Dr Joe Kehoe: PhD, BMus, BA
Joe was awarded the degree of PhD in 2018 by the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama for his thesis ‘The Evolution of the Radio Éireann Symphony Orchestra 1926-1954’, and he is continuing research on this topic.
Joe was the winner, in 2008, of the first CHMHE Undergraduate Musicology Competition for his final year Dissertation ‘The Place of Ethics in Musicology’.
Email: jkehoe7[at]gmail.com
Publications
Chapter ‘Maestro, Magician, Midwife: Jean Martinon in Dublin’ in Una Hunt and Mary Pierse (eds.) France and Ireland: Notes and Narratives (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2015).
Entries on Jean Martinon; Fachtna Ó hAnnracháin, and RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland, ed. Harry White & Barra Boydell (UCD Press, 2013)
‘“Attending to the Way Things Are”: Frankfurtian Reflections on Truth and Musicology’, Maynooth Musicology, eds. Brian Carty, Pat O’Connell & Barbara Strahan, Vol. 2 (2009)
Conference Papers
‘Theme and Variations: Border Crossings in the Story of the Radio Éireann Symphony Orchestra’; Society for Musicology in Ireland’s Annual Plenary Conference, June 2019, Maynooth University.
'Border Crossings: The Pivotal Events which Shaped the Development of the Radio Éireann Symphony Orchestra'; Artistic Research Perspectives Series, DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, March 2019.
‘The Inaugural Concert of the Radio Éireann Symphony Orchestra in 1948: Commemoration, Memory, Evidence’; Society for Musicology in Ireland’s Annual Plenary Conference, June 2018, Cork School of Music.
‘Easter 1926, Easter 1936, Easter 1946: The Long Gestation of the Radio Éireann Symphony Orchestra’, DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama April 2016 Conference ‘Music in Ireland: 1916 and Beyond’.
‘Brass, Balance, and Bureaucracy: The Radio Éireann Orchestra in the 1930s’; Society for Musicology in Ireland’s Ninth Annual Postgraduate Students’ Conference, Trinity College Dublin, January 2016.
‘Maestro, Magician, Midwife: Jean Martinon in Dublin’; Annual Conference of the Association of Franco-Irish Studies, National Concert Hall, May 2014.
‘Fair Days, Chocolate, and Music: The Radio Éireann Symphony Orchestra 1948–1955’; DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama Symposium ‘The Symphony and Ireland’, April 2013.
‘The Place of Ethics in Musicology’; Society for Musicology in Ireland’s Annual Postgraduate Students’ Conference, Waterford Institute of Technology, May 2008.
