Irish Traditional music is the second class citizen of music education in Ireland. Yet the present-day commercial viability of the music, and its growing artistic appreciation, demand that the music now be included meaningfully in curricula at all levels. Indeed, there is much academic activity within the music, and state education policy does now recognise its existence as a genre.

But there is still a huge absence of intelligent public awareness about it. Irish citizens should not be obliged to like the indigenous music of the island, or even to want to know more about it. But the absence of educational facilities around it prevent informed judgements being made. And even where educators have a desire to seek out information, they find that schools' and public libraries generally not only have few books, but find it difficult to source them due to short print runs, poor distribution and absence of information. Schools in particular find it expensive to source concisely-representative recorded music amid the vast range of CD albums available today.

i m u s i c . i e seeks to make available all kinds of information on Irish music - books, résumé and journal articles, albums and web sources. It also intends to make available - by email transfer - important texts that are long out of print, or are presently either unavailable or too expensive for school budgets to purchase at antiquarian book rates. A comprehensive CD covering all aspects of the music required by educators is also presently in production