Since its foundation in 1994, the Irish World Academy has been recognised as a global leader in Irish music and dance scholarship. The Academy’s areas of research excellence have expanded to include research clusters in arts and health, ethnographic and practice-based research approaches as well as pedagogical, therapeutic and community-led research in music and dance. Developments in festive arts have enhanced curatorial, entrepreneurial and landscape-based research initiatives. Supporting a variety of artistic practices, including contemporary, traditional and aerial dance, Western art music practices, theatre and early music performance, the Academy is a national leader in arts practice research. Doctoral, postdoctoral and faculty-led research initiatives give rise to a wide range of outputs, including peer-reviewed journal articles, books, commissioned compositions and choreographies, audio and audio-visual recordings, and live performances of international calibre. The following is a selection of recent publications from faculty and postgraduate students at the Irish World Academy. Diane Daly, course coordinator, MA Classical String Performance with her students at a recent performance at the Bourne Vincent Gallery Photograph Š Maurice Gunning
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