About Skein Podcasts: Thinking Aloud, Thinking Together
Thinking Aloud, Thinking Together is a new series of live and recorded conversations amplifying voices that have been silenced in Irish cultural life. It gives space to artists, writers and thinkers who offer radical new perspectives on existing narratives. It will provide a space to discuss points of connection and concern in contemporary culture. The conversations will explore topics such as identity, relationships, shame, exclusion and reversing the impact of erasure from history and culture, focusing on experiences that are not often explored in Irish culture and history. This work will enhance the visibility of underrepresented voices and stories, offering fresh perspectives to a wider audience.
In this episode, Dr Phil Mullen is joined by three guests who emigrated to Ireland from the African continent. They reflect on ideas of migration, belonging, and the realities of raising children of African descent in a country like Ireland. Support the show
10 Sept 2026
Episode Nine - In the Half Light
In this episode, Dr Phil Mullen is joined by three guests who emigrated to Ireland from the African continent. They reflect on ideas of migration, belonging, and the realities of raising children of African descent in a country like Ireland. Support the show
9 Sept 2026
Episode Eight - In the Half Light
In this episode, Dr Phil Mullen is joined by three guests who emigrated to Ireland from the African continent. They reflect on ideas of migration, belonging, and identity Support the show
30 Apr 2026
Episode Seven - In the Half-Light
In the seventh episode of 'In the Half Light', curator Phil Mullen returns to a conversation with three writers about their experiences of growing up mixed-race in Ireland: Marguerite Penrose (author of 'Yeah But Where Are You Really From?'), Jackie McCarthy O'Brien (author of 'We Made It, Kid') and Leon Diop (author of 'Mixed Up: An Irish Boys Journey to Belonging')
16 Apr 2026
Episode Six — In the Half Light
In the sixth episode of 'In the Half Light', curator Phil Mullen speaks to three writers about their experiences of growing up mixed-race in Ireland: Marguerite Penrose (author of 'Yeah But Where Are You Really From?'), Jackie McCarthy O'Brien (author of 'We Made It, Kid') and Leon Diop (author of 'Mixed Up: An Irish Boys Journey to Belonging')
15 Dec 2025
Episode Four - In the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland
In this conversation, we hear from an Irish woman who grew up as a mixed-race child in a country that insisted on a story of itself as white. These kind of experiences rarely made it into the reports on the state's institutions. Her story illuminates what it meant to navigate childhood in such an atmosphere.
15 Dec 2025
Episode Five - In the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland
In this episode, our guest speaks openly and candidly about her childhood in an Irish industrial school. In recalling the ordinary routines of the home — the mix of care and radicalisation — we see how this shaped the way she learned to move through the world.
23 Oct 2025
Episode Three - In the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland
In Episode 3, this series concludes by reflecting on experiences that carried into later life, and what it was like to grow up Black in Ireland before the Celtic Tiger. In the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland is curated by Dr Phil Mullen, Assistant Professor of Black Studies at Trinity College Dublin and a leading researcher on the historical experiences of "mixed-race" people growing up in Ireland. Using the audio format, Phil has created an anonymised, open space for "mixed-race"...
9 Oct 2025
Episode Two - In the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland
In the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland is curated by Dr Phil Mullen, Assistant Professor of Black Studies at Trinity College Dublin and a leading researcher on the historical experiences of "mixed-race" people growing up in Ireland. Using the audio format, Phil has created an anonymised, open space for "mixed-race" people who grew up in Irish care institutions to explore the impact of their erasure from institutional abuse history and discourse in Ireland. Through this conversation, she...
3 Oct 2025
Episode One - In the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland
In the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland is curated by Dr Phil Mullen, Assistant Professor of Black Studies at Trinity College Dublin and a leading researcher on the historical experiences of "mixed-race" people growing up in Ireland. Using the audio format, Phil has created an anonymised, open space for "mixed-race" people who grew up in Irish care institutions to explore the impact of their erasure from institutional abuse history and discourse in Ireland. Through this conversation, she...
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