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Performers:
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English and Irish intermittently throughout;
Keogh, Dan, Tipperary, concertina solo A1;
Scallon? Scully?, Peter, Shetland, fiddle solo A3, 6;
fiddle in duet A4–5;
Scannon? Scully?, Jimmy, Shetland, fiddle in duet A4–5;
Mac Gill-Eain, Calum, Scotland, speech in English A7;
Cronin, Hannah, Kerry, singing in English A8–9;
O'Keeffe, Padraig / O'Keefe, Padraig,, Kerry, fiddle solo A10, 15–19;
Murphy, Denis, Kerry, fiddle solo A11–13;
fiddle in duet A14;
O'Leary, Johnny, Kerry, accordion in duet A14;
O'Dwyer, John, fiddle solo A20;
Unidentified performer, accordion solo A21;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group A22;
O Murchu, Sean, Galway / Dublin, speech in English A22, B1;
McGuire, Seamus, Sligo, fiddle in duet B1;
Kelly, John, Clare / Dublin, fiddle in duet B2;
concertina in duet B3;
concertina solo B4;
Ryan, Joe, Clare, fiddle in duet B2–3;
Casey, Bobby, Clare / London, fiddle solo B5–10, 11–13?;
speech in English B5, 7;
Unidentified performer, lilting solo B14;
Russell, Micho, Clare, flute solo B15;
whistle solo B16;
Unidentified performer, concertina solo B17–18

Running Order:
1. Speech, Polka: Untitled [Information about the tune that follows; it was recorded in Cappawhite, Co Tipperary in December 1955], Untitled [Micho Russell used to sing a comic song to this melody]
2. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the music and speech on tracks A3–7, consisting of fiddle music from Shetland and information about it]
3. Dance Tune: Kail and Knockit Corn
4. Speech, Dance Tune: Untitled, The Merry Boys of Greenland
5. Speech, Dance Tune: Untitled, The Mason's Apron
6. Speech, Dance Tune: Untitled, Arrasdale [Stated to be similar to Cornphiopa na Mairnealach (The Sailor's Hornpipe); stated to have been composed by the performer]
7. Speech: Untitled [Information about the Shetland music just played; the performers were father (Jimmy) and son (Peter) Scully; the version of the performers' surname given here does not seem to match with that given in earlier speech links]
8. Speech, Song: Untitled [Information about the next performer and the song she sings], Two and Three Strings to my Bow (incomplete)
9. Song: The Ploughboy (incomplete)
10. Speech, Air: Untitled, The Blackbird
11. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled [Stated to be an old reel that derives from the performer's father; Anything for John Joe?; The Lisheen Reel; Did the Rum Do, Da?]
12. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The Lark in the Bog / The Geese in the Bog [The Lark's March]
13. Speech, Polka: Untitled, The Green Cottage Polka
14. Speech, Slide: Untitled, I'd Rather be Married than Left Alone
15. Speech, Air: Untitled, An Buachaillin Ban [The Dear Irish Boy]
16. Speech, Air: Untitled, O'Rahilly's Grave
17. Speech, Slides: Untitled, Untitled [Mickeen Dawley's], Untitled [If I Had a Wife]
18. Speech, Hornpipe: Untitled, The Woods of Kilkenny
19. Reel: The New-Mown Meadow [Joe Mhaire Mhicilin]
20. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Information about the last tune played and about the tune that follows], Untitled
21. Jig: Untitled
22. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Grandpa Tommy's Ceili Band; composed by Martin Mulhaire], Untitled (incomplete) [Radio announcement] [END OF BAND ONE]
23. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Radio announcement], The First Month of Summer, The Green Banks of Rossbeigh [The Green Fields of Rossbeigh]
24. Set Dances: Bonaparte's Retreat, The Ace and Deuce of Piping
