Ethnomusicology Ireland

EDITOR

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).

DEPUTY EDITOR

Dr Felix Morgenstern is an ethnomusicologist and Irish traditional music practitioner from Berlin. He currently works as lecturer in ethnomusicology at the University of Würzburg and as guest lecturer in Irish music studies at the University of Vienna. Felix’ research interests include global/translocal Irish musics, intercultural musical transactions, the interstices between music and nationalism, and the performance of intersectional masculinities. From 2021 to 2023, he was PI on the FWF-funded postdoctoral research project “Irish Folk in Austria” at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and held an IRC doctoral scholarship at the University of Limerick from 2018 to 2020.

REVIEWS EDITOR

Dr Joanne Cusack is a researcher, musician, and FairPlé activist. She is a first-class honours graduate of Dundalk Institute of Technology specialising in Irish traditional solo performance, and holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from Maynooth University. Her research interests include applied ethnomusicology, cultural/critical studies, identity studies, feminist activism, and performance. As an activist, Joanne has contributed to the creation of numerous policy and support documents, and has been invited to speak at several events including most notably before the Oireachtas Joint Committee to discuss a safe and respectful working environment for the arts in October 2021. Aside from this, Joanne has an active record as an Irish traditional musician having performed both nationally and internationally.

TECHNICAL EDITOR

William Kearney is an Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholar and Hume scholar at the Department of Music, Maynooth University, Ireland. His PhD research takes a choreomusicological approach to the study of embodiment in participatory Irish set dancing contexts with a particular focus on the traditions of the Cork/Kerry/Limerick border region of Ireland.