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Sandwith Street: ‘Whiteness riots’ and ‘local’ white communities
The violent events in Dublin’s city centre on Friday 12 May 2023 when groups of Dublin based people set upon five hundred plus asylum seekers, forced to live in tents outside the International Protection Office in Sandwith Street, setting their belongings on fire and shouting racist abuse at them were very troubling indeed. Lawyer and…
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Spaces of Racialization: Ireland’s Direct Provision Asylum Centres as Sites of Racialized State Violence
Oct 18, 2022, London The Republic of Ireland has a poor record in its response to refugee crises ever since the Nazi era, when only 60 Jewish refugees were admitted by neutral Ireland between 1933 and 1946. Although several groups of ‘programme refugees’ were admitted over the years, when asylum seekers began arriving in the…
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Ulysses, race and the new Bloomusalem
Paper presented at the Global Ulysses seminar, 14 June 2022 One of the Hebrew language books I took from my parents’ Haifa home when I came to Ireland with my late partner Louis Lentin was מלחמת האירים לעצמאותם –The Irish War for their Independence written by a Jewish emigrant from Ireland, one Efraim Schwartzman, who…
Blog and website by Ronit Lentin, a political sociologist, writer and an antiracist activist.