Book now to hear what happens when poet meets piper. Thursday, 28 June, at 7pm in Poetry Ireland.
Soul Clap Its Hands & Sing / Book now to hear what happens when poet meets piper. Thursday, 28 June, at 7pm in Poetry Ireland.
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View a gallery of 6 rare images of collector PW Joyce and his family.
Newly Discovered Photographs of PW Joyce / View a gallery of 6 rare images of collector PW Joyce and his family.
Director Grace Toland scheduled to present on the 'environment of study' at ITMA.
ACIS 2018 / Director Grace Toland scheduled to present on the 'environment of study' at ITMA.
explore
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Killarney, cigarette card [verso] / Wm. Ruddell Ltd.
sound
Top o’ Cork Road, jig ; Gallant Tipperary boys, jig / Dan Sullivan’s Shamrock Band
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Jimmy Butcher / [unidentified photographer]
video
Rocks of Bawn, air ; and a reel / Robbie Hannan, uilleann pipes
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The schoolmaster’s moment of leisure / Howard Helmick
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Slán agus Beannacht le from P.W. Joyce in Petrie Stanford
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Songs of Aran, 1957 / designer Ronald Clyne
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Irish reel medley / Tom Ennis ; James Morrison ; John Muller
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Riverdance : the story / written by Sam Smyth
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Nancy at the Spinning Wheel from Joyce’s Final Manuscripts
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The sailor’s frolic, or, Life in the East
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Drinking Song from Joyce’s Final Manuscripts
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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our work
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…