Méabh Ní Fhuartháin

Dr Méabh Ní Fhuartháin is a lecturer at the Centre for Irish Studies, University of Galway, specializing in Irish Music and Dance Studies and also is Director of Undergraduate Programmes in Irish Studies. Most recently, Méabh has published a monograph, Heading to the Fleadh: Festival, Cultural Revival and Traditional Music, 1951-1969. She has contributed articles and reviews to a wide variety of journals and was also a subject editor in Popular Music for the landmark Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland (UCD Press, 2013). She co-edited a special issue of Éire-Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies, titled Nótaí-Notes: Music and Ireland (2019) and the special issue Women and Traditional/Folk Music in Ethnomusicology Ireland (2021). Méabh is particularly interested in the institutionalisation of musical revival in Ireland during the twentieth century, and popular music studies. Published articles/chapters include work on the commemorative representations of Ireland through music; pop music and emigration; masculinities and Irish popular music; dance genealogies in Galway and the institutionalisation of traditional music and dance in Ireland. Méabh welcomes expressions of interest in these and cognate areas of research for doctoral and post-doctoral projects. 

I research, present and publish work in these areas of interest: traditional Irish music studies; emigration and Irish music; popular music and Ireland; cultural revivalism; performance studies; gender and music in Ireland; and musical theatre.

Below are some of the modules I currently deliver at the University of Galway. Over the course of my career, I have devised and taught modules at undergraduate and gradute level in addition to designing full programme curricula. My teaching has included modules in ethnomusicology, performance theory, musicology, popular music and a wide range of Irish music and dance related courses. Current courses are listed below: 

• IS1100 Emigration and Irish music
• IS2105 Popular musics, cultural identities and Ireland
• IS1105/6 Imagining modern Ireland (co-taught interdisciplinary module)
• IS2100 Music, gender and Ireland
• IS3101 Topics in Irish Music Studies
• IS3103 Independent research project in Irish Studies
• EN1101 Literature in the social world (Contributing lecturer)