Publications, Presentations & Lectures

Thesis
Pádraig O’Keeffe and The Sliabh Luachra Fiddle Tradition
, PhD Thesis, University of Limerick, 2006.

Books
The Irish Fiddle Book
, Ossian Publications (in association with Mercier Press), Cork, 1988; Ossian Publications, Cork, 2001.

Irish Session Tunes: The Red Book, Ossian Publications, Cork, 2000.

Monograph
Denis and Julia: The ‘Waivers’ of Gneeveguilla
, Ó Riada Memorial Lecture 1999, Traditional Music Archive / Irish Traditional Music Society, University College Cork, 2003.

Book Chapter
‘Traditional Music’, The Heritage of Ireland, eds. N. Buttimer, H. Guerin & C. Rynne, pp 205–212, Collins Press, Cork, 2000.

Articles
‘The Missus’, The Cork Review, ed. T. Ó Canainn, pp 32–33, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, 1992.

‘Styles of Traditional Fiddle-Playing in the Global Village’, Tableau 2: Futures and Directions, ed. J. O’Reilly, Tableaux Networks,
pp 129–135, Cork RTC, Cork, 1997.

‘The Sliabh Luachra ‘Code’’, Irish Musical Studies Vol. 4, Selected Proceedings from The Maynooth International Musicological Conference 1995, eds. P. Devine and H. White, pp 343–353, Four Courts Press, Dublin, 1996.

‘The rhythmic dimension in fiddle-playing as the music moves to newer performing and learning contexts’, in Driving the Bow: Fiddle and Dance Studies from around the North Atlantic 2, eds. I. Russell and M. A. Alburger, pp 121–134, Elphinstone Institute, University of Edinburgh, 2008.

‘Paddy Cronin: Musical Influences on a Sliabh Luachra Fiddle Player in the United States’, Journal of the Society for American Music, vol. 4, no. 4, pp 475–490, 2010.

Conference & Seminar Presentations
‘Features of Bowing in the Sliabh Luachra Fiddle Style’, Irish World Music Centre Seminar, University of Limerick, 7 March 1996.

‘My Mind Will Never Be ‘Aisy’’, Crosbhealach an Cheoil 1996 – The Crossroads Conference, Dublin, 19–21 April 1996.

‘Hidden Aspects of Double-stopping in Fiddle-Playing’. Irish World Music Centre Seminar, University of Limerick, 14 November 1996.

‘‘Farewell to Ireland’: Influences on a Sliabh Luachra Musician in America’, British Forum for Ethnomusicology ‘Diasporas’ Conference, University of Limerick, 21–23 March 1997.

‘Learning Styles (Styles of Learning)’, Irish World Music Centre Seminar, University of Limerick, 27 March 1997.

‘Rhythms and Repertoire of the Sliabh Luachra Style’, The Seán Ó Riada International Conference, University College Cork,
6 March 1998.

‘The Twin Fiddles of Denis Murphy & Julia Clifford: Unison and ‘Harmony’’, Irish World Music Centre Seminar, University of Limerick,
11 March 1998.

‘Paddy Cronin: From Sliabh Luachra to Boston and Back’, Irish World Music Centre Seminar, University of Limerick, 10 November 1999.

‘Paddy Jones: In the tradition of Pádraig O’Keeffe’, Irish World Music Centre Seminar, University of Limerick, 12 December 2001.

‘Learning and Teaching ‘Outside the Tradition’’, Crosbhealach an Cheoil 2003 – The Crossroads Conference, University of Ulster, Derry, 25– 27 April, 2003.

‘Is the rhythmic dimension in fiddle-playing being over-looked as the performing and learning environments change?’ North Atlantic Fiddle Convention (NAFCo2006), University of Aberdeen, Scotland, 29 July 2006.

‘Temporal Dynamics and Tune-Type Identity’, 4th Annual Research Colloquium, Dundalk Institute of Technology, 24 May 2007.

‘In Remembrance of Dance Master Joe O’Donovan’, discussion panelist with K. Jordan & P. Keating, Catskills Irish Arts Week,
East Durham, NY, 15 July 2008.

‘Influences on a Sliabh Luachra musician in Boston’, North Atlantic Fiddle Convention (NAFCo2008), Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, 7 August 2008.

‘IMAAS: Interactive Music Archive Access System’, joint presentation with D. FitzGerald, International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) Ireland Annual Conference, University College Dublin, 27 February 2009.

‘‘It’s all in the bowing’: Pádraig O’Keeffe’s fiddle manuscripts’, Fiddle Symposium, Queens University Belfast, 23 April 2010.

‘Preservation of Traditional Irish Music From O’Neill To Fleischmann’, discussion panelist with L. McCullough & P. De Grae, Irish Books Art and Music (iBAM!), Irish American Heritage Center, Chicago, 13 Nov 2011.

Encyclopaedia Contributions
Various contributions, The Companion to Irish Traditional Music, ed. F. Vallely, Cork University Press, Cork, 1e 1999, 2e 2011.

‘The Fiddle’, Encyclopaedia of Ireland, ed. B. Lawlor, pp 386–387, Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 2003.

Various contributions, Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland, UCD Press, in preparation.

Reviews
‘The Irish Music Manuscripts of Edward Bunting (1773–1843)’, book by Collette Moloney, Béaloideas, eds. S. Ó Catháin and
R. Uí Ógáin, pp 244–245, An Cumann le Béaloideas Éireann, vol. 70, Baile Átha Cliath, 2002.

‘Dusk till Dawn’, CD by Charlie Lennon and Johnny Óg Connolly, The Journal of Music in Ireland, ed. T. Quinn, Journal of Music in Ireland, vol. 3, no. 5, pp 28–29, 2003.

