This collection comprises recordings compiled by Peadar O'Loughlin and loaned to ITMA for copying. The cassette tape features Paddy Murphy on concertina and the reel-to-reel tape features Séamus Ennis on the pipes along with various other performers.
The ITMA Field and Studio Recordings fonds comprises audio and video recordings taken by ITMA staff since the founding of the archive in 1987. ITMA actively seeks to record traditional music and dance in the field in order to be able to trace how it has developed across the country. Recordings include annual music festivals and conferences, one-off events, concerts and sessions, and interviews and studio recordings taken onsite at ITMA's premises on Merrion Square. It is expected that this is collection will expand continually over the coming years.
Collection of audio recordings, personal papers, manuscripts, ephemera, music transcriptions and notation, news cuttings and photographs, relating to the life and work of the collector Hugh Shields. The sound recordings were made chiefly across Ulster in the period 1966–81.
Collection of reel-to-reel tapes recorded and compiled by Ted Hickey. Tapes feature singing sessions, recordings of the proceedings of the Tom Delaney Memorial Concert, and recordings from the radio programme 'James Joyce and The Lass of Aughrim'.
Collection of field recordings from an unspecified edition of the Boys of Ballisodare Folk Festival in Sligo. Includes performances by Christy Moore, Liam O'Flynn and Paul Brady.
