Méabh Ní Fhuartháin: 'The Musical Priest on Screen: Essentialising Irish America in Song’

Méabh Ní Fhuartháin
Friday, October 19, 2018 - 12:00 to 13:00
Bewerunge Room, Logic House

‘The Musical Priest on Screen: Essentialising Irish America in Song’

Dr Méabh Ní Fhuartháin is a lecturer/researcher at the Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway, specializing in Irish Music and Dance Studies. Méabh is Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies at the Centre and Academic Director of the International Irish Studies Summer School.  She has contributed articles and reviews to a variety of journals such as Ethnomusicology, Saothar: Journal of Labour History, Journal of the Society of Musicology in Ireland and New York Irish History Roundtable and was also Popular Music subject editor of the landmark Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland (UCD Press, 2012). Co-editor with Dr David Doyle of Ordinary Life and Popular Culture in Ireland (IAP, 2013), she is currently co-editing a special issue on music and Ireland for the interdisciplinary journal Éire-Ireland(forthcoming 2019). Recent published articles include work on pop music and emigration; masculinities and Irish popular music; and the interface between Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann and traditional music scholarship.