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.

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.   

All episodes from the first season, ‘In the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland’ are now available to listen to below, or download wherever you get your podcasts.

Episode Four – In the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland – Skein Podcasts: Thinking Aloud, Thinking Together

In this conversation, we hear from an Irish woman who grew up as a mixed-race child in a country that insisted on a story of itself as white. These kind of experiences rarely made it into the reports on the state's institutions. Her story illuminates what it meant to navigate childhood in such an atmosphere.

1. Episode Four – In the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland 47:35
2. Episode Five – In the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland 26:59
3. Episode Three – In the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland 33:37
4. Episode Two – In the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland 29:38
5. Episode One – In the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland 34:18

Delivered in partnership with the Museum of Literature Ireland