25. Reels: Untitled [Reference given in documentation to this tune's appearance in print (The Smiles and Tears of Erin, in CRE, # 101); The Crooked Road to Dublin], Nellie Donovan [The Ladies Pantalettes] [This selection was recorded by Michael Coleman and J P (Pakie) Dolan, fiddles, on 78rpm commercial disc as 'The Duke of Leinster and His Wife']
26. Hornpipe: Untitled [Fisher's Hornpipe]
27. Reel: Untitled [Sporting Nell; Gorman's Reel; The Long Strand; for other performances of this tune, see tracks B6 &17]
28. Speech, Reels: Untitled, The Long Strand [Sporting Nell; Gorman's Reel; for other performances of this tune, see tracks B5 &17], The Beauty Spot
29. Speech, Hornpipes: Untitled, Scully's Hornpipe, Untitled [Murphy's Hornpipe; for another performance of this tune, see track B11a]
30. Speech, Jig: Untitled, Untitled [Bobby Casey's Jig; Scully Casey's Jig; CRE 3, # 16], Coppers and Brass [The Humours of Ennistymon]
31. Reels: Untitled [Dwyer's Reel; Finbarr Dwyer's Reel; The Holly Bush; Matt the Thresher; composed by Finbarr Dwyer], Untitled [The Dogs among the Bushes]
32. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled [Rakish Paddy; 4-part version as recorded on 78rmp disc by James Morrison, fiddle; for another performance of this version, see track B13a]
33. Hornpipes: Untitled [Murphy's Hornpipe; for another performance of this tune, see track B7b], Untitled [The Derry Hornpipe / The Londonderry Hornpipe; faded out at end]
34. Jigs: Untitled [The Rambling Pitchfork], Untitled [Jimmy O'Brien's Jig]
35. Reels: Untitled [Rakish Paddy; 4-part version as recorded on 78rmp disc by James Morrison, fiddle; for another performance of this version, see track B10], Untitled [The Wheels of the World; faded out]
36. Jig: Untitled [The Piper's Chair]
37. Jig: Untitled [Donal na Greine]
38. Reel: Untitled [Boil the Breakfast Early]
39. Reel: Untitled [Gorman's; Sporting Nell; The Long Strand; for other performances of this tune, see tracks B5 & 6]
40. Jig: Untitled (tape runs out) [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
McIntyre, Geordie, Scotland, speech in English A1-3, 5, 7-8, 11-12, singing in English in duet A9;
Heaney, Joe, Connemara, singing in English A1, 7-8, 10, 13, speech in English A2-3, 5, 7-8, 10-13, lilting A2, singing in Irish A4, 6, singing in English in duet A9, singing in English in ensemble with pipes and whistle A13;
McNulty, Pat, pipes in singing ensemble A13;
Unidentified performer, whistle in ensemble A13

Running Order:
1. Speech/Song: The Bonnie Bunch of Roses (interrupted)
2. Speech/Lilting: story about `Paddy the one tune', fairy wraths, The Lark in the Morning
3. Speech: the story behind Bean Phaidin and the hag with the money
4. Songs: Bean Paidin, The Hag with the Money
5. Speech: poetic names for Ireland, versions of Roisin Dubh
6. Song: Roisin Dubh
7. Speech/Song/Speech: As I Roved Out
8. Speech/Song: The Bold Tenant Farmer
9. Song: Mrs McGrath
10. Speech/Song: Rocking the Cradle
11. Speech: the banshee, superstitions about frogs and dying, keening, composing keens, drinking at wakes, bean caointe, fortune tellers, difference between a hag and an old woman, tinkers, women who brewed herbs, curing one man and killing another [END OF BAND ONE]
12. Speech: reason why superstitions died out, faith healing, bone-setters, nettle soup for gaul stones, getting the gift of bone-setting out of a magical book, seals crying, fairies on the islands off the coast, the world being flooded
13. Speech/Song: The Bonny Boy
14. Song: The Jug of Punch [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
McIntyre, Geordie, Scotland, speech in English throughout;
singing in English C7, 14–15;
Unidentified performers, speech in English throughout;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group(s) A1–8, 11, 15, 23–24, 28, 33;
Unidentified performers, singing in English to instrumental accompaniment A6, 8, 12, 19–20, 28;
