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      Vincent Broderick: The Flagstone of Memories

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      Stories Told by Cards & Tapes: Uncovering Denis Murphy Materials at ITMA

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      Dusty Bluebells

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      The Cathal and Maura McConnell Collections

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      Ar Scáth a Chéile

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      Furls of Music

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      Taoscadh ón Tobar

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      Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society. The Second Phase

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      Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society. The First Phase

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      Tommy Peoples: A Portrait of an Artist

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      Echoes from an Archive: Giving voice to written notes

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      Macalla ó Chartlann: Guthú na Nótaí Scríofa

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    • Audio Playlists

      Pádraic Mac Mathúna’s Monthly Picks | April 2025

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      Selections from the Caoimhín Mac Aoidh Collection | April 2025

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      Pádraic Mac Mathúna’s Monthly Picks | March 2025

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      Selections from the Caoimhín Mac Aoidh Collection | March 2025

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    • Audio Playlists

      Interviews with Vincent Broderick

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      Selections from the Caoimhín Mac Aoidh Collection | February 2025

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      Pádraic Mac Mathúna’s Monthly Picks | February 2025

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      Selections from the Mac Aoidh & McConnell Collections | January 2025

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      Selections from the McConnell & Mac Aoidh Collections | December 2024

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      Pádraic Mac Mathúna’s Monthly Picks | December 2024

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      Pádraic Mac Mathúna’s Monthly Picks | November 2024

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      Selections from the Caoimhín Mac Aoidh Collection | November 2024

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    • Audio Playlists

      Dusty Bluebells: Counting and Skipping

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      Dusty Bluebells: Yah Boo!

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      Dusty Bluebells: Riddles and More Rhymes

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      Dusty Bluebells: Round and Round, Up and Down, Out and In

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      Dusty Bluebells: May Queens and Mummery

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      Dusty Bluebells: Lulling and Lilting

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    • Audio Playlists

      Dusty Bluebells: Songs, Ballads and Snatches

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    • Audio Playlists

      Selections from the McConnell Family Collection | October 2024

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      Pádraic Mac Mathúna’s Monthly Picks | October 2024

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      Pádraic Mac Mathúna’s Monthly Picks | August 2024

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    • Audio Playlists

      Furls of Music – USA Trip 1973

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      Furls of Music – RTÉ Radio Programmes

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      Furls of Music – The Michael McNamara Sound Collection

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      Furls of Music – Leitrim Performers

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      Furls of Music – Other Performers

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      Furls of Music – Bands and Groups

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      Furls of Music – Singers

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    • Audio Playlists

      Selections from the McConnell Family Collection | Part Five

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      Pádraic Mac Mathúna’s Monthly Picks | June 2024

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    • Audio Playlists

      Ar Scáth a Chéile: Máire Úna Ní Bheaglaoich

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      Ar Scáth a Chéile: Niall Coakley

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      Ar Scáth a Chéile: Kieran Munnelly

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      Ar Scáth a Chéile: Michael McCabe

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      Pádraic Mac Mathúna’s Monthly Picks | May 2024

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    • Audio Playlists

      Selections from the McConnell Family Collection | Part Four

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      Selections from the McConnell Family Collection | Part Three

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      Selections from the McConnell Family Collection | Part Two

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      Pádraic Mac Mathúna’s Monthly Picks | March 2024

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      Pádraic Mac Mathúna’s Monthly Picks | February 2024

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    • Audio Playlists

      Selections from the McConnell Family Collection | Part One

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    • Audio Playlists

      Parlophone Irish 78s, 1930

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      Parlophone Irish 78s, 1929

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      Pádraic Mac Mathúna’s Monthly Picks | December 2023

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      Pádraic Mac Mathúna’s Monthly Picks | October 2023

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    • Audio Playlists

      Seán Corcoran’s ITMA Field Recordings

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      Pádraic Mac Mathúna’s Monthly Picks | August 2023

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      Pádraic Mac Mathúna’s Monthly Picks | July 2023

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      Pádraic Mac Mathúna’s Monthly Picks | June 2023

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    • Audio Playlists

      Anne Gannon Irish/Argentine Music Collection, 1950s

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    • Audio Playlists

      Edward Bunting Digital Harp Collection: Laoise Kelly

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      Denis Cox, Co Meath Singer, 1930s

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      Edward Bunting Digital Harp Collection: Éilis Lavelle

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    • Audio Playlists

      Barndance Selections from 78s, 1920s–1940s

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    • Audio Playlists

      The ‘Holy Trinity’ of Sligo Fiddle Masters

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    • Audio Playlists

      With a Banjo on my Knee’: Early Recordings of the Banjo in Irish Traditional Music”

