoes; The Bag of Spuds], Untitled [The Congress Reel]
15. Jigs: Untitled [Gallagher's Frolics], Untitled [Cailleach an Tuirne; The Maid of the Spinning Wheel], Untitled [The Trip to the Cottage]
16. Reels: Untitled [The Maid of Mount Cisco], Untitled [The Hunter's Purse]
17. Speech: Untitled
18. Reels: The Mist on the Mountain, The Cameronian
19. Reel: Farewell to Ballinakill [Miss Pierce's]
20. Speech: Untitled
21. Reels: The Sally Gardens, Jenny's Chickens
22. Speech: Untitled
23. Reels: The Glandree Reel [The Honeymoon]
24. Speech: Untitled
25. Reels: Down the Broom, The Gatehouse Maid
26. Jigs: Untitled [The Shandon Bells], Untitled [The Lark in the Morning]
27. Speech: Untitled
28. Reels: Paddy Finlay's Fancy [The Galway Rambler], Untitled [The Traveller]
29. Speech: Untitled
30. Song: The Hills of Sweet Mayo
31. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows, which was recorded in Annacotty, Co Limerick in December 1955]
32. Reel: The Swallow's Tail (incomplete; tape runs out) [This performance is available in full on BB_RR_349] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Coleman, Owen, Sligo, speech in English A2;
Unidentified performer [Ennis, Seamus, Dublin], speech in English A2–3;
O'Dowd, Joe, Sligo, speech in English A3;
fiddle solo A4–16;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle solo A17;
O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig, Kerry, fiddle solo A18

Running Order:
1. Tone signals
2. Speech: Untitled [Interview with Owen Coleman, brother of the fiddle-player Michael Coleman; anecdotes about Michael Coleman's interest in dancing and music as a child; his father was a flute-player; Michael Coleman was a good dancer; was small in stature; how Michael Coleman learned to play – was taught by Kipeen Scanlon (who used to spend periods of up to 6 weeks in the Coleman household), P J McDermott of Buninadden, John O'Dowd, Phil O'Beirne, and Jack Mc Hugh; Michael Coleman went to the USA about 1911 at the age of about 21]
3. Speech: Untitled [Interview with the fiddle-player Joe O'Dowd; his background as a fiddle-player; he began to play at 10 years of age, taught by his brother Jack; the community in which he was brought up was rich in music; his uncle John O'Dowd (who taught Michael Coleman) was regarded as a fine player; the bands that Joe O'Dowd played with in London; the tune that follows was a favourite of Jim Coleman, brother of Michael Coleman]
4. Reel: Miss Johnson's Reel
5. Jigs: Coppers and Brass [The Humours of Ennistymon], Coleman's Jig [The Primrose Vale; The Lark on the Strand], Coppers and Brass [The Humours of Ennistymon]
6. Hornpipes: The Stage Hornpipe [The Norfolk], Untitled [The Western] [This selection was recorded by Michael Coleman, fiddle, on commercial 78rpm disc]
7. Reels: Lord McDonald, Ballinasloe Fair, The Round Towers of Ballymote [Touch Me If You Dare] [The first two tunes in this selection were recorded together by Michael Coleman, fiddle, on commercial 78rpm disc]
8. Slip Jigs: Untitled [The Foxhunter's Jig], Untitled [Comb Your Hair and Curl It] [This selection was recorded by Michael Coleman, fiddle, on commercial 78rpm disc?]
9. Reels: Dowd's Favourite / O'Dowd's Favourite, The Star of Munster, Miss Johnson [The first two tunes in this selection were recorded together by Michael Coleman, fiddle, on commercial 78rpm disc?]
