Méabh Ní Fhuartháin

Biography

Having completed her undergraduate degrees at UCC under the mentorship of Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Méabh continued her graduate research and teaching at Boston College and Brown University and was awarded the James Carroll Memorial Fellowship and the Father Martin Harney Irish Studies Fellowship for her work in Irish Music and Dance Studies. 

Research Interest

Emigration and Irish music; popular music and Ireland; cultural revivalism; performance studies; and Irish music practice.