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Notebook kept by James O’Mahony, containing a large collection of traditional step dances from many of the dancing masters prominent in Cork in the early twentieth century, including Willie and Freddie Murray. The dances have been numbered and arranged into three sets, the first set comprising 63 dances, mostly hornpipes (with pages containing numbers 1-5 missing), the second containing 62 reels, and the third containing 84 jigs. These sets are followed by 58 pages of assorted steps, many of them figure dances such as four-hand and eight-hand jigs and reels. Several entries in this unnumbered set include the names of the dancers on whose demonstration the steps were based.