Ireland: Instrumental music

Dermot McLaughlin Collection. Reel-to-Reel 17 [sound recording] / Séamus Ennis

DML-18718/1/263062/01
Part
8 July 1976 - 7 May 1978

Recorded at the Dublin Folk Festival, Liberty Hall, Dublin, 19 July 1977
00:00:00 - 00:02:56 | Introduction, speech in English / Séamus Ennis, speech in English
00:02:56 - 00:06:32 | [Bean dubh an ghleanna], song / Séamus Ennis, singing in Irish
00:06:32 - 00:08:50 | [Bean dubh an ghleanna], slow air / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
00:08:50 - 00:10:44 | The Connaught mans rambles, jig; The Connaught man's rambles (version), / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
00:10:44 - 00:14:21 | Easter snow, air / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
00:14:21 - 00:18:00 | When sick is it tea you want, jig / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
00:18:00 - 00:23:02 | An raibh tú ag an gcarraig, air / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
00:23:02 - 00:26:25 | The blacksmith's hornpipe / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
00:26:25 - 00:28:12 | Ceol na gceartán, reel / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
00:28:12 - 00:30:20 | The bucks of Oranmore, reel / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes

Recorded in Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare, 9 July 1977
00:30:20 - 00:33:45 | Páidín Ó Raifeartaigh, jig / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
00:33:45 - 00:37:06 | Lament for the fox, air ; Foxhunters jig / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
00:37:06 - 00:39:06 | Bean an tí ar lár, reel / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
00:39:06 - 00:40:50 | Unidentified, reel / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
00:40:50 - 00:42:47 | The ace and deuce of piping, set dance / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
00:42:47 - 00:43:31 | Unidentified, jig / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
00:43:31 - 00:46:27 | An chúilfhionn, air / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
00:46:27 - 00:48:33 | [Mixed audio]
00:48:33 - 00:48:40 | [Blank audio]
00:48:40 - 00:51:56 | [Jenny's welcome to Charlie, reel; unidentified reel] / unidentified performer, fiddle
00:51:56 - 00:54:15 | [Doctor O'Neill's, jig] / unidentified performer, fiddle
00:54:15 - 00:57:02 | [Unidentified, reel ; The Antrim rose, reel] / unidentified performer, fiddle
00:57:02 - 01:00:03 | [The bird in the bush, reel ; George White's favourite, reel] / unidentified performer, fiddle
01:00:03 - 01:02:05 | [The sporting pitchfork, jig ; The rambling pitchfork, jig] / unidentified performer, fiddle
01:02:05 - 01:06:04 | [Lord McDonald, reel ; Ballinasloe fair, reel] / unidentified performers, fiddle
01:06:04 - 01:10:11 | [Cherish the ladies, jig] / unidentified performers, fiddle
01:10:11 - 01:12:42 | [Drowsy Maggie, reel ; The silver spear, reel] / unidentified performer, fiddle
01:12:42 - 01:16:07 | [The pinch of snuff, reel ; The wild Irishman, reel] / unidentified performer, fiddle
01:16:07 - 01:19:05 | [Drag her round the road, reel ; The shaskeen, reel] / unidentified performers, fiddle
01:19:05 - 01:22:06 | Gusty's frolics, slip jig / unidentified performer, fiddle
01:22:06 - 01:25:35 | [Red-haired Charles, reel ; Pat Touhey's, reel] / unidentified performer, fiddle
01:25:35 - 01:27:26 | [The king of the pipers no 2, jig] / unidentified performer, fiddle
01:27:26 - 01:31:05 | [Down the broom, reel ; The morning dew, reel] / unidentified performer, fiddle
01:31:05 - 01:32:05 | [Ballyket Courthouse, reel] / unidentified performer, fiddle ; unidentified performer, flute
01:32:05 - 01:34:19 | [The fisherman's island, reel ; Mother's delight, reel] / unidentified performer, fiddle
01:34:19 - 01:36:55 | The boys of Mallin, reel ; [The high road to Linton, reel] / unidentified performer, fiddle
01:36:55 - 01:37:27 | [Blank audio]

