{"id":49453,"date":"2016-10-16T01:07:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T01:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49453"},"modified":"2017-03-30T17:25:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T17:25:10","slug":"to-sneak-around-trying-not-to-be-seen-what-growing-up-in-ireland-was-like-for-three-mixed-race-irish-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49453","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I had to sneak around trying not to be seen\u2019 \u2013 What growing up in Ireland was like for three mixed race Irish people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/irishpost.co.uk\/i-sneak-around-trying-not-seen-growing-ireland-like-three-mixed-race-irish-people\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>\u2018I had to sneak around trying not to be seen\u2019 \u2013 What growing up in Ireland was like for three mixed race Irish people<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/irishpost.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The Irish Post<\/a><br \/>\n2016-10-15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/edoylehiggins\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Erica Doyle Higgins<\/strong><\/a>, Digital Reporter<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/irishpost.co.uk\/i-sneak-around-trying-not-seen-growing-ireland-like-three-mixed-race-irish-people\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/irishpost.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/MixedRaceIrish-N-1.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>(Pictures: Tracey Anderson\/Getty)<\/small><\/p>\n<p><em>FOR the first time during\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_History_Month#United_Kingdom_.281987.29\" target=\"_blank\">Black History Month<\/a>, an exhibition celebrating mixed race Irish has gone on display in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonirishcentre.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">London Irish Centre<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/londonirishcentre.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">#IAmIrish Project<\/a> celebrates diversity, while opening the dialogue on being mixed race and Irish.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the Project and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_History_Month#United_Kingdom_.281987.29\" target=\"_blank\">Black History Month<\/a>, three people\u00a0told The Irish Post their experiences of growing up mixed race in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ireland\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/irishpost.co.uk\/i-sneak-around-trying-not-seen-growing-ireland-like-three-mixed-race-irish-people\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR the first time during\u00a0Black History Month, an exhibition celebrating mixed race Irish has gone on display in the London Irish Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,395,28,8,10],"tags":[25180,246,25210,25079,25181,147,16529,25182,25211],"class_list":["post-49453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-autobiography","category-europe","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-erica-doyle-higgins","tag-ireland","tag-irish-post","tag-lorraine-maher","tag-lorraine-maher-faissal","tag-photography","tag-rosemary-adaser","tag-the-irish-post","tag-tommy-mccarthy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49453","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=49453"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53112,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49453\/revisions\/53112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}