So to not get stopped, by teachers, by guards, by the world at large, I make myself small and I stay quiet. There was a point in my life where I felt so insecure with my skin colour. Anonymous: ‘My son was taught that being Irish was to have white skin’I am a white Irish woman, my husband is mixed race, born to a white Irish mother and an Afrasian father. I’d be a well-known face around Dublin through work, and I found people aren’t really bothered about skin colour. Working in higher education, I have been questioned by a white Irish colleague if I had the experience and credentials to justify my position.

Source: The Irish Times June 12, 2020 15:07 UTC