The Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA) is committed to providing free, universal access to the rich cultural tradition of Irish music, song and dance. If you’re able, we’d love for you to consider a donation. Any level of support will help us preserve and grow this tradition for future generations.
Boxing Robin. Land of the noon-day moon. Boxing Robin, 2026. Digital download.
Claudy, Frank (flute). The thrush in the straw. Frank Claudy, CLA9801 1998. 1 CD.
Claudy, Frank (flute), Paul de Grae (guitar), Patrick O’Dea (steps), Anne Skelton (vocals) and Joe Skelton (flute; whistle). The pretty blue seagull: music from the O’Neill collections. Frank Claudy, 2010. 1 CD.
Faux, Celia (accordion) and Claire Sweeney (fiddle). Up against the night. Celia Faux and Claire Sweeney, 2026. Digital download.
Granville, Aoife (flute) and Deirdre Granville (harp). Ceo draíochta. Aoife and Deirdre Granville, 2026. 1 CD + Digital download.
Gravelly Point. Hanging with the band. Gravelly Point, 2026. Digital download.
Harper, Bríd (fiddle) and Ryan Molloy (piano). Foinse. Bríd Harper and Ryan Molloy, 2026. 1 CD + Digital download.
Harrington, John “The Yank” (accordion). A Celtic century: Celtic-American folk. John “The Yank” Productions, [1999]. 1 CD.
Keane, Caroline (accordion). Rise. Caroline Keane, 2026. 1 CD + Digital download.
Keegan, Seán (mandola) and Macdara Ó Faoláin (bouzouki). Keegan’s fancy: traditional Irish music on mandola and bouzouki. Adhyaropa Records, 2026. 1 CD.
Kennedy’s Kitchen. The unicorona song. Kennedy’s Kitchen, [n.d]. Digital download.
Kennedy’s Kitchen. The whiskey of truth. Kennedy’s Kitchen, [n.d]. Digital download.
Kennedy’s Kitchen. The yellow river (live). Kennedy’s Kitchen, [n.d]. Digital download.
Kennedy, Nuala (flute). The best of Nuala Kennedy. Under the Arch Records, 2026. 1 CD.
Kingcome, Catharine (fiddle). Ar shiúl leis na síóga = away with the fairies. Catherine Kingcome, 2026. Digital download.
McGrath, Mark Anthony (guitar). Carolan. Mark Anthony McGrath, 2026. Digital download.
Ní Mhocháin, Feirdia (bodhrán). Bodhránaidheacht 1. Feirdia Ní Mhocháin, 2026. Digital download.
Possumato, Dan (accordion, melodeon). An teachín gorm = The blue cottage. Dan Possumato, 2024. Digital download.
Ryan, Tracy (flute) and Ryan O’Donnell (guitar). Fairy island. Tracy Ryan and Ryan O’Donnell, 2026. 1 CD.
Talty, Jack (concertina). Coire an cheoil. Raelach Records RR028, 2026. 1 CD.
Vesey, John Frank (fiddle). The Sligo fiddle playing of John Frank Vesey: I would know it is you. Lamond Gillespie, 2026. 1 CD.
Brennan, Paddy. Limerick music throughout the decades. Ireland: Paddy Brennan, 2018. 541 pp. (pbk).
Burns, Christie M. “Out of obscurity: discovering the dulcimer in Ireland.” Thesis, University College Cork, 2002.
Bush, Paddy. The Amergin step: an exploration in the imagination of Iveragh. Dingle: Dingle Publishing, 2024. 397 pp. ISBN 9781739781323 (hbk).
Cannon, Moya. Bunting’s honey. Manchester: Carcanet Poetry, 2025. 98 pp. ISBN 9781800174894 (pbk).
Chadwick, Simon. “Arthur O’Neill’s legacy: teaching the traditional wire-strung Irish harp in the nineteenth century”. Armagh: Dúiche Néill: Journal of the O’Neill Country Historical Society 27 (2025–26): 116–29.
