Dr Adrian Scahill

Biography
Research Interests
Book Chapters
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2019 | 'Transformations of performance and participation in the early céilí (1897–8)'
Adrian Scahill (2019) 'Transformations of performance and participation in the early céilí (1897–8)' In: Kerry Houston, Maria McHale and Michael Murphy (eds). Documents of Irish Music History in the Long Nineteenth Century (Irish Musical Studies vol. 12). Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] |
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2018 | '‘That Vulgar Strummer’: The piano and traditional music in the Gaelic Revival'
Adrian Scahill (2018) '‘That Vulgar Strummer’: The piano and traditional music in the Gaelic Revival' In: Music Preferred: Essays in Musicology, Cultural History and Analysis in Honour of Harry White. Vienna: Hollitzer Verlag. [Details] |
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2017 | 'Towards a reconsideration of the place of traditional music in the Catholic church'
Adrian Scahill (2017) 'Towards a reconsideration of the place of traditional music in the Catholic church' In: Kerry Houston & Harry White (eds). A musical offering: essays in honour of Gerard Gillen. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] |
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2016 | 'The Harp in the Early Traditional Group'
Adrian Scahill (2016) 'The Harp in the Early Traditional Group' In: Helen Lyons, Sandra Joyce (eds). Harp Studies: Perspectives on the Irish Harp. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] |
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2013 | 'Riverdance and Irish Traditional Music'
Scahill, Adrian (2013) 'Riverdance and Irish Traditional Music' In: Music and the Irish Imagination: Like a Language That We Could All Understand. [Details] |
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2010 | 'The flight of the earls in Irish traditional music'
Scahill, Adrian (2010) 'The flight of the earls in Irish traditional music' In: The Flight of the Earls - Imeacht na nIarlaí. Derry: Guildhall Press. [Details] |
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2009 | 'Irish Traditional Music and the Seventeenth Century'
Scahill, Adrian (2009) 'Irish Traditional Music and the Seventeenth Century' In: Music, Ireland, and the Seventeenth Century: Irish Musical Studies 10. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
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2019 | 'The album and the musical work in Irish folk and traditional music, ca. 1955-70'
Scahill A. (2019) 'The album and the musical work in Irish folk and traditional music, ca. 1955-70'. Eire-Ireland; a journal of Irish studies, 54 (1-2):17-45 [DOI] [full-text] [Details] |
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2009 | 'Riverdance: Representing Irish Traditional Music'
Scahill, Adrian (2009) 'Riverdance: Representing Irish Traditional Music'. NEW HIBERNIA REVIEW, 13 :70-76 [full-text] [Details] |
Other Journals
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2017 | 'In the Mix: Review of Flowing Tides: History & Memory in an Irish Soundscape, by Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin'
Adrian Scahill (2017) 'In the Mix: Review of Flowing Tides: History & Memory in an Irish Soundscape, by Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin' Dublin Review of Books, November 2017 . [DOI] [Details] |
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2015 | ''The piper's story over three centuries''
Adrian Scahill (2015) ''The piper's story over three centuries'' Journal of Music, . [Details] |
Conference Contributions
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2019 | ‘Supporting and Shaping Creativity in the Recording of Irish Traditional Music Albums’.
Adrian Scahill (2019) ‘Supporting and Shaping Creativity in the Recording of Irish Traditional Music Albums’. [Oral Presentation], Society for Musicology in Ireland Annual Plenary Conference, Maynooth University [Details] |
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2018 | Remote Control: The uneasy relationship between traditional music and television.
Adrian Scahill (2018) Remote Control: The uneasy relationship between traditional music and television. [Oral Presentation], Voicing Cultures, Cultural Voices: 13th Annual Conference of ICTM Ireland, University of Limerick [Details] |
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2018 | Reconsidering the album as artwork in Irish traditional music.
Adrian Scahill (2018) Reconsidering the album as artwork in Irish traditional music. [Invited Oral Presentation], Nótaí/Notes: Music and Ireland Research Symposium, NUIG [Details] |
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2016 | Framing Trad: Irish Traditional Music, Television and (mis)Representation.
Adrian Scahill (2016) Framing Trad: Irish Traditional Music, Television and (mis)Representation. [Oral Presentation], Society for Musicology in Ireland, Annual Plenary Conference, Dublin City University [Details] |
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2016 | Revival and Revolution: A transitional period in the ensemble playing of Irish traditional music.
