JOHN O’FLYNN is Associate Professor of Music at Dublin City University, and President of the Society for Musicology in Ireland (2021-2024). He is author of numerous peer-reviewed articles, chapters and encyclopaedia entries on film music, popular music, music in Ireland, intercultural music practice, and music in higher education. His book publications include Music, the Moving Image and Ireland (2022), The Irishness of Irish Music (2009), and the co-edited volumes Music and Identity in Ireland and Beyond (with M. Fitzgerald, 2014), Ceol Phádraig: Music at St Patrick’s College Drumcondra, 1875-2016 (with J. Buckley, 2019) and Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music (with Á. Mangaoang & L. Ó Briain, 2020). John is also general editor for the forthcoming book series Studies in Irish Music Education (CUP Press).