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Performers:
Unidentified performer(s), fiddle in duet A1, 7–8;
fiddle solo B10;
Collins, Kieran, Galway / London, whistle in duet A2;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English A2, 23;
Unidentified performer(s), pipes solo A3;
pipes in duet A7–8;
Ryan, Sean, Tipperary, fiddle in duet A4;
Moloney, P. J. / Maloney, P. J., Tipperary, flute in duet A4;
Unidentified performer [O Conluain, Proinsias, Dublin?], speech in English A4;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group(s) A5, 9, 22–24, B3, 5, 24, 26;
Unidentified performer(s), accordion solo A6, B1–2, 6–9, 11–23, 25, 27–29;
accordion in duet B4;
Tansey, Seamus, Sligo, flute solo A10–11, 15;
Coleman Country Ceili Band, The, Sligo, instrumental group A12, 17, 19;
Unidentified performer [O Murchu, Sean, Galway / Dublin], speech in English A12, 16, 18, 29;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A13–14, 20–21;
Cooley, Joe, Galway / USA, accordion in instrumental group A22–24;
Farrelly, Sean, London, accordion, tracks B (unspecified);
Unidentified performer [de Buitlear, Eamon, Wicklow], speech in English and Irish B26;
Reck, Tommy, Dublin, pipes solo B26;
Unidentified performers, speech in English B30;
Unidentified performer, guitar in duet A1;
Teague, Frank, London, guitar in duet A2;
Unidentified performer, percussion in duet B4

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [The maids of Castlebar]
2. Reels, Speech: Untitled [Miss McLeod's reel], Untitled [The copperplate], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over]
3. Reel: Untitled [The maid behind the bar; Kiss the maid behind the barrel]
4. Reels, Speech: Untitled [Fahy's favourite / Fahey's favourite; The Galway reel (CICD 2861, from Julia Clifford)], Untitled [Down the broom], Untitled [The first house in Connacht / Connaught], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over]
5. Jigs: Untitled [Paddy Fahey's jig / Paddy Fahy's jig; composed by Paddy Fahey / Paddy Fahy], Untitled [Related to 'The Killaloe boat'?], Untitled [Tonra's jig; composed by Brendan Tonra]
6. Reel: Untitled [Rossmore Jetty; Father Kelly's no. 2 / Father Kelly's number two; composed by Father P. J. Kelly]
7. Reels: Untitled [The old bush], Untitled [The Sligo maid]
8. Hornpipe: Untitled [The harvest home]
9. Jig: Untitled [Bill Harte's jig; The rookery]
10. Jigs: Untitled, Untitled [Strike the gay harp]
11. Reels: Untitled [Lad O'Beirne's favourite], Untitled [Never was piping so gay; composed by Ed Reavy]
12. Jigs, Speech: Untitled [The first night in America], Untitled [Saddle the pony], Untitled [Radio announcement]
13. Song: Untitled
14. Song: Untitled [Old McDonald had a farm]
15. Hornpipe: Untitled [The western]
16. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; information about the tune selection that follows; four titles are supplied but only three tunes are played]
17. Reels: The first house in Connacht [The first house in Connaught], The London lassies [Supplied title is incorrect?; Geoghegan's], The traveller
18. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
19. Jig: Untitled [Paddy Clancy's]
20. Song: Untitled (incomplete)
21. Song: Untitled [The boys of the county Armagh]
22. Jigs: Untitled [The queen of the fair], Untitled [Out on the ocean]
23. Jigs, Speech: Untitled [The queen of the fair], Untitled [The rambling pitchfork], Untitled [Radio announcement]
24. Reel: Untitled [Dowd's number nine / Dowd's no. 9] [END OF BAND ONE]
25. Reels: Untitled [The shaskeen reel], Untitled [Buckley's fancy]
26. Jigs: Untitled [The Lough Derg jig; composed by Father P. J. Kelly], Untitled [The Nova Scotia]
27. Reels: Untitled [The old bush], Untitled [The high reel]
28. Reel: Untitled [The bag of potatoes / The bag of spuds]
29. Reel: Untitled [The humours of Lissadell]
30. Jig: Untitled [Richard Brennan's favourite]
31. Hornpipe: Untitled [Lad O'Beirne's; composed by Ed Reavy]
32. Jigs: Untitled [Jack Coen's jig; The Dundalk jig], Untitled [Katie's Fancy]
33. Jig: Untitled [The frieze breeches; incomplete]
34. Reel: Untitled [Paddy Fahy's reel / Paddy Fahey's reel; composed by Paddy Fahy / Fahey]
35. Jigs: Untitled [Andy McGann's], Untitled [Tonra's jig; composed by Brendan Tonra]
36. Reel: Untitled [The green groves of Erin]
37. Reel: Untitled [The copperplate (2)]
38. Hornpipe: Untitled [Cooley's hornpipe; composed by Paddy O'Brien]
39. Reels: Untitled [The boys of Ballisodare], Untitled [The five mile chase]
40. Reel: Untitled [The first house in Connacht / Connaught]
41. Reels: Untitled [Paddy Kelly's reel; composed by Paddy Kelly], Untitled [The sally gardens]
42. Hornpipe: Untitled [The cuckoo]
43. Reel: Untitled [Tear the calico]
44. Waltz: Untitled (incomplete)
45. Reel: Untitled [The morning mist; composed by Joe Burke]
46. Reels: Untitled [Ben Hill reel], Untitled [Rossmore Jetty; Father Kelly's no. 2, Father Kelly's number two] [Both tunes in this selection were composed by Father P. J. Kelly]
47. Jig: Untitled (incomplete)
48. Reel: Untitled [The Kilmaley]
49. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Ballyoran; composed by Sean Ryan]
50. Jig, Speech, Reels: Untitled [The coach road to Sligo], Untitled [Radio announcement], Bonnie Kate, Miss McLeod, Fermoy Lasses [This track contains a dubbing from an RTE radio programme]
51. Reels: Untitled [Castle Kelly], Untitled [Within a mile of Dublin]
52. Fling / Hornpipe, Hornpipe: Untitled [Mrs Galvin], Untitled [The western]
53. Speech, Jigs: Untitled [Radio announcement], The shady groves of Piedmont [Port an bhrathar / the Reverend Brother's jig], Sonny Brogan's jig [Bill Harte's jig; The rookery] [This track contains a dubbing from an RTE radio programme]
54. Speech: Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]