Guest Lectures (selected)
The Legacy of Pádraig O’Keeffe,
Joyce Brothers School, Kilfinane, Co. Limerick, 6 September 1997.

Traditional Irish Music, Music Network ‘Music for Pleasure’ series, St. John’s Arts Centre, Listowel, Co. Kerry, 4 November 1997.

The Music of Sliabh Luachra, Waterford Institute of Technology, 3 March 1998.

The Music of Paddy Cronin, Willie Clancy Summer School, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare, 7 July 1998.

Styles of Irish Fiddle-Playing, Feakle Traditional Festival, Co. Clare, 8 August 1998

Denis and Julia: The ‘Waivers’ of Gneeveguilla, Seán Ó Riada Memorial Lecture, University College Cork, 29 January 1999.

Irish Music: The Instrumental Tradition, Spring Weekend of Irish Music at Ballymaloe House, Co. Cork, 6 March 1999.

Styles of Irish Traditional Fiddle-playing in the Global Village, South Sligo Summer School, Tubbercurry, Co. Sligo, 11 July 2000.

Irish Fiddle Styles, Milwaukee Irish Fest Summer School, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 15 August 2001.

The Traditional Music of Sliabh Luachra: Ireland’s Mount Helicon, Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens, Goulandris-Horn Foundation, Athens, 6 September 2001.

Styles of Irish Fiddle-Playing, Boston College, 12 March 2002.

Making Music of the Written Note, St. Patrick’s Training College, Dublin, 19 November 2004.

Issues of Interpretation in the Playing of Slow Airs, St. Patrick’s Training College, Dublin, 10 December 2004.

The Changing Face of Irish Music, Boston College, 1 March 2005.

The Performance of Irish Traditional Music, Stonehill College, Easton, MA, 2 March 2005

Denis Murphy and Julia Clifford, Catskills Irish Arts Week, East Durham, NY, 12 July 2005.

The Sliabh Luachra ‘Code’: Hidden Cultural Treasure, Cork Folk Festival, Crawford Gallery, 3 September 2005.

Musical Codes: An Irish Experience, ArtsFest, Cork Institute of Technology, 7 November 2005.

The Music of Sliabh Luachra, Catskills Irish Arts Week, East Durham, NY, 13 July 2006.

Pádraig O’Keeffe: The Sliabh Luachra Fiddler Master, radio talk, Lyric FM, 17 May 2007.

The Illuminating Manuscripts of Pádraig O’Keeffe, Francis Roche Memorial Lecture, Blas Summer School, University of Limerick,
2 July 2007.

Paddy Cronin – His Life and Music, Catskills Irish Arts Week, East Durham, NY, 18 July 2007.

Bowing Dynamics in the Idiomatic Performance of Irish Traditional Music, MIT, Boston, 22 October 2007.

Ceol agus an Teicneolaíocht, Cumann na nInnealtóirí (Engineers Ireland), Dublin, 7 February 2008.

Learning and Teaching ‘Outside the Tradition’, Blas Summer School, University of Limerick, 26 June 2008.

The Musical Heartbeat of Sliabh Luachra, Duhallow Festival, Kanturk, Co. Cork, 17 September 2008.

The Rhythms of Sliabh Luachra, O’Flaherty Irish Music Retreat, Midlothian, Texas, 25 October 2008.

Séamus Creagh, radio lecture, Raidio na Gaeltachta, 13 October 2011.

Hearing the individual in traditional music: Pádraig O’Keeffe, University of Newcastle, England, 17 October 2011.

Séamus Creagh: In the great Sliabh Luachra tradition, Pádraig O’Keeffe Festival, Castleisland, Co. Kerry, 29 October 2011.

Joint Publications (selected)
FitzGerald, D., Cranitch, M., and Coyle, E., ‘Shifted Non-negative Matrix Factorisation for Sound Source Separation’, Proceedings of the IEEE conference on Statistics in Signal Processing, Bordeaux, France, July 2005.

FitzGerald, D., Cranitch, M., and Coyle, E., ‘Generalised Prior Subspace Analysis for Polyphonic Pitch Transcription’, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFX05), Madrid September 2005.

FitzGerald, D., Cranitch, M., and Cychowski, M.T., ‘Towards an Inverse Constant Q Transform’, 120th AES Convention, Paris,
May 2006.

FitzGerald, D., Cranitch, M., and Coyle, E., ‘Shifted 2D Non-negative Tensor Factorisation’, Proceedings of the Irish Signals and Systems Conference, Dublin, June 2006.

FitzGerald, D., Cranitch, M., and Coyle, E., ‘Sound Source Separation using shifted Non-negative Tensor Factorisation’, Proceedings of ICASSP06, Toulouse France, 2006.

FitzGerald, D., Cranitch, M., & Coyle E., ‘Resynthesis Methods for Sound Source Separation using Shifted Non-negative Factorisation Models’, Proceedings of the Irish Signals and Systems Conference, Dublin, 2007

Hart, M., FitzGerald, D. & Cranitch, M. ‘Key Signature Estimation’, Proceedings of the Irish Signals and Systems Conference, 2007

FitzGerald, D., Cranitch, M., and Coyle, E., ‘Extended Nonnegative Tensor Factorisation Models for Musical Sound Source Separation’, Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, Hindawi Publishing Corp, 2008.

FitzGerald, D., Cranitch, M., and Coyle, E., ‘Using Tensor Factorisation Models to Separate Drums from Polyphonic Music’, Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFX09), Como, Italy, 2009.