Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin (1950-2018). Chairman of the ITMA Board 1993-1999.
In Memoriam / Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin (1950-2018). Chairman of the ITMA Board 1993-1999.
Meet the performers who featured in the final edition of "Soul Clap Its Hands and Sing."
Poetry & Music 5 / Meet the performers who featured in the final edition of "Soul Clap Its Hands and Sing."
Plan your visit for this Saturday, 17 November 2018. Our reading room is open from 10am to 5pm.
We're Open / Plan your visit for this Saturday, 17 November 2018. Our reading room is open from 10am to 5pm.
Join us on 22-24 November at 1pm for a series of broadcast performances, all live from the ITMA Reading Room. You can also tune in on NearFM.
Within a Mile of Dublin / Join us on 22-24 November at 1pm for a series of broadcast performances, all live from the ITMA Reading Room.…
Curious about how singers and scholars find new songs? ITMA is delighted to contribute to the largest index of English-language song currently in existence.
Indexing ITMA / Curious about how singers and scholars find new songs? ITMA is delighted to contribute to the largest index of…
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Under the rose, woodcut
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Kevin Burke, fiddle / Steven de Paoire
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Grotesque pipers, fourteenth century / unidentified artist
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Luke Cheevers & Kevin Conneff, bodhrán / Nicholas Carolan
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My dark Rosaleen : an Irish patriotic song / James Clarence Mangan ; Alicia Adélaïde
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By the short cut to the Rosses / C. Milligan Fox arr.
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Amhrán na bhFiann from Ceol na nGaedheal
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The papish goat, song / Richard Hayward, singing in English
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Joe McNamara, accordion / Máire O’Keeffe
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The Plains of Boyle, hornpipe ; The Bantry Hornpipe, hornpipe / Leo Rowsome
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My Lady's Goon Has Gairs on't — Strathspey from Ryan's Mammoth Collection
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The Black Horse from Francis Roche Collection 2
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
A Grand Time: The songs, music, and dance of Newfoundland's Cape Shore / The songs, music, and dance of Newfoundland's Cape Shore
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…