singing in Irish to instrumental accompaniment A27;
O'Donnell, Eugene, Donegal / USA, fiddle in duet A9–10, 14;
22?, 30, 32;
fiddle in instrumental group A11?;
fiddle solo A16, 18, 21, 25–26, 29;
Unidentified performer(s), fiddle solo A13;
fiddle in duet 22, 31;
Partly identified performer ('Packy'), singing in duet in English to instrumental accompaniment A15;
Partly identified performer ('Packy's wife'), singing in duet in English to instrumental accompaniment A15;
Unidentified performer, piano in duet A31;
Gillespie, Hugh, Donegal / USA, fiddle in duet B1–4, 6–16, C2–5, D4–8, 10–11;
speech in English throughout tracks B, C and D;
singing in English C9;
fiddle solo D3;
fiddle in trio D9;
Kelly, Francis, Donegal, fiddle in duet B1–4, 6–16, C2–5, D4–8, 10–11;
speech in English throughout tracks B, C and D;
fiddle in trio D9;
Tunney, Paddy, Donegal, speech in English throughout tracks B, C and D;
singing in English C6, 10–11, 13, D1;
singing in English with lilting C16;
lilting in trio D9;
Philip, Ian, England, speech in English throughout tracks B, C and D;
singing in English C8, 12, D2

Running Order:
1. Speech, Hornpipes: Untitled, Untitled [Harvest Home; The Cork Hornpipe], The Boys of Blue Hill
2. Jig: Untitled [The Wandering Minstrel]
3. Waltz: Untitled [Lovely Leitrim]
4. Reel, Air: Untitled [Bonnie Kate], Untitled [The Coulin / An Chuileann]
5. Air: Untitled [Roisin Dubh]
6. Waltzes with Singing: Untitled [The Homes of Donegal], Untitled [The Bold Thady Quill]
7. Jig: Untitled [Paddy's Return]
8. Song: The Wild Rover
9. Reels: Bonnie Kate, Miss McLeod, Untitled [The Donegal Reel], Untitled [The Star of Munster], Untitled [Peter Street]
10. Air, March: Untitled [The Bonnie Lass of Bon Accord; composed by Scott Skinner], Untitled [The Bonnie Lass of Bon Accord; the air just played, played this time as a march]
11. Reels: Untitled [Miss McLeod], Untitled [The Swallow's Tail]
12. Song: The Wild Rover
13. Air: Untitled [Easter Snow (related tune?)]
14. Reel: Bonnie Kate
15. Song: Muirsheen Durkin
16. Air: The Coulin [An Chuileann]
17. Speech: Untitled
18. Speech, Air: Untitled, Untitled [Roisin Dubh]
19. Song, Speech: Lough Swilly Shore, Untitled
20. Song: Untitled [Thank God We're Surrounded by Water]
21. Slip Jig: The Foxhunter's Jig
22. Slip Jig: Untitled [The Rocky Road to Dublin]
23. Reel: Untitled [Lucy Campbell]
24. Strathspey, Reel, Strathspey: Untitled [Stirling Castle], Untitled [The Spey in Spate], Untitled [Stirling Castle]
25. Reel: Untitled [The Maid of Mount Cisco]
26. Air: Untitled
27. Song: Untitled [Eamonn an Chnoic]
28. Song: Untitled [The Irish Soldier Boy]
29. Reel: Untitled [Sean McGuire; composed by Bert Murray]
30. Reels [?]: Untitled [American tune], Untitled [American tune], Untitled [American tune]
31. Hornpipe: Untitled [McDermott's; The Galway Hornpipe]
32. Slip Jig: The Foxhunter's Jig
33. Reel: Untitled [The Lads of Laois]
34. Reels, Speech: Untitled [Master McDermott's Reel; composed by Michael 'Master' McDermott; CRE 4, # 119], Reavy's / The Sparkling Dawn [The Hunter's House; composed by Ed Reavy], Untitled [About the tunes just played]
35. Reels, Speech: Trim the Velvet, Paddy on the Turnpike [The Bunch of Keys], Untitled [About the tunes just played]
36. Slip Jig, Speech: The Kid on the Mountain [With lilted accompaniment], Untitled [About the tune just played]
37. Hornpipes: The Stage Hornpipe, Parker's Fancy [The Western], Coleman's Fancy [Jack O'Neill's Fancy]
38. Speech: Untitled [About the tunes just played; Hugh Gillespie was associated with Michael Coleman (whom he refers to as 'The Professor') from 1928 to 1945; HG and Coleman made radio broadcasts together; HG's other experiences of playing for radio and TV; poor standards of music and song performance on public media]
