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Ireland's Palestine: Sonic Solidarities in the Wake of 7/10

Watch the full session on Patreon 🎥 https://www.patreon.com/posts/irelands-son... Expressions of solidarity and assertions of kinship with Palestinians are thoroughly baked into the cultural and political ethos of Irish life—one product of overlapping histories of colonialism, land dispossession, and movements for national sovereignty. In the aftermath of the October 7th Hamas-led resistance and the subsequent mass slaughter of Gazans by the Israeli Occupation forces, broad-based support for Palestinian resistance and liberation has intensified across the entire island of Ireland, with musical fundraisers taking place in every major city in addition to massive protests. In this panel, we explore how assertions of cross-cultural kinship with Palestinians have been strategically mapped onto distinctly local music scenes in the North of Ireland, particularly within the folk, traditional, and hip hop idioms. As such, local songs have been extrapolated to speak for, or even epitomize a global anticolonial movement. Jessie Rubin discusses her developing thoughts on her recently-completed fieldwork in Belfast, and Belfast-based musicians Catriona Ní Ghribín and Stíofan Ó Luachráin provide insight as local practitioners who have both written songs for the solidarity movement and performed at countless fundraiser events through the newly-founded organization Irish Artists for Palestine. Catriona Ní Ghribín is a musician and singer from the Gaeltacht of Gaoth Dobhair. Now living in Belfast, she is performing with several bands including the groundbreaking Tradtronica band Huartan. Catriona's interest in song-collecting began when she completed her work experience at the Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA) in Dublin in 2020. She went on to complete her Masters in Research at Queen's University and is now continuing this important work with her PhD. Stíofan Ó Luachráin is a traditional and electronica musician and songwriter hailing from West Belfast. He plays in several bands, including alongside Catriona in the Tradtronica band Huartan. Stíofan is also a founding member of the activist group Cairde Palestine, and recently completed a “Ride for Gaza,” a major cycle around Ireland that raised over €60,000 for aid boxes in Gaza. Jessie Rubin is an ethnomusicology PhD candidate at Columbia University. Her dissertation research explores the Palestine solidarity movement’s conspicuous mark on local music scenes in the North of Ireland in the wake of the Gaza genocide. Rubin similarly explored themes of sonic circulation in her Masters’ thesis, “Places We Could Find Ourselves In: Affective Networks of Queer MENA Party Life in NYC" which examines queer New York-based reformulations of MENA (Middle East/North African) cultural practices within an electronic dance party network.