OF OUR TIMES

Irish World Academy of Music and Dance AUTUMN

University of Limerick AN FOMHAR

2017
COMHAIMSEARTHA
Dmh Chruinne ireann Rince agus Ceol
Ollscoil Luimnigh
Credits
General Editor: Dr Sandra Joyce
Editor and Comhaimseartha Coordinator: Jennifer de Brn
Text Editors: Fran Garry, Hannah Fahey
Photography: Maurice Gunning
Design: Joe Gervin
Venue Coordinator: Melissa Carty
Tuesday Lunchtime Performance Coordinators: Dr Niall Keegan and Cliodhna Donnellan
Wednesday Lunchtime Performance Coordinator: Jean Downey
Thursday Lunchtime Performance Coordinators: Lisa McLoughlinand Dr Oscar Mascareas
Tower and Logos Coordinator: Dr Aileen Dillane
Taighde/Research Editor: Professor Helen Phelan
Ag Fachaint Siar/Recent Events and Special Events Coordinator: Jennifer de Brn
 Contents
2 INTRODUCTION BY PROFESSOR MEL MERCIER

4 FACULTY AND STAFF

6 EMERITUS FACULTY

9 LUNCHTIME PERFORMANCE SERIES

15 TOWER SEMINAR SERIES

21 LOGOS SEMINAR SERIES

25 SPECIAL EVENTS

29 AG FACHAINT SIAR / RECENT EVENTS

35 BEALACH / COMMUNITY CULTURAL PATHWAYS

39 CNA / ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

43 TAIGHDE / RESEARCH

51 IRISH WORLD ACADEMY ENSEMBLES

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
53 SCHOLARSHIP AND AWARD RECIPIENTS

59 CLR / IRISH WORLD ACADEMY PROGRAMMES

63 OTHER PROGRAMMES AND ARTS OFFICES

Front cover: The Suona Ensemble

Students of the MA Contemporary Dance Performance
Photographs Maurice Gunning
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INTRODUCTION
PROFESSOR MEL MERCIER
The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at
the University of Limerick has made an exceptional
contribution to music and dance education and research
since it was established in 1994. The championing
of artistic practice as a core focus of research and
teaching, alongside more traditional forms of academic
scholarship, and the creation of a suite of innovative
undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, are
widely acknowledged as groundbreaking developments
in arts education in Ireland.
Professor Mchel Silleabhin, Founding Chair also continue to be a place of nurture and support - an
of Music at the University of Limerick, provided
inspirational leadership at the Academy for more than
two decades, during which period he persuasively and
eloquently articulated a bright vision for the Academy.
The extent to which that vision has been a shared
one is borne out in the testimonies of the many staff
members, students, visiting artists and academics who
have contributed to it and been embraced by it. Under
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Professor Silleabhins leadership, the Academys
progressive educational ethos was co-created and
collectively realised, and the Academy emerged as a
cutting-edge centre for research and teaching in the
performing arts.
In 2014, the Irish World Academy presented Academy 20,
a series of events and publications celebrating its vision
and its achievements over the two decades since it was
founded. In the wake of those celebrations and the recent
retirement of Professor Silleabhin, the Academy
finds itself at a critical point in its history. Poised on the
threshold of what it will become, the Academy is, today,
engaged in a dialogue between the rich narratives of its
past and present and the aspirations for, and imaginings
of, its future. The achievements to date provide solid
foundation, inspiration and impetus as the Academy
moves towards the creation of a renewed academic and
artistic vision.
In the period ahead, the Academy will remain dynamically
reflexive: conscious of how it filters, evaluates,
communicates, contextualises and creates knowledge;
committed to revealing and interrogating frames of
teaching and research; and open, progressive and creative
as the need for change emerges. The Academy will
academic home - for those who dwell there, as they seek
to envision with clarity, and follow with purpose, their
own shifting lines of flight, and respond to their calling
as artists, scholars, educators and administrators.
The Academy, like Bachelards house, is a cosmos,
created, experienced and inhabited today, and for the last
23 years, by a vibrant community of Irish and international
artists, scholars, faculty and students. The Academy is
a place where staff and students are, in the words of
Canadian curriculum scholar, Ted Aoki, indwellers in
the earthy place where they experience daily life. Aokis
earthy place is the location of the preconceptual,
pretheoretical, fleshy, familiar, very concrete world of
teachers and students. Aokis poetics brings into focus
the intimate, human dimensions of teaching and learning
spaces, while Bachelard inspires us to strive to achieve
the Academys potential as a space of integration for the
thoughts, memories and dreams of those who mingle
there, today, and those who would enter its universe, in
the future.
Amongst the distinctive strengths of the Academy is
a commitment to a pedagogy that integrates artistic
practice, research and critical reflection, and the
cultivation of a student-centered ethos. The Academys
performance-based, experiential pedagogy has the power
to affect positive psychological change, promote self-
efficacy and cultivate intrinsic motivation and greater
self-determination. Enhanced reflexive thinking supports
the development of deeper knowledge of self, provides
students with the tools to excavate their own histories of
cultural, social and artistic formation, and enriches their
perspectives on the world. The potential for artistic and
personal transformation expands when this synergy of
artistic practice and reflection is achieved within the
Academys inter-disciplinary, cross-arts and cross-cultural
research environment.
The Irish World Academy is committed to the development
of each students unique artistic identity; supporting
the emergence of the students individual voice is a
guiding principle of its goals and activities. Academy
students learn to interrogate their own noise, forge
their own artistic practice and develop their conceptual
and academic skills, towards the achievement of their
potential as self-educating, critical thinking, creative
human beings. Students also share cross-cultural and
interdisciplinary encounters with their teachers, gaining
understanding of, and developing respect for, other
artistic and intellectual traditions.
The Academys greatest strength is its people: its students,
and the exceptional faculty and staff that compose its
vibrant community. Attuned to what teaching is, listening
out for its essence, Academy faculty and staff members
create and deliver its extensive range of undergraduate
and postgraduate courses. In addition, they make a
significant contribution, locally and internationally, to
artistic practice and academic discourse through their
participation in conferences, concerts, festivals and
other events, and by hosting and curating an extensive
programme of performances, academic activities and
community-based initiatives.
its staff and students, and the wide range of productive
partnerships between Academy staff and colleagues from
the university and the national and international arts and
academic communities.
I am delighted to have the opportunity to introduce this
edition of the brochure. It is a privilege to do so in my
new role as Chair of Performing Arts at the University
of Limerick, and at this time, when, as the brochures
contents clearly demonstrate, the Irish World Academy
of Music and Dance is in such rude health. The vitality
captured in the pages of the brochure is a tribute to the
Academys community of dedicated and inspirational
students, faculty and staff. It is, equally, a celebration
of the immense contribution of Professor Mchel
Silleabhin, who founded the Academy and gifted it
with inspirational leadership for twenty-two years, and
whose generous, bright vision enriched the academic
and artistic lives and nourished the creative spirit of his
colleagues and students throughout that time.
Professor Mel Mercier

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
Chair of Performing Arts
A great deal, but by no means all, of those many activities July 2017
are represented here, in the Comhaimseartha/Of Our
Times brochure. Published twice each year, the brochure,
in its own way, tells the story of the Academys impact on
the cultural and civic life of the campus, city and region. It
reveals and documents the great breadth and diversity of
the academic, artistic and educational work engaged in by

Laura O'Callaghan, Irish Gamelan Orchestra

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Photograph Maurice Gunning
 FACULTY
& STAFF IRISH WORLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DANCE,
UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK

Melissa Carty Barbara Christie Carl Corcoran Pamela Cotter Jennifer de Brn Dr Aileen Dillane Dr Alan Dormer
Administrator, Senior Administrator, Course Director, Director, BLAS International Performing Arts Coordinator, (on sabbatical) Academy Technical Officer,
melissa.carty@ul.ie barbara.christie@ul.ie MA Songwriting Summer School of Irish jennifer.debrun@ul.ie Course Director, alan.dormer@ul.ie
+353 61 202590 +353 61 202030 carl.corcoran@ul.ie Traditional Music and Dance +353 61 202917 MA Irish Music Studies +353 61 202726
+353 61 202030 pamela.cotter@ul.ie aileen.dillane@ul.ie
+353 61 202653 +353 61 202159

Jean Downey Paula Dundon Dr Catherine Foley Dr Eleanor Giraud Dr Sandra Joyce Dr Niall Keegan Dr Yonit Kosovske
Course Director, Academy Administrator, Course Director, Course Director, Academy Director Academy Associate Director, Course Director,
MEd (Music), paula.dundon@ul.ie MA Ethnochoreology MA Ritual Chant and Song Course Director, Director of MA Classical String
Professional MEd (Music) +353 61 202149 catherine.e.foley@ul.ie eleanor.giraud@ul.ie MA Irish Traditional Music Undergraduate Studies Performance (Keyboard)
jean.downey@ul.ie +353 61 202922 + 353 61 234743 Performance niall.keegan@ul.ie yonit.kosovske@ul.ie
+353 61 213160 sandra.joyce@ul.ie + 353 61 202465 +353 61 234922
+353 61 202065

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Dr scar Mascareas
Lecturerin Music,
oscar.mascarenas@ul.ie
+353 61 202990
Dr Triona McCaffrey Dr Mats Melin Professor Mel Mercier Hannah Fahey Dr Hilary Moss
Lecturer, (on sabbatical) Chair of Performing Arts, Lecturer in Voice, Course Director,
MA Music Therapy Course Director, mel.mercier@ul.ie hannah.fahey@ul.ie MA Music Therapy
triona.mccaffrey@ul.ie MA Irish Dance Studies + 353 61 202918 +353 61 202590 hilary.moss@iul.ie
+353 61 234358 mats.melis@ul.ie +353 61 213122
+353 61 202542

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
Dr Orfhlaith N Bhriain Dr Niamh NicGhabhann Professor Helen Phelan Dr Colin Quigley Dr Kathleen Turner
Course Director, Course Director, Programme Director, Course Director, Course Director,
MA Irish Traditional Dance MA Festive Arts PhD Arts Practice MA Ethnomusicology MA Community Music
Performance niamh.nicghabhann@ul.ie helen.phelan@ul.ie colin.quigley@ul.ie kathleen.turner@ul.ie
orfhlaith.nibhriain@ul.ie +353 61 202798 + 353 61 202575 +353 61 202966 + 353 61 213762
+353 61 202470

Course Director for the MA Contemporary Dance Performance

and Lecturer in Dance to be announced.

Students of the MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance

Photograph Maurice Gunning
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 EMERITUS
FACULTY PROFESSOR JANE EDWARDS

Professor Jane Edwards

Associate Professor Emeritus
Jane joined the Academy in 1999 as course director for the
new Master of Music Therapy. She founded the Music &
Health Research Group in 2004, with initial funding from
the European Science Foundation. As project leader for ULs
successful funding bid to found Occupational Therapy and
Speech and Language Therapy, she subsequently directed the
start-up of Clinical Therapies. Jane was Director of Psychology
at UL for 4 years overseeing the founding of the psychology
department. She was an elected UL Governor, Chair of the
Advisory Committee for the Graduate Education Medical
School, and Assistant Dean for Research in FAHSS. While at UL
she held research fellowships at the University of Cambridge,
and Queen Margaret University, and was a Guest Professor at
the University of the Arts, Berlin. She is a founding member,
and was inaugural President, of the International Association
for Music & Medicine.

Jane is currently Associate Professor for Mental Health at

Deakin University, Australia, and was recently appointed
as the first Australian Editor-in-Chief for The Arts in Psycho-
therapy. She is sole editor of the Oxford Handbook of Music
Therapy (2016) a 50 chapter resource featuring international
contributions, including many from UL music therapy staff
and graduates. She is regularly sought after for healthcare
advisory roles, and has recently delivered keynote speeches
at conferences in Australia, Canada and the UK.

Students of the MA Contemporary Dance Performance

6 Photograph Maurice Gunning
DR MARY NUNAN
Dr Mary Nunan
Emeritus Lecturer
Mary Nunan is a contemporary dance artist choreographer,
performer and teacher. Her professional career began when
she joined Dublin Contemporary Dance Theatre (1981-86). She
was founding Artistic Director of Daghdha Dance Company
(1988-1999) and Course Director of the MA Contemporary
Dance Performance at the University of Limerick (1999-2016).
She is visiting guest lecturer at the Royal College of Art,
London for this current academic year. Throughout her career
Mary has created a substantial body of critically acclaimed
solo and ensemble choreographies that have been performed
in national and international venues. Artists with whom
she has collaborated include: Yoshiko Chuma, Joan Davis,
Oscar Mascarenas, Katherine OMalley, Karen Power, Jurgen
Simpson, Monica Spencer, Nigel Rolfe and Mary Wycherley.
Mary was a member of the Arts Council (2005-2008). She was
the Chair of the Special Committee that produced the Arts-in-
Education report, Points of Alignment. She earned her PhD
from Middlesex University.
PROFESSOR MCHEL SILLEABHIN FERENC SZCS
Professor Mchel Silleabhin Dr. Ferenc Szcs
Emeritus Chair of Music Senior Lecturer Emeritus
Founding Director Dr. Ferenc Szcs has worked as Senior Lecturer at the Irish
World Academy, University of Limerick since 1998 and had a
Inaugural Emeritus Chair of Music and Founding Director of the
key role in establishing the Masters programme in Classical
Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of
String Performance, which he directed until 2015. He initiated
Limerick, Mchel Silleabhin is noted for his development
the innovative collaboration with the Irish Chamber Orchestra
of a uniquely Irish traditional piano style. He has recorded
and was the first Artistic Director of ACADEMOS Irish World
extensively with the Irish Chamber Orchestra and has released
Academy Strings.
some 15 recordings overall most recently ELVER GLEAMS: New
and Selected Recordings (EMI 2010), and the DVD Irish Destiny As a professional cellist, he has performed in over 50 countries
(Irish Film Institute 2006) with the RTE Concert Orchestra. and has associations with numerous orchestras, ensembles and
institutes worldwide. He made radio and television broadcasts
In 2004, he was appointed inaugural Chair of Culture Ireland
and recordings for BBC, RTE and MRT, and published CDs on
(the statutory Irish governmental body for promoting Irish arts
ASV, BMG, Hyperion, Arte Nova, Future Classics and RTE Lyric
worldwide) and was reappointed in 2008.
fm labels.
He was awarded an Honorary DMus from the National University
He played as principal cellist with several orchestras including
of Ireland at University College Cork (2005), the inaugural Ollamh
the BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Festival Orchestra,
na higse (Professor of Arts) by Comhaltas Ceoltir ireann
New Queens Hall Orchestra, Oxford Orchestra of Camera,
(2005), Boston College Honorary Alumnus Award (2006), Gradam
Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, Royal Opera House, English
Cheoil (Irish language television award 2011), ODonnell Chair of
National Opera, English Symphonia, Orchestra of St. Johns,
Irish Studies at the Keough Naughton Institute for Irish Studies
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
London Mozart Players and the Irish Chamber Orchestra.
(University of Notre Dame 2012), and honorary citizenship and
the Freedom of Clonmel his native town in 2016. His research focuses on creative decision-making processes
within expert-professional performance practice and argues for
In 2017 he will tour the USA with the Irish Baroque Orchestra
knowledge status of arts-professional expertise in academia.
featuring his music, and will also tour internationally with the
He was the first person to complete Middlesex University's Arts
National Youth Orchestra of Ireland.
Doctorate in Music.
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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

