Join us on Monday 9 February for our next seminar of term! Emma Arthur @emmaarthur.bsky.social will speak on “Fairies and Music, Gipsies and Flowers”: Music Pedagogy and Performance in the Nineteenth-Century Convent School. 11am at Magdalen College Sophia Sheppard Room & online. All very welcome!

Excited to be presenting a paper as part of the @histchildoxford.bsky.social seminar this term!

We're excited to share this term's seminar programme starting 26 January at Magdalen College & online! We can't wait to hear from all our speakers and to explore different disciplinary approaches to histories of childhood. Looking forward to seeing you soon!

It was great to present some of my research at the British Forum of Ethnomusicology/ Royal Musical Association’s Postgraduate conference hosted by the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire of Music! Such a lovely opportunity to engage with Postgrad friends old and new!

It was such a joy to be apart of the student committee for the AHRC International Conference which took place at Queen's College, Oxford this week! The conference brought together graduate students from the Open University, Oxford, Cambridge and seven international partner universities

It was such a joy to be back in Dublin for The Expansive Canvas - large scale forum in the music of 19th-century women composers hosted at @tcddublin.bsky.social and RIAM. A truly stimulating and inspiring three days of round tables, papers and performances!

This week I attended the 14th Biennial International Music in 19th century Britain Conference at the University of York. In addition to presenting a paper, I also chaired a fantastic panel on Female Singers featuring papers by @rosiecameronn.bsky.social and Jamison Hankins 📚🎶

It was a joy to be back in my alma mater UCD School of Music, for a special symposium and concert marking the retirement of my former supervisor (and forever mentor) Professor Harry White as Chair of Music.

Such a joy to present on my research on bound song books in Irish country houses at the @historicirishho.bsky.social international conference yesterday!

I was delighted to attend a fantastic study day on ‘Sound and the Country House’ hosted by Jon Stobart at @manmetuni.bsky.social with a keynote by Jeanice Brooks. Such a great day chatting about music and sound in historic houses!

Myself and my fellow committee members are excited to share the call for papers for the upcoming AHRC International Student Conference which will take place in Oxford in September. The CFP can be found here: www.oocdtp.ac.uk/borders-and-...

I had a lovely day presenting a paper entitled ‘Women’s Musical Life in the Irish Country House: Insights from their Bound Music Books’ at the PGECR Country House Group’s annual conference in London yesterday! So many fascinating papers!

Eagerly awaiting BBC Radio 3's broadcast evensong today, coming live from the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford with @mertoncollegechoir.bsky.social and @brittensinfonia.bsky.social 🎻 3pm 🕒 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Looking forward to singing choral evensong on BBC Radio next week with @mertoncollegechoir.bsky.social and @brittensinfonia.bsky.social !!!

I am so excited to be part of Chamber Choir Ireland Studio 2025! I had such a fantastic first weekend working with Eamonn Dougan and CCI singers. Looking forward to our next weekend! 🎶🎶🎶🎶

Call for papers, deadline 31 January 2025. Proposals for the SMI's 23rd annual plenary conference (19–21 June 2025, University College Dublin) are now warmly invited. Full details at musicologyireland.com/events/confe...

We're delighted to announce that Professor Laura Tunbridge has been appointed to the Heather Professorship of Music, with effect from October 2025. www.music.ox.ac.uk/article/prof...

Proposals are invited (deadline 8 November) for the joint SMI and ICTMD-IE postgraduate research conference to be held at Trinity College Dublin on 16-17 January 2025. Details and the call for papers at musicologyireland.com/events/confe...

Proposals are invited (deadline 31 January) for the international conference and collaborative symposium on “The Expansive Canvas: Large-Scale Form in the Music of 19th-Century Women Composers” (Dublin, 26–28 August 2025). Details at expansivecanvas.com