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    • Audio Playlists

      Dan Sullivan’s Shamrock Band 78s, 1920s–1930s

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      Irish-American Bands & Electric Recording, 1920s–1940s

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    • Audio Playlists

      1916 and the Decade of Centenaries: A Soundscape

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    • Audio Playlists

      Patsy Touhey, Irish-American Piper on Cylinder, 1900s

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    • Audio Playlists

      ITMA Henebry Cylinder Recordings 1, 1905

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    • Audio Playlists

      ITMA Henebry Cylinder Recordings 2, c. 1905

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    • Audio Playlists

      Shamrock, Rose & Thistle: Playlist

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    • Audio Playlists

      Cylinder Sound Recordings Made at the Oireachtas, Dublin, 1907

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    • Audio Playlists

      Live from Josephine Keegan CD Launch, May 2011

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    • Audio Playlists

      Music Lectures by ITMA Chairmen, 1988–2002

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    • Audio Playlists

      Dr O’Beirne’s Recordings Collection, 1960s

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    • Audio Playlists

      Sean Maguire with the Four Star Quartet, 1962 LP

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      ITMA Audio Field Recordings, 2013

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    • Audio Playlists

      Medley of Musicians and Singers, 1950s

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    • Audio Playlists

      Leo Rowsome King of the Pipers, 78 rpm Disc Recordings 1926–1944

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    • Audio Playlists

      Concert recordings from Rencontres Musicales Irlandaises de Tocane, 2010

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    • Audio Playlists

      Hugh Shields’s French recordings from Tocane

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    • Audio Playlists

      Edward Bunting Digital Harp Collection: Úna Ní Fhlannagáin

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    • Audio Playlists

      Ceol Goodman le Peter Browne, 2009

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    • Audio Playlists

      Newly Composed Tunes and Songs in the Irish Tradition

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    • Audio Playlists

      They Love Music Mightily: Sound Recordings from a UFTM-ITMA Exhibition, 2000

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    • Audio Playlists

      Tom Carmody, Accordion & Fiddle Player, Kerry & New York

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    • Audio Playlists

      Some Irish Harpers, 1988–2010

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    • Audio Playlists

      Edward Bunting Digital Harp Collection: Dianne Marshall

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      Edward Bunting Digital Harp Collection: Tríona Marshall

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      The Irish Recordings of Jim Carroll & Pat Mackenzie

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      Irish-American Acetate Discs, 1940–50s

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    • Audio Playlists

      The Orange Standard: 78s by Richard Hayward

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    • Audio Playlists

      Edward Bunting Digital Harp Collection: Claire O’Donnell

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      Edward Bunting Digital Harp Collection: Mary Louise O’Donnell

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      Edward Bunting Digital Harp Collection: Teresa O’Donnell

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      Edward Bunting Digital Harp Collection: Anne-Marie O’Farrell

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    • Audio Playlists

      Singers & Ceili Bands on 1950s EPs

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    • Audio Playlists

      Paddy Canny, Bobby Casey, Tommy McCarthy & Joe Ryan, WCSS, 1999

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    • Audio Playlists

      Concertina Players in Co Clare, 2003–2009

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    • Audio Playlists

      Cathal McConnell Tribute, 2009

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    • Audio Playlists

      Edward Bunting Digital Harp Collection: Máire Ní Chathasaigh

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    • Audio Playlists

      Flute Players at Gathering in West Cork, 2010

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    • Audio Playlists

      Young Flute Players at Cruinniú na bhFliúit, 2013

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    • Audio Playlists

      Vincent Campbell, Donegal Fiddle Player, 2010

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      Singers in Inishowen, Co Donegal, 2009

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      Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh & Danny O’Mahony at Scoil Gheimhridh Ghaoth Dobhair, December 2014

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      Eddie O’Gara, Donegal Melodeon Player, Glencolmcille, 2011

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    • Video Playlists

      ITMA Field Recording Interviews

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    • Video Playlists

      Drawing from the Well National Concert Hall | 15th March 2022

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    • Video Playlists

      Ireland’s Whistling Ambassador: Micho Russell of Doolin, Co. Clare

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    • Video Playlists

      Dance at the Willie Clancy Summer School

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    • Video Playlists

      Piping, Poetry, Singing & Puirt-à-Beul Videos from Armagh, 2004

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    • Video Playlists

      Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, Uilleann Piper, 2003 & 2004

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    • Video Playlists

      First ITMA Studio Video Recordings, 1993

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    • Video Playlists

      Tin-Whistle Players, 2008–2014

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    • Video Playlists

      Videos of Caitlín Nic Gabhann & Caoimhín Ó Fearghail, with Ciarán Ó Maonaigh

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    • Video Playlists

      ‘Live at Lunchtime’ for National Music Day 2012

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    • Video Playlists

      Góilín Song Project: Interviews

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    • Video Playlists

      Highlights from Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy. Banjo recital