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
Goitse at the Blas International Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance
Photograph Maurice Gunning
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 SIMON THOMPSON LUCY DAWSON MA MUSIC THERAPY STUDENTS
The Performance Exams for the MA Irish Traditional Music
Performance, MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance and
the MA Contemporary Dance Performance will take place
from September 4th to 8th. For more information:
www.irishworldacademy.ie
EVERY TUESDAY
EVERY TUESDAY AT 1.15PM IN THE TOWER THEATRE, THE
ACADEMY PRESENTS A TRADITIONAL MUSIC AND/OR
DANCE PERFORMANCE FEATURING A WIDE VARIETY OF
TRADITIONAL PERFORMING ARTISTS.
Thursday September 21st
SEPTEMBER
Altjeringa
Simon Thompson and Lucy Dawson
Altjeringa is a masked performance piece that explores the
relationship between the face and body in storytelling. The
equivocal mask has specifically been chosen to allow for the
possibility of multiple meanings, especially with intent to
deceive or misguide; deliberately ambiguous in order to focus
the observers attention on the body. Is it possible to create
a shared experience or a connection with another person
when we remove the most social part of our anatomy, or can
we create something deeper, something almost spiritual?
Our narrative draws on inspiration from aboriginal creation
stories often known as dreaming. These traditional and
ancient stories help to reflect the place of the mask in tribal,
ritual and even sacred performances.
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DUKE SPECIAL SIVE
Simon Thompson is a clown, bouffon and director. He trained
with Jaques LeCoq and Phillipe Gaulier and has over 30 years
experience of performing throughout Europe and Asia. In
2014, Simon embarked on a solo performance project with his
self penned work Clown Noir, This is me, which successfully
toured Ireland, the U.K and Denmark. In 2015, he toured
internationally with Peines d'amour perdues, a clown
adaptation of Shakespeares Loves Labours Lost. In 2016,
he toured internationally in the U.S.A with Nose Business
the final part of the Clown Noir trilogy. Simon is also a lecturer
on the M.A. Festive Arts programme and a PhD research
candidate at the Irish World Academy. His PhD project is
entitled: A Creative Pedagogy through Mask and Clown.
Lucy Dawson is a contemporary dance artist, photographer
and film maker from Keith in Scotland. She began her dance
training at The Scottish School of Contemporary Dance in
Dundee and continued her training at The Northern School
of Contemporary Dance in Leeds, where she received her
BPA in Contemporary Dance Performance. Since graduating
in 2007, Lucy has lived in London and has been involved in a
number of diverse projects, ranging from music videos to
advertisements, dance pieces, plays, musicals, site specific
projects and films.
She is currently resident in Limerick, Ireland, having recently
OCTOBER
completed the MA Contemporary Dance Programme at The
Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.
that sweeps along, displaying folk and jazz nuances with the
Wednesday September 27th
MA Music Therapy Performance
MA Music Therapy Students
This performance will showcase the skills and talents of our
current second year MA Music Therapy class. The concert will
feature a variety of singers and instrumentalists performing
a broad range of styles from classical repertoire to traditional
music to original songs written by class members.
Thursday September 28th
Duke Special
In this special lunchtime concert, the MA Songwriting prog-
ramme hosts singer, songwriter and composer, Duke Special.
Duke's platinum album Songs From The Deep Forest, and
the hit song Freewheel are familiar to many. He has also
been involved in projects as diverse as writing the theme tune
for the Irish Sesame Street to writing the music for and
appearing in Deborah Warners critically acclaimed 2009
production of Bertolt Brechts Mother Courage and Her
Children at Londons National Theatre. In 2016 he was
appointed as the Artist In Residence at the Lyric Theatre.
Thursday October 5th
Sive
Sive is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist with a voice
confidence of one who knows (Eamonn Carr). Her unique
sound weaves together her love for the craft of songwriting
with her enthusiasm for experimentation and intricate
arrangements. Having released her debut album to critical
ST. FRANCIS COLLEGE, ROCHESTOWN DR KATHLEEN TURNER
acclaim in 2012, Sive has toured extensively across Ireland,
the UK, Europe and New Zealand, and has also performed
on RTE's Other Voices. In 2016, she ran a successful crowd-
funding campaign to complete her second album 'The Roaring
Girl' which was released in May, 2017.
Wednesday October 11th
St. Francis College, Mid-October Fest!
Students of St. Francis College, Rochestown
The concert will be a mixture of group and solo performances
from a variety of genres: popular; jazz; traditional and music
theatre. As much as possible, the choice of music is deter-
mined by the students themselves and will showcase their
individual and group music-making skills.
St. Francis College is an all-boys post-primary school with
over 600 students under the trusteeship of the Franciscan
Capuchins. Music has always played an important role in
the life of the school. The students are encouraged to
develop their skills as both individuals and as part of the
choir and orchestra. Performing arrangements of songs from
the musicals, popular songs, Negro spirituals, religious songs
and carols, the St. Francis College Choir and Orchestra has
built up a wide repertoire over the last few years.
Thursday October 12th
Kathleen Turner
Kathleen Turner is a singer, songwriter and community
musician. Her debut EP, Some Stories, was received with
support from Radio Ulster, RT Radio and Today FM. She
released her second EP, The Lines Between Us, in 2017. This
CHRIS WOOD
was produced and recorded with award winning singer,
songwriter and instrumentalist, Chris Wood. She was
featured artist on Paul McLoones First Sessions on Today
FM, and has had appearances supporting Eddie Reader, Altan
and Declan O'Rourke. Kathleen is a graduate and lecturer
at the Irish World Academy and also recently completed
her PhD in Arts Practice. Kathleen is the recipient of the
2017/18 Jerome Hynes Fellowship for the Clore Leadership
programme, supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
Tuesday October 17th
Chris Wood
Chris Wood is an uncompromising writer whose music reveals
his love for the unofficial history of English speaking people.
With gentle intelligence he weaves the tradition with his own
contemporary parables.
A self-taught musician, composer and songwriter, Chris is a
lifelong autodidact whose independent streak shines through
everything he does. Always direct and unafraid to speak his
mind, his songwriting has been praised for its surgical clarity.
He cites Anon as his major influence.
His eagerly awaited new album So Much to Defend (officially
released on January 27th, 2017) was previewed at Cambridge
Folk Festival last summer and includes reflections on minor
league football, empty nest syndrome, learning to swim,
Cook-in Sauce and, not least, the Gecko as a metaphor for
contemporary society.
LIMERICK SCHOOL OF MUSIC SOUGATA ROY CHOWDHURY
Wednesday October 18th
Limerick School of Music Recital
Students of Limerick School of Music
Advanced level students will perform a varied programme
of vocal and instrumental music. Limerick School of Music
students are encouraged to take every opportunity to
become involved in live performance, both individually and
as members of the schools many ensembles and orchestras.
This recital presents a snapshot of some of our advanced
level students from different disciplines presenting a wide
variety of repertoire. To find out more about Limerick
School of Music events please see
www.limerickschoolofmusic.ie,
our Facebook page or Twitter @LimerickSOM.
Thursday October 19th
North Indian Classical Music on the Sarode
Sougata Roy Chowdhury
This concert will be an instrumental recital of North Indian
classical music on the 25 stringed lute called sarode. North
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
Indian music is based around the melodic principle of raga,
which could be described as a gestalt modal aesthetic that
follows strict grammatical and structural rules based on
a fixed cluster of scale material. The sarode is one of the
most prominent stringed instruments in the performance of
modern North Indian music. It is renowned for its depth of
tone and its ability to create beautiful glissando passages due
to its fretless neck.
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 PROFESSOR DAN TRUEMAN DR LINDA BUCKLEY KATE ELLIS AMOROSO STRING QUARTET PTER RENDS QRISTINA BROOKE BACHAND
Sougata Roy Chowdhury is considered to be among the
most talented sarode players of his generation. Sougata
started to learn sarode at the age of 10 withUstad Dyanesh
Khan, son of the great Sarode maestroUstad Ali Akbar Khan.
He has also studied with Ustad Ashish Khan and more recently
with esteemed sitarist Pandit Santosh Banerjee. He has
toured and performed extensively across India, Europe and
the United States.
Wednesday October 25th
Dan Trueman, Linda Buckley and Kate Ellis
Three leading Irish and international composers, performers
and improvisers, Dan Trueman, Linda Buckley and Kate
Ellis present a concert of new music on cello, fiddle, voice
and electronics. The concert features performances of
NOVEMBER
compositions by Dan, Linda and other Irish composers.
Dan Trueman is an American composer and fiddler. He
collaborates frequently with a wide range of ensembles,
musicians and artists, including So Percussion, Iarla Lionird,
Gallicantus, choreographer Rebecca Lazier and scientist
Naomi Leonard. Linda Buckleys music has been described
as exquisite (Gramophone) and "strange and beautiful"
(Boston Globe). Her work has been performed by the BBC
Symphony Orchestra, Dresden Sinfoniker Orchestra and at
international festivals including Bang on a Can at MassMoCA
and Seoul International Computer Music Festival. Cellist Kate
Ellis is dedicated to the performance of all new music.Artistic
Director of Crash Ensemble and a member of the Taquin
Experiments and Yurodny, Kate collaborates with a wide
range of artists and has commissioned new music from
many Irish composers, including Niall Vallely and Donnacha
Dennehy.
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Thursday October 26th
Chamber Music Performance
Amoroso String Quartet
Mendelssohn, string quartet in E flat major, Op.12 No.1
Mozart, string quartet No.19 in C major, K.465, Dissonance
The Amoroso Quartet formed in October 2016 due to their
mutual love of chamber music. Their debut took place in May
2017 as part of the Galway Music Residency and they are
continuing their studies with the RTE Con Tempo Quartet in
the 2017/18 season. In August, they took part in the Boyne
Festivals Young Artist Programme. They are currently
collaborating with Clarinetist Robert Solyom, studying
Mozarts Clarinet quintet.
Thursday November 2nd
Traditional Hungarian string band music from Transylvania
Pter rends and students of the Liszt Academy of Music
Pter rends will perform string band repertoire from
central Transylvania (mezsg) with advanced students from
the Folk Music Department of the Liszt Academy of Music,
playing his primary instrument the 3-string folk-viola, which
provides harmonic accompaniment to the violin, supported by
a contra-bass.
Pter rends is Senior Lecturer at the Liszt Academy
in Budapest, where he leads the program in folk string
chamber music. In 1986 he founded the Tkrs Folk Music
Ensemble, which has published several solo albums since
its establishment. In addition to numerous performances
throughout Hungary and Europe, the Tkrs folk band also
completed three successful tours in Australia and two in the
USA. Their regular summer program is the Tkrs Folk Music
and Dance Camp held annually. Their album Our Mezsg
won the Fonogram Award for Best Authentic Hungarian Folk
Music in 2010.
Tuesday November 7th
Qristina Brooke Bachand
Born on Canadas west coast, with its signature embrace of
experimentation and improvisation, fiddler Qristina Brooke
Bachand has developed her own voice, exploring various
musical traditions and fusing styles such as Traditional Irish,
Old-Time American and French Canadian, to create her own
distinctive sound.
Wednesday November 8th
Spraoi agus Spleodar!
Ennistymon Vocational School
Students from Ennistymon Vocational School are delighted to
return to Irish World Academy to present an eclectic mix of Irish
traditional tunes, song and dance, some with a very modern
twist, at this lunchtime performance. The concert show-cases
the talent of our young musicians who love to share their talents
with the community and wider audiences.
The group is made up of a cross-section of young people
who enjoy performing the tunes, songs and dances of North
Clare. Ennistymon is situated in the heart of the north Clare
music tradition. The students regularly perform in their local
community and beyond, including Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann in
Ennis.
ENNISTYMON VOCATIONAL SCHOOL WAYS OF WALKING AND WEEPING MA IRISH TRADITIONAL DANCE PERFORMANCE
(Photo: Luca Truffarelli)

Thursday November 9th

Liz Roche Company
Ways of Walking and Weeping

Liz Roche Company has been presenting evocative and

compelling contemporary dance on Irish and International
stages for over 15 years. Unanimously appreciated for its
physicality, poetic strength and the cleverness of its intui-
tive collaborations with other art forms, the company has
become a leading light in the development of contemporary
dance in Ireland.

Tuesday November 14th

MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance
MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance Students

A variety of ensemble and solo choreographies created by

guest choreographers in collaboration with the students.

Deirdra Kiely, MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance

Photograph Maurice Gunning
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 STUDENTS OF MA COMMUNITY MUSIC MA CONTEMPORARY DANCE PERFORMANCE
Wednesday November 15th
MA Community Music Ensemble
Students of MA Community Music
Each year the students of the MA Community Music
programme work together to create an original musical
work drawn from their experiences throughout the first
semester. The performance demonstrates the students'
understanding of community music principles, such as the
power of collective creativity and a belief in our innate
musicality as people. How the students interpret and
create using these principles is entirely up to them. Join us
for what promises to be an exciting performance.
Thursday November 16th
MA Contemporary Dance Performance (Theatre 1)
MA Contemporary Dance Performance Students
This performance will feature a programme of original
ensemble choreographic works created by guest choreo-
graphers and solo choreographies created by the students
of the MA in Contemporary Dance Performance at the Irish
World Academy.
Thursday November 23rd
Heroes
John Scott
John Scott, choreographer/operatic tenor, creates his first
major solo since The Bowing Dance, using the universe of
German operatic heroes: Beethovens Fidelio, Wagners
Die Walkure and Siegfried. Scott creates a journey that
is dance through the physicality of his astonishing voice
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to show two selves, human and mythological. The music
portrays heroes battling impossible dark forces and
conquering darkness. Soundscape is by French-Palestinian
artist Jassem Hindi, who also collaborates with Keith
Hennessy and Maira Habib. 'Heroes' was framed through
interaction with Jonathan Burrows collaborator, Matteo
Fargion.
John Scott is a graduate of University College Dublin and
a graduate of dance at the Irish National College of Dance.
He apprenticed with Dublin City Ballet and Irish Theatre
Ballet. He later studied with Pablo Vela, Meredith Monk,
Julian Beck and Judith Malina (Living Theatre). His work has
been performed in Ireland at Dublin Dance Festival, Galway
International Arts Festival, Kilkenny Arts Festival and Tiger
Dublin Fringe, and internationally at New York Live Arts,
La MaMa, Danspace Project at St Marks Church, PS 122,
New York, and Dance Base, Edinburgh, Les Hivernales,
Avignon, Tanzmesse, Dusseldorf and throughout Europe.
Thursday November 30th
MA Classical String Performance
MA Classical String Performance Students
This performance will feature a programme of work by the
MA Classical String Performance students and is part of
the students examinations.
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Wednesday September 6th
SEPTEMBER
Stomping Empowerment: Flamenco as a Female
Counterculture in Japan.
Presenter: Dr Yolanda Van Ede
Chair: Dr Catherine Foley
In the 1980s, flamenco became immensely popular among
Japanese women. An explanation of this phenomenon has
to deal with more than only an entanglement in globalizing
tendencies, but includes local social hierarchies, that is
gender relations, and cultural perceptions of sound in
relation to femininity, urban environment and notions of
modernity.
Dr Yolanda van Ede is senior lecturer at the University of
Amsterdams anthropology department. After her PhD
research on a Tibetan Buddhist nunnery in Nepal, she
directed her interest in women and oral tradition towards
her passion for dance. With years of ballroom dancing and
flamenco experience, she first conducted fieldwork in
Seville and Tokyo on Japanese women and flamenco, then
on the dance halls of Manila. She also published on ritual
and performance, the anthropology of the senses, skill and
methodology.
Wednesday September 13th
The Doubleness of Sound at Canada's Indian
Residential Schools
Presenter: Dr Beverley Diamond
Chair: Dr Colin Quigley
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In this public presentation Dr Diamond will examine sound
and music in these infamous Schools considering them as
both tools of oppression and assimilation, on one hand,
and agency/trauma relief on the other hand. She extends
her discussion to address these issues in the context of
the recent Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian
Residential Schools in Canada
Dr Beverley Diamond was named a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Canada (RSC), considered to be the highest
academic honour in Canada. The society calls Dr Diamond "a
guiding voice in contemporary ethnomusicology in Canada"
and "an inspiring mentor to more than 70 M.A. and Ph.D.
students," and credits her for developing cross-cultural
perspectives on gendered musical practices. She received a
Trudeau Fellowship (2009-12) and was the first recipient of
the SOCAN Foundation/CUMS Award of Excellence for the
Advancement of Research in Canadian Music. A Festschrift
was published in her honour in 2010.
Wednesday September 27th
Developing music therapy in the health service, supporting
service growth and recovery
Presenter: Stephen Sandford.
Respondants: Dr Triona McCaffrey, Professor David Meagher
Chair: Dr Hilary Moss
Growth and access to arts therapies links not only to an
advancing theoretical and research evidence base but also to
how this evidence sits against a competitive and constrained
health economy. How arts therapies develop from the "ground
up" is less apparent in the literature.
STEPHEN SANDFORD DR TRONA McCAFFREY DR HILARY MOSS
This seminar will share perspectives and examples of the
ongoing ground up growth and development of arts therapies
within East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT). There, sixty
arts therapists offer input across a wide range of services that
respond to the contextual and political weather. The current
climate offers both challenges and opportunities for sustaining
and growing arts therapies. Examples will be shared which
highlight how this is being achieved through recovery focused
practice.
Professor David Meagher is Professor of Psychiatry at the
UL Graduate Entry Medical School and Consultant Psychiatrist
with the Health Services Executive. He is Foundation Chair,
Head of Teaching and Research in Psychiatry at UL and Dean
for Postgraduate training in psychiatry for the Midwestern
Regional Deanery. David has over 200 scientific publications in
peer-reviewed journals. Recent work has focused upon the use
of computerized technology / electronics in the detection and
monitoring of patients with acute cognitive failure/delirium.
David is a member of the Music and Pop Culture Group at UL
and plays guitar in the Sons of Southern Ulster - an Alt/Indie
Spacefolk band as well as in Section 17 (a band who advocate
for Men's Mental Health and play the music of Joy Division).
Stephen Sandford is Strategic Lead & Professional Head of
Arts Therapies, East London NHS Foundation Trust. Originally
from Armagh, Stephen trained as a music therapist in London
in 1997. He was Clinical Lead for Music Therapy Services at
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust for
over ten years, prior to taking up his current full time role at
East London NHS Foundation Trust in 2014. He is passionate
about service development and ensuring arts therapies input
is relevant to the context it is being offered.
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Dr Trona McCaffrey is a lecturer in music therapy at the Irish
World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick.
Trona has practiced as a music therapist in community
mental health, psychiatry of old age and mental health
recovery where she developed her passion for service user
involvement in healthcare. Her current research interests
relate to music therapy in mental health and stakeholder
involvement in mental health service delivery using arts-
based research methods. She is founder of the international
Alliance for Recovery Research in Music Therapy and a
published author in journals such as the Arts in Psychotherapy
and the Journal of Music Therapy.
Dr Hilary Moss is Course Director of the MA Music Therapy
at the World Academy of Music and Dance, University of
Limerick (UL), Ireland and until recently the Director of the
National Centre for Arts and Health, Tallaght Hospital, Dublin.
She completed her PhD in 2014 on arts and health at Trinity
College Dublin School of Medicine and has an MBA in Health
Service Management. She has been a music therapist for 20
years and is a trombone player. Her research interests are
varied, including arts therapies in medical and mental health
settings; singing and health; arts and health practice; health
This event explores the creative process involved in
developing work for young audiences, offering perspectives
from literature, theatre and music.
Professor Sarah Moore Fitzgerald is a teacher, researcher
and novelist based in the University of Limerick. Chair of
the National Forum for the enhancement of teaching and
learning in higher education, and an academic whose work
focuses on effective pedagogy, she is also the author of
four novels, including the Waterstones Prize shortlisted The
Apple Tart of Hope and The List of Real Things (forthcoming in
2017). Her first novel,Back to Blackbrick has been adapted
for the stage and performed at the Edinburgh Festival and
in Londons West End. In 2015, she received the Jack Harte
award from The Irish Writers Centre.
Dr Thomas Johnston is a musician, educator, and researcher
whose work lies in those spaces between Irish traditional
music, performing arts for children and young audiences,
community music, and music education practice and policy. In
2017, he received the Arts Councils Next Generation Award
and the dlr Arts Office Caterpillar Commission. Thomas is
the Artistic Director of Ceol Connected whose productions
of puppetry to see how it has been applied in ways that
transcend oppression and the body. Emma is a puppeteer,
set designer and writer. She set up Beyond the Bark, an
inclusive puppet and installation theatre in 2007.
Wednesday October 11th
Singing the Rite to Belong: Music, Ritual and
the New Irish
Presenters: Professor Helen Phelan, Dr. Abel Ugba,
Dr Carmen Kuhling, Hala Jaber.
Chair: Professor Helen Phelan
The religious ritual landscape in Ireland has changed drama-
ically over the last three decades. Changing attitudes towards
Catholicism, the growth of new religious communities by
new migrant groups, as well as the changing demographics
of existing religions, have complicated and enriched Irish
ritual experiences. This seminar looks particularly at the
role of music in ritual communities in the negotiation of
belonging and identity and marks the launch of the book
Singing the Rite to Belong: Music, Ritual and the New Irish by
Helen Phelan.

