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.
Begley, Séamus (accordion) and Jim Murray (guitar). Ragairne. Dara TORCD1132, 2024. 1 CD [Reissue of 2001 recording]
Carlos, Dylan (fiddle), Cein Sweeney (flute) and John McCartin (guitar). The one after it. Carlos, Sweeney & McCartin CSMC2024-02, 2024. 1 CD + digital download
Creasey, Sharon Newton (flute). Auchensail: traditional music from Ireland and Scotland. Burnside Media BSM1001, 2024. 1 CD + digital download
Finch, Catrin (harp) & Aoife Ní Bhriain (fiddle). Double you. Bendigedig BENDI11, 2024. 1 CD
Fleming, Pat (accordion), Steve Cooney (guitar) and Timmy O’Connor (accordion). Tunes From Toureendarby. Saibhreasceoil, 2024. 1 CD + digital download
Lunasa (instrumental group). Live from Kyoto. Lunasa Music LRCD006, 2024. 1 CD
McGrory, Roisin (fiddle). Pór. Othain Records 003, 2023. 1 CD
Ní Bheaglaoich, Méabh (accordion, singing in Irish, singing in English), Nicole Ní Dhubhshláine (concertina, flute, singing in English), Niamh Varian-Barry (fiddle, Hardanger d’Amore, singing in English), & Kyle Macaulay (guitar, bouzouki). Cuas. Cuas Music CUAS001, 2024. 1 CD + digital download
Ní Chasaide, Natalie (piano, vocals, concertina) and Iarfhlaith Ó Domhnaill (fiddle). The devil’s dream. Ó Domhnaill & Ní Chasaide, 2024. 1 CD
Ní Uallacháin, Pádraigín (singing in Irish, singing in English). Seven daughters of the sea = Seacht niníon na mara. Ceoltaí Éireann, CE73, 2023. 1 CD
The O’Loughlin Family (instrumental group). No Place Like Home. The O’Loughlin Family, 2024. 1 CD
Sanders, David (fiddle). Chance Encounters, Last Minute Notions. Sanders, 2024. 1 CD
Various (singing in English, singing in Irish, instrumental music). Nicholas Carolan (editor). The new demesne: field recordings made by Alan Lomax in Ireland, 1951. Alan Lomax Archive, 2024. Digital download
Blankenhorn, Virginia. “Reitricí fhilíocht na mban i nGaeilge na hÉireann agus na hAlban.” Léachtaí Cholm Cille 53: Léann feimineach agus inscne na Gaeilge, ed. Tríona Ní Shíochain & Máire Ní Annracháin,12–40. Maigh Nuad: An Sagart, 2023. ISBN 9781911330387 (pbk).
Brown, Nicolas. “The music of Oscar and Malvina (Part 1).” An píobaire 20, no. 2 (2024): 36–45.
Denvir, Síle. “Ó shuantraí go goltraí: léiriú ar ghlór na mban sna hamhráin dhúchasacha Gaeilge.” Léachtaí Cholm Cille 53: Léann feimineach agus inscne na Gaeilge, ed. Tríona Ní Shíochain & Máire Ní Annracháin, 95–104. Maigh Nuad: An Sagart, 2023. ISBN 9781911330387 (pbk).
Gilmore, Brian. “Séarlas Óg” and “Óró ’sé do bheatha abhaile.” Dúiche Néill 24 (2023): 174–202.
Hendrix, Glenn, and Caoimhín Mac Aoidh. Islands of fiddlers = Oileáin na bhfidléirí: fiddle tunes of Patrick Bonner, Beaver Island, Michigan. Thír Chonaill: Cairdeas na bhFidléirí, 2023. 158 pp. ISBN 9780955903113 (ring-bound).
Hill, Anne McLeod. “Biodh ur mnathan ’n an tosd: the irrepressible voice of Gaelic women’s spiritual song.” Léachtaí Cholm Cille 53: Léann feimineach agus inscne na Gaeilge, ed. Tríona Ní Shíochain & Máire Ní Annracháin, 242–58. Maigh Nuad: An Sagart, 2023. ISBN 9781911330387 (pbk).
Kearney, Daithí. Review of Becoming an Irish traditional musician: learning and embodying musical culture, by Jessica Cawley (Abingdon: Routledge, 2021). Irish Studies Review 32, no. 2 (2024): 317–320.
Kearney, William. “Learning by ear: multimodal listening and the embodiment of Irish Traditional Music and dance.” Conference paper at British Forum for Ethnomusicology & International Council for Traditional Music Ireland Joint-Annual Conference, Cork, Ireland. 4–7 April, 2024. Online paper.
Keegan, Fintan. “Catalóg lámhscríbhinní Bhriain Uí Thomaltaigh, 1840.” Irisleabhar Mhá Nuad, ed. Tracey Ní Mhaonaigh le Colm McGoldrick, Órlaith Ní Thuathaigh, 76–142. Maigh Nuad: An Sagart, 2023. ISBN 9781911330417 (pbk).
Moran, Tom. The bells of Rathcoole. Dublin: Alternative Entertainments, 2024. 80 pp. ISBN 9780954723583 (pbk).
