Explore the possibilities with Doireann Ní Ghríofa & Linda Buckley.
Poetry & Music 3 / Explore the possibilities with Doireann Ní Ghríofa & Linda Buckley.
Join us for a special concert to mark the launch of a ground-breaking digital music partnership between fiddle…
Re-creating PW Joyce / Join us for a special concert to mark the launch of a ground-breaking digital music partnership between fiddle…
Book your tickets now for an evening of music and poetry with Doireann Ní Ghríofa & Linda Buckley. Thursday, 24 May at 7pm.
Hear What Sparks / Book your tickets now for an evening of music and poetry with Doireann Ní Ghríofa & Linda Buckley. Thursday, 2…
Find out what Lynnsey Weissenberger will be talking about when she represents ITMA at CONUL, 30-31 May 2018.
Consortium of National and University Libraries / Find out what Lynnsey Weissenberger will be talking about when she represents ITMA at CONUL, 30-31 May 2018.
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Your father’s boreen : humorous Irish song / words anon ; music by Alicia Adélaïde Needham
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A new song called the Barrack Hill Cavan
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Humours of Drinagh ; Visit to Ireland ; Gallowglass / Frank O’Higgins ; unidentified piano
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Blaris Moor from Old Irish Folk Music & Songs
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Lasses of Carracastle ; Maid of Mt. Kisko ; St. Ruth’s Bush / Kincora Ceilidhe Band
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Blewit's Jig from Tunes of the Munster Pipers 2
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The minstrel boy, woodcut
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Aogán Ó Loinsigh & Matt Molloy, Ceoltóir Óg na Bliana 1999 & Ceoltóir na Bliana 1999
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The dear Irish maid : a new song
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Jig and Song Air from Old Irish Folk Music & Songs
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The Moorlough shore, song / Bill and Tilly Quigley ; and others, singing in English
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Lonely Banna Strand, song / Con Greaney, 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…