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include The Quiet Tree and the Creatures of Whistleberry
humanities; curatorship and inter-disciplinary research. She
Forest, The Far Field, and The Wonderful Tune. In addition, Prof Helen Phelan is the programme director of the PhD in
is Chair of the Arts and Health Research Cluster and a member
Thomas lectures on traditional music and ethnomusicology Arts Practice at the Irish World Academy. She also served as
of the Health Research Institute at UL and co-investigator
at the School of Theology, Philosophy, and Music at DCU. course director of the MA Ritual Chant and Song programme
on an Irish study of dementia friendly hospitals.
for nine years. Her research interests are in the areas of
Emma Fisher is currently pursuing her PhD in Puppetry
Wednesday October 4th performance studies, migrant studies, ritual studies, ritual
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as part of the department of Drama and Theatre Studies

song, arts practice research and music education philosophy.
Creating work for young audiences at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. Her
She is founder-director of Sanctuary, a Higher Education
research explores disability in the context of creativity and
Presenters: Professor Sarah Moore, Authority initiative supporting the cultural expression of new
communication, engaging with unconventional constructed
Dr Thomas Johnston, Emma Fisher migrant communities in Ireland. Her Irish Research Council
puppets that reflect the disabled body, exploring where
funded project, Singing & Sustainable Social Integration is
Chair: Dr Niamh NicGhabhann testimony and puppetry can meet, and looks at the history

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run in partnership with Doras Luimn. Her most recent book,
Singing the Rite to Belong: Music, Ritual and the New Irish, was
released by Oxford University Press in April, 2017.
Dr Abel Ugba is a senior lecturer in the School of Arts and
Digital Industries, University of East London, London. His
educational and professional background is in journalism
and sociology. His journalism career began in a provincial
newspaper in Nigeria in the mid-1980s. Abel has worked as
an online journalist with ireland.com, the official website of
the Dublin-based Irish Times. He was a co-publisher and the
pioneering editor of Metro Eireann, Irelands multicultural
newspaper. His research interests include immigrant religious
and media practices, and media and development.He is the
author of Shades of Belonging: African Pentecostals in Twenty-
First Century Ireland. (Tenton New Jersey: Africa World Press
2009).
Dr Carmen Kuhling is a Senior Lecturer in sociology and has
a PhD from York University, Canada. She has authored/ co-
authored 5 books and numerous articles and book chapters
on social change and Irish society, cultural identity and
globalisation, and neoliberalism and social exclusion. She is
also co-editor of the book Irelands New Religious Movements
(2011). She presented work on this topic at the Sacred
Modernities conference in Oxford University in 2009, and
in the Universities of Dalarna and Umea in Sweden in 2010.
She published an article on this theme in the journal tudes
irlandaises in 2014.
Hala Jaber is a doctoral researcher on the Arts Practice PhD
programme at the Irish World Academy. She is a graduate
of the MA Community Music programme. She studied music
and classical flute as an undergraduate and became involved
with Musicians without Borders, working with children in
Palestinian refugee camps. She currently runs a newcomers
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music group in Limerick city and assists in the coordination
of the Irish World Music Caf, as well as acting as an Arabic
translator for a number of Syrian refugee groups. Her research
concerns community music interventions with post-conflict
migrants.
Wednesday October 18th
The Sarode, the Hybrid and its Others -
exploring the organology of the North Indian lute
Presenters: Dr Matthew Noone, Paul Seery,
Sougata Roy Chowdhury
Chair: Dr Matthew Noone
This seminar will bring together an impromptu collection
of a multitude of the North Indian Classical lutes called the
sarode. These instruments belong to three performers who
represent very different approaches to the instrument,
rationales of construction and performance aesthetic.
While the sarode is predominantly used as a solo melodic
instrument in the classical tradition of North India, due to
the ever-increasing complexity of global music exchange, it
also now has become adapted to suit many other different
contemporary genres. Sougata Roy Chowdhury will explore
the sarode in its classical form and Matthew Noone will
discuss his own 'hybrid' sarodes which he had custom built.
Finally, Paul Seery will discuss his own home made sarode
creations.
Sougata Roy Chowdhury is considered to be among the most
talented sarode players of his generation. Sougata started
to learn sarode at the age of 10 with Ustad Dyanesh Khan,
has also studied with Ustad Aashish Khan and most recently
with Pandit Santosh Banerjee. He performs and tours
regularly across India and Europe.
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Paul Seery from Birr, Co. Offaly, has long had a love and
appreciation for Indian culture through his experience learning
bansuri (Indian flute) and meditation. Paul has designed and
made over a dozen of his own prototype sarodes, which are
entirely unique.
Dr Matthew Noone 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
performs on a 'hybrid' sarode, which was created with funds
from Music Network, and was also an Irish Research Council
scholar. He completed practice based PhD research into
Irish-Indian musical sympathies in the Irish world Academy in
the University of Limerick in 2016.
Wednesday October 25th
Composing Traditions
Presenters: Professor Dan Trueman,
Dr Linda Buckley, Kate Ellis.
Chair: Professor Mel Mercier
Three leading Irish and international composers, performers
and improvisers, Dan Trueman, Linda Buckley and Kate Ellis
talk about the creation and performance of new music, their
interest in composing and improvising out of and across
traditions, and the role of the university in the teaching of
music composition.
Professor Dan Trueman (Princeton University) Dan Trueman
is an American composer, fiddler, and instrument builder. He
collaborates frequently with a wide range of ensembles and
musicians, including So Percussion, Caoimhn Raghallaigh,
Eighth Blackbird, Brittany Haas, the JACK Quartet, Iarla
Lionird, Gallicantus, as well as other artists like choreographer
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Rebecca Lazier, poet Paul Muldoon, director Mark DeChiazza,
and scientist Naomi Leonard. He has taught in Princeton
Universitys renowned composition program for over a
decade and been recognized by grants and awards from
the Guggenheim Foundation, the Barlow Endowment, the
Bessies, the Fulbright Commission, the American Composers
Forum, the American Council of Learned Societies, Meet the
Composer, among others.
Dr Linda Buckley (Trinity College Dublin) Linda Buckleys
music has been described as exquisite (Gramophone)
"strange and beautiful" (Boston Globe), with an exciting
body of work that marks her out as a leading figure in the
younger generation of Irish composers (Journal of Music).
Her work has been performed by the BBC Symphony
Orchestra, Dresden Sinfoniker Orchestra and at international
festivals including Bang on a Can at MassMoCA and Seoul
International Computer Music Festival. Linda studied music
at University College Cork and is a member of the Irish
Gamelan Orch-estra. She holds a PhD in Composition from
Trinity College and was RT lyric fm Composer in Residence
2011/13. In 2016, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship
supporting a year of composition and research in New York,
affiliated with NYU.
Cellist Kate Ellis is a versatile musician dedicated to the
performance and exploration of all new music. Kate is the
Artistic Director of Crash Ensemble, and a member of the
Taquin Experiments, Yurodny and Fovea Hex. Kate's great
range of musical collaborators include the Irish Gamelan
Orchestra,Bobby McFerrin, Martin Hayes, Savina Yannatou,
Barry Guy, Gavin Bryars, Gavin Friday and Karan Casey.She
has commissioned new music from a diverse range of Irish
composers, including Niall Vallely, Adrian Hart, Linda Buckley
and Donnacha Dennehy, and she has premiered numerous
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works by composers, including Nico Muhly, Gerald Barry,
David Lang and Terry Riley. Kate has toured and broadcast
in Australia, the USA, Europe and China, performing at
Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Centre, Shanghai EXPO, Istanbul
Akbank Jazz Festival and Edinburgh International Festival.
Wednesday November 1st
NOVEMBER
Arts-based research: Reflections on co-production
and dissemination
Presenters: Professor Helen Phelan,
Dr Rose Thompson, Dr. Trona McCaffrey.
Chair: Dr Niamh NicGhabhann
Arts-based research (ABR) provides a holistic perspective
of the dynamic field of research, looking from angles that
combine various ways of knowing, linear and non-linear
thinking, intuition, and expression that create an evolving
live knowledge. This field of inquiry offers rich, versatile
means of collecting data that can embody participants
experiences in engaging and innovative ways. ABR is
increasingly utilised for the purposes of creative and
meaningful inclusion in the research process. With this in
mind, our seminar will specifically consider the possible
roles of this novel form of inquiry in facilitating knowledge
co-production and dissemination. Our seminar discussions
will include perspectives from arts-practice, mental health
and music therapy researchers who have used ABR in their
respective research.
Professor Helen Phelan is the programme director of
the PhD in Arts Practice at the Irish World Academy. She
also served as course director of the MA Ritual Chant and
Song programme for nine years. Her research interests
are in the areas of performance studies, migrant studies,
ritual studies, ritual song, arts practice research and music
education philosophy. She is founder-director of Sanctuary,
a Higher Education Authority initiative supporting the
cultural expression of new migrant communities in Ireland.
Her Irish Research Council funded project, Singing &
Sustainable Social Integration is run in partnership with
Doras Luimn. Her most recent book, Singing the Rite
to Belong: Music, Ritual and the New Irish, was released by
Oxford University Press in April, 2017.
Dr Rose Thompson is a senior researcher at the McPin
Foundation, UK. Her research interests centre on social
and creative approaches to mental health. At the McPin
Foundation she uses collaborative and creative research
methodologies, working in partnership with researchers who
use their own lived experience of mental health difficulties
in the co-production of research. She also has a long standing
interest in the use of creative methods and narratives
in communicating science and research, and is exploring
digital storytelling, documentary film making and play-
writing as potential methods for doing this.
Dr Trona McCaffrey is a lecturer in music therapy at the Irish
World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick.
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Trona has practiced as a music therapist in community
mental health, psychiatry of old age and mental health
recovery where she developed her passion for service user
involvement in healthcare. Her current research interests
relate to music therapy in mental health and stakeholder
involvement in mental health service delivery using arts-
based research methods. She is founder of the international
Alliance for Recovery Research in Music Therapy and a
published author in journals such as the Arts in Psychotherapy
and the Journal of Music Therapy.
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Thursday September 7th
SEPTEMBER
Passion for Hire: Ballroom Dancing and Social
Class in Manila
Presenter: Dr Yolanda von Ede
Chair: Dr Catherine Foley
With the advent of American army bases and Hollywood
movies in the Philippines, social dancing became a most
popular leisure activity among all social classes. With the
Philippines economic development from the late 1960s
onwards, however, men in higher positions tended to
withdraw from the ballrooms and other dance venues to
leave their wives to so-called D.I.s. These dance instructors/
partners for hire were mostly unemployed young men who
moved from rural areas and smaller islands to larger cities
such as Manila and Cebu City. The relationships between
these D.I.s and well-off women that have been evolving
from one dance, one night, on a regular or permanent basis,
reveal gender and economic issues with personal and social
consequences.
Dr Yolanda van Ede is senior lecturer at the University of
Amsterdams anthropology department. After her PhD
research on a Tibetan Buddhist nunnery in Nepal, she
directed her interest in women and oral tradition towards
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her passion for dance. With years of ballroom dancing and
flamenco experience, she first conducted fieldwork in
Seville and Tokyo on Japanese women and flamenco, then
on the dance halls of Manila. She also published on ritual
and performance, the anthropology of the senses, skill and
methodology.
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Thursday September 14th
Rethinking Indigenous Modernities and Practices of
Listening
Presenter: Dr Beverly Diamond
This seminar will discuss how indigenous sound was a part of
the very construction of the idea of modernity. Dr Diamond
will begin by looking at an event in which Sami discussed
their own ideas of indigenous modernity, and end by looking
at ethnomusicologists practices of listening and how we
might decolonize that aspect of our work. A preparatory
reading will be made available.
Dr Beverley Diamond was named a Fellow of the Royal Society
of Canada (RSC), considered to be the highest academic
honour in Canada. The society calls Dr Diamond "a guiding
voice in contemporary ethnomusicology in Canada" and "an
inspiring mentor to more than 70 M.A. and Ph.D. students,"
and credits her for developing cross-cultural perspectives
on gendered musical practices. She received a Trudeau
Fellowship (2009-12) and was the first recipient of the SOCAN
Foundation/CUMS Award of Excellence for the Advancement
of Research in Canadian Music. A Festschrift was published in
her honour in 2010.
Thursday October 19th
The Office of St Malachy of Armagh: Cistercian
chant or Twelfth-Century chant?
Presenter: Dr Frank Lawrence
Chair: Dr Eleanor Giraud
A fully notated office for St Malachy of Armagh (c.10951148)
survives in two sources, Douai, Bibliothque Municipale,
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372, a compendium of the works of St Bernard of Clairvaux,
including the Vita Sancti Malachiae, copied by the scribe Siger
c.1165 at the Benedictine abbey of Anchin (near Arras), and
Valenciennes, Bibliothque Municipale, 514, a compendium of
saints lives from the abbey of Saint-Amand.
This paper will trace the history of this office and its relationship
to Bernardine sources. It will also examine the office from a
stylistic perspective, situating it in the context of Cistercian
chant reform, other early Cistercian offices and twelfth-century
offices generally.
The close relationship between Bernard and Malachy in
life continued in death through the linking of their offices.
Bernards death, five years after Malachy, and his swift
canonisation (1174), combined with the delay in Malachys
canonisation (1190) meant that significant portions of the
Clairvaux/Anchin Saint-Amand Malachy office were used in
the Bernard office.
Dr Frank Lawrence is assistant professor of Early Music
History at the School of Music, University College Dublin. His
principal research is on Western medieval liturgical chant
with particular emphasis on palaeographical, repertorial and
codicological studies of manuscript sources from Ireland,
Britain and northern Europe of the 11th to 13th centuries.
A secondary area of research includes Catholic church music
and devotional music of the 19th and 20th centuries. His
edition (with Simon Nugent) of the Office of St Malachy will
appear in the Historiae series shortly.
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NOVEMBER

The ethnomusicological research of Bartok and Kodaly

Presenter: Pl Richter

Chair: Dr Colin Quigley

Bartok and Kodaly are among the most influential figures in

the history of folk music research, a field of study we now
know as ethnomusicology. Their massive collections provide
the foundation for the Archive at the Folk Music Institute
of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Today we still have
much to learn much from their seminal work.

Pl Richter is Professor and Head of Department for Folk

Music at the Liszt Academy in Budapest. He is the author of
numerous books and articles on historical relations in among
various repertoires in Hungarian folk and early music. He
will discuss the ethnomusicological research of Bartok and
Kodaly in the LOGOS seminar.

