ITMA - Irish Traditional Music Archive

New to ITMA's shop is Michael Steen's Traditional Irish Song Calendar 2026. This beautifully crafted wall calendar is a journey through centuries of song, story, and heritage with featured songs and QR codes on individual days connect you to rich recordings.

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Next stop on our Drawing from the Well Tour: London. This will be the first time we're taking our tour outside of Ireland. We hope to see some of you there!

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The Drawing from the Well Tour continues this Wednesday in The Sugar Club, featuring special guest Seán McKeon. Tickets: tickets.thesugarclub.com/events/thesu...

Join us for a night of outstanding music, song and dance in Dublin. Thanks to everyone who's supported thus far!

ITMA & EA-DIGIFOLK are putting on a FREE lunchtime lecture tomorrow, 4th November at 13:00 in 73 Merrion Square. Join ITMA staff to learn how interviewees are chosen, how interviews are managed and what happens to the recording afterwards.

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Our concert tour continues this weekend - Saturday in Seanscoil Sailearna, Connemara and Sunday in the Miltown Malbay Community Centre. We hope some of you can come out and join us! Every ticket purchased helps to support the archive.

Tickets: www.itma.ie/events/dftw-...

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Our Drawing from the Well Concert Tour continues Sunday 2nd November in Miltown Malbay Community Hall. We are delighted to announce our special guests for the evening: Liam O’Brien, Sorcha Costello, Killian Shannon, and Damien O’Reilly.
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Our Drawing from the Well Concert Tour is officially underway! Next stop, Connemara.

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Tickets to the rest of the tour: www.itma.ie/events/dftw-...

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The front cover if Seán Potts Biography of Tommie Potts, The Sorrowful and the Great

Footnote

Great craic in Dublin City hall last night for the launch of @itmadublin.bsky.social and Seán Potts biography of Tommie Potts(my grandfather). Just sitting down to read it now. I have always wanted to be a footnote

ITMA — Episode 5 | Muireann Nic Ambhlaoibh Championing the value and relevance of Irish traditional music

Thanks @itmadublin.bsky.social & singer/musician Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, who performs a deep dive on the songs of Seán de hÓra, a standard bearer of the tradition, and the only ever Oireachtas winner to hail from Corca Dhuibhne. #Irishmusic

ITMA is currently undergoing a digitisation programme for our poster collection, which contains 4,015 posters. So far we have 2,554 posters digitised. Here are some of the results so far – recognise any of these?

Video of Piaras courtesy Newry, Mourne and Down District Council

Drawing from the Well returns to the National Concert Hall this Sunday, 19th October, featuring Piaras Ó Lorcáin and many more. Tickets: www.nch.ie/all-events-l...

Purchasing a ticket helps to support the archive and our mission to democratise access to traditional Irish music.

Tommie Potts was an amazing #fiddle player in the #Irish tradition. He remains a guiding force in Irish much and beyond, as well. ITMA is a great archiver of the tradition past and upcoming.
#IrishTrad #Music #Ireland

Maggie in the woods, polka ; Hayden's fancy, polka / Sárán Ó Maolagáin, concertina ; Caoimhe Ní Mhaolagáin, dance ; Tadhg Ó Maolagáin, fiddle

Thank you to all our staff, artists and everyone who came to our Culture Night concerts this past Friday. A special thanks as well to all the guests who donated to our Tommie Potts biography. We are now a third of the way to our target. Find out more: www.spacehive.com/tommie-potts/

For the price of a cup of coffee or a pint you can facilitate important cultural projects, helping to shine a light on our great traditional artists. And with your support, Dublin City Council will match our fundraising efforts up to €5k.

We are over a quarter of the way to target on our
Spacehive crowdfunding campaign, supported by
Dublin City Council.

Thanks to all who have given to ITMA's Tommie Potts publication. If you'd like to make a donation visit: www.spacehive.com/tommie-potts...

Drawing from the Well returns to the National Concert Hall on 19th October, featuring Diarmuid Ó Meachair and many more. Tickets from €25: nch.ie/all-events-l...

Purchasing a ticket helps to support the archive and our mission to democratise access to the tradition.

Thanks Matt!

This position has been supported by the Michael Guinee Charitable Foundation.

Want to work with ITMA? We're hiring a Clare Digital Access and Development Officer to digitise, catalogue and make digitally accessible the majority of the ITMA's Clare-related materials.

Deadline: Monday, 8th September at 5.00pm
Details: www.itma.ie/news/job-pos...

Drawing from the Well returns to the National Concert Hall Sunday October 19, featuring Johnny Óg Connolly, Clíodhna Costello, Pádraig Ó Dubhghaill & more. Tickets from €25: www.nch.ie/all-events-l...
Every ticket sold helps to support ITMA and our mission to democratise access to traditional music!

ITMA is excited to be partnering with Dublin City Council and the Spacehive platform to initiate a community fundraising campaign in support of an upcoming biography on Tommie Potts - one of the most unique Irish artists of the 20th century. Support the project: www.spacehive.com/tommie-potts

Drawing from the Well returns to the National Concert Hall Sunday, 19th October, featuring AAlannah Thornburgh and many more. Tickets from €25: www.nch.ie/all-events-l...

The Irish Traditional Music Archive was saddened to learn of the death on 4 August 2025 of musician and music scholar Caitlín Uí Éigeartaigh (Kathleen Hegarty, née Gallagher, 1934–2025).
Read a full obituary for Caitlín written by Nicholas Carolan: www.itma.ie/blog/caitlin...

With the kind permission of Francy Devine, ITMA has published the booklet 'Songs for Union Maids' on our website as an educational resource for singers and researchers. It was produced by Francy for SIPTU's National Women’s Forum held in 2003. Explore: www.itma.ie/texts/songs-...

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On 19th October, Drawing from the Well returns to the National Concert Hall stage featuring Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Mick O'Brien & Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, Piaras Ó Lorcáin, Alannah Thornbugh and many more. Tickets on sale Tuesday, 5th August at: www.nch.ie/all-events-l...

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