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#ACFM Microdose: Jeremy Gilbert on Folk Music

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Irishness in the Early Nineties

Up until the early nineties, in britain irishness is a cind o marginalized identity. Irish racism is deeply ingrained in main stream ture and police culture. I think irishness starts to take on aand symbolic place in the british cultural imaginary. In the first half of the 19 nineties, irishness s the kind of final repository of authentic, pure whiteness. And so i think for younger people, especially people younger than me, people whould be too young to go out to hear the poe in the second half of the eighties,. imagine not growing up in the nineties, it's this incredibly sacerfied version of

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