Daithí Kearney

Dr Daithí Kearney is Co-Director of the Creative Arts Research Centre at Dundalk Institute of Technology.

A Cultural Tug-of-War: Exploring the Early Years of Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann
A Cultural Tug-of-War: Exploring the Early Years of Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann
Cork University Press has recently published 'Heading to the Fleadh: Festival, cultural revival and Irish traditional music, 1951–1969' by Méabh Ní Fhuartháin, a study of the Fleadh in its first two decades. Daithí Kearney reviews.
A Summer Without Siamsa – Are We Forgetting About Local Arts Communities?
A Summer Without Siamsa – Are We Forgetting About Local Arts Communities?
The board and management of Siamsa Tíre in Tralee have suspended ‘all non-profit-making productions' for the summer season, but what does that mean for the original vision of the theatre and in particular the local arts community, asks Daithí Kearney.