Ethnomusicology Ireland Committee

Méabh Ní Fhuarthaín

Ethnomusicology Ireland Editor

editorei@ictmd.ie

Dr Méabh Ní Fhuartháin is Associate Professor of Irish Studies at the Centre for Irish Studies, University of Galway, specializing in Irish Music and Dance Studies. She co-edited a special issue of Éire-Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies (2019) and also, the special issue 'Women and traditional/folk music' Ethnomusicology Ireland 7 (2021), before becoming Editor of Ethnomusicology Ireland in 2022. Published widely, she sits on the national board of Music Generation, the non-curriculum music education organisation. Other recent publications include research on commemorative representations of Ireland through music; pop music and emigration; and a monograph, Heading to the Fleadh: Festival, Cultural Revival and Irish Traditional Music, 1951–1969 (Cork University Press, 2024).