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.
Abarta, Joey (uilleann pipes), King of the blind. Joey Abarta and Nathan Gourley, 2023. 1 CD.
Connolly, Adrian (fiddle, accordion, piano, flute, guitar, composer), Adrian Connolly. Adrian Connolly, 2022. 1 CD + digital download.
Jimmy & Scots Folkband (composer, instrumental group), Seven Irish nights. Maxy Sound, 2023. 1 CD.
The London Lasses (instrumental group), LL25. 2023. 1 CD + digital download.
Lyons, Liam (flute, singing in English, instrumental group, composer). Paddy in the van. 2022. 1 CD.
McElroy, Kevin (singing in English, instrumental music), Better late than never. Kevin McElroy, 1994. Re-release. Digital download
Ní Bheaglaíoch, Sesoaimhín (singing in Irish, singing in English), Charlie Piggott (accordion), Gerry Harrington (fiddle), Peter Browne (pipes), The lark on the strand. 2022. 1 CD + digital download.
Ó Súilleabháin, Diarmuid (singing in Irish), Diarmuidín. Éigse Dhiarmuid Uí Shúilleabháin, 2022. 1 CD.
Various (instrumental group), Tigh Choilm: Ceol na gCualáin. Cló Iar-Chonnacht, CICD210, 2023. 1 CD.
Accardi, Dan. “Irish fiddling: “this thing can’t be written”: the music of Neilidh Boyle.” Fiddler magazine 30, no. 1 (2023): 39–41.
Anick, Peter. “Kevin Burke: the tar road from Sligo: traditional Irish music’s journey from farmhouse to concert hall.” Fiddler magazine 30, no. 1 (2023): 13–16.
Bushe, Paddy. “Two poems in honour of Sean Garvey.” Béaloideas: the journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society. 90 (2022): 117– 119.
Dowling, Martin. “A traditional fiddler in the modern world: exploring the music of Paddy Canny.” Review of No better boy: listening to Paddy Canny, by Helen O’Shea (Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2023). Journal of music, 11 May 2023. Online article.
The Economist. “Irish folk music is enjoying a revival.” The Economist, 3rd April 2023. Online article.
Falzett, Tiber. Review of Colm Ó Caodháin: an Irish singer and his world, by Ríonach uí Ógáin (Cork: Cork University Press, 2021). Béaloideas: the journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society. 90 (2022): 122–130.
Goan, Cathal. “Róisín Dubh: the circulation of a song.” Béaloideas: the journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society. 90 (2022): 1– 26.
Granville, Aoife. Review of The Forde Collection: Irish traditional music from William Forde manuscripts, edited by Nicholas Carolan and Caitlín Uí Éigeartaigh (Dublin: Irish Traditional Music Archive, 2021). Béaloideas: the journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society. 90 (2022): 130–132.
Groce, Nancy, and Stephen Winick. “Mick Moloney (1944–2022).” Journal of American folklore 136, no. 540 (2023): Online article.
Harkin, Treasa. “Saothar: new compositions for the tradition.” Irish Traditional Music Archive. Posted 30 April 2023. Online article.
Irish Traditional Music Archive. “Seán Keane 1946–2023.” Irish Traditional Music Archive. Posted 8 May 2023. Online article.
Mac Aoidh, Caoimhín. “The hidden note: the business of banshees.” Fiddler magazine 30, no. 1 (2023): 33–35.
Mangaoang, Áine. “(Be)longing: Irish musicking and place-making in Oslo, Norway” In Sonic Signatures: music, migration and the city at night ed. Derek Pardue, Ailbhe Kenny, and Katie Young. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. ISBN 9781789386974 (ebook).
Maye, Brian. “Taking note – Brian Maye on pioneering traditional music scholar Donal O’Sullivan.” Irish Times, 8 April 2023. Online article.
McNamara, John ‘Twin’. Oileán m’aislingí = Island of my dreams: a unique collection of 18 songs across two CDs reflecting Achill’s rich cultural heritage. [Co. Mayo]: [s.n.], 2023. 71 pp. (pbk + 2 CDs).
Mullen, Maurice. Review of Staged folklore: the National Folk Theatre of Ireland 1968–1999, edited by Susan Motherway and John O’Connell (Cork: Cork University Press, 2022). Ethnomusicology forum. (13 April 2023). Online article.
Mullen, Maurice. “Return to Fingal: the heritage and practice of Irish traditional music in North County Dublin.” MA thesis, Dundalk Institute of Technology, 2022. Online thesis.
Ní Fhuartháin, Méabh . Review of The beat cop: Chicago’s Chief O’Neill and the creation of Irish music, by Michael O’Malley (Chicago: University of Chicago, 2022). Estudios Irlandeses 18 (2023): 293-297.
Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí. Review of Collecting music in the Aran Islands: a century of history and practice, by Deirdre Ní Chonghaile (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin, 2021). Béaloideas: the journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society. 90 (2022): 136–139.
O’Donnell, Mary Louise. “The collector as coloniser?” Review of The beat cop: Chicago’s Chief O’Neill and the creation of Irish music, by Michael O’Malley (Chicago: University of Chicago, 2022). Journal of music, 6 December 2022. Online article.
O’Keeffe, Máire. Review of The new demesne: field recordings made by Alan Lomax in Ireland, 1951, notes by Nicholas Carolan. (Dublin: Irish Traditional Music Archive, 2021). Béaloideas: the journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society. 90 (2022): 141–143.
O’Shea, Helen. No better boy: listening to Paddy Canny. Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2023. xi + 180 pp. ISBN 9781843518655 (pbk).
Sheehan, Jack. “The sounds of Internment: an LP of recordings smuggled out of Long Kesh turns fifty.” The Baffler, 16 August 2022. Online article.
uí Ógáin, Ríonach. Obituary of Seán Garvey. Béaloideas: the journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society. 90 (2022): 115–117.
uí Ógáin, Ríonach. Review of Port na bpucaí/The lament of the pooka. (An Daingean, Co. Chiarraí: Poncpress, 2021). Béaloideas: the journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society. 90 (2022): 147.
Video recording of the Gradam Ceoil TG4 2023. Donated by TG4
Two non-commercial 78 rpm discs featuring Peter Keegan, uilleann pipes and Denis Keegan, accordion, c. 1940s. Donated by Donncha Keegan
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: Joey Abarta, John ‘Twin’ McNamara, Morrigan Books, Maurice Mullen, Mick O’Connor, Helen O’Shea, Fr John Quinn, Jackie O’Riley and Erin Ruth Thompson.
