Ethnomusicologist, geographer and performer Daithí Kearney is a lecturer in music, theatre and tourism and co-director of the Creative Arts Research Centre at Dundalk Institute of Technology. He is widely published in academic books and journals, as well as being a published poet and songwriter, commissioned composer and experienced performer. Albums include A Louth Lilt (2017), featuring new compositions with his wife Dr Adèle Commins. In 2023, Daithí was the recipient of the DkIT President’s Prize for Established Researcher in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and a Bardic Award from Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann for contribution to Irish traditional music.
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