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.
Arkins, Eimear (fiddle, singing in English & Irish). Here & there. Eimear Arkins, 2024. 1 CD + digital download
Barry, Leonard (uilleann pipes). Littoral. Leonard Barry, 2024. 1 CD + digital download
Buckley, Kevin (fiddle). Big spring. Kevin Buckley, 2022. 1 CD
Hogan, Amelia. (singing in English & Scots Gaelic). Taking flight. Amelia Hogan, 2022. 1 CD + digital download
Joyce, Sandra (singing in English). Since you & I have been. Sandra Joyce SJCD01, 2023. 1 CD + digital download
Kennedy, John (singing in English). By the Banks of the Maine. We come from the County of Antrim. Vol. 1. Lawrence H. Holden Archive Field Recordings from Antrim. Ulster Historical Foundation LHCA 001, 2012. 1 CD
Notify (instrumental group, singing in Irish). Airneán. Liosbeg Records, 2024. 1 CD + 1 Vinyl + digital download
Ó Dochartaigh, Seoirse (guitar). Sheet may safely graze. Errigal SCD 018, 2009. 1 CD
O’Dowd, Séamie (fiddle). Further down the line. Séamie O’Dowd, 2023. 1 CD
Zielinski, Robert (fiddle). The day dawn. Robert Zielinski, 2024. 1 CD + digital download
Bateson, Catherine V. Irish American Civil War songs: identity, loyalty, and nationhood. [S.l.]: Louisiana State University Press, 2021. 318 pp. ISBN 9780807177938 (hbk).
Bergin, Mary. Irish tin whistle tutorial. Volume III. Advanced to professional level. [S.l.]: [s.n.], 2023. xiv + 214 pp. ISBN 9780956299130 (pbk + 1 CD).
Commins, Adèle. “Take her out and air her’: Irish dances as arranged by Stanford and Grainger.” Musicology Australia, 45, no. 1 (2023) 22–52.
Falc’her-Poyroux, Erick. A brief history of Irish traditional music: from the Dagda to DADGAD. [S.l.]: Amergin Books, 2024. 528 pp. ISBN 9798871137970 (pbk).
Gebruers, Adrian. “The two “Holy Grounds”! A musical enigma.” Irish Traditional Music Archive. Posted February 2024. Blog post.
Kearney, Daithí, and Adèle Commins. “Much more than ‘Danny Boy’: bringing Irish traditional music to the USA.” Ethnomusicology forum 32, no. 2, (2023): 251– 267.
Keegan, Niall, and Avril McLoughlin, eds. The dance music of Eamon Flynn. [S.l.]: Garraun Press, 2024.vii+ 77 pp. ISBN 9781911620693 (ring-bound).
Kennedy, Conan. The roundabout of Longford County: a journey. Mayo: Morrigan Books, 2024. 31 pp. ISBN 978907677574 (pbk).
McCracken, Stephen. “Denis Hempson ‘the Blind Harper of Magilligan’ 1695 – 1807.” Harp Perspectives (March 2024). Online article.
Nic Chárthaigh, Deirdre. “Athraigh gléas, a Ghiolla Íosa: dán ar dhroch-chláirseoir.” Ériu LXXIII (2023): 29–41.
Ní Fhuartháin, Méabh. “Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann: shaping tradition, 1951–1970.” PhD thesis. National University of Ireland, Galway, 2011.
Power, Joe. Honey talk before strangers. [S.l.]:[s.n.], 2023. xiv+286 pp. ISBN 978180352747 (pbk + 2 CDs).
Riley, Holly. “Negotiating genre, style, and contemporality in an intergenerational Irish music ensemble.” IASPM Journal 14, no.1 (2024). Online article.
Scully, Paudy. The turbulent times and travels of Peter MacAuliffe: a tale. [S.l.]:[s.n.], 2009. 108 pp. (pbk).
Sheehan, Jack. “The Echo of a Thompson gun: folk music and left politics in Ireland and the United States of America, 1951–1973.” PhD thesis, Trinity College Dublin, 2024. Online thesis.
Thompson, Ciara. ‘Finding happiness in Irish lullabies, 1860–1910,’ In Happiness in nineteenth-century Ireland, ed. Mary Hatfield, 159–79. [Liverpool]: Liverpool University Press, 2021. ISBN 9781800348257 (pbk).
Cen Breathnach Collection. 7 reel-to-reel tapes recorded by Cen Breathnach in An Rinn, Co. Waterford, 1963/1964 featuring Nioclás Tóibín. Donated by Kathleen Breathnach per Séamus Doyle
Michael McQuaid Collection. 69 sound cassette recordings made by Mick McQuaid in New York City, 1980s. Recordings document concerts in the Eagle Tavern, as well as at a variety of other venues. A small amount of ephemera consisting of promotional materials for concerts, including handbills, posters, and postcards. Donated by Michael McQuaid
Pat Campbell Collection. 23 reel-to-reels and 1 disc. Personal recordings of a variety of artists including Seán Maguire. Some recordings may have been preparatory work for commercial release on Silver Hill Records, 1970s. Donated by Pat Campbell
1 sound cassette. Interview by Brian O’Shea with Johnny Connolly Sr. in Waterford IT, 1996. Donated by Brian O’Shea
Tommie Potts Collection. Collection of original & photocopied music manuscripts, set lists, correspondence, and songs dating primarily from the mid-1980s. The majority of the material is in Tommie Potts’ hand, but also includes correspondence from Míchéal Ó Súilleabháin and Paddy Dooley of The Welsh School of Violin-making. Donated by James & Helen Furey
Tomás Ó Canainn Collection. Further transfer of multimedia collection belonging to the uilleann piper Tomás Ó Canainn. Donated by the Ó Canainn Family.
Padraig Noone Collection. A substantial collection of VHS tapes & sound cassettes which includes recordings made at the O’Carolan Harp Festival, Keadue, Co. Roscommon. The collection features video recordings of ‘door dancing’ events & also features recordings of musicians such as Josie McDermott, Packie Duignan and Seamus Tansey. Donated by Padraig Noone.
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: Mary Bergin, Harry Bradshaw, Nicholas Carolan, Las Fallon, Helen Furey, Amelia Hogan, Niall Keegan & Sandra Joyce, Conan Kennedy, Caoimhin Mac Aoidh, John Moulden, Terry Moylan, Joe Power and Robert Zielinski.
