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.
Collection of early 20th-century popular Irish sheet music. Donated by Colette Moloney.
Two printed ballad sheets published by the Castle County Museum, Enniscorthy in the 1960s: ‘The Enniscorthy Christmas Carol’ & ‘The Pomona’. Donated by Lisa Shields.
Copies of Francis O’Neill correspondence from the 1920s and press cutting relating to O’Neill. Engraved copy of ‘The penny wedding’ originally painted by Scottish painter David Wilkie (1785–1841) Donated by Kevin Henry.
1930s photograph depicting Irish dancers in west Cork. Donated by Kate O’Dwyer.
Commercial audio cassettes relating to Irish & international folk and traditional performers. Donated by Mary Holderby.
We have added to our collection a scholarly edition of The Balcarres Lute Book published jointly by the Universities of Glasgow & Aberdeen. Copied out in Scotland at the close of the seventeenth century, it is the largest and most important post-1640 British source of lute music.
Multum in parvo, or a collection of old English, Scotch, Irish & Welsh tunes for the bagpipes, fiddle, flute and piano: containing upwards of 1260 airs / selected by John Rook (1840). Printed ed. of digitised Rook manuscript available on www.piob.info. Donated by NPU
We would also like to acknowledge donations and other help from the following people and organisations: Nigel Black, John Blake, Peter Browne, Celtic Note, Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, Gael Linn, Herri Musikaren Txokoa, Jimmy McBride, Pete Mullineaux & Veteran