Comhaltas Átha Cliath. Comhaltas ár linne: ceol & craobhacha chontae Átha Cliath. Dublin: Comhaltas Átha Cliath, 2026. 216 pp. ISBN 9781919342924 (ring bound).
Commins, Verena. Review of Women in Irish traditional music, by Joanne Cusack (Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2025). Ethnomusicology Ireland 11 (2026): 132—134. Online review.
Daly, Gregory. “Transcending the limits of our time traditional music in county Sligo: a historical review.” In Sligo History and Society: Interdisciplinary Essays on the History of an Irish County, ed. William Nolan and Kieran O’Connor. Ireland: Geography Publications, 2024. ISBN 9780906602676.
de Jong, Erik. At the feis: 55 pieces compiled and written down by Erik de Jong. The Netherlands: Erik de Jong, [n.d]. 68 pp. Online book.
Dolan D’Arcy, Sharon. “Digitising our musical traditions: Miltown musician, Liam O’Brien, has become guardian of the tradition with new ITMA role.” The Clare Champion, 5 June 2026. Online article.
Erraught, Stan. Rebel notes: popular music and conflict in Ireland. Belfast, Beyond the Pale Books, 2025. 216 pp. ISBN 9781914318290 (pbk).
Erraught, Stan. “Peter Carr: two films.” Ethnomusicology Ireland 11 (2026): 63—78. Online article.
Eves, Madeleine. “An investigation into the use of Irish traditional music in Northern Irish music therapy practice.” Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 26 (2026): 1—19. Online article.
Falc’her-Poyroux, Erick. Review of The companion to Irish traditional music, by Fintan Vallely (ed.) (Cork: Cork University Press, 2024). Études Irlandaises, Children and the Youth in Ireland 51, no. 1 (2026). Online review.
Fanning, John. “The mandarin, the musician and the mage: T.K Whitaker, Seán Ó Riada, Thomas Kinsella and the lessons of Ireland’s mid-twentieth-century revival.” Reimagining Ireland 110 (2022): 1—270 pp. ISBN 9781800795990 (pbk).
Feldman, Allen. “Éamonn O’Doherty and the gaze of common places.” Field Day Review 9 (2013): 22—37. Online article.
Foran, James. “Irish-language sean-nós song as a resource in sociolinguistic research”. Studia Celtica Posnaniensa 10 (2025): 32–58. Online article.
Garvey, Anna Rose. “IFI film eye: the fleadh ceoil.” History Ireland 34 (2026): 38—41.
Gaul, Liam. Famous Wexfordians. Glostershire: The History Press, 2019. 178 pp. ISBN 97800750989077.
Knevett, Arthur. The folk-song society 1898 – 1932 : a history. The Ballad Partners, 2026. 249 pp. ISBN 9781068640674.
Kutzner, Coralyn. “Celtic catharsis: a look into the emotional appeal of Irish music in the United States.” MA Thesis, Liberty University School of Music, 2026.
Lawlor, Helen. Review of In safe hands an illustrated history of Irish traditional music in Dublin (1893–1970) by Mick O’Connor (Dublin: Mick O’Connor, 2025). Ethnomusicology Ireland 11 (2026): 135—137. Online review.
Lennon, Mattie. My Kerry hill. Somerset: Silver Birchington Plays, 2019. 19 pp.
LeRoy Cowan, Clayton. “Irish folksong elements in American popular music, 1860-1900.” MA Thesis, The University of Southern California, 1950.
Lynn Christina. Review of Are you dancing? showbands, popular music, and memory in modern Ireland by Rebecca S. Miller (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2025). Ethnomusicology Ireland 11 (2026): 138—141. Online review.
Mac Aodhgáin, Pádraig. “To Inform, educate and entertain”: the early radio broadcasts of Seán Ó Riada.” Ethnomusicology Ireland 11 (2026): 32—49. Online article.
McGuiggan, James Camien. “A moment to reflect on Irishness”. The Journal of Music in Ireland, 4 June 2026. Online article.
McGuinne, Dermot. “Colm O’Lochlainn: bibliophile and reluctant revolutionary.” History Ireland 34, (2026): 38—41. Online article.