10. Reels: Farewell to Ireland [Farewell to Erin; CRE 1, # 139], The Cherry Tree [Farewell to Erin (DMI, # 701)], Reidy Johnson [Hand Me Down the Tackle]
11. Reel: The Lads of Leith [The Lads of Laois], Dungloe Reel [The Humours of Castlefin], The Green Banks of Rossbeigh [The Green Fields of Rossbeigh; The Kerry Reel]
12. Jigs: Jackson's Jigs [1] [The Humours of Kesh], Jackson's Jigs [2] [Doherty's Fancy; The Pet of the Pipers]
13. Air: The Lakes of Sligo / Loch [? E--h] [The Lass o' Gowrie]
14. Reels: The Boys of the Lough, Faral Gara
15. Set Dances: The King of the Fairies, The Blackbird
16. Reels: Faral Gara, Untitled [The Silver Spire], The Shaskeen
17. Polkas: The Green Cottage Polkas [1], The Green Cottage Polkas [2]
18. Air: The Old Man Rocking the Cradle [An Seanduine; includes part of the slip jig 'The Foxhunter's Jig'] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, speech in English A1, 3, 5;
pipes solo A16;
Mac Donnchadha, Sean / 'ac Dhonncha, Sean / Johnny Joe Pheaitsin / McDonagh, Johnny, Galway, singing in Irish A2;
Ni Gallchobhair, Cait, Donegal, singing in Irish A4;
Ni Mhuimhneachain, Cait, Cork, singing in Irish A6;
Reck, Tommy, Dublin, pipes solo A7–9;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A10–11;
Unidentified performer [Paddy Killoran, Sligo / USA?], fiddle solo A12–15

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [Topics: Seamus Ennis's work as a collector with the Irish Folklore Commission; transcribing music from collections made by James Delargy and Luke Donnellan; collecting in the field; travelling by bicycle to Connemara; riches of music in Connemara; SE's collecting method; visiting an informant's home; how SE wrote music from informants; SE working at hay or at turf; sailing and fishing; singing style in Connemara; introduction to the next item]
2. Song: Bean an Fhir Rua / The Red-Haired Man's Wife
3. Speech: Untitled [Topics: SE's work as a collector, continued; style of folktale and of music is simpler in the north of Ireland than in the west and south; introduction to the next item]
4. Song: The Mermaid Song / An Mhaighdean Mhara
5. Speech: Untitled [Complexity in singing style in Connemara; singing style in Munster; introduction to the next item]
6. Song: A Mhaire Ni Laoghaire
7. Hornpipe: Untitled [Alexander's Hornpipe]
8. Jig: Untitled [Kitty's Rambles / The Rambles of Kitty]
9. Reel: Untitled [The Scholar] (fades out)
10. Hornpipe: Untitled (short, incomplete)
11. Set Dance: Untitled [The Job of Journeywork]
12. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Bashful Bachelor], Untitled [The Flowers of Ballymote]
13. Reels: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled [Sweeney's Dream]
14. Jigs: Untitled [The Hut on the Hill (CICD 1023); Paddy Killoran's; Andy McGann's], Untitled [The Rambler], Untitled [The Humours of Bantry]
15. Reels: Untitled [The Master's Return], Untitled, Untitled [Dillon Brown]
16. Reels: Untitled [The Steampacket; The Mountain Lark], Untitled [The Sligo Maid's Lament; The Sligo Maid], Untitled [The Flax in Bloom] (clipped at end)
17. Miscellaneous: Untitled [Tape noise, including sound of original tape being rewound] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Finnerty, Johnny, Galway, speech in English A1;
singing in English A2;
Unidentified performers, speech in English A1;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Ryan, John, Tipperary / Dublin, concertina solo A3, 5, 7, 9–10;
speech in English throughout A4–10;
concertina in duet A11;
Ryan, Eddie, Dublin, banjo in duet A11

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled
2. Song: Untitled [Young men of Tipperary and of Ireland far and near (etc); song about the McCormick brothers, who were hanged in Nenagh during the land troubles]
3. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [CICD 3438.11 (from a BB working copy of this recording); CRE 5, # 136] [For BB's working copy of the John Ryan material presented here on tracks A3–10, see 1359-ITMA-REEL]
4. Speech: Untitled [Radio interview]
5. Polka, Speech, Polkas: Untitled [CICD 6323 (from a BB working copy of this recording); CRE 5, # 85], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over], Untitled [CICD 6512 (from a BB working copy of this recording); CRE 5, # 104], Untitled [CICD 6360 (from a BB working copy of this recording); John Ryan's]
6. Speech: Untitled [About the tune just played & other tunes; with lilting]
7. Speech, Polkas: Untitled [After a brief introductory performance of the tune that follows], Untitled [CICD 6446 (from a BB working copy of this recording); CRE 5, # 96], Untitled [CICD 6457 (from a BB working copy of this recording); CRE 5, # 98]
8. Speech: Untitled
9. Speech, Quadrille Tune / Set Tune: Untitled [Radio interview], Untitled [CICD 2268.11 (from a BB working copy of this recording); The Soldier's Cloak]
10. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Radio interview, including lyrics sung to the tune just played: I'll hang my harp on a willow tree and I'm off to the wars again], Untitled [CICD 4546.11 (from a BB working copy of this recording); CICD 4546 (probably transcribed from a different copy of this recording); CRE 5, # 162]
11. Speech, Hornpipes: Untitled [Radio announcement], The Kingston [The Standing Abbey], Dunphy's [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig, Kerry, fiddle solo A2–9?;
fiddle in duet A10?;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle in duet A10?

