Wednesday 7 March 2018
ITMA Celebrates International Women's Day 2018
The staff at ITMA are putting the spotlight on women this March 8th. Read, listen, and watch a few of our favourite selections from the ITMA collection!
Songs of the Irish Harpers: Collected and Arranged for Harp and Piano, by Charlotte Milligan Fox (London: Bayley & Ferguson, 1910).

Charlotte Milligan Fox, collector / Allison photographer
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This is an area filled with exceptional women, so choosing just one has been a challenge!
'Via Extasia' as performed by Deirdre Scanlon at the 2017 Frank Harte Festival.
This song celebrates a particular woman
You can almost hear the laughter emanating from the image and you just know that they were having a good time themselves
Caoimhe Flannery playing two slides at the 2017 World Fiddle Day Concert in Scartaglin, Co. Kerry: 'The Cat Jumped into the Mouse's Hole and Didn't Come Down 'till Morning' and 'Séamus Creagh's.'
Caoimhe ... follows in the footsteps of other great female musicians from the region, such as Julia Clifford, Máire O’Keeffe, and Anne Sheehy McAuliffe
Céline Tubridy dancing The Blackbird at the Willie Clancy Summer School; she was a regular part of the dance concert lineup.
Each video is a testimony to her art and elegance, and an enduring, vital link in our understanding of Irish dance