{"id":46289,"date":"2016-03-30T01:59:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T01:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46289"},"modified":"2018-03-17T19:43:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T19:43:34","slug":"im-irish-but-im-not-white-why-is-that-still-a-problem-as-we-celebrate-the-easter-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46289","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m Irish but I\u2019m not white. Why is that still a problem as we celebrate the Easter Rising?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m Irish but I\u2019m not white. Why is that still a problem as we celebrate the Easter Rising?<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a>
\n2016-03-29<\/p>\n

Emma Dabiri<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

With an Irish mother and Nigerian father, I grew up singing Irish rebel songs. But the racism I experienced was not part of the dreams of 1916\u2019s revolutionaries<\/em><\/p>\n

I grew up singing Irish rebel songs. One of the first ones I learned, which seared an impression on my young mind, was James Connolly<\/a>. In the haunting ballad the folk musician Christy Moore<\/a> laments the 1916 execution of Connolly, the Easter Rising revolutionary, and hero of the working man:<\/p>\n

Where oh where is our James Connolly<\/a>?<\/em>
\n Where oh where is that gallant man?<\/em>
\n He\u2019s gone to organise the union<\/em>
\n That working men they might yet be free.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The song outlines the capture of Connolly, a central figure in the 1916 Easter Rising<\/a>. On Easter Monday<\/a>, 24 April 1916, Irish republicans <\/a>desperate to end the British occupation of Ireland<\/a> mounted an insurrection in Dublin<\/a>. British forces, with their vastly superior military advantage, quickly crushed the rebels. Nevertheless, these events \u2013 the centenary of which was commemorated this weekend<\/a> \u2013 were the catalyst for a long fight for Irish independence<\/a> that was eventually achieved in 1922…<\/p>\n

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

I\u2019m Irish but I\u2019m not white. Why is that still a problem as we celebrate the Easter Rising? The Guardian 2016-03-29 Emma Dabiri With an Irish mother and Nigerian father, I grew up singing Irish rebel songs. But the racism I experienced was not part of the dreams of 1916\u2019s revolutionaries I grew up singing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,28,459,8],"tags":[14115,23344,13842,246,23343,2103],"class_list":["post-46289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-europe","category-history","category-media-archive","tag-dublin","tag-easter-rising","tag-emma-dabiri","tag-ireland","tag-james-connolly","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46289"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55907,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46289\/revisions\/55907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}