Dr Ann-Marie Hanlon (she/her)
Ann-Marie Hanlon (PhD, Newcastle) is a musicologist with specialisms in cultural theories of music, popular music and French modernism. A Lecturer of Music at the University of Galway, her research in popular music focuses on the area of music and social change, and explores the ways in which music is utilised in a political sense in relation to women’s rights and within queer culture in Ireland and in the U.S..
She was the project lead of Gendered Experiences of the Irish Music Industry (University of Galway, 2023), the first national study on how gender impacts musicians’ day-to-day experiences on the island of Ireland. Her work can be found in a range of publications including in the books The Bloomsbury Handbook to Music and Art (Bloomsbury 2023), Media Narratives in Popular Music (Bloomsbury, 2021), Made in Ireland: Popular Music Studies (Routledge, 2020); and Music, Art and Performance from Liszt to Riot Grrrl (Bloomsbury, 2018).
Dr Daithí Kearney
Ethnomusicologist, geographer and performer Dr Daithí Kearney is a lecturer in music, theatre and tourism and co-director of the Creative Arts Research Centre at Dundalk Institute of Technology. A graduate of University College Cork, his research is primarily focused on Irish traditional music and folk theatre but extends to include performance studies, community music, music education, tourism and the connection between music and place. Daithí has toured regularly as a musician, singer and dancer with a number of groups including Siamsa Tíre, The National Folk Theatre of Ireland, on whom he has published widely. Recordings include A Louth Lilt (2017), an album of new compositions with Dr Adèle Commins, and Midleton Rare (2012) with John Cronin. Publications include contributions to Musicultures, The International Journal for Traditional Arts, Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, Ethnomusicology Ireland, The Yearbook for Traditional Music, Popular Music, Estudios Irlandeses, and the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Daithí is a recipient of a 2023 Bardic Award from Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann. Current research engages with the expression of connections between music and place in performance and the role of music and theatre in the tourism sector.
Colm Kelly(Treasurer)
Christina Lynn (Education Officer)
Anthony Cahill (Membership Officer)
Kaylie Streit (Communications Officer)
Kaylie Streit is finishing a PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology/Musicology at University College Cork and is the Project Coordinator of Inclusive Dance Cork. She is also a music researcher, teacher, and performer who also holds a Master of Arts from University College Cork for her research on creative practices of cellists performing Irish traditional music. Her current research focuses on creative practices, composition in performance, and the relevance of oral/aural traditions and aesthetics as a tool for meaning-making in performances by instrumentalists in contemporary Irish traditional music performance contexts.
