Of Our Times

OF OUR TIMES SPRING
EARRACH 20
COMHAIMSEARTHA 19
Irish World Academy of Music and Dance

University of Limerick
Dámh Chruinne Éireann Rince agus Ceol
Ollscoil Luimnigh
CREDITS
General Editor: Dr Sandra Joyce
Editor and Comhaimseartha Coordinator: Jennifer de Brún
Text Editors: Ana Camillo and Kara O’Brien
Photography: Maurice Gunning
Design: Joe Gervin
Venue Coordinator: Melissa Carty
Tuesday Lunchtime Performance Coordinator: Dr Sandra Joyce/Dr Niall Keegan
Wednesday Lunchtime Performance Coordinator: Jean Downey
Thursday Lunchtime Performance Coordinator: Dr Óscar Mascareñas
Tower and Logos Coordinator: Pamela Cotter
Taighde/Research Editor: Professor Helen Phelan
Ag Féachaint Siar/Recent Events and Special Events Coordinator: Jennifer de Brún
CONTENTS 2
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FACULTY AND STAFF
EMERITUS FACULTY
6 MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT MICHAEL D. HIGGINS
8 MÍCHEÁL O SÚILLEABHÁIN
17 LUNCHTIME PERFORMANCE SERIES
25 TOWER SEMINAR SERIES
33 LOGOS SEMINAR SERIES
37 SPECIAL EVENTS
43 AG FÉACHAINT SIAR / RECENT EVENTS
49 BEALACH / COMMUNITY CULTURAL PATHWAYS
55 CÓNAÍ / ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
59 TAIGHDE / RESEARCH
I R I S H WO R L D A C A D E MY O F M U S I C A N D DA N C E
67 IRISH WORLD ACADEMY ENSEMBLES
71 SCHOLARSHIP AND AWARD RECIPIENTS
76 CLÁR / IRISH WORLD ACADEMY PROGRAMMES
78 OTHER PROGRAMMES AND ARTS OFFICES
Front cover: Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin receives rapturous

applause from the capacity audience at the National Concert Hall
Mia DiChiaro, MA Contemporary Dance Performance
Photograph © Maurice Gunning 1
FACULTY & STAFF
IRISH WORLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DANCE,
UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK
Melissa Carty Barbara Christie Carl Corcoran Pamela Cotter Diane Daly Jennifer de Brún Dr Aileen Dillane
Administrator, Senior Administrator, Course Director, Director, BLAS International Course Director, MA Classical Performing Arts Coordinator, Course Director
melissa.carty@ul.ie barbara.christie@ul.ie MA Songwriting Summer School of Irish String Performance in jennifer.debrun@ul.ie MA Irish Music Studies
+353 61 202590 +353 61 202030 carl.corcoran@ul.ie Traditional Music and Dance association with the Irish +353 61 202917 aileen.dillane@ul.ie
+353 61 202082 pamela.cotter@ul.ie Chamber Orchestra +353 61 202159
+353 61 202653 diane.daly@ul.ie
+353 61 202565
Dr Alan Dormer Jean Downey Paula Dundon Dr Hannah Fahey Dr Catherine Foley Dr Eleanor Giraud Dr Sandra Joyce
Academy Technical Officer, Course Director, Academy Administrator, Course Director, Course Director, Course Director, Academy Director
alan.dormer@ul.ie MEd (Music), paula.dundon@ul.ie BA Performing Arts (Voice) MA Ethnochoreology MA Ritual Chant and Song sandra.joyce@ul.ie
+353 61 202726 Professional MEd (Music) +353 61 202149 hannah.fahey@ul.ie catherine.e.foley@ul.ie eleanor.giraud@ul.ie +353 61 202065
jean.downey@ul.ie +353 61 202958 +353 61 202922 + 353 61 234743
+353 61 213160
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Dr Niall Keegan Dr Yonit Kosovske Dr Óscar Mascareñas Dr Triona McCaffrey Dr Grant McLay Dr Mats Melin Professor Mel Mercier Dr Hilary Moss
Academy Associate Director, Course Director, Lecturer, Lecturer, Course Director, Course Director, Chair of Performing Arts, Course Director,
Director of Undergraduate MA Classical String oscar.mascarenas@ul.ie MA Music Therapy BA Performing Arts MA Irish Dance Studies Course Director, MA Music Therapy
Studies, Course Director, Performance (Keyboard) +353 61 202990 triona.mccaffrey@ul.ie (Contemporary Dance) mats.melis@ul.ie BA Performing Arts hilary.moss@iul.ie
BA Performing Arts (Irish yonit.kosovske@ul.ie +353 61 234358 grant.mclay@ul.ie +353 61 202542 (World Music) +353 61 213122
Traditional Music) +353 61 234967 mel.mercier@ul.ie
niall.keegan@ul.ie + 353 61 202918
+ 353 61 202465
Dr Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain Dr Niamh NicGhabhann Professor Helen Phelan Dr Colin Quigley Dr Jenny Roche Dr Kathleen Turner Dr Matthew Noone
Course Director, Course Director, Programme Director, Course Director, Course Director, Course Director, Irish Research Council
MA Irish Traditional Dance MA Festive Arts PhD Arts Practice MA Ethnomusicology MA Contemporary Dance MA Community Music Postdoctoral Fellow
Performance niamh.nicghabhann@ul.ie helen.phelan@ul.ie colin.quigley@ul.ie Performance kathleen.turner@ul.ie matthew.noone@ul.ie
orfhlaith.nibhriain@ul.ie +353 61 202798 + 353 61 202575 +353 61 202966 jenny.roche@ul.ie + 353 61 213762
+353 61 202470 +353 61 213464
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EMERITUS &
ADJUNCT FACULTY
PROFESSOR JANE EDWARDS DR MARY NUNAN PROFESSOR MÍCHEÁL Ó SÚILLEABHÁIN DR FERENC SZŰCS
Associate Professor Emeritus Emeritus Lecturer Emeritus Chair of Music Senior Lecturer Emeritus
MA Music Therapy MA Contemporary Dance Performance Founding Director MA Classical String Performance
Irish World Academy
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PROFESSOR ANYA PETERSON ROYCE PROFESSOR MICK MOLONEY PROFESSOR GARY ANSDELL DR BREANDÁN DE GALLAÍ
Adjunct Professor Adjunct Professor Adjunct Professor Adjunct Lecturer
Francesco Turrisi, Lunchtime Performance
in association with the MA Songwriting
Photograph © Maurice Gunning
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MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT
MICHAEL D. HIGGINS
The death of MÍcheál Ó Súilleabháin earlier this year was an enormous loss to the cultural dimension of
Irish society. Throughout his long and distinguished career MÍcheál made an immeasurable and invaluable
contribution to the artistic life of this nation as a composer, a musician and an inspiring and generous
teacher.
MÍcheál's music retained strong ties to the classical and traditional, while also powerfully reflecting his own
artistic vision and imagination. Like all great creatives, he had an innate curiosity; a desire to explore, to
experiment and to re-invent, while remaining profoundly aware of the rich heritage that signifies all that is
best in our shared past. It was that complex blend that gave MÍcheál's work its unique distinction.
Although a gifted composer, for MÍcheál the performance of music took precedence over its theorisation.
He spoke of how children:
PRESIDENT MICHAEL D. HIGGINS
"want to perform to get inside the music first, before they can get hooked into it".
Those are inspirational words that remind us of MÍcheál's talent for nurturing and encouraging a new
generation of musicians and of the empathy that made him such a remarkable and admired educationalist.
There can be no doubt that MÍcheál was a greatly important figure in Ireland's musical journey, dedicated to
its continual evaluation and progression, reworking and re-shaping.
His legacy is a remarkable one, for which we can be deeply grateful. It is a legacy that will forever be enjoyed
by countless people who will continue to enjoy his talent for harmony, joy and mobilising the peerless
power of music.
Michael D. Higgins
Uachtarán na hÉireann
President of Ireland Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin and Professor Mel Mercier perform
(Must be More) Crispy with the National Symphony Orchestra
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COMHRÁ: CONVERSATIONS WITH
MÍCHEÁL O SÚILLEABHÁIN
The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, first imagined in 1994 by Mícheál Ó’ Súilleabháin, has always
been a place of conversation. Its richness comes from Mícheál’s fundamental insistence on living in that
frontier between the poetic and the practical. He described this journey as both supernatural and healing
in the redress of those two orders of knowledge posed by Seamus Heaney. Mícheál and his colleagues
created conversations out of the rich hummus of world traditions embodied in the performing arts and their
practitioners. Equally important were the conversations between artists, performers, and scholars seeking
PROFESSOR ANYA PETERSON ROYCE a community that would understand and burnish their vocations and gifts. Few institutions, academic or
conservatory, have had the wisdom and the courage to make these conversations the joint of performance
and reflection.
Mícheál filled the Academy with generous, creative spirits whose examples give us the courage to explore
the unexpected. That fluid architecture of exploration is embodied in the splendid new building opened in
September 2010; the heart-building, a jewel sprung out of the Shannon and the sea and the stone and all
the stories that wrap around them.
Mícheál was thrilled by the building, saying as it neared completion: “The new building is like a poem.
I am trying like mad to keep it at arms-length, but it simply overwhelms me. It is a house of light and of
welcome.”
Welcome was a touchstone of Mícheál’s life - his music, his writing, his glorious impromptu speeches, his
teaching, learning, performing and inviting others to perform - all the ways in which he gathered the souls
who inhabit his heart-home, making it shimmer and spark.
Generosity was the embodiment of Mícheál’s welcoming invitation to so many—Come, join us, bring your
gifts, learn and teach, discover and grow. He gave us wings and the courage to try them, always finding
joy in our discoveries. In 2010, he invited me to write the introduction to Comhaimseartha/Of Our Times.
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He had established the tradition of writing what he called, with wicked irony, his Urbi et Orbi reflection. With
the new building in place, he felt it was a good time to invite others to try their hand. I was honoured by his
invitation. He wrote later that it felt strange to let it go. Letting go required a fierce generosity of heart,
but what grace was given those whose hands took up the trust. Mícheál said yes to everything, enlarging
every conversation and empowering every participant.
The twentieth anniversary of the Academy was celebrated in 2014 with two and a half days of workshops,
lectures, performances and panels. Its ambitious theme, echoing Heaney, was “Between the Poetic and the
Practical.” On Sunday, we gathered in the church-home of Dance Limerick for the final panel: “The Role of
Artist as Citizen”. Vedran Smailovic, the cellist who honoured twenty-two inhabitants of Sarajevo killed during
the siege by playing in the rubble of the bomb site for twenty-two days, was the last. In silence, he walked
on, sat down, and played. What better way to declare the supernatural and healing power in the merging of
poetic and practical!
Participants and audience filled the sanctuary space, happy to celebrate the conference. Away from the
crowd, sitting on a long bench under one of the ornate windows, Niall Keegan took up his flute and played,
joined by several other musicians. Quietly, drawn by the music and lit by the light pouring through the window,
Mícheál danced - for the joy of it.
That lovely, simple gesture caught my heart and blew it open.
Mícheál was a glorious spirit and a gallant soul, generous and kind, welcoming all to speak and be heard,
letting us discover our voices in the conversation. We miss him.
Anya Peterson Royce, PhD, D.Litt.

Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology
and Comparative Literature, Indiana University.
Nick Nicholaou, MA Contemporary Dance Performance

‘IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE, PLAY ON . . .’
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, TWELFTH NIGHT ACT 1, SCENE 1, 1
When you walk in the door of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance you are entering a magic eardrum.
This multi-cultural mansion will forever echo the name of Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin. We say of some people that
they are all eyes; Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin was all ear. His fingers on a piano were listening for a tune. His skin
from the soles of his feet to the peak of his forehead was a natural earlobe. His was the ear that Ireland had
been waiting for since we came into our own.
From his earliest days in Clonmel his was an open ear. No sound was foreign; no music out of place. Art music,
Blues, Country, Dance, Electronic, Folk, Gregorian, Hip-Hop, Indian, Trad, Jazz, Karaoke, Latino, Medieval, New
DOM PATRICK HEDERMAN
Age, Opera, Pop, Quickstep, Rock, Soul, Trad, Underground Rap, Vocal, Western, X-The-Unknown, yodelling,
Zydeco – you name it, he claimed it. No music was foreign to his alphabet of sound. Only two categories were
relevant: good music and bad.
Where and how could he find a home for this musical menagerie? Everywhere in the world there was
discrimination and apartheid. Educational institutions exercised systematic promotion of one kind of
standardized and recognized art music to the exclusion of every other genre. He had to find a university in its
infancy and a sponsor who would understand his ambition and finance his dream. In one miraculous decade he
found both: at the University of Limerick and in the person of the philanthropist Chuck Feeney.
Building up the Academy where Traditional Music could find legitimation in the halls of Academe, and where
every musical genre could keep pace with the unprecedented expansion of digital technology, required generous
use of his other remarkable gifts of diplomacy, organization, vision and political savvy; all of which ate into his
own time and energy for composition and performance. When he retired from his role as director of the empire
he had founded, his intention was to devote his time to articulation of the music always sounding in his ear.
Unfortunately, he was taken away too early for us to benefit from this possibility, which might have added to
the repertoire of his music which we already recognize and enjoy. But the generosity and energy which he so
unselfishly devoted to the establishing of his masterpiece at the University of Limerick, on the banks of the
Shannon, will be an even more lasting monument to his genius. From this remarkable vantage point, young
musicians from all over the world will now be able to create for the rest of us the comprehensive music of the
future. Good on you, Mícheál, you did it.
Dom Patrick Hederman, OSB
Glenstal Abbey
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Piece by Jack Webb, MA Contemporary Dance Performance
REMEMBERING MÍCHEÁL
He left us in the bare November days, gone away as the brown leaves fell, and the skies went to worsted grey,
and the cold winds pressed us towards winter. Fall fell, and our spirits sank on news of the passing of the
cherished musician whose musical brilliance and joie de vivre were known far and wide.
I learned of Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin’s passing while in Seoul, Korea. There, as I sat in my hotel room preparing
for my invited guest lecture, a note titled “sad news” scrolled across my screen. What followed next were phone
calls to share the sadness, and then an outpouring of grief on the social media by friends and colleagues who
were expressing their heartfelt loss of Mícheál from the world of music…and from the world at large. Many
PROFESSOR PATRICIA SHEHAN CAMPBELL whom I knew were ethnomusicologists, music educators, and community music practitioners, and there were
doubtless many more musicians, dancers, artists of many forms, and avid fans. They spoke of the legacy he left
in his passing, and of his wisdom, his human decency, and his marked influence on them.
Like the others, I, too, experienced the joy and inspiration that Mícheál was: Music and Irishness at its very best.
I met him in 1996 in Dublin at a meeting on music education in Ireland, and was convinced then by the urgency
of his call to teach the Irish traditions, and to equip active musicians and teachers with the tools and techniques
for sustaining musical heritage. Then, and in so many more instances of public scholarship since, Mícheál would
speak poetically of music and human relationships. He seemed to enjoy interspersing snatches of lyrical verse,
too, into his spoken words to audiences, splicing in some of his favourite Seamus Heaney excerpts, and striking
at the taproot of language to frame themes, set tones, and motivate thoughtful ways of musical being. There
was great substance, fire, and verve in the style that was so uniquely Mícheál.
Perhaps he saw the power of poetry and music, together, as providing pause and reflection in the face of
so much noise in the world. Certainly, Mícheál’s music and language, both oral and in print, were grounded
in a coherent vision of Irishness, and his expressive-artistic gifts were such that he could communicate with
eloquence the very core of what every ordinary person could feel. We experience this eloquence and grace in
the music he made, undeniably in his performances of “Woodcock” and “Ah, Sweet Dancer”, and as present in so
many more of his spirited renderings in collections like Oilean/Island, Between Worlds, Lumen, and Templum.
Mícheál was intent on fashioning a community of sound there at University of Limerick, on the banks of the
River Shannon. He fully succeeded in delivering his dream of advancing the music of Ireland, the West, and
the world there, and of fostering the dance, and of weaving together performance practice with scholarship
so that they became one radiant blend of artistic excellence. He left a magnificent opus of musical works, and
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meaningful model projects in ethnomusicology and education. His many efforts seemed to resonate with a
belief in music’s capacity to bring peace to turbulent times, to radiate joy, and to underscore the poetry of
life in all its musical manifestations.
I last saw Mícheál in the spring of 2018, there in the Castletroy Hotel, and we shared tea and some sort of
crumpets - Mícheál, Helen, Luke, and Jean Downey. We’d known many such lovely gatherings there during
the times of my external examiner years for the MA in Community Music, and now we were chatting it up
again across an assortment of musical tales. He asked after some of his North American music colleagues,
and he spoke with enthusiasm and a modicum of measured pride as to the accomplishments of so many
students and faculty at the Academy. We were all closed together into a laughing circle that afternoon in
the conservatory, and there was then, as always, Mícheál’s signature flow of warmth, merriment, and genuine
interest that enveloped us.
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin is gone too soon from the world, and yet he leaves a legacy for all of us who remain
on this side of the heavens. He personified the very best in Irish cultural life and in the deeply humanistic
way of knowing the world through music. We feel the heavy weight of his absence, even as we also recognize
the lessons of love and life that we gained through the time we had with him. In myriad ways, Mícheál lives
on - in his music, in the language and tone of his public persona, in the mirth that was there at his every
gathering, and most certainly in the Irishness that he lived and inspired in others.
Patricia Shehan Campbell

Professor of Music Education and Ethnomusicology
School of Music
University of Washington
Alec Brown, PhD Arts Practice

