Heading to the Fleadh: Festival, Cultural Revival and Irish Traditional Music 1951-1969 - Méabh Ní Fhuartháin

Ní Fhuartháin, Méabh: - Méabh Ní Fhuartháin is Head of Irish Studies at the Centre for Irish Studies, University of Galway, specializing in Irish Music and Dance Studies. Méabh has contributed articles and reviews to a variety of journals and was also Popular Music subject editor of the landmark  Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland  (UCD Press, 2012). She co-edited a special issue of  Éire-Ireland : An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies (2019) and also, the special issue on 'Women and traditional/folk music' in  Ethnomusicology Ireland  (March, 2021). Currently editor of  Ethnomusicology Ireland , recent publications include research on commemorative representations of Ireland through music; pop music and emigration; masculinities and Irish popular music; dance genealogies in Galway, and institutionalisation of traditional music and dance in Ireland.