Collection of reel-to-reel tapes featuring recordings of traditional musicians taken around Donegal in the 1970s and 1980s. Includes a performance recorded in Danny Ward's kitchen in Carrick, Donegal and a session recorded in the Golden Gate Bar in the same town. Re-occurring musicians include James Byrne (fiddle), Joe Burke (accordian) and Finbar Dwyer (accordian).
Collection of reel-to-reel tapes featuring recordings of sessions and céilí bands, and domestic recordings of commercial material. Includes performances at the 'Fleadh Nua' in 1973 and 1975.
Collection of reel-to-reel tape recordings. Includes singing performances by Father Killian Curran, Father Sydney McEwan and Rita Lynch, and fiddle performances by Séamus Ó Mathúna and Jim O'Mahoney.
Collection of reel-to-reel tapes featuring traditional musicians and singers recorded in Donegal and Scotland. Includes performances recorded in Hughie McGovern's Pub in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal; performances recorded in Hugh Gillespie's home in Ballybofey, Co. Donegal; and performances by Geordie McIntyre (singing), Joe Heaney (singing)and Pat McNulty (pipes) recorded in Scotland.
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.
Collection comprises live recordings on compact disc of traditional music performances in Sydney, Australia as part of the Guinness Tour in 1987. Performers include Christy Moore, Liam O'Flynn and Arty McGlynn.
Collection comprises audio and video recordings on reel-to-reel tape, vinyl, VHS and Betacam SP. The video tapes are all relating to the opening of the Chief O'Neill Hotel in Smithfield in 1999 and the exhibition space within the hotel dedicated to its namesake, the musician and collector, Francis O'Neill who was also the Chief of Police for the city of Chicago. The non-commercial recordings feature a lecture on pipe music by Breandán Breathnach and radio dubs Breathnach being interview by Paddy Glackin.
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.