Méabh Ní Fhuarthaín

Ethnomusicology Ireland Editor

editorei@ictmd.ie

Dr Méabh Ní Fhuartháin is Head 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). Other recent publications include research on commemorative representations of Ireland through music; pop music and emigration; masculinities and Irish popular music and dance genealogies in Galway. Méabh has a monograph forthcoming, Heading to the Fleadh: Festival, Cultural Revival and Irish Traditional Music, 1951–1969 (CUP, 2024).