Rediscovering Celtic Heritage: Musical Legacies across the Irish Sea, Day 2

Rediscovering Celtic Heritage: Musical Legacies across the Irish Sea, Day 2

Trinity Long Room HubDublin 2, Dublin
Friday, Feb 27, 2026 from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm
Overview

Join us for the second day of this symposium! Today's rich selection of papers will take place at the Trinity Long Room Hub.

Rediscovering Celtic Heritage: Musical Legacies across the Irish Sea -- Day 2


This two-day symposium explores how musical identities were shaped and reimagined across the Irish Sea. It aims to foster dialogues between scholarship, performance, and artistic practice, providing a platform for re-examining underrepresented strands of cultural history. Main themes include:

  • Repertoire recovery, editorial practices, and historiographical re-evaluation
  • The careers, contributions, and compositions of female musicians in the Celtic nations
  • The cultivation of cultural identities through music
  • Transnational collaboration and exchange
  • Cross-disciplinary artistic and creative partnerships
  • Approaches to heritage preservation in the twenty-first century through curation and education


On our second day, we welcome a diverse array of sessions:

09.30–11.00: Celticism and Cultural Politics

Celticism and Irishness in Bax

Aidan Thomson, University of Galway


Music from the Celtic Fringe: Celtic Identity and Internal Colonialism in Early Twentieth Century British and Irish Music

Matthew Madeley, University of Birmingham


Publishing Scottish music across the Irish sea at the turn of the 18th to the 19th centuries

Almut Boehme, National Library of Scotland


11.30–12.30: Institutions, Education, and Repertoire Recovery

“Fairies and Music, Gipsies and Flowers”: Music Pedagogy and Performance in the Convent School

Emma Arthur, University of Oxford


14.00–15.00: Transnational Exchange and Networks

Irish–Russian Musical Exchanges in the Long Nineteenth Century: John Field as Cultural Mediator

Stacy Jarvis, University of Birmingham


From Coign to Castletownsend: The Transnational Friendship of Ethel Smyth and Edith Sommerville

Hannah Millington, TU Dublin Conservatoire & Chamber Choir Ireland


15.30–16.30: Beyond Celticism, Pan-Celticism

Ireland Takes It All: the Predominance of Irish traditional themes in European Folk Metal Music

Leandro Pessina, Dundalk Institute of Technology


A “Kiaulliaght Gailckagh,” Or Manx Concert

Stephen Miller


16.45–17.30: Panel Discussion – Critical Reflections, Rediscovering Celtic Heritage

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Join us for our concluding event, in which Trinity College Dublin's students engage us in a beautiful recital of music by Irish composers.

Tickets for Trinity College Dublin Student Recital (7pm) can be found here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trinity-college-dublin-student-recital-tickets-1981018733359

Join us for the second day of this symposium! Today's rich selection of papers will take place at the Trinity Long Room Hub.

Rediscovering Celtic Heritage: Musical Legacies across the Irish Sea -- Day 2


This two-day symposium explores how musical identities were shaped and reimagined across the Irish Sea. It aims to foster dialogues between scholarship, performance, and artistic practice, providing a platform for re-examining underrepresented strands of cultural history. Main themes include:

  • Repertoire recovery, editorial practices, and historiographical re-evaluation
  • The careers, contributions, and compositions of female musicians in the Celtic nations
  • The cultivation of cultural identities through music
  • Transnational collaboration and exchange
  • Cross-disciplinary artistic and creative partnerships
  • Approaches to heritage preservation in the twenty-first century through curation and education


On our second day, we welcome a diverse array of sessions:

09.30–11.00: Celticism and Cultural Politics

Celticism and Irishness in Bax

Aidan Thomson, University of Galway


Music from the Celtic Fringe: Celtic Identity and Internal Colonialism in Early Twentieth Century British and Irish Music

Matthew Madeley, University of Birmingham


Publishing Scottish music across the Irish sea at the turn of the 18th to the 19th centuries

Almut Boehme, National Library of Scotland


11.30–12.30: Institutions, Education, and Repertoire Recovery

“Fairies and Music, Gipsies and Flowers”: Music Pedagogy and Performance in the Convent School

Emma Arthur, University of Oxford


14.00–15.00: Transnational Exchange and Networks

Irish–Russian Musical Exchanges in the Long Nineteenth Century: John Field as Cultural Mediator

Stacy Jarvis, University of Birmingham


From Coign to Castletownsend: The Transnational Friendship of Ethel Smyth and Edith Sommerville

Hannah Millington, TU Dublin Conservatoire & Chamber Choir Ireland


15.30–16.30: Beyond Celticism, Pan-Celticism

Ireland Takes It All: the Predominance of Irish traditional themes in European Folk Metal Music

Leandro Pessina, Dundalk Institute of Technology


A “Kiaulliaght Gailckagh,” Or Manx Concert

Stephen Miller


16.45–17.30: Panel Discussion – Critical Reflections, Rediscovering Celtic Heritage

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Join us for our concluding event, in which Trinity College Dublin's students engage us in a beautiful recital of music by Irish composers.

Tickets for Trinity College Dublin Student Recital (7pm) can be found here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trinity-college-dublin-student-recital-tickets-1981018733359

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