Running Order:
1. Tone signal
2. Slides: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
3. Reels: Quinn's [CRE 2, # 171], Callaghan's [The Doon Reel], Bean a' Ti ar Lar [The Woman of the House]
4. Hornpipe: Johnny Cope
5. Hornpipes: Campbell's Hornpipe [The Smoky Chimney; with extra parts, including one from 'Kitty O'Neill'?], English Hornpipe
6. Single Jigs / Slides: Sheehan's Jig, Untitled, Untitled
7. Reel: Untitled [Kiss the Maid behind the Barrel; The Maid behind the Bar; with more parts than in the standard version]
8. Reel: Untitled [First part is that of Colonel Fraser; second differs]
9. Air: Untitled [The Wounded Hussar]
10. Slides: Untitled, Untitled [Chase Me Charlie], Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle solo A1–11;
Doherty, Mickey, Donegal, fiddle solo A12;
speech in Irish A12?

Running Order:
1. Polkas: Untitled [The Ballybunnion], Untitled [The Knocknaboul (2)], Untitled [The Groves of Gneevegullia; The Top of Maol]
2. Slides: Untitled [Pete Sullivan's Fancy; Cucanandy; The Whistling Thief Jig], Untitled [If I Had a Wife], Untitled [Denis Murphy's Slide]
3. Hornpipes: Untitled [Fisher's Hornpipe; The Fisherman's Hornpipe], Untitled
4. Jigs: Untitled [Tom Billy's (1)], Untitled [Tom Billy's (2)]
5. Reels: Untitled [The Green Fields of Rossbeigh; The Kerry Reel], Untitled [Colonel Fraser], Untitled [The Mountain Lark; The Steampacket]
6. Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled [The Bird in the Bush; usually played as a reel]
7. Airs: Untitled, Untitled [For another performance of this selection, see track A10]
8. Jigs: Untitled [The Rambler], Untitled [Heather and Sedge; The Castlebar Races], Untitled [Related to The Three Little Drummers?]
9. Reels: Untitled [The Girls of Farranfore; The Game of Love], Untitled [Callaghan's], Untitled [The Mountain Top, related to?]
