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.   

The Irish Traditional Music Archive is delighted to have been chosen by the International Association of Music Libraries (UK & Ireland) as one of the 2014-15 winners of its prestigious Excellence Award for Music Libraries, recently presented at a ceremony in Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

Comhghairdeas ó Thaisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann do Mick O’Brien, Emer Mayock & Aoife Ní Bhriain as an nGradam Comharcheoil atá bronnta orthu ag Gradam Ceoil TG4 2014. 

7 January 2014 marked the centenary of the death of Patrick Weston Joyce (1827–1914), the Co Limerick educationalist, popular historian and writer on Irish placenames, and one of the great collectors of Irish traditional music.

As part of the Explore Your Archive campaign, ITMA invites you to discover some of the remarkable material in its collection.

ITMA Online Catalogue Reaches 900,000+ Content Items with the Addition of Non-Commercial Materials ITMA Interactive Music Scores Reach 3,000+ with the Addition of Historic Galway-Mayo Song Collection

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

BREITHLÁ SONA 60 DO GHAEL LINN Happy 60th Birthday to Gael Linn Tréaslaíonn Taisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann le Gael Linn a bunaíodh i 1953 agus atá 60 bliain ar an bhfód díreach inniu!

The Inishowen Song Project is an integrated microsite of some 2,000 connected items all related to the English-language song traditions of the Inishowen peninsula, Co Donegal. It is a collaborative project between the Inishowen Traditional Singers' Circle and the Irish Traditional Music Archive.

It has been the tradition in ITMA since 2008 to upload a new selection of digitised materials every two months. But now it is time for us to pause, as we prepare for the launch of the fourth ITMA website.This is an exciting and busy time for ITMA staff and we are really looking forward to sharing the new platform with you.