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Wednesday September 20th
SEPTEMBER
The Querist
PhD Arts Practice Performance
Russell Patrick Brown
Theatre 1, 7.30pm
In the 1735 book, The Querist, Bishop Berkeley asked,
Whether we are not undone by fashions made for other
people? Three hundred years later in a solo theatrical
production, Russell Patrick Brown asks The Querists question
through the dancing body. At the intersections of economic,
philosophical, spiritual and sartorial inquiry, this dance
explores the embodied memory of fashion and its infectious
past. His choreography sources from Irish step dance, Vogue
dance and contemporary dance, and it utilises history and
queer theory to research the impact of materiality upon
human movement.
Based in Dublin, Russell Patrick Brown is an Arts Practice
doctoral candidate at the Irish World Academy. In New
York City, he studied Irish step dance with Donny Golden
and Vogue with Celso Satori of the House of LaBeija.
Maureen Fleming, Dr Finola Cronin and Maria Kerin have
also influenced his contemporary dance practice. His 2014
immersive, site-specific production, 'Mercy of Trees', was
presented in partnership with New York Public Library
as part of Origin Theatres First Irish Theatre Festival.
Supervised by Dr. Catherine E. Foley, Russells current
research explores the moving body's ability to curate the
past through tradition.
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Wednesday September 27th Wednesday October 4th
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Arts, Health and Well-being Research at the
Irish World Academy
Tower Theatre, 1.15pm - 6.30pm
Dr Hilary Moss (Chair of event); speakers will be Irish World
Academy faculty and PhD students specializing in arts and
health research.
This event will showcase arts and health research at the
Irish World Academy Academy. There will be performances,
seminars and presentations by Academy staff and students
whose work is at the interface of arts, health and well-being.
At 5.30pm there will be the launch of a major international
study on choral singing, health and well-being (in association
with the Association of Irish Choirs and the RTE Lyric FM
Choir of the Year Competition).
Programme:
1.15pm 2pm of Music and Dance (Dr Hilary Moss and Dr Kathleen Turner).
Lunchtime concert by students of the MA Music Therapy
2pm - 3.30pm
Presentations by Academy staff and students
3.30pm 4pm Break
4pm 5.30pm
Tower Seminar: Music Therapy and Mental Health
5.30pm 6pm Theatre 1, 7pm
Launch of report on Singing, Health and Well-being
Dr Hilary Moss is Chair of the Art and Health Research Cluster
at UL and will host this afternoons events. Special guests
include Mr Dermot OCallaghan, CEO of the Association
of Irish Choirs, and Mr Stephen Sandford, Head of Arts
Therapies, East London NHS Foundation Trust.
ACADEMY STUDENTS AT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LIMERICK
Sonas is Slinte
University Hospital Limerick, 1.15pm
Students and staff of the Irish World Academy
The Irish World Academy and University Hospital Limerick
have been exploring ways in which to improve peoples
experiences and change their impressions of a hospital
environment. In Autumn 2015, a pilot project invited students
of the Academys MA Music Therapy, BA Voice and Dance and
BA Traditional Music and Dance programmes to perform in a
shared caf space within the hospital. Following an extremely
positive response, this new programme of concerts brings
music to a healthcare setting with the aim of providing calm
and restoration to patients, staff and visitors.
Sonas is Slinte is a joint initiative of the Irish World Academy
Friday October 6th
Synthesis
PhD Arts Practice Performance
Shane Holohan
This will be Shane's second PhD Arts Practice performance,
and will form a representation of his second exploration into
how to document and develop embodied creativity in high-
level circus artists Shane will present a collaborative ethno-
drama with Aisling and Ronan, representing their journey in
making the presented piece, and will lead into the doubles
trapeze performance.
 SONAS IS SLINTE LIGHT MOVES FESTIVAL OF SCREENDANCE SHANE HOLOHAN'S PHD ARTS PROFESSOR SIR CHRISTOPHER FRAYLING
Shane is undertaking a PhD in Arts Practice, and is the
recipient of a scholarship from the Irish Research Council. He
is a part-time course director and lecturer DOCH, University
of the Arts in Stockholm, and is the Creative Director of
TAKING FLIGHT: Education & Performance in Dublin.
Wednesday November 1st
NOVEMBER
Sonas is Slinte
As for Wednesday October 4th.
November 2nd to 5th
Light Moves Festival of Screendance
Dance Limerick, LCGA, Belltable, University of Limerick
Light Moves Festival of Screendance is Ireland's inter-
national festival of dance on film and is a response to the
vibrant field of dance film/screendance. Returning for its 4th
year, the festival and symposium present short and feature
film screenings, gallery installations, talks, keynote speakers
and interviews with some of the most respected national
and international figures in the field.A range of professional
and student focused workshops hosted at the Irish World
Academy provide excellent practice focused learning
opportunities in the field. The festival is presented across a
range of Limericks cultural venues and institutions including
Dance Limerick, Limerick City Gallery of Art, the Belltable,
the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance and the Irish
Chamber Orchestra at UL.
Light Moves is curated by Mary Wycherley (Limerick Dance
Artist in Residence) and Jrgen Simpson (DMARC) and
produced by Dance Limerick. Light Moves is funded by The
Arts Council, Limerick City and County Council and the J.P.
McManus Foundation.
See www.lightmoves.ie for further information
PRACTICE PERFORMANCE
Wednesday to Friday,
November 6th10th
Samhain Festival of Research
The Irish World Academy is home to over 40 postgraduate
research students, the vast majority of whom engage in PhD
research. Some researchers are completing projects with
traditional, text-based outputs while others are registered is Chancellor of the Arts University Bournemouth (AUB), and
on the PhD in Arts Practice. While students on the PhD in Arts
Practice produce text-based research outputs, their work
specifically includes aspects of practice. The work of both
groups of researchers reflects the whole range of expertise
represented in the Academy and beyond. Once a year,
the work of this exceptionally rich research community is
presented in a festival known as Samhain. The 2017Samhain
festival will take place from Wednesday, November 6th to
Friday, November 10th, inclusive. For further details, see the
Irish World Academy website, www.irishworldacademy.ie
Thursday November 9th
"...to know the place for the first time...":
exploring and researching through the arts.
A public lecture by Professor Sir Christopher Frayling
to mark the launch of IMBAS: An Irish Forum for Arts
Practice Scholars and Artists.
Theatre 1, 6.30pm
Presenter: Professor Sir Christopher Frayling
This event launches a new forum for arts practice research
in Ireland. Called IMBAS, it has a special focus on supporting
performing arts research in Irish universities. It is also
committed to advocating for arts practice research across
the whole higher education sector and in the wider artistic
community.
Professor Sir Christopher Frayling read history at Churchill
College, Cambridge where he later gained a PhD in the study
of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Joining Londons Royal College
of Art in 1979, Frayling founded the Department of Cultural
History, and from 1996 to 2009 was Rector and Vice-provost
of the college.
Fraylings list of achievements and honours are numerous. He
has been awarded honorary doctorates by nine universities in
the UK. In 2001, he was awarded a knighthood for Services to
Art and Design Education.
Other prominent roles have included Chairman of the Design
Council, Chairman of the Royal Mint Advisory Committee,
Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Patron of the
Robin and Lucienne Day Foundation, and, between 2004 and
2007, Chairman of the Arts Council England.
Christopher Frayling is known for his wide output as a
writer and critic on subjects ranging from the semiotics of
advertising through to vampires. He has written and presented
a number of series for television and radio including The Face
of Tutankhamun, The Art of Persuasion, and Nightmare: Birth
of Horror. Fraylings love of film, particularly the spaghetti
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
westerns of director Sergio Leone, led him to become governor
of the British Film Institute in the 1980s, to help run the Los
Angeles-based Gene Autry Museum's exhibit on Leone in the
summer of 2005, and to appear in numerous documentaries
about Leone and his films. He is a world renowned art
educationalist, publishing a key article in the mid-1980s on
research in studio and workshop settings, which is still at the
centre of contemporary arts practice debates. He also chaired
the seminal working group for the UK Council for Graduate
Education on Practice-Based Doctorates in the Creative and
Performing Arts and Design.
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 THE DARKEST MIDNIGHT BLAS INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL
Thursday November 16th
The Darkest Midnight in support of Rape Crisis Midwest
Theatre 1, 8pm
The Darkest Midnight, an evening of song, poetry and
carols in support of Rape Crisis Midwest, will take place on
November 16th in Theatre 1 of the Irish World Academy. The
Irish World Academy will once again be transformed into a
winter wonderland full of festive spirit. The audience will be
treated to a number of magical performances by Irish World
Academy students, staff and special guests.
Wednesday November 22nd
Sonas is Slinte
As for Wednesday October 4th.
June 25th to July 6th 2018
JUNE-JULY
Blas International Summer School of Irish Traditional
Music and Dance 2018
The 22nd Blas International Summer School of Irish
Traditional Music and Dancewill take place in the Irish World
Academy at the University of Limerick fromJune 25th to July
6th, 2018.
Blas is now firmly established as one of Irelands most
prestigious summer schools and has developed a reputation
for its quality and innovation. The school provides students
(aged 16 and over) from around the world with access to
the expertise of some of Irelands finest musicians, singers,
dancers and academics who, in previous schools, have
included Donal Lunny, Andy Irvine, Mairad N Mhaonaigh,
Paul Brady, John Carty, Steve Cooney, Colin Dunne, Catherine
Foley, Martin Hayes, Jim Higgins, Sandra Joyce, Niall Keegan,
Kevin Crawford, Matt Molloy, Ryan Molloy, Michelle Mulcahy,
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Nirn N Riain, Michael Ryan, Karan Casey, Zoe Conway,
Siobhan Peoples, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh and Mchel
Silleabhin. The two-week programme entails the best
of tuition, ranging from formal lectures, public seminars,
interactive master classes, daily Irish classes, an excursion
to a number of Irelands greatest tourist attractions in
Co. Clare, daily lunchtime concerts featuring tutors and
local musicians, an Irish traditional table quiz, evening
concerts,ciland, above all, the opportunity to share tunes
with some of Irelands finest traditional musicians.
The programme is worth three academic credits, or six ECTS
credits towards an undergraduate degree, which makes Blas
unique within the world of traditional music summer schools
in that the study of Irish traditional music, song and dance
can count as a modular component of a university degree.
For information on the summer school in general, scholarships
that are available and the early bird tuition fee offer, please
visit www.blas.ie. Alternatively, contact Pamela Cotter,
Director, Blas Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and
Dance, Irish World Academy, University of Limerick, Ireland.
Email Pamela atpamela.cotter@ul.ie or call her on +353 61
202653/202030.
Blas International Summer School
and Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy
The Blas International Summer School of Irish Traditional
Music and Dance joins forces with Scoil Samhraidh Willie
Clancy to promote a deeper understanding and appreciation
of Irish Traditional music.
The 22nd Blas International Summer School of Irish
Traditional Music and Dance will take place in the Irish
World Academy at the University of Limerick fromJune 25th
to July 6th, 2018.
June 2017 marked the beginning of a new initiative
between Blas and the Willie Clancy Summer School. 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 (Dchas an Cheoil) class at the
Willie Clancy Summer School in Miltown Malbay Co.Clare in
early July. The Willie Clancy week in Miltown Malbay has
been a Mecca for many thousands of students and lovers
of Irish music for well over forty years, and The Scope of
Irish Traditional Music class has been offered as part of
the School for just over thirty years. It is a six-day course
to introduce students to the essential elements of Irish
Traditional Music, Dance and Song. The primary focus is on
the listening experience and on creating an awareness of
the social and historical context in which the largest part
of this musical tradition was created. Emphasis is placed on
relaxed interaction between students, tutors and players
and singers. Some of Irelands leading musicians and singers
have contributed to the course over the years.
This new initiative between Blas and Scoil Samhraidh
Willie Clancy will enable students to earn university
accreditation worth 3 undergraduate credits (6 ECTS
credits). Students wishing to pursue accreditation will be
required to complete both the second week ofBlasandThe
Scope of Irish Traditional Music. More details on The
Scope of Irish Traditional Music are available at: www.
scoilsamhraidhwillieclancy.com
For information on Blas and how to apply for this new
initiative, please visit www.blas.ie. Alternatively, contact
Pamela Cotter, Director, Blas 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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RECENT EVENTS

Nic Gareiss performing with the Irish Gamelan Orchestra

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JANUARY
Inbhear Seminar
FEBRUARY
Launch of the BA Performing Arts (World
ACADEMOS IRISH WORLD ACADEMY STRINGS

On January 19th, the Irish World Academy of
Music and Dance hosted Inbhear, a day-long
seminar focusing on the publication and
dissemination of research for postgraduate and
early career researchers. The event featured
presentations from publishers and academics,
and included a broad range of output types,
including journal articles, monographs,
exhibitions, performances and recordings, as
well as a session on metrics and impact from
Dr. Fintan Bracken (UL Library). This event
was convened by Dr. Niamh NicGhabhann and
supported by the Research Academic Panel at
the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.
Music) and the Irish World Academy Javanese
Gamelan
The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance
hosted a celebration to mark the launch of the
BA Performing Arts (World Music) and the arrival
of its new Javanese gamelan. The Academy
gamelan is an orchestra of tuned percussion
instruments - bronze gongs and metallophones,
drums, wooden flute and two-stringed fiddle.
The instruments were made in the summer of
2016 by the master gong-smith Pak Saroyo at his
forge in Central Java. The gamelan will be at the
heart of the Academys innovative BA Performing
Arts (World Music), which, from September 2017,
will be open to eligible students from all musical
backgrounds who wish to take a global view of
music. The celebration featured performances by
the Irish Gamelan Orchestra, guest soloists Kate
Ellis (cello), Nick Roth (saxophone), Colin Dunne
(dance) and Dr Matthew Noone (sarode), the Irish
World Academy Gospel Choir and Mexican Vocal
Trio.
This spring, the Irish World Academy of Music
and Dance and the Irish Chamber Orchestra were
delighted to present ACADEMOS Irish World
Academy Strings. This exciting collaborative
project, led by members of the dynamic Irish
Chamber Orchestra and directed by Katherine
Hunka, brought string students from four of the
countrys foremost academies together as part
of the ACADEMOS Irish World Academy strings
initiative, an integral part of the MA Classical
String Performance. Students from the Irish
World Academy, CIT Cork School of Music, Royal
Irish Academy of Music and DIT Conservatory
of Music and Drama performed works by Glass,
Adams and Britten. This tour also featured a
recording which will be broadcast by RTE Lyric
FM later in the year. Performances took place in
the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, CIT
Cork School of Music and the National Concert
Hall. Students of the Irish World Academys MA
Contemporary Dance Performance joined the
tour and performed Green choreographed by
Hlne Cathala.
House of Light was curated by Dr Matthew
Noone, an Irish Research Council scholar who
recently completed his doctoral studies at the
Academy. The seminar and ritual focused on
the Festival of Saraswati, the Hindu goddess
of music and learning. The ritual included an
all night concert in the Irish World Academy
building on February 3rd, 2017, from 9pm to
9am. It was a curated sharing of music from Irish
traditional and Indian classical culture as well as
other cultural offerings. It coincided with the
festival of Brd/Imbolc in Ireland and Saraswati
festival from India. It is traditional to have an all
night concert of music to celebrate Sarawasti as
she is the goddess of creativity. Invited guests
included the internationally renowned veena
player from Chennai, Karaikudi Subramanian, as
well as a host of local Indian musicians.

The House of Light

The House of Light is a biennial event including a
Tower Seminar & ritual performance celebrating
the Irish World Academy building. Seminars over
the years have included presentations about HOUSE OF LIGHT
the Celtic/Zen garden, the Sionna mosaic and
the ritual pit, as well as the story of the building
as told by its architect, Daniel Cordier. Rituals
have ranged from ceremonial performances by
Nepalese shamans to Celtic monks. This year,

