Research activity
2008 Successful bid for PRTLI-funded post-doctoral fellowship at DkIT, research title: "The interaction of artistic impulse and cultural precedent with technology and popular culture in the globalisation of Irish traditional music, song and dance"
2006 – Richard Henebry – Irish Ethnomusicologist of the early 20th century’ – research at Phonogrammarchiv, Berlin.
2006 Strand 1 award to fund The Shapes of Melody – Music and Movement (completion 2008 11). Researcher, Oisín Mac Diarmada (BA Hons)
2003 03 Observation of Fasnacht flute ritual in Basel, Switzerland
2003-01 Observation of turn-of-year Community flute ritual in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
2002 02 Assessment of fife and drum museum at Ivorytown, Connecticut, USA.
2002 03 Interviews with flute players in Co. Sligo and Mayo.
2001 08 Researching fife and drum social practice at Westbrook, Connecticut, USA;
2001 08 assessing of Dayton Miller Flute Archive at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC., USA.
2001 10 Research and compilation of teaching-learning CD representing all educationally-required elements of Traditional Irish music.
2000 Cultural Commissar of Popular Political Ideology - The Entry Of The Flute To Irish Traditional Music – initiation of research project on flute in political and recreational life.
1995-2002 Compilation of database of performance venues and occasions, and professional service facilities, related to Traditional music in Ireland (for Arts Council of Northern Ireland).
1995 Field trip to Bulgaria to assess Traditional music educational facilities (for Siamsa Tíre, Tralee, Co. Kerry and Co. Cork Vocational Education Committee).
1992 Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia: comparative observations on Scottish Traditional Music In Exile - Its Practice Today.
1991 Bulgaria: investigation of Folk Music teaching structures in first, second and third level education (An Comhairle Ealaíon - Arts Council of Ireland part sponsorship).