The Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA) is committed to providing free, universal access to the rich cultural tradition of Irish music, song and dance. If you’re able, we’d love for you to consider a donation. Any level of support will help us preserve and grow this tradition for future generations.
Caden, Andrew (fiddle), Conor McDonagh (flute). Across the Atlantic; Irish music on fiddle and flute. Caden & McDonagh, 2025. 1 CD + digital download
Casey, Yvonne (fiddle). Soul of the Burren. Yvonne Casey, 2025. 1 CD
Ní Mhaoilchiaráin, Bríd (singing in Irish). Anáil an dúchais. Cló Iar-Chonnacht, 2025. 2 CDs
O’Connor, Liam (fiddle) & Cormac Begley (concertina). Into the loam. Liam O’Connor & Cormac Begley, 2025. 1 CD + digital download
O’Gorman, Bríd (flute). The idle road. Bríd O’Gorman, 2025. 1 CD + digital download
Ó Maonaigh, Ciarán (fiddle), Seán Óg Graham (accompaniment). Lost in the music = Caillte sa cheol. Ciarán Ó Maonaigh & Seán Óg Graham, 2025. 1 CD + digital download
Ó Meachair, Diarmuid (accordion), Brian McGrath (piano), Seosamh Ó Neachtain (dancing), and Becky Ní Éallaithe (dancing). ‘Beo i gConamara’ – live album. Diarmuid Ó Meachair, 2025. 1 CD + digital download
Various (instrumental music, singing in Irish). Teampall Geal na nDenise, ceol agus amhránaíocht ó Ghealtracht na nDéise. Doon Productions, 2024. 2 CDs
Various (instrumental, singing in Welsh). Can y Ffordd Euraidd/ = Songs of the Golden Road. Span Arts & Rowan O’Neill, 2021. 1 CD
Vesey, David (piano). Carolan reflections. David Vesey, 2024. 1 CD + digital download
Caden, Andrew. “The Mike McHale collection: musical and archival highlights.” Irish Traditional Music Archive. Posted July 2025. Blog post.
Devine, Francis. Review of ‘The complete poems of John De Jean Frazer – the workman poet from Birr, edited by Pádraig Turley, Terry Moylan and Laurel Grubh. (Tullamore: Esker Press, 2023). Béaloideas: the journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society 91 (2023): 184–91.
Dicken, Charles. “Irish street songs.” All the year round 3, no. 78 (1870): Online article.
Duggan, Bryan, and Norman M. Su. “TuneTracker: tensions in the surveillance of traditional music.” ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 21st – 25th 2014. Online paper.
Kearney, Dáithí. “Watch the feet: understanding Irish dance traditions as an embodied archive.” Irish University Review 55, no. 1 (2025): Online article.
Donald, Keith. Music & mayhem: passion, addiction and redemption in the golden age of Irish music. Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2025. 256 pp. ISBN 9781843519188.
Fallon, Jordan. “Archipelagic Ireland: the Pogues and Celtic errantry.” Irish University Review 55, no. 1 (Spring–Summer 2025): 187–99.
Kutaieva, Nadia. “Irish music and dance in tourism discourse: a corpus-based study of Irishisms.” Interdisciplinary British and American studies journal 2, no. 1 (2025): 19– 31. Online article.
Lonergan, Dymphna. Sounds Irish: the Irish language in Australia. Adelaide: Lythrum Press, 2004. 145 pp. ISBN 9781921013003 (pbk).
Milner-McLoone, Grainne. “Songs of the people, places, and spaces in between: reimagining the Sam Henry Collection and the shared cultural landscapes of Northern Ireland.” PhD thesis, Ulster University, 2025. Online thesis.
Mitchell-Ingoldsby, Mary. Léachta chomórtha an Riadaigh 31 = Ó Riada memorial lecture 31. Celebrating the centenary: one hundred years of Irish traditional music at University College Cork. Cork: University College Cork, 2023. 39 pp. (pbk).
