Explore our new digital archive, featuring some of the top traditional musicians, singers, and dancers of the last 20 years.
Gradam Ceoil TG4 Archive / Explore our new digital archive, featuring some of the top traditional musicians, singers, and dancers of the…
ITMA seeks a graduate librarian/archivist for a one-year fixed term contract.
Job Opportunity / ITMA seeks a graduate librarian/archivist for a one-year fixed term contract.
ITMA & Arts Office of Clare Co. Council are offering an exciting opportunity for an emerging or established artist from any artistic genre.
Creator-in-Residence / ITMA & Arts Office of Clare Co. Council are offering an exciting opportunity for an emerging or established ar…
Postdoctoral fellow, Lynnsey Weissenberger, is representing ITMA in Leipzig this July.
IAML 2018 / Postdoctoral fellow, Lynnsey Weissenberger, is representing ITMA in Leipzig this July.
ITMA’s newest digital resource to be launched in Newfoundland this August.
'A Grand Time' / ITMA’s newest digital resource to be launched in Newfoundland this August.
explore
video
Hardiman the fiddler ; The cock and the hen, slip jigs / Paul O’Shaughnessy, fiddle
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Two row black dot Hohner ‘double ray’ accordion / ITMA photographer
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The Dawn — Reel from Irish Folk Dance Music
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The shirt I left behind, song / Jimmy Grant, singing in English
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The Cottage in the Grove from Francis Roche Collection 3
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Kill or cure. Paddy Connor’s wedding
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Jim McGrath, Cumadóir na Bliana 2007 / TG4 photographer
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John Mitchell’s address. The emigrant’s farewell
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Willie Lennox, song / Gerry Cullen, singing in English
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The Maiden Fair (reel) from Tunes of the Munster Pipers 2
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Patsy Touhey wax cylinder recordings with an Edison Standard Phonograph
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Craigie Hills, song / Barbara Coates, singing in English
LITMUS project
LITMUS (Linked Irish Traditional Music) is a 2-year Horizon2020 project at the Irish Traditional Music Archive working to build a linked data ontology to better express what occurs within oral transmission, focusing on Irish traditional music and dance.
exhibitions & microsites
Inishowen Song Project / Microsite featuring the traditional songs & singers of Inishowen
View the six volumes of James Goodman's music manuscripts
Goodman Manuscripts / View the six volumes of James Goodman's music manuscripts
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Learn about the history of ITMA from inception to the present day
History / Learn about the history of ITMA from inception to the present day
The Archive understands ‘Irish traditional music’ as a broad term which encompasses oral-tradition song, instrumental music and dance of many kinds and periods.
Definitions / The Archive understands ‘Irish traditional music’ as a broad term which encompasses oral-tradition song, instr…