{"id":49438,"date":"2016-10-14T19:48:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T19:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49438"},"modified":"2017-05-17T15:42:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T15:42:33","slug":"black-history-month-lorraine-maher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49438","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month: Lorraine Maher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.camdenreview.com\/reviews\/features\/black-history-month-lorraine-maher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Black History Month: Lorraine Maher<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.camdenreview.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Camden Review: Camden&#8217;s take on the London arts scene<\/a><br \/>\n2016-10-13<\/p>\n<p><strong>Angela Cobbinah<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.camdenreview.com\/reviews\/features\/black-history-month-lorraine-maher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.camdenreview.com\/sites\/all\/files\/nj_review\/imagecache\/main_img\/images\/reviews\/features\/Black%20irish%20history-Lorraine%20Maher.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Lorraine Maher<\/small><\/p>\n<p>WHEN she was growing up in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/County_Tipperary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">County Tipperary<\/a> in the 1960s, Lorraine Maher (pictured) met no other black people and on the few occasions they came into her midst she would avoid them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t want to draw attention to myself in any way,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI grew up in a beautiful town full of beautiful people but there was racism all around me. This was the age of the golliwog and the \u2018Black Baby Box\u2019 to collect money for starving African babies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew I was different but my blackness was never spoken about and I spent my childhood just wanting to hide away and not be noticed.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;It is this often painful journey to self-realisation that laid the seeds of the <a href=\"http:\/\/londonirishcentre.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#iamirish exhibition<\/a> she has curated for the London Irish Centre, tellingly its first ever contribution to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_History_Month#United_Kingdom_.281987.29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black History Month<\/a>. Opened last week by Ruaidri Dowling on behalf of the Irish Embassy, it is a display of stunning portraits by photographer Tracey Anderson that aims to question the concept of what it looks like to be Irish&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.camdenreview.com\/reviews\/features\/black-history-month-lorraine-maher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHEN she was growing up in County Tipperary in the 1960s, Lorraine Maher (pictured) met no other black people and on the few occasions they came into her midst she would avoid them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,28,8,10],"tags":[24988,24987,246,25079,147],"class_list":["post-49438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-europe","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-angela-cobbinah","tag-camden-review","tag-ireland","tag-lorraine-maher","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49438","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=49438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53943,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49438\/revisions\/53943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}