Daithí and Adèle
Summer Songs, Stories and Speyfest
This summer's blog reflects the two main aspects of our often-overlapping musicking activities – music performance and research. This...
“The unexamined life is not worth living” Socrates
Daithí and Adèle
- Apr 19
Easter Reflections 2022
The division of the year into various cycles has been part of many cultures. Pagan and Christian ideas often overlap and the ancient...
Daithí and Adèle
- Dec 22, 2021
Dulcet December
While so many people have been missing out on live music, one of the advantages of how artists and communities have adapted to the times...
Daithí and Adèle
- Sep 2, 2021
Summer Seeds and Sunshine
In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald writes: "And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as...
Daithí and Adèle
- Apr 1, 2021
Spring in our Steps
We may have slowed down in our blogging for 2021 and while it may reflect a slowdown in our travels and adventures, we have been...
Daithí and Adèle
- Dec 21, 2020
A Solstice Synopsis
The solstice has taken on huge symbolic importance this year as people seek to move again towards a brighter future. Although the skies...
Daithí and Adèle
- Oct 9, 2020
Lockdown Leaps and Legacies
Despite maintaining a near monthly blog before March 2020, we have neglected it over the past six months as we have adapted to the situation
Daithí and Adèle
- Apr 19, 2020
Springtime Thoughts
‘I’ve travelled more of the world with the light of a penny candle than you have done in all your years of travelling’. Eric Cross, The...
Daithí and Adèle
- Mar 2, 2020
Southbound with the Snowdrops
Although traditionally the first month of Spring, enlivened by the emergence of the snowdrops, February remains Winter’s tail end....
Daithí and Adèle
- Feb 3, 2020
Music Education Matters
For our first blog of 2020, we are enthused to reflect on the 9th Annual Conference of the Society for Music Education, 24-25 January...
Adèle and Daithí
- Dec 17, 2019
Warming Winter Wanderers
Applications, collaborations and deadlines... Adele was in Antwerp, Daithí went to Dublin Castle and the adventures continue.
Adèle and Daithí
- Oct 31, 2019
An EPIC October
October brings great colour and the harvest reflects the rewards of a period of intense hard work. We were delighted to reflect this...
Adèle and Daithí
- Oct 18, 2019
September Soundings
September was a period of intensity as we returned to work at Dundalk Institute of Technology while also engaging in a number of...
Adèle and Daithí
- Sep 6, 2019
All Fleadh'd Out
For the second year running, our nearby town of Drogheda hosted Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann and we were delighted to be stuck in the middle...
Adèle and Daithí
- Aug 9, 2019
From Fochabers to the Fleadh
The Fleadh is nearly here with crowds about to descend on County Louth for a celebration of Irish traditional music, song, dance and...
Adèle and Daithí
- Jul 9, 2019
Summer Songs and Sideways Steps
Collaboration is often key to successful research and can take many forms. Understanding your role in a team and developing relationships...
Adèle and Daithí
- May 7, 2019
A Spring in Our Step
We had a wonderful Springtime of music, research and adventures and are, as always, grateful to the great friends who make it all possible.
Adèle and Daithí
- Apr 8, 2019
Promoting STEAM in Porto – Eclipsing STEM
What have natural disasters, electronic invention kits, vertical farming, and song writing got in common? Confused? Throw into the mix...
Adèle and Daithí
- Feb 28, 2019
Before the Coming of Spring
Cold sunlight glinting on the rocky fields of cloud, The high shrill note of Winter's happy piper Rises and lifts my dreamer far above...
Adèle and Daithí
- Dec 3, 2018
November Notes
November was a month of returning. Graduands returned to DkIT for their special day, Daithí returned to UCC, Youghal and Antwerp, and we...