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Ireland's Generation X?

Ireland's Generation X?

Presented by Professor Barry McCrea, Ireland's Generation X? a series of conversations about Ireland's in-between generation. “Generation X” describes the group of people born between 1965 and 1985, a generation caught between Baby Boomers and Millennials characterised by anti-establishment slacker culture, cynicism, irony, and— after the global economic crash — negative equity. An American term describing American lives, the moniker perhaps fails to accurately represent the experience of those who came of age during the 1980s and 1990s in Ireland. This series invites artists and writers who grew up in an Ireland shaped by the Troubles, social justice movements, EU membership, the Peace Process, and the Celtic Tiger, to share their work and reflect on the social and cultural influences at home and abroad. Presented by MoLI in partnership with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame.


Ian Lynch (Lankum)

Ireland's Generation X?

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Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ian Lynch talks to Professor Barry McCrea about his creative journey from punk to traditional Irish music and unearthing long forgotten songs.


Nick Laird

Ireland's Generation X?

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Poet Nick Laird talks to Professor Barry McCrea about and growing up in Co. Tyrone during the Troubles and reads a selection of his poems.


Mark O’Halloran

Ireland's Generation X?

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Actor and writer Mark O'Halloran talks to Professor Barry McCrea about growing up gay in Ennis Co. Clare and opening his life to art.


Claire Kilroy

Ireland's Generation X?

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Writer Claire Kilroy talks to Professor Barry McCrea about growing up in Howth and motherhood.


Paul Murray

Ireland's Generation X?

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Writer Paul Murray talks to Professor Barry McCrea about his Beckettian school days and Ireland's strange encouragement of emigration.


Caitriona Lally

Ireland's Generation X?

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Writer Caitriona Lally talks to Professor Barry McCrea about whisper-networks in cleaning circles and winning the Rooney Prize in 2018.


Belinda McKeon

Ireland's Generation X?

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Writer Belinda McKeon talks to Professor Barry McCrea about the Irish experience in the nineties and reads a short piece from her novel, Tender.


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