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Byrne, Joe (uilleann pipes). Uilleann piping from county Kildare: The ace and deuce of piping volume 5. NPU NPUCD026. 2022. 1 CD.
Canny Fettle (singing in English, instrumental music). Still gannin’ canny. Canny Fettle CANNYCD001. 2016. 1 CD.
Canny Fettle (singing in English, instrumental music). Trip to Holland: Performing live in Diemen 1976. Canny Fettle CANNYCD002. 2021. 1 CD.
Carlos, John (flute). Irish traditional music on flute. John Carlos. 2021. CD + 1 digital download.
Conneely, Kathleen (tin whistle), Seán Clohessy (fiddle) and John Coyne (vocals, bouzouki). All Jokes Aside. Conneely, Coyne, Clohessy. 2022. 1 CD.
Delany, Tom (uilleann pipes). The Lark’s Call. Tom Delany. 2022.1 CD.
Four Winds (instrumental music, singing in English). Four Winds. Four Winds. 1 CD.
Frenzy (instrumental music). 3 on the bund. Frenzy. 2022. 1 CD.
Keane, Pádraic (uilleann pipes). In full tune. Pádraic Keane PKCD01. 2022. 1 CD.
Leyden, Maurice, & Jane Cassidy, singing in English, Linen songs, Ulster Folk Song ASH007, [2022]. 1 CD
Mac Aodhgáin, Pádraig (concertina). Tobar gan trá. Paddy Egan. 2022. 1 CD.
McConnell, Cathal (flute). Old recordings of slow airs. Cathal McConnell. 2021. 1 CD.
Moynihan, Deirdre (vocals, fiddle, viola), Donncha Moynihan (guitar, bouzouki, percussion) and Diarmaid Moynihan (uilleann pipes, tin whistle, low whistle). Black brook. Moynihan. DMCD002. 2021. 1 CD.
Nic Amhlaoibh, Muireann (singing in Irish). Róisín reimagined with the Irish Chamber Orchestra. Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh. 2022. 1 CD.
O’Neill, Eoin (bouzouki). In session 2. Eoin O’Neill. 2021. 1 CD + 1 digital download.
Rynne, Pádraig (concertina). Begin with the end in mind. Pádraig Rynne. 2022. 1 CD +1 digital download.
Shelta (instrumental music, singing in English). Twenty. Shelta. 2022. 1 CD.
Tourish, Ciarán (fiddle). The Local. Ciarán Tourish and friends. 2022. 1 CD.
Various (instrumental music). My true love he dwells on the mountain. Traditional music from the West of Ireland: Field recordings made in the early 1970’s by Terry Yarnell. Veteran VT163CD. 2022. 1 CD.
Accardi, Dan. “Irish fiddling with Dan Accardi: He’ll be heard of yet: the music of Connie O’Connell” Fiddler magazine 29, no. 1 (2022): 42–43.
Cahill, Anthony. “’No connection with the tune’: examining the discourse of traditional Irish slow airs in the writings of Seán Ó Riada and Tomás Ó Canainn.” Conference paper at the SMI/ICTM-IE Plenary Conference, Trinity College Dublin, 29 May 2021. Online paper.
Campbell, Rory. Walking-class heroes? Dublin’s remarkable street-personalities, 1955-2015. Dublin: Killiney Hill Press, 2015. ISBN 97809932400 (hbk).
Clarke, JS. Irish traditional slow airs. Vol. V: from P.W. Joyce’s Old Irish folk music and songs, for solo or ensemble playing on melodic and accompanying instruments. [S.l.]: [s.n.], 2020. 36 pp. (pbk).
Curtis, Maurice. In Dublin’s fair city: discovering Dublin, discovering music. Dublin: Orpen Press, 2021. ISBN 9781786051394 (pbk).
Delanghe, George, and PM Ray De Lange. A piper’s book: of Irish tunes: volume one. [S.l.]: My Ceomohr, 2011 (pbk).
Doherty, Seán. “Melodic structures in the double jigs of O’Neill’s The dance music of Ireland: 1001 gems (1907).” Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland 17 (2022): 19.
Duffy, Rachel. “The Gráinne Yeats collection at the Irish Traditional Music Archive.” An cruitire (2021): 23–24.
Ferriauolo, Augusto. Rites of spontaneity: communality and subjectivity in traditional Irish music sessions. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019. X + 279 pp. ISBN 9781527539549 (hbk).
Halpenny, Michael. Obituary of Paddy Moloney. Sound post 20, no. 1 (2022): Online article.
Harkin, Treasa. “Saothar: new compositions for the tradition.” Irish Traditional Music Archive. Posted 31 March 2022. Blog post.
