Academic Staff Information

Dr Méabh Ní Fhuartháin, Lecturer and Co-ordinator, BA with Irish Studies 

Discipline:  Centre for Irish Studies

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

Telephone:  353 (0)91 492872

Email:  meabh.nifhuarthainnuigalway.ie

Having completed her undergraduate degrees at UCC under the mentorship of Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Méabh continued her graduate research and teaching at Boston College and Brown University and was awarded the James Carroll Memorial Fellowship and the Father Martin Harney Irish Studies Fellowship for her work in Irish Music and Dance Studies. She spent a number of years lecturing at UCC, before she began teaching at the Centre for Irish Studies in 2002.  An IRCHSS scholar, her PhD thesis Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann: Shaping tradition, 1951-1970 (2011) supervised by Professor Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh, explores the institutionalization of musical revival in the mid-twentieth century and its symbolic significance to Irish music practice and reception.

Méabh has contributed articles and reviews to a variety of journals such as Ethnomusicology, Journal of Music
in Ireland, Journal of the Society of Musicology in Ireland and New York Irish History Roundtable and is also Popular Music subject editor of the landmark Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland (UCD Press, 2012).  Co-editor with David Doyle of the forthcoming Ordinary Life and Popular Culture in Ireland (IAP, 2013), she is centrally involved in the development of the research network Comhrá Ceoil: Irish Music and Dance Studies at NUI Galway.

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