~ AND IF MY PARTING HAS LEFT A VOID,
THEN FILL IT WITH REMEMBERED JOY.
My life was forever changed when I first met Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin in 1996 at a small music conference he
organized at the “White House” on the campus of the University of Limerick. Afterwards, Michael invited me to
spend 1996-97 working with him, Helen Phelan, Niall Keegan, and Sandra Joyce to begin developing the curriculum
for his grand vision, which we now know as the extraordinary Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. Then, and
regularly during my many trips to the Irish World Academy for the next twenty years, Mícheál and I became close
friends. Mícheál’s spirit loomed large and wide. He always had a “huge heart” for me and for those he met and
PROFESSOR DAVID ELLIOT worked with. Whether he was performing or speaking formally or informally to large and small groups, Mícheál
made each person feel as if he was communicating to him or her alone. Generous with his depth of love, kindness,
and humanity, I shall always remember the moment when I first heard him say, “You are all very welcome here,”
which, to me, meant, “You are very welcome in my heart.”
David J. Elliot
Professor of Music and Music Education
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development
New York University
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Eugene Murphy, PhD Arts Practice
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LUNCHTIME
PERFORMANCE
SERIES
VENUE: THE TOWER THEATRE, IRISH WORLD ACADEMY
(UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED)
1.15PM
ADMISSION IS FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME
Clive Sinnamon and Barbora Klimova, MA Music Therapy
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TRAD CAFÉ CROAGH SCHOOL OF MUSIC AILEEN CAHILL AND ANDREA BANCIU ÍMAR KATHERINE BARNECUTT SING OUT WITH STRINGS
EVERY TUESDAY progressed to study music at third-level and have launched Tuesday February 5th
FEBRUARY
their own careers in the field of music making. The school
fosters an active community of musicians, young and old, Ímar
Every Tuesday at 1.15pm in the Tower Theatre, the Academy
will host a traditional music and/or dance performance that who enjoy performing in a variety of venues around the city Ímar is a five-piece trad band based in Glasgow who perform
features a wide variety of traditional performing artists visiting and county. explosive cocktail of contemporary Irish music with flavours
the Academy during that week. Many of these performances Today’s presentation represents the various strands and from Scotland and the Isle of Man. Featuring Academy
will be live streamed on the Academy’s YouTube Channel. genres that exist within the Croagh School of Music, and the graduate Ryan Murphy who has made his name professionally
diversity of teaching and performance opportunities that its with bands such as Ealu, Cara and Manran, Ímar have just
Wednesday January 23rd
JANUARY
students enjoy. released their second studio album, "Avalanche", to much

Trad Café critical acclaim.
Café Allegro, University Concert Hall, 1.15pm Thursday January 31st
Wednesday February 6th
Today’s Trad Café will feature Grace Bradshaw (flute), Riona Andreea Banciu and Aileen Cahill
Viola and Piano Recital Trad Café
Conaboy (Concertina) and Davog Frain (accordion).
Café Allegro, University Concert Hall, 1.15pm
Join Andreea Banciu (viola) and Aileen Cahill (piano) as
Wednesday January 30th they celebrate the centenary of the composition of Rebecca Today’s Trad Café will feature Aileen Bourke (concertina),
Trad Café Clarke's virtuosic sonata for viola and piano. Theodore Stones (banjo) and Sylvain Pourtier (fiddle).
Café Allegro, University Concert Hall, 1.15pm Andreea is the violist and one of the founding members Wednesday February 6th
Today’s Trad Café will feature Conor Broderick (piano), Katie of RTÉ ConTempo Quartet. She is a lecturer in viola at DIT
Conservatory of Music and Drama and in chamber music at Sing Out with Strings
Galvin (fiddle) and Seán Kellegher (fiddle).
Royal Irish Academy of Music, and in 2016, became Doctor of Theatre 1
Wednesday January 30th Music, Honoris Causa, from NUIG. The Irish Chamber Orchestra (ICO) - Sing Out with Strings'
Croagh School of Music Aileen is a pianist best known for her solo and chamber Choir and Orchestra
Theatre 1 playing. Having previously lectured in piano and piano Join us as over 80 young artists from ICO’s Sing Out with
accompaniment at DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, Strings’ Choir and Orchestra come together to present a
Croagh School of Music was founded in 2001. Located in
she is now repetiteur at Maynooth University. joyous concert filled with music and song while giving a
the heart of West Limerick, the school is one of Munster's
largest established music schools. It caters for all genres taster of their weekly wonderful achievements. The ICO’s
and styles of music, from beginner to undergraduate level. Sing Out with Strings programme works with every child and
The school prides itself on the standard and quality of its staff member at St Mary's National School and Le Chéile
dedicated teachers, who have trained and performed both National School, facilitating creativity, self-expression and
at home and abroad. Many graduates of the school have building the valuable personal and technical skills needed in
order to sustain these into the future.
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I HAVE A TRIBE PROFESSIONAL MASTER OF EDUCATION (MUSIC) STUDENTS SAM CLAGUE SPRÉACH MAOIN CHEOIL AN CHLÁIR
Thursday February 7th Thursday February 14th

I Have A Tribe Sam Clague
I Have A Tribe is led by Patrick O’Laoghaire. The songs begin Sam Clague is a musician and songwriter from Clonakilty,
with the piano and the voice and they move into various Cork. He lives and works in Cork City, playing primarily as a
directions and shapes, sometimes definite and sometimes jazz guitarist and also his own unique brand of original music.
improvised. Central to live performances is honesty, Jazz and folk influences blend together to make a form of
communication, vulnerability and strength. Most recently kaleidoscopic chamber music, driven by intricate guitar
Patrick joined various artists of the PEOPLE collective arrangements and accompanied by psychedelic orchestral
Berlin, collaborating with Beirut, This is The Kit, and Howard sounds.
Bilerman. Following on from this was support duty for
His debut EP “Balloons” was released in 2015 at the
Lisa Hannigan & The Stargaze Orchestra at the National
Clonakillty Guitar Festival and more recently, his sophomore
Concert Hall. Previous performances include Other Voices,
EP "Good Morning" was released in September 2018.
La Blogotheque Festival and CCI Centre Paris, Reeperbahn
Festival Hamburg and CMJ New York. New album due for
release in 2019. Tuesday February 19th
Wednesday February 13th Spréach
Trad Café Spréach are the winner of the group competition at the
Café Allegro, University Concert Hall, 1.15pm Meitheal summer school, 2018 and is made up of Meibh
Dooley (Concertina & Piano), Naoise Dooley (Fiddle), Máire
Today’s Trad Café will feature Gareth Fagan (guitar) and
Ciara O'Shea (voice).
Brennan (Accordion), Kimberley Delaney (Fiddle) and Grace Wednesday February 20th
Minnock (Harp). Meitheal, this year held in both Ennis and
Limerick between July 22nd and 27th, is a five day residential Leaving Certificate Music Students of Maoin
Wednesday February 13th summer school in traditional Irish music, offering teenagers Cheoil an Chláir
Professional Master of Education (Music) Students a unique immersion into the best of Trad. Practical Music in the Classroom
The Professional Master of Education (Music) is specially Students from Maoin Cheoil an Chláir will unite to showcase
designed to meet the needs of graduates who wish to their talents and will display their performing skills in both
become teachers of music. The PME (Music) is an inter- group and solo performances. Students in the group will
faculty programme taught by the School of Education and by perform on a range of instruments and will entertain you
Irish World Academy. Student teachers are prepared to teach with traditional tunes, classical pieces and vocals. Come
music in innovative and creative ways and are introduced to along and enjoy the talents of our future musicians and
research in music education. singers from County Clare.
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GER WOLFE CASTLETROY COLLEGE ADRIAN CROWLEY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY SIVE LIMERICK SCHOOL OF MUSIC
Thursday February 21st prestigious award in 2010. He tours extensively throughout New Zealand, sharing stages with the likes of Lisa Hannigan,
Europe and the USA with recent live appearances including Cathy Davey, Christy Moore, Kila and Mick Flannery, and
Ger Wolfe shows at La Philharmonie de Paris, Festival Printemps de winning a much-coveted slot on RTE's Other Voices along the
Working as a songwriter, musician and performer, Ger Wolfe Bourges, End Of The Road Festival, and The Lincoln Centre way. Having run a hugely successful crowdfunding campaign,
has released seven albums of original material over the last in New York. He has been a regular guest on iconic radio Sive released her second studio album 'The Roaring Girl' to
twenty years and will release his newest offering in February stations WFMU, WNYC, BBC 6 Music and has appeared on critical acclaim in 2017. She took the MA Community Music
2019. True to the art of songwriting he tells his own story as Dutch and French television, VPRO & ARTE. He was once here at the Irish World Academy in 2014/15, and since then
only he could, in his own unique voice. Ger is a fine lyricist, name-checked by Ryan Adams in The Rolling Stone magazine. she has enjoyed a vibrant career as a music facilitator across a
poet and composer all rolled into one, a multi-instrumentalist Crowley recently collaborated with Irish director Niall Mc variety of community and healthcare settings. Sive is currently
and a lover of the human voice. Whether as a solo performer Cann on feature film The Science of Ghosts which premiered releasing her new music via Berlin-based label Veta Records.
or with any or all of his musical comrades ‘The New Skylarks’, at Dublin International Film Festival. He is currently working
Ger is a performer at ease with himself and the world. on his ninth studio album. Wednesday March 13th
Limerick School of Music Student Recital
Wednesday February 27th Wednesday March 6th
MARCH
Students of Limerick School of Music

Castletroy College Lunchtime Variety Concert International Women's Day Celebration
Students of Limerick School of Music will perform a recital
Staff, Students and Friends of the Irish World Academy
Castletroy College students are delighted to entertain of music from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic eras
you with singing, music and dancing. They will perform a International Women's Day celebrates the social, economic, showcasing their individual and ensemble playing skills.
programme with lots of different genres of music including cultural and political achievements of women. To mark the Performance is a cornerstone of studying at Limerick School of
classical, popular, traditional and from musicals! Not to occasion, this annual concert brings together a host of Music and students are encouraged to take every opportunity
forget the ukulele orchestra! Enjoy the show. performers – students, faculty and friends of the Irish World to play before a live audience.
Academy – including music, dance, song and a few surprises.
Limerick School of Music, under the auspices of Limerick &
Thursday February 28th Clare Education & Training Board (L.C.E.T.B.), formerly City of
Thursday March 7th Limerick V.E.C., was founded in January 1962. With a student
Adrian Crowley
Sive enrolment of 1500 and a staff of 43 we are the largest provider
Adrian Crowley is a songwriter, singer, composer and writer of music tuition in the Mid-West Region.
based in Dublin. October 2017 saw the worldwide release of Sive is a songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist who
his eighth album, "Dark Eyed Messenger", on the legendary was recently dubbed 'one of the most inspiring and exciting
Scottish label, Chemikal Underground Records. The album artists of our time' by Female First UK. Combining haunting,
was recorded in New York in under a week and was produced multi-layered vocals with delicately weaved musicality and
by and features Thomas Bartlett (aka ‘Doveman’.) Crowley an undeniable charm, Sive has carved a truly compelling style
has been nominated three times for the Choice Music of alt-folk that is not afraid to differentiate from the norm.
Prize with his album, "Season Of The Sparks", winning the She has toured extensively in Ireland, the UK, Europe and
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CLARE SANDS EMMA LANGFORD MA MUSIC THERAPY STUDENTS
Thursday March 14th Thursday March 21st

Clare Sands Emma Langford
Described by RTÉ Lyric FM as an "exceptional talent", and With songs that dance playfully in that liminal space
Hot Press as "passionate and alluring", Clare Sands is a between folk, jazz and traditional Irish nuance, Emma
multi-instrumentalist, composer, and songwriter hailing Langford is described as "a breath of fresh air" by Ireland's
from the vibrant musical city of Cork. Gracing a fender song-writing legend Phil Coulter. In style and sound she is
strat guitar in one hand and electric violin in the other, often compared to the likes of Joni Mitchell, Nick Drake
Sands, a Boss/Roland and Yamaha endorsed artist, has and Joan Baez; her presence and timbre however are truly
a unique ability to blend Jazz/Funk/Latin music with a unique and best experienced live. Emma's debut album,
Celtic twist, backed by an eclectic and energetic, top class "Quiet Giant", produced by Grammy-nominated duo The
band. Her first record 'Join Me At The Table' in 2016 was Production Suite, was released at the end of 2017. The
met with critical acclaim, "really beautiful sounds" - RTÉ Irish Times described Quiet Giant as 'music that weaves
Radio 1. Sands toured it around Ireland, Europe and NYC, a spell as you listen to it... An enduring piece of work'. In
both as a solo artist and accomplished violinist with Jack October 2018 Emma Langford won the RTÉ Radio 1 Folk
L, Luka Bloom, Mundy, and other highly acclaimed artists, Award for Best Emerging Artist.
performing at Electric Picnic, the INEC and The National
Concert Hall, to name a few. Having recently played Wednesday March 27th
her biggest show to date, Liverpool's Feis, alongside
Performance by the MA Music Therapy Students
Irish legends Imelda May and Shane McGowan to 15,000
people, Sands is in the midst of an Irish and German tour, The 1st year students of the MA Music Therapy programme
with sold out dates in Clare, Cork, and Dublin. Her latest will lead a lunchtime performance, featuring their musical
single 'Dance x3!' with legendary guitarist and producer, skills, ensemble work and reflections on music therapy.
Jimmy Smyth (Van Morrison, Mary Coughlan, Chaka Khan)
The MA Music Therapy programme is a two-year Master’s
was met with critical acclaim; holding position at No 2 in
degree in which students learn about the relationship
the Irish Airplay Charts for over two months, it received
between music, health and well-being. Music Therapy is
excellent reviews by BBC, RTÉ, and the Irish Times - it’s "a
an evidence-based clinical profession in which musicians
celebration of groove and Motown songcraft" - Nialler 9.
bring their skills, creativity and improvisation to working
in a variety of health and social care settings.
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OPERA WORKSHOP NOBODY’S GIRL GLEN WHITEHEAD ÓSCAR MASCAREÑAS
Thursday March 28th Thursday April 4th Glen Whitehead (D.M.A), is a trumpeter, sound artist and
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composer who explores interactive phenomena between
Opera! What the fuss? Nobody's Girl living cultures, technologies and the natural world. His
Opera Workshop Live performance of Nobody's Girl latest work featuring background includes principal trumpet in professional
songs from their most recent EP, "Waterline". orchestras, contemporary improvisation groups and
High art or a lot of hot air? Join the Opera Workshop
ensemble in the search for Opera Enlightenment as they "A promising new trio..." - Rolling Stone Hailing from Texas, interdisciplinary projects. Whitehead is an Associate Professor
attempt to work out some of the greater mysteries of Opera. Alabama, and Georgia respectively, now neighbours in Austin, of Music, Co-Director of the Bachelor of Innovation, at the
Why do soprano’s sing so high? What’s the tenor got to do BettySoo, Grace Pettis, and Rebecca Loebe are bewitching University of Colorado, Colorado Springs and founder of the
with it? Are basses always the bad guy? Catch a glimpse of audiences with sumptuous harmonies and unforgettable UCCS Music Program. He is a Bach trumpet artist for Selmer/
the art form that inspires deep devotion in some, confuses songwriting. Friends now for a decade, they first met at the Conn and received his BMus in Performance at the New
others and has a surprising effect on many. The Opera legendary Kerrville Folk Festival, each winners of the annual England Conservatory of Music, and M.A. and D.M.A from the
Workshop singers and pianist will draw on the works of some “New Folk” award. Luscious harmony singers, effortless University of California.
of the great opera composers including Mozart, Puccini and instrumentalists, seasoned touring artists – they recognized Óscar Mascareñas (PhD), is a poet, composer, voice artist,
Donizetti along with a few rarer gems in a lunchtime taster what each can accomplish individually could be made all the performer and musicologist. His expertise covers a wide range
of deep profound, musical soul searching and big hair! stronger by collaboration. Their collaboration has resulted of genres and disciplines, from chant to contemporary music,
in their forthcoming EP, "Waterline", under the band name movement and poetry. He has published and performed his
Limerick-based Opera Workshop is new, emergent, hopeful
NOBODY'S GIRL to be released this fall on the Lucky Hound work in Europe, the USA and Mexico. His album, Songs for
and seeking to work with artists from all backgrounds
label. Jackson Pollock, was released this year in vinyl and is available
interested in developing their practice through the art of
at www.songsforjacksonpollock.com. Óscar currently lectures
opera. In its first 18 months of existence the company has
Thursday April 11th and researches in music and contemporary performance at
begun to develop a strong following locally, producing
concerts and shows in the No 1 Pery Square Hotel, Dolan’s Glen Whitehead and Dr Óscar Mascareñas the Academy, and works independently as a composer and
Warehouse and the Hunt Museum. Drawing on well-known performer internationally.
Through trumpet and electronics, this concert features
classic repertoire as its point of departure, the company is
several composed works and improvisations woven together
currently developing new site-specific work with Limerick-
in an electro acoustic tapestry. Glen creates environmental
based composer and musicians for their new production in
earth music by bridging the world of improvisation and
the city in May 2019.
performance with ecoacoustics and acoustic ecology. He
explores environmental immersion and field recording as
a multi-dimensional interactive compositional tool that
interweaves across these endeavours. Composer and voice
artist Óscar Mascareñas will be joining Glen in some of these
explorations.
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Ciara Callanan-Ryan, MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance

