ITMA Director Liam O'Connor highlights the range of services available to the traditional music community during the COVID-19 closure and takes you behind the scenes to meet staff working remotely.

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

*APPLICATIONS HAVE NOW CLOSED*                                       A new position of Finance Manager will arise in April/May 2020 at the Irish Traditional Music Archive/Taisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann.

RTÉ Presenter Aoife Nic Cormaic has been in touch with some timely news - that selected episodes from the ever-popular Sunday night radio show are now available as an Apple Podcast series. 

ITMA Director Liam O'Connor has been spending some time in RTÉ this week recording for radio programmes Today with Sean O'Rourke and Liam Geraghty's The Business.  Maeve Gebruers and Alan Woods join Aoife Nic Cormaic on the Rolling Wave, Sunday night.

ITMA will close to the public from 6 pm, Thursday, 12 March 2020 until further notice.

ITMA will close to the public from 6 pm, Thursday, 12 March 2020 until further notice.

ITMA is delighted to have shared sound recordings from its collections for Branar's new bilingual immersive theatre event Sruth na Teanga. 

One year on and the DAP Project is coming to a close. Over the past twelve months ITMA has successfully digitised over 2,400 carriers resulting in over 24,000 media files and approximately 24 terabytes of data. This means we will soon have over 2,050 searchable digital items listed and described to international archival standard (ISADg) available through our new AtoM interface, which we look forward to sharing with you in the future.

Is méala mór do Thaisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann a chloisint go bhfuair Breandán Ó Madagáin, Ollamh Emeritus le Gaeilge in Ollscoil Éireann Gaillimh agus iar-bhall de Bhord na Taisce, bás le déanaí. Bhí cónaí air i gCill Cholgáin i gCo. na Gaillimhe agus bhí sé breoite le tamall. D’fhreastail sé ar bhord bunaigh na Taisce ó 1987 go 1990, agus b’eisean a chuir Gaeilge ar ainm na Taisce.

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

CONCERTS CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19.               The Irish Traditional Music Archive in association with the National Concert Hall and supported by the Arts Council, announce details of a series of three concerts to be held this spring to celebrate the launch of ITMA’s Liam O’Flynn Collection.