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Alen MacWeeney Collection

  • AMW-18694
  • Collection
  • 1965 - 1971
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.

MacWeeney, Alen

Eddie Cull Collection

  • ECU-18727
  • Collection
  • [1970s?]
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.

Cull, Eddie

Tony Knowland Collection

  • TKO-18815
  • Collection
  • n.d.
Collection comprises recordings of sessions in Galway featuring the Coyne Family and Paddy and Steven Rainey and a selection of 'Songs from Renvyle' collected by Tony Knowland.

Knowland, Tony

Jimmy McBride Collection

  • JMB-18628
  • Collection
Collection comprises: audiovisual recordings (audio cassette, VHS, Video8) of the Inishowen International Folk Song and Ballad Seminar (IIFSBS) 1990-2004; Inishowen singers and Inishowen Traditional Singers' Circle (ITSC) sessions recorded in public and private venues, 1980-2003, with occasional music and dance included; occasional recordings of other Irish singing festivals and singing sessions; radio programmes prepared by Jimmy McBride for local Inishowen radio, and song and music related broadcasts on Irish radio (1978?-1997). Other materials include images of singers and events, IIFSBS brochures, and manuscript indices prepared by Jimmy McBride.

McBride, Jimmy

Cathal McConnell Collection

  • CMC-18594
  • Collection
  • 1960s-2000s
The Cathal McConnell Collection comprises 700+ cassette tape recordings and dates from the 1960s up to the early 2010s. The non-commercial audio material was recorded both in Ireland and abroad in a range of settings including field recordings in houses, informal sessions, concerts, outtake studio recordings, music classes and workshops. Also featured are both domestic recordings of radio programmes including 'The Long Note', 'Airneáin' and 'The Irish Phonograph' among others, along with cassette recordings of various commercial LP, cassette tape and CD releases.

McConnell, Cathal

Robin Morton Collection

  • RMO-18789
  • Collection
  • 1960s-1970s
Collection comprises reel-to-reel tape recordings made by Robin Morton chiefly across Ulster in the 1960s and 1970s. The recordings feature traditional music performances (songs, tunes and dances) by a wide variety of musicians and singers.

Morton, Robin

Seosamh Ó Broin Collection

  • SOB-18804
  • Collection
  • n.d.
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.

Ó Broin, Seosamh

Gerry O'Donnell Collection

  • GOD-258270
  • Collection
  • [1970s]
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.

O'Donnell, Gerry

Dermot McLaughlin Collection

  • DML-18718
  • Collection
  • TBC
Collection of audio recordings, printed material and ephemera.

McLaughlin, Dermot

Breandán Breathnach Collection

  • BBR-18712
  • Fonds
  • 1911 - 1985
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.

Breathnach, Breandán, 1912-1985

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