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Des Gallagher is ITMA’s photographer in residence for 2023 and has been busily taking photographs at various ITMA and non-ITMA events since January. The gallery here is a selection of his images taken at:
TradFest, Dublin, 28 January 2023;
Drawing from the Well, National Concert Hall, 12 March 2023;
Gradam Ceoil TG4, University Concert Hall, Limerick on 23 April 2023;
Tradition Now: Reflecting Migrations at the National Concert Hall, 11 June 2023;
The Willie Clancy Summer School, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare, July 2023;
Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, Mullingar, August 2023;
and the March and August Sessions with the Pipers in the Cobblestone, Dublin.
Des is also preparing his vast archive of photographs of events for inclusion in the ITMA Collection.
