ITMA Director Grace Toland will be returning to her native Donegal on 8 June 2018 to present at the Donegal Diaspora International Conference 2018. She will join a range of national and international speakers invited to present on the theme of 'Culture and the Importance of Belonging to Place.' 

It's been a busy month for post-doctoral fellow, Lynnsey Weissenberger. She's once again heading off to represent ITMA at CONUL — the Consortium of National and University Libraries — in Galway. Her presentation will explore future applications of linked data and the LITMUS project for ITMA.

The May edition of 'Soul Clap Its Hands and Sing' is just around the corner. This month, poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa and composer Linda Buckley are exploring themes of fire and ignition, and finding out what sparks in the space between words and music. Witness the possibilities at 11 Parnell Square East, Dublin 1 on Thursday, 24 May 2018 at 7pm.  

Due to an urgent maintenance issue, ITMA will close for the remainder of Saturday, 19 May 2018. ITMA regrets any inconvenience.

The 2016 Christmas Day Episode of Pantisocracy a winner in the best Radio Magazine Show category at this year's Celtic Media Festival. The staff at ITMA congratulate Director Grace Toland for her role in this production.

ITMA congratulates Lynnsey Weissenberger on the publication of her article, 'Epistemology beyond the brain' in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), a leading journal in the field of information science.

New opportunity for traditional musicians. The Arts Offices of Cork County Council, Kerry County Council, and Limerick City and County Council invite applications for the position of Sliabh Luachra Musician In Residence.  

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow Lynnsey Weissenberger will be representing ITMA at EuropeanaTech 2018. This gathering of researchers, academics, and other industry professionals is an opportunity to share and discuss LITMUS (Linked Irish Traditional Music), ITMA's pioneering project in linked data.

In 2014, ITMA partnered with Europeana Sounds. As part of a €6.14-million project that ran over three years, libraries and archives from all over Europe worked together to make more than 1,000,000 sound records and sound-related objects freely available online. Some of the recordings that ITMA provided are now appearing in blogs associated with that project.

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

ITMA is closed on Good Friday (March 30) and Easter Monday (April 2).

The Irish Traditional Music Archive greatly regrets the recent deaths of three of its former board members: Finbar Boyle, Garech Browne, and Liam O’Flynn. All three made important and enduring contributions to Irish traditional music, contributions of different kinds. The board and staff of ITMA extend their sympathies to the families, friends, and colleagues of each.