Listings of the latest publications and items of interest received in the ITMA collection in the last two months.

Some beautiful individual music and song related publications for friends and family home and abroad. 

Beginning this month October 2019, Brian Doyle, ITMA Field Recording Officer will present a monthly video snapshot of interviews, performances and events recorded by ITMA. 

ITMA's latest online exhibition Dusty Bluebells was launched on the 17 October 2019 in Holy Cross School, Dundrum, Dublin. It caught the imagination of a number of media outlet and news about the launch and exhibition featured on a number of programmes.  

As part of the DAP Project, ITMA is creating authority records for the performers and contributors who feature in the non-commercial sound and video collections. Fionnuala Parfrey shares some interesting behind-the-scenes observations.

Is méala mór do Thaisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann gur cailleadh le déanaí Liam Mac an Iomaire (1937–2019), iar-bhall de Bhord na Taisce, ar an gCarraig Dhubh, Co. Bhaile Átha Cliath, in aois a 81.

As part of the DAP Project, ITMA is creating authority records for the performers and contributors who feature in the non-commercial sound and video collections. Fionnuala Parfrey shares some interesting behind-the-scenes observations.

Listings of the latest publications and items of interest received in the ITMA collection in the last two months.

Earlier in the Summer, a blog by Project Archivist Fionnuala Parfrey took us behind the scenes as ITMA embarked on a major Digital Audio/visual Preservation Project – DAP.  Fionnuala continues the story.

At the ITMA AGM held on 9 

Stephen Grier (c.1824–1894), a native of north Longford, moved to Newpark, Bohey, Gortletteragh, in south Leitrim in 1852. An uilleann piper and fiddle player, he compiled a collection of over 1,000 melodies, transcribed mainly in the 1880s.