The SMI was founded in 2003 to serve the growing community of musicologists in Ireland, and its council includes some of the most active and distinguished musicologists on the island. The society 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, a collection which has recently published its tenth volume (Music and Culture in Seventeenth-Century Ireland), the peer-reviewed Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland which has just published its fourth 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