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Guest Event – Skehans Irish Afternoon featuring Declan Duffy’s ‘Call Yourself an Irishman?’
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- Live Music
- Performance
Event Details
Audience Size: 50
Join us at Skehans for an afternoon celebrating Irish culture.
The afternoon starts with Declan Duffy's one man show 'Call Yourself an Irishman?'
You're born in one country. But your parents come from a different one.
So what does that make you?
A one-man show about Britain, Ireland, and never quite knowing
which nationality you are.
How do you, born and raised in one of those countries, but with ties and binds to the other, define yourself? Are you British? Or are you Irish? Or don't you know? And why the hell are there so many Irish people in England, anyway?
Join Declan Duffy as he attempts to make some good sense out of it all. He'll be considering the history of Irish migration to Britain, the difficulties encountered by the people who made that journey, and how all of it has influenced their descendants in our consideration of who and what we are.
There'll be some songs, of course there will, and a few laughs, as we attempt to answer the vexed question of how many boxes you technically have to tick in order to confidently state: "I am Irish (sort of)".
The afternoon continues with a traditional Seanachie and some live Irish music.