Irish Blood, English Hearth: creativity, identity and the migrant Irish home
Join us for a symposium that responds to the reframes the Irish migrant home as both sanctuary and catalyst in post-war Britain.
Rather than serving solely as a site of private retreat, the home will be explored as a dynamic cultural space in which diasporic identity was sustained, and new forms of music and performance were forged.
The full-day programme will bring together historians, cultural scholars, musicians, and community voices to consider material culture, gendered labour, religion, and intergenerational transmission within the migrant home.
The symposium positions the Irish home as an intimate yet powerful engine of cultural transformation, where identities were preserved, and from which influential contributions to post-war British music and performance emerged, creating a dialogue with the display of A Room Upstairs in 1956 in our Rooms Through Time gallery.
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Join us for a symposium that responds to the reframes the Irish migrant home as both sanctuary and catalyst in post-war Britain.
Rather than serving solely as a site of private retreat, the home will be explored as a dynamic cultural space in which diasporic identity was sustained, and new forms of music and performance were forged.
The full-day programme will bring together historians, cultural scholars, musicians, and community voices to consider material culture, gendered labour, religion, and intergenerational transmission within the migrant home.
The symposium positions the Irish home as an intimate yet powerful engine of cultural transformation, where identities were preserved, and from which influential contributions to post-war British music and performance emerged, creating a dialogue with the display of A Room Upstairs in 1956 in our Rooms Through Time gallery.
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