Conversations

‘Thinking Aloud, Thinking Together’ is a series of live and recorded conversations amplifying voices that have been silenced in Irish cultural life. It gives space to artists, writers and thinkers who offer radical new perspectives on existing narratives.

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    Episode 7 • In the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland

    Date 30 Apr 2026

    In the seventh episode of In the Half Light, curator Phil Mullen returns to a conversation with three writers about their experiences of growing up mixed-race in Ireland: Marguerite Penrose (author of Yeah But Where Are You Really From?), Jackie McCarthy O’Brien (author of We Made It, Kid) and Leon Diop (author of Mixed Up: […]

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    Episode 6 • In the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland

    Date 16 Apr 2026

    In the sixth episode of In the Half Light, curator Phil Mullen speaks to three writers about their experiences of growing up mixed-race in Ireland: Marguerite Penrose (author of Yeah But Where Are You Really From?), Jackie McCarthy O’Brien (author of We Made It, Kid) and Leon Diop (author of Mixed Up: An Irish Boys […]

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    Episode 5 • In the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland

    Date 15 Dec 2025

    In this final episode, our guest speaks openly and candidly about her childhood in an Irish industrial school. In recalling the ordinary routines of the home — the mix of care and radicalisation — we see how this shaped the way she learned to move through the world.

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    In the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland

    Our first conversation takes the form of a podcast series, curated by Dr Phil Mullen (Assistant Professor of Black Studies at Trinity College Dublin and a leading researcher on the historical experiences of ‘mixed-race’ people growing up in Ireland). Using the audio format, Phil has created an anonymised, open space for ‘mixed-race’ people who grew up in Irish care institutions to explore the impact of their erasure from institutional abuse history and discourse in Ireland. Through this conversation, they aim to undo that erasure, one voice at a time.

    Delivered in partnership with the Museum of Literature Ireland.

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