The Archive’s long-term need for adequate permanent premises has now been met with its move to 73 Merrion Square, and it has been able to increase its staff numbers through the support of both Arts Councils and other funding.

With a range of activities and development plans that fit its guiding principles of `public access' and `public education', the Archive will continue as before to build up its collections and improve its information services to the public. It will do this in accordance with its published strategic aims, and its Strategic Plan for the Irish Traditional Music Archive 2005–2009. Plean Straitéiseach do Thaisce Cheol Dúchais Éireannn 2005–2009.

Its next new development initiative, which will be implemented in the coming years, will be to make its unique catalogues available world-wide through the Internet (see Catalogues & Databases).

‘Éire’ (Ireland) by Irish-American sculptor Jerome Connor (1874–1943)
in Merrion Square. The beautiful public park in Merrion Square
is among the many attractions adjacent to the Archive in central Dublin.