Lee Clayden, Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Theatre
TOWER
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IRISH WORLD ACADEMY
4PM TO 5.30PM
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GARY ANSDELL KATHLEEN TURNER HILARY MOSS LOUISE PLATT LUMEN STREET THEATRE
Wednesday February 6th spaces; interdisciplinary research; singing and health; chronic processions from different perspectives. The Lumen Street
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pain management and music and spirituality and music. She Theatre practitioners will join us for this seminar to describe
Shared Spaces: Community Music and Music Therapy is chair of the Arts and Health research cluster at UL. their creative practice.
Presenters: Professor Gary Ansdell, Dr Hilary Moss, Dr Kathleen Turner is a singer, songwriter, community Dr Louise Platt is a senior lecturer in festival management
Dr Kathleen Turner musician and researcher and is Course Director of the MA at Manchester Metropolitan University. She was awarded her
Chair: Dr Kathleen Turner Community Music at the Irish World Academy. Prior to joining PhD from Liverpool John Moores University in 2011. Her inter-
the academy, she was the Community Engagement Manager disciplinary work focuses on place, festivity and community. She
Community Musicians and Music Therapists frequently work for the Irish Chamber Orchestra from 2008 – 2015. In this role is on the executive committee of the Leisure Studies Association
in similar settings, have a common ethos, and often have she managed a number of projects, including the flagship and a Fellow of the Institute of Place Management.
shared skill sets. In this seminar, we interrogate language, children’s programmes Sing Out with Strings and World
ethics and approach. Lumen Street Theatre was founded in 2016 seeks to engage
Carnival. Kathleen is a representative on the Department of
with the public by presenting scenes and performances that are
By exploring the shared spaces between our disciplines, Education and Skills Committee for Non-Formal Music and
visually spectacular, distinctive and inspiring within the setting
we ask where we meet, where we diverge and if/how the provides continuous professional development for a number
of Limerick’s urban landscape. Lumen wishes to revitalise the
differences in our practice matter. of organisations including Music Generation Limerick City
arts in the local community by engaging with the community
and Music Generation Clare. She is also a Clore Fellow and was
Professor Gary Ansdell has been a music therapist for nearly to collectively create their art through artistic outreach
recipient of the Jerome Hynes Fellowship from 2017 – 18.
thirty years, working mostly in the area of adult mental health programmes, workshops and community participation, and to
in the last decade. He has been involved in a wide range Wednesday February 13th present the finest of street art and theatre at both a national
of areas of music therapy practice, and in developing the and international standard. Lumen Street Theatre are: Martin
Exploring Processions Shannon: Artistic Director, Kate Hodmon: Production Co-
Community Music Therapy movement. Gary currently works
as an independent music therapy practitioner, consultant and Presenters: Dr Louise Platt and Luman Street Theatre. ordinator and Giordana Giache: Production Manager.
scholar, and is an Associate of Nordoff Robbins, UK, where he Chair: Dr Niamh NicGhabhann Artistic Director Martin Shannon is a visual artist. He is a
is Convenor of the MPhil/PhD programme. He is an honorary graduate of LSAD and holds degrees in both Fine Art, Sculpture
What is a procession? What does it do? Movement, place
Professor in the department of sociology, philosophy and and Printmaking, and a Masters in Fine Art. He was selected
and identity. Processions have the potential to be powerful
anthropology at Exeter University and Adjunct Professor for Ev+A in 2005; had a residency in 411 Galleries in China
symbolic actions and events, during which specific groups
here at UL. and has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally.
claim and occupy public space in a highly visible way.
Dr Hilary Moss is Senior Lecturer in Music Therapy at UL. Processions, by their nature, claim an authoritative space He has been working with Limerick and Clare Youth Service in
She is a musician, music therapist and has an MBA in Health for participants. They can also be transformative in relation the creation and delivery of art projects for over 20 years. He
Service Management. She completed her PhD in 2014 at to place, and can provide a space for creative collaboration, works in a variety of communities in addition to developing art
Trinity College School of Medicine whilst Director of the play and the re-imagining of relationships between people programmes with the Garda Youth Diversion project. His most
National Centre for Arts and Health in Dublin. Her research and place. This seminar, with Dr Louise Platt and Lumen recent venture has been on Netflix’s Nightflyers at Troy studios
expertise includes aesthetic environment of healthcare Street Theatre, explores the meaning and development of in the Sculpture/model-making Dept.
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CHARLES M. ATKINSON
Production Co-ordinator Kate Hodmon is a Limerick based Wednesday February 20th

visual artist & is a graduate of GMIT and the University of
Hertfordshire, UK, in Art and Design, and in Illustration. She Ad te levavi and Dippermouth Blues: Modes of
has worked with Spraoi, Macnas, and with Limerick Youth Transmission and the Question of Musical Identity
Theatre, collaborating on projects such as the Creative Show. Presenter: Professor Charles M. Atkinson
She has been commissioned to create artwork and props for Chair: Dr Eleanor Giraud
performance and short films. Kate has recently worked on
Nightflyers, a TV production at Troy Studios as a sculptor- As is well known, both "Gregorian" chant and American
model maker and is a member of Limerick Figure Drawing jazz were transmitted orally at their inception, moving into
society. written transmission only later in their history. Improvisation,
or what Leo Treitler calls performance within a "generative
Production Manager Giordana Giache is a lecturer at Year1 system," must have played a role in the early centuries of
Fashion Design and at the Fashion Textile for Costume chant performance, and it plays a decisive role throughout
and Product at LSAD. Giordana is conducting a masters by the history of jazz. An important difference, though, is that if
research in Limerick Lace by examining its relevance in the the earliest written sources are any indication, the chant was
contemporary Art & Design dialogue. She has curated the transmitted orally in a strikingly unified manner; in jazz, value
Hybrid Limerick lace\Liminal lace exhibition and was involved has always been placed on originality and individuality. This
in the organisation of the Hybrid Conference. She has been paper examines a special case in jazz, however, that seems
engaged in many community education projects through the to contradict the "rule of individuality," coming closer to the
media of Art & Design. Giordana has been collaborating with relative consistency of transmission in Gregorian chant. It
Limerick and Clare Youth Service in the creation and delivery examines the thesis that brass soloists from 1923 on imitated
of Art and Design projects; most recently specializing in 3D verbatim the solo of Joe "King" Oliver in performances of
cardboard structures as visual spectacle on outdoor and Oliver's Dippermouth Blues, aka Sugarfoot Stomp.
indoor arts festivals. She is a freelance knitwear designer for
Nightflyers at Troy Studios. Charles M. Atkinson is Arts and Humanities Distinguished
Professor of Music and University Distinguished Professor
(emeritus) at The Ohio State University; he has also taught
at the University of California, Irvine, and the Universität
Würzburg, Germany, where he is now a member of the
project Corpus monodicum: the Monophonic Music of the
Latin Middle Ages. His scholarly work is devoted primarily
to music within the intellectual history of Antiquity and the
Middle Ages. The recipient of various prizes and awards, he is
Ciara Callanan-Ryan, a former President of the American Musicological Society.
MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance
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IMELDA DRUMM RACHEL MOORE JESSICA O’DONOGHUE
Wednesday February 27th Opera, singing Amneris in Verdi’s Aida and returning as Ruth
Wednesday March 20th
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in The Pirates of Penzance with Lyric Opera in 2018. She will
Today’s seminar is linked to the Common Treads special event present ‘Oral Contraceptives and Elite Vocalists in Training; Unravelling the Frontiers of Artistic Collaboration
where step dancers from a range of percussive traditions Perspectives from the Voice Academy’.
Presenters: Steve Boyland, Dr Óscar Mascareñas
tell their dance stories. It will include dancers from Ireland,
Rachel Moore is a Senior Speech and Language Therapist and Eugene Murphy
England, Canada and the US.
(SLT) specialising in Transgender Voice & Communication.
Chair: Óscar Mascareñas
See p.38 for more information. Since 2011 she has worked to fill the gap in Irish SLT
services for transgender people, providing direct voice and Through discourse, reflection and silence, Steve Boyland,
Wednesday March 6th communication therapy to the community, while promoting Óscar Mascareñas and Eugene Murphy will explore and unravel
Voice and Body: Therapeutic and Research Perspectives the essential role of SLT in transgender health care among the frontiers of artistic collaboration, in particular those of
her profession, the wider healthcare community, and in the an intra- and inter-disciplinary nature. Reflecting on aspects
Presenters: Dr Imelda Drumm, Rachel Moore, developing HSE care pathways. Rachel is the founder of an related to their own practice, which includes separate projects
Jessica O Donoghue award-winning social enterprise, Express YOUR Gender, and between all of them, the three artists will aim to examine and
Chair: Dr Hannah Fahey completed an M.A. in Gender Studies in 2017. reveal the complexities and problematics that emerge as a
result of collaboration, and will pose questions regarding the
From the performative to the physiological and from speaking Jessica O Donoghue is a doctoral music therapy student and
extent to which that shapes and informs their work.
to singing, voice is a site of expression, communication, IRC award holder at the Irish World Academy of Music and
identity and much more. This seminar brings together expert Dance, University of Limerick. She qualified with a Master Steve Boyland is one of the UK’s most accomplished improvising
cross disciplinary perspectives from speech and language of Arts in Music Therapy from the University of Limerick voice artists. He creates solo work and collaborative projects
therapy, music therapy and classical vocal performance. and also holds a BSc (Hons) Speech and Language Therapy with leading international practitioners in improvised music,
from the National University of Ireland, Galway. Jess has a visual and sound art, innovative poetry, dance and performance,
Mezzo-Soprano Dr Imelda Drumm has achieved critical broad range of clinical experience with individuals who have presenting his work in gallery, festival and concert spaces
international success as a vocal soloist sustaining a substantial communication difficulties, developmental disabilities, and around Europe.
international operatic singing career spanning over thirty mental health concerns. Her PhD research explores music
years, during which time she has forged particularly strong Eugene Murphy is a Dublin composer who was created a
therapy for adolescents who experience developmental
relationships with Glyndebourne Opera and Welsh National variety of works over 30 years for instruments and electronics
stuttering.
Opera, singing numerous principal and title roles. Her mainly for contemporary dance. His work has been performed
doctoral research investigated the influence of reproductive at different local, national and international festivals, including
hormones in soloist female professional singers. Her vocal The Dublin Theatre Festival and the Edinburgh Arts Festival.
teaching style and singing technique is largely influenced
by close collaboration with vocal technician, Dr Veronica
Dunne. She continues to perform regular engagements with
the RTÉ orchestras. Making her debut with Irish National
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STEVE BOYLAND EUGENE MURPHY CATHERINE FOLEY SANDRA JOYCE
Dr. Óscar Mascareñas is a poet, composer, voice artist Dr Catherine Foley is course director of the MA in
and musicologist. He has published work, given concerts, Ethnochoreology at the Irish World Academy of Music and
conferences and master classes extensively in Europe and Dance, University of Limerick. She is Founding Director
the Americas. He regularly collaborates with dance artists, of The National Dance Archive of Ireland and Founding
singers and theatre directors in Ireland and abroad. He is a Chair of Dance Research Forum Ireland. Catherine is serving
full-time lecturer and researcher at the Academy. her second term as the elected Chair of the ICTM's Study
Group on Ethnochoreology and is an elected member
Wednesday March 27th of the ICTM's executive board. Catherine has published
extensively, including her two monographs, Irish Traditional
Revival and Repercussions in Irish Tradition
Step Dancing in North Kerry (Book and DVD; North Kerry
Presenters: Dr Catherine Foley, Dr Niall Keegan, Literary Trust, 2012), and Step Dancing in Ireland: Culture
Dr Sandra Joyce and History (Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2013). She has also
published in international scholarly journals including Dance
Chair: Dr Colin Quigley
Research Journal, Yearbook for Traditional Music, Dance
Traditional singing, dancing, and musicking have all Research, and New Hibernia Review. She has produced a solo
undergone periods of revitalization over a history stretching DVD Stór Damhsa: Irish Traditional Solo Set Dances and Step
back at least to the turn of the 18th century. Is the notion of Dances (2015) and a multimedia publication of The Sionna Set
revival still relevant to Irish traditions today? Dance (2007), a newly choreographed and commissioned set
dance. Catherine is a dancer and musician.
Comparable revivals of song, music, and dance genres
have been many throughout Europe, North America, and Dr Sandra Joyce is Director of the Irish World Academy of
indeed throughout the world. Scholars have examined the Music and Dance. Together with Niall Keegan and Mícheál Ó
circumstance in which many of these movements emerged Súilleabháin, she founded the BA Irish Music and Dance and
and the consequences of their shaping ideologies. What MA Irish Traditional Music Performance at the university and
happens in the later stages of revival movements, shifts has been the course director for both of these programs. She
into circumstances of post-revival or 're-revival', is less well has also led the development of many other programs at
understood. the Academy. She is a founding member of the TradSong
research cluster, and has supervised a number of PhDs in the
This panel brings together leading academic practitioners in
area of traditional song. Her research interests include the
the fields of Irish traditional song, instrumental music, and
Irish song tradition, the Irish harp tradition, and historical
dance to offer a snapshot of the present state of revivals
sources of Irish traditional music. Her co-edited volume, Harp
across these sometimes separate, sometimes overlapping
Studies: Perspectives on the Irish Harp (with Helen Lawlor) was
and intersecting, domains.
published by Four Courts Press, Dublin, in 2016. Sandra is a
traditional singer and bodhrán player.
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Niall Keegan IMRO
Dr Niall Keegan was born in the south east of England Wednesday April 3rd
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and began playing Irish traditional flute at an early age
amongst the community of first- and second-generation There’s More to the Music Business than
musicians in and around London. He has performed widely, just Making Music
in venues including the National Concert Hall in Dublin and Presenters: Keith Johnson, Michael Roe
the Galway Arts Centre. He often works in collaboration with and Juliet Martin
fellow Irish musicians in various idioms including Mícheál
Ó Súileabháin's concerto for flute and chamber orchestra, Chair: Carl Corcoran
and with the fusion group Hiberno Jazz. He performs most This Tower Seminar is the culmination of a Day of Industry
often, however, in traditional idiom with Sandra Joyce, an linked events at the Academy hosted by the MA in
innovative bodhran player and singer. He has been course Songwriting. In this Seminar, Songwriting Course Director
director of the Traditional Irish Music performance masters Carl Corcoran introduces those attending to various
at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of elements and exponents of the music business, including
Limerick and also teaches on the ethnomusicology program Publishing, Promotion and Record Company experts for a
there. He has given lectures and taught instrumental classes panel discussion on related matters. Keith Johnson, Director
at the Music Dept. of University College, Cork and University of Marketing & Membership at IMRO will be joined by Michael
College, Galway, Sibelius Academy, Dublin Institute of Roe, CEO of Independent Label Faction Records along with
Technology, Newcastle University, Royal Scottish Academy of Juliet Martin Director of Silverstream Music Publishing, one
Music and Drama among others. Niall is currently director of of Ireland’s leading Music Publishers and Administrators of
the BA Irish Traditional Music and Dance Studies at the Irish Music.
World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick.
His PhD, The Art of Juncture: The Creative Transformations
of Traditional Irish Music, examines cognitive structures that
traditional musicians use to organise their oral music in a
literate world. Niall is currently the Associate Director of
the Irish World Academy and the Director of Undergraduate
Studies, responsible for the BA Irish Music and Dance, BA
Voice and Dance and Certificate in Music and Dance.
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Kelsey Schule, PhD Arts Practice
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LOGOS IS A SEMINAR SERIES COEXISTING WITH THE
LONG-ESTABLISHED PUBLIC TOWER SEMINAR AND
LUNCHTIME PERFORMANCE SERIES.
VENUE: CONFERENCE ROOM, FIRST FLOOR,

