Website | Description |
All About Jazz | A comprehensive site (although with a slight American bias) that offers a wide range of jazz information, including popular record lists, a jazz ‘roadmap’, forums, reviews, directories and more. |
Association of Irish Composers | The representative body of composers in Ireland (including Northern Ireland). AIC represents the interests of composers in all areas of copyright, and seeks to enhance the professional status of its members through promotional activities. |
Association of Irish Musical Societies (AIMS) | Provides a range of services and activities to Irish musical societies, including an adjudication and awards scheme, workshops, library and information, and a choral festival. |
BBC - Parents' Music Room | An excellent resource for both parents and young people, including extensive information on choosing and learning an instrument, children's musical development and careers in music, as well as a wide range of useful links. |
Ceolas | Houses the largest online collection of information on Irish and Celtic music, and has links to hundreds of related sites. |
classicalmusic.ie | Irish-based website offering a range of CDs in classical, world and other music genres. |
Contemporary Music Centre | Ireland's national archive and resource centre for new music. |
Association of Irish Choirs / Cumann Náisiúnta na gCór | A national organisation that provides access to a variety of services for conductors, choristers, teachers, students, choral representatives and participants. |
First Music Contact | A free and independent information and resource organisation for popular musicians and the popular music sector in Ireland. Co-runs the Hard Working Class Heroes Festival. |
Improvised Music Company | Ireland's largest jazz and world music promoter; promotes the innovative 12 Points! festival. |
IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library | A huge virtual library of free, downloadable sheet music in the public domain. |
Irish-music.net | A broad range of Irish music links, to instruments, artists, CDs, festivals, summer schools, and more. |
Insider’s Guide to Hidden Dublin | Not intended to be a comprehensive tourist guide, this online service provides a wealth of information on ‘alternative’ Dublin (including music, of course) for visitors. |
Irish Traditional Music Archive | A multimedia reference archive and resource centre for Irish traditional song, music and dance. |
Journal of Music | Website of the music magazine that brings together writing on classical, jazz and traditional music in Ireland and around the world. |
Leaving Cert. Music Past Exam Papers | Past exam papers for Leaving Cert. Music are available in pdf format (readable with Adobe Reader) in the Exam Material Archive on the State Examinations Commission website. |
Music Festivals Ireland | Provides information on and links to over 180 music festivals taking place in Ireland this year. |
Music Network | The Irish national music development organisation. |
National Concert Hall | Has a Calendar of Events and free online booking facility. |
Naxos Education | The website of Naxos, the budget classical record label, has an excellent education section, which includes, among other things, an A-Z glossary of musical terms and brief composer biographies. |
Offbeat Radio | Website of Karishmeh Felfeli's critically acclaimed live independent music radio programme on Dublin City FM (Thursdays at 2 pm). |
RTÉ lyric fm | Ireland's premier station for classical, jazz, world and Irish traditional music, and supporter of our Waltons World Masters series. |
Source | Na Píobairí Uilleann's huge digital media database, consisting of thousands of video clips of Irish traditional music; brief instructional tutor videos; audio and photo archives; and the Irish Music Collections Online (IMCO), consisting of music from 24 significant historical music collections dating from as early as 1724. |
Third-Level Music Departments | The 'Resources for Students' page in the Leaving Cert. Music section of our website has links to most third-level programmes in the Republic and Northern Ireland. |
World Music Central | An excellent general-interest world music site, it includes up-to-date information on musicians, recordings and festivals, as well as useful glossaries of world music genres and instruments. |
Waltons Music | Website of the largest and most diverse music shops in Ireland. The Waltons website allows you to purchase virtually everything available at the music shops. |