The annual conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland was hosted by the Music Department of Waterford Institute of Technology at the College Street campus from Friday 9th to Sunday 11th May 2008 with more than 100 delegates in attendance.

The Fifth Annual Conference of the SMI was held in the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, Rathmines, Dublin on 11-13 May 2007.

The Department of Music, UCC, hosted the Society's third annual conference on 6-8 May 2005.

The first annual conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, held in association with the Irish Chapter of the Royal Musical Association, took place at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, on 2 and 3 May 2003.