IRISH WORLD ACADEMY
10AM TO 12 NOON
Dr Matthew Noone, Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow
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DAVE STROUD CHARLES M. ATKINSON KENDRA STEPPUTAT
Thursday February 14th Thursday February 21st Thursday March 28th
MARCH
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Tower Theatre On Modulation in Early Medieval Chant: the Music and Dance Culture Revivals
φθοραί in Byzantium and the vitia in the West
Training the Contemporary Vocalist: Vocology, singing Presenters: Dr Kendra Stepputat and Dr Colin Quigley
software and building a community of practice. Presenter: Professor Charles M. Atkinson
Discussion of Music and Dance Culture Revivals based on
Presenter: Dave Stroud Chair: Dr Eleanor Giraud the work of Dr Kendra Stepputat, 'Tango Argentino in Close
Embrace - the (Ce-)construction of a Revived Dance Style'
Chair: Dr Hannah Fahey One of the most fascinating phenomena in early medieval
and Dr Colin Quigley, 'Folk Revival in Capitalist and Socialist
chant is that of modulation: the shift from one echos to
Through his scientific approach blended with his focus Formations: The United States and Hungary in the 1970s'. This
another in Byzantium and from one tonus to another in
on artistry, Dave Stroud is considered one of the world’s Seminar is part is part of an exchange project between the
the West. In the East, a modulation can be produced either
leading vocal coaches, working with artists such as One Academy and the Ethnomusicology Institute of KUG, Austria,
by parallage, a tonal shift created when the ambitus and
Direction, Justin Bieber, Natasha Bedingfield, Kelly Clarkson, led by Dr Quigley and Dr Kendra Stepputat. Related events
melodic formulae of a melody move up or down within the
Justin Timberlake and Michael Jackson. Dave pioneered the will take place throughout the week of March 25-29 which are
same diatonic array, or by what are known as phthorai -
leading vocal company VocalizeU. Through this company, announced elsewhere.
corruptions - that introduce different species of octave within
Dave has created SingPro, a vocal program designed to a given ambitus. The same phenomena are documented in Dr Kendra Stepputat is Assistant Professor in Ethno-
individually assess a singer’s voice and create personalized the West by the 9th-century Musica and Scolica enchiriadis, musicology at the Institute of Ethnomusicology, University of
warm-ups and practice tips. SingPro is used by top singers the latter treating modulation under the heading of vitia— Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria. Her research topics
in the music industry and is also used as core curriculum in corruptions—that likewise introduce different species of include Balinese performing arts, in particular kecak, and
many national and international music schools including octave within a given ambitus. The seminar will begin with tango argentino in European perspective. She has published
South Plains College, Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, a brief paper, followed by discussion of the theoretical and articles in the Yearbook for Traditional Music, Asian Music,
Tokyo Shabuya School of Music, Sendai School of Music, and practical issues manifested by examples drawn from both and is editor of Performing Arts in Postmodern Bali (2013) and
others. Eastern and Western chant. co-editor of Sounding the Dance, Moving the Music (2016).
Establishing a strong vocal community is a priority for Dave, Charles M. Atkinson is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Dr Colin Quigley is Course Director for Ethnomusicology at
which has led him to create organizations for teachers and Professor of Music and University Distinguished Professor the University of Limerick, Ireland, and Emeritus Professor
singers including Vocology In Practice, Speech Level Singing (emeritus) at The Ohio State University; he has also taught at University of California Los Angeles. He has published
teacher certification program, the VocalizeU Artist Intensive at the University of California, Irvine, the Ecole Pratique extensively on traditional music and dance around the North
Summer Event, and the VocalizeU Songwriting Winter des Hautes Études (Sorbonne) in Paris, and the Universität Atlantic Rim, including the books: Close to the Floor: Irish Dance
Retreat. These associations have created an environment Würzburg, Germany, where he is now a member of the from the Boreen to Broadway (co-editor, 2008); Music from the
for singers and teachers alike, providing education and project Corpus Monodicum: the Monophonic Music of the Heart: Compositions of a Folk Fiddler (1995); and, Close to the
connections to all. Latin Middle Ages. His scholarly work is devoted primarily Floor: Folk Dance in Newfoundland (1985); as well as in journals
to music within the intellectual history of Antiquity and the including Ethnomusicology and Yearbook for Traditional Music.
Middle Ages. The recipient of various prizes and awards, he is Colin is a fiddler, banjo player, dancer and dance caller.
a former President of the American Musicological Society.
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Christian Elliot,
Irish Chamber Orchestra Academy
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Steven O'Leary and Seán Kelleiher, BA Irish Music and Dance
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INBHEAR COMMON THREADS
Friday January 18th For the past 50 years, Jimmy Smith has been involved in Originally from Montreal, Marianne Larose began her dance
JANUARY
traditional Irish step dance. Whilst a founding member of training with the professional ballet program offered by
Inbhear - Publishing and Dissemination for Arts, Siamsa Tíre, the National Folk Theatre of Ireland, in 1985 l’École supérieure de ballet du Québec. Influenced by the
Humanities and Social Science Research Jimmy, along with his long-time step dance partner Honor living subculture of French-Canadian traditional music and
Theatre 1, 10am-1pm Flynn, also founded the world renowned Rinceoirí Na dance, she studied concurrently Québécois gigue. To push
Inbhear is a research event hosted by the Irish World Academy Ríochta school of Irish dance in Tralee. Jimmy has performed the boundaries of traditional dancing, Larose also draws on
of Music and Dance that focuses on publication and the individually and with Siamsa Tíre and has travelled the world both body percussion and contemporary dance. Marianne
dissemination of research for postgraduate and early career sharing his love of the traditional Kerry style of Irish step also spent five years as a dancer with [ZØGMA] Collectif de
researchers in the arts, humanities and social sciences. The dance to all. Jimmy is a teacher and adjudicator with An folklore urbain.
dissemination and publication of research is increasingly Coimisiún.
Percussive dancer Toby Bennett studied with numerous
important for academic career development. The Inbhear Dancer, musician, and dance researcher Nic Gareiss has been traditional English dancers and is an expert in the English
research event will introduce participants to a number of key hailed by the New York Times for his "dexterous melding of Lakeland (Westmorland) step dance tradition of which
issues, and will also feature practical sessions on developing Irish and Appalachian dance" and called "the most inventive he is a past champion. Starting out in traditional dance,
publications as part of research in process. and expressive step dancer on the scene” by the Boston he later trained in contemporary dance and ballet at the
Herald. He re-imagines movement as a musical practice, Ballet Rambert School becoming a professional dancer and
Tuesday February 26th &
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recasting dance as medium that appeals to both eyes and then dance educator. Until 2015 he worked at the dance
Wednesday February 27th ears. Originally from Michigan, Gareiss draws from many department of the University of Roehampton (becoming
percussive dance traditions, weaving together a dance principal lecturer and head of department) and researched
Common Treads technique facilitating his love of improvisation, traditional into technique, style and pedagogy in early twentieth century
Irish World Academy, 9am-5pm dance footwork vocabulary, and musical collaboration. He ballet through which he also developed strong movement
Convenors: Dr Orfhlaith Ni Bhriain, Dr Mats Melin has concertized in fifteen countries for over ten years with analysis and Labanotation skills. Toby has now returned to
many of the luminaries of traditional music including Phil his percussive traditional dance roots as a performer and
Visiting Dancers: Jimmy Smith, Nic Gareiss, Wiggins, Frankie Gavin, Dervish, Bill Frisell, Darol Anger, teacher. He is a member of the UK based “Instep Research
Marianne Larose, Toby Bennett Bruce Molsky, Genticorum, Le Vent du Nord, Solas, Liz Carroll, Team” and is currently on the organising committee for the
This two-day event will celebrate a diversity of percussive Martin Hayes, The Gloaming, and The Chieftains. Nic holds “Stepping On” conference to be held in London in November
dance styles from Ireland, Britain and North America. As well degrees in Anthropology and Music from Central Michigan 2019.
as workshops and performances, the event will culminate in a University and a MA in Ethnochoreology from the University
special Tower Seminar where dancers will share their stories of Limerick. Gareiss's essay, "An Buachaillín Bán: Reflections For further information – www.irishworldacademy.ie
through dance. The dance traditions featured will include on One Queer's Performance within Traditional Irish Music
Irish, Scottish, English, Quebecois and Appalachian Clogging. & Dance" appears in the book Queer Dance: Meanings and
During the events we will look at the shared elements of a Makings edited by Clare Croft on Oxford University Press.
range of percussive dance practices. www.nicgareiss.com
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THE STRODE PROJECT THE MAGHERA PONY
Tuesday March 12th Tuesday March 26th

MARCH
The STRODE Project: a long step in walking Album Launch

Seomra Gamelan, Irish World Academy, 5pm The Maghera Pony by Matthew Noone
Tower Theatre, 6pm
The STRODE Project explores the relationship between
sound and the body through the creation of new, cross- This event celebrates the release of the 2nd solo album by
genre compositions. Directed by Dr Matthew Noone and self-confessed 'mongrel' musician, composer and scholar
Professor Mel Mercier, the project incorporates elements Matthew Noone. Matthew's primary instrument is the
of Javanese gamelan, contemporary dance, North Indian multi-stringed North Indian lute called the sarode. He
classical music and electroacoustic composition. The performs in a range of musics ranging from Indian classical,
STRODE Project is part of Dr Noone’s Irish Research Council Irish traditional, free improvisation and electroacoustics.
the globe and composes in a diverse range of disciplines
postdoctoral fellowship at the Irish World Academy and This album (The Maghera Pony) was developed during
ranging from Irish traditional music, free improvisation
this performance is the first public dissemination of his an artist-in-residence at the Burren College of Art which
and contemporary electroacoustic music.
ongoing research into new composition for the North explored intersections between visual art, landscape,
Indian sarode. corporeality, electronics and music. The album was He has collaborated with artists such as Martin Hayes and
recorded partly in the Burren and also in the Irish World Dennis Cahill, Tommy Hayes, Sean Tyrell, K. Subramaniam,
Performed by Kevin McNally, Bianca Figl, Claire O’Brien,
Academy. It features original compositions for a custom Liam Ó Maonlai, Seán Mac Erlaine, Catherine Sikora,
Cormac Byrne, Deanna McDonagh, Niamh Delaney,
made electroacoustic sarode and incorporates voice, Slavek Kwi and Steve Cooney. Matthew has released two
Matthew Noone and Mel Mercier.
loops, drones and other electronics using coding software albums of new arrangements of traditional music with
Admission is free and all are welcome. called CHUCK. This album represents the first recorded percussionist Tommy Hayes (An Tara) and in 2017 released
output of Matthew's current Irish Research Council his debut solo album LET LUV B UR GURU featuring
postdoctoral fellowship exploring new composition for twenty-three original compositions using sarode, fiddle,
the sarode. ukulele, loops and drones.
Matthew Noone is an Australian-Irish ex-indie rocker, “unique and profound music”
improviser, composer and performer of the 25 stringed (Celtic Road Radio)
lute called a sarode. After beginning his musical career
“nothing short of pure magic”
as a guitarist and drummer in Brisbane and Sydney in the
(Hot Press Magazine)
mid 90s, Matthew fell in love with the sarode during a trip
to India in 2003. He has studied North Indian Classical
music for over a decade with Sougata Roy Chowdhury
in Kolkata and more recently with UK based sarodiya, K.
Sridhar. He has performed Indian classical music across
Cherinet Ayele, Erasmus + exchange student
from the University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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STYRIAN FOLKBAND EUGENE MURPHY BLAS INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL
Sunday March 17th – notion of revival still relevant in the practice of traditional
June 24th to July 5th
JUNE - JULY
performing arts across Europe today?’
Wednesday March 27th Blas International Summer School of
Scholars have examined the circumstances in which many
Revival and Repercussions in Music, Dance, and Irish Traditional Music and Dance 2019
of these movements emerged and the consequences of
Song: Ireland, Austria, and across Europe. their shaping ideologies. What happens in the later stages The 23rd Blas International Summer School of Irish
A joint research and teaching initiative of the Ethno- of revival movements, shifts into circumstances of post- Traditional Music and Dance will take place in the Irish World
musicology Programme at the Academy and the revival or 're-revival’, however, is less well understood. The Academy at the University of Limerick from June 24th to July
Ethnomusicology Institute at the University of Music and faculty and students in this project will examine the revival 5th, 2019.
Performing Arts Graz (KUG), Austria. Led by Dr Colin Quigley phenomenon more generally, in particular in Europe, and
Blas is now firmly established as one of Ireland’s most
(Course Director) and Dr Kendra Stepputat (Assistant specifically investigate the current presence of ‘revival’
prestigious summer schools and has developed a reputation for
Professor in Ethnomusicology), this special event spans in the Irish and Austrian contexts. Thanks to the Academy,
its quality and innovation. The school provides students (aged
two weeks of faculty and student exchange between the the AHSS Dean's Office at UL, and the University of Music
16 and over) from around the world with access to the expertise
two institutions. It will constitute a special topic within the and Performing Arts Graz (KUG), Austria for their generous
of some of Ireland’s finest musicians, singers, dancers and
Ethnomusicology Spring Semester Core Seminar curriculum support of this project.
academics, who, in previous schools, have included Dónal Lunny,
and feature a public Tower Seminar on Wednesday March 27 Andy Irvine, Paul Brady, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Zoe Conway,
Friday May 31st
MAY
and Logos Seminar on Thursday March 28 while Dr. Stepputat Siobhán Peoples, Martin Hayes, John Carty, Colin Dunne, Ciara
and her students are visiting the Academy. A full program Eugene Murphy Sexton, Breandán de Gallaí, Jim Higgins, Mel Mercier, Sandra
of musical exchange and field trips to local music, dance, PhD Arts Practice Performance Joyce, Niall Keegan, Kevin Crawford, Matt Molloy, Louise
and song events and sessions is also being offered over the Tower Theatre, 7pm Mulcahy, Ryan Molloy, Michelle Mulcahy, Nóirín Ní Riain, Karan
course of the week. During a parallel exchange week, a select Casey, and Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin. In addition to expert tuition
group of students from UL will go to Graz, for lectures by Continuing his exploration of interdisciplinarity within
and master classes, the two-week programme includes a range
experts, in both Styrian and broader perspectives, along the context of collaboration Eugene Murphy has invited
of activities such as lectures and public seminars, Irish language
with workshops in Styrian song and dance, and come to Steve Boyland (voice artist) to join him once more (for his
classes, daily lunchtime concerts featuring Blas tutors, nightly
know the leading institution (Steirisches Volksliedwerk) for second PhD performance) to delve into and understand
sessions, evening concerts, céilithe, field-trips and above all,
the archival, support, and research in Styrian music, singing more fully what happens among artists who create
the unique opportunity to share tunes with some of Ireland’s
and dance practices. collaboratively. Working with other disciplines like dance/
leading traditional musicians.
film Murphy is reflecting on the boundaries between music
Traditional singing, dancing, and musicking have all composition and other disciplines and what lies at the core The programme is also worth three academic credits or six ECTS
undergone periods of revitalization over a history stretching of this type of creative process especially when integration credits towards an undergraduate degree, which makes Blas
back at least to the turn of the 18th century. During the takes place. unique within the world of traditional music summer schools
‘long’ 20th century comparable revivals of song, music, dance in that the study of Irish traditional music, song and dance can
genres have been many throughout Europe, North America, count as a modular component of a university degree.
and indeed throughout the world. This project asks, 'Is the
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Blas is now extending its offering to students by recognising
and recommending a further week of insight into all aspects
of Irish traditional music through participation in The Scope
of Irish Traditional Music (Dúchas an Cheoil) at the Willie
Clancy Summer School in Miltown Malbay Co.Clare in early
July. More details on The Scope of Irish Traditional Music are
available at: www.scoilsamhraidhwillieclancy.com
For further information on all aspects of the Blas Summer

School including scholarships, please visit www.blas.ie.
Alternatively, contact Pamela Cotter, Director,
Blas International Summer School of Irish Traditional
Music and Dance, Irish World Academy, University of
Limerick, Ireland. Email Pamela at pamela.cotter@ul.ie or
call her on +353 61 202653/202030.
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AG FÉACHAINT SIAR
RECENT
EVENTS
Mick Flannery, Lunchtime Performance
in association with MA Songwriting
MAY OCTOBER
Celebrating 20 Years
of Music Therapy at UL
On Thursday 10th May 2018 a national music
therapy research seminar was held at the
Irish World Academy. This free public event
occurred on the 20th anniversary year of the
establishment of the MA Music Therapy course
at UL. This was the first professional training
to be established on the island of Ireland and is COMMUNITY MUSIC IRELAND SYMPOSIUM
still the only MA Music Therapy in existence in CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF MUSIC THERAPY
Ireland. The course has significantly contributed Community Music Ireland Symposium
to the establishment of music therapy as a
healthcare profession in Ireland with programme In keeping with the twentieth anniversary
On Saturday 20th October, Community Music Ireland hosted its first
graduates working across the country and celebrations, the music therapy course team
symposium at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, exploring the
internationally. Music therapy graduates may department is delighted to announce the
theme of 'Community Music in a Changing World.' Facilitators from around the
work across a range of different areas right appointment of Professor Gary Ansdell as
country gathered for a series of workshops, seminars and discussion groups
across the lifespan such as intellectual disability, Adjunct Professor of Music Therapy for a three-
centring on self-care and professional support. We were delighted to welcome
mental health, paediatric care, palliative care, year period (2018 – 2021). Professor Ansdell
Professor Brydie Leigh Bartleet from the Queensland Conservatorium
older adult care and education. Our graduates has been a music therapist for nearly thirty
Research Centre as our keynote speaker. The event was organised by Dr
are employed in institutions including Our years, working primarily in the area of adult
Kathleen Turner, Dr Fran Garry, and Hala Jaber, with support from academy
Lady’s Children’s Hospital (Crumlin, Dublin), mental health over the last decade. He has
colleagues, Barbara Christie, Melissa Carty, Jennifer De Brún, Jean Downey,
National Rehabilitation Hospital (Dublin), been involved in a wide range of areas of music
Dr Hilary Moss and Professor Helen Phelan.
Tallaght University Hospital (Dublin), Milford therapy practice and has published widely in the
Hospice (Limerick), the Laura Lynn Foundation areas of music therapy and music and health
(Dublin), Limerick University Hospital, the Cope in addition to being author/co-author of six
Foundation (Cork), Brothers of Charity (Galway), books on music therapy. Gary currently works
St John of God’s Services (Dublin) and in many as an independent music therapy practitioner,
schools, mental health services and voluntary consultant and scholar, and is an Associate
organisations across the country. The national Professor at Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy,
research seminar showcased music therapy UK, where he is Convenor of the MPhil/PhD
research in Ireland as well as introducing the programme. He is an honorary Professor in
emerging PhD music therapy research group the department of sociology, philosophy and
here at UL. Keynote speakers were Professor anthropology at Exeter University.
Barbara Wheeler (Montclair State University,
USA) and Professor Dominic Harmon (University
Hospital Limerick).
Therese Tierney and Laura Walsh,