Heneghan, Áine. “ ‘Da mihi manum’: an Irish arcanum” In Trends in world music analysis: new directions in world music analysis, ed. Lawrence Beaumont Shuster, Somangshu Mukherji, and Noé Dinnerstein, 213–238. London and New York: Routledge, 2022. ISBN 9780367470548 (hbk).
Hunter, Thomas. “Folklife, traditions, and nationalism: influences on Western classical music.” PhD thesis, University of Maryland, 2021. Online thesis.
Egan, Patrick. “In search of the item: Irish traditional music, archived fieldwork and the digital.” Archival Science (2022): Online article.
Geraghty, Des. Obituary of Tony MacMahon. Sound post 20, no. 1 (2022): Online article.
Goek, S. S. “Farewell to Erin: oral histories of post-war Irish music & migration.” PhD Thesis, University College Cork, 2015. Online thesis.
Mac Aoidh, Caoimhín. “The hidden note: in keeping with the season.” Fiddler magazine 29, no. 1 (2022): 40–41.
Mac Corriadh, Seán. “Nach te an rud an Ghaeilge?/Isn’t Irish a warm thing?” Learning Irish language and song: an autoethnographic self-reflection.” Folk life (March 2022): Online article.
Mac Gabhann, Fionnán. “‘Have you any bread and wine?’: conflict and reciprocity in a traditional children’s game.” Sinsear: the folklore journal 10 (2021): 55–79. [Contains ref. to mummers, songs etc.]
Markey, Anne. Review of Life, lore and song: essays in Irish tradition in honour of Ríonach uí Ógáin = ‘Binneas an tSiansa’: aistí in onóir do Ríonach uí Ógáin, edited by Kelly Fitzgerald et al. (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2020). Béaloideas: Iris an Chumainn le Béaloideas Éireann = the journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society 88–89 (2020–2021): 127–132.
Martin, Neil, and Grace Toland ed. “Liam O’Flynn (1945–2018): a tribute by Neil Martin.” Irish Traditional Music Archive. Posted 14 March 2022. Blog post.
McDonagh, Luke. “Exploring “ownership” of Irish traditional dance music – heritage or property?” International journal of cultural property (July 2022): Online article.
McGreevy, Danny. Tunes by Danny McGreevy.
[S.l.]: [s.n.], 2022 (pbk).
McKenna, Lucy, Christophe Debruyne and Declan O’Sullivan. “Using linked data to create provenance‑rich metadata interlinks: the design and evaluation of the NAISC‑L interlinking framework for libraries, archives and museums.” AI & Society (2022): Online article.
Murphy, Luke. “Remember Brace Bodyke: eviction in Irish tradition” Sinsear: the folklore journal 10 (2021): 45–55. [Contains ref. to Tom Munnelly, Micho Russell]
Nic Dhonncha, Róisín. “Idir dhúchas agus oiliúint: amhránaíocht thraidisiúnta na Gaeilge agus an aeistéitic Eorpach” In Ar an imeall i lár an domhain: ag trasnú tairseacha staire, teanga, litríochta agus cultúir, ed. Radvan Markus, Máirín Nic Eoin et al, 176–? . Indreabhán: Leabhar Breac, 2021. ISBN 9781913814137 (hbk).
Ní Dhubhghaill, Órla. “Eibhlín Ní Dhonnchadha agus ‘ceol sheanchas na gcúigí’: part two of a series of Irish radio talk scripts for Radio Éireann from 1944.” Béaloideas: Iris an Chumainn le Béaloideas Éireann = the journal of the Folklore of Ireland
Society 88–89 (2020–2021): 49–59.
Ní Fhloinn, Bairbre. Review of A living voice: the Frank Harte Song collection, edited by Terry Moylan (Dublin: Craft Recordings, 2020). Béaloideas: Iris an Chumainn le Béaloideas Éireann = the journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society 88–89 (2020–2021): 134–137.
Ó Cearbhaill, Pádraig, ed. Séamas (‘An Setter’) Ó Caoindealbháin: amhráin agus dánta. Dublin: Coiscéim, 2022 (hbk).
Ó Cinnéide, Séamus, and Nollaig Mac Congáil. Brian Ó Cianaigh: ceannródaí ildánach Gaeilge as Ard an Rátha: beathaisnéis agus rogha saothair. Dublin: Arlen House, 2021. ISBN 9781851322664 (pbk). [Contains ref. to numerous Irish songs]
O’Connor, Anne. Obituary of Mary McPartlan. Béaloideas: Iris an Chumainn le Béaloideas Éireann = the journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society 88–89 (2020–2021): 110–112.
O’Connor, Mick, and Grace Toland, ed. “Kathleen Harrington (1897–1984) #IWD2022.” Irish Traditional Music Archive. Posted 3 March 2022. Blog post.
