Flowing Tides: History and Memory in an Irish Soundscape | Gearoid ÓhAllmhuráin | 2017 lecture

In the summer of 2017, Concordia University's professor Gearoid ÓhAllmhuráin was invited to the Library of Congress to launch his book "Flowing Tides: History and Memory in an Irish Soundscape" (2016, Oxford University Press) The lecture was well attended and concluded with a short concert and reception.
"Groundbreaking work from the Ennis man who managed to map the evolution of musical tradition in Clare since the beginning of recorded acoustemological time, taking us through an earthquake said in the Annals of the Four Masters to have struck the county in 804, towards Napoleonic Europe’s legacy of military spectacle, and into the post-Celtic Tiger period of media moguls.
"The attention to detail over which the author casts his “broad analytical net” is astonishing. His elliptical reflections over the changing Irish soundscape almost have the effect of reducing history itself to a flowing tide, paving the way all the way for a most relevant citation of Paul Valéry who once remarked in poetry that we tend to enter the future in reverse (“nous entrons dans l’avenir”)." *
* Excerpt from The Irish Times review by Seaghan Mac an tSionnaigh's (February 1 2018)
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ABOUT Flowing Tides: History and Memory in an Irish Soundscape
(author Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin) global.oup.com...
• The first study to combine historical research with the contemporary voices of oral music historians
• Presents an insider perspective on the music and history of Clare, Ireland
• Based on thirty years of fieldwork in Ireland and among Irish diasporic communities in the United States and Britain
• Introduces new theories of cultural flow to Irish traditional music history and advances the existing literature of Irish/Celtic music studies
• Features the stories of women musicians who are frequently overlooked
ABOUT THE AUTHOR : drgearoid.com/
Professor Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin is an international Irish author, academic, film maker, multi-instrumentalist and trilingual cultural historian specializing in Irish emigration, traditional music, memory and global diaspora.
Active on the music and academic circuit, Gearóid has presented over 1,000 concerts, film screenings and lectures throughout Europe and North America.
Residing in Canada since 2009, Dr ÓhAllmhuráin is the Director of the School of Irish Studies at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec Canada. From 2000-09, he was the Jefferson Smurfit Chair of Irish Studies at the University of St Louis-Missouri.
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He is also the writer and director of Lost Children of the Carricks, a 2021 documentary of the Kavanagh family from County Sligo who immigrated on the famine ship Carricks that shipwrecked off Canada's eastern St Laurence, near Gaspé
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