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  • Culture File – Race and the Irish Screen

    Culture File – Race and the Irish Screen RTÉ Lyric FM 2014-05-15 Fin Keegan, Host Zélie Asava, Lecturer and Programme Director of Video and Film Dundalk Institute of Technology, Louth, Ireland What can the Irish horror movie tell us about attitudes to race? And can a mixed race guard [police] in an Irish crime series,…

  • Interview with Carole Brennan from Mixed Race Irish

    Interview with Carole Brennan from Mixed Race Irish Een Vlaming in Ierland/ A Fleming in Ireland 2014-03-28 Roos Demol It has been quite a week in Ireland, with the new problems for Mr Shatter, the news that over 2000 phone calls were taped in Garda offices around the country, which could bring a lot of…

  • Christine Buckley helped shift cultural axis on child abuse

    Christine Buckley helped shift cultural axis on child abuse The Irish Times 2014-03-12 Patsy McGarry, Religious Affairs Correspondent From Broadstreet.ie Those who insist that history is about movements not individuals might reflect on the achievements of Christine Buckley. Her story is history as driven by one person. She was an original, a pioneer in exposing…

  • The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television [Galvin Review]

    The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television [Galvin Review] Film Ireland Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland 2014-01-13 Steven Galvin, Editor Dr Zélie Asava introduces her book The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television, a critical investigation of race in contemporary Irish visual…

  • Campaign highlights abuse of mixed-race Irish in institutional care

    Campaign highlights abuse of mixed-race Irish in institutional care The Irish Times Dublin, Ireland 2013-11-18 Marie O’Halloran, Parliamentary Reporter ‘I was in a class all of my own, beneath everybody else along with the dogs and the pigs’ A campaign has been launched for recognition of mixed-race survivors of institutional abuse who believe they suffered…

  • Book review: The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television

    Book review: The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television Film Ireland Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland 2013-11-19 Sarah Griffin Zélie Asava, The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television (Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang, 2013) Sarah…

  • Irish and white-ish mixed “race” identity and the scopic regime of whiteness

    Irish and white-ish mixed “race” identity and the scopic regime of whiteness Women’s Studies International Forum Volume 27, Issue 4, October–November 2004 pages 385-396 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2004.10.007 Angeline D. Morrison Falmouth College of Arts, Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom When speaking about the paradoxical “invisibility” of whiteness, I am referring in particular to Richard Dyer’s project to…

  • Afternoon Talk: Dr. Zélie Asava (Free Event)

    Afternoon Talk: Dr. Zélie Asava (Free Event) Irish Film Institute 6 Eustace Street Temple Bar Dublin, Ireland 2013-10-11, 16:30 IST (Local Time) Zélie Asava, Lecturer and Programme Director of Video and Film Dundalk Institute of Technology, Louth, Ireland In our Afternoon Talk on October 11th (16.30), Dr. Zélie Asava, Programme Director of Video and Film at…

  • Creative Media lecturer publishes new book

    Creative Media lecturer publishes new book Dundalk Institute of Technology Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland 2013-09-02 Sarah Mc Cann Zélie Asava, a lecturer on the BA & BA (Hons) in Video & Film Production has recently had her book—The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television—published by the Peter Lang…

  • Dublin has problems. But I am proud to be part of a growing Irish mixed-race grouping…

    Dublin has problems. But I am proud to be part of a growing Irish mixed-race grouping, and to be able to see mixed-race people representing Ireland on the world stage whether it’s the new Rose of Tralee Clare Kambamettu, actresses Ruth Negga and Samantha Mumba, TV presenters Baz Ashmawy and Seán Musanje, or sportsmen such…