Ireland's Next Revolution

The Irish Passport

Society & Culture

4.8 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Young Black people in Ireland have taken to the streets to demand an end to racism and discrimination in the midst of a global uprising inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement. Documentary maker Amanda Adé explores the conversations and momentum for change that is happening in Ireland in the wake of the protests. We hear from Boni Odoemene, the co-founder of the Black and Irish Instagram page, which is unearthing a hidden part of Irish history. The curator of Ireland’s first Black Studies module Dr. Ebun Joseph discusses her research on the nature of racial stratification in Ireland. And Naomi and Tim dig into the complex and interesting crossovers of Black and Irish history, from the dark legacy of empire, to how the US civil rights movement inspired Catholics in 1960s Northern Ireland, to the tearing down of statues. You can check out Black and Irish here: https://www.instagram.com/black_andirish/ Featuring the track BLM (I Can’t Breathe) by Jihfa http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/Jihfa/61807 Check out our archive of bonus content over on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theirishpassport Follow us on Facebook and Twitter at @PassportIrish. If you enjoyed this episode, do give us a good review in your podcast app and share it with your friends. You might be interested in our other episodes: The Irish Slaves Myth: https://www.theirishpassport.com/podcast/episode-10-the-irish-slaves-myth/ Direct Provision: https://www.theirishpassport.com/podcast/direct-provision/ Ireland and America: https://www.theirishpassport.com/podcast/live-show-ireland-and-america-the-long-romance/

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Irish Passport.
0:02.3	Let's do it.
0:03.1	Welcome to the Irish Passport.
0:04.8	I'm Tim McInerney.
0:06.0	I'm Naomi O'Leary.
0:07.0	We're friends.
0:07.7	Can you both to Naomi?
0:08.5	Anwar Fat, Tim.
0:09.9	This is your passport to Irish culture, history and politics.
0:13.2	Uh-huh.
0:13.4	I'm recording.
0:14.2	One, two, two, three.
0:16.6	Okay. Welcome back listeners to the Irish Passport podcast, where today we'll be taking a closer look at systemic racism in Ireland, how it interacts with our own
0:38.7	ideas of history, how it's long been downplayed and even denied, and what we can do to address
0:44.0	it as a modern society. This episode is coming at a time of cultural revolution. The killing
0:49.6	of George Floyd in the United States sparked a series of ongoing international demonstrations,
0:55.1	galvanizing a sense of change to challenge the deeply ingrained racial prejudices that
1:00.0	still permeate many institutions and walks of life.
1:03.1	The international reverberations of the demonstrations in America has been one of the most
1:07.2	remarkable effects of that movement.
1:10.0	Countries all over the world have found themselves
1:11.8	in a moment of reckoning with their own systemic discriminations, and on a scale that has not been
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