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LIMERICK FLING
MARCH
Launch of the Migration and Integration
Directory
The Migration and Integration Research Directory
was launched by Professor Maura Adshead, the
ULAcademic Advocate for Engaged Scholarship,
on Wednesday, March 22nd at the Irish World
Academy of Music and Dance at 5.30pm. The
research directory features 25 research projects
on migration and integration from across the
University of Limerick.
The Limerick Fling
Over one hundred performers from five cont-
inents came together for The Limerick Fling held
in the University Concert Hall on Thursday, March
23rd at 8pm to celebrate all the creativity, talent
and passion that the Irish World Academy has to
offer. The concert featured special guests Mick
Hanly and Breandn de Galla as well as students
and staff ofthe Irish World Academy.
The Irish World Academy was delighted to host
a one day symposium celebrating music therapy
on the March 14th in Theatre 1 of the Irish
World Academy from 9.30am-5.30pm. This event
celebrated the professional practice of music
therapy in Ireland. The MA Music Therapy at UL is
the only qualification in music therapy in Ireland.
This event presented the diversity of music
therapy practice being delivered across Ireland
and abroad, and featured well-established and
high quality evidence based work. Research
excellence in Ireland in the field of music therapy
CELEBRATING MUSIC THERAPY IN IRELAND INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY
was also featured and keynote speakers included and BA Irish Music and Dance programmes to
Dr Wendy Magee and Dr Julie Sutton. perform in a shared caf space within the hospital.
International Women's Day Following an extremely positive response, this
new programme of concerts brings music to a
Each year, the Irish World Academy marks healthcare setting with the aim of providing calm
International Womens Day with a celebratory and restoration to patients, staff and visitors.
concert featuring women in song, dance, music
and spoken word. Held in theTower Theatreon Sonas is Slinte
Wednesday, March 8th, the concert had an A performance by current Irish World Academy
audience of over 150 people and featured 32 students took place on Wednesday March 1st in
female performers from across the Academy. the University Hospital Limerick. Sonas is Slinteis
Performances reflected the rich cultural diversity a joint initiative of the Irish World Academy of
at the Academy, with music and dance traditions Music and Dance (Dr Hilary Moss and Dr Kathleen
from as far afield as Palestine, Brazil, Iran and Turner).
the USA to name but a few. The programme
featured students, graduates and faculty from
MA Irish Traditional Music Performance, MA Irish
Traditional Dance Performance, MA Community
Music, MA Ethnochoreology, MA Classical Strings
and MA Contemporary Dance. Special guest
artists included, Dr Aisling Kenny (soprano) and
Grace Culhane, a transition year student from
Laurel Hill Coliste and member of the Inter-
national Day of the Girl mentoring programme,
which took place at the Irish World Academy
SONAS IS SLINTE
October 2016. This event was hosted by Dr
Kathleen Turner (Course Director, MA Community
Music) as part of the Irish World Academys weekly
schools and community concert series.
Music Therapy Symposium
The Irish World Academy and University Hospital
Limerick have been exploring ways in which to
improve peoples experiences and change their
impressions of a hospital environment. In Autumn
2015, a pilot project invited students of the
Academys MA Music Therapy, BA Voice and Dance
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APRIL
FRAN GARRY
Fran Garry's PhD Arts Practice Performance
On April 18th, Fran Garry performed the second
of two performances incorporated in her PhD Arts
Practice project: Lived Experiences in Community
Arts in Ireland - An autoethnographic and ethno-
graphic, practice-based study. The songs and
stories in this performance work represent
Frans musical life journey as a singer, songwriter,
musician and community music educator combined
with resonant arts experiences, memories and
reflections of research participants. Fran was
joined on stage by Pat Marnane, Clare Murray,
Derek and Deirdre Ryan, and Austin Crowe,
each representing lifetimes of engagement in
both professional and amateur performing arts.
Members of the Drombanna Community Singers
and the Donaskeigh/Knockavilla Community Choir
participated from the audience. The performance
was a combination of Frans original songs and
their background stories and musical memories
from classical, musical theatre and Irish folk ballad
traditions.
Launch of the MA Songwriting
The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance was
delighted to launch its new MA Songwriting, a
one year full time post-graduate programme for
songwriters who want to spend dedicated time
on their practice. The programme was launched
by Professor Joseph O'Connor, the Frank McCourt
Chair in Creative Writing at the University of
Limerick, on Thursday, April 20th in the Irish World
Academy. Attendees were treated to a reading of
a new piece of work specially written by Professor LE CHILE
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LAUNCH OF MA SONGWRITING
OConnor for the occasion. The launch also
featureda performance by singer, songwriter and
composer, Duke Special.
The MA Songwriting programme has been design-
ed in consultation with IMRO and established
songwriters such as Mick Hanly, Julie Feeney and
Pl Brennan.
Le Chile Event
Faculty and students of the Irish World Academy
joined Colm Mac Con Iomaire on stage for a
special performance for the Le Chile event at the
UL Arena Bowl on April 27th. The performance
included students of the BA Irish Music and
Dance, MA Irish Traditional Music Performance,
MA Classical String performance and Academy
PhD student Alec Brown. The performance was
directed Dr Niall Keegan, Associate Director of
the Irish World Academy. The event also featured
a performance of the Parting Glass by Director
of the Irish World Academy, Dr Sandra Joyce, who
was accompanied by MA Irish Traditional Music
Performance graduate, Conal OKane.
Photo Karen Goltz
MAY
The Palestinian Ambassador to Ireland, Mr.
AMBASSADOR AHMAD ABDELRAZEK VISITING
Ahmad Abdelrazek, and his guests Mrs. Jilan
THE IRISH WORLD ACADEMY Photo Press 22
Abdalmajid, Counsellor and Deputy Head of
Mission, and Ms. Noura Halimeh, Attach, visited Avril Mc Loughlin from the Irish World Academy
the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, spent one week (March 25th to April 1st, 2017)
University of Limerick, to meet with Ahmad teaching, training and meeting with students and
Al Khatib and Fadi Deeb, two visiting teachers staff from Birzeit University and the EdwardSaid
from Birzeit University, Palestine, on May 5th. National Conservatory of Music. Fadi Deeb and
The guests met with Professor Tom Lodge, Ahmad Al Khatib from BirZeit University are
Dean of AHSS, Jospehine Page, Director of IED teaching at the Irish World Academy from April
and Dr Sandra Joyce, Director of the Irish World 4th to 8th, 2017. The objective of this partnership
Academy. Mary May, Programme Manager and is to exchange expertise in the teaching and
Mary Dunne from the Higher Education Auth- learning of music. The Irish World Academy has
ority, who manage the Erasmus+ International introduced a world music BA that will be further
Credit Mobility (ICM) programme in Ireland on enriched through this partnership. BirZeit
behalf of the EU Commission, came to see an University have just commenced the first BA in
ICM project in action. The guests were treated Arab music.
to a unique performance of Palestinian andIrish The exchange of best practice in research and
music and dance at the Irish World Academy. teaching methodologies will enhance the student
Erasmus+ (ICM) Programme experience, increasing the quality of higher
Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility (ICM) education in this area and contributing to the
introduced in 2015, provides opportunities internationalisation of the curriculum at both HEIs.
for staff and students to study, teach and train Arts and Health Research Cluster
in countries outside Europe. It facilitates an
In late May, 2017, the Arts and Health Research
expanded international offering, opening up
Cluster held an international event at the Irish
new regions for staff and student mobility
World Academy with the University of Florida
to strengthen partnerships and engage with
Arts in Medicine program (who will become a
new fields of international research. This allows
university partner for 2017/18). Researchers
universities to establish strong connections and
and students presenting included UL experts
develop partnerships with new institutions.The
from Contemporary and Traditional Dance,
University of Limerick currently has four ICM
Music Therapy, Physiotherapy and Medicine.
projects spanning 25 countries outside Europe.
The Arts and Health Research Cluster facilitates
The partnership is between BirZeit University
collaborative research between arts and health
and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance,
disciplines. The cluster welcomes a diverse
UL.
array of theoretical perspectives and research
The project funds two incoming staff members methodologies.To date there are 40 members,
to UL for 5 days each and two outgoing staff from a diverse range of academic disciplines as
members for 5 days each. Dr Niall Keegan and well as service user representatives.
JULY
Professor Mchel Silleabhin Awarded
Honorary Doctorate
Irish World Academy Founder/Director Professor
Mchel Silleabhin was awarded an honorary
Doctor of Music degree by the Royal Conser-
vatoire of Scotland on July 4th. The Conservatoire,
which celebrates its 170th anniversary this
year, also honoured percussionist Dame Evelyn
Glennie and dancer DarceyBussell.
Silleabhin studied at University College Cork
with Aloys Fleischmann and Sen Riada, and in
Queens University Belfast, and holds a number
of honorary awards, including a D. Mus from
National University of Ireland/University College
Cork and an Honorary Alumnus Award from
Boston College. He is the founder of the Irish
World Academy of Music andDance,and was its
Chair of Music from 1994 until hisretirement in
late 2016.
The 44th World Conference of the International
Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) was hosted
by the University of Limerick from July 13th to
19th, 2017. The ICTM is a non-governmental,
post Second World War scholarly society in
formal consultative relations with UNESCO.
Its aims are to further the study, practice,
documentation, preservation and dissemination
of traditional music and dance, including folk,
popular, classical and urban music and dance
of all countries to bring cultural understanding
and peace to humanity. The council has 1,400
plus members from more than 120 countries
on all the world's continents who represent
diverse scholarly approaches in their search for
MCHEL SILLEABHIN
knowledge, understanding and skills related to
diverse traditions of music and dance.
World conferences play an important role within
the ICTM for the presentation, sharing and
dissemination of knowledge. These conferences
are biennial and are organised in different
institutions around the world. The University of
Limerick was successful in its bid to host the 44th
ICTM World Conference, which was co-chaired
by Dr. Catherine Foley and Dr. Colin Quigley of
the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.
According to ethnochoreologist and Co-Chair
of the World Conference, Dr. Catherine Foley,
This is the first time that the ICTMs World
Conference has come to Ireland and 2017 marks
the 70th anniversary of its post Second World
War foundation. Hosting the World Conference
in Ireland in 2017 is hugely important for Ireland
with our own strong cultural traditions of music
and dance.
The 44th World Conference of the International
Council for Traditional Music (ICTM)
At the 44th ICTM World Conferences, scholars
presented academic papers, participated in
scholarly panels, roundtables and video sessions,
offered lecture demonstrations, provided music,
song and dance workshops, showed films, and
shared work-in-progress. For the international
ICTM community, this was a major global academic
and networking event with approximately 650
delegates in attendance from 70 countries. Hosting
this international conference was important for
the University of Limerick and, in particular, for the
Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.
THE THREE FORGES CONCERT THE SIONNA CONCERT
A number of concerts were presented at the
University of Limerick. For example, The Three
Forges Concert featuring the Irish Gamalan
Orchestra was directed by Professor Mel Mercier
on July 15th at the Irish World Academy of Music
and Dance; The Suona Ensemble - a family band
from China, played at a lunchtime concert on
Monday, July 17th, in the University of Limerick
Concert Hall; and on the evening of July 17th,
The Sionna Concert a World of Music and Dance
featuring faculty, students and guests of the
Irish World Academy of Music and Dance was
presented, coordinated and produced by Dr
Catherine Foley and Dr. Niall Keegan at the
University of Limerick Concert Hall. According to
Dr. Catherine Foley The conference was hugely
successful and was supported by a wonderful
Local Arrangement Committee and group of
student volunteers. We also had support from
the UL Presidents Office, UL Foundation, Filte
Ireland, the Irish World Academy of Music and
Dance, Mary Immaculate College, ICTM Ireland,
Limerick School of Art and Design (LIT), Creative
Ireland, Limerick Arts Office, Limerick City and
County Council, and Shannon Region Conference
Bureau. We were also supported by Limerick
Travel and the University of Limerick Conference
and Sports Campus.
Dr. Catherine Foley was elected on to the Exec-
utive Board of the ICTM at the conference; this 44TH ICTM WORLD CONFERENCE
is the first time in the history of the organisation
that an Irish person has been elected on to this
international board.
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COMMUNITY
CULTURAL
PATHWAYS

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
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 CRUINNI IONAD NA CRUITE THE NATIONAL DANCE ARCHIVE OF IRELAND MAOIN CHEOIL AN CHLIR
Cruinni
Cruinni, the Irish World Academys outreach initiative, sees
staff from all walks of life at UL engaging in free weekly
classes/sessions of Irish traditional music. The sessions have
been facilitated by a number of players within the group and
by students of the Irish World Academy. All members of UL
staff are welcome to participate, so come along if you fancy
a tune! Sessions take place at the Irish World Academy from
1pm to 2pm every Wednesday in Room IW2.51.
For more information, contact Noel McCarthy
at noelmccarthy@ul.ie, telephone 061 213326.
Ionad na Cruite
(Irish Harp Research Centre)
Ionad na Cruite was established at the Irish World Academy
of Music and Dance in 2013 and was formally launched with
a special performance by The Chieftains. Ionad na Cruite
aims to stimulate scholarship, performance and advanced
research on the Irish harp. It also aspires to being a national
and international centre of excellence for the Irish harp at
doctoral and postdoctoral level, to building effective links
with colleagues in the field of harp research and performance
internationally and to providing a stimulating environment
for performances, research and interdisciplinary projects at
the University of Limerick. Ionad na Cruite recognises the
centrality of The Chieftains Fund (in memory of Derek Bell)
in its founding.
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National Dance Archive of Ireland
The National Dance Archive of Ireland (NDAI) at the
Glucksman Library, University of Limerick was founded in 2009
with a seed funding award from the Arts Council of Ireland.
The NDAI works in partnership with the Irish World Academy
of Music and Dance and Dance Research Forum Ireland.
The NDAI is devoted to the collection, preservation and pro-
motion of dance in Ireland and is accessible to all. It chronicles
dance in Ireland in all its manifestations (contemporary dance,
traditional step dancing, set dancing, ballet, social dance, urban
dance and world dance) and conveys an understanding of the
different processes and practices of creating, performing and
writing about dance in Ireland.
For further information, please contact the NDAI founding
director, Dr Catherine Foley, at catherine.e.foley@ul.ie,
telephone +353 61 202922 or Special Collections Librarian
Ken Bergin at ken.bergin@ul.ie, telephone +353 61 213158.
Alternatively, email ndai@ul.ie or telephone +353 61
202690. Visit the NDAI at www.nationaldancearchiveireland.
ie. Access to the National Dance Archive of Ireland is by
appointment only.
Maoin Cheoil an Chlir
In partnership with the Vocational Education Committee of
County Clare and with the assistance of Clare County Council
and Ennis Urban District Council, Maoin Cheoil an Chlir
(MCC) is a local cooperative model serving the needs of
County Clare from its Ennis headquarters in the 18th-century
Erasmus Smith School building owned by the Sisters of Mercy.
MCC celebrated its twentieth anniversary in 2014. With
members of faculty from the Irish World Academy included
on its board (Professor Mchel Silleabhin and Jean Downey
along with former board member Professor Helen Phelan), MCC
enjoys a special relationship with the Academy. MCC Director
Hans Boller is a graduate of the Academys MA Ritual Chant
and Song programme. MCC is a member of the Clare Music
Education Partnership, which was awarded 450,000 from Music
Generation (funded by U2 and The Ireland Funds) in 2014.
For more information on Maoin Cheoil an Chlir,
email hans@maoincheoil.com or call +353 65 6841774.
Dance Limerick
Since its inception, the contemporary dance programme at the
Irish World Academy has sought to twin-track its activities with
the professional contemporary dance energy in Limerick city.
The emergence of Dance Limerick at the former Daghdha Space
in St. Johns Square sets the scene for a new level of cooperative
dance activity. The Irish World Academy is proud to be associated
with Dance Limerick and looks forward to reclaiming the original
spirit of contemporary dance cooperation in Limerick.
ACADEMOS
ACADEMOS is a string ensemble comprising students of the
MA Classical String Performance led by members of the Irish
Chamber Orchestra (ICO). During their two-year programme,
students in ACADEMOS attend classes from ICO leaders and
engage in ensemble work with orchestral members. See page 52
for more details on the ensemble.
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Sionna Vocal Ensemble

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Irish World Academy Residency
The Irish World Academy is often used as a venue for
performance rehearsal, as well as performance project
development. Beyond commercial use, the Academy would
like to support such artistic work by providing facilities at a
reduced price, or free, and to present this as an Academy
residency.If you would like to propose the development of a
performance project for an Academy residency, please contact
Academy Administrator Paula Dundon at Paula.Dundon@
ul.ie.
Irish World Academy Artists
in Residence
Irish Chamber Orchestra
TheIrish Chamber Orchestra (ICO)is Irelands finest chamber
orchestra, combining high quality performances with an
expansive artistic vision. Virtuosic, innovative and creative, the
ICOs unique collaborative approach and its rich relationship
with an array of creative partners continues to blaze a trail.The
ICO continues to work with Gbor Takcs-Nagy (Principal
Artistic Partner) andJrg Widmann(Principal Guest Conductor/
Artistic Partner), seeking to expand audiences with their
combined vision. Under the leadership of Katherine Hunka,
the orchestra is one of Irelands busiest touring ensembles,
both nationally and internationally.
In the 2016/17 season, Gbor concentrates on core works
from the string orchestra repertoire; whilstJrgcontinues to
champion the many facets of Mendelssohn, alongside his own
innovative works.
Outside the concert hall, theIrish Chamber Orchestrainspires
and supports communities with a vitality unmatched by other
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ensembles. Its Sing Out with Strings initiative provides free
tuition in singing, song writing, violin, viola and cello tuition to
300 children throughout Limerick city developing not only
musical - but key life skills by using music as a tool for tangible
social change.
The ICO is central to the delivery of the MA Classical Strings
Performance at the University of Limerick. Katherine Hunka
is Artistic Director of this programme and leads the
ACADEMOS project where students perform and tour with
members of the ICO and musicians from other third level
institutions in Ireland.
The Irish Chamber Orchestra is resident at the Irish World
Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick and
is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaon.
The Chieftains
Interacting with up to 80 student musicians and dancers
from Irish World Academy programmes, The Chieftains
continue their iconic association with the Academy through
their occasional concerts at UL. In memory of their late
harper Derek Bell, The Chieftains Fund has been in operation
at the Academy for a number of years. It is through this fund
that the Academy launched Ionad na Cruite, the Irish Harp
Research Centre, in 2013.
Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Company
Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Company is Irish World Academy
Dance Company in Residence. Originating in Donegal, Fidget
Feet is Irelands leading aerial dance theatre company and
is internationally renowned for creating spectacular indoor
and outdoor productions for both theatres and festivals.
The companys dynamic work draws on dance, aerial circus,
theatre, music and video art. Founded in 1998 by choreographer
Chantal McCormick (Donegal) and musician Jym Daly (Cork),
Fidget Feet work with an outstanding production team to create
productions that are both original and fresh.
Elements of aerial dance have already begun to permeate
aspects of the curricular offerings of the Irish World Academys
programmes.
Irish World Academy Artist,
University of Limerick
On January 26th, 2016, the University of Limerick announced a
new three-year arts patronage award through the Irish World
Academy of Music and Dance. The award, entitled Irish World
Academy Artist, University of Limerick and worth 60,000, will
facilitate the creative process of selected artists across a three-
year period. The Irish World Academy is grateful to the University
of Limerick Foundation (ULF) for its generous financial support of
this initiative.
The first artist to receive the award is County Clare fiddler, Martin
Hayes, who commenced his three-year association with the Irish
World Academy in January, 2016.
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 Prt, 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 Cil 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-ns song, brave explorations and
exhilarating and explosive medleys with a distinctive new sound.
The virtuosic fiddles of Hayes and Raghallaigh, the soaring
voice of Lionird, 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 Hayess residency began in 2016 and included

work with the Martin Hayes Quartet members Liz Knowles
(fiddle), Doug Wieselman (bass clarinet), Dennis Cahill (guitar).

