SMI Grants

The SMI awards annually a number of small grants to its members of up to €400 in support of musicological research to assist post-graduate research students, non-affiliated scholars, or academics without recourse to institutional funds.

Applications should include a short CV, a brief description of the proposed research and its intended purpose, a proposed budget, and (if applicable) an account of awards received or applied for in connection with the project. A copy of a short letter of support from a supervisor or appropriate academic should also be included with the application. Applications will be considered on an on-going basis and the awards publicised on the SMI website.

Applications (and any queries regarding this grant) should be made by letter or email to:

Dr. Gareth Cox
Chair, SMI Grants Committee
Department of Music
Mary Immaculate College, UL
South Circular Road
Limerick
gareth.cox@mic.ul.ie
Tel.: 061-204588

Recipients of SMI Grants 2008

  • Una Hunt (Dublin): Thomas Moore and his 'Irish Melodies'
  • Helen Lyons (UCD): Contemporary Irish Harping on the Irish Harp and 'Cruit'
  • Aisling Kenny (NUI Maynooth): The Lieder of Josephine Lang (1815-1880)

Recipients of SMI Grants 2007

  • Angela Buckley (WIT): A Critical Edition of the Irish Music Manuscripts of Philip Carolan (c1839-1910)
  • Angela Moran (UCD): Filmic Representations of ‘Carmen’
  • Fabian Huss (Bristol):
    The Chamber Music of Frank Bridge
  • Aoife Granville (UCC): Shaping Community Identity through Festivalisation: An Exploration of the Importance and Influence of the Wren Tradition in Corca Dhuibhne, Co. Kerry