Professor Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin (pronounced ‘Ga-RODE O-Hal-ver-on’)

Professor Ó hAllmhuráin is an Irish expert from the west of Ireland specializing in Irish and European cultural history, memory, diaspora and traditional music.   Ó hAllmhuráin has published with both Oxford University Press (New York) and O’Brien Press (Ireland) and is a prolific writer, international speaker and critically acclaimed performer.

Since 2009, Ó hAllmhuráin has held The Johnson Chair in Québec and Canadian Irish Studies in The School of Irish Studies at Concordia University in Montréal, Québec.

A 5-time All Ireland Champion uilleann piper and concertina player, he has presented over 1,000 concerts on 4 continents during the past 30 years.  He is currently producer of The Clare Tracin’ Ensemble and former member of Ireland’s legendary Kilfenora Céilí Band.

IRISH EXPERT-AUTHOR

• 

  2016: Flowing Tides–History and Memory in an Irish Soundscape

  Flowing Tides – History and Memory in an Irish Soundscape (2016 Oxford University Press (New York). with companion website

• A Short History of Irish Traditional Music (O’Brien Press, Dublin 2017)
• A Pocket History of Irish Traditional Music (O’Brien Press, Dublin 1998/2003/2008/ 2013 Kindle edition)
• PLUS more than one hundred book chapters, academic articles, encyclopedia entries, and liner essays on Irish music and cultural history
• See complete CV here
• In addition to academic citations, there are over 7,500 internet references to Ó hAllmhuráin’s music and published work

FILMWORK

• The Un-quiet Ghost of The Carricks: Memory of the Great Irish Famine in Québec’s Gaspé Peninsula (director, producer, 2018)
• The Irish in America: Long Journey Home (consultant on 1998 Disney/PBS mini series)
• An Tulla: Sixty Years of the Tulla Céilí Band, ((featured interview)   TG4/Súil Eile, : 2016
• Ceol ón Chlann: Muintir Shannon,(featured interview)  Stirling Film and Television Productions, Belfast for TG4/Súil Eile, 2016
• ‘In The Blood’ 100 Years of the Kilfenora Céilí Band, (featured interview)  RTE Ireland/Newgrange Films, 2009).
•  Photos to Send: Retracing Dorothea Lange’s Travels through Ireland, an award winning documentary on the American photographer’s visit to Ireland in 1955.

MEDIA INTERVIEWS

• NPR National Public Radio
• PBS (USA)
• NBC – KSDK TV (St Louis, MO)
• ABC NEWS
• KALW Radio (San Francisco)
• RCI: Radio Canada International, CBC (Canada)
• CBC Radio Newfoundland
• Raidió na Gaeltachta (Ireland)
• RTÉ Radio 1 (Ireland)
• TG4 (Ireland)
• BBC (UK),
• Vox TV (Canada)
• TF1 (France)

COMMERCIAL RECORDINGS

• Traditional Music From Clare and Beyond (1996) (with special guests Martin Hayes,  Paddy Canny and Peter O’Loughlin)
• Tracin’ – Traditional Music from the West of Ireland (1999) with Patrick Ourceau
• The Independence Suite – Traditional Music from Ireland, Scotland and Cape Breton (2004)
• Paddy Murphy: Field Recordings from a Pioneer of the Irish Concertina (2007), recording and digital archive (2008)

ALSO FEATURED ON:

• Mélange (Canadian Master fiddler Pierre Schryer)
• Celtic Quilt- Daniel Kobialka featuring David Grisman
• Disirt Tola: Traditional Music from Clare & Dublin (1983)

INTERNATIONAL SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS (recent examples)

–Events can be presented in English, Irish and/or French

• The Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin (IRELAND, May 2017)
• Irish Heritage Quebec (Quebec City, CANADA, May 2017)
• The Botkin Lecture, American Folklife Centre, Library of Congress (Washington, DC, USA July 2017).
• Global Irish Diaspora. Clinton Institute, (Dublin, IRELAND, August 2017)

CANADA

• Bibliothèque et Archives Canada – Library and Archives Canada, (Ottawa, CANADA)
• Schulich School of Music, McGill University, (Montreal, CANADA, November 2016)
• Canadian Association for Irish Studies (Ottawa, CANADA)
• Annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, Montréal, Canada
• Congrès ACFAS – L’Association francophone pour le savoir (Québec, Canada)

EUROPE

• Università degli Studi di Trieste / University of Trieste (ITALY)
• UNESCO’s International Council for Traditional Music World Conference, (KAZAKHSTAN, 2015)
• John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies (Dublin, IRELAND)
• Centre for Landscape Studies, National University of Ireland-Galway (IRELAND)
• National Court House Lecture, Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann (IRELAND)
• Congrès annuel de la SOFEIR: Société d’Etudes Irlandaises, (Strasbourg, FRANCE)
• National University of Ireland-Maynooth (Kildare, IRELAND)

USA

• Conference on New Media and the Global Diaspora (Rhode Island, USA)
• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Wisconsin, USA)
• Stanford University (California, USA)
• University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA)
• Koret Auditorium, City Library (San Francisco, USA)
• Ohio State University (Bowling Green, USA)
• City University of New York (New York, USA)
• Illinois Wesleyan University (Illinois, USA)
• McLean County Museum of History (Illinois, USA)
• American Conference for Irish Studies, Fordham University (New York, USA)

World Championship Awards

• 1993 All-Ireland Senior Céilí Band Championship, Kilfenora Céilí Band,
• 1982 All-Ireland Senior Concertina Champion
• 1980 All-Ireland Solo Uilleann Piping Champion
• 1979 All-Ireland Solo Uilleann Piping Champion. Traditional Slow Airs
• 1972 All-Ireland Céilí Band Championship, St. Flannan’s College Céilí Band

COMPLETE PROFILE AVAILABLE ON Dr Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin website