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

A selection of beautiful individual music and song related publications for friends and family, at home and abroad. 

A monthly video snapshot of interviews, performances and events recorded by ITMA, curated by ITMA Field Recording Officer Brian Doyle.

ITMA's latest online exhibition Dusty Bluebells was launched on the 17 October 2019 in Holy Cross School, Dundrum, Dublin. 

We shared the story of strange names in our catalogues and mystery Spanish dancers at the 2008 Willie Clancy Summer School online and on facebook in September 2019. Our intrepid facebook followers have brought clues to help unravel the mystery ...

The Irish Traditional Music Archive greatly regrets the recent death in Belfast of Ciaran Carson, a founding Board member of the Archive in 1987, at the age of 70.

As part of the DAP Project, ITMA is creating authority records for the performers and contributors who feature in the non-commercial sound and video collections. Fionnuala Parfrey shares some interesting behind-the-scenes observations.

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

Is mór an onóir dom a bheith ag tosú mar Stiúrthóir sa Taisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann. Thosaigh mé i mbun oibre leis an bhfoireann anseo ar an Luan seo caite. To serve the public as Director of the Irish Traditional Music Archive is a huge honour and privilege for me. 

Earlier in the Summer, a blog* by Project Archivist Fionnuala Parfrey took us behind the scenes as ITMA embarked on a major Digital Audio/visual Preservation Project – DAP.  Fionnuala continues the story.

At the ITMA AGM held on 9 July 2019 in Co. Clare, the Board of ITMA and Director Grace Toland launched a new Strategic Plan for the organisation. 

Stephen Grier (c.1824–1894), a native of north Longford, moved to Newpark, Bohey, Gortletteragh, in south Leitrim in 1852. An uilleann piper and fiddle player, he compiled a collection of over 1,000 melodies, transcribed mainly in the 1880s.