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Performers:
Unidentified performer, speech in English A1;
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, pipes solo A2, 4, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46–47, 49, 51, 53;
speech in English A3, 5, 7, 9–13, 15, 17, 19, 21–23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47–48, 50, 52;
singing in Irish A6;
singing in Irish and English A8;
singingin Scots Gaelic A10;
singing in English A12, 14, 16, 18;
whistle solo A20, 28, 30;
whistle in duet A32;
pipes in instrumental group A34;
pipes in duet A36–37;
Folan, Stephen / O Cualain, Stiofain, Galway, dancing A20;
Mac Donnchadha, Sean / 'ac Dhonncha, Sean / Johnny Joe Pheaitsin / McDonagh, Johnny, Galway, singing in English A22;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle solo A24, 26;
fiddle in duet A32, 36–37;
Clifford Family, Kerry, instrumental group A34

Running Order:
1. Speech, Tone Signal: Untitled, Untitled
2. Air: Untitled [Uirchill an Chreagain]
3. Speech: Untitled ['I know that music...' Topics: SE's father, regarded as the best piper in Ireland; a tune played for SE in his cradle, The Munster Buttermilk]
4. Jig: The Munster Buttermilk
5. Speech: Untitled ['Our house was always a house of music...' Topics: SE's family background; mother sang, father played the pipes, fiddle, tin whistle; pipers visited the house; Pat Ward, piper, whose daughter was also a good piper; other pipers; father played the Highland pipes for visitors; SE played Highland pipes; Billy Clarke takes part in the recording 'The Pipes of Three Nations'; Colm O Lochlainn visited the Ennis household every Thursday evening; SE learned his first song, An Droighnean Donn, in Rosmuc, in Connemara]
6. Song: An Droighnean Donn
7. Speech: Untitled ['Now, I can never thank Colm O Lochlainn enough...' Topics: SE's gratitude to Colm O Lochlainn; SE roamed Ireland on a bicycle to collect music; introduction to the next song]
8. Song: Untitled [Siuil A Ruin]
9. Speech: Untitled ['I found that Connemara...' Topics: riches of Connemara as a repository of folk traditions; SE enjoyed working in Connemara and hated returning to the city; SE visited the Hebrides for the Irish Folklore Commission and spent 6 months there; the song 'O Son of the Earl of the White Banners']
10. Song, Speech: O Son of the Earl of the White Banners, Untitled
11. Speech: Untitled ['Since then, though, I've been to Scotland several times...' Topics: SE visited the north-east of Scotland, Aberdeenshire and Banffshire; introduction to the next song]
12. Song, Speech: The Barnyards of Delgaty, Untitled
13. Speech: Untitled ['That's one my favourites...' Topic: SE visited Winslow, in Buckinghamshire, where he collected songs from Amos Beckett]
14. Song: Untitled [I Am a Wild and Wicked Youth]
15. Speech: Untitled ['Well, I suppose all of you heard of The Croppy Boy...' Topic: the source of the next song]
16. Song: Untitled [The Herring Song / The Song of the Herring; repeated line in chorus: 'Sing aberum fane, sing abero ling']
17. Speech: Untitled ['Now, I want to let you hear something from Wales...' Topics: SE visits Wales; introduction to the next song, which SE heard in Fishguard]
18. Song: Untitled ['My name is Billy Williams...']
19. Speech: Untitled ['Now, all these songs remind me forcibly...' Topic: music nights in Connemara]
20. Reel with Dancing: The Copperplate Reel
21. Speech: Untitled ['I've seen some old people dancing...' Topic: information about the previous item and the next item]
22. Song, Speech: Morrissey and the Russian Sailor, Untitled ['And on this merry note...' Closing remarks at end of radio programme]
23. Speech: Untitled ['When I was in Cork the other day...' Topic: a meeting with Denis Murphy and Padraig O'Keeffe]
24. Reel: The Flowing Bowl [The Piper's Despair]
25. Speech: Untitled ['The best of Padraig's pupils...']
26. Reel: Turkey in the Straw
27. Speech: Untitled ['Thank you, Denis...' Topic: the tune 'The Mountain Road'; Julia and Billy Clifford]
28. Reel: Kitty Gone A-Milking [Mistitled?; The Old Bush]
29. Speech: Untitled ['That's the tune he was playing...' Topic: SE teaches 'The Mountain Road' to Denis Murphy]
30. Reel: The Mountain Road
31. Speech: Untitled ['I put on the drones at the end of it...']
32. Reel: The Mountain Road
33. Speech: Untitled ['Thank you, Denis. I could see young Billy Clifford's eyes...' Topics: 'The Mountain Road' and the Clifford family]
34. Reel: The Mountain Road
35. Speech: Untitled ['It was a long road home...' Topics: going home after a long session of music with the Clifford family; setting a clutch of eggs under a turkey; introduction to the next piece of music]
36. Jig: The Humours of Lisheen
37. Speech, Reel: Untitled ['All I can say is...'], The Woman of the House [End of a programme?]
38. Jig: The Munster Buttermilk [Short; introductory music for the start of a programme?]
39. Speech: Untitled ['When I was a very young lad...' Topics: father plays SE to sleep in his cradle as a child; child asks father to play 'The Munster Buttermilk']
40. Jig: The Munster Buttermilk
41. Speech: Untitled ['Now, as I grew up, I remember...' Topics: musicians visiting the Ennis house; Pat Ward of Drogheda, who played on a double chanter]
42. Single Jig: Pat Ward's Jig
43. Speech: Untitled ['Another man I remember coming to our house...' Topics: John Cawley, a flute-player from Co Sligo; story about bees swarming; reel learned from John Cawley]
44. Reel: Cawley's Reel [The Dairy Maid]
45. Speech: Untitled ['There was another man I remember...' Topics: Frank O'Higgins, fiddle-player, who played in the Fingal Trio, as did John Cawley; reel 'The Cuiseog / The Cushogue'; a 'cuiseog / cushogue' is a wisp of grass or a blade of straw or a rush; the reel 'The Cup of Tea' and its title in Irish, An Cupan Sutramain]
46. Reel: The Cuiseog / The Cushogue [The Stony Step], The Cup of Tea / An Cupan Sutramain
47. Speech, Air: Untitled (short; clipped at end), Untitled [The Bard of Armagh]
48. Speech: Untitled ['And shortly after that...']
49. Hornpipe: Byrne's Hornpipe / Cornphiopa Ui Bhroinn
50. Speech: Untitled (clipped at start) ['And when I was a young lad...' Topic: the word 'broom'; the reel 'Down the Broom', played by Billy Clarke of Ballybay, Co Monaghan]
51. Reel: Down the Broom
52. Speech: Untitled ['When sick is it tea you want...' Topic: background to the tune 'When Sick Is It Tea You Want']
53. Jig: When Sick Is It Tea You Want [END OF BAND ONE]