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Geography, Archaeology & Irish Studies
Dr Méabh Ní Fhuartháin
Contact Details
Centre for Irish Studies
Martha Fox House
Distillery Road
NUI Galway
E: meabh.nifhuarthain@nuigalway.ie
Biography
Research Interests
Peer Reviewed Journals
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(2021) | 'Women and Traditional/Folk Music'
Ní Fhuartháin, Méabh; Commins, Verena, special issue editors (2021) 'Women and Traditional/Folk Music'. Ethnomusicology Ireland, [Details] |
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(2021) | 'Women and Traditional/Folk Music: Building a field'
Ní Fhuartháin, Méabh (2021) 'Women and Traditional/Folk Music: Building a field'. Ethnomusicology Ireland, 7 [Details] |
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(2019) | 'Nótaí/Notes: Music and Ireland'
Ní Fhuartháin, Méabh; Commins, Verena, special issue editors (2019) 'Nótaí/Notes: Music and Ireland'. Éire-Ireland, 54 (1 & 2) [Details] |
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(2019) | ''Parish Halls, Dance Halls and Marquees: Developing and regulating social dance spaces, 1900-1960''
Ní Fhuartháin, Méabh (2019) ''Parish Halls, Dance Halls and Marquees: Developing and regulating social dance spaces, 1900-1960''. Éire-Ireland, [Details] |
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(2019) | 'Nótaí/Notes: Music and Ireland: Introduction'
Commins, Verena, Ní Fhuartháin, Méabh; (2019) 'Nótaí/Notes: Music and Ireland: Introduction'. Éire-Ireland, :10-16 [Details] |
Book Chapters
Year | Publication | |
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(2021) | 'Genealogies of Irish dance in Galway, 1922-1992'
Ní Fhuartháin, Méabh (2021) 'Genealogies of Irish dance in Galway, 1922-1992' In: Hardiman and After: Galway Culture and Society, 1820-2020. Australia: Arcadia. [Details] |
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(2020) | '‘“Mise Éire”: (RE)imaginings in Irish Music Studies'
Ní Fhuartháin, Méabh (2020) '‘“Mise Éire”: (RE)imaginings in Irish Music Studies' In: Routledge International Handbook of Irish Studies. London: Routledge. [Details] |
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(2018) | '“In the mood for dancing”: Emigrant, pop and female’'
Méabh Ní Fhuartháin (2018) '“In the mood for dancing”: Emigrant, pop and female’' In: Music Preferred: Essays in Musicology, Cultural History and Analysis in honour of Harry White. Vienna: Hollitzer Verlag. [Details] |
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(2015) | '‘“Irish Music in Irish Life”: Articulating a Vision of Revival’'
Ní Fhuartháin, Méabh (2015) '‘“Irish Music in Irish Life”: Articulating a Vision of Revival’' In: Culture and Society in Ireland since 1750, Essays in Honour of Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh. Dublin: Lilliput. [Details] |
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(2013) | 'Introduction'
Ní Fhuartháin, Méabh; Doyle, David (2013) 'Introduction' In: Ordinary Life and Popular Culture in Ireland. Dublin: IAP. [Details] |
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(2013) | ''Oh Me, Oh My': Reviving Joe Dolan and Gendering Performance’'
Ní Fhuartháin, Méabh (2013) ''Oh Me, Oh My': Reviving Joe Dolan and Gendering Performance’' In: Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture: Tigers Tales. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details] |
Edited Books
Year | Publication | |
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(2013) |
Ní Fhuartháin, Méabh; Doyle, David (Ed.). (2013) Ordinary Irish Life: Music, Sport and Culture Dublin: Irish Academic Press. [Details] |
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(2013) | Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland.
