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In Ireland, Lifting a Veil of Prejudice Against Mixed-Race Children<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2021-01-15<\/p>\n

Caelainn Hogan<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nJess Kavanagh says she always knew that her mother, Liz, was adopted. \u201cIt was obvious,\u201d she said. \u201cMy grandparents were white and my mam was Black.\u201d Paulo Nunes dos Santos for The New York Times<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The singer Jess Kavanagh is working to raise awareness about the experiences of mixed-race Irish people, particularly those born in the country\u2019s infamous mother and baby homes<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

While helping her mother work merchandise tables at some of Dublin\u2019s<\/a> most respected venues, Jess Kavanagh first got a taste for the music scene. When she started doing gigs herself \u2014 a petite singer with a belter of a voice \u2014 people would come up after to tell her she sounded \u201clike a Black person,\u201d the last words half whispered.<\/p>\n

They were assuming she was white.<\/p>\n

Ms. Kavanagh, a rising solo star in Ireland<\/a> after years touring with acts like Hozier<\/a> and the Waterboys<\/a>, had to form what she calls a \u201clinguistic arsenal\u201d to express her experience as a mixed-race Irish woman. What drives her to speak out is a legacy of silence. As the daughter of a Black Irish woman who was born in one of Ireland\u2019s infamous mother and baby homes<\/a>, she is raising awareness about how those institutions hid away generations of mixed-race Irish children.<\/p>\n

More than five years ago, reports that children were interred in a sewage system<\/a> at a mother and baby institution in Tuam<\/a>, in western Ireland, compelled the Irish government to open an investigation into the institutions, where unmarried women and girls who became pregnant were sent. They were run by religious orders.<\/p>\n

The final report, published on Tuesday, confirmed that of the 57,000 children born in Ireland\u2019s 18 homes over several decades starting in 1920, around 9,000 died…<\/p>\n

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