UL Home Irish World Academy of Music and Dance Past events Past events OCT 15-16 Image 11 am - 2pm UL Open Days: Irish World Academy Showcase OCT 13 Image 1 pm - Sionna Lunchtime Concert: Caroline Keane: ‘Rise’ Album Launch with Tom Delany OCT 08 Image 1 pm - Sionna Lunchtime Concert: Respiro OCT 07 Image 1 pm - Sionna Seminar: The Sound Beyond Imagination OCT 06 Image 1 pm - Sionna Lunchtime Concert: Niamh Parsons and Graham Dunne OCT 01 Image 1 pm - Sionna Lunchtime Concert: The Lute of the Samurai: An Introduction to the Satsumabiwa SEP 30 Image 1 pm - Sionna Seminar: Norwegian Traditional Music and Dance: From Tradition to Contemporary Practice SEP 29 Image 1 pm - Sionna Lunchtime Concert: Na Lochlannaigh: A Concert of Norwegian Traditional Music and Dance SEP 24 Image 1 pm - Sionna Lunchtime Concert: North Indian Classical Music SEP 23 Image 1 pm - Sionna Seminar: The Role of Music in Health and Wellbeing Journeys SEP 22 Image 1 pm - Sionna Lunchtime Concert: Nathan Gourley and Joey Abarta SEP 18 Image 5pm - 6.15pm Culture Night 2026: Harpsichord Haven - A Triple Launch SEP 18 Image 1 pm - Culture Night 2026: A Taste of Trad DEC 04 Image 10:30am - 11:30am Special Event: SOLSTICE Coffee Morning - Corpus Christi Community Choir NOV 27 Image 1:00pm - 2:00pm Lunchtime Concert: MA Contemporary Dance Performance NOV 25 Image 1:00pm - 2:00pm Lunchtime Concert: MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance NOV 21 Image 1:00pm - 2:00pm Special Event: BA Contemporary Dance Performance NOV 19 Image 1:00pm - 2:00pm Special Event: PhD Arts Practice Performance: Sherli Novalinda NOV 13 Image 1:00pm - 2:00pm Special Event: PhD Arts Practice Performance: Naomi Viviene Sander NOV 13 Image 2pm - 5pm Special Event: Archive Talks NOV 10 Image 10:00am - 3:00pm Special Event: NORF Sharing Arts Practice FAIRly symposium and training workshop NOV 06 Image 1:15pm - 2:00pm Lunchtime Concert: Beholding the Burren NOV 03-07 Image Special Event: Samhain Research Event OCT 30 Image 1:15pm - 2:00pm Lunchtime Concert: Chamber Music Performance OCT 29 Image 4:00pm - 5:30pm Tower Seminar: Problematising Proximity: White Nationalist Undercurrents to Irish Traditional Music Practice in Germany OCT 28 Image 1:15pm - 2:00pm Lunchtime Concert: David Vesey OCT 23 Image 1:15pm - 2:00pm Lunchtime Concert: A Woman’s Life and Love OCT 22 Image 4:00pm - 5:30pm Tower Seminar: Performance as Ritual, Ritual as Performance OCT 21 Image 1:15pm - 2:00pm Lunchtime Concert: Ciarán Ó Maonaigh OCT 16-17 Image 10:30am - 2:30pm Special Event: UL Open Days: Irish World Academy Showcase OCT 15 Image 4:00pm - 5:30pm Tower Seminar: Songwriting as a Participatory Method in Migrant Health Research OCT 14 Image 1:15pm - 2:00pm Lunchtime Concert: Méabh Donnelly and Nuala Kennedy with Conal O’Kane OCT 09 Image 1:15pm - 2:00pm Lunchtime Concert: Bharatnatyam Dance OCT 09 Image 10:30am - 12:30pm Special Event: Workshop with Moira Smiley OCT 08 Image 4:00pm - 5:30pm Tower Seminar: The Voice is a Voyager OCT 07 Image 1:15pm - 2:00pm Lunchtime Concert: Troy McGillivray and Andrea Beaton OCT 01 Image 4:00pm - 5:30pm Tower Seminar: Music Therapy in Primary Schools: Supporting Children Experiencing Trauma SEP-OCT 30 Image 10:30am - 12:30pm Special Event: CDIME Conference 2025 SEP 30 Image 1:15pm - 2:00pm Lunchtime Concert: Mary McNamara SEP 25 Image 1:15pm - 2:00pm Lunchtime Concert: The Hand Of Doom SEP 24 Image 4:00pm - 5:30pm Tower Seminar: Celebrating 40 years of Music and Poetry of the Kesh by Ursula K. Le Guin and Todd Barton SEP 23 Image 1:15pm - 2:00pm Lunchtime Concert: Aoife Ní Bhriain and Cormac McCarthy SEP 19 Image 1:00pm - 2:00pm Special Event: Culture Night 2025: A Taste of Trad AUG 26 Image 10am - 5pm Inclusive Dance Workshop & Seminar JUN-JUL 23 Image Blas International Summer School of Irish Music and Dance JUN 13 Image 12noon - 4pm PhD Arts Practice Performance: André Swanepoel JUN 05 Image 12noon - 4pm PhD Arts Practice Performance: Jelena Perišić JUN 05 Image 12noon - 4pm PhD Arts Practice Performance: Celsey Mc Fadden MAY 30 Image 1pm - PhD Arts Practice Performance: Kexin Huang MAY 28 Image 1pm - PhD Arts Practice Performance: Sherli Novalinda MAY 19-21 Image 2pm - 5pm Special Event: BA Irish Music Exams MAY 14-16 Image 11am - 3pm Special Event: MA Irish Traditional Music Performance Exams MAY 13 Image 1pm - Special Event: MA Contemporary Dance Exams MAY 12-13 Image 10am - 5pm Special Event: MA Classical String Performance Exams MAY 09 Image 7pm - Special Event: BA Contemporary Dance Exams MAY 09 Image 1.15pm - Special Event: MA Composition and Creative Music Practice Exam MAY 08 Image 6.30pm - 8.30pm Special Event: ADD Your Voice - An Interactive Information Session on the Arts, Data Literacy and Diversity Project MAY 07 Image 7pm - Special Event: BA World Music Exams MAY 07 Image 1pm - Special Event: BA Irish Dance Exams MAY 01 Image 7pm - Special Event: BA Voice Exams – 2nd Year APR 30 Image 2pm - Special Event: MA Songwriting Exam APR 29 Image 2pm - Special Event: MA Songwriting Exams APR 29 Image 7pm - Special Event: BA Voice Exams – 4th Year APR 24 Image 2pm - 4pm Special Event: MA Songwriting and MA Creative Writing joint "Open Mic" Session APR 22 Image 1.15pm - 2pm Lunchtime Concert: Meitheal Collaboration - Dreoite APR 03 Image 1.15pm - 2pm Lunchtime Concert: Chamber Music Performance APR 02 Image 4pm - 5.30pm Tower Seminar: Sending It Forward APR 01 Image 1.15pm - 2pm Lunchtime Concert: Dermot Byrne, Aidan Connolly and Ruairi McGorman MAR 29 Image 6pm - PhD Arts Practice Performance: Thenuga Thevapalan MAR 27 Image 1.15pm - 2pm Lunchtime Concert: Drumming at the Edge of Magic MAR 26 Image 4pm - 5.30pm Tower Seminar: Consent and Coercion in Irish Traditional Song MAR 25 Image 1.15pm - 2pm Lunchtime Concert: Irish Traditional Music MAR 20 Image 1.15pm - 2pm Lunchtime Concert: Early Music Project Performance MAR 19 Image 4pm - 5.30pm Tower Seminar: New Music for Harpsichord MAR 18 Image 1.15pm - 2pm Lunchtime Concert: Stephen Doherty and David Doocey MAR 13 Image 