Harry White et al (Méabh Ní Fhuartháin, subject editor) (Ed.). (2013) Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland. Dubln: UCD Press. [Details] |
Conference Contributions
Year | Publication | |
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(2018) | Rural Ireland: Ideas and Realities in the Twentieth Century,
Méabh Ní Fhuartháin (2018) Parish halls and dance halls, transnational and social: Built spaces in the Irish landscape, 1910-1960. [Oral Presentation], Rural Ireland: Ideas and Realities in the Twentieth Century, NUI Galway , 07-JUN-18 - 08-JUN-18. [Details] |
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(2018) | ACIS,
Méabh Ní Fhuartháin (2018) The Musical (Singing) Priest: Essentialising Irish-America in Film. [Oral Presentation], ACIS, UCC , 19-JUN-18 - 22-JUN-18. [Details] |
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(2017) | ICTM International,
Méabh Ní Fhuartháin (2017) Mise Éire: (Re)Imaginings and identity. [Conference Paper], ICTM International, UL , 17-JUL-17 - 17-JUL-17. [Details] |
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(2017) | Chronicles of Comhaltas: Narrating and institutionalising authority in Irish traditional music, 1951-1970,
Méabh Ní Fhuartháin (2017) Ó Riada Memorial Lecture 2017. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Chronicles of Comhaltas: Narrating and institutionalising authority in Irish traditional music, 1951-1970, UCC , 01-FEB-17 - 01-FEB-17. [Details] |
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(2015) | Sonny Murray Memorial Lecture,
Ní Fhuartháin, Méabh (2015) Title: ‘The Fleadh down in Ennis: Narrating the Fleadh Experience’. [Invited Lecture], Sonny Murray Memorial Lecture, Co.Clare , 10-APR-15 - 10-APR-15. [Details] |
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(2015) | A Peculiar Society: Ireland 1970s-1990s,
Ní Fhuartháin, Méabh (2015) Title: ‘Lisdoonvarna: A model of festivity for a peculiar society’. [Conference Paper], A Peculiar Society: Ireland 1970s-1990s, NUI Galway , 24-APR-15 - 25-APR-15. [Details] |
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(2014) | Anthropology Seminar Series, Queen’s University Belfast,
Ní Fhuartháin, Méabh (2014) Title: 'Emigrant, Female and Popular: Delimiting Categories in Irish Music discourse'. [Invited Lecture], Anthropology Seminar Series, Queen’s University Belfast, Queen's University, Belfast , 06-MAY-14 - 06-MAY-14. [Details] |
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(2014) | Logos Seminar Series,
Ní Fhuartháin, Méabh (2014) TItle: 'In Fleadh Time: Festival, Festivity and Narration’. [Invited Lecture], Logos Seminar Series, University of Limerick , 25-SEP-14 - 25-SEP-14. [Details] |
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(2014) | Tower Seminar Series,
Ní Fhuartháín, Méabh; Dillane, Aileen (UL) (2014) Title: ‘Keep it Country: Country Music and the Twentieth Century (Perspectives from Ireland and Australia)’. [Invited Lecture], Tower Seminar Series, University of Limerick , 24-SEP-14 - 24-SEP-14. [Details] |
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(2014) | TCD Irish Studies Summer School,
Ní Fhuartháin, Méabh (2014) Title: ‘The Global Emerald: Popular and Rock music in 21st century Ireland’. [Invited Lecture], TCD Irish Studies Summer School, Trinity College Dublin , 23-JUL-14 - 23-JUL-14. [Details] |
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(2014) | Music, Place and the Community,
Ní Fhuartháin, Méabh (2014) ICTM Ireland, National Conference. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Music, Place and the Community, NUI Galway , 21-FEB-14 - 23-FEB-14. [Details] |
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(2013) | American Conference for Irish Studies,
Méabh Ní Fhuartháin (2013) ‘’In the mood for dancing’: The emigrant Irish female and popular music’. [Chaired Session], American Conference for Irish Studies, Chicago , 10-APR-13 - 13-APR-13. [Details] |
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(2013) | Guest lecture,
Méabh Ní Fhuartháin (2013) The Gaelic League: Dancing the nation, 1893-1940. [Invited Lecture], Guest lecture, Charles University , 07-NOV-13 - 07-NOV-13. [Details] |