Recorded in Spanish Point, Co. Clare, 9 July 1977
01:37:27 - 01:39:37 | Páidín Ó Raifeartaigh, jig / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
01:39:37 - 01:43:28 | Lament for the fox, air ; Foxhunter's, jig / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
01:43:28 - 01:44:49 | Bean an tí, reel / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes

Recorded in the Central Mall, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare, 8 July 1976
01:44:49 - 01:47:37 | An raibh tú ag an gcarraig, air / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
01:47:37 - 01:48:44 | Dusty miller, jig / Séamus Ennis, whistle
01:48:44 - 01:49:26 | Dusty miller, slip jig / Séamus Ennis, whistle
01:49:26 - 01:50:51 | Na Ceannabháin bána, slip jig / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
01:50:51 - 01:52:08 | An cailín Gaelach, air / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
01:52:08 - 01:54:11 | The copperplate, reel / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
01:54:11 - 01:58:56 | The frieze britches, jig / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
01:58:56 - 02:00:58 | [Rip the calico], reel / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
02:00:58 - 02:02:25 | The merry blacksmith, reel / Séamus Enniss, uilleann pipes

Dubbed from the Long Note, RTÉ, 1978
02:02:25 - 02:06:59 | The rocky road to Dublin, jig / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
02:06:59 - 02:09:50 | Eamonn an chnoic, air / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
02:09:50 - 02:11:17 | My Lagan love, air / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
02:11:17 - 02:12:32 | Plúirín na mban donn óg, air / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
02:12:32 - 02:15:09 | An tseanbhean bhocht, hornpipe / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
02:15:09 - 02:17:24 | Unidentified, hornpipe / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
02:17:24 - 02:18:52 | The pinch of snuff, reel / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
02:18:52 - 02:20:22 | The flogging reel / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
02:20:22 - 02:24:08 | The faerie's hornpipe ; The stack of barley, hornpipe / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
02:24:08 - 02:26:05 | Garret Barry's, jig / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes ; Tommy Potts, fiddle
02:26:05 - 02:27:57 | Garret Barry's, jig / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes; Tommy Potts, fiddle
02:27:57 - 02:29:38 | [The boys of Bluehill, hornpipe] / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
02:29:38 - 02:21:38 | Unidentified, air / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
02:21:38 - 02:33:02 | My Lagan love, air / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes
02:33:02 - 02:36:33 | [Unidentified, air ; Arthur Darley's jig] / unidentified performer, fiddle
02:36:33 - 02:39:11 | [The cup of tea, reel ; Mermaid of Mullaghmore , reel] / unidentified performer, fiddle
02:39:11 - 02:41:08 | [The blackbird, hornpipe] / unidentified performer, fiddle
02:41:08 - 02:42:00 | [The blackbird, hornpipe] / unidentified performer, fiddle
02:42:00 - 02:44:46 | [The princess royal, set dance] / unidentified performer, fiddle
02:44:46 - 02:47:42 | [The Duke of Leinster, reel] ; The morning dew, reel / unidentified performer, fiddle
02:47:42 - 02:50:17 | [Caher Roe, reel ; Pat Tuohey's, reel] / unidentified performer, fiddle
02:50:17 - 02:53:07 | [The key of the convent, jig ; Arthur Darley's, jig] / unidentified performer, fiddle
02:53:07 - 02:56:38 | Sergeant Early's dream, reel ; The rock of Cashel, reel / Paddy Glackin, fiddle
02:56:38 - 02:59:51 | [The collier's, jig ; Pádraig O'Keeffe's, jig] / unidentified performer, fiddle
02:59:51 - 03:03:58 | Patsy Tuohey's, reel ; Old Cuffe Street, reel / Paddy Glackin, fiddle
03:03:58 - 03:06:07 | Rodney’s glory, set dance / Paddy Glackin, fiddle
03:06:07 – 03:09:05 | The key of the convent, jig ; Arthur Darley’s, jig / [Paddy Glackin?], fiddle
03:09:05 – 03:11:47 | The Duke of Leinster, reel ; The morning dew, reel / Paddy Glackin, fiddle
03:11:47 – 03:14:18 | The boys of Malin, reel ; unidentified reel / Paddy Glackin, fiddle
03:14:18 – 03:13:18 | [blank audio]

