Dublin City Libraries (DCL), and the Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA) are delighted to announce a series of individual live interviews and Q&A sessions with ‘Drawing from the Well’ Artists Daoirí Farrell, Steve Cooney, and Aoife Ní Bhriain. Hosted by Liam O’Connor Director of ITMA, and David O’Brien Librarian DCL, members of the public are invited to meet and chat with the artists about their work.

A new position of Digital Archivist will arise in May 2021 at the Irish Traditional Music Archive/Taisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann.

Did you know that the National Library of Ireland is actively creating an Irish web archive?

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

The Irish Traditional Music Archive greatly regrets the recent death of Joe Burke of Kilnadeema, Loughrea, Co Galway. We would like to express our deepest sympathies to Anne Conroy Burke, Joe's wife and musical partner.

ITMA were delighted to be successful in obtaining additional funding for the Drawing from the Well series from Bank of Ireland, in partnership with Business to Arts.

The Irish Traditional Music Archive is teaming up with Ward Irish Music Archives in Milwaukee, Scott Spencer in the University of Southern California and other leading academics in an exciting new project to gather together online, signed dedication pages of books by Capt. Francis O'Neill. Read on to find out how you can help with this project.

Michael Coleman was born on the 31 January, 130 years ago. It is with immense good fortune that ITMA can share news that we are currently in the process of preparing four previously unheard tracks of Michael Coleman for public access.

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

This month sees the start of a new intiative by ITMA, showcasing the work of composers within the tradition.

Aggie Whyte (1920-1979) was an accomplished and highly regarded traditional Irish fiddle player, who hailed from Ballinakill, Co. Galway. Her grandson, fiddle-player Michael Harrison has compiled and now released a new double album and 16 page booklet celebrating the life and music of this iconic player.

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.