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Performers:
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout;
Unidentified performer, fiddle in duet and solo throughout, speech in English throughout, singing in English A16, singing in English with fiddle A17;
[McConnell, Cathal], flute in duet and solo throughout, speech in English throughout, singing in English A16

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled
2. Speech/Reel: The Colliers Reel (The Garason Races)
3. Speech/Air: The Beauty Of Rossenure Hill
4. Speech/Air: Untitled
5. Speech/Reels: The Wild Irishman, Untitled
6. Air: The Blackbird
7. Reels: Untitled
8. Speech/Air: Untitled
9. Reel/Speech: Untitled
10. Jig: Untitled
11. Jig: Untitled
12. Jig: Untitled
13. Speech/Air: The Beauty and Boost of Athlone
14. Speech/Reel: Untitled
15. Speech/Reel: Jig Away the Donkey
16. Song: Untitled
17. Air/Song: Untitled
18. Speech/Jig: Untitled
19. Speech: brief talk about local people interested in music
20. Speech/Jigs: Death of the Dancer (The Newport Lassies), Cooley the Piper
21. Reels: Untitled (unfinished) [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Hanly, Pat, flute in duet A1-2;
McGuire, John Joe, flute in duet A1-2;
Unidentified performer [Hanly/McGuire ?], flute solo A3

Running Order:
1. Jigs: The Gander, North Clare Jig
2. Jigs: The Cook in the Kitchen, Untitled
3. Reels: (Unlucky? in Love), Bloom of Youth [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Gunn, Tommy, speech in English throughout, singing in English B2, lilting B4;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about curing ring-worm and jaundice
2. Speech: talk about fortune tellers
3. Speech: talk about fair days
4. Speech: talk about the women selling turkeys at the fair before Christmas
5. Speech: talk about tramp fiddlers at the fairs
6. Speech: talk about items on sale at the fairs - clothes, ballad sheets
7. Speech: talk about the hiring fairs
8. Speech: talk about the when the tractor was first introduced to farming, musicians and dancers at the fairs
9. Speech: stories that where told by Robbie Doonan
10. Speech: story told by Robbie Doonan
11. Speech: talk about working and living conditions in London
12. Speech: talk about the mummers dance at Christmas, candles in the window at Christmas [END OF BAND ONE]
13. Speech: talk about Robbie Doonan, story about Jim Sweeney
14. Speech/Song: talk about Hugh Sweeney's songs, Untitled
15. Speech: talk about The Molly Maguires, The Ancient Order of Hiberians
16. Speech/March: talk about The Drumlough Fife and Drum Band, description of the band, tunes played, The Loughenvar
17. Speech: talk about orange bands, The Kinley Kelly Band, Johnny Rutlidge,
18. Speech: story about Robbie Doonan, Jimmy Waterson, John James Keave
19. Speech: stories about Tommy Gunn, getting trapped in a vault in a graveyard
20. Speech: story about a man who couldn't find his way home after working in one particular field on his farm
21. Speech: talk about putting the seven year curse on a landlord for evicting tenants
22. Speech: talk about evictions, cursed landlords with bad luck
23. Speech: talk about cursing people with rats (billeting of rats)
24. Speech: talk about cures for ring-worm [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Rea, John, dulcimer in duet A1, 8, dulcimer solo A3, 5;
McAloon, Sean, pipes in duet A1, 8, pipes solo A2, 4, 7, 8, fiddle solo A6

Running Order:
1. Jigs: The Maid in the Meadow, The Castlebar Races, Trip to the Cottage
2. Reels: The Mountain Lark, Crooked Road to Dublin
3. Jigs: Jackson's Drum, Jackson's Mistake, Jackson's Coagy
4. Air: Blind Mary
5. Hornpipes: Madame Bonaparte, O'Dwyer's Hornpipe
6. Reels: Crowley's No.1, Crowleys No.2
7. Jigs: Moloney's, Paddy O'Brien's
8. Reels: The First House in Connaught, The Copperplate [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Morton, Ellen, speech in English A1, 3, singing in English A3
Morton, Robin, speech in English A1-3, 9 singing in English with concertina A4-7, singing in English with guitar A8