McKinney, Rebecca. “Old tunes for new times: contemporary Scottish nationalism and the folk music revival.” PhD Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1999. Online thesis.
Motherway, Susan. “Framing the North Kerry tradition: broadcasting folk theater in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.” Ethnomusicology Ireland 11 (2026): 50—62. Online article.
Moorkens Byrne, Geraldine. On the fiddle!: the music shop mysteries books 1. Dublin: PPP Publishing, 2023. 189 pp. ISBN 9781739649616 (pbk).
Moylan, Terry and Jerry O’Reilly; Nicholas Carolan, eds. The song collector: writings of Tom Munnelly. Dublin: Craft Recordings, in association with The Irish Traditional Music Archive, 2026. 751 pp. ISBN 9781068283727 (hbk).
Mullarkey, Peter. The Binneas collection: traditional music of Iveragh = ceol traidisiúnta Uíbh Ráthaigh, volume 2, collected and compiled by Peter Mullarkey. Kerry: Binneas Publishing, 2022. 80 pp. (pbk).
Newman, Katherine D. Never without a song: the years and songs of Jennie Devlin, 1865 – 1952. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1995. 291 pp. ISBN 0252063716 (pbk).
Nic Dhonncha, Róisín. “Iiúint : amhránaíocht thraidisíunta na Gaeilge agus an aeistéitic Eorpach.” In Ar an imeall i lár an domhain : ag trasnú tairseacha staire, teanga, litríochta agus cultúir, ed. Radvan Markus; Máirín Nic Eoin; Deidre Nic Mhathúna; Éadaoin Ní Mhuircheartaigh; Ó Brian Conchubhair and Pádraig Ó Liatháin, 176—189. Galway: Leabhar Breac, 2021. ISBN 9781909907850 (hbk).
O’Donnell, Mary Louise. Review of Women in Irish traditional music, by Joanne Cusack (Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2025). The Journal of Music in Ireland, 30 April 2026. Online review.
Ó Laoire, Lillis. “‘Because they’re old doesn’t mean they don’t have value’ : Moya Brennan and the reimagining of Irish song”. The Journal of Music in Ireland, 15 April 2026. Online article.
Pereira, Mario and Treasa Harkin; Antonio Sá Pinto; Gilberto Bernandes. “Computational analysis of expressive tempo in Irish traditional dance music.” Conference paper at International Computer Music Conference, 2026. Online conference paper.
Quinn, Toner. “Dolores Keane : songs about where we come from”. The Journal of Music in Ireland, 18 March 2026. Online article.
Scahill, Adrian. Review of Heading to the fleadh: festival, cultural revival and Irish traditional music, 1951–1969 by Méabh Ní Fhuartháin (Cork: Cork University Press, 2024).” Ethnomusicology Ireland 11 (2026): 150—153. Online review.
Skeen, Catherine, ed. The parson’s revels by William Duncan. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010. 147 pp. ISBN 9781846822278.
Valenti, Maura. “Strum, strum and be hanged: reassessing the 1792 Belfast harp festival.” Irish Historical Studies, 50 (2026): 54—66. Online article.
Vallely, Fintan, et al, eds. Crosbhealach an cheoil: the Crossroads Conference 1996: tradition and change in Irish traditional music new edition. Dublin: Whinstone Music, 2026. 303 pp. 9780951156964 (pbk.).
Williams, Sean. Review of Essays on music, politics and resistance: sounding empowerment by Helen Lawlor and Adrian Scahill, editors (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2025). Ethnomusicology Ireland 11 (2026): 154—156. Online review.
ITMA would also like to acknowledge donations of materials (CDs, printed items, visual items, etc.), and other help and information from the following people and organisations: An Góilín, Paddy Bushe, Comhaltas Átha Cliath, Dr Séamas de Barra, Paddy Doherty, Frank Claudy, Bridie Flaherty, Olwen Gately, Lynch family – Charleville, Cork, Mattie Lennon, Michael Steen, Jack Talty, Fintan Vallely