MA Music Therapy
OCTOBER Irish World Academy Fieldtrip
On the 5th and 6th of October, as part of the postgraduate Introduction to Fieldwork Techniques module at the Irish World
Academy of Music and Dance, Dr Catherine Foley coordinated the 5th Irish World Academy Field Trip to North Kerry to
engage students in music, song and dance activities in the region and to provide them with the opportunity to undertake
fieldwork and apply fieldwork techniques. For the second year the field trip was organised around The Liam Tarrant
Memorial Weekend, which was founded by its Co-Directors Dr Catherine Foley and Jimmy Deenihan, former Minister of
State for the Diaspora and Minister of State for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. The Memorial Weekend is a collaboration
between the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, Siamsa Tíre – the National Folk Theatre of Ireland, and the people
of Finuge Village, Listowel. The event took place in the village of Finuge, Listowel, and commemorated Liam Tarrant, a
traditional step dancer of North Kerry who had been taught by the itinerant dancing master, Jeremiah Molyneaux; it was
sponsored by Pádraig Tarrant, son of Liam Tarrant. The programme for the weekend included dance workshops with
Jonathan Kelliher (Artistic Director of Siamsa Tíre), Nicky McAuliffe, Máire Walsh, and Great Curtin (music workshops),
IRISH WORLD ACADEMY FIELDTRIP
and Mickey MacConnell (song workshops). There was also a local concert, an informal session, and a public interview
between Dr Catherine Foley and Jonathan Kelliher. The Liam Tarrant Memorial Weekend contributed to sustaining local
cultural activities and also provided students from the Irish World Academy with an opportunity to undertake fieldwork
in the village of Finuge as part of their programme of studies.
OCTOBER / NOVEMBER
TraditionAnew EthnoSummit 2018 Belgrade, Serbia
For a second consecutive year Dr Catherine Foley of the Irish World Academy was invited to participate in the
2nd TraditionAnew EthnoSummit 2018 event in Belgrade, Serbia (31st October – 5th November). The event consisted of
a conference and a festival and was hosted by KOLO, the National Folk Dance Ensemble of Serbia and the Department
of Musicology at the University of the Arts, Belgrade. Dr Foley and Dr Niall Keegan were also invited to perform with 20
Irish World Academy students at the festival in Belgrade (3rd November 2018).
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NOVEMBER
Fidget Feet 20th Anniversary
NOVEMBER A special 20th Anniversary booklet celebrating the first 20 years of
Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Company, artists-in-residence at the Irish
World Academy, was launched by Dr Sandra Joyce on November
14th. A short film on the history of Fidget Feet was shown, and
there was a very special installation performance featuring spiral
apparatuses. Mayor of Limerick, James Collins, was in attendance.
THE CHANCELLOR'S CONCERT
The Chancellor's Concert

The Chancellor’s Concert 2018 featured Paul Brady,
who performed at an intimate fundraising event
for the Blas International Summer School of Irish
Traditional Music and Dance at Plassey House on FIDGET FEET 20TH ANNIVERSARY
November 2nd. Paul was introduced and thanked by
Academy Director, Dr Sandra Joyce, and Director of
Blas, Pam Cotter, was also in attendance. The Paul
Brady Scholarships have already enabled over 50
students to attend Blas, and this latest fundraising
endeavour allows this scholarship fund to continue
for the next few years.
Diane Daly, Artistic Director,

Irish Chamber Orchestra Academy
NOVEMBER
The Limerick Fling
The annual Limerick Fling concert took place in UCH on November 1st. The concert featured over 100 performers,
mainly drawn from the Academy’s student body, from programmes in contemporary dance, traditional dance,
traditional music, songwriting and arts practice. Graduate and award-winning singer-songwriter Emma Langford was
a highlight, as was the Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter Rhiannon Giddens, a regular visiting tutor on the MA
Songwriting. Facilitated by Fidget Feet, artists-in-residence at the Academy, the concert also featured spectacular
performances by aerial dancers, including Academy Performing Arts Co-Ordinator Jennifer de Brún.
THE LIMERICK FLING
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BEALACH
COMMUNITY
CULTURAL
PATHWAYS
International students participating the the Irish Chamber Orchestra Academy
SHANE CASSIDY AND REBECCA O’CONNOR AT NRH MAOIN CHEOIL AN CHLÁIR NATIONAL DANCE ARCHIVE OF IRELAND CRUINNIÚ
The Irish World Academy’s Community The NRH music therapy service is a flagship service in Ireland. National Dance Archive of Ireland
The music therapist is a recognised allied health professional The National Dance Archive of Ireland (NDAI) at the Glucksman
Engagement Programme
who plays an integral role in the multi-disciplinary team. Library, University of Limerick was founded in 2009 with a seed
Featured Project - The National The senior music therapist at the facility teaches regularly funding award from the Arts Council of Ireland. The NDAI works
Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH) on the MA programme and faculty from UL meet regularly in partnership with the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance
The NRH provides a comprehensive range of specialist with Music Therapists at NRH for peer mentoring. The Irish and Dance Research Forum Ireland. The NDAI is devoted to the
rehabilitation services to patients from throughout Ireland World Academy MA programme also developed an ongoing collection, preservation and promotion of dance in Ireland
who, as a result of an accident, illness or injury have acquired relationship with Acquired Brain Injury Ireland (ABII), who and is accessible to all. It chronicles dance in Ireland in all its
a physical or cognitive disability and require specialist support people who are living with ABI in the Limerick region manifestations (contemporary dance, traditional step dancing,
rehabilitation. The music therapy service at NRH provides and those who do not qualify for treatment at NRH but still set dancing, ballet, social dance, urban dance and world dance)
specialist music therapy assessment and treatment to require support and treatment in regional centres around and conveys an understanding of the different processes and
patients in the Brain Injury and the Prolonged Disorder of the country. For example, in 2017 an MA student completed practices of creating, performing and writing about dance in
Consciousness Programmes and to children and adolescents a work placement at the Co Offaly ABII centre and as a result Ireland.
within the Paediatric programme. There are two music ABII are actively seeking to employ a music therapist in their
For further information, please contact the NDAI founding
therapists working within the service: Rebecca O’Connor, services.
director, Dr Catherine Foley, at catherine.e.foley@ul.ie,
Senior Music Therapist, and Dee Grey, Music Therapy For more information, please visit the NRH Music telephone +353 61 202922 or Special Collections Librarian
Researcher. Therapy website: Ken Bergin at ken.bergin@ul.ie, telephone +353 61 213158.
The Irish World Academy established a formal research http://www.nrh.ie/rehabilitation-programmes-services/ Alternatively, email ndai@ul.ie or telephone +353 61
relationship with NRH in 2017. This year, two MA students music-thearpy-2/ 202690. Visit the NDAI at www.nationaldancearchiveireland.
spent twenty weeks on work placement, learning the craft of ie. Access to the National Dance Archive of Ireland is by
Community Engagement appointment only.
music therapy and helping to run the NRH therapeutic choir.
Students have been working at NRH for the last ten years. Maoin Cheoil an Chláir
Cruinniú
In partnership with the Vocational Education Committee
A joint PhD is now underway, supervised by Dr Hilary Moss Cruinniú, the Irish World Academy’s outreach initiative, sees
of County Clare and with the assistance of Clare County
and clinically supervised by Ms Rebecca O’Connor. Shane staff from all walks of life at UL engaging in free weekly
Council and Ennis Urban District Council, Maoin Cheoil an
Cassidy is in his 2nd year of this PhD at UL, investigating the classes/sessions of Irish traditional music. The sessions have
Chláir (MCC) is a local cooperative model serving the needs
impact of Neurologic Music Therapy sensorimotor techniques been facilitated by a number of players within the group and by
of County Clare from its Ennis headquarters in the 18th
on the physical rehabilitation, specifically the gait or walking students of the Irish World Academy. All members of UL staff
century Erasmus Smith School building owned by the Sisters
parameters for adult and paediatric patients who have had are welcome to participate, so come along if you fancy a tune!
of Mercy. MCC celebrated its twentieth anniversary in 2014.
an acquired brain injury. The study also measures the impact Sessions take place at the Irish World Academy from 1pm to
Several members of faculty from the Irish World Academy
of this music therapy intervention on the participant's mood. 2pm every Wednesday in Room IW2.51.
have been included on its board since its inception. MCC
The clinical aspect of this work is being undertaken at NRH
enjoys a special relationship with the Academy. MCC Director
and academic work at UL.
Hans Boller is a graduate of the Academy’s MA Ritual Chant.
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DANCE LIMERICK SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY LUNCHTIME CONCERTS MA MUSIC THERAPY
Dance Limerick University Hospital (Dublin), Milford Hospice (Limerick),

Since its inception, the contemporary dance programme the Laura Lynn Foundation (Dublin), Limerick University
at the Irish World Academy has sought to twin-track its Hospital, the Cope Foundation (Cork), Brothers of Charity
activities with the professional contemporary dance (Galway), St John of God’s Services (Dublin) and in many
energy in Limerick city. The emergence of Dance Limerick schools, mental health services and voluntary organisations
at the former Daghdha space in St John’s Square sets the across the country. A formal research relationship has been
scene for a new level of cooperative dance activity. The established between the National Rehabilitation Hospital
Irish World Academy is proud to be associated with Dance and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance with a
Limerick and looks forward to reclaiming the original spirit shared PhD student working across both sites.
of contemporary dance cooperation in Limerick.
The Corpus Christi School, Moyross recently engaged a music
School and Community Lunchtime Concerts therapist from the faculty, Ms Jess O’Donoghue, to develop
Wednesdays at Irish World Academy are alive to the sound of a therapeutic choir for parents of children at the school.
visiting school and community groups. The experience begins This community engagement and research project has been
when the visiting performers arrive in to the beautiful Tower formally adopted as a community engagement activity of the
Theatre, to rehearse for their concert at 12 noon. For many, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.
it is their first time to perform in a university environment.
The excitement is palpable. The concert takes place at
1.15pm. The campus community, families and friends are
invited to attend. This is a very special time at Irish World
Academy when we experience the beautiful music making,
song and dance presented by our visiting school and
community groups.
MA Music Therapy
The MA Music Therapy programme has established over
twenty ongoing relationships with hospitals, nursing
homes, voluntary organisations, social care and health
services throughout Ireland. Students attend placements
throughout their course, working on site with people from our
local community and in national organisations. Music therapy
students are currently completing work placements in
institutions including Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital (Crumlin,
Dublin), National Rehabilitation Hospital (Dublin), Tallaght
Juliana Tarumoto, MA Contemporary Dance Performance
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MA COMMUNITY MUSIC SONAS IS SLÁINTE GLENSTAL ABBEY IRISH WORLD MUSIC CAFÉ
MA Community Music Glenstal Abbey Community Gamelan Ensemble

The MA Community Music has a strong relationship with The MA Ritual Chant and Song has a close link with the The Irish World Academy and the University of Limerick Arts
community groups in Limerick City and further afield. Every Benedictine community at Glenstal Abbey, in the environs Office established the Community Gamelan Ensemble in
year our students undertake a placement and facilitate of the campus. Students visit the abbey approximately once October 2017. The Community Gamelan Ensemble provides
12 hours of community music workshops, including the a month in order to observe and participate in chant as a access for UL staff and members of the wider community to
development of at least one original piece of music. Previous living practice. A number of the monks at Glenstal Abbey the Academy’s recently acquired set of beautiful Javanese
placement hosts include the Learning Hub, Music Generation have completed the MA Ritual Chant and Song, and are now musical instruments. Sessions are facilitated by Academy
Limerick City, the Redemptorist Centre of Music and Milford involved in delivering seminars to current students. gamelan tutor Kevin McNally, visiting artist Pak Sumaryono
National School. MA Community Music has introduced a new (Yogyakarta, Java) and Professor Mel Mercier. Participants
Irish World Music Café
community partnership to the programme this year, bringing learn to play some traditional Javanese music on the gamelan
The Irish World Music Cafe is a community-based project
students together with a local community group to develop instruments and catch a glimpse of the wider artistic context
which takes place six times a year at the CB1 gallery in
an ensemble performance. for this music.
Limerick city. The cafe provides an open invitation to a
Headway, a charity that provides support for people social singing event with some light lunch refreshments. It is Irish Dance Community
experiencing acquired brain injury, are our first partner in especially welcoming of new migrants and coincides with the The Academy's Irish Dance programmes have close connections
this pilot programme. A group of 15 singers, including clients end of English language classes offered by Doras Luimní in with the Irish Dance community in Ireland and inter-
and staff, have developed two original compositions and a the same building. It features singing from around the world nationally, liaising with professional shows, dance development
number of songs to be performed at the Irish World Academy by UL students, newcomers to Ireland and long-established organisations, step and sean nós dance schools and celebrated
with our students. Limerick musicians. It is coordinated by the Singing & Social Irish dance performers and choreographers. Many alumni have
Inclusion research cluster at the Irish World Academy. gone on to perform with internationally renowned shows.
Sonas is Sláinte
The Irish World Academy and University Hospital Limerick World Carnival Irish Music Community
have been exploring ways in which to improve people’s World Carnival is an educational project coordinated by The Irish World Academy connects and collaborates with many
experiences and change their impressions of a hospital the Irish World Academy and Presentation Primary School, traditional music festivals, locally, nationally and internationally.
environment. In Autumn 2015, a pilot project invited in partnership with the Irish Chamber Orchestra and Music Students from the BA Irish Music and Dance are performing
students of the Academy’s MA Music Therapy, BA Voice and Generation. Presentation primary school is one of the most at Celtic Connections festival, Glasgow, in January 2019, as
Dance and BA Traditional Music and Dance programmes to multi-cultural schools in the city. The World Carnival part of a collaboration with Glasgow Caledonian University -
perform in a shared café space within the hospital. Following programme facilitates the learning of songs from around the this performance will be broadcast live on Celtic Music Radio.
an extremely positive response, this new programme of world and culminates in a 'Meet the Musician' day and a public The Academy has had a very successful collaboration with
concerts brings music to a healthcare setting with the aim of performance for parents, friends and the wider community. the Inishowen International Folk Song and Ballad Seminar in
providing calm and restoration to patients, staff and visitors. It is coordinated by the Singing & Social Inclusion research Donegal for many years, sending song students to participate
‘Sonas is Sláinte’ is a joint initiative of the Irish World Academy cluster at the Irish World Academy. in the festival workshops and talks. The festival takes place in
of Music and Dance (Dr Hilary Moss and Dr Kathleen Turner) March each year. The Blas Summer School has partnered with
and University Hospital Limerick (Dr Paul Finucane).
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the Willie Clancy Summer School to offer a joint, accredited The Irish World Academy Field Trip
summer school including a week at UL and a week in Miltown Initiated and coordinated by Dr Catherine Foley, the Irish
Malbay. The Academy has partnered with the Milwaukee World Academy Field Trip is a collaboration between the
Irish Fest, USA, for the past two years, sending students Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, Siamsa Tíre, the
to participate in high-profile performances and to give National Folk Theatre of Ireland, and the rural community of
workshops in a number of different settings. North Kerry. Since 2014, the field trip has annually engaged
students from seven Masters programmes in fieldwork
The Academy also works regularly with many arts centres
experience in North Kerry. The field trip is an integral part
and venues such as Glór in Ennis, the Irish Arts Centre, New
of the Introduction to Fieldwork Techniques module, and
York and the Irish Cultural Centre in Boston, in terms of
students get the opportunity to engage and to participate
performances and collaborations, such as the newly instigated
with local traditional musicians, singers and dancers in
series of lunchtime performances featuring the traditional
workshops, concerts, sessions, and lectures and to apply their
arts at Glór. Academy staff interact with organisations and
fieldwork techniques for set assignments in the module.
statutory bodies such as the Arts Council, the Irish Traditional
Music Archive, Dublin and Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann,
attending meetings and organising events and seminars. The
Academy greatly contributes towards student engagement
across the UL campus, and enhances campus life through
its diverse performances and events. Academy staff and
students work closely with the International Education
Division, Plassey Campus Centre and others to promote the
University to those visiting the campus.
Akshata Raghotham, MA Contemporary Dance Performance

