{"id":37888,"date":"2014-10-22T21:44:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T21:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37888"},"modified":"2014-10-22T21:44:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T21:44:16","slug":"mixed-race-irish-group-seek-redress-amid-claims-of-racist-abuse-in-industrial-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37888","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Race Irish group seek redress amid claims of racist abuse in industrial schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mixed Race Irish group seek redress amid claims of racist abuse in industrial schools<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Irish Examiner<\/a>
\nDublin, Ireland
\n2014-10-22<\/p>\n

Noel Baker<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Reporter<\/p>\n

Mixed Race Irish group seek redress amid claims of racist abuse in industrial schools<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Mixed-race Irish who spent time in industrial schools will today claim they faced physical, emotional, and sexual abuse there because of the colour of their skin.<\/p>\n

The Mixed-Race Irish group has 71 members, many of whom now live outside Ireland<\/a>. Representatives of the group will appear before the Oireachtas Justice Committee<\/a> today as part of a campaign aimed at official recognition of their experiences and access to redress.<\/p>\n

Founder members Evon Brennan, Rosemary C Adaser, and Carole Brennan are set to address the committee and are expected to outline how there has been a failure to acknowledge the historical and ongoing suffering of mixed-race Irish children placed in State institutions throughout Ireland between the 1940s and the 1980s.<\/p>\n

They claim mixed-race children who spent time in the industrial school system have had their lives blighted as a result, from poor adoption and educational opportunities, reduced job opportunities due to institutional racism, and memories of neglect and physical, emotional, and sexual abuse because of their skin colour.<\/p>\n

The group say records relating to their care are not readily available as the Irish Census did not begin to record ethnicity until 1996.<\/p>\n

In all, the group believes as many as 150 mixed-race children were placed in State industrial schools between 1940 and 1980, including in St Patrick\u2019s in Kilkenny<\/a>, on the Navan Road in Dublin<\/a>, and in Letterfrack in Galway<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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