39. Reel, Speech: Miss McLeod's Reel, Untitled
40. Reels, Speech: Lord McDonald's Reel, Untitled [Ballinasloe Fair], Untitled
41. Strathspeys [Highland Flings]: Untitled [Stirling Castle], Untitled [Miss Ramsey's]
42. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled, The Caledonian [The Cameronian], Hand Me down the Tackle / Tom Steele, Untitled [About the tunes just played; Hugh Gillespie recorded Tom Steele for the Decca company; HG has Michael Coleman's fiddle; other fiddles that HG has owned]
43. Reels: Untitled [Paddy Finlay's Favourite; The Galway Rambler (related tune)], The Copperplate / The Streams of Poulaphouca
44. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled ['The Streams of Poulaphouca' was Michael Coleman's name for the last tune just played], Ah Surely, Jackson's [The Dublin Reel], Untitled
45. Jigs, Speech: Jackson's Morning Brush, Flanagan's Favourite / The Rambling Pitchfork, Untitled
46. Jig, Speech: The Old Grey Goose, Untitled
47. Hornpipe: The High Level [The High Level Bridge; composed by James Hill]
48. Reels: Untitled [The Shaskeen Reel], The Bag of Spuds [The Bag of Potatoes]
49. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Kitty in the Lane (incomplete; clipped at end) [Track A16 is followed by approximately 3 minutes of silence on the tape]
50. Speech: Untitled [Hugh Gillespie gives his ideas about poor standards of playing and singing in Irish traditional music; 'there was no good Irish music until the like of Michael Coleman recorded first'; Paddy Tunney as an example of high standards in traditional singing; discussion of singers who wear Aran sweaters (identified later as the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem); discussion about the song 'Johnstone's Motor Car'] [END OF BAND ONE]
51. Speech: Untitled [Discussion about singing styles and playing styles in Irish and Scottish traditional music; Hugh Gillespie is consciously training Francis Kelly in the fiddle tradition in the same way as he himself was trained by Michael Coleman]
52. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Maude Miller (related tune)], Untitled
53. Reel: Untitled [The Boys of the Lough]
54. Waltzes, Speech: Untitled [Mrs Kenny's], The Men of the West [With singing], Untitled
55. Reel, Speech: Lord Gordon, Untitled
56. Speech, Song: Untitled, Willie Reilly
57. Song, Speech: The Braes o' Balquiddar, Untitled
58. Song, Speech: The Barley Mow [With chorus in which the company joins in], Untitled
59. Speech, Song, Speech: Untitled [About the song to be sung next; it was composed by Willie Gillespie, the uncle of the performer here], Johnstone's Motor Car, Untitled
60. Speech, Song: Untitled, The First Time That I Met My Love
61. Speech, Song, Speech: Untitled, The Mountain Streams Where the Moorcocks Crow, Untitled
62. Song: Lang A'Growin'
63. Song, Speech: Bonny Maggie Thompson, Untitled
64. Song, Speech: The Shira Dam, Untitled
65. Song, Speech: The A83, Untitled
66. Speech, Song, Speech: Untitled, The Hurricane of Reels, Untitled
67. Speech, Song: Untitled, The Rambling Boys of Pleasure
68. Speech, Song, Speech: Untitled, The Herring's Head [With participation of others in the company], Untitled
69. Slip Jig: The Rocky Road to Dublin [With singing by others in the company]
70. Reel: Untitled [The Pigeon on the Gate]
71. Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Reel of Bogie; extraneous noises on this track], Untitled
72. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Jenny's Welcome to Charlie, Untitled
73. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled, The Wild Irishman [Title as given by the performers here; this tune was named 'O'Rourke's' on the 78rpm disc recording by Michael Coleman], O'Rourke's [Title as given by the performers here; this was named 'The Wild Irishman' on the 78rpm disc recording by Michael Coleman], Untitled
74. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled, Farewell to Ireland [CRE, # 139, as 'Farewell to Erin'], The Farmer's Daughter [DMI, # 701, as 'Farewell to Erin'], Untitled
75. March: The Battle of Aughrim
76. Speech, Jigs: Untitled, Tell Her I Am, Untitled [Richard Brennan's Favourite]
77. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled, Bonnie Kate [Played here in the key of C; usually in D], Untitled [The Donegal Traveller], Untitled, Untitled
78. Speech, Hornpipe, Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled, The Boys of Blue Hill, Untitled, The Ivy Leaf [The Green Groves of Erin], Paddy Ryan's Dream, Mamma's Pet, Untitled
79. Reels, Speech: Dowd's [O'Dowd's Favourite], Untitled [The Star of Munster], Untitled
80. Reel, Speech, Reel: Kreisler's Fancy [Named after the classical violinist Fritz Kreisler; Colonel Fraser], Untitled [About the tune just played; Fritz Kreisler and Michael Coleman played a lot together and were 'great buddies' – 'that's where Coleman got all the dressing for this music'], Untitled [Maudabawn Chapel; composed by Ed Reavy]
81. Reels, Speech: Yonkers [The Morning Dew], The Woman of the House, Untitled [Discussion about techniques of holding the fiddle, with played illustrations; Paddy Tunney tells a story; etc] [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Unidentified performer(s), speech in English A1, 3, 6, 8, 10-11, 13-14, 18, 20-24, 27-44, B1, 3, 6-24, 26-28;
O'Dowd, Joe, Sligo, fiddle solo A2-7, fiddle in ensemble A12-13, fiddle in duet A18-21;
Reynolds, Willie, Athlone, pipes duet A9-10, pipes in ensemble A12-13;
Doran, John, Dublin, pipes duet A9-10, pipes in ensemble A12;
Keenan, John, Dublin/Wicklow, accordion in ensemble A12-13;
Dowling, Jim, Dublin, ???? in ensemble A12-13;
Potts, Sean, Dublin, flute in ensemble A12-13;
Brown, Billy, accordion solo A14-17, accordion in duet A18-21;
Coen, Tommy, Galway, fiddle in quartet A23-26, fiddle in duet A27, 29-32, fiddle solo A28;
Moloney, Eddie, Galway, flute in quartet A23-26, flute in duet A29-32;
Kelly, Lar, Galway, flute in quartet A23-26, flute in duet A27;
Cummins????, Jimmy, Galway, accordion in quartet A23-26;
Green, Tommy, Longford, flute solo A34-37, whsitle solo A28 (aged 11yrs);
Mulhere, Brendan, accordion solo A39-40, B8, accordion in duet A41-42,;
Unidentified performer, fiddle in duet A41-42;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A43-44;
Quinn, Louis, Armagh/New York, speech in English B2, fiddle in quartet B3-6;
Ryan, John, ? in quartet B3-6;
Brogan, Tommy, concertina in quartet B3-6;
Unidentified performer, accordion in quartet B3-6;
McMahon, ????, singing in English B7;
Reilly, Mrs, Cavan, singing in English B9-10;
McAndrew, Hector, Scotland, fiddle in duet B12-15 (off-disc dubs);
Hardy, Bill, Scotland, fiddle in duet B16-17 (off-disc dubs);
Turkington, Tom, Tyrone, fiddle in duet B19-23;
Taggart, Fergus, fiddle solo B25-27

Running Order:
1. Speech: Introduction to Joe O'Dowd
2. Reel: Boys of the Lough, [The Boys of Ballisodare]
3. Speech/Reel: McFadden's
4. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
5. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
6. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
7. Reel: Untitled
8. Speech: Introduction to Willie Reynolds and John Doran
9. Jig: The Battering Ram
10. Speech/Reels: The Maid of Mount Cisco, Rakish Paddy
11. Speech: Introduction to Joe O'Dowd, Willie Reynolds, John Keenan, Jim Dowling and Sean Potts
12. Reel: Tim Maloney, The Lady of the House [=The Woman of the House]
13. Speech/Reels: Reavy's, Cooley's
14. Speech/Reel: Untitled (comp. Martin Mulhere - some of the following tracks may also be compositions of Martin Mulhere)
