Recent Publications & Acquisitions, September 2023

Commercial Sound Recordings

Arkins, Conor & Paul Clesham (fiddle, concertina). The morning thrush. 2023. 1 CD + digital download.

Fitzgerald, Brian (banjo). Turning hay with a crowbar. Brian Fitzgerald. 1 CD + digital download.

Gibson, Seamus, Ciaran Curran & Ciaran O’Kane (fiddle, cittern, guitar). The dropper bell. Seamus Gibson. 1 CD.

Gibson, Seamus & Dermot Toland (fiddle, guitar). Fly by night. Seamus Gibson. 1 CD.

Grosse Isle (instrumental music, singing in French). Le bonhomme sept heures = The Bonesetter. Cie du Nord, CIE 006, 2021. 1 CD + digital download.

Keane, Pádraic, Páraic Mac Donnchadha & Macdara Ó Faoláin (uilleann pipes, banjo, bouzouki). Beo. Keane, Mac Donnchadha & Ó Faoláin, 2023. 1 CD + digital download.

Moore, Christy (singing in English). Flying into mystery. Columbia / Sony Music, 2021. 1 CD

Ruth, Erin (singing in English). Erin Ruth. Erin Ruth, 2020 digital download.

Scanlin, Maura Shawn (instrumental music, singing in English). Maura Shawn Scanlin. Nine Athens Music, MSS01CD, 2023. 1 CD + digital download.

Sophie & Fiachra & André Marchand (instrumental music, singing in French). Portraits. SLFOR 003, 2018. 1 CD + digital download.

Various (singing in English, singing in Irish). A collection of songs in the traditional & sean-nós style. Nyahh Records, NYAHH101, 2023. 1 CD + digital download.

Printed Materials

Denieffe, Mick. M Denieffe compositions: 32 tunes. 2023. Online book.

Fitzgerald, Seán. Ballad tours Dublin. [Dublin]: Ballad Tours Dublin, 2023. 23 pp. (pbk).

Gryson, Fiona. “A road to PhD research as an artist and reflective practitioner.” Harp perspectives (August 2023). Online article.

Houlihan, Con. “The history of the Cullen Pipe Band.” Dúchas: Iris Staire Dhúiche Ealla / The Duhallow Historical Journal I (2022): 23–37

Kader, Emily. “‘Rose Connolly’ revisited: reimagining the Irish in Southern Appalachia.” The journal of American folklore 127, no. 506 (2014): 425–447.

Kelly, Michael. The Irishtown piper: the life & musical world of Michael Carney (1872-1938) of Brooklyn. Mayo: Irishtown Heritage Group, 2023. (pbk).

Masten, April. “Music and meaning in early America: partners in time: dancers, musicians, and Negro jigs in early Irish America.” Commonplace: the journal of early American life 13, no. 2 (2013). Online article.

[Mulvihill, Brendan]. Martin Mulvihill collection of traditional Irish music: volumes one and two: original complete and unedited. Limerick: Inis Cathaigh Publishers, 2023. xxi + [24], 311, [48] pp. ISBN 9780988682122 (pbk).

Na Píobairí Uilleann. “Wilbert Garvin.” An píobaire 19, no. 3 (2023): 14–17.

Na Píobairí Uilleann. “The Schools Collection, part 2: County Cavan.” An píobaire 19, no. 3 (2023): 32–39.

O’Keeffe, Jamie. “Liam Walsh.” An píobaire 19, no. 3 (2023): 40–45.

Sumner, Natasha, and Aidan Doyle, eds. North American Gaels: speech, story and song in the diaspora. Montreal & Kingston, London and Chicago: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. xiii,[ii] + 511 pp.
ISBN 9780228003793 (pbk).

Contents include:

• Ciara Ryan. “Seán “Irish” Ó Súilleabháin: Butte’s Irish bard.”
• Padraig Ó Liatháin. “An tan do bhidh Donchadh Ruadh a tTalamh an Éigs” = (the time that Donncha Rua was in Newfoundland): an eighteenth-century Irish poet in the new world.”

Acquisitions

Cullinane Archive Collection. Sixth transfer of an extensive multimedia collection relating to Irish dance. Deposit by An Coimisiún le Rincí Gaelacha per Dr John Cullinane.

Tomás Ó Canainn Collection. Further transfer of multimedia collection belonging to the uilleann piper Tomás Ó Canainn. Donated by the Ó Canainn Family.

With thanks

ITMA would also like to acknowledge donations of materials (CDs, printed items, visual items, etc.), and other help and information from the following people and organisations: Conor Caldwell, Liz Carroll, Mick Denieffe, Seán Fitzgerald, Des Gallagher, Michael Kelly, Christy Moore, Terry Moylan, Ciarán Ó Maonaigh, Siobhán Peoples and Margaret Vetare.