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.
Hanley, Gerry (accordion), Carl Hession (piano), Máirín Fahy (fiddle) and Eimear Coughlan (harp). In the middle of it. Gerry Hanley, 2025. 1 CD.
Keenan, Paddy (pipes), The Pavees (instrumental music), and Liam Weldon (singing in English). Shelta – Paddy Keenan, The Pavees, and Liam Weldon. Ossian USA. 2025. 1 LP.
McCarthy, Thomas (singing in English). Comfort. Thomas McCarthy, 2025. 1 CD + digital download.
Ní Bhriain, Aoife (fiddle) & Cormac McCarthy (piano). Cosán Casta. Aoife Ní Bhriain & Cormac McCarthy, 2025. 1 CD + digital download.
Sionna (instrumental music, singing in English). Mischievous eyes. Sionna, 2025. Digital download.
UCD Traditional Music Practices (instrumental music). Seven springs. UCD, Creative Futures Academy, 2025. 1 CD.
Amerotti, Marco, Steve Benford, Bob L. T. Sturm, and Craig Vear. ‘A live performance rule system informed by Irish traditional dance music,’ 127–139. In Music and Sound Generation in the AI Era. CMMR 2023. ed. Ystad, S., Kronland-Martinet, R., Kitahara, T., Hirata, K., Aramaki, M.
(Cham.: Springer, 2026). Online chapter.
Crossey , Aidan. The alphabet project. [S.l.]: Aidan Crossey, 2025. e-Book.
Crossey , Aidan. The Irish mandolin tunebook. Volume 1. [S.l.]: Aidan Crossey, 2021. e-Book.
Crossey , Aidan. The Irish mandolin tunebook. Volume 2 [S.l.]: Aidan Crossey, 2021. e-Book.
Crossey , Aidan. The Irish mandolin tunebook. Volume 3 [S.l.]: Aidan Crossey, 2021. e-Book.
Crossey , Aidan. The Irish mandolin tunebook. Volume 4. [S.l.]: Aidan Crossey, 2022. e-Book.
Crossey , Aidan. The Irish mandolin tunebook. Volume 5. [S.l.]: Aidan Crossey, 2022. e-Book.
Crossey , Aidan. The Irish mandolin tunebook. Volume 6. [S.l.]: Aidan Crossey, 2022. e-Book.
Culhane, Gerald. The iron bridge: a collection of new Irish tunes. Co. Kerry: Gerald Culhane, 2025. 83 pp. ISBN 9781806051113 (ring-bound).
Hughes, Joanne. “Bagpuss of Cashel: the tale of a musical cat.” Tipperary historical journal (2011): 7–15.
Logue, Cáit. “Heroes and highwaymen: some historical references in the school folklore project, 1938.” Tipperary historical journal (2012): 154–163.
MacCartaigh, Pádraig. Seoda na sean: Irish songs 1650-1850 from Carberry, Muskerry and across South Munster. Co. Chiarraí: Dingle Publishing, 2025. 193 pp.
ISBN 9781739781378 (hbk + 2 CDs).
McGettrick, Michael, and Paul McGettrick. “The Kolmogorov complexity of traditional Irish dance music.” Computer music journal (2025): Online article.
Meehan, Paula. As if by magic: selected poems. Dublin: Dedalus Press, 2020. 288 pp. ISBN 9781910251775 (pbk).
Navarro-Cáceres, Juan José, Nádia Carvalho, Gilberto Bernardes, Diego M. Jiménez-Bravo, and María Navarro-Cáceres. ‘Exploring mode identification in Irish folk music with unsupervised machine learning and template-based techniques.’ In Mathematics and computation in music. MCM 2024. ed. T. Noll, M. Montiel, F. Gómez, O.C. Hamido, J.L. Besada, J.O. Martins (Cham.: Springer, 2024). Online chapter.
Ní Bhriain, Aoife. The unbroken music of heaven: the music of Tommie Potts. Dublin: Irish Traditional Music Archive = Taisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann, 2025. xiv + 101 pp.
