Contributors
- Contributors
ADÈLE COMMINS, head of the department of creative arts, media, and music at Dundalk Institute of Technology, has contributed to the The Companion to Irish Traditional Music (2011) and the The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland (2013). Her main research interests lie in nineteenth- and twentieth-century English and Irish music, with a particular focus on the music of Irish-born composer Charles Villiers Stanford. She is also an accomplished musician whose recordings include A Louth Lilt (2016).
VERENA COMMINS, lecturer at the Centre for Irish Studies in NUI Galway, specializes in Irish music studies. Her teaching and research interests center on concepts of revival, commemoration, retraditionalization, and authenticity in the appraisal of Irish traditional-music contexts in Ireland and the diaspora. She has published in a number of journals and edited collections and is currently reexamining aspects of twentieth-century Irish music scholarship, texts, and tune collections from the perspective of gender.
ÉAMONN COSTELLO is an Irish-language teacher in the School of English, Irish, and Communication at the University of Limerick. Éamonn has published reviews for the journals Ethnomusicology and the world of music (new series), and articles for Ethnomusicology Ireland. He is currently working on an edited book on song in Ireland in conjunction with TradSong, a recently established University of Limerick research coterie. Éamonn was the 2016–18 secretary and 2018–19 chair of the International Council for Traditional Music Ireland (ICTM-IE).
AILEEN DILLANE, ethnomusicologist and course director of the M.A. in Irish Music Studies at the University of Limerick, has published numerous articles and chapters on Irish and popular musics and five coedited books, including Songs of Social Protest: International Perspectives (2018). She is a series editor for Popular Musics Matter (Rowman & Littlefield) and is currently completing a monograph on Irish American music focusing on historical and contemporary case studies from Chicago. Aileen is part of a new research project funded by the Humanities in the European Research Area on music festivals, public spaces, and cultural diversity that draws upon her experience as an ethnographer and musician.
ADAM KAUL is professor of anthropology at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. He examined tourism and the socioeconomics of musical performances in Ireland in his 2009 book Turning the Tune: Traditional Music, Tourism, and Social Change in an Irish Village. He also more recently coedited Leisure and Death: An Anthropological Tour of Risk, Death, and Dying (2018), and Tourists and Tourism: A Reader (2018). He is now focusing on the intersection between Swedish immigration, heritage tourism, and the clean-energy economy in a small Illinois village called Bishop Hill.
NIALL MCCORMACK, a freelance designer specializing in music packaging and book design, has curated exhibitions of Irish record-sleeve and book-cover art, including a retrospective of the Dutch-born designer Cor Klaasen (2010) and Green Sleeves: The Irish Printed Record Cover, 1955–2017 (2017), co-curated with Dr. Ciarán Swan. His published essays include "Victor Penney Advertising Artist: Commercial Art in Ireland in the 1930s and 1940s" in Campaign No. 12 (2016) and the introduction to Vintage Values: Classic Pamphlet Cover Design from 20th Century Ireland (2013).
MÉABH NÍ FHUARTHÁIN, head of discipline at the Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway, has contributed articles and reviews to a variety of journals and edited collections in the research area of Irish music and dance studies. She was popular-music editor of the The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland (2013), and her current research projects include work in the area of women and traditional/folk music and a forthcoming monograph on the Fleadh Cheoil. Recent published articles include work on pop music and emigration; masculinities and Irish popular music; and associational Irish music culture.
BARRA Ó SEAGHDHA completed a Ph.D. in 2017 that explores Irish cultural history through classical music in the period 1820 to 1920. Some of these findings have appeared in "A Journey Eastward: Reframing the History of Irish Classical Music" (Ireland, West to East, 2013). Over the years he has contributed essays, interviews, and reviews in the fields of poetry, cultural history, politics, and music to a wide variety of publications, from Graph, the Irish Review, and Reinventing Ireland...
