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From 1994 to 2001, Seán Corcoran worked as a freelance collector for the Irish Traditional Music Archive. In that time, Seán made a collection of over seventy field recordings, with musicians, singers and dancers from across the four provinces of Ireland.
An ITMA podcast giving an overview of the field recording work done by Seán Corcoran for ITMA can be heard here.
With the permission of the artists’ families, we are making full length versions of Sean’s interviews available here. This playlist includes interviews with musicians such as Ben Lennon, Kitty Hughes, Tommy Gunn, Michael McNamara, Packie McKeaney & Rosie Stewart, Charlie O’Neill, Tom & Maimie Mackey, and Micil Ned Quinn, amongst others.
Over the course of the coming months, we will continue to add additional field recordings to this playlist made by Seán Corcoran for ITMA.
With thanks to the Heritage Council who have funded the clearance of performers Rights in these recordings.
