Triona Ni Shiochain

Tríona Ní Shíocháin is Head of the School of English, Media, and Creative Arts and Established Professor of Music and Performing Arts at the University of Galway. She formerly held the positions of Professor of Modern Irish and Performing Arts and Head of the School of Celtic Studies at Maynooth University, prior to which she was Head of the Department of Music at UCC, where she lectured in Irish Traditional Music. An interdisciplinary scholar of Music and Irish, and a whistle-player, sean-nós singer, and set-dancer, she specialises in oral theory, performance theory, Irish traditional music, song, and dance, and women oral composers from the 17th to the 19th centuries. Her current research focuses on Irish-language artistic research, creative practice, Irish-language feminist and gender studies, hidden histories of womens thought and subjugated knowledges in song and lament, and the symbiosis between embodiment, vocality, and style in Irish traditional music. She is author of Singing Ideas: Performance, Politics and Oral Poetry (Berghahn 2018, 2021) and Bláth s Craobh na nÚdar: Amhráin Mháire Bhuí (Coiscéim 2012), and co-edited Léachtaí Cholm Cille 53: Léann Feimineach agus Inscne na Gaeilge (Irish-language feminist and gender studies) (An Sagart 2023) with Prof. Máire Ní Annracháin. Tríona is a member of the steering committee of IMBAS an Irish Forum for Arts Practice Researchers and Artists.