Notes & Narratives – Ruth Clinton

Ruth Clinton: “This Fearless Maid: Women in Traditional Song”

Na Píobairí Uilleann presents Notes & Narratives – a series of monthly performance-based lectures on traditional music, song and dance by some of Ireland’s finest traditional artists. This month’s speaker is singer Ruth Clinton.

Ruth will discuss her research into the role of women in traditional song, as featured in her 2018 and 2024 songbooks, This Fearless Maid I and II. These songs feature women with agency, in an attempt to offer alternatives to traditional patriarchal narratives.

Notes & Narratives will take place at Na Píobairí Uilleann, 15 Henrietta Street, Dublin 1, starting at 8:30pm on Thursday 17th April 2025.

Admission is €10 (unwaged / student / retired €5). For those unable to attend in person, it will also be live streamed for free through our channel NPU-TV.

Supported by The Arts Council