Seán Ó Riada Memorial Lecture 2024 - Prof. Tríona Ní Shíocháin - 08/02/24, Ó Riada Hall, 5:15pm

30 Jan 2024

Happening On 08/02/2024

'Subjugated knowledges and the anonymous woman's voice in sean-nós song'

Tríona Ní Shíocháin is Professor of Modern Irish and Performing Arts and Head of the School of Celtic Studies at Maynooth University, prior to which she served as Head of the Department of Music at UCC, where she lectured in Irish Traditional Music. She is creator and director of the new PhD programme in Irish-language Artistic Research and the MA stream in Irish-language Performing Arts and Oral Traditions at Maynooth University, where she also leads the collaborative Taighde Dána Irish-language arts practice and artistic research symposium. An interdisciplinary scholar of Music and Irish, and a whistle-player, sean-nós singer, and set-dancer, she specialises in oral theory, performance theory, Irish traditional music, song, and dance, and women oral composers from the 17^th to the 19^th centuries. Her current research focuses on Irish-language artistic research, creative practice, Irish-language feminist and gender studies, hidden histories of women’s thought and subjugated knowledges in song and lament, and the symbiosis between embodiment, vocality, and style in Irish traditional music. She is author of Singing Ideas: Performance, Politics and Oral Poetry(Berghahn 2018, 2021) and Bláth ’s Craobh na nÚdar: Amhráin Mháire Bhuí (Coiscéim 2012), and recently co-edited Léachtaí Cholm Cille 53: Léann Feimineach agus Inscne na Gaeilge (Irish-language feminist and gender studies) (An Sagart 2023) with Prof. Máire Ní Annracháin.