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Dr Joanne Cusack Named Recipient of the Harry White Doctoral Prize 2025
The Music Department congratulates Dr Joanne Cusack, who was announced as the winner of the third Harry White Doctoral Prize competition.
Date: Monday, 16 December 2024
MU Chamber Choir celebrates 150 years of Irish Rugby
The Maynooth University Chamber Choir, under Artistic Director Michael T. Dawson, recently performed at the Irish Rugby Football Union's (IRFU) 150th-anniversary celebration, held at the RDS in Dublin.
Date: Wednesday, 04 December 2024
MU researchers win Research Ireland enterprise scheme funding
Three Maynooth University researchers have received awards under Research Ireland's Enterprise Partnership Scheme.
Date: Friday, 20 December 2024
Dr Laura Watson gives guest lecture at Trinity College Dublin
Dr Laura Watson gives a guest lecture at the Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, entitled 'Voices for Choice: Songs of the Repeal and Reproductive Rights Movement.'
Date: Monday, 02 December 2024
Prof Karen Desmond delivers Inaugural Lecture on medieval music
Prof Karen Desmond, an internationally recognised scholar in medieval musicology, delivered her inaugural lecture at Maynooth University, titled "Medieval Parchment Fragments and Musical Reconstruction: Building New Histories of Music for the Later Middle Ages."
Date: Thursday, 21 November 2024
MU names percussionist Ruairí Glasheen as new Artist-in-Residence
Maynooth University's Department of Music is delighted to announce the appointment of award-winning Irish percussionist, composer and filmmaker Ruairí Glasheen as Artist-in-Residence for 2024–25.
Date: Monday, 04 November 2024
Percussionist, Composer, and filmaker Ruairí Glasheen appointed MU Department of Music Artist in Residence 2024-2025
New Artist in Residence 24-25
Date: Tuesday, 22 October 2024
New Article by Music Department PhD Research Student William Kearney
An article by PhD student William Kearney has recently been published in Reconsidering Knowledge Production and Inclusion/Exclusion in Dance Communities.
Date: Monday, 07 October 2024
Dr Laura Watson publishes chapter in new book on Debussy
Dr Laura Watson has recently published a chapter in Debussy in Context.
Date: Friday, 04 October 2024
New chapter published by Dr Laura Watson
Dr Laura Watson has recently published a chapter in The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: the Nineteenth Century and Beyond.
Date: Thursday, 03 October 2024