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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 has remained 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
The Arts and Health research cluster facilitates colla-
borative research between arts and health disciplines.
The cluster welcomes a diverse array of theoretical
perspectives and research metho-dologies. To date
there are 40 members, from a diverse range of academic
disciplines as well as service user representatives. This
semester the cluster held a launch event at the Health
Hub. Researchers and students presenting included
UL experts from Contemporary and Traditional
Dance, Music Therapy, Physiotherapy and Medicine.
An international event was also held at IWAMD with
the University of Florida Arts in Medicine program (a
university partner for 2017/18).
ETHNOS Research Cluster
The biennial World Conference of the International
Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) was hosted by the
Academy from July 13th to 19th, 2017. An NGO in formal
consultative relations with UNESCO, the ICTM has the
most international membership of all academic assoc-
iations in the fields of ethnomusicology, ethnochore-
ology, and traditional arts research more generally.
More than 600 delegates attended this landmark 70th
anniversary event, representing 78 countries and all
continents. This year also marks the 20th anniversary of
the taught MA degrees in ethnochoreology and ethno-
musicology. The ETHNOS cluster has grown from these
beginnings and the Academy is now internationally
recognised as a centre of excellence in these fields.
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IMBAS
The Performing Arts Practice Research Cluster brings
together artist-scholars from all universities in Ireland
who are interested in advocating for arts practice
research in the performing arts. The group is primarily
engaged in research towards the development of
national policy around arts practice research for
performers, as well as holding shared events to profile
member research. The current steering group includes
faculty from the Irish World Academy of Music and
Dance, University of Limerick;the School of Music and
Theatre, University College Cork; Drama and Theatre
Studies, NUI Galway; the Department of Drama and
Theatre Studies, Mary Immaculate College and the
Department of Drama, Trinity College, Dublin.
Irish Traditional Dance Research Cluster
The Irish Traditional Dance Research Cluster consists
of scholars and performers of Irish traditional
dance who are committed to engagement with
living traditions, archival and scholarly docum-
entation, and reflexive inquiry into contemporary
choreographic exploration and performance. The
research cluster aims to provide a diverse range of
fora for the support, development and dissemination
of Irish traditional dance expertise and research -
both academic-based and practice-based. These fora
include meetings, seminars, symposia, conferences,
workshops, concerts, exhibitions, and festivals.
LimerickSoundscapes Research Cluster
LimerickSoundscapes Research Cluster comprises
applied researchers from urban ethnomusicology,
urban sociology, digital media studies, and sound-
scapes studies. The cluster has facilitated the creation
and ongoing maintenance of an online sonic map of
the City of Limerick (www.limericksoundscapes.
ie), collected by and for the citizens of Limerick.
LimerickSoundscapes provides an ever-growing, rich
repository of sonic heritage while also modelling
processes of critical citizenship through creative
engagement. The cluster has held an international
conference (2014), followed by a special journal edition
(2015). Members continue to engage with city-based
groups, generating digital educational resources and
publishing research in peer-reviewed, international
journals and books.
Migration & Integration Research Cluster
This research cluster is an interdisciplinary space for
research around issues concerning migration and
integration. Research is being carried out by researchers
in this area in every faculty in the University of
Limerick. The cluster launched a directory of such
projects for use by NGOs and other research bodies in
March, 2017.

Popular Music and Popular Culture
research cluster
Popular Music and Popular Culture research cluster
engages with all facets of popular culture, from sonic
and visual texts and their artists/creators/performers
in their manifold performance contexts, to questions
that arise around technological mediations in relation
to the production, (re)circulation, and reception of
popular music and culture. Members draw on a diverse
array of theoretical perspectives, from critical and
cultural theory to ethnomusicological, sociological,
and anthropological understandings of popular
expressions and their meaning(s), engaging with
cultural practices from across the globe and from
different historical eras. See www.ul.ie/pmpc/ for
recent events, publications and an associated book
series.
Power, Discourse and Society
Research Cluster
Power, Discourse and Society Research Cluster is as
an interdisciplinary endeavour, providing a platform
for researchers working within ethnomusicology,
sociology, sociolinguistics, education, political science,
and social geography to come together to advance
their shared interest in the critical analysis of public
discourses in all forms, and the elucidation of their
social meaning, significance and material impacts. See
www.ul.ie/pds/ for recent events, publications and an
associated book series.
Singing and Social Inclusion
Research Cluster
Arising from the Irish Research Council funded
Singing and Sustainable Social Inclusion project, the
Singing & Social Inclusion cluster brings together
researchers in community music, ethnomusicology,
Irish traditional song, music education, music therapy,
ritual studies and arts practice research to support
interdisciplinary research around issues of singing &
inclusivity. It launched an information brochure on its
activities in September, 2016.
TradSong Research Cluster
The mission of the TradSong research cluster is to
provide an academic forum for sharing expertise on
Irish traditional song and related performance practices,
cultures and communities. With performance at the
heart of its scholarship, TradSong engages with Irish
song communities and academics through meetings,
symposia, performances and conferences.Over the next
year, the cluster will focus on producing publications,
as well as events embracing the wider Irish traditional
song community and international scholars. While
maintaining our focus on the Irish song tradition, we
warmly welcome any scholar who has an interest in our
events.
A selection of recent publications from faculty and
postgraduate students at the Irish World Academy,
including work from emeritus staff and recently
graduated research students.
Bernini, Leah
(2015) Capitalism and resistance in professional Irish music,
FocaalBlog of Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical
Anthropology, April 9, www.focaalblog.com/2015/04/09/
leah-obrien-bernini-capitalism-and-resistance-inprofessional-
irish-music.
Brown, Russell Patrick
(2014) Mercy of Trees, creator and performer, Origin Theatres
First Irish Theatre Festival, in partnership with New York Public
Library, 27 September, New York City.
Brown, William Alec
(2016) Spreagadh: Inspiration, composer and performer, PhD in
Arts Practice Performance, Irish World Academy of Music and
Dance, University of Limerick, 11th October.
(2017) Spike: Dublin Alternative Cello Festival, composer and
performer, The Workmans Club, Dublin, 12th February.
(2017) The Stepping Stone [CD], producer, arranger, composer
and performer, Theatre 1, The Irish World Academy.
Byrne, Fiona
(2016) Review of Museum Space: Where Architecture Meets
Museology, Kali Tzortzi, ISBN 9781472439017, Irish Museums
AssociationJournal, Vol. 25.
(2015) Any news from Inside? in Mac Lellan, A., NicGhabhann,
N. and Byrne, F., eds., St. Davnets: The Story of a Monaghan
Institution, Health Service Executive & Stair: An Irish Public
History Company Ltd., Monaghan.
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Cotter, Pamela
(2013) Foreigners in the Session: An Examination of
Participation and Authenticity at the Costellos Irish Music
Session in Taking Part in Music: Case Studies in Ethnomusicology,
Elphinstone Institute Occasional Publications 9, eds. Ian Russell
and Catherine Ingram. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press,
in association with the European Seminar in Ethnomusicology,
198-215.
Courtney, RAS Mikey
(2017) Our Ethiopian Connection: Embodied Ethiopian Culture
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 as a tool in Urban-Contemporary Choreography, in Narratives in
Black British Dance: Embodied practices, eds. Adesola Akinleye,
Palgrave Macmillan.
(2017) Spotlight Profiles: Ras Mikey Spiritually Grounded
Performing Artist, in Magaddis (online), eds. Michel Tadesse,
http://www.magaddis.com/spotlight-profiles-ras-mikey/
(2016) Common Threads, director of choreography, performer,
PhD in Arts Practice Performance 2 July, Ethiopian National
Theatre, Addis Ababa Ethiopia
de Brn, Jennifer
(2016) SYMBOLS: Culture of Death and Cultural Life: New
Audiences and Creations around European Cemeteries,
Exhibition tour opening, 4th March, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa,
Italy. Dancer and performer. Supported by Creative Europe.
Dillane, Aileen
(2017) The Sacred and Profane Songs of Miss Cecilia Curtin in
Mannixs Melbourne, (1909-1936), The Australasian Journal of
Irish Studies, Vol 17, pp. 30-49.
(2017) with Power, M., and Devereux, E., Shame Makes the
World Go Around: Performed and Embodied (Gendered) Class
Disgust in Morrisseys Slum Mums in Way, L. and McKerrell, S.,
eds., Music as Multi-Modal Discourse: Music, Power, and Protest
(Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics), London and New York:
Bloomsbury, pp. 47-70.
(2016) with Devereux, E. and Power, M., eds., David Bowie:
Critical Perspectives, New York: Routledge.
Donnellan, Cliodhna a singer, songwriter, musician and community music educator
(2016) The Spinning Wheel: composer and performer, PhD in
Arts Practice Performance, Irish World Academy of Music and
Dance, University of Limerick, 12th October
(2016) Re-Imaging our Legacy 1916/2016. St. Caimins Catholic
Church, Mountshannon. Choreographer, composer, ensemble
performer. Supported by Clare County Council.
Dooley, Paul
(2016) 'The harp in the time of Giraldus'inJoyce, S. and Lawlor,
H., eds., Harp Studies, Dublin: Four Courts Press, pp. 3256.
(2014) 'Report on the Measurements of the Trinity College
Harp 2012', www.galpinsociety.org, available: http://www.
galpinsociety.org/galpinextras/GS_Dooley_Report2012.pdf
[accessed 10 November 2015].
(2014) Reconstructing the medieval Irish harp, The Galpin
Society Journal, 67, 10742.
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Fahey, Hannah
(2016) Cilln. Commissioned by Radio Kerry with funding
from the BAI for Song of the River documentary. Broadcast
December 25th 2016. Composition and vocals.
(2016) SYMBOLS: Culture of Death & Cultural Life: New
Audiences and Creations around European Cemeteries,
European exhibition tour: Genoa, Dundee, Maribor, Bastia,
Avils, Limerick, Dublin. Composition and vocals. Supported by
Creative Europe.
(2015) Le Festival Voix et Route Romane/Frances Premier
Festival of Vocal Music from the Middle Ages, Chant and Songs
of the Wandering Irish, September 13, Surburg, Alsace. Ensemble
Performer.
Foley, Catherine E.
(2016) Str Damhsa: Irish Traditional Solo Set Dances and Step
Dances. Solo DVD. Performances and Tutorials.
(2015) 'Cultural tourism, negotiation and re-presentation of
heritage: traditional step dance and Siamsa Tre, the National
Folk Theatre of Ireland', Yearbook for Traditional Music, vol. 47,
141-160.
(2015) 'Cultural memory, step dancing, representation and
performance: an examination of Tearmann and the great
famine', Traditiones, 44/2, 135-148.
Garry, Fran 24th.
(2017) The Long Road Home - a PhD Arts Practice research
musical autoethnography representing Frans life journey as
combined with resonant arts experiences, memories and
reflections of research participants - 18 April 2017, Theatre
1, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of
Limerick.
(2017) Communities of Musical Practice by Ailbhe Kenny,
reviewed in Irish Journal of Arts Management and Cultural Policy,
4 (2016/17), 51-54.
(2016)Connected,a musical ethnodrama written and performed
in collaboration with students from Our Ladys Secondary
School, Templemore, Co. Tipperary, 18 April 2016, Theatre 1,
Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.
Giraud, Eleanor
(2015) 'The Dominican Scriptorium at Saint-Jacques, and its
Production of Liturgical Exemplars' in: Andreas Nievergelt,
Rudolf Gamper, Marina Bernasconi Reusser, Birgit Ebersperger,
Ernst Tremp (eds). Scriptorium: Wesen, Funktion, Eigenheiten.
Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Joyce, Sandra
(2016) with Lawlor, Helen (Ed.s) Harp Studies: Perspectives on
the Irish Harp, Dublin: Four Courts Press.
(2016) The Realisation of a Long-Cherished Project: Donal
OSullivans Carolan, in Harp Studies: Perspectives on the Irish
Harp, Dublin: Four Courts Press.
(2016) 'The Fianna to Liam Mellowes', setting of a text by
Countess Markievicz: the 1916 Song Project; National Library,
Dublin (April 15); the Lexicon, Dn Laoghaire (April 22); Samus
Ennis Centre, Fingal (April 23); Church of Ireland, Athboy (April
30); Nun's Island Theatre, Galway (May 7); the Athenaeum,
Enniscorthy (May 14). Supported bythe Arts Council, the Irish
Traditional Music Archive and the National Library of Ireland.
Keegan, Niall
(2016) Children of the Revolution, solo and ensemble
performances, Limerick City Gallery of Art, December 2nd.
Supported by Limerick City and County Council.
(2016) Oilen/Island (composed by Mchel Silleabhin),
soloist with National Youth Orchestra of Ireland, performances
in University Concert Hall, Limerick, July 22nd; National Opera
House, Wexford, July 23rd; National Concert Hall, Dublin, July
(2015) Traditional Music and Irish Society: Historical Perspectives
by Dowling, M., reviewed in The Journal of Music [online],
available: http://journalofmusic.com/.
Kjeldsen, Svend
(2016) Mancunian Irish: identity, cultural intimacy and musical
hybridization: urban ethnomusicology and cultural mapping
in Ross, S. and Sweers, B., eds., Urban Ethnomusicology and
Cultural Mapping, Sheffield: Equinox Publishing.
(2016) En transkulturel rejse. Fra Hindustani musik til irsk
traditionel musik. Fra tabla til bodhrn. Introduktion til dadra taal,
ektaal, keherwa taal og teentaal, Roskilde: Lirum Larum Forlag.
(2016) 'Irish Music in Manchester'. Documentary written and
narrated by Svend Kjeldsen. Produced by Emma Sweeney
and Svend Kjeldsen. First Broadcast on BBC Radio Lancashire,
13.11.2016.
Mascareas, scar
(2017) Death and Fecundation. Performed and created in
collaboration with Steve Boyland for the opening of the
exhibition Reconstructing Memory by Sligo-based artist Clea (2015) with Ledger, A. Questions for developing arts-based (2016) Call to the dance: an exploration of the sociocultural
van der Vijn, and The Graeve Collection. Commissioned by the research in music therapy, Journal of Music Therapy, 52(4), world of traditional Breton music and dance. Review of Desi
Limerick City Gallery of Art. Limerick, Ireland. April 2017. 441-56. Wilkinsons book in Ethnomusicology Forum. doi:10.1080/17
(2016) Incidental music for REVOLVER. Commissioned by Iseli- Mc Laughlin. Mary 411912.2016.1266908
Chiodi Dance Company. Performed in Villa Panaderia Dorada (2017) Moving Between Worlds: Death, the Otherworld and (2015) One with the Music: Cape Breton Step Dancing
(Dsseldorf, Germany), The National Gallery of Ireland Traditional Irish Song in Dell, Helen and Hickey, Helen eds Tradition and Transmission, Sydney, Nova Scotia: Cape Breton
(Dublin, Ireland), Tipperary Dance Platform (Tipperary, Singing Death: Reflections on Music and Mortality, London, University Press.
Ireland), The Firkin Crane (Cork, Ireland), Festival NeufNeuf New York: Routledge/Ashgate. Mercier, Mel
(Toulouse, France). August-November 2016. Project Arts
McLoughlin, Lisa (2017) Le Testament de Marie (Colm Toibin) Theatre prod-
Centre, Dublin, Ireland. January 2017. International Festival
(2016) Alice M Galway Theatre Festival. A collaboration uction co-produced by the Odon - Thtre de l'Europe and
of Contemporary Dance, Krasnoyarsk, Russia. May 2017.
with Guerrilla Aerial exploring the life and works of Alice Comdie-Franaise, Paris, May-June 2017. Composition and
(2016) Search Up to a Point. Directed by Mary Nunan in
Milligan and her forgotten role in the 1916 rising. Sound Design by Mel Mercier.Directed by Deborah Warner.
collaboration with scar Mascareas (sonography) and
(2016) Scaramouch. A commission from the Iniscealtra (2017) CONCERT Dance show created by Colin Dunne in
Katherine OMalley (dance). Commissioned by the Arts
Festival of the Arts. A collaboration with Diane Daly, Alec collaboration with Sinead Rushe and Mel Mercier. Performed
Council of Ireland. Funded by the Arts Council of Ireland with
Brown and Deirdre Murphy. at Centre National De la Danse, Paris, Dublin Dance Festival
support from Dance Limerick, Dance House (Dublin), and The
(2015) Moved to dance: an exploration of dancers and Kilkenny Arts Festival, April-August 2017. Original
Firkin Crane (Cork). Performed between December 2016-
phenomenological perceptions of what influences their Music and Sound Design by Mel Mercier.
February 2017.
movement while dancing and how they view themselves as (2017) Far Away (Caryl Churchill) Theatre production prod-
Mateos Morante, Rebeca uced by Corcadorca, Cork, for Cork Midsummer Festival.
dancers, MA in Dance from the University of Limerick.
(2017) Sirenum Scopuli. Ensemble choreography, MA Irish Performed on Spike Island, Cork, June 2017. Composition and
Traditional Dance Performance Final Presentation, Irish Melin, Mats Sound Design by Mel Mercier.
World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, (2016) Ruidhle an Eilien, choreography of a new solo step
3 May 2017. dance. First performed in South Uist, Scotland atthe Ceolas
(2016) Inbeatween. Ensemble choreography, MA Irish Summer School.
Traditional Dance Performance Final Presentation, Irish
World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick,
5 May 2016.
(2015) La diosa que habito en el espejo: formacin de un
cuerpo que baila in Actas del VII Congreso Internacional de
Anlisis Textual, Segovia, Spain: Trama & Fondo [online],
available: www.tramayfondo.com/actividades/vii-congreso/
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[accessed 23 May 2016].
McCaffrey, Trona
(2016) with Edwards, J. Music therapy helped me get back
doing: using interpretative phenomenological analysis to
illuminate the perspectives of music therapy participants in
mental health services, Journal of Music Therapy,53(2), 121-48.
(2015) with Edwards, J. Meeting art with art: arts-based
methods enhance researcher reflexivity in research with mental
health service users, Journal of Music Therapy, 52(4), 515-32.