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ARTISTS IN
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Rhiannon Giddens, Lunchtime Performance
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THE IRISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA THE CHIEFTAINS FIDGET FEET AERIAL DANCE THEATRE
Irish World Academy Residency the ICO to establish the ICO Youth Orchestra (ICOYO) for
aspiring musicians aged 12 to 18. The orchestra also supports
The Irish World Academy is often used as a venue for new talent on the MA in Classical String Performance at the
performance rehearsal, as well as performance project University of Limerick, and commissions work from exciting
development. Beyond commercial use, the Academy would young Irish composers.
like to support such artistic work by providing facilities at
a reduced price, or free, and to present this as an Academy The ICO is funded by The Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle
residency. If you would like to propose the development of Ealaíon.
a performance project for an Academy residency, please The Chieftains
contact Academy Administrator Paula Dundon at Paula. Interacting with up to 80 student musicians and dancers from
Dundon@ul.ie. Irish World Academy programmes, The Chieftains continue
their iconic association with the Academy through their
Irish World Academy Artists in occasional concerts at UL. In memory of their late harper
Residence Derek Bell, The Chieftains Fund has been in operation at the
Academy for a number of years. It is through this fund that
Irish Chamber Orchestra
the Academy launched Ionad na Cruite, the Irish Harp Research
The Irish Chamber Orchestra is Ireland’s most dynamic
Centre, in 2013.
ensemble, continually pushing the boundaries of what a
chamber orchestra can do. Led by the ebullient Katherine Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Company Irish World Academy Artist, University of Limerick
Hunka, the ICO comprises 22 outstanding musicians whose Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Company is Irish World Academy
On January 26th 2016, the University of Limerick announced a
unique sound has captivated audiences all over the Dance Company in Residence. Originating in Donegal, Fidget
new three-year arts patronage award through the Irish World
world. Every year, the orchestra presents concert seasons Feet is Ireland’s leading aerial dance theatre company and
Academy of Music and Dance. The award, entitled Irish World
in Limerick and Dublin, embarks on two national tours, and is internationally renowned for creating spectacular indoor
Academy Artist, University of Limerick and worth €60,000, will
makes a series of prestigious international appearances and outdoor productions for both theatres and festivals. The
facilitate the creative process of selected artists across a three-
supported by Culture Ireland. company’s dynamic work draws on dance, aerial circus, theatre,
year period. The Irish World Academy is grateful to the University
music and video art. Founded in 2004 by choreographer
Under Principal Conductor/Artistic Partner Jörg Widmann, the of Limerick Foundation (ULF) for its generous financial support
Chantal McCormick (Donegal) and musician Jym Daly (Cork),
ICO has scaled new heights, working with major international of this initiative.
Fidget Feet work with an outstanding production team to
stars, forming partnerships with leading venues and releasing
create productions that are both original and fresh. The first artist to receive the award is County Clare fiddler,
a series of acclaimed recordings on the Orfeo label.
Martin Hayes, who commenced his three-year association with
Elements of aerial dance have already begun to permeate
At the heart of the ICO’s vision is the belief that music can the Irish World Academy in January 2016.
aspects of the curricular offerings of the Irish World Academy’s
change lives. Sing Out with Strings (SOWS) is a groundbreaking
programmes.
initiative offering primary school children in Limerick the
chance to learn music for free. The success of SOWS has inspired
Deepika Sagar, MA Contemporary Dance Performance
MARTIN HAYES
Martin Hayes is regarded as one of the most extraordinary

talents to emerge in the world of Irish traditional
music. His unique sound, his mastery of the fiddle, his
acknowledgement of the past and his shaping of the
future of the music combine to create an astonishing and
formidable artistic intelligence. He has drawn musical
inspiration from sources as diverse as the Estonian
composer Arvo Pärt, the Spanish viola da gamba master
Jordi Savall and the jazz genius John Coltrane, but remains
grounded in the music he grew up with in his own locality
in Feakle, Co. Clare. The music Hayes learned at home from
his late father, P. Joe Hayes, the renowned founder/leader
of the long-lived Tulla Céilí Band, profoundly influenced
his musical accent and ideas. His latest performing project
is with The Gloaming, a band that has burst on the music
scene with a rare combination of Irish tunes, ancient sean-
nós song, brave explorations and exhilarating and explosive
medleys with a distinctive new sound. The virtuosic fiddles
of Hayes and Ó Raghallaigh, the soaring voice of Ó Lionáird,
Cahill's minimalist guitar work and Bartlett's sparse, yet
insistent, piano deliver an astonishing, combustible and
unforgettable listening experience, deeply rooted in the
tradition but moving into an entirely new musical dimension
of rhythm, melody and texture.
The first part of Hayes’s residency began in 2016 and

included work with the Martin Hayes Quartet and with
members Liz Knowles (fiddle), Doug Wieselman (bass
clarinet), Dennis Cahill (guitar).
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TAIGHDE
RESEARCH
Katerina Cussen and Barbora Klimova, MA Music Therapy
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Founded as a research centre in 1994, the Irish World Academy has grown to include a vibrant
undergraduate and taught postgraduate suite of programmes but remains committed to
its initial vision of being a home for researchers in music, dance and other performing arts
disciplines. Research at the Academy is conducted by faculty, doctoral and postdoctoral
candidates and artists-in-residence. Faculty at the Academy lead and contribute to a number of
interdisciplinary research clusters including:
Arts and Health Research Cluster LimerickSoundscapes Irish Traditional Dance Research Cluster
The Arts and Health research cluster aims to create a hub This research cluster comprises applied researchers The Irish Traditional Dance Research Cluster consists
for networking and collaboration between academics from urban ethnomusicology, urban sociology, digital of scholars and performers of Irish traditional dance
and practitioners in this field, facilitate collaborative media studies, and soundscapes studies. The cluster who are committed to engaging with living traditions,
research between arts and health disciplines and to has facilitated the creation and ongoing maintenance archival and scholarly documentation, and inquiry
promote and develop interdisciplinary research between of an online sonic map of the City of Limerick (www. into contemporary choreographic exploration and
humanities and STEM experts. The cluster welcomes a limericksoundscapes.ie), collected by and for the performance. The research cluster aims to provide a
diverse array of theoretical perspectives and research citizens of Limerick. LimerickSoundscapes provides diverse range of fora for the support, development and
methodologies. In 2018 members of the cluster led a an ever-growing, rich repository of sonic heritage dissemination of Irish traditional dance expertise and
Dance and Health Research programme commissioned while also modelling processes of critical citizenship research - both academic-based and practice-based.
by The Arts Council of Ireland; held a Music Therapy through creative engagement. The cluster has held an These fora include meetings, seminars, symposia,
Research Seminar and supported a symposium: international conference (2014), followed by a special conferences, workshops, concerts, exhibitions, and
Transitioning Embodiments in Health Humanities led by journal edition (2015). Members continue to engage festivals.
Dr Yianna Liatsos. with city-based groups, generating digital educational
Popular Music and Popular Culture
resources and publishing research in peer-reviewed,
Migration & Integration Research Cluster international journals and books. PMPC engages with all facets of popular culture,
This research cluster is an interdisciplinary space for from sonic and visual texts and their artists/ creators/
research around issues concerning immigration and
IMBAS performers in their performance contexts, to questions
integration. There is research being carried out in this IMBAS is an Irish forum for artists and scholars working that arise around technological mediations in relation
area in every faculty at the University of Limerick. The within and beyond the University sector who share an to the production, (re)circulation, and reception of
cluster launched a directory of such projects for use by interest in arts practice research, particularly in the popular music and culture. Members draw various
NGOs and other research bodies in March 2017 and is performing arts. IMBAS was launched at the Irish World theoretical perspectives, from critical and cultural
currently developing an on-line and revised version of Academy on November 9th, 2017. The launch featured theory to ethnomusicological, sociological, and
the directory. a public lecture by Professor Sir Christopher Frayling anthropological understandings of popular expressions
entitled, “…to know the place for the first time … and their meaning(s), engaging with cultural practices
Exploring and Researching through the Arts”. A post- from across the globe and from different historical eras.
lecture discussion was chaired by Chris Baldwin, Creative See www.ul.ie/pmpc/ for recent events/publications
Director of Galway Capital of Culture 2020. including the new associated book series Popular Music
Matters with Rowman and Littlefield, which is coedited
by Aileen Dillane.
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Power, Discourse and Society TradSong Research Cluster Taighde Dámh Chruinne Éireann PhD Forum
PDS is interdisciplinary endeavour, providing a platform The mission of the TradSong research cluster is to The Taighde Dámh Chruinne Éireann (TDCE) PhD Forum
for researchers working within ethnomusicology, provide an academic forum for sharing expertise is primarily a space to support, and share knowledge
sociology, sociolinguistics, education, political on Irish traditional song and related performance among, the PhD researchers of the Irish World Academy
science, and social geography to advance their shared practices, cultures and communities. With performance of Music and Dance. In addition to meetings with
interest in the critical analysis of public discourses in at the heart of its scholarship, TradSong engages diverse topics (such as conferences, publishing, funding,
all forms, and the elucidation of their social meaning, with Irish song communities and academics through literature talks, proof reading and presentation
significance and material impacts. See www.ul.ie/ meetings, symposia, performances and conferences. preparation, to mention a few), TDCE will also promote
pds/ for recent events, publications and an associated Over the next year, the cluster will focus on producing academic and socialising events. If you are interested
book series Discourse, Power & Society with Rowman publications, as well as events embracing the wider in becoming a member please contact Chairperson
and Littlefield. New publications include Songs of Irish traditional song community and international Ana Camillo (ana.camillo@ul.ie) and visit our website
Social Protest: International Perspectives (2018) and scholars. While maintaining our focus on the Irish song www.tdceireann.wordpress.com. Master’s students and
MUSICultures special edition on ‘Songs and Singers of tradition, we warmly welcome any scholar who has an researchers outside the Irish World Academy are also
Social Protest’, both coedited by Aileen Dillane. interest in our events. welcome.
Singing and Social Inclusion Ionad na Cruite (Irish Harp Research Centre)
This cluster brings together researchers in community Ionad na Cruite was established at the Irish World
music, ethnomusicology, Irish traditional song, music Academy of Music and Dance in 2013 and was
education, music therapy, ritual studies and arts formally launched with a special performance by
practice research to support interdisciplinary research The Chieftains. Ionad na Cruite aims to stimulate
around issues of singing & inclusivity. Recent events scholarship, performance and advanced research on all
I R I S H WO R L D A C A D E M Y O F M U S I C A N D DA N C E
include the launch of a new book by Professor Helen harp types with a special focus on the harp in Ireland.
Phelan, Singing the Rite to Belong: Music, Ritual and It also aspires to being a national and international
the New Irish (Oxford University Press, 2017) at the centre of excellence for harp music and research at
Royal Irish Academy by Professor Declan Kiberd. doctoral and postdoctoral level, to building effective
An interdisciplinary group of researchers from the links with colleagues in the field of harp research
Irish World Academy, Nursing and Midwifery and the and performance internationally and to providing a
Graduate Medical School are currently working on stimulating environment for performances, research
a research project on singing and migrant maternal and interdisciplinary projects at the University of
mental health. Limerick. Ionad na Cruite recognises the centrality of
The Chieftains Fund (in memory of Derek Bell) in its
founding.
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A selection of recent publications from faculty and Dooley, Paul Garry, Fran
postgraduate students at the Irish World Academy (2016) 'The harp in the time of Giraldus' in Joyce, S. and Lawlor, (2018) ‘Community Music: An Arts Practice Research
including work from emeritus staff and recently H., eds., Harp Studies, Dublin: Four Courts Press, pp. 32–56. Perspective’, Transform-New Voices in Community Music, Issue
graduated research students include: Donnellan, Cliodhna 1, Nov. 2018, pp.81-96. Available:http://www.transformiccm.
co.uk
Brown, William ‘Alec’ (2016) The Spinning Wheel: composer and performer, PhD in
(2016) Spreagadh: Inspiration, composer and performer, PhD in Arts Practice Performance, Irish World Academy of Music and (2017) The Long Road Home - a PhD Arts Practice research
Arts Practice Performance, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, 12th October. musical autoethnography representing Fran’s life journey as
Dance, University of Limerick, 11th October. a singer, songwriter, musician and community music educator
(2016) ‘Re-Imaging our Legacy’ 1916/2016. St. Caimin’s Catholic
combined with resonant arts experiences, memories and
(2017) Spike: Dublin Alternative Cello Festival, composer and Church, Mountshannon. Choreographer, composer, ensemble
reflections of research participants - 18 April 2017, Theatre
performer, The Workman’s Club, Dublin, 12th February. performer. Supported by Clare County Council.
1, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of
(2017) The Stepping Stone [CD], producer, arranger, composer Fahey, Hannah Limerick.
and performer, Theatre 1, The Irish World Academy. (2017) Synthesis. Commissioned music for ‘Synthesis’ doubles
(2016) Connected - a musical ethnodrama, written and
trapeze performance, Irish World Academy, October 6th.
Byrne, Fiona performed in collaboration with students from Our Lady’s
Composition and piano.
(2018) Growing up in ‘The Mental’: child\ hood experiences at Secondary School, Templemore, Co. Tipperary, 18 April 2016,
Cavan and Monaghan Mental Hospital on the Irish border, 1930- (2016) Cillín, Commissioned by Radio Kerry with funding Theatre 1, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University
1950, Oral History, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 87-96 from the BAI for ‘Song of the River’ documentary. Broadcast of Limerick.
December 25th, 2016. Composition and vocals.
(2016) Review of ‘Museum Space: Where Architecture Meets Giraud, Eleanor
Museology’, Kali Tzortzi, ISBN 9781472439017, Irish Museums (2016) SYMBOLS: “Culture of Death & Cultural Life: New (2018) ‘Totum officium bene correctum habeatur in domo:
Association Journal, Vol. 25. Audiences and Creations around European Ceme-teries”, Uniformity in the Dominican Liturgy’ in: Cornelia Linde (ed.).
Exhibition tour opening, 4th March, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Making and Breaking the Rules: Discussion, Implementation,
de Brún, Jennifer Italy. Composition and vocals. Supported by Creative Europe. and Consequences of Dominican Legislation. Oxford: Oxford
(2018) Droichead, Irish Aerial Dance Festival, July 7th, An Grianán
Foley, Catherine E. University Press, p. 153-172.
Theatre, Donegal, Ireland. Aerialist and Choreographer.
(2018) ‘Shifting Dynamics: Sean Nós Dancing, Vernacular (2017) ‘Melodic Lection Marks in Latin Manuscripts for Mass’,
(2017) Biru. Irish Aerial Creation Centre's Creative Intensive Expression, and the Competitive Arena of the Oireachtas’. The Scriptorium, 71, p. 3-37, Pl 1-8.
Showcase, 16th December, IACC, Ireland. Aerialist and Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition. Sherril Dodds (Ed.)
Choreographer. Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland. (2015) 'The Dominican Scriptorium at Saint-Jacques, and its
Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 189-208.
Production of Liturgical Exemplars' in: Andreas Nievergelt,
(2016) SYMBOLS: "Culture of Death and Cultural Life: New (2018) “International Folk Dance Festivals in Ireland: A Rudolf Gamper, Marina Bernasconi Reusser, Birgit Ebersperger,
Audiences and Creations around European Cemeteries", Comparative Analysis of Oireachtas Rince na Cruinne and Ernst Tremp (eds). Scriptorium: Wesen, Funktion, Eigenheiten.
Exhibition tour opening, 4th March, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Damhsafest, Cork International Folk Dance Festival”. The Cultural Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Italy. Dance and Performer. Supported by Creative Europe. Development of Folk Dance Festivals and the Sustainability of
Holohan, Shane
Dillane, Aileen Tradition. Mehmet Ocal Ozbilgin and Liz Mellish (Eds.). Izmir,
(2017) Synthesis, a doubles trapeze and collaborative
(2018) with Power, M., Devereux, E. and Haynes, A (eds). Songs Turkey: Ege University Press. Pp. 29-45.
ethnodrama performance as part of PhD Arts Practice, 6th
of Social Protest: International Perspectives. New York and (2017) “Steps, Style and Sensing the Difference: An October 2017, Theatre 1, Irish World Academy of Music and
London: Rowman & Littlefield International. Examination of Molyneaux’s Set Dances Within Competition Dance, University of Limerick.
(2018) with Power, M. and Devereux, E. (eds) Heart and Soul: Culture”. Dance, Senses, Urban Contexts. 29th Symposium of
(2016) Second Year Student Presentations on the BA in Circus
Critical Essays on Joy Division. London: Rowman & Littlefleld. the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) Study
Arts at DOCH, Stockholm. Physical presentations as part of PhD
Group on Ethnochoreology. (Kendra Stepputat (Ed.)). Graz,
(2018) with Devereux, E. and Power, M. ‘Saying Hello to the Arts Practice, 22nd & 23rd March 2017.
Austria: Institute of Ethnomusicology, University of Music and
Lunatic Men: A Critical Reading of ‘Love is Lost’, Contemporary
Performing Arts, Graz. Pp. 113-20
Music Review, 37: 3, 257-271.
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Jaber, Hala Kosovske, Yonit Traditional Music (ICTM) Study Group on Ethnochoreology,
(2016) with Campbell, Carol. ‘Places for Music: connecting the (2018) Chrome Attic, Multimedia Lecture-Recital & Photography The Institute of Ethnomusicology, University of Music and
national to the community in Palestine’. ISME Community Music Exhibition, Bourn Vincent Gallery, University of Limerick. Performing Arts Graz, Austria, 9-16 July 2016, Germany: 39-43.
Conference proceedings.
(2017) Chrome Attic, CD, solo harpsichord, produced by La (2017) Through the Looking Glass I Dance. Solo Danza Española
Joyce, Sandra Douceur. choreography composed and performed at Sionna, A World of
(2018) ‘Niamh’s Song’, song composition and performance Music and Dance, 44th ICTM World Conference, The University
(2017) The Seducer, film. Photography, recording, and artistic
for Songs for Our Children, St. Aidan’s, Enniscorthy, (May 18). of Limerick Concert Hall, 17 July.
direction by Yonit Kosovske.
Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
McCaffrey, Tríona
Mascareñas, Óscar
(2016) with Lawlor, Helen (Ed.s) Harp Studies: Perspectives on (2018) with Carr, C, Hense, C, & Solli, H.P. ‘Music therapy and
(2018) Songs for Jackson Pollock. Album - Vinyl. For voices.
the Irish Harp, Dublin: Four Courts Press. recovery in mental health: Seeking a way forward’. Voices: A
Devised, performed, recorded mixed and produced by Óscar
World Forum for Music Therapy [online], 18(1).
(2016) ‘The Realisation of a Long-Cherished Project’: Donal Mascareñas for EROS. ISRC: IEPHD1700001. EROS: V17OM001-
O’Sullivan’s Carolan’, in Harp Studies: Perspectives on the Irish IE. Limerick, Ireland. Released in March 2018. Launched at the (2018). ‘Evaluating music therapy in adult mental health
Harp, Dublin: Four Courts Press. Embassy of Mexico in Dublin, Ireland (May 2018). Launched services: Tuning into service user perspectives’, Nordic Journal
at the Centro de Compositores de Nuevo León, in Monterrey, of Music Therapy, 27(1), 28-43.
Keegan, Niall
Mexico (June 2018). Launched at the Tower Theatre, Irish World
(2018) Sunday Miscellany, Irish World Academy House Band, (2016) with Edwards, J. ‘Music therapy helped me get back
Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Limerick,
performer and arranger, broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1, (May 13 and doing”: using interpretative phenomenological analysis to
Ireland (September 2018).
June 10). illuminate the perspectives of music therapy participants in
(2018) La Fábrica de las Cosas Pendientes. Composition. Directed mental health services’, Journal of Music Therapy, 53(2), 121-
(2016) Children of the Revolution, solo and ensemble
and produced by Claudia Villarreal and Nora Rodríguez. 48.
performances, Limerick City Gallery of Art, December 2nd.
Commissioned under the support of EFI Artes 2017, Secretaría
Supported by Limerick City and County Council. McLoughlin, Lisa
de Cultura, México. Performed at the Aula Magna, Universidad
(2017-2018) The Autonomy Project - Lead artist for this
(2016) Oileán/Island (composed by Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin), Autónoma de Nuevo León; Teatro Espacio Rogelio Villarreal
multigenre project encompassing the work of over a 100
soloist with National Youth Orchestra of Ireland, performances Elizondo; Circoteca y Centro de las Artes in Monterrey, Mexico.
younger people, artists and academics through performance,
in University Concert Hall, Limerick, July 22nd; National Opera June and July 2018.
installation and symposium in 2018. This project has been
House, Wexford, July 23rd; National Concert Hall, Dublin, July
(2018) FIGURES: Study 1 – Durations (film version). From the funded by the Arts Council of Ireland through the Invitation
24th.
choreosonographic series FIGURES. Produced, directed, filmed to Collaboration scheme in conjunction with the Limerick Arts
Kjeldsen, Svend and edited by Óscar Mascareñas. Performed by Nora Rodríguez. office.
(2016) ‘Mancunian Irish: identity, cultural intimacy and musical Screened during the C Á M A R A Muestra de Video-danza en la
(2016) ‘Scaramouch’. A commission from the Iniscealtra Festival
hybridization: urban ethnomusicology and cultural mapping’ Cineteca Nuevo León. December 2018. Monterrey, Mexico.
of the Arts. A collaboration with Diane Daly, Alec Brown and
in Ross, S. and Sweers, B., eds., Urban Ethnomusicology and
Mateos Morante, Rebeca Deirdre Murphy.
Cultural Mapping, Sheffield: Equinox Publishing.
(2018) ‘As One’, Ensemble Danza Española and Flamenco
Melin, Mats
(2016) ’En transkulturel rejse. Fra Hindustani musik til irsk choreography composed and directed for the MA Irish
(2016) Call to the dance: an exploration of the sociocultural
traditionel musik. Fra tabla til bodhrán. Introduktion til dadra Traditional Dance Performance students. Final Presentation at
world of traditional Breton music and dance. Review of Desi
taal, ektaal, keherwa taal og teentaal’, Roskilde: Lirum Larum The Tower Theatre, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance,
Wilkinson’s book in Ethnomusicology Forum.
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(2016) 'Irish Music in Manchester'. Documentary written and (2017) ‘Through the Looking Glass I Dance: An Autoethnography
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narrated by Svend Kjeldsen. Produced by Emma Sweeney of the Dancer’s Gaze During the Formation of the Dancing Body
(2018) The Numbered (Elias Canetti) Original music composition
and Svend Kjeldsen. First Broadcast on BBC Radio Lancashire, in Danza Española’, in Stepputat, K, ed., Dance, Senses, Urban
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and soloists, Kenneth Edge, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Padraic Keane and and injury in collegiate Irish and contemporary dancers: A of individuals who experience fluency disorders through music
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(2016) 'Two Brothers' : the 1916 Song Project; National Library,
(2018) New Compositions for Orchestra: The Carolan
(2018) with Fitzpatrick, K., Edgeworth, D. and Harmon, D. Dublin (April 15); the Lexicon, Dún Laoghaire (April 22); Séamus
Celebration, Fill Arís (texts by Seán. Ó Ríordáin), Marcshlua Uí
‘Patient’s use of music in their experience of chronic pain’, Ennis Centre, Fingal (April 23); Church of Ireland, Athboy (April
Néill, Míle Glóir. First Performances by RTE National Symphony
Mesentry and Peritoneum AB110. 2. 30); Nun's Island Theatre, Galway (May 7); the Athenaeum,
Orchestra at National Concert Hall, Dublin, 29th June 2018.
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(2018) “Choreographies of Place: Gender and the Negotiation
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Theatre, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. April 2018. (2016) ‘Third space ensemble and the Bucks of Bangalore: an
Ireland’ in Ingalls, Monique M., Swijghuisen Reigersberg, Muriel
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(2017) Singing the Rite to Belong: Music, Ritual and the New Talty, Jack
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Field Room, National Concert Hall, November 15th, 2018.
Phillips, Miriam
(2018) ‘Laban and Anthropology’, Laban Movement Studies (2017) Non-Canonical Pedagogies for Non-Canonical Musics:
– History, Applications & Frontiers, Inspirees Institute, Laban/ Observations on selected Programmes in Folk, Traditional,
Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, and Creative Arts in World, and Popular Musics ' in Moore, R., ed., College Music
Education and Therapy. Webinar lecture w Karen Bradley. Curricula for a New Century. Oxford University Press.
(2017) The Legacy of Alan Lomax’s Choreometrics: Assets and Thompson, Simon
Controversies paper presented at the 44th International Council (2017) ‘Altjeringa’ Created by Simon Thompson, Performed by
for Traditional Music World Conference, Irish World Academy Lucy Dawson. A Gestural Etude in Mask, September, Irish World
of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Ireland. Academy
(2016) ‘Spectacle of Ethnicities: The San Francisco Ethnic Dance (2016) ‘Nose Business’ Written and performed by S.Thompson,
Festival’ in The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity, Oxford (A Little Room,Waterford; Chapel on the Hill, Killorgln, Kerry;
University Press, pgs. 528-561. W.C.A Festival, Orlando, U.S.A; Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin;
Fisher Theatre, Bungay, UK; Seagull Theatre, Lowestoft, UK;
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(2016). Locating the Choreomusical: The Case of European and
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Centre, Kenmare, Kerry; St John’s Arts Centre, Listowel, Kerry;
(2016) ‘Confronting Legacies of Ethnic-National Discourse in Friars Gate, Kilmallock, Limerick. Dance Limerick, Limerick City;
Scholarship and Practice: Traditional Music and Dance in Central Waterside Theatre, Derry, Northern Ireland; Riverside Theatre,
Transylvania’, Journal of Folklore Research, 53(1), 137- 165. Coleraine, Northern Ireland).
Roche, Jenny Turner, Kathleen
(2018) ‘Dancing, identity and place: balancing subjectivity and (2018) Telling the Other Story: Narratives without Borders Solo
technique in contemporary dance training.’ in McGrath, Aoife & works performed in collaboration with Narrative4 with authors,
Meehan, Emma (eds.) Dance Matters in Ireland: Contemporary Donal Ryan, Paula McGrath, Ruth Gilligan and David Savill,
Dance Performance and Practice. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 125- Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick, 17 Nov.
143. (2018) Research performance of Living Well, Creative Research,
(2018) ‘Dancing strategies and moving identities: the with Donal Ryan, Prof. Eoin Deverux, Prof. Sarah Moore and
contributions independent contemporary dancers make to Carl Corcoran, University of Limerick Research Week, Fab Lab,
the choreographic process’. in Butterworth, Jo & Wildschut, Limerick, 4 Dec.
Liesbeth (eds.) Contemporary Choreography: A Critical Reader (2018) Solo works performed in collaboration with the Guinness
[2nd Edition]. Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group), London and Choir, directed by David Milne, St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, 9
New York, pp. 150-164. Dec.
(2018) ‘What would it be, if it didn’t have to be like that?
Undisciplining the travel of dance ideas in the neoliberal
university’ in Brown, Carol and Longley, Alys (eds). Undisciplining
Dance in Nine Movements and Eight Stumbles, Newcastle Upon
Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
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IRISH
WORLD
ACADEMY
ENSEMBLES
Ernesto Góngora and Neven Sebille Kernaudour,
MA Irish Traditional Music Performance
CANTORAL VOCAL ENSEMBLE THE IRISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA ACADEMY

