irish traditional music archive

The Irish traditional Music Archive is a resource centre and archive for the traditional song, music and dance of Ireland.
set up by the Arts Council in 1987 and also supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, it is the first body to be exclusively concerned with the making of a comprehensive reference collection of materials for the appreciation and study of Irish traditional music.

These materials include chiefly sound recordings, and also books, manuscrips, periodicals, pamphlets, photographs and other illustraitons, films, videos, musicals instruments and ephemera such as catalogues, posters, programmes, newspaper clippings etc.

A representative collection of the traditional music of other countries is also being made.