Books and Editorial - Journal Articles and Book Chapters - Other Publications - Consultation and Advisory Roles - Awards -
Selected Conference Papers and Public Talks - External Examiner Experience: Doctoral Vivas - PhD Supervisions: Completed -
Selected Media Appearances and Interviews - Selected reviews of work

Books and Editorial

Special Issue of Popular Music History (Co-edited with Dave Laing and Noel McLaughlin, 2013)

'Irish Blood, English Heart': Second-Generation Irish Musicians in England (Cork University Press, 2011)

'Why Pamper Life's Complexities?': Essays on The Smiths (edited with Colin Coulter, Manchester University Press, 2010)

Beautiful Day: Forty Years of Irish Rock (with Gerry Smyth, Cork University Press, 2005)

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

'Policing the Irish: Whiteness, "Race" and British Cultural Studies', European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 16, No. 2 (2013), pp. 135-54.

'Reflections of a London-Irish Musician', Irish Studies Review, Vol. 21, No. 1 (2013), pp. 114-22.

'Musical Masculinities in the 1990s', in Conn Holohan and Tony Tracy (eds) Tiger Tales: Masculinity and Irish Culture 1990-2010 (forthcoming, 2013)

'Displaced Sounds: Popular Music-Making among the Irish Diaspora in England', in Music and Displacement: Diaspora, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond eds. Erik Levi and Florian Scheding (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2010), pp. 89-103.

'"Irish Blood, English Heart": Ambivalence, Unease and The Smiths', in 'Why Pamper Life's Complexities?': Essays on The Smiths, eds. Sean Campbell and Colin Coulter (Manchester University Press, 2010)

'From Shellshock Rock to Ceasefire Sounds: Popular Music in Northern Ireland' (with Gerry Smyth), in Northern Ireland after the Troubles: A Society in Transition, eds. Colin Coulter and Michael Murray (Manchester University Press, 2008), pp. 232-252.

'Ethnicity and Cultural Criticism: Evocations and Elisions of Irishness in the British Music Press,' Celtic Cultural Studies: An Interdisciplinary Online Journal (2007)

' "Pack Up Your Troubles": Politics and Popular Music in a Pre- and Post-Ceasefire Ulster,' Popular Musicology Online (2007)

' "What's the Story?": Rock Biography, Musical 'Routes' and the Second-Generation Irish in England,' Irish Studies Review Vol. 12, No. 1 (2004), pp. 63-75.

'Sounding Out the Margins: Ethnicity and Popular Music in British Cultural Studies,' in Across the Margins: Cultural Identities and Change in the Atlantic Archipelago eds. Gerry Smyth and Glenda Norquay (Manchester University Press, 2002), pp. 117-136.

'Beyond "Plastic Paddy": A Re-Examination of the Second-Generation Irish in England,' in The Great Famine and Beyond: Irish Migrants in Britain in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, ed. Donald M. MacRaild (Irish Academic Press, 2000), pp. 266-288.

'Britpop: The Importance of Being Irish,' in Changing Sounds: New Directions and Configurations in Popular Music, eds. Tony Mitchell and Peter Doyle (University of Technology, Sydney, 2000), pp. 234-243.

'Beyond "Plastic Paddy": A Re-Examination of the Second-Generation Irish in England,' Immigrants and Minorities, Vol. 18, Nos. 2&3 (1999), pp. 266-288.

' "Race of Angels": The Critical Reception of Second-Generation Irish Musicians,' Irish Studies Review, Vol. 6, No. 2 (1998), pp. 165-174.

Other Publications

Multiple entries on Popular Music in The Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland, eds. Harry White and Barra Boydell (UCD Press, 2013)

'Irish and Proud?', Irish Times, 2 April 2011, Weekend Review, p. 7.

