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    News

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      Job Posting: Project Officer for the Christy Moore Collection at ITMA

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      ITMA Welcomes Intern Gwendoline Lemaitre

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      ITMA Chairperson Áine Hensey announced as 2025 Gradam Comaoine winner

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      Job Posting: Executive Assistant at ITMA

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      ITMA Closed Friday 24 January due to Storm Éowyn

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      A note from ITMA CEO Liam O’Connor: Reflecting on 2024 and looking ahead

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      October 2024 Drawing from the Well concert wrap up

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      ITMA hosts a suite of events for Heritage Week 2024

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      ITMA runs new Irish Music Tours as part of Turas Óir initiative

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      ITMA at SSWC 2024

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      ITMA Announces the Awarding of Heritage Council Funding for 2024

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      ITMA’s new TV series ‘Taoscadh ón Tobar’ to air on TG4 and TG4.ie starting Sunday 12 May

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      Sophie Ryan and Bridie Flaherty appointed as Administrative Assistant and Secretary at ITMA

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      Collectomania! Folk Song and Music Collectors and their Worlds

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      Drawing from the Well: Tommie Potts concert wrap-up

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      Brendan Gleeson’s Farewell to Hughes’s screening at the Light House and Pálás cinemas starting Saturday 2nd March

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      ‘Seán Keane: A Portrait of an Artist’ screened to sold-out crowd at the IFI

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      ITMA documentary ‘Brendan Gleeson’s Farewell to Hughes’s’ to screen at Dublin International Film Festival

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      A note from ITMA CEO Liam O’Connor – Reflecting on 2023 and Looking forward to 2024

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      Drawing from the Well Concert Tour wrap-up (videos included)

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      Sharing the Results of the Rights & Public Access Project

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      Sophie Ryan for Lá Na Cruite / Harp Day 2023

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      Corca Dhuibhne field recording project

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      The Cullen & O’Connell Collection of Irish Dance

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      ITMA receives new, state-of-the-art audio reel-to-reel machine

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      ITMA Launches Cullinane Archive Collection

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      ITMA Culture Night 2023 Recap

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      ITMA receives €1 million in funding for Shared Island Arts Investment project

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      ITMA and University Notre Dame Dublin Global Gateway partner for concert

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      ITMA at the Smithfield Fleadh 2023

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      Sophie Ryan, Rónán Galvin appointed as Rights and Clearance Officers

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      Interns Jack Kavanagh and Niamh Galligan finish their placement

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      Willie Clancy Week Wrap-up 2023

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      Iarlaith Mac Gabhann appointed as Audio Digitisation Assistant at ITMA

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      New documentary highlights ITMA’s Inishowen collection

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      Reflecting Migrations at National Concert Hall

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      Dr Áine Hensey succeeds Brian Montague as ITMA Chairperson

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      ITMA Partners with TU Dublin for the Irish-American Music Cultures Symposium

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      Lucie Laigle finishes her internship in the archive

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      ITMA Attends Digital Preservation Collation’s (DPC) Annual Members Unconference

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      Insights from the Gráinne Yeats Reel-to-Reel Collection

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      Seán Potts Reflects on Seán Keane

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      Ryan Molloy’s ITMA Residency at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris

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      Chapter Seven: Denis Murphy | Breathnach Materials. Miscellaneous

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      Chapter Six: Denis Murphy | Breathnach Materials. Hornpipes

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      Chapter Five: Denis Murphy | Breathnach Materials. Polkas

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      Foreword: Denis Murphy | Breathnach Materials

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      Chapter One: Denis Murphy | Breathnach Materials. CICD Cards and Tune Data

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      Chapter Two: Denis Murphy | Breathnach Materials. Reels

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      Chapter Four: Denis Murphy | Breathnach Materials. Slides

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      Chapter Three: Denis Murphy | Breathnach Materials. Jigs

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      VHS to DigiBeta: Preserving Ireland’s Intangible Cultural Heritage through Video Digitisation

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      Stories and songs of the road

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      The Moynihan Dance Manuscript

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      Charlie Lennon (1938-2024)

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    • Blog

      Episode 5 | Muireann Nic Ambhlaoibh

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      Episode 4 | Seán McElwain

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      Episode 3 | Doireann Ní Ghlacaín

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      Episode 2 | Iarla Ó Lionáird

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      Episode 1 | Andrea Palandri

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    • Blog

      Seán Chon Johnny Byrne (1948-2023): Music and Conversation

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      Two performers and a musicologist: our experience preserving Micho Russell’s music

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      The Two “Holy Grounds”! A Musical Enigma

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    • Blog

      Shamrock Rose & Thistle: The singers and their songs

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      Rights and Public Access at ITMA

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    • Blog

      ITMA Podcast: Seán Corcoran Field Recordings (1994-2001)

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      Rights & Audio Reels: Heritage Week 2023 at the Irish Traditional Music Archive

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      Séamus O’Mahony: A Hidden Gem in ITMA. Part 4 / “Caill-taisce’ sa Taisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann. Uimhir 4

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      Séamus O’Mahony: A Hidden Gem in ITMA. Part 3 / “Caill-taisce’ sa Taisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann. Uimhir 3

