Sara G. Casey, Ph.D. brings a wealth of research and writing experience to all of her endeavors. Her training in Historical Musicology has prepared her for innumerable approaches to research and has inspired her engaging writing style. Writings:Climbing the Ivory Tower--with Kathy English (2011)“Glendalough: Liturgy and Music” in Glendalough: City of God (Four Courts Press, 2011)."A 'Demonic Musical Mantra,' "Women's Independent Press, (Nov., 2010). “Brigid And Her Veneration: Two Sequences,” Christus Regnat (June, 2010)."Songs for the Peregrini: Proper Chants for Irish Saints," (Diss., University of Pittsburgh, 2003).“Prenez Courage,” published at http://www.abdsurvivalguide.com/News/101603.htm. "'Through a Glass Darkly:' Steps Towards Reconstructing Irish Chant from the Neumes of the Drummond Missal," Early Music 28 (2000): 202-215; “Songs for the Peregrini: Proper Chants for Irish Saints in Continental Manuscripts of the Middle Ages.” Hibernia Cantans: Music, Liturgy, And The Veneration Of Irish Saints In Medieval Europe, ed. Ann Buckley (Brepols: Turnhout, Forthcoming)Her current interests have grown to include women in music: their historic place in the Western art music tradition and most importantly, their position within popular music and the modern media.WISHING TO USE HER RESEARCH AND WRITING SKILLS TO DO SOME GOOD IN THE WORLD, IN 2005 DR. CASEY FOUNDED CASEY WRITING SERVICES.Casey Writing Services provides expert general research and writing services as well as in-depth grant research and complete grant application preparation and management. Her clients have included the Women’s Yellow Pages, YWCA Greater Pittsburgh, Organic Processing Systems, Hekima Place, and Paul Dang, Independent Filmmaker.Providing the same careful work for her select business clients as she does with her scholarly initiatives, Dr. Casey believes strongly in her motto: Your Success is My Business!Specialties: GRANT PROPOSALS for Non-Profits in the arts, human services and for individual artists.HISTORICAL MUSICOLOGY, with a background in aspects of music in Ireland in the Middle Ages and most recently a special interest in women as performers and composers in the popular music industry.RESEARCH AND WRITING on various subjects in the arts and humanities, ecological and environmental issues.