Performers:
Egan, John, lilting A1, 12, 19, speech in English A1-2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13-14, 19, 21-23, 25, 27, flute solo A3, 5, 7-8, 10, 14-16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28;
O'Shaughnessy, Pearl, speech in English A1-2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13-14, 19, 21, 23, 27

Running Order:
1. Reel: Sonny Brogan's Favourite
2. Speech: fiddler Johnston from Drumfinn, died young, John named the following jig after him
3. Jig: Johnston's Favourite [interrupted mid-way]
4. Speech: sets of jigs
5. Jig: Paddy in London, Butcher's March, Johnston's Favourite [unfinished]
6. Speech: two following polkas, Jimmy Morrison's polkas
7. Polkas: The Mountain Pathways, Flowers of Spring
8. Reels: The Wild Irishman, The Pretty Girls of Mayo
9. Speech: The Wild Irishman
10. Reel: Martin Wynne's Reel
11. Speech: Martin Wynne, broadcasting on Radio Eireann
12. Reel: Untitled [lilt]
13. Speech: preceding tune, learning it from Fred Finn
14. Reel/Speech: Untitled/Paddy Ban, dancing the lancers, the Doyles (flute player)
15. : Untitled
16. Reel: The Corner House
17. Speech: preceding tune, 1926 John went to England, back in 1929, got married, lived in Donegal for six years, Christmas 1937 back to England, back to Dublin Sept 1937, working in Dublin, worked in the railway in Donegal, musicians he played with in Donegal, musicians he met in Dublin, Tubbercurry, meeting Sonny Brogan, broadcasting on radio, Radio Eireann's director not having time for traditional music, the fiddles not being bowed the same... [END OF SIDE A]
18. Reel: Untitled
19. Speech/Lilt: learned the preceding tune from Sonny Brogan, lilts a reel, got it from Mrs Harrington, learning tunes late at night
20. Reel: The New Policeman, Lad Byrne's Reel
21. Speech: getting the last from a Lad Byrne [Lad O Bierne] recording that he heard in Mrs Harrington's
22. Speech/Reels: Farewell to Erin, The Boy on the Hilltop
23. Speech: preceding tune, reels that go well together, learning to play as a boy, no taperecorders, disliking television, left home aged fourteen, went to uncles near the Morrison home-stead, learning music from locals, brought to Ballymoate to John Joe Gardeners in 1924, a great flute player, music session with the Doyles, John Joe Gardeners music, broadcasting with Mrs Harrington etc from 1944-47
24. Polkas: Luby's Polka, Untitled
25. Speech: funny story about train
26. Reel: Sarah Hobbs
27. Speech: preceding tune, Sonny Brogan going to the Church Street Club circa 1955, reel composed by Ned Stapleton called Sonny's Return/Sonny Brogan's Favourite - possibly the following piece
28. Reel: Untitled [see note to track 27] [END OF SIDE B]