10. Airs: Untitled, Untitled [For another performance of this selection, see track A7]
11. Hornpipes: Untitled [Cronin's Hornpipe], Untitled [Callaghan's]
12. Speech, Descriptive Piece: Untitled, An Chu agus an Ghiorria [The Hounds after the Hare; with spoken interjections (by the fiddle-player?)] [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Redican, Larry, New York, speech in English A1;
fiddle in duet A1;
McGann, Andy, New York, fiddle in duet A1;
Field, Paddy, Tipperary, concertina solo A2–6;
speech in English A3;
Keane, James, Dublin / New York, accordion in duet A7–11;
speech in English A9–11;
McKiernan, Jim, Leitrim, speech in English A12;
fiddle solo A12, 16;
fiddle in duet A15;
McHugh, Bernie, Leitrim, speech in English A13;
mouth organ solo A13;
Rahill, Jim, Leitrim, fiddle solo A14;
speech in English A15?;
fiddle in duet A15;
Partially identified performer [Fitzgerald, P, Leitrim?], fiddle in instrumental group A17;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group A17;
Strange, N, speech in English A18;
banjo mandolin solo A18;
Reilly, Frank, speech in English A19;
fiddle solo A19;
Reilly, Michael, accordion in duet A20;
Unidentified performer(s), fiddle in duet A20, B9;
Mulkere, Jack, Clare, fiddle in duet A21;
Preston, Michael, Clare, flute in duet A21;
Canny, Paddy, Clare, fiddle solo A22–24;
Shannon Star Ceili Band, The, instrumental group A25;
McCarthy, Gerry, Kerry / Manchester / New York, fiddle in duet A26;
fiddle solo B10–12;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle in duet A27–28, B20;
fiddle solo A31, B13–18, 21;
speech in English throughout B13–20;
Cooley, Seamus, Galway, flute solo A29–30, 32;
speech in English A30;
McMahon, Bobbie / Robbie, Clare, lilting solo A33;
O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig, Kerry, fiddle solo B1–8;
Ray, J, accordion solo B9;
Unidentified performer, mouth organ in duet B20

Running Order:
1. Speech, Reels: Untitled, The Providence [CICD 4023 (from this recording)], The Belles of Tipperary [CICD 3599 (from this recording)] [This track was recorded on 30 April 1962]
2. Polka: Untitled [CICD 6341 (from this recording?)]
3. Speech, Polka: Untitled, Untitled [CICD 6441 (from this recording)]
4. Polka: The Humours of Whiskey [CICD 6473 (from this recording); My Love Is but a Lassie]
5. Jig: Rory O'Moore
6. Reel: The Dublin Reel
7. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Untitled [Thady Casey's Fancy], Untitled [Lady Gordon], Untitled [Mary MacMahon]
8. Reel: The Limestone Rock, Untitled [The Humours of Loughrea]
9. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Spike Island Lasses, The Sailor on the Rock
10. Speech, Jigs: Untitled, Untitled [Father Tom's Wager], The Frieze Breeches [Do You Want Any More?; same melody as The Collier's Reel]
11. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Untitled [The Roscommon Reel], The College Grove [Sudden dip in sound level during this tune]
12. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Hobble the Botches, Peeping through the Keyhole / Faral O'Gara
13. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Plough and the Stars
14. Reel: The Reconciliation Reel [CICD 3506 (from this recording); 3433 (from ms possibly transcribed from this recording)]
15. Speech, Reels: Untitled, The Cloone Reel [The Humours of Toonagh], The Aughavas Reel [CICD 5530 (for which this recording is a partial source); CRE 5, # 145]
16. Speech, Reels: Drowsy Maggie, The Ranting Widow [The Tap Room]
17. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Untitled [The Morning Mist; composed by Paddy Kelly's?], Untitled [I'm Waiting for You] [Performers on this track are listed by BB as 'Fitz et al']
18. Speech, Reels: Eleanor Kane's Reel [The Providence], The Leinster Ladies [Anderson's Reel]
19. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Gregg's Pipes [The Leitrim version of The Bucks of Oranmore; performer is identified by BB as a blacksmith]