1.15pm - 2pm Lunchtime Concert: UL Global Concert MAR 12 Image 4pm - 5.30pm Tower Seminar: The People's Choir MAR 11 Image 1.15pm - 2pm Lunchtime Concert: Irish World Academy Singers’ Circle MAR 06 Image 1.15pm - 2pm Lunchtime Concert: Cork ETB School of Music and Limerick School of Music MAR 04 Image 1.15pm - 2pm Lunchtime Concert: Immram FEB 27 Image 1.15pm - 2pm Lunchtime Concert: "But is it a story?" FEB 26 Image 4pm - 5.30pm Tower Seminar: Creative Arts for People with Parkinson’s Disease and their Spouses/Carers FEB 26 Image 7pm - 8pm Special Event: Parkinsongs Concert FEB 25 Image 1.15pm - 2pm Lunchtime Concert: Kevin Burke FEB 19 Image 4pm - 5.30pm Tower Seminar: Music and Health in Schools FEB 18 Image 1.15pm - 2pm Lunchtime Concert: Professional Master of Education Music FEB 13 Image 7pm - 8.30pm Songs and Stories with Rhiannon Giddens FEB 12 Image 4pm - 5.30pm Tower Seminar: Music Making as the Performance of Relationships in a Community Context MAY 08 Image 1pm - 2pm MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance / BA Irish Dance Exams MAY 01 Image 1.15pm - 2pm Irish Chamber Orchestra Academy Project APR 30 Image 11am - 4pm Special Event – MA Songwriting Exams APR 30 Image 7pm - Special Event: BA Voice Exams – 4th Year APR 26 Image 6pm - 7.30pm Special Event: PhD Arts Practice Performance – Ewa Żak-Dyndał APR 17 Image 1pm - 3pm Special Event: The People’s Dance for Academy 30 APR 11 Image 1.15pm - 2pm Lunchtime Concert: Chamber Music Recital
OCT 01 Image 1 pm - Sionna Lunchtime Concert: The Lute of the Samurai: An Introduction to the Satsumabiwa
SEP 30 Image 1 pm - Sionna Seminar: Norwegian Traditional Music and Dance: From Tradition to Contemporary Practice
SEP 29 Image 1 pm - Sionna Lunchtime Concert: Na Lochlannaigh: A Concert of Norwegian Traditional Music and Dance
DEC 04 Image 10:30am - 11:30am Special Event: SOLSTICE Coffee Morning - Corpus Christi Community Choir
NOV 10 Image 10:00am - 3:00pm Special Event: NORF Sharing Arts Practice FAIRly symposium and training workshop
OCT 29 Image 4:00pm - 5:30pm Tower Seminar: Problematising Proximity: White Nationalist Undercurrents to Irish Traditional Music Practice in Germany
OCT 15 Image 4:00pm - 5:30pm Tower Seminar: Songwriting as a Participatory Method in Migrant Health Research
OCT 01 Image 4:00pm - 5:30pm Tower Seminar: Music Therapy in Primary Schools: Supporting Children Experiencing Trauma
SEP 24 Image 4:00pm - 5:30pm Tower Seminar: Celebrating 40 years of Music and Poetry of the Kesh by Ursula K. Le Guin and Todd Barton
MAY 08 Image 6.30pm - 8.30pm Special Event: ADD Your Voice - An Interactive Information Session on the Arts, Data Literacy and Diversity Project
APR 24 Image 2pm - 4pm Special Event: MA Songwriting and MA Creative Writing joint "Open Mic" Session
FEB 26 Image 4pm - 5.30pm Tower Seminar: Creative Arts for People with Parkinson’s Disease and their Spouses/Carers
FEB 12 Image 4pm - 5.30pm Tower Seminar: Music Making as the Performance of Relationships in a Community Context