ISBN 9781068283796 (pbk).
O’Brien, Paddy. The Paddy O’Brien tune collection: a personal treasury of Irish traditional music. Volume 2. [United States of America]: Paddy O’Brien, 2011. 126 pp.
(ring-bound).
O’Brien, Paul. Songs from North Lotts. [Dublin]: Paul O’Brien, 2009. 131 pp. ISBN 97809956393302 (pbk).
Ó Casaide, Odhrán. “The interface between traditional music and art music in Ireland: a multimodal arts practice research study.” PhD thesis, Dublin City University, 2025. Online thesis.
Ó Crualaoich, Conchubhar, and Kevin Whelan. Gaelic Wexford 1400–1600: culture, landscape, settlement. Cork: Cork University Press, 2025. 449 pp. ISBN 9781782050827 (hbk).
Ó Diarmada, Mícheál. “The Battle of Newmarket in Irish song and story.” Old Kilkenny review 64 (2012): 53–61.
Potts, Seán, and Aoife Nic Cormaic (ed.). Tommie Potts: the sorrowful and the great. Dublin: Irish Traditional Music Archive = Taisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann, 2025. xxii + 378 pp.
ISBN 9781068283703 (pbk).
[Reverend James Currie Memorial Trust]. The John M. Mason Collection. Part one. Troon, Scotland: J.D.C. Publications, 2025. xxx pp. ISBN 9781036904821 (hbk).
[Reverend James Currie Memorial Trust]. The John M. Mason Collection. Part two. Troon, Scotland: J.D.C. Publications, 2025. xxx pp. ISBN 9781036904944 (hbk).
Scahill, Adrian. Review of Peadar ó Riada, Ceoltóirí Chualann: the band that changed the course of Irish music (Cork: Mercier Press, 2024). Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland 21 (2025): 43–50.
Smith, Therese. “Music and song: Tom Munnelly’s view of ownership.” Genealogy 9 (2025): 412–420.
Cathie Whitesides Collection. 4 audio cassettes believed to feature recordings of Joe Cooley recorded by Jeremy Kammerer in San Francisco, 1970s. Donated by Cathie Whitesides
Sue Thompson Collection. 9 reel-to-reel tapes and 21 audio cassettes featuring commercial and non-commercial recordings of Bobby Casey, Paddy O’Brien, Lucy Farr, Peadar O’Loughlin, Joe Burke and Tommie Potts, 1970–1973. The cassettes feature recordings made by Eric & Sue Thompson at the Oireachtas, Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy, and in other locations including London, Sligo, Dublin and Seatle, 1972–1973. Donated by Sue Thompson
Rebecca S. Miller Collection. 10 reel-to-reel tapes, 11 audio cassettes, 40 DAT audio tapes and printed material. The recordings were made or produced by Rebecca Miller at various Irish traditional music festivals and the Irish Arts Center, Snug Harbor, mid 1980s–1992. The collection features musicians like Martin Wynne and Martin Mulvihill as well as studio recordings of Tom Doherty and production master dubs. Donated by Becky Miller
Tony Knowland Collection. 14 reel-to-reel tapes. Recordings made by Tony Knowland primarily in West Connemara from 1956 until the 1960s. The recordings feature Stephen and Paddy Rainey and preparatory materials from commercial releases from Pavee Point “The Raineys” and “Tony and the yoke”. The collection was donated by Tegolin Knowland via Rónán Galvin
Joe Ryan Collection. 17 reel-to-reel tapes featuring recordings of among others Joe Ryan and Tommie Potts. Donated by Jim McArdle
An extensive collection of commercial Irish traditional music CDs donated by Áine Hensey.
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: Gerald Culhane, Aidan Crossey, Seán Doherty, Des Gallagher, Hammy Hamilton, Paula Meehan, Dr. Peter Moran, Terry Moylan, J.D.C. Publications, Alan Woods