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(2016) Moss, H; O'Neill, D. The Role of the Curator in Modern
Hospitals: A transcontinental perspective. Journal of Medical
Humanities, Dec 13. DOI 10.1007/s10912-016-9423-3
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A World Forum for Music Therapy, [S.l.], v. 16, n. 3, sep. 2016.
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voices/article/view/863 doi:10.15845/voices.v16i3.863.
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(2015) with Cahalan, R., O'Sullivan, K., Purtill, H. Bargary
N. and O'Sullivan, P. Inability to perform due to pain/injury
in elite adult Irish dance: a prospective investigation of
contributing factors, Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and
Science in Sports.
(2015) with Shanahan J., Morris M.E., Saunders J. and Clifford
A.M. Dance for people with Parkinsons disease: what is
the evidence telling us?, Archives of Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation, 16, 96(1), 141-53.
(2015) with Shanahan J., Morris M.E., Saunders J. and Clifford
A.M. Is Irish set dancing feasible for people with Parkinsons
disease in Ireland?, Complementary Therapies in Clinical
Practice, 21(1), 47-51.
NicGhabhann, Niamh
(2016) 'Memory, public space and the body in Ireland: locating
and negotiating the asylum in Edna O'Brien's short fiction', in
Marguerite Corporaal, Christopher Cusack and Ruud van den
Beuken (eds)., Relocated Remembrance (Oxford: Peter Lang).
(2016) Editor, Volume 3 of the Irish Journal of Arts Management
and Cultural Policy, Mapping an Altered Landscape: Cultural
Policy and Management in Ireland.
(2015) Medieval Ecclesiastical Buildings in Ireland, 1789-1915:
Building on the Past, Dublin: Four Courts Press.
N Ghallglaigh, Risn
(2017) with Hyde, J. & Meachair, T., 'Tread Softly' : setting
of a text by W.B. Yeats, Tracks 1 & 11 of One For The Foxes, Co.
Antrim, Ireland.

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(2016) 'Two Brothers' : the 1916 Song Project; National
Library, Dublin (April 15); the Lexicon, Dn Laoghaire (April
22); Samus Ennis Centre, Fingal (April 23); Church of Ireland,
Athboy (April 30); Nun's Island Theatre, Galway (May 7); the
Athenaeum, Enniscorthy (May 14). Supported by the Arts
Council, the Irish Traditional Music Archive and the National
Library of Ireland.
(2015) with Joyce, S. Threshing in the haggard to her hearts
delight: women and erotic expression in Irish traditional
song in Mantymaki, T., Rodi-Risberg, M. and Foka, A., eds.,
Deviant Women: Cultural, Linguistic and Literary Approaches
to Narratives ofFemininity, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 211-
229.
Noone, Jason
(2014) with Baines, S., Edwards, J. and McCaffrey, T. Including
service user perspectives in research: Reflections of the Music
& Health Research Group at the University of Limerick. Irish
Association of Creative Arts Therapists Journal. 2 (1).
(2016) with Edwards, J. Developmental Music Therapy. In
J. Edwards (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Music Therapy. OUP:
Oxford.
Noone Matthew
(2016) Third space ensemble and the Bucks of Bangalore: an
ethnography of Irish-Indian music pedagogy, Journal of the
Vernacular Music Center, 1(2).
(2016) with Dillane, A. Irish music orientalism, New Hibernia
Review, 20 (1), Spring/Earrach
(2015)A way in to India,Journal of Music [online], available:
http://journalofmusic.com/focus/way-india [accessed 23 May
2016].
Nunan, Mary
(2014) Starting with T 2, director; screen video installation,
FabLab, Limerick, November, funded by Limerick City of
Culture, LCGA and Create.
(2014) In the Bells Shadow, performer; film directed by Mary
Wycherley and Joan Davis. Premiere showing IFC Dublin
December, funded by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaon.
(2013) Dancers ensemble, choreographer; premiere
performance Oct 3, the Daghdha Space, Limerick.
Commissioned by Dance Limerick.
O'dyke Nzewi
(2014) 'Performance Composition: For Effective Classroom
Music Education', Saarbrcken: LAP LAMBERT Academic
Publishing.
(2014) 'Libation' African Ensemble music performance
(director/performer), 8th May 2014 at the Irish World
Academy of Music and Dance.
(2014) 'Contextualizing traditional music studies in an instit-
ution of higher learning: a case study of the BA Irish Music and
Dance at the University of Limerick', in Mangeni, P., ed., Pan
African Journal of Musical Arts Education, 1(1), 74-86.
Slleabhin, Mchel
(2015) Lumen i Luimneach. Closing concert of Limerick
National City of Culture, St. Marys Cathedral Limerick, RTE
Concert Orchestra, David Brophy conductor, Mchel
Silleabhin piano. Televised concert broadcast on TG4 on 16
January 2015. Repeat broadcast March 2015.
(2016) The Carolan Celebration, New Editions of Carolan from
the original manuscripts and prints. Wigmore Hall, London.
Solo piano recital. Tuesday 19 April 2016.
(2017) EKLEGO 2 for Tape, Traditional Musicians and Orchestra.
Commissioned by Keough Naughton Institute for Irish Studies,
University of Notre Dame. First performance, University
Concert Hall, Limerick, 22 November 2016. Broadcast on RTE
lyric fm 16 March 2016. RTE Concert Orchestra conducted by
David Brophy. Eklego Ensemble directed by Mel Mercier.
Painter, Eli
(2015) Born to dance, Centrepiece, Spring 2015, 18-20.
Phelan, Helen Ward, Francis
(2017) Singing the Rite to Belong: Music, Ritual and the New
Irish. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Approaching a Virtual Orality, unpublished thesis (PhD),
(2016) The Harp of Aaron: the Irish Harp as Shopping Trolley:
a Polyptych in Four Movements with Aaron Lawless, Niamh
NicGhabhann and Mchel Silleabhin in Joyce, Sandra and
Lawlor, Helen eds. Harp Studies, Four Courts Press, Dublin.
(2015) Le Festival Voix et Route Romane / Frances Premier
Festival of Vocal Music from the Middle Ages, Chant and
Songs of the Wandering Irish, September 13, Surburg, Alsace.
Managing Director and ensemble performer.
Quigley, Colin
(2016) Locating the Choreomusical: The Case of European and
American Dance Fidding. esk lid 103, 515536. doi:http://
dx.doidoi.org/10.21104/CL.2016.4.01
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in Scholarship and Practice: Traditional Music and Dance in
Central Transylvania, Journal of Folklore Research, 53(1), 137-165.
(2015) Gyrgy Martins place in applied ethnochoreology,
Acta Ethnographica Hungarica, 60(1), 111-120. Budapest:
Akademia Kiado.
Talty, Jack
(2017) Non-Canonical Pedagogies for Non-Canonical Musics:
Observations on selected Programmes in Folk, Traditional,
World, and Popular Musics ' in Moore, R., ed., College Music
Curricula for a New Century. Oxford University Press.
(2017) Musical Performance at Fermata poetry reading with
Vincent Woods and Eva Bourke. Inish: Island Conversations,
Inishbofin, June 4th.
(2015) Music education and ethnomusicology, the state of the
field, SEM Student News: 4, The Society for Ethnomusicology.
Turner, Kathleen
(2015) Ubuntu, interactive community music performance
featuring pupils of St Marys National School and Galvone
National School. Supported by the Irish World Academy of
Music and Dance and the Irish Chamber Orchestra. 10 June
2015, Tower Theatre, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.
(2016) The Lines Between Us; an Arts Practice Research
performance, demonstrating a research journey through
narrative inquiry, incorporating story, song, and image. 8
November 2016, Theatre One, Irish World Academy of Music
and Dance.
(2016) Processes of Transmission in Irish Traditional Music:
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
University of Limerick.
(2015) Music recital (piano) with Brd Harper (fiddle) in the
Regional Cultural Centre as part of the Errigal Arts Festival
and Ceol na Coille Summer School,15 July 2015.
(2014) The Vanishing Lake (music composition and dance
choreography), Out and About UK 21, broadcast on Sky
channel Irish TV, June 2014 [online], available: http://www.
irishtv.ie/out-about-in-the-uk-21.
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Cantoral Vocal Ensemble
Cantoral is an all-female vocal ensemble from the University
of Limerick, Ireland. The ensemble specialises in Western
plainchant and early polyphony and has a particular interest
in medieval Irish repertoire. Formed in 2008 at the Irish World
Academy, the ensemble had its first international appearance
in 2009 at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. Other highlight
performances include Imbolc, a programme of chant and Irish
language song for St. Bridget, which premiered in New York
in 2010, and a programme for the Galway Early Music Festival
entitled sed diabolus irrisit ( but the devil laughed) in the conductors and directors, with whom the ICO works on a regular
same year. In April 2011, Cantoral sang for the Dalai Lama during
his visit to Ireland, and in April 2012, the ensemble conducted
a public seminar and a concert of Irish medieval music for Holy
Week at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. In 2013, Cantoral
performed again at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris and at
Harvard University and the University of Notre Dame in the USA.
In 2015, Cantoral performed at France's most prestigious early
music festival, Festival Voix & Route Romane.
Cantoral Artistic Director Catherine Sergent is an acclaimed
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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ACADEMOS
Led by members of the Irish Chamber Orchestra (ICO),
ACADEMOS is a string ensemble comprising the postgraduate
students of the MA Classical String Performance. The full-
time, two-year programme is offered jointly by the ICO and
the Irish World Academy. Students in ACADEMOS interact with
the ICO throughout the programme they attend individual
classes taught by ICO leaders, and engage in ensemble work
with orchestral members. Classes, workshops, seminars
and performances with a host of international performers,
basis, are a feature of the programme. Members of ACADEMOS
have regular opportunities to engage with acclaimed ICO
community music public outreach programmes. Graduates of
the programme are invited to apply for a place on the Irish World
Academys innovative PhD Arts Practice (a four-year structured
doctoral programme) while maintaining ongoing contact with
the ICO.
The ICO resides in its own specially designed expansive building
beside the Irish World Academy in a wooded area on the banks
of the River Shannon on ULs north campus. The location includes
the universitys Graduate Entry Medical School, Health Sciences
building, superb sports facilities and three modern student
villages.
Diane Daly, PhD Arts Practice Student
Photograph Maurice Gunning
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Scholarships at the Irish World Academy
The Pdraig Mac Aodha Memorial Scholarships
Ken Barrett Leisurewear Postgraduate
Scholarships
The Pdraig Mac Aodha Memorial Scholarships, to the value
of 5000 per recipient, are awarded annually to students of the
MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance. Selection criteria
focuses on academic merit, evidence of dance excellence and
suitability for this performance programme. The Irish World
Academy is extremely grateful to Ken Barrett Leisurewear for
providing these scholarships.
Plassey Campus Centre Scholarship
As part of its commitment and support of the cultural
experience at University of Limerick, particularly in the
performing arts, Campus Life Services is offering a PCC
scholarship to the value of 5000 towards accommodation
to a 1st year undergraduate student of the Irish World
Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. This
scholarship is onlyavailablefor applicants of the BA Performing
Arts due to commence in September 2017.
Campus Life Services aims to support students in residence
to enjoy the best student living experience and get the best
out of campus life.
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RT Lyric FM Scholarships
The RTE Lyric FM Scholarships were established in 1999 in
support of the MA Classical String Performance at the Irish
World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick.
The aim of the Scholarship is to support young talented string
players who wish to study at UL. Since the Scholarship was
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.
EMI Music Sound Foundation Bursary
EMI Music Sound Foundation was established by EMI in 1997
to commemorate the centenary of EMI records. It is an
independent charity supported by the Universal Music Group.
It is now the single largest sponsor of specialist performing
arts colleges in England and has created vital bursaries to assist
music students at music colleges. In 2005, an annual bursary
became available to students of Community Music, under
25 and born in the UK or Ireland, at the Irish World Academy.
In certain instances, Academy programmes other than
Community Music may be considered.
Roche Continents Scholarship
Roche Continents Youth! Arts! Science! is a project grown
from a partnership between Roche and the Salzburg Festival.
One hundred students from across Europe are selected to
participate in this exceptional challenge; participants are
students of life sciences, chemistry, the arts or music and
are between 20 and 29 years of age. Roche is well known for
promoting culture in novel settings, and Roche Continents is
an example of this commitment. Participants attend concerts
and talks by guest speakers and are given the opportunity to
explore the common ground of innovation and creativity in the
arts and science by joining in discussions with artists and taking
part in group workshops.
Stepping Stones Scholarships
The Stepping Stones Scholarship fund is available for study on
taught MA programmes at the Irish World Academy. Among
other criteria, priority is given to applicants whose projects
resonate with the spirit of the Stepping Stones initiative:
equality of arts practices, interdisciplinary vision and the
desire to build bridges between arts practices. The two types
of scholarships are:
The Stepping Stones Scholarships for Non-EU Students are
available to international studentson taught MA programmes
at the Academy. Students must have a demonstrable record
in a performance and/or academic specialisation relevant to a
programme
of study at the Academy.
General Stepping Stones Scholarships
These scholarships are open to all applicants to taught MA
programmes at the Academy.There are three 1,000 general
scholarships available.
Further information on criteria and application procedures for
all scholarships is available at: www.IrishWorldAcademy.ie
IAN BASCOMBE RAS MIKEY (MICHAEL) COURTNEY DIANE DALY FRAN GARRY SHANE HOLOHAN
Scholarship and
Award Recipients
Irish Research Council Government of Ireland
Postgraduate Scholarship Award: Ian Bascombe
PhD candidate (ethno-musicology) Ian Bascombe is the
recipient of an IRC Government of Ireland Postgraduate
Scholarship Award. Ian is a tin whistle practitioner and teacher.
His project aims to tell the untold story of the tin whistle.
He is investigating the instruments early mass-production in
England, its journey to Ireland, and its dissemination, usage
and ubiquity within this country. Ians interest in the tin
whistle, within Irish traditional music, began in England in the
1990s. His studies at the Irish World Academy began in 2010
where he subsequently graduated with a BA (1st Hons) in Irish
Music and an MA (1st Hons) in Ethnomusicology.
Irish Research Council Government of Ireland
Postgraduate Scholarship Award: RAS Mikey
Courtney
PhD Arts Practice candidate RAS Mikey (Michael) Courtney
holds an MA in Ethnochoreology from the University of
Limerick and a BFA in Modern Dance Performance from the
University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He has taught, presented
and produced dance as well as other performing arts
worldwide with his company, Fore Im a Versatile Entertainer
(F.I.V.E.) Productions (www.fivedance.com).
RASs current research, entitled Bridging Horizons: Embodied
Cultural Understanding Through Dance: An Investigation into
the Development and Presentation of Ethio-Modern Dance,
is grounded in ethnochoreology; His interdisciplinary study
investigates the use of dance composition/performance as a
cultural conduit. With an emphasis on Ethiopia, Ethio-modern
dance is a movement study based on RASs amalgamated
embodiment of global cultures, which he uses as a tool in his
creative work as a western urban-contemporary performing
artist.
Irish Research Council Government of Ireland
Postgraduate Scholarship Award: Diane Daly
Diane Daly is a violinist, teacher and community musician
and brings her interest in all of these to her Arts Practice
research. She is currently the only certified Dalcroze
Eurhythmics teacher in Ireland and her research is focused
around the impact of this approach to music education on
her practice as a violin soloist, chamber and orchestral
musician. She is investigating ways to incorporate a more
holistic, embodied and fun approach to Western Classical
music string training. Diane first came to UL to work with the
Irish Chamber Orchestra in 1997 and she now lives in Killaloe
with her husband Boris and their three children.
Irish Research Council Government of Ireland
Postgraduate Scholarship Award: Fran Garry
Fran Garry has received this award for her PhD Arts Practice
project entitled: Lived Experiences in Community Arts in
Ireland-an autoethnographic and ethnographic, practice-based
study. Fran is a singer, songwriter, musician and community
music educator. In addition to musical performance, her work
in educational and community settings includes direction
and facilitation of vocal, instrumental and creative writing
groups. Her research project is an in-depth exploration of
first-hand experiences of individual and collaborative arts
participation. Fran holds an MA in Community Music from the
Irish World Academy, (U.L.) and a B.A. in English Literature
and History (U.L.).
Irish Research Council Government of Ireland
Postgraduate Scholarship Award: Shane
Holohan
PhD Arts Practice candidate Shane Holohans research
incorporates his background in three areas: as an experienced
teacher of English and art, as an integrative psychotherapist
and as a coach and choreographer of floor and aerial acrobatics
and dance.
Shanes research considers the facilitation and documentation
of embodied creativity in high-level students of circus
arts. Through ethnographic case study data gathered from
international circus schools in Montreal, Stockholm and
Melbourne, Shane will develop a model of practice that
he will apply through two creativity residencies: (i) a two-
week residency using improvisational strategies to develop
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
creativity and explore documentation practices for creative
process and (ii) a six week project with a group of students
from the above international schools and with Irish circus
practitioners and vocal artists, culminating in a public showing
at the National Gallery of Ireland in August 2017.
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MARY MC LAUGHLIN ANDREW O'GRADY AND SIOBHN NELLIGAN
Irish Research Council Government of Ireland
Postgraduate Scholarship Award: Mary Mc Laughlin
PhD Research candidate Mary Mc Laughlin is originally from
Co. Tyrone. She has lived, studied and worked as a singer
and teacher in both London and California. In addition to a
prestigious recording and performing career, she holds an MA
in Ritual Chant and Song from the University of Limerick in
addition to a BA in English and a PGCE from London University.
Her research, entitled Singing Between Worlds: Songs of
Otherworld Enchantment and Entrapment in the Irish Tradition,
explores the interplay of Irish Fairy-lore and Irish Traditional
song from an ethnographic perspective.
EMI Music Sound Foundation Bursary in
Community Music 2016/17
The 2016/17 EMI Music Sound Foundation Bursary in Community
Music was awarded to MA Community Music students Siobhn
Nelligan, Andrew OGrady and Kate Scales.
Roche Continents Scholarship:
Claire Heffernan
Professional MEd (Music) student, Claire Heffernan, was
selected to attend the 2016 Roche Continents Youth! Arts!
Science! Conference in Salzburg in August. A pianist, vocalist
and harpist from Limerick, Claire completed her Main Music
Performance (2014) and her BMus (2012), both with first-class
honours from CIT Cork School of Music. Claire is very grateful
to have been selected for this unique experience. She feels that
her engagement with renowned scientists, artists and fellow
students, as well as the opportunities to attend contemporary
music performances of the Salzburg festival, have collectively
broadened her appreciation of both science and the arts.
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CLAIRE HEFFERNAN CELINA JAFFE MARIELA ARGELLO RETANA
Go Overseas 2016 Ireland Scholarship:
Celina Jaffe
In 2016/17, Celina Jaffe won a scholarship to do a masters
degree at UL through the Go Overseas campaign, supported
by Education in Ireland. Hailing from Indiana, Celina was
accepted onto the MA Contemporary Dance Performance
at the Irish World Academy and then applied to Go Overseas
Inc. to support her studies in Ireland. In her award-winning
application, Celina wrote that the Irish World Academy had
an individualist approach to learning and was recommended
to her by professors of dance and anthropology in her home
state of Indiana. In her efforts, back home, to advance her goal
of becoming a professional dancer and teacher, she has already
founded a modern dance company, directed a youth company,
performed with local professionals and taught dance to the
community by establishing various outreach programmes.
Celina believes Ireland is the ideal country in which to further
her education because its world-renowned musical culture
holds the key to my research in dance as a catalyst for social
change.
Stepping Stones Scholarship:
Mariela Argello Retana
Mariela Argello Retana is a contemporary dancer from Costa
Rica. Mariela received a Stepping Stones Scholarship (2016-
2017), which supports her to attend the MA Contemporary
Dance Performance at the Irish World Academy. Coming
to Ireland for this programme is a significant step in her
dance career, and during her studies she aims to deepen her
professional growth and expand her approach to her dance
practice.
SALMA ATAYA HALA JABER
Stepping Stones Scholarship: Salma Ataya
Salma Ataya received a Stepping Stones Scholarship (2016-
2017) to attend the MA Contemporary Dance Performance.
Salma is from Palestine and this scholarship supported her to
study abroad and engage in a masters programme that best
supported her ambition. Having toured internationally for
many years, she is now working on deepening her own practice
as a dance artist through solo and ensemble work.
Stepping Stones Scholarship: Hala Jaber
PhD Arts Practice candidate Hala Jaber is a recipient of the
Stepping Stones scholarship. Originally from Bethlehem in
Palestine, Hala trained as a classical flautist as well as a music
teacher. She was introduced to and worked in the field of
Community Music in Palestine. She came to Ireland to pursue
a masters degree in Community Music. Through her research,
entitled 'An Arts Practice Investigation of Community Music
Interventions with Reference to Post-Conflict Forced Migration'
Hala aims to explore ways in which community music may be
beneficial for people in post-conflict situations.
Stepping Stones Scholarship: Justin Osih
Justin Osih received a Stepping Stones scholarship to study
on the MA Ritual Chant and Song. Justin is a Benedictine monk
from St. Benedict Priory, Ewu-Esan, Nigeria, a foundation of
Glenstal Abbey, Murroe, Co. Limerick, Ireland. In 2008-2009, at
Keur Moussa Abbey, he learned to play the Kora, a 21-stringed
instrument from the harp family. It is used to accompany
psalms chanted in Ewu Monastery. Chant plays a vital role in the
liturgical life of a monastery. Justin has come to study on the
MA Ritual Chant and Song in order to develop his proficiency in
chant and promote the liturgical life of Ewu monastery.
JUSTIN OSIH MINTESINOT GETACHEW WOLDE MICHELLE L. OCONNOR FELIX MORGENSTERN
Stepping Stones Scholarship:
Mintesinot Getachew Wolde
Mintesinot Getachew Wolde, a student on the MA Con-
temporary Dance programme, is the recipient of Stepping
Stones Scholarship (2016/2017). Mintesinot is a traditional
and contemporary, trained dancer, from Ethiopia. During
his time at the Irish World Academy, he aims to expand his
technical and artistic skills and develop his practice towards
making new work. He is also interested in sharing and
investigating his culture within a new context, engaging with
other local and international students at the University.
Fran Garry, PhD Arts Practice Student
Photograph Maurice Gunning
Stepping Stones Scholarship:
Michelle L. OConnor
Michelle L. OConnor from Oakland, California (USA),
received a Stepping Stones scholarship to study on the
MA Ritual Chant and Song at the Irish World Academy. A
medieval vielle player and fiddler, she has performed with
The Boston Camerata, Algerian singer Moh Alileche, and
at various Early Music Festivals internationally. Her new
Contra-dance band,TriTonic, featured at the New England
Folk Festival, 2013 (NEFFA). She enjoys playing fiddle for
contra and English country dance camps in the woods, as
well as performing with Shira Kammens Class V Music,
an ensemble dedicated to creating music on whitewater
rafting trips. Web: www.MichelleVielle.com
Stepping Stones Scholarship: Felix Morgenstern
Felix Morgenstern is a percussionist and uilleann piper from
Berlin, Germany. Having immersed himself in the Berlin Irish
music scene and Irish music festivals in Ireland from an early
age, he moved to Limerick in 2012 to pursue a BA in Irish
Music and Dance at the Irish World Academy, University of
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
Limerick. While completing his undergraduate degree, Felix
worked with percussionist Jim Higgins and uilleann piper
Blackie OConnell, furthering his career as a performer, and
touring with Irish dance productions in Europe, Russia and
China. As a scholar, Felix gained an interest in Irish Music
Studies, focusing particularly on discourses surrounding
music and ethnicity, identity and nationalism. As a student
on the MA Ethnomusicology programme at the Irish World
Academy, Felix is currently expanding his research on Irish
Traditional Music in Germany and folk music in the German
Democratic Republic.
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MEAGHAN HAUGHIAN EMMA LANGFORD
Stepping Stones Scholarship: Meaghan Haughian
Meaghan was born and raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,
Canada. She completed her Bachelor of Music and Bachelor
of Education degrees at the University of Saskatchewan,
followed by five years of music teaching in the Saskatchewan
school system. In that time she has also been involved in
Saskatoons local Comhaltas Ceoltir ireann branch as potential leaders in the arts, across a wide range of cultural
executive member, Irish language teacher, cil dance caller,
and musician. She has also been a member of Saskatoon-
based Irish band: The Residuals. She is interested in a deeper
exploration of music in different traditions around the
world, particularly in terms of performance practice, creative
potential, and community education.
Stepping Stones Scholarship: Emma Langford
Emma Langford is a vocalist, guitarist and songwriter from
Limerick City. Her BA Voice and Dance studies at the Irish
World Academy, University of Limerick, led her to embark
on a solo musical career. Her vocal repertoire spans multiple
genres including gregorian chant, Latin-American popular
music and gospel music. Since entering her local music scene
in 2013, Emma has crowd-funded and recorded a six track
EP, and toured Ireland extensively. In recent years, she has
worked on community outreach projects and spearheaded
a cultural programme with voluntary organisation 'Serve
the City', which aims to bring live music to marginalised
members of the local community. As a student on the MA
Community Music programme, Emma is developing her
skills in facilitation and group music-making, with a view to
working in the community as a freelance Community Music
practitioner.
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DR KATHLEEN TURNER MCHEL SILLEABHIN RECEPTION
Clore Leadership Programme:
Dr Kathleen Turner
Dr Kathleen Turner is the recipient of the 2017/2018 Jerome
Hynes Fellowship for the Clore Leadership programme,
supported by the Arts Council of Ireland. This programme
aims to develop the knowledge, skills and experience of
ceremony took place in New York on June 19th. Mels
activity. Kathleen will take part in a year-long programme
commencing in September 2017. The programme includes:
two intensive residential leadership courses; professional
development through mentoring, tuition and group learning;
an in-depth research project, supervised by a Higher
Education Institute; and a period of secondment, including
experience of managing a challenging project.
Mayoral Reception for Professor
Mchel Silleabhin
A reception was held by Councillor Kieran OHanlon, Mayor
of the City and County of Limerick, in June 2017, to acknow-
ledge the contribution of Professor Mchel Silleabhin
to the cultural life of Limerick and to the development of
Irish Music and Dance around the world.
NEW YORK FESTIVAL AWARD
New York Festival Award: Professor Mel Mercier
Professor Mel Mercier, Chair of Performing Arts at the
Irish World Academy of Music and Dance won a Bronze
Medal in the Culture and Arts category at the 2017 New
York Festival's International Radio Program Awards for
The World's Best Radio Programs. The official awards
radio documentary about his father, Peadar Mercier, was
selected for the award by an international jury of directors,
producers, writers, reporters, creative directors and
program directors, from across the globe. The documentary,
commissioned by the RT Documentary on One series, was
co-produced with the series producer, Liam OBrien, and
first broadcast in September 2016.
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Niall Vallely at the Blas International Summer School
of Irish Traditional Music and Dance
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BA Irish Music and Dance MA Ethnomusicology MA Ritual Chant and Song

