The Irish Traditional Music Archive is delighted to have been chosen by the International Association of Music Libraries (UK & Ireland) as one of the 2016 winners of its prestigious Excellence Award for Music Libraries, recently presented at a ceremony held in Chancellor’s Hotel, Manchester.

For Advent, staff at the Irish Traditional Music Archive present some of their highlights from the year that was 2015.

The Irish Traditional Music Archive wishes to recruit an enthusiastic individual interested in archiving Irish traditional music commercial sound recordings for a fixed-term, two-year contract, September 2015–August 2017

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Tá an-áthas ar fhoireann, ar Bhord, agus ar iliomad cairde Thaisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann an dea-scéal a fháil le déanaí go bhfuil ceann de Ghradaim Cheoil mór-le-rá TG4 don bhliain 2015 le bronnadh ar an Taisce an mhí seo.

PRESS RELEASE 22 JANUARY 2015: IMMEDIATE Irish Traditional Music Archive Appoints Successor to Nicholas Carolan The Board of the Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA) is delighted to announce the appointment of Grace Toland as the next Director of ITMA.

GÓILÍN SONG PROJECT A New ITMA Microsite 700+ Songs from 200+ Singers

An exhibition in the Irish Traditional Music Archive of music manuscripts dating from the 19th and 20th centuries, with online computer-mounted scans and interactive music scores, 25-30 August 2014, 2.00 to 4.30 pm

The longest-running ever television series on Irish traditional music will come to the end of a 20-year run on 9 September 2014 when the final programme in the current series of Siar an Bóthar will be shown on TG4 (with continuing availability for some weeks on the TG4 Player).

One of the longest-running of the festivals of Irish traditional music which take place outside Ireland is Rencontres Musicales Irlandaises de Tocane, held annually in July in the rural town of Tocane St Apre, near Bordeaux, in scenic and sunny south-west France.

Rencontres Musicales Irlandaise de Tocane est un des festivals de la musique traditionnelle de l’Irlande etabli à l’étranger depuis longtemps.  Cette année, comme tous les ans il aura lieu dans la ville rurale de Tocane St-Apre près de Bordeaux dans la région pittoresque et ensoleillée du sud-oeust de la France.

The Irish Traditional Music Archive is delighted to have become this year a partner in Europeana Sounds, a project of a Europe-wide consortium of libraries and archives which will make over 1,000,000 sound recordings and sound-related objects of European heritage freely available online. The recordings will range from classical and traditional music to environmental sounds and oral histories. This €6.14-million project will run for three years, 2014–2016. It is co-funded by the European Commission and co-ordinated by the British Library.