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Michael A Flanagan Irish Music Heritage Preserve Tradition Michael A. Flanagan Irish Music Heritage Inc. is a non profit organization for educational and cultural purposes. The goals of the organization are to preserve and enhance traditional Irish music by supporting of Irish music festivals providing educational programming in the area of traditional Irish music collecting and storing recordings and materials related to the history of traditional Irish music from immigrant populations in the United States recognition of outstanding musicians who foster traditional Irish music including the tenor banjo and providing financial assistance to writers researchers filmmakers and creative artists whose projects preserve and disseminate the history culture and legacy of traditional Irish music.