Images from the Irish Traditional Music Archive
1 August 2010
Student dancers at the Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick, May 2008: photograph from a current exhibition at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, by Maurice Gunning, photographer-in-residence at the Academy
1 June 2010
A nineteenth-century Irish flute player c. 1888 in ‘The Schoolmaster’s Moment of Leisure’, a watercolour and gouache by the American artist Howard Helmick (1845–1907) in the collections of the National Gallery of Ireland
1 August 2009
Family music: Tommy and Siobhán Peoples at the Willie Clancy Summer School Fiddle Recital, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare, 9 July 2007 Fiddle player Tommy Peoples has been highly admired as a distinctive, complex and creative musician since his childhood...
1 June 2009
Front cover (recto and verso) of the first issue of The Irish Musical Monthly, an early twentieth-century Dublin periodicalThe Irish Musical Monthly. A Journal Devoted to the Interests of Music in Church and School seems to be the first specifically musical...
1 April 2009
An Irish harper on the continent: portrait of Cork merchant William Archdeacon with his family (c. 1750), from painting in private collection, Ghent.William Archdeacon (1685–1759) had established a family business network by the 1730s which linked his...
1 January 2009
Traditional singer Maggie Murphy (second from left) at Slieve Gullion Festival of Traditional Singing, Mullaghbawn, Co Armagh, October 1993: from colour photo by Ken Garland, London. Photo © Ken Garland, courtesy Ken Garland & Irish Traditional Music...
1 November 2008
The Irish harp as national symbol at Daniel O’Connell’s Monster Repeal Meeting on Tara Hill, Co. Meath, 15 August 1843: engraving from The Illustrated London News (26 August 1843)The image of a harp has been used irregularly as a symbol of...
1 September 2008
Ronnie Drew (right), Luke Kelly (seated), Ciarán Burke, & Barney McKenna on the cover of the first of some fifty original long-playing records (and hundreds of reissues) by the Dubliners group, Transatlantic TRA 116, issued 1964. Photo and design...
1 July 2008
Meeting of Uilleann Pipers, Neptune Hotel, Bettystown, Co Meath, 7 april 1968. Photographer unknownForty years ago, in April 1968, a significant gathering of uilleann pipers was held in Bettystown, Co Meath, for a concentration on the instrument and...
1 May 2008
Harry Bradshaw, recipient of the ‘Gradam na gCeoltóirí’ award of the TG4 Television Gradaim Ceoil 2008, in an RTÉ radio studio 1992. Photo by RTÉ photographer John Rowe.Harry Bradshaw, radio producer, record producer...
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