The SMI was founded in 2003 to serve the growing community of musicologists in Ireland and to promote links with other musicological societies internationally, such as the American Musicological Society and the Royal Musical Association of the UK with whom we will be hosting a joint conference in Dublin in 2009. The council of the SMI includes some of the most active and distinguished musicologists in Ireland.

The annual conference of the SMI is held in early May each year in a different location: the 2009 conference is being jointly organised with the Royal Musical Association and will be hosted by the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin. The call for papers and further details will be posted here and on relevant websites presently.

In addition, the SMI helps promote a very full range of activities in Ireland's dynamic musicological environment including symposia and short conferences. An important part of our mission is a commitment to the series, Irish Musical Studies (IMS) a collection which has recently published its ninth volume (Music in Nineteenth-Century Ireland), the Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland (JSMI) which has just published its third volume, and the SMI Music Theses Register which is a fully searchable database of music theses submitted at Irish universities and third-level colleges as well as theses submitted elsewhere on topics relating to Irish music.

To existing members, I reiterate my welcome and to non-members interested in any aspect of musicology I urge you to join this burgeoning community of scholars.

Jan Smaczny
President of the SMI