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    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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    • 9

    Selections from the Caoimhín Mac Aoidh Collection | March 2025

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    • 5

    Interviews with Vincent Broderick

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    • 17

    Selections from the Caoimhín Mac Aoidh Collection | February 2025

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    • 12

    Pádraic Mac Mathúna’s Monthly Picks | February 2025

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    • 13

    Selections from the Mac Aoidh & McConnell Collections | January 2025

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    • 11

    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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    • 12

    Selections from the Caoimhín Mac Aoidh Collection | November 2024

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    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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    Dusty Bluebells: Songs, Ballads and Snatches

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    • 14

    Selections from the McConnell Family Collection | October 2024

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    • 8

    Pádraic Mac Mathúna’s Monthly Picks | October 2024

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    • 7

    Pádraic Mac Mathúna’s Monthly Picks | August 2024

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    • 8

    Furls of Music – USA Trip 1973

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    • 10

    Furls of Music – RTÉ Radio Programmes

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    • 70

    Furls of Music – The Michael McNamara Sound Collection

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    • 31

    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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    • 11

    Furls of Music – Singers

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    Selections from the McConnell Family Collection | Part Five

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    • 8

    Pádraic Mac Mathúna’s Monthly Picks | June 2024

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    • 4

    Ar Scáth a Chéile: Máire Úna Ní Bheaglaoich

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    • 4

    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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    • 9

    Pádraic Mac Mathúna’s Monthly Picks | May 2024

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    • 16

    Selections from the McConnell Family Collection | Part Four

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    • 10

    Selections from the McConnell Family Collection | Part Three

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    • 12

    Selections from the McConnell Family Collection | Part Two

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    • 10

    Pádraic Mac Mathúna’s Monthly Picks | March 2024

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    • 9

    Pádraic Mac Mathúna’s Monthly Picks | February 2024

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    • 11

    Selections from the McConnell Family Collection | Part One

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    • 12

    Parlophone Irish 78s, 1930

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    • 12

    Parlophone Irish 78s, 1929

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    • 9

    Pádraic Mac Mathúna’s Monthly Picks | December 2023

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    • 6

    Pádraic Mac Mathúna’s Monthly Picks | October 2023

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    • 35

    Seán Corcoran’s ITMA Field Recordings

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    • 8

    Pádraic Mac Mathúna’s Monthly Picks | August 2023

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    • 8

    Pádraic Mac Mathúna’s Monthly Picks | July 2023

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    • 8

    Pádraic Mac Mathúna’s Monthly Picks | June 2023

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    • 15

    Anne Gannon Irish/Argentine Music Collection, 1950s

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    • 6

    Edward Bunting Digital Harp Collection: Laoise Kelly

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    • 16

    Denis Cox, Co Meath Singer, 1930s

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    • 6

    Edward Bunting Digital Harp Collection: Éilis Lavelle

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    • 13

    Barndance Selections from 78s, 1920s–1940s

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    • 18

    The ‘Holy Trinity’ of Sligo Fiddle Masters

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    • 19

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

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    • 33

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

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    • 12

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

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    • 27

    1916 and the Decade of Centenaries: A Soundscape

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    • 12

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

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    • 14

    ITMA Henebry Cylinder Recordings 1, 1905

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    • 21

    ITMA Henebry Cylinder Recordings 2, c. 1905

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    Shamrock, Rose & Thistle: Playlist