BA Voice and Dance Course Director: Dr Colin Quigley Course Director: Dr Eleanor Giraud
BA Performing Arts (Irish Traditional Music) colin.quigley@ul.ie Contact eleanor.giraud@ul.ie
BA Performing Arts (Irish Traditional Dance) +353 61 202966 + 353 61 234743
BA Performing Arts (Contemporary Dance) MEd (Music)
MA Festive Arts
BA Performing Arts (Voice) Course Director: Jean Downey
Course Director: Dr Niamh NicGhabhann
BA Performing Arts (World Music) jean.downey@ul.ie
niamh.nicghabhann@ul.ie
Certificate in Music and Dance +353 61 213160
+353 61 202798
Director, Undergraduate Studies: Dr Niall Keegan
Professional MEd (Music)
Contact niall.keegan@ul.ie MA Irish Dance Studies
Course Director: Jean Downey
+ 353 61 202465 Course Director: Dr Mats Melin
jean.downey@ul.ie
(on sabbatical)
MA Classical String Performance +353 61 213160
Acting Course Director: Dr Orfhlaith N Bhriain
(in association with the Irish Chamber Orchestra)
mats.melin@ul.ie MA (Research)
Academic Leader: Dr Niall Keegan
+353 61 202542 Enquiries: Relevant Supervisor/Faculty Member
Contact niall.keegan@ul.ie
or paula.dundon@ul.ie
+ 353 61 202465 MA Irish Music Studies
+353 61 202149
Course Director: Dr Aileen Dillane
MA Community Music
(on sabbatical) PhD Arts Practice
Course Director: Dr Kathleen Turner
Acting Course Director: Dr Niall Keegan (Structured Programme)
kathleen.turner@ul.ie
aileen.dillane@ul.ie Programme Director: Professor Helen Phelan
+ 353 61 213762
+ 353 61 202159 helen.phelan@ul.ie
MA Songwriting +353 61 202575
MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance
Course Director: Carl Corcoran
Course Director: Dr Orfhlaith N Bhriain PhD (by dissertation)
carl.corcoran@ul.ie
Orfhlaith.nibhriain@ul.ie Enquiries: Relevant Supervisor/Faculty Member
+353 62 202030
+353 61 202470 or paula.dundon@ul.ie
MA Contemporary Dance Performance +353 61 202149
MA Irish Traditional Music Performance
Course Director to be announced
Course Director: Dr Sandra Joyce Blas International Summer School of Irish Traditional
Contact barbara.christie@ul.ie
sandra.joyce@ul.ie Music and Dance
+353 61 202030
+353 61 202065 Director: Pamela Cotter
MA Ethnochoreology pamela.cotter@ul.ie
Course Director: Dr Catherine Foley MA Music Therapy +353 61 202653
catherine.e.foley@ul.ie; Course Director: Dr Hilary Moss
+353 61 202922 hilary.moss@ul.ie
+353 61 213122
Shraddha Ravindran
Photograph Maurice Gunning
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The Irish World Academy continues to have a very
strong international student profile. Since its inception
in 1994, students from the following countries have
graduated from the Academy:

EU: INTERNATIONAL:
Austria Australia
Belgium Belarus
Croatia Brazil
Czech Republic Canada
Denmark Chile
Estonia China
Finland Colombia
France Costa Rica
Germany Ecuador
Greece Ethiopia
Hungary Georgia
Ireland Ghana
Italy India
Netherlands Indonesia
Poland Israel
Romania Japan
Slovakia Malaysia
Slovenia Mexico
Spain Nepal
Sweden New Zealand
UK Nigeria

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
Norway
Palestine
Russia
Singapore
South Africa
Taiwan
Thailand
Turkey
USA
Vietnam

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PROGRAMMES
AND ARTS OFFICES

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
Dale Mckay and Aisling Lyons, BA Irish Music and Dance
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 University of Limerick Faculty of Science and Engineering, Interaction Design University of Limerick Visual Arts
LM002 - Bachelor of Arts (In conjunction with Mary Centre (IDC): MA Interactive Multimedia Administrator: Yvonne Davis
Immaculate College) The MA in Interactive Multimedia is a one-year, intensive Email: yvonne.davis@ul.ie
course designed specifically for art and design graduates Phone: +353 61 213052
Course Leader: Dr Michael Griffin
who are interested in pursuing studies that combine techno-
Phone: 00 353 61 213578 Digital Media and Arts Research Centre (DMARC)
logical competence with design/artistic endeavour.
Email: arts@ul.ie Director: Jrgen Simpson
Admissions Course Director: Mikael Fernstrom Email: jurgen.simpson@ul.ie
Tel: 00 353 61 202015 Email: mikael.fernstrom@ul.ie Phone: +353 61 202759
Email: www.ul.ie/admissions Phone: +353 61 202606 Website: www.dmarc.ie
Website: www.idc.ul.ie
Department of Music, Mary Immaculate College, UL Aonad na Gaeilge/UL Irish Language Centre
The Department of Music at Mary Immaculate College (MIC) Association of Irish Choirs Dr Deirdre N Loingsigh, Stirthir na Gaeilge
offers music for the BEd and BA (Liberal Arts) programmes The Association of Irish Choirs supports and promotes Email: deirdre.niloingsigh@ul.ie
as well as a taught MA in Music Education and other post- excellence in choral music in Ireland. It does this by Phone: +353 61 213463
graduate degrees to doctoral level by research. Regular providing information and advice and presenting a range of Ciara Considine,
choral and chamber concerts are a vital part of the life of programmes and activities designed to respond to the needs Oifigeach Margaochta/Riarthir Feidhmichin
the department and there are close ties with the Irish World of members, the wider choral community and the public. Email: ciara.considine@ul.ie
Academy. MIC has a 500-seater performing arts venue, the Phone +353 61 234754
CEO: Dermot OCallaghan
Lime Tree Theatre (www.limetreetheatre.ie). Email: dermot.ocallaghan@ul.ie
Dr Gareth Cox (Head of Department); Phone: +353 61 202715
Dr Paul Collins; Dr Michael Murphy; Dr Gwen Moore; Administrator: Michelle Hynes
Dr Ailbhe Kenny Phone: +353 61 234823
Departmental enquiries: musicinfo@mic.ul.ie Email: aoic@ul.ie
Phone +353 61 204540 Website: www.aoic.ie
Website: www.mic.ul.ie University Concert Hall
University of Limerick, Ireland
University of Limerick
Phone: +353 61 331549
LM122 - Bachelor of Science in Creative Media and
Website: www.uch.ie
Interaction Design Common Entry
Course Leader: Giuseppe Torre University of Limerick Arts Office
Phone: +353 (0) 61 23 4611 Arts Officer: Patricia Moriarty
Email: giuseppe.torre@ul.ie Email: patricia.moriarty@ul.ie
Phone: +353 61 202130
Admissions
Tel: 00 353 61 202015
Email: www.ul.ie/admissions

Eilise Sullivan, MA Contemporary Dance Performance

Back cover photo: The Suona Ensemble
Photographs Maurice Gunning

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Maurice Gunning MFA is an 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. He is currently a member of the advisory board of
PhotoIreland.

Since 2006, Gunning has been the resident photographer at the Irish World
Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick. He continues to
collaborate with many national and international artists through this residency.
His work was celebrated in 2010 in the form of an extensive permanent exhibition
and catalogue at the Irish World Academy.

Dance Ireland invited Gunning to be their artist in residence at Dance House,

Dublin, where he created a new body of photographic work. This work was
premiered in May 2013 with a large permanent solo show at Dance House. We
are delighted to commission such unique images from Maurice, a photographic
artist of the highest quality whose work will add to our understanding of the beauty
of movement. (Paul Johnson, Dance Ireland Chief Executive).

Gunning has worked extensively in Buenos Aires with the Argentine Irish Diaspora
over a number of years. With support from Culture Ireland and the Irish Embassy,
he exhibited his solo show, Encuentro, at the Centro Cultural de Recoleta in Buenos
Aires, in several UK galleries and at the Irish National Photographic Archive at
the invitation of PhotoIreland Festival 2012. According to Sean OHagan of The
Guardian, the show focuses on the Argentine-Irish community in Buenos Aires,
descendants of the original immigrants that arrived there in the 1800s. Gunnings
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.

In 2013, the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest invited Gunning to be their first
artist in residence. The work produced during this residency was premiered in
Budapest at the Liszt Academy in 2015 with support from Culture Ireland, the
Arts Council and the Irish Embassy.

In 2014, Hope & Homes for Children (Romania) commissioned Gunning to create a
book and exhibition, Family:Familie Stories of Five Romanian Families, which were
premiered in May of that year at the National Parliament and National Library,
Bucharest. In 2015, Irish Aid and the Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade
awarded Gunning the Simon Cumbers Media Fund, which enabled him to work in
The Gambia on themes relating to the UNHCR Millennium Development Goals.

Gunnings first documentary, The Chile 33, filmed during 2010, was broadcast in
over 50 countries to commemorate the first anniversary of the mining incident.
Gunning continues to work internationally as a cinematographer with Swedish
intergovernmental organisation The International Institute for Democracy and
Electoral Assistance (International IDEA).
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