The Shields Family Collection in ITMA

The Hugh Shields Collection (HSH-18739) at the Irish Traditional Music Archive contains an extensive array of multi-media materials which have been entrusted to ITMA over the last number of years by Hugh and Lisa Shields.

Included in this collection are:

• commercial/non-commercial audio/audiovisual recordings (230+ reel-to-reels, tape cassettes, VHS etc.)
• printed items (books, ballad sheets, serials, sheet music, pamphlets and off-prints etc.)
• personal papers (correspondence (1953—2002) 
• research notes 
• card catalogues
• unpublished articles 
• radio and lecture scripts 
• manuscripts, typescripts, music transcriptions and notations 
• original illustrations 
• photographs 
• ephemera and newspaper cuttings