Wednesday June 11th, 7pm, In conversation with author Stan Erraught.
Kneecap’s riotous live performances and on stage political rhetoric recently led to a political and media outrage and calls for festivals and venues to cancel all future gigs. Mo Chara, one third of Republican rap trio Kneecap has joined his predecessors Christy Moore and the Wolfe Tones in being dragged into legal battles or censorship not for violence but for being provocative and making the British state look stupid.
Controversy surrounding pro republican bands is nothing new in Ireland. What critics seem forget as writer Andy Twelves recently wrote; Mo Chara and Kneecap are standing in a long tradition of Irish art that has for centuries been political, rebellious and anti-colonial. It’s baked into the poetry of Yeats, the music of Christ Moore, the rage of Sinead O’Connor. Even the Pogues had their music banned when they sang about the innocence of the Birmingham 6.
‘Rebel Notes – Popular Music and Conflict in Ireland’ is a brilliant new book charting the history of the place of rebel songs in Irish society and politics.
From the row over Kneecap, to the media frenzy that engulfed the Irish Women’s soccer team caught on camera singing Ooh Ah Up the Ra, to the years of unionist outrage at the success of the Wolfe Tones – Stan Erraught seeks to explore and assess the reasons why Irish rebel songs have had such a potent hold on the Irish imagination and why they elicit such extreme reactions from some politicians and commentators.
Join us in conversation with Stan at the London launch of his new book as we ask him why,
Come Out Ye Black and Tans topped the download charts in 2020?
Why ‘Zombie’ by the Cranberries has been adopted at some sporting events in attempts to counter the popularity of rebel songs?
If Punk really United Catholic and Protestant youth during the Troubles?
And what it is about people wearing Celtic jerseys and singing rebel songs that so agitate certain Irish newspaper columnists to the point that more than a couple of times they have resorted to labelling them lumpen, buffoons and lowest of the low?
Everyone welcome. The book will be on sale on the evening.
Date – Wednesday June 11th, 7pm.
Venue – Accent Centre, 12 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JA (see map and directions)
Nearest Tube stations – Russell Square, Tottenham Court Road, Googe Street.
Admission free but registration required.
To Register email name to [email protected]
Wednesday June 11th, 7pm, In conversation with author Stan Erraught.
Kneecap’s riotous live performances and on stage political rhetoric recently led to a political and media outrage and calls for festivals and venues to cancel all future gigs. Mo Chara, one third of Republican rap trio Kneecap has joined his predecessors Christy Moore and the Wolfe Tones in being dragged into legal battles or censorship not for violence but for being provocative and making the British state look stupid.
Controversy surrounding pro republican bands is nothing new in Ireland. What critics seem forget as writer Andy Twelves recently wrote; Mo Chara and Kneecap are standing in a long tradition of Irish art that has for centuries been political, rebellious and anti-colonial. It’s baked into the poetry of Yeats, the music of Christ Moore, the rage of Sinead O’Connor. Even the Pogues had their music banned when they sang about the innocence of the Birmingham 6.
‘Rebel Notes – Popular Music and Conflict in Ireland’ is a brilliant new book charting the history of the place of rebel songs in Irish society and politics.
From the row over Kneecap, to the media frenzy that engulfed the Irish Women’s soccer team caught on camera singing Ooh Ah Up the Ra, to the years of unionist outrage at the success of the Wolfe Tones – Stan Erraught seeks to explore and assess the reasons why Irish rebel songs have had such a potent hold on the Irish imagination and why they elicit such extreme reactions from some politicians and commentators.
Join us in conversation with Stan at the London launch of his new book as we ask him why,
Come Out Ye Black and Tans topped the download charts in 2020?
Why ‘Zombie’ by the Cranberries has been adopted at some sporting events in attempts to counter the popularity of rebel songs?
If Punk really United Catholic and Protestant youth during the Troubles?
And what it is about people wearing Celtic jerseys and singing rebel songs that so agitate certain Irish newspaper columnists to the point that more than a couple of times they have resorted to labelling them lumpen, buffoons and lowest of the low?
Everyone welcome. The book will be on sale on the evening.
Date – Wednesday June 11th, 7pm.
Venue – Accent Centre, 12 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JA (see map and directions)
Nearest Tube stations – Russell Square, Tottenham Court Road, Googe Street.
Admission free but registration required.
To Register email name to [email protected]