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    Galleries

    • 52

    Des Gallagher: A review of 2024 in pictures

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    • 185

    Des Gallagher, ITMA Photographer in Residence 2023: The year in review

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    • 41

    Photographs of Donegal fiddle players by Rik Walton

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    • 62

    Des Gallagher, ITMA Photographer in Residence 2023: The year so far

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    • 24

    Heritage Week 2021 – Gráinne Yeats Collection

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    • 25

    Heritage Week 2021 – Cnuasach an Bhreathnaigh

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    • 7

    Sidney Robertson Cowell collects music in Ireland

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    • 67

    Photographing the Willie Clancy Summer School

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    • 42

    Francis O’Neill’s Visual Illustrations (3), 1913–1924

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    • 29

    Francis O’Neill’s Visual Illustrations (1), 1903–1910

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    • 39

    Francis O’Neill’s Visual Illustrations (2), 1913

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    • 26

    Shamrock, Rose and Thistle: Gallery

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    • 5

    Góilín Ephemera

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    • 142

    Singers featured in the Góilín Song Project 1

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    • 80

    Singers featured in the Inishowen Song Project 1

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    • 73

    Heritage Week 2022. Posters from the ITMA Collection

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    • 48

    Heritage Week 2022. LP Sleeves, 1960s–1980s

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    • 21

    Christy McNamara photographs from the DFTW: Liam O’Flynn Collection Concert

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    • 31

    Des Gallagher photographs from the DFTW: Liam O’Flynn Collection Concert

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    • 67

    Peter Laban, ITMA Photographer-in-residence 2021

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    • 40

    Colm Keating photographs from the Memorial Service for Tony MacMahon

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    • 5

    Newly Discovered Photographs of PW Joyce

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    • 17

    Heritage Week 2017

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    • 10

    Quinn Family Photographs, London, 1950s

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    • 25

    ITMA Field- Recording Photographs by Danny Diamond, 2010

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    • 12

    They Love Music Mightily: Exhibition Photographs by Paul McCarthy, 2000

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    • 25

    Postcards, early 1900s

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    • 31

    Images by Paul Eliasberg from the William Kennedy Piping Festival, 2004–2009

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    • 22

    Féile na Bóinne Photographs by Joe Dowdall, 1976–77

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    • 17

    Competitive Dancers from the Irish Examiner Archives, 1920s–1940s

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    • 24

    Irish Harp Images from Robert Bruce Armstrong, 1904

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    • 20

    Photographs of Singers by Ken Garland, 1990s

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    • 27

    Images from the ITMA-JMI Publishing Project, 2006–2010

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    • 21

    Management Photographs of Musicians, 1970s–2000s

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    • 18

    Selection of Posters, 1980s to date

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    • 19

    Photo-Slides from Fleadhanna Ceoil, 1950s &1960s

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    • 29

    Scrapbook Images from the Ballad Boom, 1950s–1970s

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    • 19

    Singers & Musicians, 1990s, Photos by Luke Cheevers

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    • 23

    LP Sleeve Designs of the 1950s

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    • 25

    Irish Music & Song Postcards, early 1900s

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    • 26

    Fiddle Players in Donegal, Photos by Mark Jolley, 1997

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    • 30

    Willie Clancy Summer School 2001: Photos by Orla Henihan

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    • 39

    Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, Gorey, 1962 / Bord Fáilte

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    • 18

    A Poverty of Pipers: Photographs

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    • 27

    Percussion Instruments in Irish Music: Images

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    • 80

    Photographs from the Cobblestone, Dublin, by Steven de Paoire, 1990s & 2000s

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    • 47

    Riverdance Images

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    • 16

    Images of ITMA Cylinder Sound Recordings

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    • 54

    Woodcut Engravings from Ballad Sheets, 19th Century

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    • 31

    Musical Instrument Makers: Photos by Stephen Power, 2000s

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    • 17

    Concertina Pictures, with a Clare Bias

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    • 90

    Buaiteoirí Ghradam Ceoil TG4/ Recipients of TG4 Music Awards, 1998–2014

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    • 28

    Small Artefacts from the ITMA Collections

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    • 28

    Tocane: An Irish Traditional Music Festival in France, 1991–2016

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    • 35

    Colour Photos from Clare by Tony Kearns, 2012 & 2013

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    • 73

    Colm Keating photographs of the Góilín

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    • 13

    A night of celebration for Nicholas Carolan

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    • 22

    Playing in the Pub: Snapshots and Studies

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    • 18

    Posters of the 1970s

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    • 30

    Accordion Players & Accordions Gallery

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    • 95

    Photographs by Danny Diamond

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    • 18

    Irish Songs on Cigarette Cards, 1920s

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    • 26

    Some Collectors of Irish Traditional Music

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    • 22

    A Flutter of Flutes: Images of Flute Players and their Instruments

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    • 6

    Art & Song in the Gaelic Revival: Seaghán Mac Cathmhaoil & Ethna Carbery

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    • 58

    Irish Musical Images in 19th Century Newspapers: The Victorian Perspective

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    • 12

    Leo Rowsome on the Bill: Concert Posters, 1940s–1950s

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    • 19

    Irish Traditional Music Accompanists

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