20. Speech, Jigs: Untitled, The House in the Glen [CICD 1352, 1353 & 1354 (none from this recording; 1352 provides title)], Untitled (incomplete)
21. Speech, Polka: Untitled [Information about this track; recording was made in Crusheen, Co Clare in 1955], The Mountain Pathway
22. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Information about the next 3 tracks; they were recorded in Crusheen, Co Clare, January 1955], Sporting Nell, Ballinasloe Fair
23. Jigs: The Luckpenny, The Cherry Tree [The Humours of Ennistymon; Coppers and Brass]
24. Hornpipe: The Cuckoo Hornpipe
25. Jig: Father Hanley's Jig [CICD 2499 (partly from this recording); The Rambler]
26. Jigs: The Housekeeper [For another version, see track B4], Cailleach an Airgid [The Hag with the Money]
27. Reels: Untitled [CICD 3036 (from this recording); Tom Billy's; The New Post Office (CRE 5, # 146); The Gleanntan Reel], The Cameronian [CICD 5372 (from this recording)] [This track was recorded on 11 June 1957]
28. Jigs: The Unfortunate Rake [Apples in Winter], Untitled [CICD 749 (from this recording); The Munster Jig]
29. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Earl's Chair
30. Speech, Jigs: Untitled, The Cockadoon Man, Sean Ryan's [The Killimor; composed by Sean Ryan]
31. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Shaskeen Reel
32. Hornpipes: Untitled [CICD 6057 (from this recording); Joe Cooley's Hornpipe; composed by Paddy O'Brien], The Friendly Visit [CICD 6126 (from this recording)
33. Reel: The Mason's Apron [END OF BAND ONE]
34. Hornpipe: Fisher's Hornpipe [CICD 6092–6093 (from this recording); 6092 gives date of recording as 3 November 1960; for another version, see track B14]
35. Air: Cath Cheim an Fhia
36. Reels: Untitled [The Game of Love; The Girls of Farranfore], The Bucks of Oranmore
37. Jigs: Untitled [The Housekeeper; for another version, see track A26], The Rambling Pitchfork
38. Slides: Untitled [Merrily Kiss the Quaker], Mickeen Dawley's [CICD 2169 (not from this recording)], Untitled [The Dark Girl in Blue; Denis Murphy's Slide], Mickeen Dawley's [Repeat of the second tune in this selection]
39. Reel: The New-Mown Meadows [CICD 2725–2726 (not from this recording?); Joe Mhaire Mhicilin], The Flowing Bowl [CICD 5748 (not from this recording); The Piper's Despair, version of]
40. Jig: Tell Her I Am
41. Air: Untitled [The Wounded Hussar]
42. Reels: The Road to Poulaphouca / Mulhaire's no. 4 [CICD 3334 (partly from this recording); Grandpa Tommy's Ceili Band; composed by Martin Mulhaire; CRE 5, # 129], The Copperplate
43. Polkas: Untitled [Egan's; Peg Ryan's], Untitled [Peggy Ryan's Fancy; The Murroe], Untitled [CICD 6353 (from this recording); Denis Doody's], Untitled [CICD 6286 & 6287 (both from this recording); The Knocknaboul Polka] [Order of the tunes in this selection is 1,2,1,2,3,4]
44. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Lad among the Spriggers / The Steeplechase [CICD 5045 (from ms; transcribed possibly from this recording; gives reference to secondary source where Denis Murphy is the performer) and 5313 (not from this recording)]
45. March / Jig: O'Sullivan's March / Painneach na nUbh
46. Speech, Jigs: Untitled, The Munster Buttermilk / The Sports of Multyfarnham, The Munster Jig
47. Speech, Hornpipe: Untitled, The Fisherman's Hornpipe [CICD 6091 (not from this recording); Fisher's Hornpipe; for another version, see track B1]
48. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Sheila's Fancy [CICD 4460 (not from this recording); The Monsignor's Blessing (related tune)]
49. Speech, Hornpipe: Untitled, Walsh's Hornpipe [CICD 6119 (from this recording; recording date given as August 1966) and 6120 (where this recording is given as a secondary source)]
50. Air: Untitled [Sweet Kingwilliamstown]
51. Air: Staker Wallace [Caoine Ui Dhomhnaill / The Lament for O'Donnell]
52. Slides, Speech: The Rathawaun [CICD 1743 (not from this recording], The Hare in the Corn [CICD 1450 (not from this recording], Untitled
53. Speech, Polkas: Untitled, Untitled [The Knocknaboul Polka # 2], Untitled [The Knocknaboul Polka # 1]
