Academic Staff Information

Dr Méabh Ní Fhuartháin

Discipline:  Centre for Irish Studies

Address:  Room 206, Martha Fox House, Distillery Road, NUI, Galway

Telephone:  353 (0)91 492872

Email:  meabh.nifhuarthainnuigalway.ie

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Following her primary degree at University College Cork in Music and Gaeilge, Méabh Ní Fhuartháin pursued graduate work in ethnomusicology at Boston College and Brown University. Méabh completed her PhD at the Centre for Irish Studies exploring Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann as a literal and powerfully symbolic agent of culture.  Her thesis documents the genesis and development of Comhaltas and contributes to the growing field of Irish Music Studies.  A contributor of articles and reviews to a variety of journals such as Ethnomusicology, New York Irish History Roundtable, Journal of Music in Ireland and the Journal of the Society of Musicology in Ireland, Méabh is the Popular Music editor of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland (UCD Press, 2011) and is also currently editing, together with Dr David Doyle, a collection of essays on popular culture and ordinary life in Ireland (forthcoming, Irish Academic Press).  Her research interests include Irish traditional music and dance, popular music in Ireland, cultural revivals and emigrant music traditions.

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