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    • 12

    Cylinder Sound Recordings Made at the Oireachtas, Dublin, 1907

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    • 10

    Live from Josephine Keegan CD Launch, May 2011

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    • 3

    Music Lectures by ITMA Chairmen, 1988–2002

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    • 12

    Dr O’Beirne’s Recordings Collection, 1960s

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    • 10

    Sean Maguire with the Four Star Quartet, 1962 LP

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    • 10

    ITMA Audio Field Recordings, 2013

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    • 12

    Medley of Musicians and Singers, 1950s

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    • 14

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

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    • 13

    Concert recordings from Rencontres Musicales Irlandaises de Tocane, 2010

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    • 16

    Hugh Shields’s French recordings from Tocane

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    • 6

    Edward Bunting Digital Harp Collection: Úna Ní Fhlannagáin

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    • 5

    Ceol Goodman le Peter Browne, 2009

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    • 14

    Newly Composed Tunes and Songs in the Irish Tradition

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    • 13

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

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    • 10

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

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    • 12

    Some Irish Harpers, 1988–2010

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    • 10

    Edward Bunting Digital Harp Collection: Dianne Marshall

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    • 10

    Edward Bunting Digital Harp Collection: Tríona Marshall

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    • 24

    The Irish Recordings of Jim Carroll & Pat Mackenzie

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    • 10

    Irish-American Acetate Discs, 1940–50s

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    • 22

    The Orange Standard: 78s by Richard Hayward

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    • 7

    Edward Bunting Digital Harp Collection: Claire O’Donnell

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    • 6

    Edward Bunting Digital Harp Collection: Mary Louise O’Donnell

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    • 6

    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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    • 16

    Singers & Ceili Bands on 1950s EPs

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    • 15

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

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    • 7

    Concertina Players in Co Clare, 2003–2009

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    • 12

    Cathal McConnell Tribute, 2009

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    • 6

    Edward Bunting Digital Harp Collection: Máire Ní Chathasaigh

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    • 9

    Flute Players at Gathering in West Cork, 2010

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    • 10

    Young Flute Players at Cruinniú na bhFliúit, 2013

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    • 15

    Vincent Campbell, Donegal Fiddle Player, 2010

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    • 6

    Singers in Inishowen, Co Donegal, 2009

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    • 11

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

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    • 9

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

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    • 14

    ‘Music Archive’ at the Frankie Kennedy Winter School, 2012–2013

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    • 10

    Frankie Kennedy Winter School Workshops, 2011–2012

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    Johnny Óg Connolly (Colm Ó Caodháin and Darach Ó Clochartaigh)

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    Paddy Glackin (Niallaí Ó Baoill and Hughie Bonar)

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    Dermot McLaughlin (Frank Cassidy and Niallaí Ó Baoill)

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    Caitríona Ní Cheannabháin (Seáinín Choilmín Mac Donncha and Vail Bheairtle Ó Donncha)

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    • 5
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    Neansaí Ní Choisdealbha (Maidhcil Mac Fhualáin and Pádraig Ó Ceannabháin)

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    Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill (Síle Ní Ghallchóir)

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    Bríd Ní Mhaoilchiaráin (Máire Nic Dhonncha and Meaigí Nic Dhonncha)

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    Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (Máire Ní Bheirn and Peadar Ó Beirn)

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    • 5
    • 4

    Brian Ó Domhnaill (Donncha Ó Baoill)

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    Éamon Ó Donnchadha (Seán Ó Gaora)

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    Lillis Ó Laoire (Donncha Ó Baoill)

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    • 55

    Songs of Social Life and Drinking

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    • 40

    Daddy’s baby boy ; and other songs

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    • 55

    Molly Bawn ; and other songs

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    • 46

    My parents reared me tenderly

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    • 37

    Songs in praise of people

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    • 38

    Songs in praise of place

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    • 8

    Songs of 1798

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    • 8

    Songs of emigration

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    • 70

    Songs of history and politics

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    • 87

    Songs of humour

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    • 75

    Songs of love and marraige

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    • 10

    Songs of murder

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    • 19

    Songs of the sea

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    • 27

    Songs of work

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    • 43

    The accident prone Mexican ; and other songs

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    • 77

    The flower of Dunaff Hill

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    • 42

    The Inishowen Singers ; and other songs

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    • 58

    The sailor and farmer’s daughter

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    • 72

    Two good men and true

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    • 123

    A selection of songs from An Góilín

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    • 52

    A selection of songs from the Inishowen Song Project

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    • 38

    Songs from Denis McDaid and Jimmy Houten

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    • 3

    Dermot McLaughlin (Frank Cassidy agus Niallaí Ó Baoill)

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    • 7
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    Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill (Síle Ní Ghallchóir)

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    Bríd Ní Mhaoilchiaráin (Máire Nic Dhonncha agus Meaigí Nic Dhonncha)

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    Brian Ó Domhnaill (Donncha Ó Baoill)

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