Coming-of-age stories encourage readers to define themselves on their own terms
Irish actor Ruth Negga is among those whose coming-of-age stories are told in Black & Irish: Celebrating Black Irish Legends, Trailblazers and Everday Heroes. Photograph: Justin CoitIt was as a teenager in London that Ethiopian-Irish actor Ruth Negga first experienced that “lifting-of-the-veil moment”. It is one which most black Irish people will recognise with a certain visceral clarity: I am black and almost everyone around me is white.
By sharing the bold coming-of-age stories and remarkable accomplishments of public figures such as Negga, Ogoro and O’Neill, Black & Irish: Legends, Trailblazers and Everyday Heroes extends an invitation to young, black Irish adults. It encourages them, their racial identities having historically been shaped by the world’s perceptions, to define themselves on their own terms.
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