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Date:Friday 8th March Partnership Event with Irish Arts Foundation Second generation Irish musicians have played a major role in popular music in Britain. This lecture by Sean Campbell explores the role of Irish ethnicity in the lives and work of these musicians, focusing on three high profile acts: Kevin Rowland and Dexys Midnight Runners, Shane MacGowan and The Pogues, and Morrissey/Marr and The Smiths. It explores the different ways that they engaged with Irish issues and how they negotiated questions of Irish-English identity. The lecture draws on extensive archival research of audiovisual material as well as original interviews with the key figures, including Rowland, MacGowan and Marr. Dr Sean Campbell is Reader in Media and Culture at Anglia Ruskin in Cambridge. He is the author of Irish Blood, English Heart: Second Generation Irish Musicians in England (Cork University Press 2011). 8.00pm Monkbridge Room, HEART Centre, Bennett Road, followed by a traditional Irish music showcase session in the café. Free Headingley LitFest: Dwellers on the Threshold: Second Generation Irish Musicians in England
Time: 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm