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ITMA Printed Collection

  • Prints
  • Collection
  • 1790 - 2019
A selection of digitised books from the library collection of the Irish Traditional Music Archive.

Irish Traditional Music Archive

The Caoimhín Mac Aoidh Collection

  • CMA-240167
  • Collection
  • 1930s-2015

This collection includes: photocopies of original Pádraig O'Keeffe manuscripts; transcriptions made by Caoimhín Mac Aoidh of 700 Pádraig O'Keeffe tunes, along with contextual notes and texts on the tunes; and correspondence relating to MacAoidh's research into Pádraig O'Keeffe. The photocopied manuscript collections are as follows:

O'Connell Collection: 212 Tunes
O'Connor Collection (comprising five Manuscripts): 260 Tunes
Horan Manuscripts: 85 Tunes
Mickey Duggan Manuscripts: 14 Tunes
Jerry McCarthy Manuscripts: 15 Tunes.
Nicky McAuliffe Manuscripts: 38 Tunes
Miscellaneous Manuscripts: 74 Tunes
Appendix 1 is a summary sheet of the collections and their contents by rhythm.

Mac Aoidh, Caoimhín

Dáibhí Ó Cróinín Collection

  • DOC-18578
  • Collection
  • 1935-2021
Handwritten music manuscripts, music tablature manuscripts and an imperfect printed fiddle tutor. Some of the music tablature is written in the hand of Pádraig O'Keeffe and other music notation is written either by Dáibhí Ó Cróinín's father or uncle. More information to follow from Dáibhí once digitised versions of the manuscripts are shared with him.

Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí

The Tommie Potts Collection

  • TPO-281722
  • Collection
  • 1935–1986
Collection of original and photocopied music manuscripts, set lists, correspondence, and songs dating primarily from the mid-1980s. The majority of the material is in Tommie Potts' hand, but also includes correspondence from Míchéal Ó Súilleabháin and Paddy Dooley of The Welsh School of Violin-making. Two copybook pages with tune written in 1930s, written by John Gadge of Co. Tyrone. One photograph of Tommie Potts at a céilí included, taken 1935.

Potts, Tommie, 1912-1988

Charlie Mulvihill Collection

  • CMU-276376
  • Collection
  • 1940s-1960s
This collection of sound recordings is a unique taste of post-war Irish traditional music in New York, with leading players including Andy McGann, Paddy Reynolds and Larry Redican, concertina music from Charlie Mulvihill and family sessions with Charlie and his son Tommy (fiddle) and daughter Geraldine (piano).

Mulvihill, Charlie, 1917-1975

Hugh Shields Collection

  • HSH-18739
  • Collection
  • 1946 - 2003
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.

Shields, Hugh, 1929-2008

Mary O'Riordan Collection

  • MOR-280651
  • Collection
  • 1950-1959
Music manuscripts relating to Pádraig O'Keeffe & Tom Billy Murphy.

O'Riordan, Mary

Louis Quinn Collection

  • LQU-18762
  • Collection
  • 1950-1975
Collection of reel-to-reel sound recordings made on trips to Ireland by the Armagh-born, New York-based musician Louis Quinn.

Quinn, Louis, 1904-1991

Tom Davis Collection

  • TDA-258348
  • Collection
  • 1950s-2010s
Sound recordings, non-commercial video and ephemera, 1960s–2010s

Davis, Tom, d. 2014

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