15. Reel: Untitled
16. Reel: Untitled
17. Reel: Untitled
18. Reel/Speech: Untitled
19. Reels: Untitled, Untitled
20. Speech/Reel: Untitled
21. Speech/Jigs: Untitled
22. Speech: Introduction to Tommy Coen, Eddie Maloney, Lar Kelly, Jimmy Cummins????
23. Speech/Reels: Amanda Rollins, Greig's Pipes
24. Speech/Reels: Joe Burke's, Untitled
25. Reel: The Moving Cloud
26. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
27. Speech/Reel: The Hunter's Purse (end clipped)
28. Speech/Reel: Maud Miller
29. Speech/Reel: Coen's Reel (comp. Tommy Coen) (interrupted)
30. Speech/Reel: The Limestone Rock
31. Speech/Reel: Eddie Maloney's Reel (comp. Eddie Maloney)
32. Speech/Reel: For the Sake of Old Decency
33. Speech: Introduction to Tommy Green (aged 11yrs)
34. Speech/Reel: Brearty's
35. Speech/Reel: Dillon's Fancy
36. Speech/Jig: O'Neill's
37. Speech/Hornpipe: Cooley's?
38. Speech/Reel: (named)
39. Speech/Reel: Untitled (comp. Brendan Mulhere)
40. Speech/Jigs: Untitled, Untitled
41. Speech/Reel: Untitled
42. Speech/Reel: Andy McGann's
43. Speech/Jigs: Untitled (performer introduced - difficult to make out)
44. Speech/Hornpipe: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
45. Speech: Introduction to Radio Eireann broadcast featuring Louis Quinn
46. Speech: Interview with Louis Quinn from a Radio Eireann programme
47. Speech: Introduction to....
48. Jig: Untitled (beginning clipped)
49. Jig: Untitled (beginning clipped)
50. Reel/Speech: Untitled (beginning clipped), performers back-announced
51. Speech/Song:Bold Jack Donoghue
52. Speech/Reel: Untitled
53. Speech/Song: The Home we Left Behind
54. Speech/Song: The Shores of America
55. Speech: Introduction to off-disc dubs of Hector McAndrew
56. Speech/Air/Strathspey/Reel: The Braes of..., The Glenlivet, The Gladstone Reel
57. Speech/Slow Strathspey/Reel/Hornpipe: The Deanbrig of Edinburgh, The Deanbrig Reel, The Banks
58. Speech/Strathspeys/Reels: Stirling Castle, Miller of Mearn, The Ould Wheel, Freddy Peggy
59. Speech/Air/Strathspeys, Reel: The Laird of Brae...., Sandy Cammon, Fogus Morrison, The Left Handed Fiddler
60. Speech/March/Strathspey/Reels/March/Strathspey/Reel: Scotland the Brave, The Laird of Drumblair, Speed the Plough, The De'il Among the Tailors, The Lass of Bon Accord, The Marquess of Huntley's Farewell, The Ten Pound Fiddle
61. Speech/Polkas/Strathspesy/Reel: The Bluebell Polka, Peter Head Polka, The Balkan Hills, Lady Mary Ramsey, Pretty Peggy
62. Speech: Introduction to Tom Turkington and Billy Adams
63. Speech/Reels: Shehan's, Miss McLeod's
64. Speech/Jig: The New Town Hall (comp. Tom Turkington) (end clipped)
65. Speech/Air: The Lark in the Clear Air
66. Speech/Hornpipes: Smith's Favourite, The Tailor's Twist
67. Speech/Reels: McSweeny's, The Ivy Leaf, Reavy's
68. Speech: Introduction to Fergus Taggart
69. Reel: Untitled
70. Speech/Reel: Mulhere's No 5 (comp. Martin Mulhere)
71. Speech/Reel: Untitled
72. Speech: Final greetings to Louis Quinn and family [END OF BAND TWO]