ITMA is delighted to announce that it has been awarded Community Heritage Grant Scheme 2021 funding from The Heritage Council of Ireland for its project “Positive Negatives: Unlocking the Image Collection of the Irish Traditional Music Archive.”

ITMA Premises will re-open to the Public on Monday 17 May 2021. Please note lunch opening/closing times.

The Irish Traditional Music Archive greatly regrets the recent death in Buxton, Derbyshire, of Seán Corcoran (1946–2021) who collected traditional music, song and dance extensively in the field for ITMA from 1994 to 2001. 

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. 

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

ITMA has been chosen by the NLI as a subject specialist to collaborate with them on curating a collection of websites relating to Irish traditional music, song and dance for the NLI Web Archive.

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 was 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.

ITMA 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.

Saothar: new compositions for 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.