Webinar: Anna Falkenau , “Hotspots’ for Revival Sessions” – Irish Studies Seminar Series

Irish Studies Seminar Series, in association with the Moore Institute, NUI Galway.

Anna Falkenau (Freyer-Hardiman Scholar, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway), “‘Hotspots’ for Revival Sessions”: Micro and macro flows in the emergence and development of Galway City into an urban centre of Irish traditional music-making.

Join us for our first Spring Seminar in Irish Studies with NUI Galway doctoral scholar Anna Falkenau who will speak on her current research on the relationship between urban spaces and traditional Irish music-making in Galway. We are delighted to have An tOllamh Lillis Ó Laoire (Gaeilge, OÉ Gaillmh) join us as well in the zoom room afterwards, as a respondent to this session, chaired by Dr Nessa Cronin (Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway). For further information please contact: nessa.cronin@nuigalway.ie

Attendance

Zoom registration link for seminar attendees is available here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jDXWMp45R-2q2-2OKUQBpQ. The session will be live-streamed on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/mooreinstitute/live

About the Speaker

A recipient of a Freyer-Hardiman scholarship from NUI Galway, Anna Falkenau is currently conducting doctoral research at the Centre for Irish Studies on local and global flows in the development of Irish traditional music in Galway City between 1961 and 1981. She previously received her Master of Arts in Music from Wesleyan University, Connecticut, USA (2004) and graduated from University College Cork (BMus, 2002). She is a contributor to the forthcoming book Hardiman and after: Galway Culture and Society, 1820-2020 with a core chapter entitled, “‘It was in the Air’: Irish Traditional Music in Galway, 1960-1979,” edited by John Cunningham and Ciaran McDonagh.