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.
Some 60 privately made reel-to-reel tape recordings from the 1970s, donated to the Archive by Des Garvey, Co Galway
Some 820 books and items of sheet music donated by the Oireachtas Library, Dáil Éireann, per John McDonough
Manuscript materials (including working papers, correspondence, etc.) and printed ephemera, donated by John Moulden, Co Donegal
Diary-scrapbook of the Claisceadal singing group 1928–1964, compiled by Colm Ó Lochlainn and donated by Éamonn de Barra, Dublin. For further information on Colm Ó Lochlainn and An Claisceadal, see here
Some 100 commercial cassettes and cassette field recordings of Donegal singing etc., donated by Pat O’Connell and Máire Delaney, Dublin
Off-print of article: Pádraig Breatnach, ‘Caoineadh Shéamais Óig Mhic Coitir’, Éigse vol. 37 (2010), donated by author
CDR copies of four 1950s Riverside, New York, LPs by Cork singer Patrick Galvin, digitised and donated by Tony McGaley, Dublin
Copy of PhD thesis, donated by author: Scott Spenser, The piper calls the tune: how uilleann bagpipers averted obsolescence through technology, networks and community, Department of Music, New York University, 2010
Copy of PHD thesis, donated by author: Roxanne M. O’Connell, The golden age of Irish music: the cultural impact of 78 rpm recordings in Ireland and Irish America 1900–1960, Department of Humanities, Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island, 2010
Copies of RTÉ commercial cassette tapes and of Linen Hall Library, Belfast, facsimiles of Edward Bunting, A general collection of the ancient Irish music (1786), donated by Cathal Goan, Dublin
Non-commercial CDR recording of Mike Gardiner, Clare, accordion.
We would also like to acknowledge donations and other help from the following people and organisations: Bill Black, Peter Browne, Jimmy Carolan, Cló Iar-Chonnachta, John Joe Costin, Ann & Henry Cunningham, Gael Linn, Bobby Gardiner, Jimmy McBride, Tony McGaley, Cáit Mhic Ionnraic, Dan Milner, Ciarán Power, Bonnie Shaljean, Terry Tully, Fintan Vallely, & Wexford County Council per Rosaleen Molloy.
