Aoibh Crimmins (Ní Chroimín)

Aoibh Crimmins (Ní Chroimín) is a doctoral candidate at Trinity College Dublin. Her thesis will explore the commemoration and promotion of the German musical and literary canon in Thuringia and Saxony between 1945 and 1961, and analyse the relationship between cultural heritage, memory, and national identity in East Germany during the transition from National Socialism to communism.

More broadly her research focuses on culture and nationalism in Ireland and Germany between 1890 and 1960. Her interests include cultural nationalism; “high” culture in Germany in the long 1950s; Irish-German relations; Irish nationalism in a European context; the influence of Romantic Nationalism on modern political discourse; the relationship between nationalism, democracy and totalitarianism; the social history of classical music in Europe; perceptions of Jews in Irish society; and Holocaust reception and the perception of the Second World in Ireland.

Her academic work with the LCSCA focuses on antisemitism within Irish cultural nationalism. She is also a volunteer at the Centre.

She holds an MA in European Studies from the University of Amsterdam and a BA in English Literature and German from Trinity College Dublin. During her undergraduate degree she was awarded a Trinity Scholarship, completed an Erasmus year at the University of Hamburg, and was awarded a Gold Medal upon graduation.

She was born in Dublin and educated there in Irish language immersion schools and at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. She taught English for a year at a Gymnasium in Thuringia, Germany.