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    • Video Playlists

      Highlights from Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy. Fiddle recital

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    • Video Playlists

      Highlights from Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy. Harmonica Recital

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    • Video Playlists

      Highlights from Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy. Harp recital

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    • Video Playlists

      Highlights from Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy. Whistle and flute recital

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      Highlights from Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy. Accordion recital

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    • Video Playlists

      Highlights from Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy. Piping recital

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    • Video Playlists

      Highlights from Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy: An evening of Traditional Singing in Irish and English

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      Highlights from Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy. An evening of Old Style Step, Sean-nós and Traditional Set Dancing

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    • Video Playlists

      ITMA Field-Trip Videos, 2012

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    • Video Playlists

      Robbie Hannan & Dermot McLaughlin at the William Kennedy Piping Festival 2006

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    • Video Playlists

      Videos from the Con Curtin Festival, Brosna, Co. Kerry, 2014

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    • Video Playlists

      Interview : Paddy Joe Tighe, accordion, lilting, singing in English, speech in English, tin whistle

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    • Video Playlists

      Irish Music in London: A Talk by Dr Reg Hall

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    • Video Playlists

      Robert Emmet and Songs of Rebellion: Gilbert Lecture 2003

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    • Video Playlists

      Lunchtime Uilleann Pipes Recitals, WCSS 2011

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    • Video Playlists

      Presentation on Sligo fiddle player James Morrison from Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2015

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    • Video Playlists

      Banjo Players at the Willie Clancy Summer School, 2012–2014

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    • Video Playlists

      Sean-Nós Dancing in Co Meath, 1996

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    • Video Playlists

      Recent Instrumental Duets

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    • Video Playlists

      Re-Creations from Joyce

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    • Video Playlists

      Roscommon Flute Players in Donegal, 2007

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    • Video Playlists

      Sean-Nós Cois Life Físeáin/Videos, 2001–2012

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    • Video Playlists

      Paul O’Shaughnessy, Fiddle Player, 1993 Videos

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    • Video Playlists

      Harmonica Players in Co Clare, 2013

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    • Video Playlists

      Joe Ryan, Clare Fiddle Player, on Video, 1999–2004

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    • Video Playlists

      National Music Day : Ceoltoirí Chluain Tarbh

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    • Video Playlists

      Sean-Nós Dancers at the Frankie Kennedy Winter School, 2006

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    • Video Playlists

      ITMA Studio Video Recordings, 1994 & 1995

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    • Texts

      List of Vincent Broderick Compositions

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    • Texts

      The Poets and Poetry of Munster, ed. John O’Daly, 1850 edition

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    • Texts

      Dusty Bluebells: Additional Resources

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    • Texts

      All the days of his life: Eddie Butcher in his own words

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    • Texts

      The Moynihan Manuscript

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    • Texts

      Edward Bunting’s Third Published Collection of Irish Music, 1840

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    • Texts

      Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society. Vol. 16 [Amhráin Mhuighe Seóla]

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    • Texts

      Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society. Vol. 28–29

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      Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society. Vol. 27

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      Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society. Vol. 26

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    • Galleries

      Vincent Broderick, a life in pictures

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    • Galleries

      Tunes for the Capuchins: Photographs by Steven de Paoire

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    • Galleries

      Des Gallagher: A review of 2024 in pictures

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    • Galleries

      Des Gallagher, ITMA Photographer in Residence 2023: The year in review

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    • Galleries

      Photographs of Donegal fiddle players by Rik Walton

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    • Galleries

      Des Gallagher, ITMA Photographer in Residence 2023: The year so far

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    • Galleries

      Heritage Week 2021 – Gráinne Yeats Collection

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    • Galleries

      Heritage Week 2021 – Cnuasach an Bhreathnaigh

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    • Galleries

      Sidney Robertson Cowell collects music in Ireland

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    • Galleries

      Photographing the Willie Clancy Summer School

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    • Notated Collections

      Learn Vincent Broderick Compositions

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    • Notated Collections

      Transcriptions by Anton Zille of Denis Murphy recordings

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    • Notated Collections

      Compositions by Andy Dickson, Book 11 of 11

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    • Notated Collections

      Compositions by Andy Dickson, Book 10 of 11

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    • Notated Collections

      Compositions by Andy Dickson, Book 9 of 11

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    • Notated Collections

      Compositions by Andy Dickson, Book 8 of 11

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    • Notated Collections

      Compositions by Andy Dickson, Book 7 of 11

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    • Notated Collections

      Compositions by Andy Dickson, Book 6 of 11

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    • Notated Collections

      Compositions by Andy Dickson, Book 5 of 11

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    • Notated Collections

      Compositions by Andy Dickson, Book 4 of 11

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