DkIT Postgraduate Research in Music

The Department of Creative Arts, Media and Music at DkIT offers research degrees in music at both MSc/MA and PhD levels. Research has been at the core of our activities since music was established in DkIT in 2003 and underpins the academic work of the Department. Music was granted Research Centre status in 2009 following a rigorous external research assessment and Ionad Taighde Ceoil was instituted. In 2016 this was replaced by the Creative Arts Research Centre in recognition of the growing potential for interdisciplinary research. The Centre promotes new and emerging areas of research and welcomes multidisciplinary approaches. We have a vibrant body of postgraduate students carrying out research at both Masters and PhD over a wide spectrum of research topics.

Research topics supervised to date by Dr Adèle Commins and Dr Daithí Kearney include:

Mullen, Maurice. 2022. "Return to Fingal": A critical review of the Irish traditional music heritage and music making in North County Dublin. PhD, Dundalk Institute of Technology. https://eprints.dkit.ie/794/1/Maurice%20Mullen%20PhD%20thesis%20Aug22.pdf
Lynn, Christina. 2022. From Isolation to Icons: Three women Artists in Irish Country Music. PhD, Dundalk Institute of Technology. http://eprints.dkit.ie/796/1/Christina%20Lynn%20PhD%20Thesis%202022%20upload.pdf
Murray, Gemma. 2022. A critical evaluation of whole class ensemble teaching in Music Generation Louth’s Introducing Strings programme for schools. Dundalk Institute of Technology.
Kavanagh, Aoife. 2020. Making Music and Making Place: Mapping Musical Practice and Metaphor in Ireland. PhD, Maynooth University. https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/13635/1/KavanaghAPhDFinal.pdf
McAllister, Barra. 2020. Locating One’s Place: A Traditional Musician ‘Of Dublin’. MA, Dundalk Institute of Technology.
Caffrey, Stephanie. 2020. Creating a Signature Sound: A Case Study of Blending Celtic Roots and Aesthetics With Popular Music Production in Albums Recorded by the Corrs. MA, Dundalk Institute of Technology. https://eprints.dkit.ie/731/1/SCaffreyTHESIS.pdf
Crawford, Sylvia. 2019. Towards the Potential Role of a Neglected Eighteenth-Century Harper in Cultural Tourism in the Oriel Region. MA, Dundalk Institute of Technology. http://www.sylviacrawford.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Sylvia-Crawford-MA-thesis.pdf
Ward, Conor. 2018. The fiddle tradition of Thomas Kernan: An analysis of the transmission of a fiddle style in oral and written tradition in South Leitrim and Longford. PhD, Dundalk Institute of Technology. https://eprints.dkit.ie/734/1/Conor%20Ward.pdf
Moley, Ciara. Exploring Festival, Place and Community in Irish Traditional Music. MA. Dundalk Institute of Technology, 2016.
Process and Transformation: Creative Applications of Digital Editing Exemplars in the Music of Aloys Fleischmann (1910-1992). MA by Research. DkIT 2016.
O'Brien, Rachel . Music for Children: A Critical analysis of Practice and Process.MA by Research. DkIT 2017.
McElwain, Seán. Opening Up the Canon of Irish Traditional Music - the Music of the Sliabh Beagh Region. PhD, Dundalk Institute of Technology, 2015.
Casley, Brian. The Role of the Mandolin in Irish Traditional Music. MA, DkIT, 2015.

For further information on research opportunities at Dundalk Institute of Technology, see https://www.dkit.ie/programmes/master-arts-research-music