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled
2. Recitation: Untitled [The Man From God Knows Where ?]
3. Speech/Song: Jingle Bells, Humpty Dumpty, Three Blind Mice
4. Song: The Lilly of the West (unfinished)
5. Song: The Lilly of the West
6. Song: The Lilly of the West
7. Song: The Lilly of the West
8. Song: On Board the Victory
9. Song: Old Leather Britches (fragmented) [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Mullarky, Nelly, singing in English A1-2, speech in English A2;
Mullarky, Peter, singing in English A3;
Maguire, Brian, singing in English A4, 6;
Maguire, Biddy, singing in English A5

Running Order:
1. Song: We May and Might Never All Meet Here Again
2. Speech/Song: The Guffin
3. Song: The Blantyre Explosion
4. Song: The Dream
5. Song: The Hiring Fair
6. Song: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, accordion and flute in duet, A1, A13;
Unidentified performers, accordion solo A2-4, A8, A14;
Unidentified performers, accordion solo A2-3;
Unidentified performers, group instrumental A5-7, A10-12, A20;
Unidentified performers, flute solo with dancing A9, A15;
Unidentified performers, flute solo A16-19;
Morton, Robin, speech in English A21, singing in English A21, concertina solo A24, 26, 28, singing in English with concertina A25, singing in English with whistlw A27;
Moulden, John, speech in English A22;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A23

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled (fragment)
2. Reel: Untitled [Tom Flemings ?]
3. Reel: Untitled
4. Reel: Untitled
5. Reels: The Nine Points of Roguery, [The Ivy Leaf, The Oak Tree]
6. Reel: Untitled (fragment)
7. Reel: Untitled
8. Reel: Untitled
9. Hornpipe: Untitled
10. Jigs: Untitled
11. Air: Untitled
12. Set Dance: Untitled
13. Jigs: Untitled
14. Jig: Untitled
15. Jigs: Untitled
16. Reel: Untitled (fragment)
17. Air: Untitled
18. Jig: Untitled [T'athar Jack Walsh]
19. Reel: Untitled
20. Jig: Untitled
21. Speech/Song: Untitled (fragment) [END OF BAND ONE]
22. Speech: talk about John Moulden's lectures - 'Folk Music and Song an Introduction'
23. Speech: talk about a yoga center in Belfast
24. Air: Untitled (fragment)
25. Song: Untitled
26. Air: A24 continued - Untitled (fragment)
27. Song: Untitled
28. Air/reel: A24 continued - Untitled (fragment) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performers, speech in English throughout, recitation in English A3-4, singing in English A5-6

Running Order:
1. Speech: speech about Irish freedom, O Donovan Rossa [END OF BAND ONE]
2. Speech: talk about editing reel-to-reel tapes
3. Recitation: Untitled
4. Recitation: Untitled
5. Song: The Sash ?
6. Song: Untitled (fragment) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Maguire, John, singing in English A1;
Unidentified performer [Bamber, Dick ?], singing in English A2;
Abraham, Bob, singing in English A3, 5;
Unidentified performer [Abraham, Bob ?], recitation in English A4

Running Order:
1. Song: The Blantyre Explosion
2. Song: THe Sinking of the Graf Spey
3. Song: The Dream
4. Recitation: Untitled
5. Song: Portadown [END OF BAND ONE]

Performers:
Mullarky, Nelly, singing in English in duet A1;
Mullarky, Peter, singing in English in duet A1;
Maguire, John, singing in English A2;
Unidentified performer [McCreery, Mrs Sally ?] singing in English A3-4

Running Order:
1. Song: The Maid of Magheracloon
2. Song: The Blantyre Explosion
3. Song: Ould 'Heelball' You're Boozing Again
4. Song: Ould 'Heelball' You're Boozing Again (take two) [END OF BAND ONE]