Louis Quinn Collection. Reel-to-Reel 07 [sound recording] / [various performers]

LQU-18762/259222
Item
[n.d.]

Part of Louis Quinn Collection

Performers:
Potts, Tommie, fiddle solo A1-38

Running Order:
1. Reels: Untitled
2. Reel: Untitled (fragment)
3. Air/Slipjig: Untitled
4. Air/Reel: Untitled
5. Air/Reel: Untitled
6. Air/Reel: Untitled
7. Air/Reel: Untitled
8. Jigs: Untitled
9. Air: Untitled
10. Reel: Untitled
11. Reel: Untitled
12. Reel: Untitled
13. Jig: Untitled
14. Reel: Untitled
15. Reel: Untitled
16. Reel: Untitled
17. Reel: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
18. Air/Reel: Untitled
19. Reel: Untitled
20. Air/Reel: Untitled
21. Reel: Untitled
22. Reel: Untitled
23. Reel: Untitled
24. Reel: Untitled
25. Reel: Untitled
26. Reel: Untitled
27. Reel: Untitled
28. Reel: Untitled
29. Reels: Untitled
30. Reel: Untitled
31. Jig: Untitled
32. Reel: Untitled
33. Hornpipe: Untitled (unfinished)
34. Reel: Untitled
35. Reel: Untitled
36. Jig: Untitled
37. Reel: Untitled
38. Piece: Untitled fragment [END OF BAND TWO]

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 148 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 57

HSH-18739/1/259116/057
Part
August 1965

Part of Hugh Shields Collection

Recorded in Lough Gowna, Co. Cavan [Mrs Margaret Reilly’s house]

The Banks of the Lee (‘When fond lovers meet down beside the blue mountain...’) ; talk about the preceding song and the wren boys, song ; speech Mrs Margaret Reilly (age about 60), singing in English, speech in English

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 148 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 62

HSH-18739/1/259116/062
Part
August 1965

Part of Hugh Shields Collection

Recorded in Lough Gowna, Co. Cavan [Mrs Margaret Reilly’s house]

Down by the lowlands low (‘Oh, young Emily dearly mourned...’) (one verse), song [fragment] / Mrs Margaret Reilly, singing in English

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 148 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 94

HSH-18739/1/259116/094
Part
July 1963 ; July 1964 ; November 1964 ; December 1964 ; December 1964–January 1965 ; January 1965 ; May [?] 1965 ; July 1965 ; August 1965

Part of Hugh Shields Collection

Untitled song / female member of TCD Summer School, singing in Occitan

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 150 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 1

BBR-18712/1/258834/01
Part
[n.d.]

Part of Breandán Breathnach Collection

Jig: Untitled [Cathaoir an Phiobaire], Untitled [Whelan's Jig]

O'Loughlin, Peadar / O'Loughlin, Peter - flute in duet
White, Aggie, Galway - fiddle in duet

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 347 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 22

BBR-18712/1/258904/22
Part
1956

Part of Breandán Breathnach Collection

Reels: The Bird in the Tree, The Shannon Breeze [Rolling in the Ryegrass]

Hegney, Agnes, Galway - fiddle in duet
White, Aggie, Galway - fiddle in duet

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 347 [sound recording] / [various performers]

