Music Network and the Irish Traditional Music Archive announce the 2020 Bunting Commission: Oblivion / Seachmalltacht / ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᐅᔪᓐᓃᖅᑐᑦ A multi-media work by Aideen Barry in collaboration with Inuit throat singer and electronic musician RIIT, with Irish harper Elaine Hogan and artist Margaret O'Connor.

Following the lamented cancellation of the 48th Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy, we are pleased to announce that ITMA and the Summer School are collaborating to share a series of recordings & events online.

ITMA is delighted to partner with RTÉ Culture to celebrate World Fiddle Day 2020.

The Board and Director of ITMA are delighted to announce the appointment of Iarfhlaith O'Donnell as the new Finance Manager at ITMA.

While the ITMA building remains closed to the public due to COVID-19, staff are continuing to work remotely and are happy to receive email queries.

ITMA Director Liam O'Connor has been spending some time in RTÉ this week recording for radio programmes Today with Sean O'Rourke and Liam Geraghty's The Business. 

Following an announcement from Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, this morning, 12 March 2020, the following measures will come into effect from 6pm today until 29th March: State-run "cultural institutions" will closeIndoor mass gatherings of more than 100 people and outdoor mass gatherings of more than 500 people should be cancelled

A new bilingual immersive theatre event from Branar on the journey of the Irish languate

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.