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A field recording made by Cathal McConnell in the home of Micho Russell, Doonagore, Doolin, Co. Clare of flute, tin whistle and singing / featuring Cathal McConnell, tin whistle, singing in English ; Micho Russell, flute ; Eamonn Curran, tin whistle

Side A
00:00 - 04:17 | Unidentified, fling / Micho Russell, flute
04:18 - 06:20 | Kitty Jones' reel / Micho Russell, flute, speech in English ; Cathal McConnell, tin whistle, speech in English
06:21 - 07:44 | Jig / Micho Russell, flute
07:45 - 10:11 | Andy Kerrin's, set dance / Eamonn Curran, tin whistle
10:12 - 12:23 | Speed the plough, reel / Eamonn Curran, tin whistle
13:12 - 14:37 | Reel / Cathal McConnell, tin whistle
14:38 - 15:14 | Reel / Micho Russell, flute
17:28 - 19:30 | Reel / Micho Russell, flute
19:31 - 21:40 | Unidentified, jig [learned from John Ward] / Cathal McConnell, tin whistle
22:55 - 25:42 | Reels / Cathal McConnell, tin whistle
25:44 - 27:35 | The concertina reel / Micho Russell, flute
27:36 - 29:20 | Micho Russell's slide / Micho Russell, flute
29:44 - 33:37 | Bonnie Killaloe, song / Cathal McConnell, singing in English

Side B
Blank

Recorded at Marrinan's pub, Miltown Malby. Co. Clare, 6 July 1979, after a concert of Clare singers (including Martin [Reidy?] and Michael [Flanagan?]), presented by Tom Munnelly [tracks A1–4]
Recorded from Joe McCafferty in his house at Derryconor, Co. Donegal, 22 August 1979 [tracks 5–10]

Performers:
[Reidy?], Martin, singing in English Tracks 1, 3
[Flanagan?], Michael, singing in English Tracks 2, 4
McCafferty, Joe, speech in Irish Track 5
McCafferty, Joe, speech in English Tracks 6-8, 10
McCafferty, Joe, singing in Irish Track 9
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 7-8, 10
Shields, Lisa, speech in English Tracks 7-8

Running Order:
1. The Moorlough shore (‘You hills and dales and flowery vales that lies near the Moorlough shore...’), song / Martin [Reidy?], singing in English
2. Pat O'Donnell (‘My name is Patrick O’Donnell, and I came from Donegal...’), song / Michael [Flanagan?], singing in English
3. Moorlough Mary (‘[The first place I met?] my Moorlough Mary...’), song / Martin [Reidy?], singing in English
4. The Irish emigrants drafted by the Yankees (‘All you that loves the shamrock green, attend both one and all...’), Michael [Flanagan?], singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
5. An cleamhnas (‘Sin fad ó shin ba gnáthach le na fir agus na mná, sin dóigh a n-iarradh na fir na mná...’), story / Joe McCafferty, speech in Irish
6. Match-making [English version of 'An cleamhnas'] (‘It was long ago they used – women would use to go to the houses to ask girls for the boys...] / Joe McCafferty, speech in English
7. Talk about 'An cleamhnas' and about Maolmhuire an Bhata Bhuí, speech / Joe McCafferty, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Lisa Shields, speech in English
8. Talk about Lord Leitrim's death, speech / Joe McCafferty, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Lisa Shields, speech in English
9. Dark are the hills of Donegal, song (‘Dark are the hills of Donegal that strongly darkly rise...’) [the song about Maolmhuire an Bhata Bhuí, mentioned above], song / Joe McCafferty, singing in Irish
10. Talk about the song 'Dark are the hills of Donegal' (clipped), speech / Joe McCafferty, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Kelly, John, Clare/Dublin, speech in English A1-3, 5-6, 9-13, 15-17, 19-21, B7-15, 17, 19-20, 22, fiddle solo A11, B1-3, 15-18;
McMahon, Tony, Clare, accordion solo A1-2, B22;
Brogan, Sonny, accordion solo A3-5;
Derwin, John, Galway, fiddle in quintet A6-8, 12;
Dwyer, John, Cork, fiddle in quintet A6-8, 12, fiddle in duet A9;
O'Donnell, Danny, Donegal, fiddle in quintet A6-8, 12;
Byrne, John, Dublin, fiddle in quintet A6-8, 12;
Crowley, John, Leitrim, fiddle solo A10;
Egan, John, Sligo / Dublin, flute in duet A13, flute solo A14;
Unidentified performer, fiddle in duet A13;
McGlynn, Eugene, Roscommon, fiddle duet A15, fiddle in duet A21;
?, George, fiddle duet A15;
Brennan, John, Sligo, flute solo A16-19, speech in English A18, flute in duet A21;
McGlynn, Joe, Roscommon/Sligo?, fiddle solo A20;
Quinn, Louis, Armagh/New York, speech in English A22, B1, 6;
Kelly, John/James, fiddle solo A22-25;
[O'Donnell, Danny], fiddle in duet A26, fiddle solo A27-29;
O'Connor, Dessie, whistle in duet A26, whistle solo B4-6;
O'Gorman, Eamonn, fiddle duet B7-11, 14, fiddle solo B12;
O'Farrel, Kathleen, fiddle duet B7-11, 14, fiddle solo B13;
Unidentified performers, fiddle duet B19-21 [John Kelly is probably one of the performers]

