Please see below for a list of international conferences in which Ancient Music Ireland has taken part. Click here for a list of our published articles.
S. O’Dwyer, ‘The Wicklow Pipes’ – a prehistoric seven note scale. Instruments of culture and peace. 8th International Scientific Meeting for Sound and Musical Instrument Studies, ANIMusic , Organological Congress, Belmonte, Portugal, 20 – 22 September. 2019.
S. O’Dwyer, ‘Bold as Bronze’ An examination of the Bronze and Iron Age horns and trumpets of Ireland and Britain in the first millennium BC. ‘- Bronze verses Brass’. Beyond the Broad Coast Horizon, Diversity and Transversality in Cultural Heritage. 7th International Scientific Meeting for the Study of Sound and Musical Instruments, Historic Brass Society and ANIMusic, Organological Congress, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, 2-7 July. 2018.
S. O’Dwyer, Reconstruction of the Roscrea/Lynn Cerrig Bach Trumpas ( Part 2 – completion from ANIMUSIC Oct 2016). Strategies for the Future of Scientific and Cultural Knowledge and Expression – Sustainability, Heritage, Technology, Education, 6th International Scientific Meeting for Sound and Musical Instrument Studies, Animusic, Organological Congress, Porto 24-27, August. 2017.
S. O’Dwyer, Reconstruction of the roscrea/lynn cerrig bach trumpas. Our theories on these instruments bridge time over 2,000 years and challenge us to make whole what archaeology left for us. Times and Challenge, 5th International Scientific Meeting for Sound and Musical Instrument Studies, Animusic, Organological Congress. Tomar, Portugal, 28 – 31 October. 2016.
S. O’Dwyer, Music and Beauty Ancient Ireland (Eire), Replicas of Horns from the Bronze Age, Ireland. Creativity in musical instruments, Sound and Music Making, 4th International Scientific Meeting for Sound and Musical Instrument Studies, Animusic, Organological Congress, Tavira, Portugal 18 -20 December. 2015.
S. O’Dwyer, Continuity in Culture: The repeated use of design and decoration in a musical and ritual context in Ireland from the Neolithic to the Early Medieval period with special reference to the filled triangle. Tradition and Modernity, 3rd International Scientific Meeting for Sound and Musical Instrument Studies, Animusic, Organological Congress. Museu Nogueira da Silva, Braga, Portugal, 19-20 July. 2014.
S. O’Dwyer, Iron Age Horns in the Ancient Legends of Ireland: Recreating Past Sounds. Leading to new ideas : innovation from past, present and future 2nd International Scientific Meeting for Sound and Musical Instrument Studies. Animusic, Organological Congress, University of Evora, Portugal, 18-20 April. 2013.
Archaeology Department of the University of Glasgow – 30th Anniversary. Presentation on ‘The Scottish Bronze Age Horn’. Glasgow. 2010.
World Congress of Celtic Studies at University of Ireland – Maynooth. Presentation on ‘Continuity in Ancient Ireland through the occurrence of visual image and design’. Maynooth, Ireland. 2010.
W.A.C. – World Archaeology Congress, National University of Ireland. General presentation on the Ancient Musical Instruments of Ireland. Dublin, Ireland. 2006.
5th Symposium – International Study Group of Music Archaeology. ‘An Interpretation of the Illumination from the Vespasian Psalter – A Musician’s view’. Germany. 2006.
4th Symposium of the International Study Group on Music-Archaeology. Killyfaddy four, transition? Michaelstein, Germany. September 2004.
3rd Symposium of the International Study Group on Music-Archaeology. The Mayophone Study and Reproduction. Michaelstein, Germany. June, 2002.
2nd Symposium of the International Study Group on Music-Archaeology. An Trumpa Créda, Construction and Exploration. Michaelstein, Germany. September 2000.
1st Symposium of the International Study Group on Music-Archaeology. Four Voices of the Bronze Age Horns of Ireland. Michaelstein, Germany. May 1998.
TAG Archaeology Conference. The Drone in Irish and Scottish prehistory. Edinburgh, Scotland. December 2004.