Dates: Thursday 26 - Friday 27 February 2026
Times: TBC
Locations: Department of Music (Boydell Recital Room) and Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute
All symposium events are free and open to the public; all are warmly welcome. Further programme details and registration information will be announced in January.
This two-day international collaborative symposium explores how musical identities were shaped and reimagined across the Irish Sea, with particular focus on the contributions and legacies of female musicians throughout the long nineteenth century.
Held at the Department of Music (Boydell Recital Room) and Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute, it aims to foster dialogues between scholarship, performance, and artistic practice, providing a platform for re-examining underrepresented strands of cultural history.
Through paper presentations, panel discussions, performances, and a guest lecture by Dr Jennifer O’Connor-Madsen (Thursday, 26 February, 4pm, Boydell Recital Room), this symposium will explore:
- Repertoire recovery, editorial practices, and historiographical re-evaluation
- The careers, contributions, and compositions of female musicians in the Celtic nations
- The cultivation of cultural identities through music
- Transnational collaboration and exchange
- Cross-disciplinary artistic and creative partnerships
- Approaches to heritage preservation in the twenty-first century through curation and education
Symposium Committee:
Cheryl Tan (Trinity College Dublin, Chair)
Emma Arthur (University of Oxford)
Orla Flanagan (Trinity College Dublin)
Nicole Grimes (Trinity College Dublin)
James Lea (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama)
Orla Shannon (Royal Irish Academy of Music)
For further information, please email Dr Cheryl Tan (Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Music) at cheryl.tan@tcd.ie.