Within a Mile of Dublin: Songs and Tunes Live from the Irish Traditional Music Archive (itma) is a 3-part live radio broadcast from the history-rich surrounds of the Georgian home on Merrion Square of the itma. Join itma and Near FM for a series of a performances and interviews that focus on bringing the archival collections at itma to life. Here we present the series again as a listen again/podcast option.

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The final broadcast of the Within a Mile of Dublin 2 series focuses on the PW Joyce Collection, bringing together conversation, song, and music to show how the work of a 19^th-century collector continues to shape the practices of musicians in the 21^st century. Also in this programme we pay tribute to Irish music legend, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin who passed away on November 7th 2018.

Featuring

• Liam O’Connor, fiddle
• Máire O’Keeffe, fiddle
• Nicholas Carolan, speaker

Near FM/itma Production Team

Producer/sound – Paul Loughran, Sound Tech/ Research – Brian Doyle, Presenter/research – Ken Tuohy, Researcher – Maeve Gebruers, Floor Manager – Dorothee Meyer Holtkamp, Technical manager – Gay Graham, Production support – Gary Kirwan, Glen Caulwell.

This series is funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the television licence fee.