Ní Chéileachair, Máire. “Gormfhlaith Ní Shíocháin Ní Bheoláin, Tríona Ní Shíocháin, ‘Iarmhachnamh ar “Caoineadh na dtrí Muire.” Léachtaí Cholm Cille 53: Léann feimineach agus inscne na Gaeilge, ed. Tríona Ní Shíochain & Máire Ní Annracháin, 285–87. Maigh Nuad: An Sagart, 2023. ISBN 9781911330387 (pbk).
Ní Chuirrín, Nada. “Machnamh mná ar an damhsa ar an sean-nós: ionchollú na cruthaitheachta agus na béalaireachta.” Léachtaí Cholm Cille 53: Léann feimineach agus inscne na Gaeilge, ed. Tríona Ní Shíochain & Máire Ní Annracháin, 105–11. Maigh Nuad: An Sagart, 2023. ISBN 9781911330387 (pbk).
Ní Ghallchóir, Colette. Ceolta ó na Gleannta: stór amhrán as lárchríocha Thír Chonaill. Donegal: Colette Ní Ghallchóir, 2023. 32 pp. (pbk + 1 CD).
Ní Shíocháin, Tríona. “Tost scríbhinne agus glór an bhéil bheo: inscne, béalaireacht agus ceist na cumhachta i dtraidisiún na Gaelainne.” Léachtaí Cholm Cille 53: Léann feimineach agus inscne na Gaeilge, ed. Tríona Ní Shíochain & Máire Ní Annracháin, 48–63. Maigh Nuad: An Sagart, 2023. ISBN 9781911330387 (pbk).
Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí. “Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire, Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill agus filíocht na gConallach.” Feasta 76, nos. 6–12 (Meitheamh–Nollaig 2023): 6–8.
O’Keeffe, Eamonn. “Kilkenny Militia band uniform.” History Ireland 32, no. 2 (March–April 2024): 35.
Ó Laoire, Lillis. ‘“Níl ‘Dónall óg’ ann.” Roghnú na n-amhrán don chnuasach Cnámh agus smior: guth na mban á léiriú.” Léachtaí Cholm Cille 53: Léann feimineach agus inscne na Gaeilge, ed. Tríona Ní Shíochain & Máire Ní Annracháin, 82–94. Maigh Nuad: An Sagart, 2023. ISBN 9781911330387 (pbk).
Ó Riada, Peadar. Ceoltóirí Chualann: the band that changed the course of Irish music. Cork: Mercier Press, 2024. 256 pp. ISBN 9781781178690 (hbk).
An píobaire. “Seanchas: folklore of Southeast Limerick.” An píobaire 20, no. 2 (2024): 24–26.
An píobaire. “The Schools Collection part 5: County Cork.” An píobaire 20, no. 2 (2024): 27–29.
Rogers, Frank. ” ‘The foggy dew’: a north Antrim connection.” The Glynns 50 (2023): 45–47.
Taylor, Mason. “Compositional practices in the accompaniment of Celtic trad music.” Ma thesis, Belmont University, 2024. Online thesis.
Tunney, Paddy. The stone fiddle: my way to traditional song. New ed. Letterkenny, Co. Donegal: Tunney Song Tradition Trust, 2024. 208 pp. ISBN 9781739525408 (pbk).
Vallely, Fintan, ed. The companion to Irish traditional music: third edition, revised and enlarged. Cork: Cork University Press, 2024. xxviii + 934 pp. ISBN 9781782056027 (hbk).
Webb, Emma G. “Celts, Saxons, and Milesians: orientalised nationalism in Young Irelander ballads.” MA thesis, Rice University, 2024. Online thesis.
Felix Dolan Collection. Non-commercial audio recordings primarily made in north eastern United States, 1970–2000s. The recordings feature Felix and associated musicians in a variety of settings ranging from private rehearsal tapes, to céilí, competitions and house parties. A small number of recordings given to Felix by other musicians are also included. Donated by Brendan Dolan.
Caoimhín Mac Aoidh Collection. Non-commercial audio collection, manuscripts, preparatory material for publication, photographs and correspondence, 1980s–2000s. Materials in the collection focus largely on Donegal fiddle music. Donated by Caoimhín Mac Aoidh
Bernie & Seán Potts Collection. Ephemera (posters, programmes, newspaper clippings, etc.), photographs, manuscript music, printed books and correspondence, much of the material relating to the early years of The Chieftains, 1970s. Donated by Bernie Potts.
A manuscript of tunes handwritten by Michael Gorman, early 1960s. Two photos and a non-commercial cassette recording featuring Margaret Barry. Loaned by Antoinette Keane for digitisation.
Garry Hastings Collection. Printed songbooks, photocopies and research notes relating to Organge music and a tin fiddle made by Simey Doherty in 1984. Donated by Gary Hastings
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: Gregory Byrnes, Nichoas Carolan, Sharon Newton Creasey, Seán Flanagan, Shay Fogarty, Martin Hayes, Nuala Kennedy, Róisín McGrory, Kyle Macaulay, Tom Moran, Terry Moylan, Natalie Ní Chasaide, Colette Ní Ghallchóir, Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin, Iarfhlaith Ó Domhnaill, Jerry O’Reilly, Seán Potts, Gerry Rowley and Lisa Shields.