'Modern Classics: The Academic Study of Popular Culture,' Postgraduate UK: The British Council Magazine for Postgraduate Opportunities in the UK, 2006, pp. 47-51

'Reply to John Waters,' Journal of Music in Ireland Vol. 6, No. 1 (January-February 2006), p. 4

'Dancing at the Crossroads: Immigration and Popular Music in Ireland and Abroad' (with Mairtin Mac an Ghaill), Asyland: Magazine of the Irish Refugee Council Issue 10, Autumn/Winter 2004, pp. 7-8

'Qualifying "Nation": Plasticity, Diaspora and the Republic of Ireland,' M/C Reviews e-journal, 'Mediating Football's World Cup' (July 2002)

Review of Fintan Vallely (ed.), The Companion to Irish Traditional Music and Marie McCarthy Passing It On: The Transmission of Music in Irish Culture, Irish Studies Review Vol. 8, No. 1 (2000), pp. 121-124. Basingstoke: Carfax

Review of Michael Bracewell, England is Mine: Pop Life in Albion From Wilde to Goldie, Journal of Popular Music Studies Vols. 11 & 12 (1999/2000), pp. 193-196. Philadelphia: Taylor and Francis

Review of Paolo Hewitt, Getting High: The Adventures of Oasis, Popular Music Vol. 18, No. 1 (1999), pp. 158-160. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Consultation and Advisory Roles

AHRC Peer Review College (2012-2015)

Series Advisor, Guth - The Voice of Ireland, TV documentary series, TG4 (Ireland), 2013

Expert Advisor, Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive, ProQuest, 2007-08

Awards

Music Book of the Year 2011, Sunday Times (Ireland)

Music Book of the Year 2011, Hot Press

Selected Conference Papers and Public Talks

'Migration and Cultural Expression', Emigration Colloquium, Trinity College Dublin, 10 April 2013 (Invited public talk)

'Dwellers on the Threshold', Headingley LitFest, Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre, Leeds, 8 March 2013 (Invited public lecture)

'Sounding Irish London', Cultural Intersections conference, Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith, London, 23 February 2013 (Invited public talk)

'Popular Music and Diaspora', Modern Irish History Seminar, Cambridge University, 6 February 2013 (Invited public talk)

'Ambivalent Sounds: Irish Diaspora Musicians in England', Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University of London, 9 November 2012 (Invited Public Lecture)

'Sounding Out the City: Contact Zones, Diaspora Space and Popular Music', International Association for the Study of Popular Music Conference, University of Salford, 5 September 2012

'Music, Diaspora and Multi-Ethnicity', A Special Relationship? Irish Popular Music in Britain conference, Northumbria University, 28 June 2012 (Invited Keynote Lecture)

'Transnationalism, Place and Popular Music', Multiculturalism and Music, King's College London, 16 March 2012

'A Sort of Homecoming: Music, Migration and Return', English and Media Research Seminar, National University of Ireland at Maynooth, 14 March 2012 (Invited Lecture)

'Musical Masculinities and the Irish in England', Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture conference, National University of Ireland, Galway, 25 September 2011 (Invited Keynote Lecture)

'Irish Migrants, English Culture', Culture Night, Shortwave Cinema, London, 23 September 2011 (Invited Public Talk)

'Anti-Racism and Irish Ethnicity in Dexys Midnight Runners' "Dance Stance"', International Association for the Study of Popular Music Conference, University of Cardiff, 3 September 2010

'"Dwellers on the Threshold": Making a London-Irish "Home" with The Pogues', Irish in Britain Seminar Series, London Metropolitan University, 7 June 2010 (Invited Public Lecture)

'"Irish Blood, English Heart": Second-Generation Irish Musicians in 1980s Britain', English and Media Research Seminar, Anglia Ruskin, Cambridge, 10 December 2008

'Displaced Sounds: Ambivalence and Unease in "Irish-English" Rock Music', Music and Displacement Conference, Senate House, University of London, 23 February 2007 (Invited Lecture)

'Songs of Ambivalence and Uncertainty: England, Ireland and The Smiths', University of Helsinki, Finland, 14 May 2005 (Invited Lecture)

'"Irish Blood, English Heart": Nationality, Subjectivity and The Smiths', Why Pamper Life's Complexities? A Symposium on The Smiths, Manchester Metropolitan University, 8 April 2005

'Popular Music in the Diaspora: The Case of Britain', Joint Conference of the American Conference for Irish Studies, the British Association of Irish Studies, and the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies, the University of Liverpool, 12 July 2004

'Policing the Crisis: Birmingham Cultural Studies and the Myth of White British Homogeneity', Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Fifth International Conference, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, USA, 26 June 2004

'"Blues against Thatcher": Second-Generation Irish Rock Musicians in 1980s Britain', Maynooth Anthropology and Sociology Seminar Series, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 4 December 2003 (Invited Lecture)

