Dr. Michael Murphy Publications
Edited Books
Irish Music History, 1790-1920: Documents, Sources, Perspectives, Irish Musical Studies 12, ed Michael Murphy, Kerry Houston, Maria McHale (Four Courts Press, forthcoming)
Music in Nineteenth Century Ireland, Irish Musical Studies 9, ed. Michael Murphy & Jan Smaczny (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2007)
Musical Constructions of Nationalism: Essays on the History and Ideology of European Musical Culture 1800-1945, ed. Michael Murphy & Harry White (Cork University Press, Cork, 2001)
Encyclopaedia/Dictionary entries
Subject editor for the Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland, ed. Harry White & Barra Boydell (UCD Press, 2013), authored entries on Joseph O’Mara, Josef Locke, Royal University of Ireland - Faculty of Music, Aloys Fleischmann, National Anthem, Society for Musicology in Ireland, Wagner reception in Ireland, Charles Stephen Parker, Colman Pearce.
‘John Field’, ‘E.J. Moeran’; Dictionary of Irish Biography, ed. Aidan Clarke et al (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
Book Chapters/Book Reviews
Review of Ordinary Irish Life: Music, Sport and Culture, ed. Méabh Ní Fhuartháin and David M. Doyle (Irish Academic Press, 2013) in Irish Historical Studies (May 2014)
“Karlowicz and the ‘Work’ of Polish Culture”, in ed. Anna Nowak, The Musical Work as a Sign (Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music, Bydgoszcz, 2012)
‘Wagner Performance and Reception in Ireland, 1860-1940’, in ed. Luca Sala, The Legacy of Richard Wagner: Convergences and Dissonances in Aesthetics and Reception, Speculum Musicae, 18 (Brepols, Turnhout, 2012)
‘The Actuality of Karlowicz’s Artistic Authenticity and Authority’, in ed. Luca Sala, Ad Parsassum: A Journal of 18th- and 19th-Century Instrumental Music, Vol. 9 Issue 18 (Brepols, 2011)
Review of Reading Musical Interpretation: Case Studies in Solo Piano Performance, Julian Hellaby, (Ashgate, 2009), in Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, vol. 6 (<www.music.ucc.ie/jsmi>, 2010-11)
‘Topical Allusions in Karłowicz’s Eternal Songs: The Harmonic Series and the Tatras’, in ed. Luca Sala, European ‘Fin de Siècle’ and Polish Modernism. The Music of Mieczysław Karłowicz, (Ut Orpheus Edizioni, Bologna 2009)
‘Aloys Fleischmann 1910–1992’, in Irish-German Studies 4: Creative Influences, Selected Irish-German Biographies, ed. Fischer & Holfter (Trier, 2009)
Review of The Cambridge Companion to Schumann, ed. Beate Perrey (Cambridge University Press, 2007), in Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, vol. 3 (www.music.ucc.ie/jsmi, 2008)
Radio Broadcasts
'Wagner's Music in Ireland': Scripted and presented two-part documentary for The Lyric Feature on RTÉ lyric fm, 27 Sept. & 4 Oct. 2013. Listen to podcasts 
Part 1 (27 Sept) & Part 2 (4 Oct).
‘Two neglected Irish operas from the RTE archives: C.V. Stanford’s Shamus O’Brien and A.J. Potter’s Patrick’: Scripted and presented for Après Opera on RTÉ lyric FM, 17 May 2008.
Scripted and presented six programmes for Opera Night on RTÉ Lyric FM, Aug./Sept. 2008.
Conference Activities (since 2010)
‘The French Influence on the public reception of Wagner’s music in Ireland, 1860-1900’. France-Ireland: Celebrating Music, Words and Art /France-Irlande: Fêter la musique, les mots et l’art: 10th annual conference of Association of Franco-Irish Studies (AFIS), National Concert Hall, Dublin, 23-24 May 2014.
‘Rossini, and Michael W. Balfe’s Sinfonia (Bologna, March 1829)’. The Symphony & Ireland: A Symposium, DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, 20 April 2013.
Convened the Symposium ‘Documents of Irish Music History'. Mary Immaculate College, 28 April 2012.
‘Karlowicz and the "Work" of Polish Culture: Musical work as a sign'. Department of Music Theory and Composition at the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music, Bydgoszcz, 22–23 November 2011.
Convened Round Table session on Aloys Fleischmann (1910-1992). Annual Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, Magee Campus, University of Ulster, 7-9 May 2010.
Peer Review
PhD External examining for TCD, Maynooth University, St Patrick's College, (DCU)
Undergraduate Examiner for WIT (2015)
Recent Lectures/Public Talks
'Soldiering On: Ireland's National Anthem form 1916-2016' (Wednesday 20th January 2016, 7pm) Venue: Lime Tree Theatre, Limerick
'Work in Progress: Composers in Ireland from 1742-2016' (Tuesday 2nd February 2016, 7pm) Venue: Lime Tree Theatre, Limerick
'Is there a little room for chamber music in your life?' (Tuesday 5th April 2016, 7pm) Venue: Lime Tree Theatre, Limerick
'Visiting Virtuosi in 19th Century Ireland' (Wednesday 13th April, 2016, 1pm) Venue:Recital Room, Royal Irish Academy of Music, Westland Row, Dublin
University Concert Hall, Limerick, Music Appreciation Talks (April 2015)
Wagner Society of Ireland (January 2015)
Forthcoming (Spring/Summer 2016)
Conference Papers
‘Some have come from a land
beyond the wave’: Domestic and foreign perspectives on the ‘Soldier’s Song’, Music in Ireland: 1916 and Beyond, DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, 22-24 April 2016.
‘An Apology for Harmony’:
Ideas about music in Ireland in the Dublin
University Magazine', SMI Annual Conference, St Patrick's College, DCU, 10-12 June 2016.
Public Talks
A series of
four talks about music in Ireland
Venue: Lime
Tree Theatre, Limerick
# 4: Why
listen to sad music if it makes you feel sad? Puccini's La Bohème and the beauty of Sadness (Tuesday 3rd
May 2016, 7pm)
https://www.limetreetheatre.ie/show/why-listen-to-sad-music-if-it-makes-you-feel-sad-puccinis-la-boheme-and-the-beauty-of-sadness/
Killaloe Chamber Music Festival
Public talk: 'Musical Style from the Baroque to the Romantic' (Sunday 12th June 11am)
http://www.killaloemusicfestival.com/
Performance
University of Limerick Orchestra Summer Proms: Saturday 7 May 2016, UCH
http://www.uch.ie/event/university-limerick-orchestra-summer-proms/
Limerick Choral Union: Sunday 8 May 2016, UCH
http://www.uch.ie/event/limerick-choral-union/