Publications

Have a look at what I’ve been writing and talking about recently, including journal articles, reviews & conference contributions.

  • Culliney, D. and Pessina, L. (2022). Entering a ‘Third Space’ Through Collaborative Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology. SEM Student News, 18(1). https://risingvoicesjournal.com/181-culliney-pessina

  • Culliney, D., ed. (2024). Spéis: 2024-2025 Uimhir 1, 09/12. https://www.ictmd.ie/newsletter

    Culliney, D., ed. (2024). Spéis: 2023-2024 - Bulletin, 08/04. https://www.ictmd.ie/newsletter

  • Morgenstern F. and Culliney, D. (2024). 47th ICTM World Conference Review, Legon, Ghana. Spéis: 2023-2024 - Bulletin, 08/04, pp.18-21. https://www.ictmd.ie/newsletter

    Culliney, D. (2023). Conference Review 2022: ICTM Ireland/SMI Joint Postgraduate Conference. Spéis: 2022-2023 - Bulletin, 22/02, pp.6-8. https://www.ictmd.ie/newsletter

  • Culliney, D. (2025). Marching into Place!: Accordion Marching Bands and their Positionality within a Partitioned Ulster, unpublished paper presented at: 48th International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance World Conference, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 9-15 January 2025.

    Culliney, D. (2024). Fine Tuning the Northern Box: Exploring the Teaching of the Button Accordion and their Tuning Systems from an Ulster Perceptive, unpublished paper presented at: 12th Annual Conference of the Society for Music Education in Ireland, University College Cork, 29-30 November 2024.

    Culliney, D. (2024). A Brittle (Music) Ecosystem: Reflections from Border Fieldwork, unpublished paper presented at: Embedding the UN Sustainable Development Goals in Teaching and Research: Synergies in Arts, Heritage and Tourism, Dundalk Institute of Technology, 25 April.

    Culliney, D. (2024). The Pandemical Box: The Button Accordion in Ulster as Heard in Comhaltas' FleadhFest, unpublished paper presented at: Joint SMI and ICTM-IE Postgraduate Conference, Maynooth University, 12-13 January.

    Culliney, D. (2023). Finding the Ulster Accordion at FleadhFest, unpublished paper presented at: Research in Three, School of Informatics and Creative Arts, Dundalk Institute of Technology, 14 December.

    Culliney, D. (2023). The Border Box: The Border and its Impact on Musical Identities in a Partitioned Ulster, unpublished paper presented at: EUGEO 9è Congrés Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, 4-7 September.

    Culliney, D. (2023). The Narrative of Comhaltas: Irish Traditional Music's Place in a Conflicted and Peaceful Northern Ireland, unpublished paper presented at: 47th ICTM World Conference, University of Ghana, Legon, 13-19 July.

    Culliney, D. (2023). Success at Last?: A Critical Reflection on an Ulster Button Accordion Tradition, unpublished paper presented at: Joint SMI and ICTM-IE Postgraduate Conference, University College Dublin, 20-21 January.

    Culliney, D. (2023). The Narrative of Comhaltas: Politics of Northern Ireland and Festivals of Irish Traditional Music, unpublished paper presented at: BFE and RMA Research Students' Conference 2023 - 'Borderlands', Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, 9-12 January.

    Culliney, D. (2022). The Big 4: A Glance at the 4 Senior Button Accordion Champions from Ulster, unpublished paper presented at: Thesis in Three, School of Informatics and Creative Arts, Dundalk Institute of Technology, 16 December.

    Culliney, D. (2022). The Northern Box: A Critical Examination of the Button Accordion in Ulster, unpublished paper presented at: Coffee* & Research, 2nd Edition, School of Informatics and Creative Arts, Dundalk Institute of Technology, 13 May.

  • Culliney, D. (2023). The Ulster Box Breakthrough: Button Accordion Success in Ulster, 20 June 2023, Fleadh an Dúin, Whistledown Hotel, Warrenpoint, Co. Down