RIAM Library

07/05/2025

With academic deadlines fast approaching, we have good news! The RIAM Library is open this Sunday 11th May, 11.00-4.00. Yes, you read that right - SUNDAY.

26/03/2025

RIAM Guest Lecture Series continues today with speaker Dr Deirdre Ní Chonghaile (Independent).

‘From dámhscoil to digital: navigating sources of Irish traditional music and song’

1.00 pm via Zoom

All welcome to attend

18/03/2025

The latest DMusPerf dissertation received in the Library
Congratulations to singer, Megan O'Neill!

Her dissertation is entitled: 'Reimagining Mary Magdalene: an exploration of John Adams's The Gospel according the the other Mary'

The full text of Megan's dissertation is also available on the TARA Research Repository at the following link: https://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/111236

06/03/2025

RIAM Guest Lecture Series continues on Wednesday 12 March, 1 pm, via Zoom

Dr Áine Mangaoang (University of Oslo), ‘“Pros and cons”: The paradoxes of researching music in prison’

All welcome

26/02/2025

RIAM Guest Lecture Series continues today (Wednesday 26th February, 1.00 pm) with Prof. Candace Bailey (North Carolina Central University) speaking about ‘Bound Music as a lieu de mémoire in Charleston, South Carolina’

Via Zoom

All welcome to attend

12/02/2025

Edmond Dédé, America’s First Black Opera Composer
by Patrick D. McCoy
(Early Music America, Published January 27, 2025)

Dédé’s Morgiane, ou Le Sultan d’Ispahan, from 1887, is perhaps the oldest known complete opera by an African-American composer

Hidden away for 138 years, the world premiere production of ‘Morgiane’ is a partnership between OperaCreole and Opera Lafayette

Next Week, New Orleans' OperaCreole and D.C.'s Opera Lafayette collaborate on a world premiere, 138 years after the music was written. Edmond Dédé fled antebellum New Orleans for France, where he was a successful conductor and composer. But his grand, four-act opera "Morgiane" was never performed,...

16/01/2025

Conference News - Call for Papers / Performances

The Expansive Canvas: Large-Scale Form in the Music of 19th-Century Women Composers

International Conference and Collaborative Symposium

Dublin, Ireland | 26–28 August 2025

Department of Music at Trinity College Dublin, the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Trinity Long Room Hub

Deadline for Proposals: Friday 31 January 2025 at 5 pm IST

More information on the conference website: https://expansivecanvas.com/

20/12/2024

Happy Christmas!

04/12/2024

Conference News - Call for Papers / Performances

The Expansive Canvas: Large-Scale Form in the Music of 19th-Century Women Composers
International Conference and Collaborative Symposium

Dublin, Ireland | 26–28 August 2025

Department of Music at Trinity College Dublin, the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Trinity Long Room Hub

Deadline for Proposals: Friday 31 January 2025 at 5 pm IST
More information on the conference website: https://expansivecanvas.com/

27/11/2024

The latest DMusPerf dissertation received in the Library
Congratulations to Mary Pedder Daly!

Her dissertation is entitled: 'The effectiveness and relevance of post-Vatican II Irish liturgical works in the context of Musicam Sacram in twenty-first century Irish Catholic liturgy'

The full text of Mary's dissertation is also available on the TARA Research Repository at the following link: https://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/110409