Moylan, Terry. “The origins of “The Wexford Carol.”’ Béaloideas: the journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society 91 (2023): 111–38.
Ní Chonghaile, Deirdre. Léachta chomórtha an Riadaigh 32 = Ó Riada memorial lecture 32. From dámhscoil to digital: new frontiers for collections of Irish traditional music. Cork: University College Cork, 2024. 35 pp. (pbk).
Ní Shíocháin, Tríona. Léachta chomórtha an Riadaigh 33 = Ó Riada memorial lecture 33. Subjugated knowledges: a reconsideration of the anonymous woman’s voice in sean-nós song. Cork: University College Cork, 2025. 31 pp. (pbk).
O’Brien-Moran, Jimmy. Léachta chomórtha an Riadaigh 30 = Ó Riada memorial lecture 30. Collecting Irish music from a blind piper in the 1840s. Cork: University College Cork, 2023. 26 pp. (pbk).
Ó Catháin, Diarmaid. “Conchubhair Ó Cochláin (1840–1925) agus A. Martin Freeman i mBaile Bhuirne.” Béaloideas: the journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society 19 (2023): 59–87.
O’Connor, Anne. Review of ‘The otherworld: music & song from Irish tradition’ edited by Ríonach uí Ógáin and Tom Sherlock (Scríbhinní béaloideas / Folklore Studies 21. 2nd ed.) (Comhairle Bhéaloideas Éireann, University College Dublin, 2022). Béaloideas: the journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society 91 (2023): 179–84.
O’Connor, Mick. In safe hands: an illustrated history of Irish traditional music in Dublin (1893– 1970). Dublin: Mick O’Connor, 2025. xxiii+551 pp. ISBN 9781036918620 (hbk).
Ó Gealbháin, Ciarán. Léachta chomórtha an Riadaigh 28 = Ó Riada memorial lecture 28. ‘Like a mountain rising out of a cultural landscape’: Nioclás Tóibín (1928-1994) and the Deise song tradition. Cork: University College Cork, 2019. 22 pp. (pbk).
Ó Gealbháin, Ciarán. Review of ‘Séamas (“An Setter”) Ó Caoindealbháin: amhráin agus dánta,’ curtha in eagar ag Pádraig Ó Cearbhaill. (Coiscéim, BÁC, 2022). Béaloideas: the journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society 91 (2023): 175–79.
Quinn, Fr. John. “The story of ‘Greg’s pipes.’” Teathbha: journal of the County Longford Historical Society. V, no. 3 (2020): Online article.
Talty, Jack. Léachta chomórtha an Riadaigh 28 = Ó Riada memorial lecture 29. ‘The real thing?’ Cork: University College Cork, 2020. 19 pp. (pbk).
uí Ógáin, Ríonach. “In memoriam: Séamas Ó Beaglaoich.” Béaloideas: the journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society 91 (2023): 142–44.
Vallely, Fintan. Beating time: the story of the Irish bodhrán. Cork: Cork University Press, 2025. vi+349 pp. ISBN 9781782050469 (hbk).
Ward, Conor, et al. Shouldering the tradition: a tutor book of traditional tunes, song and dance with a special focus on the Leitrim tradition. Carrick-On-Shannon: Leitrim County Council, 2025. 208 pp. ISBN 9781068625428 (ring-bound).
Ted Finlay Collection: 6 acetate discs of Co. Wicklow fiddle player Ted Finlay, recorded in the mid 1940s onwards. Donated by Kay McNamara on behalf of Seán & Ann Byrne.
ITMA would also like to acknowledge donations of materials (CDs, printed items, visual items, etc.), and other help and information from the following people and organisations: Nicholas Carolan, Paul Clesham, Steven de Paoire, Des Gallagher, Róisín McGrory, Mary Mitchell-Ingoldsby, Fr. John Quinn, Conor Ward and Urszula Waszkiewicz.
