Belfast punk and the Troubles is an oral history of the punk scene
in Belfast from the mid-1970s to the mid-80s. The book explores
what it was like to be a punk in a city shaped by the violence of
the Troubles, and how this differed from being a punk elsewhere. It
also asks what it means to have been a punk - how punk unravels as
a thread throughout the lives of the people interviewed, and what
that unravelling means in the context of post-peace-process
Northern Ireland. In doing so, it suggests a critical understanding
of sectarianism, subjectivity and memory politics in the North, and
argues for the importance of placing punk within the segregated
structures of everyday life described by the interviewees. Adopting
an innovative oral history approach drawing on the work of Luisa
Passerini and Alessandro Portelli, the book analyses a small number
of oral history interviews with participants in granular detail.
Outlining the historical context and the cultural memory of punk,
the central chapters each delve into one or two interviews to draw
out the affective, imaginative and political ways in which punks
and former punks evoke their memories of taking part in the scene.
Through this method, it analyses the punk scene as a structure of
feeling shaped through the experience of growing up in wartime
Belfast. Belfast punk and the Troubles is an intervention in
Northern Irish historiography stressing the importance of history
from below, and will be compelling reading for historians of
Ireland and of punk, as well as those interested in innovative
approaches to oral history. -- .
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