Irish Traditional Music Archive

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 336 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 4

BBR-18712/1/258893/04
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Reel: The Sack of Potatoes / An Mala Fatai / The Bag of Spuds [The Bag of Potatoes; short version at track A2]

Ennis, Seamus, Dublin

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 336 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 2

BBR-18712/1/258893/02
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Reel: The Sack of Potatoes / An Mala Fatai / The Bag of Spuds [The Bag of Potatoes; short version to begin the 1st edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape; full version at track A4]

Ennis, Seamus, Dublin - whistle solo

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 336 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 1

BBR-18712/1/258893/01
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Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 336 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 3

BBR-18712/1/258893/03
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Speech: Untitled [Topics include: the tune at tracks A2 and A4 was learned by SE in 1941 from a man named Geoghegan, a member of the Gardai Siochana in Salthill, Galway; superstition about sowing potatoes on Good Friday; the reel just played was a favourite of the Ballinakill Ceili Band; dependency on potatoes in Connemara; fairy story relating to the potato crop during the famine, told to SE by Colm O Caoidheain, Glinsce, Connemara; story includes mention of Fionnbhara, the king of the good fairies, and the Siafra, the queen of the bad fairies]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 336 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 5

BBR-18712/1/258893/05
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Speech: Untitled [Topics include: the background to the song that follows; stories about the fairy folk spiriting away cows or newly-wed women to serve their need for milk]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 336 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 6

BBR-18712/1/258893/06
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Song with Speech: Amhran na Bo Baine [Song about the spiriting away of a white cow by the fairies, with explanatory speech interjections by SE; includes mention of a 'snaidhm bua' (a charmed knot)]

Ennis, Seamus - singing in Irish

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 336 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 7

BBR-18712/1/258893/07
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Speech: Untitled [Topics include: snuff and its healing properties; story that is the background to the next tune]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 336 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 10

BBR-18712/1/258893/10
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Reel: Ceol na Ceartan / The Music of the Forge [The Pretty Girls of Mayo; short version to begin the 2nd edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape; full version at A12; clipped at start]

Ennis, Seamus - pipes solo

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 336 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 8

BBR-18712/1/258893/08
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Reel: The Pinch of Snuff / An Pinsin Snaoisin [End of 1st edition of 'Ceolta Tire' on this tape]

Ennis, Seamus, Dublin

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 336 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 9

BBR-18712/1/258893/09
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Tone signal

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