Deadline coming up soon for our fabulous RMA Book Prizes (deadline 15 June) RMA Monograph Prize, sponsored by Cambridge University Press £500 in books RMA Edited Collection Book Prize, sponsored by Cambridge University Press £500 in books www.rma.ac.uk/grants-award...

Registration has now opened (through Eventbrite) for SMI's 23rd annual plenary conference (Dublin, 19-21 May). Details at musicologyireland.com/events/confe...

I might be most excited about the chapter on Ethel Smyth’s late work The Prison. This is the first comprehensive analysis of the work. Smyth adapts a metaphysical story from her close friend Henry Brewster.

More #EthelSmyth excitement from Liverpool! 🥳

Lovely to see these beauties bloom. ❤️

Sennen beach looking lovely this morning! ☀️

A room with a view. 🧡🐶🌊

I found the original manuscript of Ethel Smyth's Mass in D safely held in the Special Collections & Archives of the University of Liverpool. Thanks to @livunilibrary.bsky.social @leahbroad.bsky.social @hannahmillington.bsky.social & @dramyzigler.bsky.social! www.liverpool.ac.uk/music/news/s...

An exciting week for Smyth scholarship! Congratulations to @lisacolton.bsky.social on her discovery of Smyth’s Mass in D original manuscript score! 🎉🥳

“Crisis in academia: ‘I love research, but I don’t see any security or stability in it’.” www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

A few signs of spring. 🌱

Super article from Katherine Rundell in the LRB. ‘…it will always be worth teaching children to rejoice. It will always be worth showing them how to build an internal blueprint for happiness. Nothing about being alive demands joy. But, over and over, the great children’s books insist on it…’

Just 3 days remain to submit your proposal for *The Expansive Canvas*! This international conference & symposium invites us to explore the large-scale forms of women composers in the long 19th century—through scholarship, performance, industry perspectives, & music education.

Dappled light and birdsong - Our Ancient English Bluebell Woodland in Spring The most extraordinary euphoria envelops me each April Its promise sustains me in Winter, and enthrals me with its memories all Summer I will cherish our woodland until my dying day

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...

Struggling to balance #academiclife with healthy #sleep habits? Whether it’s a well-timed nap or pausing the grant writing, this guide by @sydneyuni.bsky.social sleep expert, Chin Moi Chow, will help you reclaim your full eight hours: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/why-a... #health #wellbeing

👋 CMC Ireland has joined Bluesky! CMC is the archive and resource centre for Contemporary Music, supporting artists working in New Music throughout the island of Ireland. Supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. #cmcireland #contemporarymusicIRL

RIP Ita Beausang. An appreciation of our esteemed colleague's life's work, written by John O'Flynn, is available at musicologyireland.com/RIP_Ita_Beau...

Registration has opened for the joint SMI and ICTMD-IE Postgraduate Conference (Trinity College Dublin, 16-17 January). Register now at the Eventbrite link given at musicologyireland.com/events/confe...

🎞️Premiere "Placeholder: music and musings on practice spaces" Come join us for the screening and discussion of Placeholder, a short film that examines DIY music and the importance and precarity of practice spaces in Ireland, 4pm in Trapdoor@UCD on Friday, 24 Jan Tix: placeholderfilm.eventbrite.com

Just 2 weeks left to send a proposal to The Expansive Canvas! You can hear myself and Denise Neary, co-chair of the event, chat about it here: youtube.com/watch?v=QoM-.... With thanks to the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute Royal Irish Academy of Music

We're delighted to host the 2025 SMI/ICTMD Ireland Postgraduate Conference at Trinity College Dublin, 16-17 January. A stunning program of presentations, concerts, & a roster of award ceremonies that will be full of festive celebration. Registration is now open at www.eventbrite.ie/.../smiictmd....

Our woodland will soon look like this again Full of bluebells, sun, but also shivelight and shadowtackle Fast changing shafts of sunlight piercing or filtering through foliage and the canopy of a wood The words were created by the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1888

Looking forward to our Christmas concert tonight at Whitefriar St Church, Dublin 2! 🎄 Join us for a festive programme and legendary raffle in aid of Focus Ireland. Tickets: LaetareChristmas2024.eventbrite.ie.

Thrilled to announce Call for Participation for The Expansive Canvas: Large-Scale Form in the Music of 19th C Women Composers | 26–28/8/2025. Hosted by TCD Dept of Music, RIAM & @tlrhub.bsky.social Calling PERFORMERS, SCHOLARS & INDUSTRY LEADERS expansivecanvas.com