PRO

- CV

Ph.D. and Habilitation

My Ph.D. thesis (1996) is available here in its original format, in pdf (NB: this document is old and only offered here for reference).
My "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" (HDR) is available here (supervisor: Anne Goarzin). It was defended on March 25, 2022 at Rennes 2 - Haute-Bretagne.

Books and articles

A Brief History of Traditional Irish Music (KDP-Amerghin, 2024), 528 p., 2024.
Histoire sociale de la musique irlandaise, Peter Lang, Oxford, 2018, 602 p. (extracts)
The Beatles Clichés, KDP, 2020, 157 p. (extracts).
La musique irlandaise, Alain Monnier and Erick Falc’her-Poyroux (Coop Breizh, 1995) (extracts).
Les Irlandais (French translation of Sean O'Faolain's book, Coop Breizh, 1994) : Introduction.
Research articles: 1996-2021 (this document includes all the articles published during the above mentioned period).
All You Need Is... Les Beatles en 15 idées reçues (Cavalier Bleu, 2010, p.) : (extracts).

Multimedia

2026 - 95-minute documentary film: Irish music in France – a sixth province? (with Hervé Cantal). More than 75 interviews throughout France over three years.
2022 - Symphony 32/ Siansach 32 for orchestra and Irish instruments, with the Irish Chamber Orchestra in partnership with Limerick University (Irish World Academy of Music & Dance) and the French Embassy. Performed at King John Castle in Limerick on 17 July 2022. See the dedicated website: www.siansach32.net.
You can listen online here: https://open.spotify.com/intl-fr/album/7JJ6aDhe6sPSQHZjp1scIT
In 2017, I made a video documentary: Irish music in France - Tocane, Ceol agus Dordogne, available on YouTube https://youtu.be/LdtkxlWG2iM
In 2015, the French national archives for TV and radio asked me to on a multimedia panorama on the theme of "Irish music and migrations".
In 1996, I produced a CD of Irish music with Coop Breizh (awarded the Diapason d'Or du magazine Diapason, May 1996). See the dedicated page.
In the late 1980's I recorded Seán Moriarty, a primary school teacher in Killorglin Co. Kerry and native Gaelic speaker from West Kerry, reading great classics of 18th- and 19th-century Irish poetry in Gaelic. Great moments. RIP.