The Irish World Academy’s seventeenth annual Blas Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance will be officially launched by Ellen Cranitch, presenter of the award-winning programme Gracenotes on RTE lyric fm, …
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The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance provides a space where musicians, dancers, composers, singers, conductors and choreographers explore together.
At the Academy, musicologists and choreologists research alongside live performance...
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The Academy is a unique experience.
It is a place to break new ground, to find your own voice, to rediscover older sounds and gestures or to reinvent received traditions.
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Taught Programmes
The Academy offers a suite of taught undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
These programmes honour the energies of performance and academic reflection across a wide range of genres and disciplines...
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Outreach and Residencies
The taught programmes are informed by community outreach and artists-in-residence.
These initiatives take the Academy into the wider community while attracting a wealth of performance and scholarly expertise into the Academy...
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Research Initiatives
Academy research students debate the history and anthropology of music and dance across many genres and disciplines.
The Academy has taken a global lead in researching the Irish traditional arts of music and dance...
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At the Academy. festivals of music and dance and a series of public seminars, recitals and arts gatherings happen throughout the academic year.
These events give a vibrant relevance to our taught programmes, outreach and research initiatives.
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Donal Lunny, John Carty & Seamus Begley in Concert, Thursday July 4th, 8pm
Theatre One, Irish World Academy, University of Limerick
Three giants of the Irish traditional music scene come together for this special concert at the Irish World Academy, University of Limerick, as part …
Read more »‘Idir Dha Shaol/Between Two Worlds’, an interview/recital with Micheal O Suilleabhain
Tuesday June 25th, 5 pm, Tower Theatre, Irish World Academy. Admission free.
Aine Hensey (of Raidio na Gaeltachta) will conduct an interview with Founder Director of the Irish World Academy, Professor Micheal O Suilleabhain, …
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