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.
Casey, Valerie (singing in English & Irish, fiddle). In the silence of the twilight. [Valerie Casey], 2023. 1 CD + digital download
Conway, Zoë (fiddle), Dónal Lunny , Michelle Mulcahy (harp), Louise Mulcahy (uilleann pipes), Paddy Glackin (fiddle), Máirtín O’Connor (accordion), Mick O’Brien (uilleann pipes). Terry Riley’s In C Irish. Louth Contemporary Music Society, 2023. Digital download
The Dublin Trio (instrumental group). The pride of Pimlico. [The Dublin Trio], 2023. Digital download
Garadice (instrumental group, singing in English). Sanctuary. Garadice Music GA 2023, 2023. 1 CD + digital download
James, Jake (fiddle) & Brenda Dowling (flute, singing in English). In reel time. [James & Dowling], 2023. 1 CD + digital download
McCarthy, Johnny (fiddle, flute, singing in English) & Eoin Ó Riabhaigh (uilleann pipes). Under the stairs. McCarthy & Ó Riabhaigh JMCCEORCD1, 2023. 1 CD
Na Cailligh (instrumental group, singing in English). Leonard Ford & Na Cailligh. [Na Cailligh], 2023 Digital download
Ní Bhrollaigh, Nodlaig (singing in Irish & English, harp). Cuimhní Rúnda. Hidden Memories. [Nodlaig Ní Bhrollaigh], 2023. Digital download
O’Dowd, Joe (fiddle). From Knocknaskeagh to Sligo. [Seamie O’Dowd], 2022. 1 CD
O’Kane, Damien (singing in English, banjo). Summer Hill. [Damien O’Kane], 2023. digital download
Réalta (instrumental group). Thing of the earth. Réalta Music, 2023. Digital download
Ryan, Fiona (singing in English). Dreaming my dreams. [Fiona Ryan] FR 001, 2023. 1 CD + digital download
Stewart, Rosie (singing in English). Rosy drops of dew. [Rosie Stewart], 2023. 1 CD reissue
Tulua (instrumental group, singing in English & Irish). No coming no going. Tulua Music, 2023. Digital download
Uisce Dearg (singing in English). Thrawll. [Uisce Dearg], 2023. Digital download
Accardi, Dan. “Turning paper into sound: the O’Keeffe manuscripts.” Fiddler magazine, 32, no. 3 (2023). 40–41.
Carolan, Nicholas. “Traditional music in county Louth” In Louth history and society: interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county, ed. William Nolan, 655–671. Dublin: Geography Publications, 2023. ISBN: 9780906602867 (pbk).
De Gallaí, Breandán. “Performed identity: a case study in Irish dance” In The Routledge companion to the anthropology of performance, ed. Lauren Miller and David Syring. New York: Routledge, 2023. Online book.
Dibble, Jeremy. Charles Villiers Stanford: man and musician. [S.l.]: Boydell and Brewer, 2024. 704 pp. ISBN 9781805432449.
Duffy, Philip. On the night: Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann – musicians and senior ceilí band winners. Sligo: Philip Duffy, 2023. xv+977 pp. ISBN 9781399957113 (hbk + 2 CDs).
Emoghene, Sinclair Ogaga, and Kathleen A. Spanos. Dancing in the world: revealing cultural confluences. London and New York: Routledge, 2024. ix + 139 pp. ISBN 9781032138114 (hbk).
Holt, Kathryn. “Dancing enriched whiteness: race and gender in commercial Irish dance performance from Riverdance to the Trump inaugural ball.” Irish Studies Review 31, no. 4 (2023). Online article.
Kelly, Mary C. Review of The Beat Cop: Chicago’s Chief O’Neill and the creation of Irish music, by Michael O’Malley (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022). Journal of Social History (7 November 2023). Online article.
Mac Aoidh, Caoimhín. “The hidden note: a hare raising reel.” Fiddler magazine 32, no. 3 (2023). 28–29.
