We are pleased to announce that the President of the Society for Musicology in Ireland elected for the three-year term 2021–2024 is Dr John O'Flynn, Associate Professor of Music at Dublin City University. John will take up the position of President-Elect for the academic year 2020–2021, and will take over as President at the SMI plenary conference in Trinity Conference Dublin in May 2021.

John has been a member of SMI Council since 2015, and currently chairs the SMI Grants Committee. In 2016 he chaired the society’s 14th Annual Plenary Conference at St Patrick’s College, DCU. His publications include The Irishness of Irish Music (Asghate, 2009), Music and Identity in Ireland and Beyond (co-edited with Mark Fitzgerald, Routledge, 2014) and numerous journal articles, book chapters and encyclopaedia entries on aspects of film music, popular music, music and social media, and music in higher education. In 2015-16 he was principal investigator for the project Mapping Popular Music in Dublin, and he is currently completing the monograph Music, the moving image, and Ireland. He is also contributor to and co-editor, with John Buckley, for Ceol Phádraig: Music at St Patrick’s College Drumcondra, 1875-2016 (2019) and, with Áine Mangaoang and Lonán Ó Briain, Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music (2020). See https://www.dcu.ie/theology_philosophy_music/people/john-oflynn.shtml