{"id":60332,"date":"2020-12-06T02:54:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T02:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60332"},"modified":"2020-12-06T02:54:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T02:54:58","slug":"the-hidden-story-of-african-irish-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60332","title":{"rendered":"The hidden story of African-Irish children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-55145873\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>The hidden story of African-Irish children<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC News<\/a><br \/>\n2020-12-03<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/deefinnerty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Deirdre Finnerty<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-55145873\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/976\/cpsprodpb\/FC90\/production\/_115765646_1920-new-top-imageaa.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>In the middle of the last century, thousands of students from African countries were studying at Irish universities. Some had children outside marriage, who were then placed in one of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Republic_of_Ireland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ireland&#8217;s<\/a> notorious <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mother_and_Baby_Homes_Commission_of_Investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mother and baby homes<\/a>. Today these children, now adults, are searching for their families.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As a child, Conrad Bryan wondered if his father was a king. He was from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nigeria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nigeria<\/a> &#8211; or so he had been told &#8211; a place Conrad imagined was far more exciting than the orphanage outside <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dublin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dublin<\/a> where he lived.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you want something and you can&#8217;t have it, your imagination takes over,&#8221; he says&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-55145873\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle of the last century, thousands of students from African countries were studying at Irish universities. Some had children outside marriage, who were then placed in one of Ireland&#8217;s notorious mother and baby homes. Today these children, now adults, are searching for their families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,459,8,820],"tags":[687,8597,27752,31234,246,31235,31236],"class_list":["post-60332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-europe","category-history","category-media-archive","category-religion","tag-adoption","tag-bbc-news","tag-conrad-bryan","tag-deirdre-finnerty","tag-ireland","tag-jude-hughes","tag-marguerite-penrose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60332","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=60332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60333,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60332\/revisions\/60333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}