Collection of off-air radio dubs recorded onto reel-to-reel tapes and audio cassettes by Tom Logan. Recordings, often featuring St Brendan's Céilí Band, include RTÉ radio programs such as Céilí House, and programmes from Tipperary's Suirland Radio. Speech by Tom Logan about the recordings also features on some of the tapes.
Collection of field recordings on reel-to-reel tape of concerts and traditional performers. Includes performances by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra with Eamon Ó Broin and choral performances by Cór Naomh Mhuire.
Collection comprises a single reel-to-reel tape featuring commercial recordings compiled by Gerry O'Donnell for a thesis on Irish traditional music completed in 1978 and live recordings of Fermanagh music. The live music was not recorded by Gerry O'Donnell.
These fonds were largely created by Breandán Breathnach while he was chairman of the uilleann piping society, Na Píobairí Uilleann, from its establishment in 1968, right through the 1970s and into the early 1980s. The majority of the material dates from the decade 1968-1978. The first series contains letters from Francis O'Neill (O'Neill, Francis, 1848-1936) to William Halpin and letters from various individuals to Seán Reid (Reid, Seán, 1907-1978), mostly dating from the 1930s. It is most likely that the Seán Reid and Francis O'Neill letters were purchased by, or donated to, Breandán Breathnach in 1973 by Seán Reid after a request by Breathnach to deposit the originals in his newly established 'National Archives'. Breathnach wrote 'I am making so bold as to suggest you should donate these & other papers you might have to the National Archives new established in this Department or perhaps you would not mind offering them for sale' (M/187/3/3/2, 30 Oct 1973). These fonds also contain papers relating to Seán Ó Riada (Ó Riada, Seán, 1931-1971) from Len Clifford who seemed to be acting as an agent for ÓRiada during the early 1970s. It is not known how Breathnach came to be in possession of these papers, it is most likely that they were given to him as part of his national music archive project. The last series in this collection relates to the organisation Na Píobairí Uilleann. It includes correspondence and papers of a financial and administrative nature, as well as, documents relating to the organisation's various activities i.e. exhibitions, concerts, and pipe making.
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'.
