Irish Singer, Songwriter, and Teacher

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS



  • Keening – A Mourning Ritual For Our Time? (2018) blog in  Histories of Emotion from Medieval Europe to
  • Contemporary Australia, Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions 
  • https://historiesofemotion.com/2018/03/


  • Moving Between Worlds, Death, The Otherworld and Traditional Irish Song’ (2017) chapter 7 in Dell, Helen and Hickey,
  • Helen eds. Singing Death: Reflections on Music and Mortality London, New York: Routledge/Ashgate
  • Mc Laughlin, M. (2001) Singing in Irish Gaelic: A Phonetic Approach to Singing in the Irish Language, suitable for non-Irish Speakers, Milwaukee: Mel Bay Publishing.

Currently working on book “Enchantment and Entrapment in the Irish Song Tradition” (A journey into the Otherworld of Keening and Faerie.)

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