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      Séamus O’Mahony: A Hidden Gem in ITMA. Part 2 / “Caill-taisce’ sa Taisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann. Uimhir 2

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      Séamus O’Mahony: A Hidden Gem in ITMA / “Caill-taisce’ sa Taisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann

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      National Heritage Week 2022. Physical to Digital: A Complete Scanning Solution for ITMA

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      Aggie Whyte (1920–1979)

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      The Seller to the Fair

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      ITMA Pop‑up Archive at IWAMD, University of Limerick

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      Bright Young Things: Transition Year 2020 at ITMA

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      The Pennyburn Piper: the Tomás Ó Canainn Collection at ITMA

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      St. Patrick’s Day: the Tune

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      I gcuimhne ar Shéamus Mac Aonghusa | In memory of Séamus Ennis

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      A Saint Patrick’s Day 2020 Sampler

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      Poetry Day Ireland 2020: Mary O’Malley & Tommy Keane

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      The Stephen Grier Manuscripts

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      Finding a tune in a haystack: Preparing the Gradam Ceoil archival website

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      Duala: the making of a film

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      Ben Lennon (1928–2020) : The Grand Gentleman of Irish Traditional Music

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      Archiving in a Time of Covid

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      Andrea Palandri performs Pádraig O’Keeffe tunes for World Fiddle Day 2021

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      Mapping the tunes: A Journey through Placenames in Irish Music

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      Domhnall Ó Máirtín Collection at ITMA

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      The wire strung harp and the pedal harp / Emmanuel Rivera Angel

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      The Terry Rafferty Recording Collection

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      A Stone Upon a Stone

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      Robin Morton: an appreciation

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      Earliest Origins of the Piano Accordion in Irish traditional music / Sophie Cahalane

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      Paudie O’Connor & Family Popping-up for World Fiddle Day Scartaglin 2020

      Paudie O’Connor & Family Popping-up for World Fiddle Day Scartaglin 2020

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      Liam O’Flynn (1945–2018) : a tribute by Neil Martin

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      Michael Tubridy’s life in music and Irish traditional step dance

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      Leo Rowsome’s 1936 Uilleann Pipes Tutor now freely available online

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      Kathleen Harrington (1897–1984) #IWD2022

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      Getting to Know the Collector: Processing the Cullinane Archive Collection

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      The humours of cocoon: topical tunes to while away the quarantine with sanguinity

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      Emer Ní Scolaí, the harper bringing Grier to a new generation

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      Elizabeth (Bess) Cronin, ‘The Queen of Irish Song’

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      Eithne, ceoldráma

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      The Donegal Song Tradition: Delving Deeper

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      Derek Bell’s Receipt: Discovering the Composer behind the Mystic Harp

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      Examining the classical accomplishments of Chieftains’ harper Derek Bell

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      Deirdre McGrory, ITMA/University of Limerick Intern

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      Traditional Irish classical guitar?

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      A ‘Dark Man’ of Dublin Songs: Finding Joseph Sadler

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      Corca Dhuibhne, Co. Kerry: a musical armchair journey

      Corca Dhuibhne, Co. Kerry: a musical armchair journey

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      Ciarán O’Reilly (1938–2020)

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      Brendan McGlinchey (1940–2020): a Tribute

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      Brenda Castles: The Light Side of the Tune

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      Rehousing the Breandán Breathnach Reel‑to‑Reel Collection

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      From Berlin to Ballyliffin: a Journey in Song

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      Listening to Paddy Canny

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      Sidney Robertson Cowell records in the Aran Islands and Conamara, 1955‑56

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      Seán Fegan, 1938–2022

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      St Brigid’s Day / Lá Fhéile Bríde 2023

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      The bridal jig, port

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      The bridal jig

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      An cóta mór stróicthe, amhrán

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      An cóta mór stróicthe, song

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      Cailín deas crúite na mbó, amhrán

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      Cailín deas crúite na mbó, song

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      The angry peeler, port

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      The angry peeler, jig

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      Dónall Ó Dálaigh, amhrán

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      Dónall Ó Dálaigh, song

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      Castlefinn, ríl

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      Castlefinn, reel

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      The Curragh races, ríl

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      The Curragh races, reel

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      The blackbird among the berries, ríl

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      The blackbird among the berries, reel

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      The morning dew [Rí na bpíobairí], port

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      The morning dew [The king of the pipers], jig

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      The connaughtman’s rambles, port

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      The connaughtman’s rambles, jig

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    Events

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      Drawing from the Well in the National Concert Hall | 20th May 2025

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      Shared Island Flute Series

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      ITMA Culture Night 2024

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      Irish Music Tours at ITMA le Gaeilge

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      Heritage Week 2024

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      Drawing from the Well in the National Concert Hall | October 2024

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      Drawing from the Well Concert Tour 2024

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      Launch of Capturing O’Neill Website

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      Concert | Drawing from the Well: Tommie Potts

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      Book Launch: Sparks from the Flagstones by Edwina Guckian

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    Recent Publications & Acquisitions

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      Recent Publications & Acquisitions, March 2025

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      Recent Publications & Acquisitions, January 2025

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