The Sound Archive in the National Folklore Collection has recently digitised the Hans Hartmann collection of audio tapes, which were stored in UCD’s Special Collections. The collection comprises 39 reel-to-reel tapes, and each tape contains 3 hours of material collected by Hartmann. These recordings were made in the 1960s in Galway, Kerry and Donegal. Reel-to-reel …
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