Commercial Sound Recordings

Grace, Ailbe (accordion), Liam Flanagan (fiddle). Across The Glen. Grace & Flanagan, 2025. 1 CD

Hanley, Liz (singing in English). The ecstasy of St Cecilia. Liz Hanley, 2013. 1 CD + digital download

Harris, Hannah (fiddle, singing in English). At the Core. Hannah Harris, 2025. 1 CD + digital download

Lankum (instrumental music, singing in English). Lankum live in Dublin. Rough Trade Records, 2023. 1 Vinyl LP + digital download

The Lilies of the Midwest (concertina, mandolin, fiddle). Cats’ Céilí. The Lilies of the Midwest, 2025. Digital download

The Lilies of the Midwest (concertina, mandolin, fiddle). Flora. The Lilies of the Midwest, 2021. Digital download

Loughnane, Kathleen (harp). Patrick O’Neill’s Manuscripts.  Volume 2.  A second selection for Irish harp from the music manuscripts of Patrick O’Neill (1765–1832). Reiskmore Music, 2024. 1 CD

O’Brien, Ultan (fiddle). Dancing the Line. Nyahh Records, 2025. 1 CD + digital download + 1 LP

Thornburgh, Alannah (harp, fiddle). Shapeshifter. Alannah Thornburgh, 2025. 1 CD + digital download

Various (fiddle). A collection of slow airs by some very fine fiddlers. NYAHH Trad Series.  Volume 2. Nyahh Records, NYAHH 017, 2025. 1 CD + digital download

Printed Materials

Arkins, C. J. “At Casey’s Altar – exploring the life and music of Bobby Casey.” MRes Thesis, University College Cork, 2024. Online thesis.

Atkinson, David, and Steve Roud. Father Christmas and the deck of cards: further adventures in street literature. London: The Ballad Partners, 2024. ISBN 9781068640605 (pbk).

• Siobhán McElduff. “‘Like a countenance from Mars compounded’: From Goddess to God Routine in Nineteenth-Century Irish Broadsides”
• John Moulden. “John Sheil, Shayle the Poet, Little Sheil: Weaver, Political Firebrand, and Song-maker (c.1783–5 July 1872)”
• Catherine Ann Cullen. “‘The Raking Paud(h)een Rhu; or, A Tinker’s Travels’: James Kearney, from Tenement Tinsmith to Music Saloon Star”
• Martin Nail. ‘No Irish Need Apply’

Doherty, Liz. “Dinny McLaughlin (1935–2024): influential Donegal fiddle player and teacher.” Journal of music. Posted 21 January 2025. Online article.

Doyle, Helen. “Voices of the Feis Ceoil: an exploration of the association’s operational and choral networks, 1897–1932.” PhD thesis, Technological University Dublin, 2024. Online thesis.

Jones, Samantha. “Bad Infrastructure, good craic: affective transformation at Irish traditional music festivals in the Catskills.” Journal of the Society for American Music (2025). Online article.

Kearney, Daithí. ‘A cultural tug-of-war: exploring the early years of Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann’ Review of ‘Heading to the Fleadh: festival, cultural revival, and Irish traditional music 1951–1969′ by Méabh Ní Fhuartháin (Cork: Cork University Press, 2024). Journal of music. Posted 6 March 2025. Online article.

Quinn, Toner. Count me out: selected writings of filmmaker Bob Quinn. An Spidéal, Co Galway: Boluisce Press, 2025. 223 pp. ISBN 9781739577421 (hbk).

Ní Fhuartháin, Méabh. Heading to the Fleadh: festival, cultural revival and Irish traditional music, 1951-1969. Cork: Cork University Press, 2024. viii+262 pp. ISBN 9781782050131 (hbk).

Ó Laoire, Lillis. Review of ‘Heading to the Fleadh: festival, cultural revival, and Irish traditional music 1951–1969′ by Méabh Ní Fhuartháin (Cork: Cork University Press, 2024). Folk life: journal of ethnological studies (2025) Online article.

Sanger, Keith. “Da mihi manum; (Give me your hand) but whose hand was it?” Harp perspectives (February 2025). Online article.

Scahill, Adrian. ‘Imagining how music could be: the enduring influence of Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin’ Review of ‘Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin: a life in music’, edited by Helen Phelan, Marie McCarthy and Nicholas Carolan (Cork: Cork University Press, 2024). Journal of music. Posted 25 January 2025. Online article.

South Roscommon Singers Circle. In song and story: a collection of original songs, stories, parodies, poems and ballads…and sketches. [Roscommon]: South Roscommon Singers Circle, 2023. 80 pp. (pbk).

Uí Fhaoláin, Rachel. Glór Naomh Bríde. Clare: Fóghmhar, 2025. 58 pp. ISBN 9781786052575 (pbk). With accompanying playlist

Ward, Francis, and Patricia Shehan Campbell. “World music pedagogy in practice: part 1 – Learning Irish traditional music.” Journal of general music education (February 2025). Online article.

Acquisitions

Des Broderick Collection.  Photographs, recordings and articles relating to his father Vincent Broderick. Donated by Des Broderick

Joe Clancy Collection. 3 audio cassettes featuring Joe Clancy, Joe Cooley, and Des Mulkere recorded by Joe Clancy in his home, Co. Clare 1950s–1970s. Donated by Noel Clancy

Seán Corcoran Collection. 24 reel-to-reel tapes, 8 VHS tapes and 1 archival box of print materials, including photographs and manuscripts. Donated by Terry Corcoran

Sue Thompson Collection. 11 audio cassettes featuring field recordings of Willie Clancy, James Murray and Kevin Keegan, recorded by Sue Thompson and others in 1972 and 1973 during a trip to Ireland. Donated by Sue Thompson

Geraldine O’Shea-Ryan Collection. A typescript of Irish dancing memories from the Geraldine O’Shea Academy of Irish Dancing & the O’Shea-Ryan Academy of Irish Dancing. Donated by Geraldine’s son Paddy Ryan

With thanks

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: Johnny Óg Connolly, Declan Coyne, Catherine Ann Cullen, Steven de Paoire, Des Gallagher, Liz Hanley, Elaine Hogan, Tony Kearns, Aoife Kelly, Barry Kerr, Bonnie Milner, Terry Moylan, Rachel Uí Fhaoláin and Fintan Warfield.