Running Order:
1. Speech/Reel: The West Clare Reel, Untitled (clipped)
2. Reel/Speech: Untitled (clipped)
3. Speech/Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
4. Reel: Untitled (clipped)
5. Jig/Speech: The Shady Groves of... (clipped)
6. Speech/Reel: Untitled
7. Reel: Untitled (clipped)
8. Reel: Untitled (clipped)
9. Speech/Reels: The Enchanted Lady, The Holy Land (clipped)
10. Speech/Jig/Speech: Untitled [comp. John Sheehan]
11. Speech/Reel/Speech: Paddy Ryan's Dream
12. Speech/Jigs: The Castle Jig, Untitled (clipped)
13. Speech/Reel: Untitled
14. Reel: Untitled
15. Speech/Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
16. Speech/Jig: The Buck in the Wood
17. Speech/Reel: The Mermaid on Lough Gill
18. Speech/Reel: The Girls of Ballisodare (beginning clipped)
19. Speech/Hornpipe: Dick O'Byrne's Hornpipe
20. Speech/Reel: Paddy Flanagan's Reel
21. Speech/Reel/Speech: Untitled (end clipped)
22. Speech/Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
23. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
24. Jig: Untitled (beginning clipped)
25. Jig: Untitled (beginning clipped)
26. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
27. Jig: Untitled (beginning clipped)
28. Hornpipe: Untitled (beginning clipped)
29. Jig: Untitled (end clipped) [END OF BAND ONE]
30. Speech/Reel: Untitled
31. Reel: Untitled
32. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
33. Air: Dark is the Colour of my True Love's Hair
34. Air: The Twisting of the Rope (clipped)
35. Speech/Reels/Speech: McKenna's Reels
36. Speech/Reel: O'Driscoll's Reel
37. Speech/Reels: The Cliffs of Durrow, Martin Mulhere's (interrupted, end clipped)
38. Speech/Reels: O'Brien's Reel, Jenny's Wedding
39. Speech/Jig: Knocknagow
40. Speech/Jig: The Lilting Fisherman
41. Speech/Reels: Miss MacDonald's, The Maid of Castlebar
42. Speeh/Reels: St Anne's, The Sligo Maid
43. Speech/Hornpipes: The Flowers of Ballymoate, The Poppy Leaf
44. Speech/Reel: Untitled
45. Reel: Untitled
46. Speech/Reel: Untitled
47. Jig: Untitled
48. Speech/Reel: Untitled
49. Speech/Reel: The Mountain Road
50. Reel: Untitled (end clipped)
51. Speech/Reel: Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]

Recordings made most likely at the first Willie Clancy Summer School, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare, 1973

00:00: - 00:01:28 | Unidentified, jig / Unidentified, lilter
00:01:29 - 00:04:52 | Unidentified, jig ; lilting ; speech / Unidentified, lilter, speech in English ; Ciarán Mac Mathúna, speech in English
00:04:52 - 00:06:06 | The Dublin, reel / Elizabeth Crotty, concertina
00:06:08 - 00:08:20 | Droigneann donn, song / Elizabeth Crotty, singing in English ; Ciarán Mac Mathúna, speech in English
00:08:28 - 00:10:29 | Relic of ol' decency, reel / Paddy Breen, flute, Seán Cleary, flute ; Jack Russell, concertina ; Katie Halpin, lilting, speech in English; Ciarán Mac Mathúna, speech in English
00:10:30 - 00:11:21 | Colonel Frasier, reel / Willie Clancy, uilleann pipes
00:11:23 - 00:12:51 | The Dublin, reel ; The steampacket, reel / [Peadar O'Loughlin], Flute ; [Aggie Whyte], fiddle ; unidentified, piano
00:13:00 - 00:14:49 | Unidentified, song / unidentifed, singing in Irish ; Ciarán Mac Mathúna, speeech in English
00:14:50 - 00:17:05 | The morning dew, reel ; The Liffey banks, reel / Unidentified, fiddle ; Unidentified, tin whistle
00:17:07 - 00:14:49 | Martin Talty and Brendan Mahony interviewed by Séamus Mac Mathúna recounting teenage years with Willie Clancy starting the pipes and being criticised by his father Gilbert about certain notes. Also recounting Willie, Martin and Brendan Mahony shooting rabbits / Martin Talty, speech in English ; Brendan Mahony, speech in English ; Séamus Mac Mathúna, speech in English
00:24:42 - 00:26:38 | The wheels of the world, reel / Bobby Casey, fiddle
00:26:39 - 00:30:07 | Pól hal'penny, hornpipe ; Murphy's, hornpipe / Bobby Casey, fiddle
00:30:09 - 00:32:24 | Unidentified, reel ; Seán Frank, reel / Bobby Casey, fiddle
00:32:29 - 00:34:23 | Paddy Ryan's dream, reel / Bobby Casey, fiddle
00:34:28 - 00:36:35 | The college groves, reel / Bobby Casey, fiddle
00:36:35 - 00:39:55 | Rakish Paddy, reel [4 part] ; The girl that broke my heart, reel / Bobby Casey, fiddle
00:39:58 - 00:43:29 | Introduction to Willie Clancy playing pipes ; The copper plate, reel ; Rakish Paddy, reel / Ciarán Mac Mathúna, speech in English ; Willie Clancy, uilleann pipes

Recordings possibly made in Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare

Performers:
Séamus Mac Mathúna, flute, singing in English
Micho Russell, whistle, singing in English
The Bothy Band, instrumental music

Running order:
00:37:17 - 00:39:10 | An páistín fionn, air ; Garrett Barry's, jig / Micho Russell, tin whistle