Cantoral Vocal Ensemble The Irish Chamber Orchestra

Cantoral is an all-female vocal ensemble from the University of Academy (ICOA)
Limerick, Ireland. The ensemble specialises in Western plainchant The Irish World Academy and Irish Chamber Orcehstra takes its
and early polyphony and has a particular interest in medieval commitment to nurturing talented young musicians a step further
Irish repertoire. Formed in 2008 at the Irish World Academy, the with this innovative new ‘academy’ that brings together students
ensemble had its first international appearance in 2009 at the from all over the world.
Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. Other highlight performances
include Imbolc, a programme of chant and Irish language song for Every autumn, gifted music students from leading international
St. Bridget, which premiered in New York in 2010, and a programme conservatoires come together for a unique residency at the Irish
for the Galway Early Music Festival entitled … sed diabolus irrisit World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick.
(‘… but the devil laughed’) in the same year. In April 2011, Cantoral Guided by Diane Daly, Course Director of the University of
sang for the Dalai Lama during his visit to Ireland, and in April 2012, Limerick’s groundbreaking MA in Classical String Performance,
the ensemble conducted a public seminar and a concert of Irish and by members of the internationally renowned Irish Chamber
medieval music for Holy Week at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Orchestra, students embark on an innovative programme of
In 2013, Cantoral performed again at the Centre Culturel Irlandais study designed to help them develop self-awareness as musicians.
in Paris and at Harvard University and the University of Notre Working on Dalcrozian rehearsal techniques, students experiment
Dame in the USA. In 2015, Cantoral performed at France's most with creative forms of music-making, focusing on communication
prestigious early music festival, Festival Voix & Route Romane. and on bringing the music to life, before delivering a public
Cantoral Artistic Director Catherine Sergent is an acclaimed performance.
Paris-based singer who has performed and recorded extensively
with several early-music ensembles, including Discantus and
Obsidian. Catherine is a chant tutor for the MA Ritual Chant and
Song programme at the Academy. The singers in Cantoral are
graduates, doctoral students and members of faculty at the Irish
World Academy and are from Ireland, France, the United States
and Mexico. Cantoral issued its first CD recording, Let the Joyous
Irish Sing Aloud/Laetabundus Decantet Hybernicorum Cetus, in
2014. The CD was recorded on location at Ballintubber Abbey,
Co. Mayo with the assistance of the Keough Naughton Institute of
Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.
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Mick Flannery, Lunchtime Performance
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SCHOLARSHIP
AND AWARD
RECIPIENTS
Evidence of a Piece that Happened - Time Over Distance Over Time
by Liz Roche, MA Contemporary Dance Performance
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KARA O’BRIEN ANA CAMILLO BORIS HUNKA
PPC Scholarship Irish World Academy Fee Wavier Universal Music UK Sound Foundation
As part of its commitment and support of the cultural Bursary in Community Music
The Irish World Academy offers a limited number of full and/
experience at University of Limerick, particularly in the
or partial fee waivers for research student at MA and PhD Universal Music UK Sound Foundation Bursary in Community
performing arts, Campus Life Services is offering a PCC
level. These are distributed on an annual basis and decisions Music Universal Music UK Sound Foundation (formerly EMI
scholarship to the value of €5000 towards accommodation
regarding the awarding of the Irish World Academy Fee Music Sound Foundation), an independent charity, is now the
to an undergraduate student of the Irish World Academy
Wavers will be made by the Academy Director. single largest sponsor of Specialist Performing Arts Colleges
of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. This scholarship
is only available for applicants of the BA Performing Arts. in England and has created vital bursaries at music colleges to
Music Generation Clare PhD Scholarship
Campus Life Services aims to support students in residence assist music students. In 2005, EMI Music Sound Foundation
to enjoy the best student living experience and get the best The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, in partnership extended its remit to cover the Irish World Academy in Ireland.
out of campus life. Campus Life Services, formerly Plassey with Music Generation Clare, is delighted to offer a 3-year A bursary was made available on an annual basis towards the
Campus Centre (PCC), has also generously made an allocation PhD scholarship. County Clare is one of twelve areas of establishment of the EMI Music Sound Foundation Bursary in
of two residential scholarship places to support a number the country currently participating in Music Generation – Community Music at the Irish World Academy of Music and
of postgraduate research students over the last number of Ireland’s National Music Education Programme, initiated Dance. Patrons: Sir George Martin, Sir Paul McCartney, Yoko
years. by Music Network and co-funded by U2, The Ireland Funds, Ono, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Cliff Richard, Diana Ross and Tina
the Department of Education and Skills and Local Music Turner.
Scholarship Recipient 2018/2019: Orla Leavy Education Partnerships.
Bursary recipients for academic year 2018-2019: Laura
Academy Comhaimseartha Fee Waivers Scholarship Recipient 2018/2019: Boris Hunka Carroll, Sam Kavanagh, Lorna O’Byrne, Michelle Grimes.
The Irish World Academy is offering 2 full research EU fee

waivers to current PhD students. As part of the conditions of
RTÉ Lyric FM Scholarships
the fee waivers, successful applicants will provide editorial The RTE Lyric FM Scholarships were established in 1999 in
support towards the compilation and publication to deadline support of the MA Classical String Performance at the Irish
of the Irish World Academy’s biannual Comhaimseartha/ Of World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick.
Our Times brochure. The aim of the Scholarship is to support young talented string
Scholarship Recipients 2018/2019: Kara O’Brien players who wish to study at UL. Since the Scholarship was
and Ana Camillo. established in 1999, it has been awarded to students from
Ireland, Australia, Malaysia, China, Hungary, Romania, Spain,
Italy and the US. Recipients may be required to engage in work
at the Academy, aimed towards professional development
while making a valuable contribution to Academy life.
Scholarship Recipient 2018/2019: Aditya Mukherji
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IAN BASCOMBE

Roche Continents – Youth! Arts! Science!

Roche Continents – Youth! Arts! Science! is a project grown
Stepping Stone Scholarship Recipients 2018/2019:
from a partnership between Roche and the Salzburg Festival. Renee Yoxon MA Songwriting
100 students from across Europe are selected to participate Pabalu Wijegoonawardane MA Festive Arts
in this exceptional challenge; all aged between 20 and 29
José Colon MA Ethnomusicology
from the life sciences, chemistry, the fine arts or music.
Purad Ridhhi Chauduri MA Ethnomusicology
Roche is well known for promoting culture in novel settings,
and Roche Continents is an example of this commitment. Victoria Fraser MA Ritual Chant & Song
Participants attend concerts and talks by guest speakers, and Deepike Sagar MA Contemporary Dance
are given the opportunity to join discussions with artists as Morgan Senter MA Ethnochoreology
well as take part in group workshops, exploring the common Aditya Mukherji MA Classical String Performance
ground of innovation and creativity in the arts and science.
Dominique Dure MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance
Scholarship recipient in 2018 was Tadhg Casey.
Stepping Stones Further information on criteria and application procedures for

The Stepping Stones Scholarship fund is available for study all scholarships is available at: www.IrishWorldAcademy.ie
on taught MA programmes at the Irish World Academy.
Among other criteria, priority is given to applicants whose Irish Research Council Government of Ireland
projects resonate with the spirit of the Stepping Stones
initiative: equality of arts practices, interdisciplinary vision Postgraduate Scholarship Award: Ian Bascombe
and the desire to build bridges between arts practices. The PhD candidate (ethnomusicology) Ian Bascombe is the
two types of scholarships are: recipient of an IRC Government of Ireland Postgraduate
The Stepping Stones Scholarships for Non-EU Students are Scholarship Award. Ian is a tin whistle practitioner and teacher.
available to international students on taught MA programmes His project aims to tell the ‘untold story’ of the tin whistle.
at the Academy. Students must have a demonstrable record He is investigating the instrument’s early mass-production
in a performance and/or academic specialisation relevant to in England, its journey to Ireland, and its dissemination,
a programme of study at the Academy. usage and ubiquity within this country. Ian’s interest in the
tin whistle, within Irish traditional music, began in England
General Stepping Stones Scholarships are open to all in the 1990s. His studies at the Irish World Academy began in
applicants to taught MA programmes at the Academy. There 2010 where he subsequently graduated with a BA (1st Hons)
are three €1,000 general scholarships available. in Irish Music and an MA (1st Hons) in Ethnomusicology.
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SHANE HOLOHAN FRAN GARRY FELIX MORGENSTERN JESSICA O’ DONOGHUE MATTHEW NOONE THE AUTONOMY PROJECT
Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Irish Research Council Government of Ireland
Postgraduate Scholarship Award: Shane Holohan Postgraduate Scholarship Award: Felix Morgenstern Postdoctoral Fellowship
PhD Arts Practice candidate Shane Holohan’s research Felix Morgenstern was granted an IRC postgraduate award Postdoctoral Fellowship Award: Dr Matthew Noone
incorporates his background in three areas: as an for his research into Irish-German musical and intercultural Dr Matthew Noone was granted the Irish Research Council
experienced teacher of English and art, as an integrative affinities. Mr Morgenstern, a graduate of the BA in Irish Music Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship to carry
psychotherapist and as a coach and choreographer of floor and MA in Ethnomusicology at the University of Limerick, is a out arts practice based research entitled “Composing the
and aerial acrobatics and dance. Shane’s research considers first-year doctoral student under the supervision of Dr Aileen Mongrel: an arts practice investigation of hybridity” at the
the facilitation and documentation of embodied creativity in Dillane. Mr Morgenstern also recently secured a place in the Irish World Academy. His mentor and collaborator is Professor
high-level students of circus arts. highly competitive Hildesheim doctoral summer school in Mel Mercier and other collaborators include Dr Ryan Molloy
ethnomusicology, as well as won a fully-funded invitation to (Maynooth) Professor Dan Trueman (Princeton).
Irish Research Council Government of Ireland attend the 'Anthropology of Music' extended masterclass in
Mainz, delivered by celebrated American ethnomusicologist
Postgraduate Scholarship Award: Fran Garry The Autonomy Project
Professor Timothy Taylor, UCL, May.
Fran Garry has received this award for her PhD Arts Lisa McLoughlin (project leader) and Dr Niamh NicGhabhann
Practice project entitled: Lived Experiences in Community Irish Research Council Government of Ireland are members of a consortium awarded funding by the Arts
Arts in Ireland - An autoethnographic and ethnographic, Council of Ireland as part of the ‘Invitation to Collaboration’
Postgraduate Scholarship Award: Jessica O’ Donoghue scheme. This scheme supports regional and national
practice-based study. Fran is a singer, songwriter, musician
and community music educator. In addition to musical Jessica O’ Donoghue has been awarded an Irish Research initiatives in the field of local-authority-led arts development.
performance, her work in educational and community Council (IRC) Government of Ireland Postgraduate Limerick City and County Council with UL, Dance Limerick,
settings includes direction and facilitation of vocal, Scholarship for her PhD research entitled “An investigation Music Generation, GOSHH. The Autonomy Project is a multi-
instrumental and creative writing groups. Her research of the effectiveness and potential benefit of music therapy disciplinary youth programme, led by Lisa McLoughlin which
project is an in-depth exploration of first-hand experiences on the frequency of stuttering and levels of anxiety in focuses on tolerance and action through art culminating with
of individual and collaborative arts participation. Fran holds adolescents who experience developmental dysfluency”. week-long performance/installation and symposium with
an MA in Community Music from the Irish World Academy, Jessica qualified with a Master of Arts in Music Therapy from international contributors on art and autonomy in UL led
(U.L.) and a B.A. in English Literature and History (U.L.). the University of Limerick and also holds a BSc (Hons) Speech by Dr Niamh NicGhabhann. Facilitating artists in the youth
and Language Therapy from the National University of projects will be mentored by Amanda Coogan.
Ireland, Galway. She has a broad range of clinical experience
with individuals of all ages with communication difficulties
and mental health concerns. Her research aims to investigate
the effects of music therapy as a supportive intervention for
adolescents who stutter.
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VICTORIA FRASER HALA JABER SOPHIE LEE AILEEN DILLANE FÁILTE IRELAND'S NATIONAL CONFERENCE AMBASSADOR AWARDS
Government of Ireland International Humanities in Europe Research Area (HERA) *Partners:

