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Identity area
Reference code
LMI-18761
Title
Liam Mac Con Iomaire Collection
Date(s)
- n.d. (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
1 audio recording
Context area
Name of creator
(1937-2019)
Biographical history
Mac Con Iomaire, Liam. (1937-2019). Sean-nós singer. Born Casla, in the Connemara Gaeltacht, he lives and works in Dublin. He has been a primary teacher, journalist, lecturer and broadcaster, is author of Ireland of the Proverb and Conamara: An Tír Aineoil. He has translated Tim Robinson’s Mapping South Connemara into Irish (Conamara Th eas – Áit agus Ainm) and has translated seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Irish poems into English in Taisce Duan. Most impressive among his achievements is the publication in 2007 of the biography of sean-nós singer Joe Heaney: Seosamh Ó hEanaí – Nar Fhaga mé bás choíche
Repository
Archival history
Original reel-to-reel tape loaned to ITMA for copying by Liam Mac Con Iomaire in January 2007.
The tapes were digitised to CD-R by Jackie Smalls in 2007. CD-R copies were transferred to Broadcast WAV files by Memnon Archiving Services, Brussels in 2019.
The tapes were digitised to CD-R by Jackie Smalls in 2007. CD-R copies were transferred to Broadcast WAV files by Memnon Archiving Services, Brussels in 2019.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Collection comprises a single reel-to-reel tape recording of singing in Irish, and dramatised dialogue and recitations in Irish. Features performances by Joe Heaney.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Users may not have access to original recordings, but may access digital surrogate onsite at ITMA, 73 Merrion Square.
Conditions governing reproduction
In copyright
Language of material
- English
- Irish
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
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Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
IE ITMA
Rules and/or conventions used
ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description. 2 nd ed. Ottawa: International Council on Archives, 2000.
Irish Guidelines for Archival Description. Ireland: Society of Archivists, 2009
Anglo-American cataloguing rules. 2nd ed., 1988 revision. Ottawa : Chicago: Canadian Library Association.
Irish Guidelines for Archival Description. Ireland: Society of Archivists, 2009
Anglo-American cataloguing rules. 2nd ed., 1988 revision. Ottawa : Chicago: Canadian Library Association.
Status
Level of detail
Partial
Dates of creation revision deletion
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
Fintan Vallely, ed., The companion to Irish traditional music. 2nd ed. Cork University Press, 2011