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Mon 20 May
Start time: 13:00Research Seminar: Poetic streams, singing, and selfhood: on liminality, creative practice, and power in sean-nós song and oral poetic performance
Location: TS2 Alexander Building, Thornlea, New North Road, Postcode: EX4 4LA Show on MapProfessor Tríona Ní Shíocháin and Dr. Séamus Barra Ó Súilleabháin (aka Súil Amháin
Tríona Ní Shíocháin is an interdisciplinary scholar of Music and Irish, and a whistle-player and singer. She is particularly interested in Irish-language performing arts and oral traditions, Irish traditional music, creative practice, women poet-composers, and histories of thought as represented in Irish-language song and poetry. She will present on her work on the liminality of song, the generation of ideas, and the liquidity of self-hood in sean-nós singing performance.