Essays on Music, Politics and Resistance

Helen Lawlor is a music lecturer at TU Dublin Conservatoire, Ireland, and an expert in Irish harp scholarship. She authored “Irish Harping, 1900‒2010” and co-edited “Harp Studies: Perspectives on the Irish Harp” and “Harp Studies: World Harp Traditions”. Her work appears in “The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland”, “Sonus”, and other journals. She is the executive editor of the “Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland”, an advisory board member of the Irish Musical Studies series, and secretary of Performance Research Ireland. Helen holds a PhD in music from University College Dublin, Ireland, and specialises in traditional Irish harp research and performance.

Adrian Scahill is a lecturer in Irish traditional music at Maynooth University, Ireland. He was the subject editor for traditional music in “The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland” and frequently reviews for the “Journal of Music”. His research focuses on music in the Gaelic Revival, the album in Irish traditional music, and contemporary approaches to folk and traditional music.