Verena Commins

Dr Verena Commins is Lecturer in Irish Music Studies and Academic Coordinator of International customised programmes at the Centre for Irish Studies. She has published widely in the field of Irish music studies and was co-editor of the 2021 special issue of Ethnomusicology Ireland on `Women and TraditionalFolk Music and the special issue of Éire-Ireland: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies on `Music and Ireland (2019).

My research interests are in Irish traditional music, both contemporary and historical performance practices and contexts. This incorporates theoretical and conceptual approaches through the lenses of gender, regionality, tourism, the visual arts, cultural production, emigration, national identity, festival, ritual and commemoration.

Below are some of the modules that I teach,coordinate, designed, teach intoor have previously taught:IS2102 Festival, Ritual, Commemoration IS1100 Music and Emigration IS11056 Imagining modern Ireland (co-taught interdisciplinary module) AR6110: Investigating Landscapes MU1101 Traditional Music in Ireland, 1792 to the new millennium MU2104 Power Hierarchies andIrish Traditional Music IS6106 Tuning the Archive IS122 An introduction to Irish music and dance from 1893 Dissertation Workshop Series: MA in Irish Studies DT205Traditional arts: Festival and Celebration IS302 Irish Studies independent research project SS122 Negotiating identities through Irish music and dance (Irish Studies Summer School)