'"Unthinking Albion": British Cultural Studies, "White Ethnicity" and the Irish in England', the Founding Conference of the Cultural Studies Association, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, 8 June 2003

'Irish Cinema', Cambridge Arts Picturehouse, April-June 2003 (Invited Public Lectures)

'On the Absence of an Irish Dimension in British Cultural Studies', Faculty of Arts Research Seminar, Anglia Ruskin, Cambridge, 11 December 2002

'"Policing the Irish": British Cultural Studies, "Race", Ethnicity and the Irish in England', the 39th American Conference for Irish Studies, Fordham University, New York City, USA, 8 June 2001

'"England is Mine": Second-Generation Irish Music-Making in Post-War England', the Conference of the British Association for Irish Studies, Bath Spa University College, 11 September 1999

'Britpop: The Importance of Being Irish, or, The Relevance of Ethnicity for Understanding Second-Generation Irish Musicians in England', the International Association for the Study of Popular Music 10th International Conference, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, 11 July 1999

'"Plastic Paddy": Ethnic Authenticity and the Second-Generation Irish in England', the 37th American Conference for Irish Studies, Roanoke, Virginia, USA, 13 May 1999

'Diasporic Identity Formation in Second-Generation Irish Autobiographies', at the 'Beyond Boundaries II' International Conference, the University of Salford with the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail, 21 February 1999

External Examiner Experience: Doctoral Vivas

Angela Moran, 'Sites of Diaspora: The Irish Musical Aesthetic in Birmingham' (University of Cambridge, 2011)

Stephen Hill, 'Reconfiguring Authenticity in the Music Press 1978 to 1988' (University of Southampton, 2008)

Michael Kent, 'The Invisible Empire: Border Protection on the Electronic Frontier' (Murdoch University, 2005)

PhD Supervisions: Completed

Annie Morgan-James, 'Representations of Scottishness in Cinema: From the Rural Highlands to the Urban Wastelands' (Anglia Ruskin, 2010)

Selected Media Appearances and Interviews

Made in Britain, BBC Radio Two, 12 June 2012
Follow-Up Albums, BBC Radio Four, 17 May 2012
World Update, BBC World Service, 20 March 2012
Irish Independent, 29 July 2011
The Irish Abroad, RTÉ Radio 1, 26 June 2011
Today with Pat Kenny, RTÉ Radio 1, 25 April 2011
Dave Fanning Show, RTÉ 2 FM, 23 April 2011
Tom Dunne, Newstalk (Ireland), 5 April 2011
Culture File, RTÉ Lyric FM, 2 April 2011
Hot Press, 14 April 2011
Arts Extra, Radio Ulster, 11 April 2011
Alison Curtis Show, Phantom FM (Ireland), 30 March 2011
Big Issue (North), 27 Dec 2010-2 Jan 2011
Irish Examiner, 11 October 2005
Dave Fanning Show, RTÉ 2 FM, 14 September 2005
Arts Extra, Radio Ulster, 13 September 2005
Uncut, June 2005
Channel 4 News, 9 April 2005
The Times, 9 April 2005
Breakfast, ABC Radio (Australia) 8 April 2005
CBC Television (Canada), 7 April 2005
Independent, 2 April 2005
The World Today, World Service, April 2005
New Musical Express, March 2005
Dave Fanning Show, RTÉ 2 FM, 20 March 2005

Selected reviews of work

Popular Music (February 2013)
Irish Literary Supplement, Spring 2012
Popular Music History, 2012 (read online)
Irish Studies Review, February 2012
Sunday Times (Ireland), 4 December 2011
Irish Times, 2 December 2011
MOJO, August 2011
History Ireland, July/August 2011
Books Ireland, Summer 2011
Belfast Telegraph, 19 June 2011
Irish Independent, 11 June 2011
Irish Examiner, 14 May 2011
CultureNorthernIreland.org, 12 May 2011
Sunday Times (Ireland), 1 May 2011
Sunday Business Post, 1 May 2011
Irish Post, 30 April 2011
New York Journal of Books, 1 February 2011
Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, No. 2, 2006-07
Journal of Music in Ireland, 1 November 2005
Rattlebag, RTÉ Radio 1, 7 October 2005
Evening Echo (Dublin), 1 October 2005
Irish Times, 1 October 2005