Adrian Scahill (2016) Revival and Revolution: A transitional period in the ensemble playing of Irish traditional music. [Oral Presentation], Music in Ireland: 1916 and Beyond, DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama [Details] |
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2013 | Around the House Again for Old-Time's Sake: The Reissuing of Irish Traditional Music in the Digital Age.
Adrian Scahill (2013) Around the House Again for Old-Time's Sake: The Reissuing of Irish Traditional Music in the Digital Age. [Oral Presentation], 2013 Joint Annual Meeting of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology/ICTM-Ireland, Queen's University Belfast [Details] |
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2013 | Adrian Scahill: The 'Vulgar Strummer': The Gaelic League piano from the céilí to the céilí band.
Adrian Scahill (2013) Adrian Scahill: The 'Vulgar Strummer': The Gaelic League piano from the céilí to the céilí band. [Invited Lecture], Notes and Narratives Series, Na Píobairí Uilleann, Dublin [Details] |
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2012 | Droning on: the fiddle as accompaniment in Irish Traditional music.
Adrian Scahill (2012) Droning on: the fiddle as accompaniment in Irish Traditional music. [Oral Presentation], NAFCo 2012 Conference: Ón gCos go Cluas, University of Ulster [Details] |
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2012 | Skiffle in 1950s Ireland.
Adrian Scahill (2012) Skiffle in 1950s Ireland. [Oral Presentation], Tenth Annual Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, Dundalk Institute of Technology [Details] |
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2009 | Annual Conference, British Forum for Ethnomusicology.
(2009) Annual Conference, British Forum for Ethnomusicology. [Oral Presentation], Riverdance: Representing Irish Traditional Music, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool [Details] |
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2006 | Made at the spinning wheel: early recordings and contemporary Irish traditional music.
Adrian Scahill (2006) Made at the spinning wheel: early recordings and contemporary Irish traditional music. [Oral Presentation], Society for Musicology in Ireland Annual Conference, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick [Details] |
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2009 | Contester En Chansons: Expressions en Marge.
(2009) Contester En Chansons: Expressions en Marge. [Oral Presentation], Roaring from the Margins: Tradition and Revolution in Musical Commentary on the Celtic Tiger, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France [Details] |
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2009 | Joint Annual Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland and the Royal Musical Association.
(2009) Joint Annual Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland and the Royal Musical Association. [Oral Presentation], The Reel Thing: Irish Traditional Music in The Boys from County Clare, Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin [Details] |
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2008 |
(2008) [Oral Presentation], Off the Record: American 78 rpm Recordings, Department of Music, NUI Maynooth [Details] |
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2008 | Réflexions autour de la musique en Irlande: esthétiques et enjeux.
(2008) Réflexions autour de la musique en Irlande: esthétiques et enjeux. [Oral Presentation], Riverdance: Representing Irish Traditional Music, L’Université de Caen, Caen, France [Details] |
Book Review
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2010 | John Flynn: The Irishness of Irish Music (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009).
Dr Adrian Scahill (2010) John Flynn: The Irishness of Irish Music (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009). Book Review [Details] |
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2010 | David Cooper, The musical traditions of Northern Ireland and its diaspora: community and conflict (Ashgate, 2009).
Dr Adrian Scahill (2010) David Cooper, The musical traditions of Northern Ireland and its diaspora: community and conflict (Ashgate, 2009). Book Review [Details] |
Encyclopedia Entry
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2013 | c40 entries including accompaniment, Bothy Band, Ceoltóirí Chualann, folk music, ornamentation, piano in traditional music, traditional groups.
Adrian Scahill (2013) c40 entries including accompaniment, Bothy Band, Ceoltóirí Chualann, folk music, ornamentation, piano in traditional music, traditional groups. Encyclopedia Entry [Details] |
Thesis
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2005 | The Knotted Chord: Harmonic accompaniment in printed and recorded sources of Irish traditional music.
Scahill, A. (2005) The Knotted Chord: Harmonic accompaniment in printed and recorded sources of Irish traditional music. University College Dublin: Thesis [Details] |
Other
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2013 | Subject Editor for Traditional Music.
Adrian Scahill (2013) Subject Editor for Traditional Music. Other [Details] |