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ITMA would like to thank Lucie Laigle for her contributions to the archive during her internship, which ended this month.
Lucie, a terrific hurdy gurdy player from France, spent much of her time in the Archive helping with the operations of the ITMA shop. Along with this, Lucie was trained in the use of ITMA’s new state-of-the-art specialised large format archival scanning system. She worked on the scanning of music and song manuscript materials from the Nellie Walsh Collection; a collection of manuscripts, sheet music, books and correspondence of the Wexford singer and song columnist of Ireland’s Own, which was bequeathed to ITMA by Nellie Walsh in 1998.
To celebrate Lucie’s internship, we held a session in the ITMA library to send her off. Here’s a tune Lucie shared with us on her hurdy gurdy.
ITMA is extremely grateful to the Heritage Council who provided funding for the purchase of the new scanning system in 2022 as part of the Community Heritage Fund.
