Collection AMW-18694 - Alen MacWeeney Collection

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Identity area

Reference code

AMW-18694

Title

Alen MacWeeney Collection

Date(s)

  • 1965 - 1971 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

78 audio recordings

Context area

Name of creator

Biographical history

Alen MacWeeney is a Dublin-born photographer. He began his career in Paris at the age of twenty, as Richard Avedon’s assistant. His work has appeared in numerous magazines, including The New Yorker and LIFE magazine and his photographs are in the permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the George Eastman House, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and others. As well as taking photographic portraits of the Irish travelling community he also recorded their music, songs and stories.

Archival history

Reel-to-reel tapes were loaned to ITMA for copying by Alen McWeeney in 1997. The reel-to-reels were digitised to CD-R at an unknown date, which were transferred to Broadcast WAV files by Memnon Archiving Services, Brussels in 2019

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Alen MacWeeney

Content and structure area

Scope and content

This collection focuses primarily on music and song from the Irish Traveller community recorded around County Dublin between 1965 and 1971. Materials in this collection include reel-to-reel tapes, 1 commercial LP, and notes about recordings in two jotter notebooks and loose-leaf paper.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

110 reel-to-reel tapes were loaned to ITMA for copying. Only 77 were deemed of relevance to the archive and were accessioned in 1997.

Accruals

The collection was donated in two different accessions, the first in 1998 and the second in 2002. Those accessions contained the following:

6 May 1998: Two 10.5-inch reel-to-reel tapes

25 February 2002: 115 reel-to-reel tapes; 5 10-inch tapes; 3 7-inch tapes; 107 5-inch tapes; two LPs (test pressing The Travelling People of Ireland), two jotters containing tape notes.

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Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Users may not have access to original recordings, but may access digital surrogate onsite at ITMA, 73 Merrion Square.

Conditions governing reproduction

In copyright

Language of material

  • English
  • Irish

Script of material

Language and script notes

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Description identifier

Institution identifier

IE ITMA

Rules and/or conventions used

ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description. 2 nd ed. Ottawa: International Council on Archives, 2000.
Irish Guidelines for Archival Description. Ireland: Society of Archivists, 2009
Anglo-American cataloguing rules. 2nd ed., 1988 revision. Ottawa : Chicago: Canadian Library Association.

Status

Level of detail

Partial

Dates of creation revision deletion

Language(s)

  • English

Script(s)

Sources

Alen MacWeeney website, 'Bio', https://www.alenmacweeney.com/about/bio (accessed 25 July 2019)

Archivist's note

Collection-level description compiled by Fionnuala Parfrey

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