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During the Troubles, music shaped alternative identities for a generation of Northern Irish teenagers

By Lauren Alex O'Hagan, Research Fellow, School of Languages and Applied Linguistics, The Open University

During the Troubles, a harrowing 30-year conflict over the constitutional status of Northern Ireland, music opened up alternative ways of understanding identity.

Along with boxing and greyhound racing, music offered a rare site of cross-community interaction. Musical identities…

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