"Police chief's passion for Irish music sounds through the century," March 5, 2011. Read more...
Margeson on the Music, October 2010: "What an achievement from the Ward Irish Music Archives in Milwaukee. Good Lord!" Read more...
Steve Ramm, In the Groove, December 2010: "WIMA has compiled the 32 recordings of Irish traditional music recorded circa 1904 into a beautiful double-CD ablum - The Francis O'Neill Cylinders - that every lover of Irish folk music will want."
The Irish Echo named the Francis O'Neill Cylinders CD the best album of archival importance in 2010, along with Cairdeas na bhFidileiri's “A Feeling in the Blood” by fiddler Neillidh Boyle.