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Nanny, Ma and me

'This story is the result of long hours of delving into the pasts of my nanny and my ma. I hope it will give some insight into the experiences of one family of colour in Ireland today. Most of all I just want to start a conversation because once people come together to talk the possibilities are endless.' Jade Jordan

Jade Jordan's grandmother Kathleen left Ireland for England in the late 1950s to train as a nurse. While there she fell in love and married a Jamaican man. They had two sons and a daughter Dominique and settled in London's diverse Walthamstow. But when Kathleen decided to return home to Dublin she discovered that the colour of her children's skin set them apart - and that their new lives would be very different to the ones they had known.

Here in this honest warm-hearted and often humorous multi-generational memoir Kathleen Dominique and her daughter Jade each tell their story.

From Kathleen's determination to raise her children with love and security in inner-city Dublin to Dominique's struggle to figure out how she fit in as a young Black teenager to Jade's own experiences as a Black woman growing up in twenty-first-century Ireland Nanny Ma & Me is a story about race in a country of contradictions. At its heart lies a tale of the power of community love and three women for whom family is everything.

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  • Classification : Biography & Memoir
  • Pub Date : JUN 2, 2022
  • Imprint : Hachette Ireland
  • Page Extent : 320
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781529365023
  • Price : INR 750
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