McIntyre, Noel. RíRá Mullingar, a Fleadh Cheoil chronicle. [S.l.]: [Noel McIntyre], 2023. 136 pp. ISBN 9781399965774 (hbk).
Mollenhauer, Jeanette. “Catholicism, cultural nationalism and traditional dance in the Irish and Croatian communities in Australia.” Culture and Religion (13 November 2023). Online article.
Morrissey, James. Real to Reel: Garech Browne & Claddagh Records. Dublin: Claddagh records, 2023. [220] pp. ISBN 9781911711001 (hbk + 1 LP).
Ní Shíocháin, Tríona. Review of The Forde collection: Irish traditional music from the William Forde manuscripts, edited by Nicholas Carolan and Caitlín Uí Éigeartaigh (Dublin: Irish Traditional Music Archive, 2021). Studia Hibernica 49 (2023): 187–191.
Purcell, Sandie. New songs from old stories: two piping pieces and fourteen airs in traditional styles. Dublin: Craft Recordings, 2023. viii + 67 pp. ISBN 9780955311222 (pbk + 1 CD).
Scahill, Adrian. “A tribute to a transformative artist.” [Review of Tommy Peoples Concert, National Concert Hall]. Journal of music (2 November 2023). Online article.
Sutcliffe, David. Cecil Sharp and the quest for folk song and dance: a new biography. London: The Ballad Partners, 2023. xiii+497 pp. ISBN 9781916142473 (pbk).
First minute book of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann (CCÉ) Co. Sligo Executive Committee and the Ballymote CCÉ Branch, 1956–1966. Donated by Muireann Banks, granddaughter of original owner Alphie Banks (1924–2017).
Helen Brennan Collection. 18 VHS recordings & three 8mm films depicting traditional Irish dance recorded in various locations in Ireland, 1976–1992. Donated by Helen Brennan
1 CDR recording of an interview and recital with Eamon Flynn from the Patrick O’Keefe Music Festival, Castleisland, Co. Kerry, 2023. Donated by Aidan Connolly.
Tommie Cullen & Maurice O’Connell Collection of Irish Dance. Photographs, concert and festival programmes, posters, newspaper clippings and artefacts relating to Irish dance in Cork and London at the beginning of the 20th century. Donated by Patrick & Maurice O’Connell per Dr John Cullinane.
James Fraher Collection. 3 boxes containing DAT tapes, cassettes, MiniDV tapes, and CDs featuring Kevin Henry, Liz Carroll, Joanie Madden, and others. The collection also includes photographs, original poems, ephemera, newspaper clippings, promotional materials and correspondence, 1980s–2000s. Donated by James Fraher.
David Hammond Collection. 7 boxes of reel-to-reel tape recordings made by David Hammond primarily between 1980–1990. Musicians and singers featured on the recordings include Vincent Campbell, Sarah Makem, Joe Holmes, as well as recordings made in West Donegal. Donated by Catherine Gifford & Conor Hammond.
“The piper and the horseman” an etching of uilleann piper Liam O’Flynn by David Rooney, commissioned by Christy & Valerie Moore, 2023. Donated by Christy & Valerie Moore.
Ann O’Donnell Collection. 3 reel-to-reel tape recordings made by Sister Angela Ryan of the St Joseph’s Céilí Band, Convent of Mercy, Longford and off-air dubs of broadcasts on Radio Éireann, 1960–1968. Donated by Ann O’Donnell.
Pádraig O’Keeffe music manuscript page written in O’Keeffe’s tablature system, 18 January 1950. Donated by Denis & Con Curtin.
Mary O’Riordan Collection. Digital copies of Pádraig O’Keeffe & Tom Billy Murphy music manuscripts, 1950–1959. Loaned for copying by Colin Kadis, grandson of Mary O’Riordan.
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: Jim Coen, Reg Hall, Nuala Kennedy, Terry Moylan, Páraic Ó Ceannabháin, Néillidh Ó Maolagáin, Steve Roud, Helena Rowsome and Vincent Woods.
