List of Irish music collectors

This is a list of notable collectors of Irish traditional music: == Collectors == Breandan Breathnach (1912–1985) – collected over 7,000 tunes, published from 1963 Edward Bunting (1773–1843) – collected tunes from the harpers at the Belfast Harp Festival; made extensive collections of tunes which he published in three collections of The Ancient Music of Ireland Séamus Clandillon – see Maighréad Ní Annagáin Eileen Costello – Amhrain Mhuighe Seola, 1923, 80 songs from County Galway and County Mayo Seamus Ennis (1919–1982) – uilleann piper; collected for the BBC/Irish Folklore Commission, 1952–57 William Forde (c.1759–1850) A. Martin Freeman (1878–1959) – important collector of songs from West Cork Canon James Goodman (1828–1896) – collected over 2000 tunes and songs, mainly from the south-west of the country. Carmel Gunning – a singer, flute and tin whistle player and collector of songs and ballads; author of The Mountain Top (2006) which contains over sixty tunes focusing on tunes popular in south County Sligo Carl Hardebeck (1869–1945) – three volumes of Seoda Ceoil (1908, 1914, 1916) Frank Harte (1934–2005) – collector of songs and ballads from Dublin and the countryside Sam Henry (1878–1952) – Song Editor to the Coleraine newspaper Northern Constitution, through which he published his Songs of the People series from 1923 until 1928, and again from 1932 until 1939.

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