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.

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

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

ITMA will close to the public from 6 pm, Thursday, 12 March 2020 until further notice.

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.

Is méala mór do Thaisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann bás Phroinsias Uí Chonluain, iar-bhall de Bhord na Taisce, sa bhaile i gCluain Tarbh, Baile Átha Cliath, in aois 93. B’as an mBinn Bhorb, Co Thír Eoghain, é ó dhúchas. The Irish Traditional Music Archive greatly regrets the death of Proinsias Ó Conluain, a former member of the Board of the Archive, at his home in Clontarf, Dublin, at the age of 93. He was originally from Benburb, Co Tyrone. read more

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