BBR-18712/1/258904
Item
1956

Part of Breandán Breathnach Collection

Performers:
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Finnegan, Thomas, Galway, singing in English A2;
Unidentified performers, speech in English throughout;
Keaveney, Patrick, Galway, singing in English A3;
Kelly, Jim / Kelly, James, Galway, singing in English A4, 6, 11, 13;
speech in English A4, 13;
Glynn, William / Glynn, Willie, Galway, speech in English A7, 9–10, 12, 14;
singing in English A8, 10, 12, 14;
Clancy, Jack ('Jack the Jigger'), Clare, lilting solo A15–16;
speech in English A15;
Crotty, Elizabeth, Clare, speech in English A17;
singing in English A18;
concertina solo A20;
White, Aggie, Galway, fiddle in duet A22;
fiddle solo A24;
Hegney, Agnes, Galway, fiddle in duet A22;
Mulhaire, Thomas, Galway, fiddle in trio A26;
Mulhaire, Brendan, Galway, accordion in trio A26;
Mulhaire, Martin, Galway, accordion in trio A26;
accordion solo A28;
Tracy, John Joe, Galway, flute in trio A30;
Downey, Patsy, Galway, accordion in trio A30;
Dooley, Michael Joe, Galway, fiddle in trio A30;
Finnerty, Johnny, Galway, speech in English A31;
singing in English A31

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [About the song that follows, recorded in Glenamaddy, Co Galway in June 1956]
2. Song: Untitled [In a dreary old cabin sat a grey-haired old father (etc)]
3. Speech, Song: Untitled, Untitled [Only a Bunch of Violets; Out in a moonlit garden, far from the ballroom bright (etc)]
4. Speech, Song: Untitled, The Maid of Athenry
5. Speech: Untitled [Song just sung was recorded in Corofin, Co Galway in June 1956]
6. Song: The Kellys and Molloys [Stated to be related to the American song 'The Martins and the Coyles']
7. Speech: Untitled [About the song that follows]
8. Song: The 1916 Rising in County Galway
9. Speech: Untitled
10. Song, Speech: John Reilly, Untitled
11. Speech, Song: Untitled, The Star of Donegal
12. Speech, Song: Untitled, The Woodlands of Loughglynn (incomplete)
13. Speech, Song: Untitled, A Bird without a Gall / Captain Woodburn's Courtship [Captain Wedderburn's Courtship]
14. Speech, Song: Untitled, Untitled [About Louis Darcy of Headford, County Galway]
15. Jig, Speech: Untitled [The Rambling Pitchfork ?], Untitled
16. Reel: Down the Broom
17. Speech: Untitled
18. Song: An Droighnean Donn [Version in English; learned from Mrs Lillis, Cooraclare, Co Clare]
19. Speech: Untitled [The song and music here from Mrs Crotty was recorded in Kilrush, Co Clare in June 1956]
20. Reel: Bean an Tinceara [An Bhean Tinceara]
21. Speech: Untitled [About the tune that follows, recorded in Tom White's pub, Ballinakill, Co Galway in January 1956]
22. Reels: The Bird in the Tree, The Shannon Breeze [Rolling in the Ryegrass]
23. Speech: Untitled
24. Reels: Untitled [O'Rourke's], Untitled [Colonel Rodney]
25. Speech: Untitled [About the performance that follows; recorded in Kiltormer, Co Galway in February 1956]
26. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Martin Mulhaire's Reel [Composed by Martin Mulhaire (a member of the trio that plays here)]
27. Speech: Untitled
28. Reel: Untitled [The Golden Keyboard; composed by the performer]
29. Speech: Untitled
30. Reel: Dowd's Favourite [O'Dowd's Favourite]
31. Speech, Song: Untitled, Untitled [Young men of Tipperary and of Ireland far and near (etc); song about the McCormick brothers, who were hanged in Nenagh during the land troubles] (incomplete; repeated on tape Breandan Breathnach Reel-to-Reel 348) [END OF BAND ONE]