Ó Dochartaigh, Caitríona, agus Liam Ó Dochartaigh. “Iontais ón imeall: impossibilia a lonnaigh in Éirinn” In Ar an imeall i lár an domhain: ag trasnú tairseacha staire, teanga, litríochta agus cultúir, ed. Radvan Markus, Máirín Nic Eoin et al, 119– 141. Indreabhán: Leabhar Breac, 2021. ISBN 9781913814137 (hbk).
Ó Laoire, Lilis, and Sorcha Nic Lochlainn. “Nineteenth-century song poetry” In Bone and marrow = cnámh agus smior: an anthology of Irish poetry from medieval to modern, ed. Samuel K. Fisher and Brian Ó Conchubhair, 609–704. Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 2022. ISBN 9781943667000 (pbk).
O’Leary, Philip, and Brian Ó Conchubhair. “Formalism, realism and revivalist rhymers (1880–1940)” In Bone and marrow = cnámh agus smior: an anthology of Irish poetry from medieval to modern, ed. Samuel K. Fisher and Brian Ó Conchubhair, 705–743. Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 2022. ISBN 9781943667000 (pbk).
Ó Luain, Breandán Seosaimh, and Anne-Marie Forbes. “Sounds from foreign shores: non-traditional string instruments and the Irish folk music movement 1960–1979.” Musicology Australia (March 2022): Online article.
Ricketts, Ken, and Marya Parker. Review of The new demense: Irish field recordings by Alan Lomax, 1951, (Dublin: ITMA, 2021). Musical Traditions. Posted 17 February 2022. Webpage.
Shiels, Damian. Review of The unstoppable Irish: songs and integration of the New York Irish, 1783–1883, by Dan Milner (South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2019). Irish historical studies XLV, no. 168 (2021): 341–343.
Thore Aastveit, Av Bjorn. “Irsk bouzouki: instrumentets historie, utbredelse og bruk.” [MA thesis], Universitetet i Oslo, 2010.
Uí Dhonnabháin, Miriam. “Patrons, poets, scribes and singers—some examples of participation by women in the later Gaelic literary tradition.” The Australasian journal of Irish studies 14 (2014): 91–110.
Valis Hill, Constance. “Trickster gods and rapparees (1650–1900)” In Tap dancing America: a cultural history, 1–20. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN 9780190225384 (pbk). [Contains ref. to African American/Irish American dance tradition, Vaudeville]
Vallely, Fintan. Review of Trad nation: gender, sexuality, and race in Irish traditional music, by Tes Slominski (Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2020). Béaloideas: Iris an Chumainn le Béaloideas Éireann = the journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society 88–89 (2020–2021): 159–164.
Waltham, John. Obituary of Jimmy Campbell. The living tradition 144 (2022): 13–14.
Whooley, Sharon, and Tess Leak. Museum of song postal project songbook. Vol.1. [Cork]: [Arts for Health], [2020]. 26 pp. (pbk).
Whooley, Sharon, and Tess Leak. Museum of song postal project songbook. Vol.2. [Cork]: [Arts for Health], [2021]. 39 pp. (pbk).
50 photographs taken by Des Gallagher featuring performers on the stage at the Drawing from the Well: Liam O’Flynn Collection concert in the National Concert Hall, March 2022. Donated by Des Gallagher
Sur les routes de Donegal, an eight-part radio series in French featuring Irish language singers from Co. Donegal, presented and produced by Anne Girard Esposito, 2021–2022. Donated by Anne Girard Esposito.
Photographs from the Stray Leaf Folk Club, 1980s–1990s. Donated by Donald McCarthy.
Two antiquarian books dated 1809 & 1833 which belonged to and are signed by Jane Ross (1810–1879), the lady who collected the ‘Londonderry air.’ Donated by Wm. Stewart Ross Ogilby
16 John Joe Gardiner (1893–1979) cassettes from Brian Patsy O’Kane. Music from Louth and Sligo. Donated by Mick O’Connor
12 reel-to-reels mainly of Co. Clare concertina player Elizabeth Crotty (1885–1960), 1960s. Donated by Michael Tubridy
4 CDRs commemorating the musicians Ger Quirke and Bob Hogg. Recorded at various dates and locations. Donated by Dr. Séamus McMonagle
Cullinane Archive Collection. Third transfer of an extensive multimedia collection relating to Irish dance. Deposit by An Coimisiún le Rincí Gaelacha per Dr John Cullinane.
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: Av Bjorn Thore Aastveit, John Bowman, Harry Bradshaw, JS Clark, Cló Iar Chonnacht, Maurice Gunning, Tess Leak, Ciara McGleenan, Neil Martin, Terry Moylan, Gerry Murphy, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, NPU, Dr. Mary Louise O’Donnell, Seán Potts, Fr John Quinn, Adrian Roche, Scoil Cheoil an Earraigh and Sharon Whooley.
