Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin | |
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Born |
Ennis, County Clare, Ireland | May 28, 1955
Nationality | Irish |
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Discipline | Musicology |
Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin (born 28 May 1955) is an Irish ethnomusicologist, author, musician and historian specialising in Irish music, diaspora, cultural and memory studies. [1]
Born in Ennis, County Clare, Ó hAllmhuráin was a former member of The Kilfenora Céilí Band. He is a five-times All Ireland Champion musician ( uilleann pipes, concertina and céili band). He learned from Clare concertina master Paddy Murphy. [2] He has performed and recorded with noted Irish fiddlers Paddy Canny, Peadar O'Loughlin, Martin Hayes, and Patrick Ourceau, as well as French-Canadian fiddle master Pierre Schryer.
Ó hAllmhuráin studied at University College Cork, Trinity College Dublin, Université de la Sorbonne (Paris IV), Université de Toulon et du Var, and received a PhD in social anthropology and ethnomusicology from Queen's University Belfast in 1990, where he studied with John Blacking. [3] From 2000–2009, he was Jefferson Smurfit Professor of Irish Studies and Professor of Music at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
Since 2009, he is the inaugural holder of the Johnson Chair in Quebec and Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. [4] One of only a handful of universities offering a Major, Minor and Certificate in Irish Studies, the School of Canadian Irish Studies courses focus on Ireland's history and culture, its modern transformation in the Celtic Tiger era, and the social, cultural, economic, religious, educational and political contributions of Irish immigrants to Canada. The Johnson Chair focuses on the contributions of Quebecers of Irish origin to the social, cultural, religious and economic evolution of Quebec. [5]
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Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin | |
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Born |
Ennis, County Clare, Ireland | May 28, 1955
Nationality | Irish |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Musicology |
Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin (born 28 May 1955) is an Irish ethnomusicologist, author, musician and historian specialising in Irish music, diaspora, cultural and memory studies. [1]
Born in Ennis, County Clare, Ó hAllmhuráin was a former member of The Kilfenora Céilí Band. He is a five-times All Ireland Champion musician ( uilleann pipes, concertina and céili band). He learned from Clare concertina master Paddy Murphy. [2] He has performed and recorded with noted Irish fiddlers Paddy Canny, Peadar O'Loughlin, Martin Hayes, and Patrick Ourceau, as well as French-Canadian fiddle master Pierre Schryer.
Ó hAllmhuráin studied at University College Cork, Trinity College Dublin, Université de la Sorbonne (Paris IV), Université de Toulon et du Var, and received a PhD in social anthropology and ethnomusicology from Queen's University Belfast in 1990, where he studied with John Blacking. [3] From 2000–2009, he was Jefferson Smurfit Professor of Irish Studies and Professor of Music at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
Since 2009, he is the inaugural holder of the Johnson Chair in Quebec and Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. [4] One of only a handful of universities offering a Major, Minor and Certificate in Irish Studies, the School of Canadian Irish Studies courses focus on Ireland's history and culture, its modern transformation in the Celtic Tiger era, and the social, cultural, economic, religious, educational and political contributions of Irish immigrants to Canada. The Johnson Chair focuses on the contributions of Quebecers of Irish origin to the social, cultural, religious and economic evolution of Quebec. [5]
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