Date: Thursday 02 October 2025
Time: 18.30 - 20.00
Location: Thomas Davis Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin.
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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.
Our first conversation takes the form of a podcast series. Entitled 'In the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland', this podcast is delivered in partnership with the Museum of Literature Ireland and 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 aims to undo that erasure, one voice at a time.
Join us on October 2 to hear Phil reflect on this experience and to get a preview of the podcast before its official release. Phil will be in conversation on the evening with journalist and researcher Caelainn Hogan. The conversation will be chaired by writer Eoin McNamee.
This event is organised in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute and Trinity Research in Social Sciences.
For further information please visit the Trinity Long Room Hub website here.