54. Slide: Untitled [Danny Ab's; played for dancing] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig, Kerry, fiddle solo A1–5;
Cronin, Paddy, Kerry, fiddle solo A6–18;
O'Loughlin, Peadar, Clare, flute solo A19–20;
Unidentified performer [O'Loughlin, Peadar, Clare? White, Aggie, Galway (suggested by BB)?], fiddle solo A21

Running Order:
1. Air: O'Rahilly's Grave [Available on RTE CD 174, track 10]
2. Jigs: Coppers and Brass / The Humours of Ennistymon [CICD 1521–1522 (from this recording?); Larry Grogan is a related tune], I Will if I Can / Up and Away [CICD 696 (from this recording?); DMI, # 207] [Available on RTE CD 174, track 11]
3. Hornpipes: John Quinn's Favourites # 1 / The Home Brew [The Wicklow Hornpipe (DMI, # 828); The Road to Boyle (CRE 3, # 227)], John Quinn's Favourites # 2 / The Sands [Stated in notes to RTE CD 174 to be a variant of Miss McLeod's Reel; An Tri is a Rian] [Available on RTE CD 174, track 11]
4. Single Jigs / Slides: The Kilcummin / Dingle Regatta / Tarrant's Slide [In notes to RTE CD 174, it is pointed out that this tune is related to the popular version of The Dingle Regatta; CICD 1075.12 (not from this recording; provides title 'Tarrant's Slide')], If I Had a Wife [(JOLSL, # 90, which also gives the title Mick Mahony's (1); CRE 3, # 41; Johnny Leary's], The Worn Torn Petticoat / Quarry Cross / The Leprechaun [CICD 1415 (untitled; from this recording?); Pucan; for another performance of this tune, see track A18] [Available on RTE CD 174, track 15]
5. Reels: Rolling in the Ryegrass [CICD 5678 (from this recording?)], The Heather Breeze, Rolling in the Ryegrass [Repeat of first tune in this selection], The Heather Breeze [Repeat of second tune in this selection]
6. Jigs: The Munster Jig [CICD 735 (not from this recording)], Tell Her I Am [For another performance of this tune, see track A12]
7. Reels: Duggan's Fancy [CICD 4744 (from this recording?); recorded on 78 rpm commercial disc by Michael Coleman, fiddle, as O'Rourke's (the first tune in a selection); The Wild Irishman (title used by Coleman for the second tune in the selection; often used for this tune and possibly Coleman's intended title for this tune)], The Galtee [The Galtee Ranger / The Galtee Rangers], Bean a' Ti ar Lar [The Woman of the House]
8. Single Jigs / Slides, Jig: Tom Billy's Fancy [Johnny Mick Dinny's (JOLSL, # 95)], Cailleach an Airgid (mi-cheart) [CICD 1775 (from this recording?); The Cat in the Corner (JOLSL, # 348)], The Humours of Kilkenny / Cailleach an Airgid [CICD 4744 (from this recording?); The Hag with the Money]
9. Single Jigs / Slides: The Dark Girl in Blue [Denis Murphy's Slide], Across the Road [Paddy Cronin's (JOLSL, # 75)]
10. Reel: The Doon Reel [The Chorus Reel], Pepper and Salt [Tansey's Favourite; CRE 3, # 136]
11. Hornpipes: Cronin's Hornpipe [JOLSL, # 171], The Brittania Hornpipe [CICD 6077 (not from this recording)], The Fisherman [Fisher's Hornpipe]
12. Jig: Down the Meadows [Related to Malowney's Wife (DMI, # 11)], Tell Her I Am [For another performance of this tune, see track A6]
13. Reels: The Dairy Maid, The Morning Star
14. Reels: The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Untitled [In BB's short-list titled 'Broom (wrongly); Wellington's Reel (CRE 3, # 110); closely related to Sheehan's Reel (DMI)]
15. Air: The Lament for O'Donnell
16. Set Dance: The Jockey to the Fair
17. Hornpipes: Byrne's Hornpipe, Untitled
18. Single Jigs, Slides: The Quarry Cross [The Dingle Regatta, in the version played by Sliabh Luachra musicians], Untitled [Barrack Hill (DMI, # 410)], Pucan [CICD 1415 (untitled; not from this track on this recording); The Worn Torn Petticoat; Quarry Cross; The Leprechaun; for another performance of this tune, see track A4]
19. Reels: The Boyne Hunt, The Flogging Reel
20. Jigs: The Maid of the Rushes [The Queen of the Rushes], Nora Crionna [Stated to be (Patsy) Touhey's version; DMWC, # 152]
21. Reel: My Love is in America [END OF BAND ONE]