Irish Traditional Music on the Internet:
Some Useful Links

LARGE SITES WITH LOTS OF INFORMATION

CEOLAS Celtic Music Archive - The resource center for everything Celtic on the World Wide Web, including tunes (ABCs and gifs, and more), instruments, everything. It's all here. Believe me. It's all here.

The Standing Stones - Traditional Celtic Music, Harp, and Song (an incredible amount of fascinating information and beautiful graphics can be found here).

DISCUSSION LIST ARCHIVES

IRTRAD-L Irish Traditional Music Internet Discussion List and Archives: A lot of information and viewpoints are discussed on this list and can be found in the searchable archives.

FIDDLE-L Archives - From the Fiddle List!

TUNES (ABCs, GIFS, etc.), REVIEWS

Bloomington, Indiana, Slow Session Page. Here is a very innovative collection of tunes with printed music and sound files.

Allan's Irish Fiddler: Sheet music, abcs, play midis, and more. Also see main page for more information, including O'Neill's tunes.

Zouki's Tune Collection: Tunes from CRE, Roche, CCE, Martin Mulvihill, and Johnny O'Leary, plus Zouki's own tunes. Very nice.

Irishtune.info: Alan Ng's unique site that provides searchable indexes of tunes from books and recordings.

ABC Convert-A-Matic: Web site that quickly converts ABC tunes.

O'Neill's Project

Musical Traditions Magazine: Especially for reviews.

Nigel Gatherer's fabulous web pages (and this could be an understatement) provide indexing and notes from major traditional tune collections, including the translated notes (by Paul De Grae) from Ceol Rince na hÉireann. Other collections include Kerr's Collections, Bulmer and Sharpley's Music from Ireland, Ryan's Mammoth Collection, The Northern Fiddler, and The Fiddler's Fakebook. 

Fiddler's Companion - Massive encyclopedia of tunes (some ABCs). This is a good way to find historical information about tunes. It is a very impressive idea. The Tuneindex helps locate published music for tunes.

J.C.'s Tune-Finder - Unbelievable! Use this database with excellent search engine to find notation and abcs for tunes.

Clips & Snips: Hear what different whistles sound like. Learn tunes.

INDIANA MUSIC SITES RELATED TO THE IRISH SCENE

Emerald Society - Home page of this organization (home of many fine bagpipe players) affiliated with the (Irish American Police Association).

Grey Larsen Home Page - Bloomington, Indiana, traditional musician who leads a weekly Session (check out the wonderful photos by Kevin Atkins); he also writes an occasional online music magazine that is very interesting, and is notably a flute/whistle/concertina player.

Chris Smith Home Page - Formerly a Bloomington, Indiana, traditional musician who led a weekly Slow Session, now Chris is in Texas. His pages have lots of information about many aspects of Irish traditional music. He is the author of a book titled Celtic Backup for All Instrumentalists, which is availablee from Mel Bay .

INSTRUMENTS - ACCORDIONS

Han's Irish Squeezebox Page

The Box Office - Irish accordions sold by the legendary Jim Coogan.

Erin Breeze - Highly informative site about Irish button accordions created by Chris Moran, who offers numerous brands and varieties for sale. 

The Button Box

INSTRUMENTS - MISCELLANEOUS

Irish Flute Page - By Brad Hurley

Uilleann Pipes Home Building Page

Dennis Havlena's Compilation of links for building your own inexpensive musical instruments.

The Tinwhistle Table of Chiff & Fipple: Fabulous place for pennywhistlers to hang out in. 

"An Appreciate of the Donegal Fiddle"  - Brought to you by Larry Sanger; lots of fiddle information.

Flutesite  - Flute and whistle sounds and useful information.

MEDIA

Irish Radion Stations: Listing of stations from the Republic.

Ceili House at RTE Radio - Live weekly traditional Irish music radio program; all you need is the Realaudio free software.

Irish Voice Online - Covers the Irish community in the U.S. (and everywhere else?).

UNUSUAL SITES, OFTEN VERY UNIQUE

Chicago's Abbey Pub Home Page

Donegal Fiddle Pages - Offering lots of information plus the opportunity to take lessons via the Internet!

Celtic Crossings - California Irish music site.

Ed Reavy Home Page - Devoted to this most respected Irish-American Traditional Musician/Composer.

Kitchener Celtic Connections - Looks like Ontario is a Mecca for Irish musicians and fans.

Tinfoil.com - Early recordings, such as on wax cylinders. Hear "Mrs. McCloud's Reel" on pipes, for instance.

GAEILGE-B Language Internet Discussion List and Archives.

Gaeilge ar an Ghréasán - Lots of Gaelic links here.

Solas Eireann Book Shop Beginning Irish Course on the Web

Larry Sanger's Guide to Ordering Irish Music Online

Celtic Grooves Imports --Highly recommended online service by traditional fiddler Philippe Varlet.

Ossian USA --Ask , Mary Lou Philbin and Charlie Clarke for assistance at this highly regarded music business.

Music123.com - I searched the Web high and low for keyboard prices and this full-featured online music store had the absolutely best, lowest prices (Feb. 1999). Ask for Chris, from whom I bought my Roland keyboard. He is extremely helpful.

Elderly Instruments

Lark In The Morning

Tayberry Music - Recordings, books, some instruments, advice, kindness. First rate.

House of Musical Traditions

Claddagh Music Home Page -- The excellent Finbar Boyle's Dublin-based music source.

Cló Iar-Chonnachta -- Connemara music and book site.

Ulstersongs -- John Moulden will assist you in finding music, books and other items (particularly related to Northern Ireland). His catalog is not updated very often, but email him for help.

Homespun Tapes (great for audio/video tapes and instruction)