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• unpublished articles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