Education Scholarship Professor Ian Woodward, Syddansk Universitet, Denmark
Dr Aileen Dillane is part of an international team of five Dr Pauwke Berkers, Erasmus University, Netherland
Victoria Fraser has been awarded a Government of Ireland researchers (Ireland, Denmark, Netherlands, Poland, UK*) Dr Karolina Golemo, Jagiellonian University, Poland
International Education Scholarship in order to join the MA to have been awarded just under 1.2 million euro for their Dr Jo Haynes, University of Bristol, UK
Ritual Chant and Song programme at the Irish World Academy research proposal responding to the 2017 Humanities in
for 2018-19. Victoria is a singer and comes to Limerick from Europe Research Area (HERA) call: "Public Spaces: Culture Dr Aileen Dillane is an ethnomusicologist and lecturer in
Notre Dame University in Indiana, USA. Having studied an and Integration in Europe". The 3-year project, entitled music in the Irish World Academy. She currently course
MA in Sacred Music, Victoria is looking forward to focusing "European Music Festivals, Public Spaces, and Cultural directs the MA in Irish Music Studies and is the co-founder/
on medieval repertoire during her year at the Irish World Diversities [FestiVersities]" is a multi-sited qualitative, co-director of Popular Music, Popular Culture @UL, Power,
Academy. comparative study of music festivals across a number Discourse & Society @UL, and LimerickSoundscapes.
of European countries and will examine how, and the
degree to which, cultural and other forms of diversity Fáilte Ireland's National Conference
Campus Life Services Residential Scholarship
are coordinated, represented and negotiated across all Ambassador Awards 2018
Hala Jaber is an arts practice PhD Arts Practice student aspects of the public music festival experience, from
at the Irish World Academy, researching the community planning to staging. Using a mixed methods approach, Dr Catherine Foley, the Irish World Academy of Music and
music workshop in the context of conflict. She has been including participant observation, surveys, research Dance, University of Limerick was nominated for Fáilte
awarded the competitive Campus Life Services Residential interviews, and visual-sonic methodologies, the project seeks Ireland's National Conference Ambassador Award 2018.
Scholarship for 2 years. to understand the meaning of festivals for all participants The awards event recognises the major contributions that
and the community more broadly, exploring localised conferences make to Ireland's economy and acknowledges
PhD in Music Therapy Scholarship understandings and practices of consumption and outstanding individual contributions. The 2018 event
participation, and mapping convergences and divergences took place in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, on Friday,
Sophie Lee has been awarded the PhD in Music Therapy
in diversity representation and social inclusion practices 23rd November. The awards fell within six areas: Medical
Scholarship at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance,
across Europe, in order to model best practice and inform Sciences; Food, Agriculture and Environment; Commerce
under the supervision of Dr Hilary Moss. This research is in
policy. Dr Dillane will focus, in particular, on diversity and Technology; Transport and Communications; Culture
the field of singing, mental health & health promotion and
and representation in relation to music performers, and Arts; and Education and Sport. Catherine was an
builds on the work of Dr Moss in this area. Supported by HSE
their creative repertoires and their public staging. She award recipient within the Culture and Arts sector for the
Health Promotion.
will also coordinate, generate and analyse soundscapes International Council for Traditional Music’s 44th World
materials from festival sites, building upon experiences Conference, hosted by the University of Limerick in 2017.
from the LimerickSoundscapes research project. UL is set
to receive approx. 240,000 euros that will fund, amongst
other things, a post-doctoral scholar with specific expertise
in fieldwork, ethnography and digital sonic representation.
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CLÁR/
IRISH WORLD
ACADEMY
PROGRAMMES
Rhiannon Giddens, Lunchtime Performance
76 in association with MA Songwriting

BA Performing Arts (Irish Traditional Music) MA Composition and Creative Music Practice MA Music Therapy The Irish World Academy continues to
Course Director: Dr Niall Keegan Course Director: To be announced. Course Director: Dr Hilary Moss
have a very strong international student
Contact niall.keegan@ul.ie mel.mercier@ul.ie hilary.moss@ul.ie
+ 353 61 202465 + 353 61 202918 +353 61 213122 profile. Since its inception in 1994,
students from the following countries
BA Performing Arts (Irish Traditional Dance) MA Contemporary Dance Performance MA Ritual Chant and Song
have graduated from the Academy:
Course Director: Dr Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain Course Director: Dr Jenny Roche Course Director: Dr Eleanor Giraud
orfhlaith.nibhriain@ul.ie jenny.roche@ul.ie Contact eleanor.giraud@ul.ie
+353 61 202470 +353 (0)61 203464 353 61 234743 Austria Italy
Belarus Japan
BA Performing Arts (Contemporary Dance) MA Ethnochoreology MEd (Music)
Belgium Malaysia
Course Director: Dr Grant McLay Course Director: Dr Catherine Foley Course Director: Jean Downey
grant.mclay@ul.ie catherine.e.foley@ul.ie jean.downey@ul.ie Brazil Mexico
+353 61 234967 +353 61 202922 +353 61 213160 Canada Nepal
BA Performing Arts (Voice) MA Ethnomusicology Professional MEd (Music)
Chile Netherlands
Course Director: Dr Hannah Fahey Course Director: Dr Colin Quigley Course Director: Jean Downey China New Zealand
hannah.fahey@ul.ie colin.quigley@ul.ie jean.downey@ul.ie Colombia Nigeria
+353 61 202958 +353 61 202966 +353 61 213160 Costa Rica Norway
BA Performing Arts (World Music) MA Festive Arts MA (Research) Croatia Palestine
Course Director: Professor Mel Mercier Course Director: Dr Niamh NicGhabhann Enquiries: Relevant Supervisor/ Czech Republic Poland
mel.mercier@ul.ie niamh.nicghabhann@ul.ie Faculty Member
Denmark Romania
+ 353 61 202918 +353 61 202798 or paula.dundon@ul.ie
+353 61 202149 Ecuador Russia
Certificate in Music and Dance MA Irish Dance Studies Ethiopia Serbia
Director, Undergraduate Studies: Course Director: Dr Mats Melin PhD Arts Practice
Estonia Singapore
Dr Niall Keegan mats.melin@ul.ie (Structured Programme)
niall.keegan@ul.ie +353 61 202542 Programme Director: Finland Slovakia
+ 353 61 202465 Professor Helen Phelan France Slovenia
MA Irish Music Studies helen.phelan@ul.ie
MA Classical String Performance Course Director: Dr Aileen Dillane
Georgia South Africa
+353 61 202575
(in association with the Irish aileen.dillane@ul.ie Germany Spain
Chamber Orchestra) + 353 61 202159 PhD (by dissertation) Ghana Sweden
Course Director: Diane Daly Enquiries: Relevant Supervisor/ Greece
MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance Switzerland
diane.daly@l.ie Faculty Member
+353 61 202565 Course Director: Dr Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain or paula.dundon@ul.ie
Hungary Taiwan
Orfhlaith.nibhriain@ul.ie +353 61 202149 India Thailand
MA Community Music +353 61 202470
Indonesia Turkey
Course Director: Dr Kathleen Turner Blas International Summer
kathleen.turner@ul.ie MA Irish Traditional Music Performance School of Irish Traditional Iran UK
353 61 213762 Course Director: Dr Niall Keegan Music and Dance Ireland USA
Contact niall.keegan@ul.ie Director: Pamela Cotter Israel Vietnam
MA Songwriting + 353 61 202465 pamela.cotter@ul.ie
Course Director: Carl Corcoran +353 61 202653
carl.corcoran@ul.ie
+353 61 202082
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OTHER
PROGRAMMES
AND
ARTS OFFICES
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University of Limerick Department of Music, Mary Immaculate College, UL University Concert Hall
University of Limerick, Ireland
LM002 - Bachelor of Arts (In conjunction with Mary The Department of Music at Mary Immaculate College (MIC)
Phone: +353 61 331549
Immaculate College) offers music for the BEd and BA (Liberal Arts) programmes
Website: www.uch.ie
Course Leader: Dr Michael Griffin as well as a taught MA in Music Education and other post-
Phone: + 353 61 213578 graduate degrees to doctoral level by research. Regular
University of Limerick Arts Office
Email: arts@ul.ie choral and chamber concerts are a vital part of the life of
Arts Officer: Patricia Moriarty
Admissions the department and there are close ties with the Irish World
Phone: +353 61 202130
Phone: +353 61 202015 Academy. MIC has a 500-seater performing arts venue, the
Email: patricia.moriarty@ul.ie
Email: www.ul.ie/admissions Lime Tree Theatre (www.limetreetheatre.ie).
Dr Gareth Cox (Head of Department);
University of Limerick Visual Arts
LM122 - Bachelor of Science in Creative Media Dr Paul Collins; Dr Michael Murphy; Dr Gwen Moore;
Administrator: Yvonne Davis
and Interaction Design Dr Ailbhe Kenny
Phone: +353 61 213052
Departmental enquiries: musicinfo@mic.ul.ie
Course Leader: Giuseppe Torre Email: yvonne.davis@ul.ie
Phone +353 61 204540
Phone: +353 (0) 61 23 4611
Website: www.mic.ul.ie
Email: giuseppe.torre@ul.ie Digital Media and Arts Research Centre (DMARC)
Admissions Director: Jürgen Simpson
Association of Irish Choirs
Phone: +353 61 202015 Phone: +353 61 202759
Email: www.ul.ie/admissions The Association of Irish Choirs supports and promotes Email: jurgen.simpson@ul.ie
excellence in choral music in Ireland. It does this by pro- Website: www.dmarc.ie
Faculty of Science and Engineering, Interaction Design viding information and advice and presenting a range of
Centre (IDC): MA Interactive Multimedia programmes and activities designed to respond to the needs Aonad na Gaeilge/UL Irish Language Centre
of members, the wider choral community and the public. Dr Deirdre Ní Loingsigh, Stiúrthóir na Gaeilge
The MA in Interactive Multimedia is a one-year, intensive
CEO: Dermot O’Callaghan Phone: +353 61 213463
course designed specifically for art and design graduates
Email: dermot.ocallaghan@ul.ie Email: deirdre.niloingsigh@ul.ie
who are interested in pursuing studies that combine techno-
Phone: +353 61 202715 Ciara Considine,
logical competence with design/artistic endeavour.
Email: aoic@ul.ie Oifigeach Margaíochta/Riarthóir Feidhmiúcháin
Course Director: Mikael Fernstrom Website: www.aoic.ie Phone +353 61 234754 Email: ciara.considine@ul.ie
Email: mikael.fernstrom@ul.ie
Phone: +353 61 202606
Website: www.idc.ul.ie
Joyeeta Sanyal, Kolkata Lunchtime Performance

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MAURICE GUNNING
Maurice Gunning is an award winning Irish photographer and documentary filmmaker.

Appointed to the position of Artist in Residence at many cultural institutions, Gunning
continues to exhibit internationally with support from the Irish Arts Council and
Culture Ireland. Investing considerable time into the research and making of his work,
he has received the Irish Centre for Human Rights photography prize in collaboration
with UNESCO. He is currently a member of the advisory panel with the PhotoIreland
Foundation. Maurice is also the Art Director with Irish music label, Raelach Records,
and continues in his role as Photographer in Residence with the Irish World Academy.
The Irish Traditional Music Archive appointed Maurice as their artist in residence for
2019 in collaboration with Jack Talty. They will compose an audio-visual installation
that explores the relationship between music, people, and place, specifically drawing
on ITMA multimedia collections of traditional music and musicians of county Clare as
its primary inspiration.
Maurice has previously worked as the Artist in Residence with Dance Ireland, the Liszt
Academy Budapest, and as a recipient of 3 year funding from The Heritage Council to
explore Ireland's maritime heritage. The Argentine-Irish community of Buenos Aires
featured as a long term project exhibited internationally in recent years. 'It focuses on
the Argentine-Irish community in Buenos Aires, descendants of the original immigrants
that arrived there in the 1800’s. Gunning’s poetic, fragmentary style is perfectly suited
to the kind of visual storytelling that draws on memory, text and longing to at once
evoke the past and the present.’ Sean O’Hagan, The Guardian.
Human rights based projects in recent years have seen Maurice work with the Burren
Chernobyl Project in Belarus, and with Hope and Homes for Children in Romania.
Working as a cinematographer on documentary projects for the International
Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, has brought him to many countries
investigating the stories of gender minority communities. In 2015, Maurice was
awarded full funding from Irish Aid and the Dept. for Development and Trade (Simon
Cumbers Media Fund), to create a new photographic exhibition. He travelled to The
Gambia during the Summer of 2015 to create new work responding to themes relating
to the Millennium Development Goals set out by the UNHCR.
www.mauricegunning.com
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Kelsey Schule, PhD Arts Practice
www.irishworldacademy.ie

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Irish World Academy of Music and Dance

6 MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT MICHAEL D. HIGGINS

17 LUNCHTIME PERFORMANCE SERIES

25 TOWER SEMINAR SERIES

33 LOGOS SEMINAR SERIES

43 AG FÉACHAINT SIAR / RECENT EVENTS

49 BEALACH / COMMUNITY CULTURAL PATHWAYS

55 CÓNAÍ / ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

71 SCHOLARSHIP AND AWARD RECIPIENTS

76 CLÁR / IRISH WORLD ACADEMY PROGRAMMES

78 OTHER PROGRAMMES AND ARTS OFFICES

Front cover: Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin receives rapturous

Adjunct Professor Adjunct Professor Adjunct Professor Adjunct Lecturer

That lovely, simple gesture caught my heart and blew it open.

Anya Peterson Royce, PhD, D.Litt.

Nick Nicholaou, MA Contemporary Dance Performance

Patricia Shehan Campbell

Alec Brown, PhD Arts Practice

students enjoy. released their second studio album, "Avalanche", to much

Thursday February 7th Thursday February 14th

Students of Limerick School of Music

Thursday March 14th Thursday March 21st

Ciara Callanan-Ryan, MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance

Production Co-ordinator Kate Hodmon is a Limerick based Wednesday February 20th

VENUE: CONFERENCE ROOM, FIRST FLOOR,

ADMISSION IS FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME

Thursday February 14th Thursday February 21st Thursday March 28th

Tuesday March 12th Tuesday March 26th

The STRODE Project: a long step in walking Album Launch

For further information on all aspects of the Blas Summer

Yvon Riou, Lunchtime Performance

Therese Tierney and Laura Walsh,

THE CHANCELLOR'S CONCERT

The Chancellor's Concert

Diane Daly, Artistic Director,

THE LIMERICK FLING

Dance Limerick University Hospital (Dublin), Milford Hospice (Limerick),

MA Community Music Glenstal Abbey Community Gamelan Ensemble

Akshata Raghotham, MA Contemporary Dance Performance

Martin Hayes is regarded as one of the most extraordinary

The first part of Hayes’s residency began in 2016 and

Cantoral Vocal Ensemble The Irish Chamber Orchestra

The Irish World Academy is offering 2 full research EU fee

Scholarship Recipient 2018/2019: Aditya Mukherji

Roche Continents – Youth! Arts! Science!

Stepping Stones Further information on criteria and application procedures for

Government of Ireland International Humanities in Europe Research Area (HERA) *Partners:

Rhiannon Giddens, Lunchtime Performance

76 in association with MA Songwriting

Joyeeta Sanyal, Kolkata Lunchtime Performance

Maurice Gunning is an award winning Irish photographer and documentary filmmaker.

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