This collection comprises a series of interviews conducted by Dr Catherine Foley with dancers, choreographers and other individuals in the field of dance.

Posters, flyers, programmes, press cuttings, photographs and ephemera collected by Frances Buchanan née O’Hara mainly reflecting her times in Patricia Mulholland’s Irish Ballet.

Book entitled Rinnci na h-Éireann. National Dances of Ireland. Containing Twenty-Five Traditional Irish Dances Collected from Original Sources in Ireland by J. M. Land, Late Principal of the National School of Irish Dancing, and National Dance Music Including an Original Composition by Arthur Darley. With Full Directions for Performance and Numerous Illustrations and Diagrams. Edited and described by Elizabeth Burchenal. Piano arrangements by Emma Howells Burchenal. New York: G. Schirmer Inc., [1929?].

Recordings created to supplement An Coimisiún’s publication Ar Rinncidhe Foirne.

This collection contains memorabilia relating to the Irish dancing school established in Castlemartyr by James O’Mahony in the 1930s and its subsequent expansion to Midleton and Youghal by his daughter, Kathleen Keniry. The collection highlight is James O’Mahony’s notebook (N86/3/1), in which are recorded traditional step dances from many of the dancing masters prominent in Cork in the early twentieth century. The documented steps in the book provide a rare insight into step dances popular at the time and make possible their reconstruction and closer study.