Research

​My current research interests centre around the sociocultural role of amateur endeavour; in particular, the contribution of musical and operatic societies in Ireland throughout the twentieth-century.

Past Conference Papers
The Campobello 'fiasco': Italian opera and Irish audiences in the late-nineteenth century
Postgraduate Student Research Seminar
Faculty of Business and Humanities, Munster Technological University (online)
18 February 2022

'Oh joy, oh rapture unforeseen': Using microhistory to uncover amateur opera in Ireland
Research Colloquium
Cork School of Music, Munster Technological University (online)
17 June 2021

Amateur Opera in Cork, 1880 - 1918
Postgraduate Student Research Seminar
Faculty of Business and Humanities, Munster Technological University (online)
10 February 2021

Guns and Gondoliers: the formative years of Cork Operatic Society
18th SMI Plenary Conference
University College Dublin (online)
29 - 31 October 2020

Amateurs, the 'Revival' and the Birth of the Modern Irish Musical Society
ICTM-IE / SMI Annual Postgraduate Conference
University of Limerick
17 – 18 January 2020