Join us for a symposium that explores home as a dynamic cultural space, beyond private retreat, in which diasporic identity was sustained, and new forms of music and performance were forged.

Our full-day programme of music, talks and discussion brings together historians, cultural scholars, musicians, and community voices to consider material culture, gendered labour, religion, and intergenerational transmission within the migrant home.

This symposium positions the Irish home as an intimate yet powerful engine of cultural transformation where identities were preserved and influential contributions to post-war British music and performance emerged. The programme will create a dialogue with the display of A Room Upstairs in 1956 in our Rooms Through Time gallery.