{"id":56813,"date":"2018-08-24T00:30:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T00:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56813"},"modified":"2018-08-24T00:30:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T00:30:54","slug":"new-rose-of-tralee-calls-on-ireland-to-embrace-its-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56813","title":{"rendered":"New Rose of Tralee calls on Ireland to embrace its diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/entertainment\/2018\/0821\/986662-rose-of-tralee-winner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>New Rose of Tralee calls on Ireland to embrace its diversity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RT\u00c9<\/a><br \/>\n2018-08-23<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/entertainment\/2018\/0821\/986662-rose-of-tralee-winner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.rasset.ie\/0010782a-614.jpg?ratio=1.78\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>The proud parents look on<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The new Rose of Tralee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/entertainment\/roses\/2018\/0814\/985145-waterford-rose\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Waterford Rose Kirsten Mate Maher<\/a>, has called on Ireland to embrace its diversity, telling RT\u00c9 Radio 1&#8217;s <em>Morning Ireland<\/em> that &#8220;there is no typical Irish woman&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old told presenter <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bryan_Dobson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bryan Dobson<\/a> on Wednesday morning that being crowned the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rose_of_Tralee_(festival)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rose of Tralee<\/a> had yet to sink in, before going on to discuss the significance of her win&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/entertainment\/2018\/0821\/986662-rose-of-tralee-winner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirsten is the first African-Irish winner of the Rose of Tralee. She is the third mixed-race woman to be crowed Rose of Tralee, after 1998 Rose Luzveminda O&#8217;Sullivan and 2010 Rose Clare Kambamettu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,8,842,25],"tags":[28948,246,28945,28947,27872,28946],"class_list":["post-56813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-europe","category-media-archive","category-videos","category-women","tag-bryan-dobson","tag-ireland","tag-kirsten-mate-maher","tag-raidio-teilifis-eireann","tag-rose-of-tralee","tag-rte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56813","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=56813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56814,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56813\/revisions\/56814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}