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(2012) | Waterford County Museum Winter Lecture Series,
Méabh Ní Fhuartháin (2012) ‘Dr Richard Henebry: musical priest and Déiseach’,. [Chaired Session], Waterford County Museum Winter Lecture Series, Waterford , 18-JAN-12 - 18-JAN-12. [Details] |
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(2012) | Transcultural Identities Seminar,
Méabh Ní Fhuartháin (2012) ‘In Fleadh time: Festivity and symbolic composition in Ireland of the 1950s’. [Invited Lecture], Transcultural Identities Seminar, Dalarna University, Sweden , 21-NOV-12 - 12-NOV-12. [Details] |
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(2012) | Scoil Éigse,
Méabh Ní Fhuartháin (2012) ‘The Flop-Ceoil: Dungarvan and festival expectations, 1957’,. [Invited Lecture], Scoil Éigse, Waterford , 21-JUL-12 - 21-JUL-12. [Details] |
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(2012) | American Conference for Irish Studies,
Méabh Ní Fhuartháin (2012) ‘Complicating music genres: Count John McCormack, the Clancy Brothers and inventing the popular’. [Chaired Session], American Conference for Irish Studies, New Orleans , 14-MAR-12 - 17-MAR-12. [Details] |
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(2011) | EFACIS Irish Studies Graduate Seminar,
Méabh Ní Fhuartháin (2011) Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Ēireann: Tradition and Identity, 1951-1972’. [Chaired Session], EFACIS Irish Studies Graduate Seminar, KU Leuven , 06-SEP-11 - 08-SEP-11. [Details] |
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(2011) | Ireland, Masculinity, And Popular Culture, 1990 -2010: A Multidisciplinary Conference,
Méabh Ní Fhuartháin (2011) Oh Me, Oh My: Reviving Joe Dolan. [Chaired Session], Ireland, Masculinity, And Popular Culture, 1990 -2010: A Multidisciplinary Conference, NUI Galway , 14-OCT-11 - 15-OCT-11. [Details] |
Encyclopedia Entry
Year | Publication | |
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(2013) | ‘Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem’, ‘Liam Clancy’, ‘Comhaltas Ceoltoirí Éireann’, ‘Copley Records’, ‘Fleadh Cheoil’, ‘Earl Gill’, ‘Ray Lynam’, ‘Daniel O’Donnell’, ‘Joe Dolan’, ‘Gerry Smith’, ‘Hot House Flowers’, ‘IMRO’, ‘Seán Ó Sé’, ‘Johnny Duhan’, ‘Johnny McEvoy’, ‘Christy Moore’, ‘Ruby Murray’, ‘Dermot O’Brien’ and ‘Brendan Shine’.
Méabh Ní Fhuartháin (2013) ‘Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem’, ‘Liam Clancy’, ‘Comhaltas Ceoltoirí Éireann’, ‘Copley Records’, ‘Fleadh Cheoil’, ‘Earl Gill’, ‘Ray Lynam’, ‘Daniel O’Donnell’, ‘Joe Dolan’, ‘Gerry Smith’, ‘Hot House Flowers’, ‘IMRO’, ‘Seán Ó Sé’, ‘Johnny Duhan’, ‘Johnny McEvoy’, ‘Christy Moore’, ‘Ruby Murray’, ‘Dermot O’Brien’ and ‘Brendan Shine’. Encyclopedia Entry [Details] |
Invited Lectures
Year | Publication | |
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(2017) | Recouperating the Reverend Dr. Henebry: Cultural revival, language and music.
Méabh Ní Fhuartháin (2017) Recouperating the Reverend Dr. Henebry: Cultural revival, language and music. Invited Lectures [Details] |
Online Multimedia
Year | Publication | |
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(2014) | 'The Henebry-O’Neill Wax Cylinder Collection’.
Ní Fhuartháín, Méabh (2014) 'The Henebry-O’Neill Wax Cylinder Collection’. Online Multimedia [Details] |
Pamphlet
Year | Publication | |
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(2018) | • Chronicles of Comhaltas: Narrating Authority in Irish Traditional Music, 1951-1971.
Méabh Ní Fhuartháin (2018) • Chronicles of Comhaltas: Narrating Authority in Irish Traditional Music, 1951-1971. Cork: Pamphlet [Details] |
Honours and Awards
Year | Title | Awarding Body | |
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2009 | Graduate Fellowship in Irish Studies, NUI Galway | NUI Galway | |
2006 | Government of Ireland Graduate scholarship | IRCHSS | |
2006 | Erasmus Teaching Staff Scholar Exchange | Erasmus |
Professional Associations
Association | Function | From / To | |
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ICTM | Member | / | |
ACIS | member | / | |
British Forum for Ethnomusicology | Member | / | |
Society for Musicology in Ireland | Member | / | |
EFACIS, European Federation for Irish Studies | Member | / |