ICTMD Ireland Committee

Daithí Kearney

Secretary

info@ictmd.ie

Ethnomusicologist, geographer and performer Dr Daithí Kearney is a lecturer in music, theatre and tourism and co-director of the Creative Arts Research Centre at Dundalk Institute of Technology. A graduate of UCC, his research is primarily focused on Irish traditional music and folk theatre but extends to include performance studies, community music and tourism. His PhD concentrated on the construction of geographies and regional identities in Irish traditional music and the relationship between music and place. He has toured regularly as a musician, singer and dancer with a number of groups including Siamsa Tíre, The National Folk Theatre of Ireland. In 2012 he released an album with accordion player John Cronin entitled Midleton Rare, which is related to a wider research agenda on the music and musicians of the Sliabh Luachra region. In 2016 Daithí released an album of new compositions in the Irish traditional idiom with Dr Adèle Commins. In 2023, Daithí was the recipient of the DkIT President’s Prize for Established Researcher in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and a Bardic Award from Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann for contribution to Irish traditional music.