Past Events
Melbourne – Monash University Guest Paper
Fintan Vallely: ‘The Irish drum – stone-age innovation in the digital age’, guest paper at Monash University, Melbourne, Research and Work-in-Progress seminars.
Read MoreFéile John McGrath, Westport, lecture – the flute in Ireland
Fintan Vallely: ‘From battlefield to boreen, Basel to Ballymoe: How the wooden flute was colonised by Ireland’, Guest lecture to Féile John McGrath, Westport.
Read MoreGuest Lecture at Cruinniú na bhFliút, Coolea, Co. Cork.
Fintan Vallely ‘The Gentleman, the Jig, and the Gibbet: Flute phases of Irish History’. Guest lecture to Cruinniú na bhFliút, Coolea, Co. Cork. http://flutemeet.blogspot.com/
Read MoreSecond Conference on Irish Traditional Music – Crosbhealach an Cheoil 2003
A 2003 conference that concerned itself with the assessment and provision of Traditional music education at all levels from the practical to the academic, throughout the island of Ireland and abroad.
Read MoreFirst Conference on Irish Traditional Music – Crosbhealach an Cheoil 1996
Croisbhealach an Cheoil (the Crossroads Conference) was the first ever conference called to debate the issues of ‘tradition’ and ‘change’ in the world of Irish traditional music.
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